2012-11-10, 10:29 AM
Polantaris Wrote:How can you possibly say that 100% stat is only a few hundred dollars in cubes? A few weeks ago I spent $75 and got 9% (3% on 3 pieces). None of them went Epic at all, which means the best I had a chance for was 9% per piece, which requires an excessive amount of luck (something that will never happen for me, because I don't have any).
Cause that's about what I've spent on cubes to get my gear... I don't have an exact number, but it'd be in the $200-400 range. Iirc 3 of my equips were bought/found epic, 2 unique, and those ones are still at their original ranks. The other 5 are just items I couldn't part with easily (decently scrolled top/bottom/shoe/cape/belt) so I cubed them from rare, or in one case, used an epic pot scroll. Most expensive was the top, with about 70 cubes to unique.
Keep in mind I wait until there's a sale on cubes and a "hot cube time", which happens a couple times a year, though. Rates of epic->unique are allegedly about 5 times higher. In normal circumstances I'd continue waiting for epic/unique/better items to be available in the FM, as those are undoubtedly cheaper.
It's harder to pin a meso amount on my gear cause I've had some of it for such a long time. That is, my bottom/shoes were both forged myself, with the old item crafting system, using str crystals I farmed myself, so the price is meaningless now cause they can never be replicated. I would imagine it's a few more billion in mesos, which'd be $60 extra if you want to include it. Likewise the epic/unique items were obtained in special circumstances that are hard to put prices on (I actually got 9% str unique gloves as a drop)