GM Level 7 Trophy Tinkers - Sound Off

[Bodand]

I have been working hard on my tinkering...on my alt...level 16 Gnome Wizard. I am curious how many people have gotten that rare level 7 trophy. Please post a brief message on what you did for combines to get level 7 and which family member you totally ignored for 3 month while farming the parts. I'm at 296 with a 9 percent status on level 5 trophy. I'm farming blue diamonds to make Clockwork observer bracers to max the trophy and finish off to 300 skill.

[Qualan]

I am at 11% into 7 from aaaa's and refuse to "powerlevel" the trophee, especially as there is really not a whole lot in it to justify trowing that much pp after it or farming time.

If i did want to do it, i would go for yttrium farm and combine a whole lot of master servolink stuff

As it stands i doubt i will hit lvl 7 :P

[tuis]

I've been slowly working away at it by doing AAAA combines and collecting yttrium to make cultural as I go - people just don't go to the Deep much anymore. Little bugger has been stuck on 295 for a *long* time. Stupid RNG I hate you.

[Aarial]

Mine at 6% into level 6.. I threw away tons of plat making it to 300. At this point my tinker is 336, 300 tinkering + 36 points for the trophy 12% each level. I make AAAA's and those trivial at 351 for most part. I'll get there some day but not spending another million plat doing seals to get that last few combines for level 7.

[Bodand]

Dinged 300 but what about that trophy?

Woot finally dinged 300 on me tinker. Now im staring at a level 5 trophy at 19 percent. Do I need to level up that trophy to level 6 then 7? Or can I just destroy the trophy and restart the trophy quest and get the level 6 trophy? Seems like a ton of work to level the trophy through 79 percent of level 5 when I can just do the trophy quest and start at level 6 immediately.

If im at 300 skill can I turn in the level 5 trophy to get the level 6 one from the judge? Without having to do 900 combines to finish the level 5 trophy?

[bjpotratz]

if you're at 300 skill now your trophy will start to level much faster than it did before

[Bobaten]

At 19% evolved I would do the master quest. Yes it evolves much faster... but you are still probably looking at doing 80 tinkering combines that are trivial >300(240 bricks of yttrium, or making and selling 16 AAAA). Look up the quest here and start gathering all the parts. If it turns out you have a hard time getting something (tentacles most likely) you might try evolving...but even if you pay out the nose for tentacles, it probably still only a fracton of what you would pay for the yttrium.

[Bodand]

Skill up path

My Tinker is level 16 so Masters armor will have to wait and level up until he can do them quests to skill up. I have all the parts and tenticles in stock to do the GM trophy. I also have 500 combines I could do for POP Cams at trivial 282. Those should level me out of level 5 trophy to level 6. I also have 400 combines ready for the clockwork observer bracer trivial 302 but i didn't want to use those 400 combines on a level 5 trophy.

All the items I make go to my guild for personal tribute.. .free to them as they supply most of the tradeskill items for the combines (ie stacks of blue diamonds).

I'll let ya know how it goes.

[Bobaten]

You have a couple misconceptions.
1. To make the master's armor, the only quest you have to do is the low level quest that requires turning in items from crushbone and Unrest. The higher level tasks are to make the symbols(which you cannot tinker anyhow).
2. The trophy will not evolve on non trivial combines. The check is against your skill, not the trophy level, so the bow cams won't help you.

[Bodand]

Skill ups

Thanks for the information. Its good news on the masters armor and bad news on the cams.

It seems just wrong now that im 300 skill that I need to level up my trophy from level 5 and 19% to level 6 doing combines that are over 300 trivial. This is especially true when others who start their trophy quest when they are already 300 skill can start their trophy at level 6 immediately.

There is no way im going to level my tropy doing 600 more combines on +300 trivial level items to get level 6 on the trophy and then do 1000 more combines of +300 trivial level items (clockwork observer bracers) to get level 7.

I must be missing something in the skill up / trophy leveling process.

If a person is 299 skill, gets a level 5 trophy, it seems they are screwed. They they have to level a level 5 trophy and level 6 trophy completely.

[Bobaten]

That's why the trophy quests were changed right after the PoR launch. Now when you get a trophy it comes pre-evolved. So the person at 299 skill gets a level 5 trophy that has 99% xp on it.
But remember, because of the accellerated xp for being a level ahead of your trophy, you don't need to do 600 combines to get it to level 6, only 80 or so(still alot, but nearly an order of magnitude better).

[Wyora]

That's why the trophy quests were changed right after the PoR launch. Now when you get a trophy it comes pre-evolved. So the person at 299 skill gets a level 5 trophy that has 99% xp on it.
But remember, because of the accellerated xp for being a level ahead of your trophy, you don't need to do 600 combines to get it to level 6, only 80 or so(still alot, but nearly an order of magnitude better).

The couple of times I've out-leveled my trophies, I've found it to be more like 5-10 combines to get it to evolve, not anywhere near 80.

[Gorse]

It seems just wrong now that im 300 skill that I need to level up my trophy from level 5 and 19% to level 6 doing combines that are over 300 trivial. This is especially true when others who start their trophy quest when they are already 300 skill can start their trophy at level 6 immediately.

When your trophy is a Tier below your current skill the trophy evolves at 11 times the rate. At 81% to go, at 1000 combines it would take 810 combines, but since a lower tier it will take ~ 75 successful (non trivial) combines to evolve to 6/7. Then it will be on the same level and then you have to do the ~1000 non trivial combines to evolve the trophy to 7/7. Also remember that the higher the trivial level of the item the fewer combines that are required (so it will take fewer total successful combines on a 335 trivial level items than it will for a 302 trivial level items.

What you have to consider is whether it is easier/cheaper to complete the level 6/7 trophy verses doing the 75 combines.

If a person is 299 skill, gets a level 5 trophy, it seems they are screwed. They they have to level a level 5 trophy and level 6 trophy completely.

You are incorrect again. When a person completes a trophy quest, the trophy evolves to a % that is pro-rated based on their current skill.

In the case presented by you, a 299 player finishing a level 5 trophy. They hand in the completion letter and receive a level 1/7 trophy and a certificate. They will then equip the trophy (I have tested Primary, Secondary and Range slots, all work, I have not tested the ammo slot yet, but since the mod +% works, it should also work). Once equiped perform a combine using a tradeskill container for that skill, in this case, a toolbox and the trophy will evolve to 5/7 and will be listed at 98% through the level.

If on the next non trivial combine they earned the last skill point (300) then only 2 more successful, non trivial combines would be required to evolve to 6/7 (and more then likely it will have already evolved to 6/7 before the last skill up point is achieved).



Gorse

[Ysall]

Whats the estimate on how many combines it takes to max a 7/7 tink trophy? Thinking of sponsoring a friend, but its its an 1100 combine trophy, I think I'd pass.

[Parthen Jalgraxa]

I've noticed the following...

351+ trivial combines, it will take about 600 combines.

Low 300's trivials, it will take about 900 combines.