Combine Ingredients

[h4x0r1f1c]

Can we combine ingredients for larger ones?

Like X amount of Small will give you 1 Medium.

X amount of Medium will give you 1 Large.

[MarkusWolfe]

/signed

If this were implemented, I would probably go a while without using it, until I had obtained all the small and medium ingredients I need for ALL the GS items I am planning. Then I would start grinding them into larges.

The real reason this should be implemented is because so many folks want dual aspect items at the third tier. Every melee, for example, wants (if not NEEDS) a Mineral II weapon.

[markusthelion]

/signed

The last 26 shrouds I ran I pulled 3 scales = bull dookie!

[MarkusWolfe]

/signed

The last 26 shrouds I ran I pulled 3 scales = bull dookie!

How ironic. I've had 4 runs so far, and I've pulled 3 small and 3 medium scales. Of course, I need 5 large ones, and I haven't pulled a single one of those...

[bendover]

/not signed. Another gimme gimme post. Make more toons, run more shrouds and complete shrouds. You're going to get 1.5 larges every run. When you only run one toon every 3 days of course you're not going to get enough larges.

This would just open up shroud 1-3 groups farming constantly and all day. Pretty sure something Turbine isn't interested in.

[Uska]

/not signed people getting greensteel fast enough as it is and putting 3 of something isnt always equal to larger one 3 arrowheads together shouldnt give you a larger arrowhead.

[Srozbun]

/not signed

Why would the devs ever do this? So people can exploit how shroud is currently farmed even more and never actually complete the raid? If you complete the raid you are guaranteed a large ingredient (and possibly another from part 4). If people do not complete parts 4 and 5 (which are easy enough) they don't deserve large ingredients, simple as that.

Edit: A better suggestion (and one that has been suggested time and time again) is to have a vendor to trade in maybe 3 of any large ingredient for a different large ingredient. Converting from small to medium and medium to large however is pure lazy/"gimme more! I want this game to be easier!" easy button

[h4x0r1f1c]

/not signed people getting greensteel fast enough as it is and putting 3 of something isnt always equal to larger one 3 arrowheads together shouldnt give you a larger arrowhead.

I said X amount. Nobody said 3.

For instance:
10 Small = 1 Medium and 10 Medium = 1 Large.

That means 100 Small for 1 Large.

If you can farm 10 Medium you can farm 1 Large, so..

[Jay203]

i'd prefer the greensteel be taken out of the game

[flynnjsw]

No

[h4x0r1f1c]

No

How come?

[flynnjsw]

/not signed. Another gimme gimme post. Make more toons, run more shrouds and complete shrouds. You're going to get 1.5 larges every run. When you only run one toon every 3 days of course you're not going to get enough larges.

This would just open up shroud 1-3 groups farming constantly and all day. Pretty sure something Turbine isn't interested in.

/not signed people getting greensteel fast enough as it is and putting 3 of something isnt always equal to larger one 3 arrowheads together shouldnt give you a larger arrowhead.

[QUOTE=Srozbun;3308546]/not signed

Why would the devs ever do this? So people can exploit how shroud is currently farmed even more and never actually complete the raid? If you complete the raid you are guaranteed a large ingredient (and possibly another from part 4). If people do not complete parts 4 and 5 (which are easy enough) they don't deserve large ingredients, simple as that.

/QUOTE]

How come?

See the quotes above.

[Gumbolo]

Could work, if it would take reasonable amount (3? 5?) of ingredients to 'increase' in size. To reduce amount of farming, you could make 'failed' runs place you into cooldown (6h? 12h? 18h?) before you could run it again. That would still allow to farming, but worth it? Not really.

While system would reduce amount of farming, it also punish partys, which actually gets wiped (but shroud isn't really hard anyway).

btw. shard's drop rate could be increased a little bit as currently peoples have fairly huge problems w/ gaining em =/

[k1ngp1n]

And why should people be rewarded for not completing?

[Quarterling]

Solution: Roll up many different characters and get them to a high enough level for their sole purpose will be to farm shroud every time they get off timer. Have them never TR, just let them be shroud farmers. Or does that get in the way of your PvP schedule?

[bendover]

And why should people be rewarded for not completing?

100% agree... You want larges complete the quest... Stop looking for the easy button

[Hendrik]

i'd prefer the greensteel be taken out of the game

Signed

[h4x0r1f1c]

And why should people be rewarded for not completing?

You can get ingredients from Amrath too, without completing Shroud.

As for Gumbolo's idea..

I think the failed combine is a bad idea. I think the timer is a good idea.

Let you combine 10 of something for one size larger, then wait 6 or 12 hours before doing so again.

[MarkusWolfe]

/not signed. Another gimme gimme post. Make more toons, run more shrouds and complete shrouds. You're going to get 1.5 larges every run. When you only run one toon every 3 days of course you're not going to get enough larges.

This would just open up shroud 1-3 groups farming constantly and all day. Pretty sure something Turbine isn't interested in.

This is a fair and legitimate opinion. However, it is also true that large ingredients are often needed in greater quantities than small and medium ones, and combining works pretty well for the similar case for DT armor. The difference is that the items for DT armor are found at the end of the quest.

So, long story short, the REAL solution is to put all the chests containing ingredients at the end of the quest, and then allowing combining of ingredients.

[Waukeen]

/not signed. Another gimme gimme post. Make more toons, run more shrouds and complete shrouds. You're going to get 1.5 larges every run. When you only run one toon every 3 days of course you're not going to get enough larges.

This would just open up shroud 1-3 groups farming constantly and all day. Pretty sure something Turbine isn't interested in.

This!

No way. You want a large scale, pull one off of Harry's back.

Also, do you have any idea how much of an influx and flooding of the large ingredient market this would cause?

Most vets have more that 150 of each small and medium in there bag. (just going off what I have, and I used to dump them off periodically)