joy and misery (another RNG thread!)

[EchtelionFV]

I have my STR buffs up.

I have 20 LDoN tempers, plus all other stuff required for 20 combines.

I click the forge. I am one with the forge now!

Bang! 5 skillups, 205 to 210 in under 20 combines.

I am at the top of the world! yay! all praise the RNG!

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(an hour later)

I have 20 ethereal bricks and tempers, plus enough small velium pieces, CVT and EV scrolls for 26 additional combines (thats 46 combines total)

I burn it all at the forge, zero skillups.

Payback, I guess.

/cry

PS: I had understood that going 210-212 via ethereal rings was nearly free, but bricks cost 86pp in a merchant, adding the temper that's like 100pp per combine with nearly no sellback. 2000 pp per stack (down the toilet, in my sad case). Am I doing anything wrong?

[Salitorn]

First step never buy the bricks off Merchants. Always head to the Bazaar. I have gotten stacks before as cheap as 5pp a brick. High side sometimes 30pp.

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[eniamn]

no. for true payback it will be another 60 points without a skillup. hope it doesn't dislike you now though.

[Kongming]

they sell semi decent in bazaar or if not u can save them for friends/guildies needing ornate armor/ele armor made

[Gherad]

5 skillups in 20 combines is phenomenal. You could go the next 100 combines without a single gain and still come out better than most people.

And yeah, like others said, never buy bricks from vendors. You can always find some cheaper in the bazaar.

[EchtelionFV]

Thanks for the tip on buying bricks from bazaar, I bet I will get my 2 easy points after all. Seeing the brick on every merchant I even open had somehow "narrowed my mind" and I didn't even considered the idea of doing a bazaar search