mfm and smtm

LgAngel

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2009

The Must Have

W/P

measure for measure with great conch makes plenty of dusts,

but show me the money with great conch make only increas selling price?

nah, I'm just gathering show me the money but it just slot waste...

bsoltan

bsoltan

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2005

UK

[SoF]

What is the question?

jensyea

jensyea

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2009

The Underworld

Mo/

I think he wants to know which is better to use on his great conches.
In that case, use the smtm on your conches.
Save the mfm for items that can contain gems and salvage them, I got my set of vabbian armor that way, real cheap.

Dzjudz

Dzjudz

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

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Quote:
Originally Posted by jensyea View Post
I think he wants to know which is better to use on his great conches.
In that case, use the smtm on your conches.
Save the mfm for items that can contain gems and salvage them, I got my set of vabbian armor that way, real cheap.
What?

Always use mfm on conches, you can get a stack of dust with 2-3 conches that way.

When raptor farming, you'll get plenty of mfm anyway to use on the conches you get.

Quaker

Quaker

Hell's Protector

Join Date: Aug 2005

Canada

Brothers Disgruntled

I don't know specifically about Conches, but overall it comes down to whether or not the amount of gold you would get from smtm will buy more dust/material than you'd get from mfm, especially if you consider buying stacks of dust/material from other players.

jensyea

jensyea

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2009

The Underworld

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dzjudz View Post
What?

Always use mfm on conches, you can get a stack of dust with 2-3 conches that way.

When raptor farming, you'll get plenty of mfm anyway to use on the conches you get.
You say you get 1 stack of dust with 2-3 conches so you use 2-3 mfm.
I say I get a rubies/sapphire for 75% of my mfm.
What would be better? 1 stack of dust, or 2 rubies/sapphires?

Spiritz

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2007

DMFC

Quote:
Originally Posted by jensyea View Post
You say you get 1 stack of dust with 2-3 conches so you use 2-3 mfm.
I say I get a rubies/sapphire for 75% of my mfm.
What would be better? 1 stack of dust, or 2 rubies/sapphires?
Ok this should be put on wiki and everyone stop farming feathers etc and do this instead ( end sarcasm )

You my friend must be the luckiest bloke in gw as ive only ever seen a few posts where someone has stated they got a few rubies and that was from quite a lot of attempts.Ive probably gone thru 100 ruby mauls in my time with m4m and ive yet to get a ruby and im sure many will agree with me there.
Id rather say theres a remote chance of a ruby/saph rather than 75% of the time i get ruby/saphs

chuckles79

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2009

FILA

P/

Quote:
Originally Posted by jensyea View Post
I think he wants to know which is better to use on his great conches.
In that case, use the smtm on your conches.
Save the mfm for items that can contain gems and salvage them, I got my set of vabbian armor that way, real cheap.
Which items did you have the most luck with?

Dzjudz

Dzjudz

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

gwpvx.com/user:dzjudz

Quote:
Originally Posted by jensyea View Post
You say you get 1 stack of dust with 2-3 conches so you use 2-3 mfm.
I say I get a rubies/sapphire for 75% of my mfm.
What would be better? 1 stack of dust, or 2 rubies/sapphires?
75% is extremely unlikely. The average (gold) conches to get a stack of dust is 3 I'd say (with cases ranging from 2 to 4 conches).

Of course, why not use mfm for both? I know I do.

Whirl E Vic

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2009

D/

I've had the best luck with the jeweled and ruby daggers for getting the valuable gems, maybe 1 in 3 with a mfm in it. Although I did get 2 sapphires from jeweled daggers once. My strike rate with ruby mauls seems to be much, much lower.

I second the always mfm on conches. 1/4 to 1/3 of a stack of dust is of the order 1k. You can always buy extra mfm for about 300g and always make a profit putting it in a conch.

Star_Jewel

Star_Jewel

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Mar 2010

Denizen of Tyria since Feb. 2009

Yeah...ruby mauls aren't too kind to me, either, but I got a ruby and a sapphire by using MfM on some stuff I picked up while farming Cobalt Talons. If you do any farming, even casually, you should have enough MfMs floating around to be able to use them on both conches and jeweled weapons; you can slap "Show me the money!" on damn near anything; so I'm not sure what the dilemma is.

LgAngel

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2009

The Must Have

W/P

sorry for vague description but it seems like solved.

i should save my mfm and consume smtm empty goldies. thanks all of you guys