To start, I really don’t have to much to complain about on this game. I’m really overall a positive person and really enjoy this game.
I’m not trying to make this another pheon post. I don’t mind pheons overall (not that I like them). My only issue is when it comes to stone cutting… It really doesn’t make sense for it to be 9 pheons for lets say a stone that costs 10g or 2500g. Over the last 3 days, I’ve spent 470 pheons trying to cut just one 7/7 stone for my alt. I know it’s RNG. I’m not mad at RNG and I like the “gamble” of it. The only issue is the pheons for stones. They need to either low the pheon tax per stone, remove it completely, or put some type of pity system in place. Even if it were extremely hard to reach.
As we know the BC crystal price continues to rise with no help in sight. (I play on NAW, yay!). Today 10/17 - it costs 28k gold to buy 100 pheons. That gets you just 11 stones worth of pheons. Just for you to blow through them.
FYI - I’ve still yet to get a 7/7 on her. 8x 7/6 stones though. Before anyone says it - yes I’ve used a calculator, and all other voodoo tricks everyone has. My personal experience is I get better stones by rolling them myself.
TLDR - 9 pheons per Ability Stone makes no sense as we all know these are not one time purchases.
I thought about all these things many times…the biggest idea i got was for them to make it so you sell stones that are already cut. I rather spend the gold on a stone at the desired ratio than sit there and gamble.
in b4 someone comes and says you’re still not doing it right. Gotta use them voodoo tricks and must be a the correct spot and place and time and make sure you have the right temperature in the room too and also the light
there is no full proof method for sure, but there is a way to waste less resources in order to get an 7/7, this is my post from another account and this is the method i use:
I feel bad about those that spend so many pheons just because they didn’t found a technique in order to minimize the resource loses, this method i discovered is something that the cm’s of this forums shadow deleted 2 times already, and they will still do so.
This method i discovered after losing 300 pheons in cutting stones, and ever since i discovered it i replicated it multiple times, this method got me 9/6 and 7/7 stone grudge/ adrenaline back to back and 7/7 on my scouter first try, and this is it:
First you must AIM to get 3 nodes in a row for your favourite engraving, after that you will have 45% chance, now the rule is that whenever you have 55% and above chance you will ALWAYS put that node into the first engraving( your favourite one where you got your 3 nodes in a row), and whenever you get 45% and below you ALWAYS put them in RED NODES up till the end, if you are satisfied with the node number on your favourite engraving and then you have 55% or higher you can go for your second one, but always put in red nodes when you have 45% or lower till you finish them.
PS: once after i got my 7/7 first try for my scouter i tried another one for fun, and i got an 9/3 , but hey i got an 9 right?
hahah I’ve seen your other post and have tried this voodoo sorcery. I was say my best luck has been using this sort of trick. Still no 7/7 yet lol. I’ve given up and will now be biting the bullet to buy 2x 200k+ accessories to avoid any more stone cutting for now. Since I already have 2x leg books (3 technically as I have grudge & adrenaline) I can make it work. I was going for the 7/7 to avoid buying the accessories but I can’t keep wasting pheons and gold lol.
I think if you dismantle stones that have no trades left on them they should dismantle into the powder and 3 pheons or maybe even just 1 would be fine (if they are relic T3)
Some funny updates here. It took me over 500 pheons but I FINALLY got my stone for my Surgeblade - ended up 8/7!
Whats funny is - Next day I said you know what let me cut a couple on my Gunslinger. First one 7/5, not bad. I was able to get a HitMaster/KBW stone that ended action at 13gold (going for about 1k on NAW as of right now.) This one hits for 7/7!
RNG sure is a MF lol.
PS - Pheons on stones is still ridiculous and needs a rework of some type.
i was meh on pheons when we had legendary stones, but relic stones have a different, janky algorithm. so yeah, take pheons off of ability stones or at least lessen them.
AGS and SG wont help us