So, i’m starting to think that this may not be worth it. I mean i’m all for the journey but…well here’s my break down of meteorlogicus.
Got the mastery trained, then headed to legendary crafting NPC in the middle of the crafting area in LA to buy the recipe for 5g + 10 karma.
Collection 1 – basically view a bunch of places, save some chickens, get some elemental stuff. Took about 4 hours because it has some night cycle stuff you need to wait on.
Chest gives you recipes to make before you can unlocked Collection 2.
All Recipe mats are: 35 spiritwood planks + 200 memory of battle + 200 shards of glory + 10 ectos + 5 T6 dust + 10 elonian leather. This equates to 319g + 3.4g + 2.1g + 101g = 425.5g total for collection 1.
So, here I am looking at a 425.5g investment for step 1 out of 3 to get a item I can put a buy order on the TP for 400g or outward buy it for 425-450g. I can understand that for some precursors you will come out near even or perhaps saving gold in the long run but for meteorlogicus this is not the case. It’s a shame really because collecting the items via traveling the world, doing jump puzzles and visiting special area’s was super cool but the investment still required after that is just plain not worth it. I hope a-net revisit’s the precursor crafting and makes it cost viable compared to just saving.
Has anyone else looked into this? Also I’ve only unlocked/completed tier 1 so far so i’m wondering what goes into tier 2-3 if anyone knows. Atm it looks like i’ll bite the loss of my 5g + 10k karma.
