The Flame Geode Thread...... Again.

[RAIST]

Oh, btw...for those seeking actual fire weather cycles....the transition into it's peak cycle started today, so might want to start checking the forecasts. It was up a couple hours ago (5/23) and is up again for 5/27. It will gradually increase frequency over the next couple days towards it's peak and then start sloping off as it fizzles out in the fall cycle.

[Mirage]

I know SE does that. What I'm asking them to do is to make an exception for the volcanoes because fire weather is already rare, and because it makes sense for there to be extreme heat (even if it isn't heat from warm winds and sunshine) as near a volcano as we can get in the game.

[Sp1cyryan]

My friend just went to Kuftal Tunnel on the firesday a minute ago. No weather ever popped. He killed 59 mobs on firesday with TH7/8/9 on all kills. He never saw a single geode.

Any other day and I bet he would have had a geode. Just because he would not have wanted it. That is balance right there.

EDIT: Flame geodes hit 100k today for a few sales on Asura. :|

Meanwhile on Asura the second and third most expensive geodes are wind at 10-15k and light/earth at 10k. Mhm..

[Unaisis]

SE is going to lock this thread and hide it... pretending is not happening

[Camiie]

Kinda makes me wonder how long ago they planned creating the Magian system or something similar. They certainly created the perfect "storm" of having the most favorable weather condition for physical damage dealers occur the least.

Which one of these guys is really in charge over there?

[SpankWustler]

I was becoming more and more okay with the price of Flame Geodes recently, as the weapons and rings made from them feel more secure as top-of-the-line options every update. Supply and demand and stuff.

Then, the Development Bros spoke from their hearts about weather. Suddenly, I feel like I should nerd-rage just out of principle.

Fire weather is not comparable to Light and Dark weather. There is a zone with constant Light weather that is very popular, and most Dark weather occurs in a few zones which have excellent level ranges of monsters.

As for Fire weather, it is distributed over a handful of zones in a tiny portion each. Some of those zones require level sync to be of any use. This means there is no good place to go for fire weather.

There's more to the various weathers than can be expressed with "This weather occurs a comparable amount of time if I add all the occurrences everywhere together while wearing a raw fryer-size chicken as a hat."

Which one of these guys is really in charge over there?

None of the above!

The animated villain in charge of the Development Bros is this guy:

[Komori]

Everyone looked over my suggestion but if they're not going to change the weather, why not have the recipe include ifritites instead of flame geodes? The prices would skyrocket on them sure, but it is much easier to farm ifritites or to only buy 15. Rather than the 55 you need for flame geodes.

[Mirage]

Hey that's a good question!

[Louispv]

The problem isn't the weather, increasing the wether will not decrease the price of the geodes in the slightest. It might decrease the price of the pyrosoul rings a bit, but geodes will stay the same.

The problem is the flame gems. Flame elment rings/earrings have always been 10 times more expensive than all the other elements, because that stat is actually useful, and the others are not/are less so.

You know what would actually solve the problem, and make gardening useful again at the same time?

Goldsmithing (87)

Yield: NQ: Fire Bead x 1
HQ: Flame Gem x 1
Wind Crystal
1 x Fire Ore

Goldsmithing (?)
Yield: Sardonyx x 1
HQ 1: Garnet x 1
HQ 2: Sunstone x 1
HQ 3: Ruby x 1
Wind Crystal
1 x Flame Geode

Asking for the Ifritites to be used instead is stupid. You'll have this exact same thread again a week after that change except with the avatarites instead of the geodes.

[Sp1cyryan]

Asking for the Ifritites to be used instead is stupid. You'll have this exact same thread again a week after that change except with the avatarites instead of the geodes.

No.

55 geodes per trial and 15 trites. I fail to see how trites will reach 100k per when almost four times less are needed. With trites near 1k people do not even put them on the AH.