Buy or Craft Destroyer Weapons?

Avalanche72

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2010

Is it more cost-efficient to buy the destroyer weapons (if you don't have the onyx and diamonds) or to buy the onyx and diamonds and then craft destroyers?

Thanks

Pleikki

Pleikki

WTB q8 15^50 Weapons!

Join Date: Nov 2006

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Obv buying materials, you can get the mats for ~30-40k.. When most ppl trying sell weapons for 50-80k.. Overall u see sometimes ppl selling weapons for 30-40k also tho

Xsiriss

Xsiriss

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2008

Uh don't know when you last looked but they generally go for 20-30k. Crafting is mroe time efficient as it's quite hard to track down the ones you need, especially seeing as most of them end up as HoM food.

jackinthe

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2007

xsiriss must not have noticed the trader was out of stock of diamonds/onyx.

Kosar The Cruel

Kosar The Cruel

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2010

Ontario, Canada

D/

If you're willing to put in a bit of time, then defiantly craft them yourself.
You can farm your own granite outside Sardelac Sanitarium by killing the Hulking Stone Eles in HM. The 100 iron needed can also easily be salvaged off weapons that drop. After that you'll only need to spend money on the Diamonds (roughly 1k/ea), Onyx (roughly 800g/ea), and of course the crafting cost for the weapon itself (5k).
I did this for my 3 destroyer weapons. Worked out well. Overall only costing me 23k per weapon(add a few K for the Superior Salvage Kits used).

Avalanche72

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2010

Thanks for the replies!

But wait, should I use superior salvage kits instead of regular ones? And if yes, should I use them for everything that I salvage or just for these materials?

Star_Jewel

Star_Jewel

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2010

Denizen of Tyria since Feb. 2009

A Superior Salvage Kit is the same as an Expert Salvage Kit, it just has more uses and costs more per use when purchased from a vendor.

You want to use an expert/superior salvage kit when you want to take a magical item off of a weapon/armor (though it has a chance to break) or if you want to have a chance to salvage rare materials from the item. If you use a regular salvage kit, you will always salvage common materials only. e.g. Use an expert/superior salvage kit on a sword, you have a chance to salvage either iron or steel. Use a regular salvage kit on that same sword, and you will only salvage iron.

own age myname

own age myname

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Sep 2007

Minnesota

[TAS]

R/

You may have to buy them, idk if Onyx and Diamonds are in stock (thank god I bought all my weps months ago)