Unbound Shards for Free.

[MariJay]

Status: Free Service INACTIVE until further notice.

After over 3 months of continuous free service I've had to shut it down due to a number of reasons (limited playing time, diminishing donations, resellers selling shards/items I've made for them, increased costs of continued advancement, etc.) My crafting advancement has ground to a halt and it's simply not going to go anywhere by crafting 0 XP shards for free evertime I log in.

I will, however, provide high level crafting services if you're interested in paying for them. Rule of thumb pricing options:

A) 1K per greater (if you don't have the essences.)
B) 600 per greater (if you provide the essences.)
C) 3 times required essences (if you want to pay with essences only.)

Note: Rare ingredients will increase the prices.


Hi!

I am currently willing to craft ALL Unbound Shards for FREE (you only have to supply the ingredients.)

I can currently do the following:

Arcane : 1 - 143
Divine : 1 - 134
Elemental : 1 - 138


Current Needs: Arcane (Arcane/Body) and Divine (Good/Chaos) School Essences!


I am doing this for two reasons:

1) It will help me top off my crafting XP.

2) It will help keep unbound shard prices down to actual cost for awhile and will help drive the price of essences down. Crafting is too darn expensive and I'd like people to be more reasonable with essence prices.


To repeat, I am doing this for FREE! You just supply the essences/ingredients needed.

Please contact me here by Private Message to set up a time for us to meet or look for me in game under Mneja.


Thanks!



IMPORTANT NOTES:

1) I will update this thread to indicate whether or not I'm still doing this. If the Status indicates that I'm still Active, I'm currently still doing it.

2) If you want to throw some extra essences at me for the trouble I would not turn you down! It is not, however, required.


FAQ

Q: What shards can you make for me?
A: Please take a look at the Unbound Crafting station in House K. I've listed my limitations (if any) above, but you can see exactly what I can make by looking at the available recipes.

Q: Can I put X Shard on X Item?
A: This thread is very helpful for figuring out what can be put in what slot: http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=318331

Q: What should I make?
A: There are some good threads around here with creative suggestions. I don't want to steer you wrong so I don't like to give much advice on what you should make.

Q: Can I put an Unbound Shard on a Bound item?
A: Yes. But the item will remain Bound.

Q: I thought Unbound shards made Unbound items?
A: Unbound shards are tradeable (unlike Bound Shards.) But when you add an Unbound Shard to an Unbound craftable item, the item becomes Bind on Equip.

Q: Can I just mail you the ingredients and have you mail me the shard when you have time?
A: I will only take mail orders from people who are donating lots of extra essences and/or plat to the cause.

Q: When are you available?
A: I don't have any set crafting times. If you don't see me online you can use the in-game mail (as noted above) or try to set something up with me through PM here.

Q: I sent you a Tell and you didn't get right back to me!
A: I may have been AFK, I might have been off playing the game (I generally play with a static group), or I might have just missed your Tell. Please try again, send me an in-game mail, or a PM here if you're having trouble getting a hold of me.

[Gkar]

A great service that benefits both you and the customer - well done!

I'd use your service if I was on your server. For now though, +rep

[Caine33]

+1...You've earned it!

A little something for the effort!

[jojoalva69]

Hmm... looks like need to stock up on essences have a ton of lessers I crunched from greaters, so ill have to get some more greaters...

[MariJay]

Thanks for the rep Gkar and Caine33.


Jojoalva69, I might be able to convert your lessers to greaters on my end... again, for no profit at a 5 to 1 ratio. Just let me know what you need.

[rpv6752]

Very cool....I'll be in touch.

+1 rep

Cawol

[sirdanile]

Very cool, I may indeed use this service in the near future

[MariJay]

OP has been updated to reflect new capabilities.

[danotmano1998]

Hi!
I am currently willing to craft the following Unbound Shards for FREE (you only have to supply the ingredients):

Smart thinking. Everyone wins!
+1 to you.
+1 again just for trying to stabilize the AH economy. (As soon as I can)

[PyrosianFelicity]

I will be messaging you as soon as I work out the items I want, and the ingredients needed.
+1

[MeliCat]

Wow... yes I want brilliance clickie but still looking up recipes for the maximum craftable...

Awesome service thank you!

I'll be in touch when I've worked this out and collected the ing needed...

[EustaceTrevelyan]

Really tremendous I'll look you up if i can't get ahold of you PMwise.

[Lithic]

Thanks for the rep Gkar and Caine33.


Jojoalva69, I might be able to convert your lessers to greaters on my end... again, for no profit at a 5 to 1 ratio. Just let me know what you need.

Thats actually a loss for you. It takes about 6 lessers to turn into one greater, at least pre-patch. Not sure enough data has been gathered after to notice any change.

Formula:

Creating a lvl 1 shard: 4 lessers + siberys/khyber shards
Deconstruction yields: 1d3 lessers, average 2.
Chance to get greater: 1/3 (can only get one).

Therefore on average, with 3 lvl 1 shards, you spend 12 lessers, but get 1 greater and 6 lessers back. This means the greater costs you 6 lessers.

It also costs you a small piece of your soul as you die a little more of boredom with each click. I figure thats worth at least an extra siberys frag per greater.

[R0cksteady]

Thats actually a loss for you. It takes about 6 lessers to turn into one greater, at least pre-patch. Not sure enough data has been gathered after to notice any change.

Formula:

Creating a lvl 1 shard: 4 lessers + siberys/khyber shards
Deconstruction yields: 1d3 lessers, average 2.
Chance to get greater: 1/3 (can only get one).

Therefore on average, with 3 lvl 1 shards, you spend 12 lessers, but get 1 greater and 6 lessers back. This means the greater costs you 6 lessers.

It also costs you a small piece of your soul as you die a little more of boredom with each click. I figure thats worth at least an extra siberys frag per greater.

Keep in mind, in game you can crunch 1 greater into 5 lessers, and sometimes you have a enough greaters and not enough lessers, so maybe he would be crunching them anyway.

Also, nice thinking TC. Really, really good idea.

[MariJay]

Therefore on average, with 3 lvl 1 shards, you spend 12 lessers, but get 1 greater and 6 lessers back. This means the greater costs you 6 lessers.

It also costs you a small piece of your soul as you die a little more of boredom with each click. I figure thats worth at least an extra siberys frag per greater.

Thanks for the info. It's good to know the numbers. So far, most people have been willing to throw in some extra essences so I won't worry about it too much for now.

[MariJay]

I've updated and added a FAQ. I will continue to update additional FAQ questions as they arise.

Does anyone have a definitive guide for how to determine the potential and ML of items before crafting? I get that question a lot, too.

Thanks.

[MariJay]

New capabilities added since crafting was expanded to level 100.

Arcane has been capped.

Currently working on Divine.

[MariJay]

Notice!

Due to the impending and massive cost increase of crafting, I suggest that people burn what essences they have making the best shards they can before the next patch goes live!


http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=328046

[Trillea]

Notice!

Due to the impending and massive cost increase of crafting, I suggest that people burn what essences they have making the best shards they can before the next patch goes live!


http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=328046

FYI in case you missed it: (Quote from MadFloyd)
Everyone,

The train has been stopped. The patch will not ship in its current state.

I will update (probably via a separate thread) when I have more news, but I can say this:

We will NOT require raid loot as ingredients.

We will NOT require bound named items as ingredients.

Many ingredients, and the *amount* of some of these ingredients were out of line.

These changed recipes should have been reviewed by various designers, but weren't (a hole in our process that we have identified and corrected to avoid for the future).

Mournlands did not have an opportunity to see or comment on these changes.

Again, I'll post more info when I have it.

Our sincere apologies for causing panic, and many thanks to all players who offered their well-thought out and constructive feedback on this issue and tried the changes on Lamannia.

"MudFloyd"

[MariJay]

Yes, I did see that. Thank goodness.

But, it's still important to note that it's quite clear that the cost of the really useful shards is definitely going to increase. All we know for certain now is that Raid loot and Bound Named loot won't be required. There is still every indication that some named loot and other rare collectibles will be required for many recipes as well as potentially higher essence costs.

And I think we can assume one certainty: None of the good stuff is going to get cheaper. :/

I know I'm banking what I can afford at this point (which, sadly, isn't much given the cost of getting this far.)