Thread: 2 ways to make Tomes of Wisdom - Anyone compare them?

I hate trying to do math on these things, and I hate trying to compare buy doing X of one and X of the other and see which worked.

Especially if someone else has already done it. No need to invent the wheel twice.

So has anyone tried to figure the most resouce effective way to make Tomes of Wisdom.

Am I better off turning all my 'Page's of Gondorian Parchement' into Insprired Notes, then use those to crit when making scrolls of insight along with scholar crit scroll, giving me a 72% chance to get 3x scrolls of insight, then use scholar scroll again when turning scrolls of insight into tomes of wisdom - or is just turning pages of Gondorian parchement directly into Tomes of wisdom yield better results.

So far I've just been going with a gut feeling that I'm better off using the "Pages of Gondorian Parchement" to make the crit item to triple output when making scrolls pots et.

What is the general thinking on this?

Crit math for combines made easy:
Whatever your crit chance is, you will increase your yield by the same percentage.

Math backup for statement:
100 combines * 25% crit chance = 25 crit results (avg)
25 crit results = 50 additional combined items, since a crit result yields three items instead of one.

A crit scroll increases crit chance by 12.5%, which increases yield by 12.5 out of a hundred. However, 100 combines takes six minutes (six seconds per combine), so you would need 10 scrolls for 100 combines.

10 scrolls = 10 tomes of wisdom = 20 books of wisdom = 40 scrolls of insight = 80 scraps of weathered dunlending text

Given a base crit chance of 25%, it would require approx 34 scraps of weathered text to to produce the 10 tomes of wisdom.

So, for 100 combines of text into scrolls of insight, you would spend 34 scraps to gain 12.5.

You get similar challenges for using inspired notes. Neither are efficient for combining scraps into scrolls of insight, they're closer to break-even on books of knowledge, and they're efficient on tomes of wisdom (for scrolls, you would expend ~34 scraps of text to gain 12-13 tomes of wisdom, which would equal 50-60 scraps of text).

Originally Posted by Gandie2

I hate trying to do math on these things, and I hate trying to compare buy doing X of one and X of the other and see which worked.

Especially if someone else has already done it. No need to invent the wheel twice.

So has anyone tried to figure the most resouce effective way to make Tomes of Wisdom.

Am I better off turning all my 'Page's of Gondorian Parchement' into Insprired Notes, then use those to crit when making scrolls of insight along with scholar crit scroll, giving me a 72% chance to get 3x scrolls of insight, then use scholar scroll again when turning scrolls of insight into tomes of wisdom - or is just turning pages of Gondorian parchement directly into Tomes of wisdom yield better results.

So far I've just been going with a gut feeling that I'm better off using the "Pages of Gondorian Parchement" to make the crit item to triple output when making scrolls pots et.

What is the general thinking on this?

Turning 2 Page's of Gondorian Parchement into 1 Tome means 1 page = 1/2 a Tome.
I don't think using Inspired Notes on any recipe in the Scroll - Book - Tome chain will net you this result.

If you want to use Inspired Notes I think it's best to use them on the Book to Tome conversion.
Simply put: getting 2 extra Tomes from a crit is better than 2 scrolls or Book ( 1 scroll = 2 scrap of dunland, 1 book = 4 scrap, 1 tome = 8 ####)
So getting crit on Tome is like getting 16 scraps of dunland for 1 Page of Gondorian Parchement.

Also if you want to use +crit chance scroll I suggest you use the ones from Tier 6 ( if you have those mats in abundance) because I feel the +2.5% isn't worth the tome to spend.

Using the westfold scroll that gives +12,5% means 1 in 8 will crit, and give 2 extra tomes ( again assuming you use scroll on making tomes, which yields the greatest profit) A scroll costs 1 Tome to make, so the the profit is 1 tome every 8 times.
If this is actually profitable depends on how many you can craft during the 1 minutes.

Might be best to use the scroll when you actually need the +crit chance because you want a critted pocket item.

Having said this, I seem to use more Books than Tomes