How much?

[MasterchiefLuclin]

Just wondering what the approximate cost would be to have an entire set of Salubrious Heraldic armor made. I know a 250 smith who has geerlok that I know of. I can make the smaller combines up until the final armor piece combine that the 250 smith will make. I can get blue diamonds for about 400 each if I search the bazaar over a couple of days. Please respond with your estimates

[Danthen]

The cost is going to vary by server, unless you hunt everything yourself. The hardest part to get is going to be the essence of sunlight for the royal tempers and finding an enchanter to enchant the HQ ore. Rough estimates for a full set (visible only):

Blue Diamonds (400pp each) x14 = 5600pp
Large Bricks of HQ ore (17pp each) x21 = 357pp
Essence of Sunlight (200pp each) x16 = 3200pp
Large bricks of Velium (100pp each) x7 = 700pp
Leather Padding (35pp each) x8 = 280pp
Griffenne Blood (10pp each) x8 = 80pp
Rainwater (10pp each) x8 = 80pp
Tip for your chanter = 300pp

Which comes to 10,597pp

Then add the cost of water, molds and imbued gems and that should be about right.

(Note: that assumes no failures, which wont happen, and im typing this at 3AM so dont blame me if the numbers are off)

Edit: oh yeah, and these are going by prices on Drinal, which your probably not on.

[Zhorn]

Given that there is roughly 40%-ish chance of success at max skill...... you should multiply that number by 2 and a bit (just to be safe).

[Sinuuyanea Nocturne]

You'd also probably have to add a combine fee to that, as a lot of smithies nowadays wont do combines solely for materials...

[xaanru]

Well, a smith on my server was auctioning full sets of BD cultural for 150,000pp. THats probably a good figure for retail, if you want to do all the hunting, and take the failure risks, I'd imaginge you could get it done for much less than that.

Would definitely help to have all the subcombines done. I'm much more willing to give a good price when someone drops everythign ready for final combine into the trade window. It shows you relly want the stuff, bad enough to work for it, and are not just trying to take advantage of the smith.

[Segal]

I charge 2k per Sheet for Cultural Combines on success.

7500 for Tae Ew combines.

I dont generally take components as part of my fee, most of them I can buy in the Bazaar without problem.

[Fallwell]

Greaves 3BD/2EOS
Breastplate 3BD/2EOS
Cloak 3BD/2EOS
Shoulders 2BD/2EOS
Helm 2BD/2EOS
Arms 2BD/2EOS
Gauntlets 2BD/2EOS
Waist 2BD/2EOS
Bracers 2BD (for 2)/4EOS
Boots 1BD/2EOS
Visor 1BD/2EOS
Gorget 1BD/2EOS

That's 24 Blue Diamonds and 26 Essence of Sunlight. More than Double that to account for final/subcombine failures.

52 Blue Diamonds (400 each) = 20,800
58 Essence of Sunlight (250 each) = 14,500

Then you'll need about 1 large brick/block of velium per piece for rings.
13 Large bricks of Velium (100 each) =1,300

28 Padding (15 each) =420
28 Griffeene Blood (2 each) = 56
26 Celestial Essence (5 each) = 130
13 Coldain Velium Temper (27 each) =351
28 Imbued Opals (18 each) =504
Jars of Acid (negligable)
65 Bricks of Enchanted Ore (18 each + chanter fee) = 1170 +300 (1470)

Grand total on Zebuxoruk
= 39,531

[Meirril]

I'll admit what I'm about to say dosen't make much sense, but bracers seem to fail an awful lot. Figure to make 2 bracers, you'll go though 8 attempts. Maybe you're smith friend will get lucky and get 2 out of 2. Either way, don't plan on gathering materials for full sets. Instead plan enough to make 3 combines at each large peice and see whats left after that for smaller combines. If you gather too much, its no big loss. However, if you planned on combining an entire suit in one night...you might wind up with a very odd set of armor indead.

[Zopharr]

I'll admit what I'm about to say dosen't make much sense, but bracers seem to fail an awful lot.

I've actually seen the same thing since the patch that said that SOE was changing the spell systems to emphasize resists more compared to level. Bracer success rates seemed to drop after that to 25% or so for me - still lower than other pieces.

'Course, could be just nasty RNG. Took like 6 pieces before I ever made pauldrons in less than 4 tries.