2009-01-06, 07:44 PM
Cyanne Wrote:I can imagine that shoes would receive the greatest benefit from the maker skill. Even if you won't be able to afford the high-grade crystals, which I would imagine to be worth several tens of millions of mesos, you could still use mid-grade crystals which add 3 stat points each. Six extra stats on a shoe with six stats already on it beats out a clean facestomper for the most part. There's also an extra slot to add speed on top or perhaps try your luck with a dark crystal. For warriors, even accuracy could be added. This is even better for magicians because int and luk do not come from any sort of shoe scroll besides chaos, so using high-grade wisdom and luk crystals would be a nice investment on shoes.
Since you're asking specifically about magicians, I would only imagine other equipment gaining only 4 stat points from the maker skill because they depends on mass scrolling. Overall and glove scrolls give 5 and 6 stats respectively for 30% scrolls and only 2 stats for 60% scrolls, which means that it's in your best interest to tack on as many 30%s as you can. This means that you can't be throwing 30% scrolls on high-value items, so you most likely will want to keep the equipment production costs cheap to lower the meso loss when a 30% blows up an item, meaning low-grade crystals. Succeeding another 30% on a piece of equipment outweighs the benefits of using mid-grade crystals because mid-grade crystals will be much more expensive than low-grade. This also holds true for other classes' gloves/overalls. As for the weapon, there's basically nothing to gain from using the maker skill because sapphires and wisdom crystals only give the effect of one 30% scroll, and using luk crystals is pointless. Also, normal magician weapons can't match up to doomsday staves and elemental wands anyways, especially for archmages, even with the maker skill.
For warriors and thieves, tops/bottoms gain the most benefit from the maker skill because they are separate pieces of equipment, allowing you to fit in twice as many crystals as an overall. Also, because tops and bottoms don't rely as heavily on 30% scrolling as overalls do because their 30%s only give a 1 stat advantage over their 60%s as opposed to the 3 stat difference for overall scrolls, it is much better to create a more valuable top and bottom than it is to create a more valuable overall because it is less important to use 30%s to maximize stat gain. Also, warriors receive the greatest benefit like with the shoes due to the extra accuracy that can be put on a top/bottom set.
interesting. One thing I did not understand was can you only apply refined jewels to an item if it is clean? Because IssacGS mentioned that they cannot be used on "poorly scrolled items" and below average items. What did he mean by this?