New Chisel Recipe is Lame

It would have been nice if they had made it any "stone hammer" type base item. Or, hell, if that's too easy make it take two of em.

I totally agree.....this is major lameness. Why would someone who is running high level maps wanna farm level 15-20 areas for hours on end?!?

Christ sakes just make it two maps and armor scraps or any hammer base or something else. This is pretty stupid...

the reason it works is because maps are not a time limited resource.

rng, being the fickle bitch that she is , may choose to shower you with high level maps or give you a poop flavored cookie.


this means each map is strictly a very limited and sometimes finite resource,

you cant map with the expectation that you will get more maps of comparable value from it.

where as you can reasonable get a healthy supply of rock hammers by taking an hour to murder some level 20 mobs.

the recipe isn't meant for using on low level maps , its for making every single on of those level 75+ maps as high quality as they can be .

I don't know what people are whining about...

Every Levelup go A1N and buy all white stone hammers. A2N sometimes sells them too.

Store them in your stash for later use, or if you have a higher leveled, already mapping character, you can already start trading your 66 maps right away for dem chisels.

I guess you easily get 200 hammers -> chisels while leveling to 60.

I would never bother to go farm normal content just for white stonehammers, but so far I've found 1-3, sometimes even 4, each and every level at the vendors.

And since I check the vendors anyway to get chromatic or 6S items, it doesnt even cost time.

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Peterlerock wrote:

I guess you easily get 200 hammers -> chisels while leveling to 60.

No, but you can get ~60. From vendors that is, because my brains dont trigger on white ston hammrz

And that's the only instance where this recipe is usefull - if you already have a maping char and are leveling another.

It's still a lame recipe. GGG could increase droprate of chisel from high map bosses or something natural like that, not this stone hammr dealio bs...

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morbo wrote:

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Peterlerock wrote:

I guess you easily get 200 hammers -> chisels while leveling to 60.

From vendors that is, because my brains dont trigger on white ston hammrz

Well maybe it should. ;-)

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TheTenthDoc wrote:

It would have been nice if they had made it any "stone hammer" type base item. Or, hell, if that's too easy make it take two of em.

Yeah, I like the theme of the recipe but requiring low level ones is a bit silly to me.

I am kinda torn about this recipe. First of all, we are much better off now that we have a chisel recipe than when we didn't have one at all. This is not up for debate.

Problem I have is the whole thing feels very disrespectful to me as a player that is spending my personal time on this game. Farming a bunch of hammers in the riverways is just a dull chore you have to do now before running your high maps. It doesn't really take much, probably about 20 mins before a mapping session. But those 20 mins feel like I'm being a slave to the game for no reason at all.

Also - the hammers aren't the limiting factor of the recipe, the blacksmith whetstones are. I can accumulate a mountain of hammers farming riverways with 150iiq very fast, but whetstones being a type of currency drop when they want to drop. Plus the ratio is 4 whetstones to 1 hammer. Which makes having the hammers as an ingredient very questionable and straight up redundant. Can someone honestly give a straight up explanation why a chisel recipe needs a hammer in it or any item type for that matter?

The way I see it making it "map + 4 blacksmith whetstones = chisel" will accomplish exactly the same thing. Be a sink for maps and whetstones, still limited by the whetstones. Only difference = no pointless chores.

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drakar8888 wrote:

Farming a bunch of hammers in the riverways is just a dull chore you have to do now before running your high maps.

No. It's an option. Feel free to buy hammers or chisels from other players. Obviously people were able to farm high level maps before there was any recipe and the supply of chisels was lower than it will be now.

A bit necro, just 3 months, oh well