All righty, hi folks. This particular topic is related specifically to Holy Burst shards ONLY. I understand that there is a lot going on with crafting right now, but I want to address this one from a few different angles.

Holy Burst 100% crafting success cost Live, Update 10:
Divine Crafting Level 72
21 G. Good Essences
192 L. Good Essences
2 Lodestones
25 Siberys Dragonshard Fragments.

Holy Burst 100% crafting success cost Update 10.1:
All of the above
Purified Eb. Dragonshard Fragments
1 Silver Flame Healing Potion.

For those of you that don't know, a Silver Flame Healing Potion is bought from the Silver Flame Vendor after having achieved over 400 Silver Flame Favor. To illustrate this more fully, I am going to use the Wiki to break down the Favor, by pack, as well as the DDO Store to illustrate lowest-cost pricing in DDO points, without the usage of sales.

--Free to Play:
06 - Bringing the Light
15 - The Church and the Cult
18 - In the Demon's Den
--Pay to Play:
66 - Catacombs - 250 TP
66 - Necro 1 - 250 TP
81 - Necro 2 - 350 TP
90 - Necro 3 - 350 TP
111 - Necro 4 - 850 TP
Alternately, Necro 1-4 Bundle Pack - 1495 TP

Now we play with some simple math. There is a maximum of 453 Silver Flame Favor out there. Removal of *any* of the 5 P2P packs, and it's associated favor, means you cannot reach over 400 Silver Flame Favor required in order to buy Silver Flame Potions, and therefore cannot craft a Holy Burst Shard.

Now, under these simple assumptions, we can then to the math, and see that Turbine Point wise, you need at least 1745 Turbine Points to buy these 5 Adventure packs, at their lowest cost, not including sales.

What can I surmise from this?

Turbine expects us to:
  1. Be Pay to Play, or Spend 18 USD.
  2. Run 31 Quests, and 1 Raid, on Elite.
  3. Be at least level 18 on our crafting toon.
  4. Deconstruct 3~4 +1 Tomes.
  5. Deconstruct roughly 7 Holy Burst items.


All after having *already* reached crafting level 72, and to what end? To craft. a. single. shard.

Please, discuss.