User:Purrince Charrming/What to do with stuff

This page is supposed to give some suggestions on what to do with items that might clutter your inventory, especially those items that keep coming back as you play the game.

Depending on the item, there are probably quite a lot of uses. In order to keep this page as simple as possible (but not simpler), I might omit some of them and focus on the most useful ones. In other words: Don’t expect this page to be 100 % exhaustive. But if you think I’ve missed something important or valuable, let me know.

Map materials

Living World Season 3

• All of these materials allow you to buy certain Ascended equipment, listed in the “Ascended” column together with how much of the material is required (in brackets). Note that the Ascended trinket page may provide ways that are even more easy to obtain.
• Often, there is an additional Unbound Magic or Karma cost for buying any of the items with map materials, which is not listed in the table.
• The Gift of Bloodstone Magic and Gift of Dragon Magic are both only used for one thing: Crafting Aurora, the legendary trinket. Each of these gifts requires three stacks of map materials, one from each map. The “Gift” column tells you to which gift the material contributes to.
• Aurora also requires buying some things with these map materials. The things that can be bought with the materials are listed in the “Collection” column. Note that Relic Collector is not a requirement for Aurora.
• Some of the materials can be used to buy miscellaneous items, listed in the “Misc Items” column. I have not itemized each of the minis etc. separately.
• Selling Orrian Pearls to the vendor might be more profitable than consuming them and then converting the Unbound Magic, because they drop less magic than the other materials, but the vendor price is the same.
• The “⌀” column documents the average amount of Unbound Magic per material I’ve received. This was measured by consuming a stack with around 190 % Magic Find and dividing the result by 250.

Living World Season 3 map materials
Item	Ascended Items	Gift	Collection	Vendor	Consume	⌀	Misc Items
Blood Ruby (Bloodstone Fen)	Amulet (125) Back (200) Ring (100)	Bloodstone	Pristine Blood Ruby (50)	1  28	25–50	43
Petrified Wood (Ember Bay)	Accessory (150) Back (200)	Dragon		1  28	25–50	44	6 Minis (25 each) Skritt Worker Contract (1) to find Salvaged Debris
Fresh Winterberry (Bitterfrost Frontier)	Accessory (300) Back (400) Breather (500) Breather (500) Breather (500) Ring (200)	Dragon		-	15–30	22	5 Minis (50 each) 4 Foods (10 each)
Jade Shard (Lake Doric)	Amulet (125) Back (200)	Bloodstone	Seraph Bloodstone Savant's Staff (50) Seraph Seraph Protector (50)	1  28	25–50	27	Seraph Intricate Gossamer Insignia (25) Seraph Orichalcum Imbued Inscription (50) 6 Minis (25 each) 2 Recipes (10 each)
Fire Orchid Blossom (Draconis Mons)	Amulet (125) Ring (100)	Dragon		1  28	25–50	36	9 Minis (25 each) Mini M.O.X. (50) Oakheart's Essence (25) to be used as guild decoration
Orrian Pearl (Siren's Landing)	Amulet (125) Back (200) Back (200) Back (200) Back (200) Back (200)	Bloodstone	any one of the back items (200) for Supporter of the Gods and thus Aurora Relic of Abaddon (all 5 other back items) for Relic Collector	1  28	15–30		6 Minis (25 each) 6 Recipes (25 each) 4 Shrine unlocks (10 each) Orrian Coffer (1)

1 My suggestions:

• If you’re going for Aurora, make sure to get both of the Gifts and all required collection items.
• If one or more of your characters lack ascended accessories, amulets, back items, rings or aquabreathers, get them these.
• Unlock the four shrines in Siren’s Landing.
• If you’re into minis, get those.
• If you’re a completionist, buy the recipes.
• If your guild hall could use one or more Oakheart’s Essence, take ’em.
• Finally, if you don’t have a lot of Unbound Magic (less than 50,000), consume the materials, else sell them for gold. (Except for the Winterberries of course, consume these or make food out of them.)

Living World Season 4

Living World Season 4 map materials
Item	Gift	Collection	Shipment	Minis	Consume	Misc Items	Suggestion
Kralkatite Ore (Domain of Istan)	Crystalline	Skyscale Saddle (250) Mehdi's Grog (435, optional)	1  + 60	5 (125 each)	3–5	Astral (exotic) & Stellar (ascended) weapons	Keep a stack if you don’t have Skyscale Saddle yet Convert to ingots (recipe timegated) if you want the weapons Buy shipments or craft something (check profit) If you’re lazy, consume
Rose Quartz (Domain of Istan)					salvage for 5–10	Irradiated Vision Crystal for Stellar weapons	Keep 1 per Stellar weapon you want (you’ll also need 500 Powdered to begin) TP the rest (check profit, salvaging into Powdered can be better)
Powdered Rose Quartz (Domain of Istan)			1  + 100			Kralkatite Ingot for Astral weapons	If you want Astral weapons, each needs 500 Buy shipments (check which shipment type is most profitable) or sell at TP if you’re lazy

Icebrood Saga

Icebrood Saga map materials
Item	Information
Shard of Crystallized Blood of Jormag (North Drizzlewood Coast)	Mainly used for the Frost Legion Infusion. To get the infusion (for the first time), you’ll need to consume 500 Tonic of Icebrood Corruption, i.e. 25,000 of these plus 10,000 Glob of Ectoplasm and 12,500 Lump of Glass. In total, that’s … worth of materials. If you’re really going for the infusion: You can craft 50 of these together with 20 Glob of Ectoplasm and 25 Lump of Glass into one Tonic of Icebrood Corruption in the Mystic Forge. There’s also a 10× recipe available. Secondary use is the Dragonscale Cape from the Cloaked in Scales collection. The collection requires a bunch of Icebrood Saga materials, among others 20 Tonic of Icebrood Corruption, i.e. 1,000 of these shards, 400 ecto and 500 lumps of glass. My suggestion is therefore: Sell at the trading post, except if you really want either the infusion or the cape.
Prismaticite Crystal (Champions)	You’ll need 10 Prismatium Ingot (consisting of, in total, 50 Prismaticite Crystal plus … worth of other materials) for the Cloaked in Scales collection’s Prismaticite Clasp. Additionally, it’s used to craft Dragon Slayer weapons and their upgraded versions (Azure, Crimson, Icy and Fiery). My suggestion: If the cape and the weapons don’t interest you, craft the crystals into Prismatium and sell that on the trading post. Be aware that there are two recipes for the ingots: One that costs more Prismaticite but less other common materials, and one where it’s the other way around. Make sure to use the one that’s more profitable. However, the profit margin is often so low that it’s easier to just destroy the Prismaticite.

Guild materials

Crystals

Guild Crystals
Item	Guild Hall	Weapon Set	Notes
Shimmering Crystal	Lost Precipice	Shimmering	Both of these items drop from Ore Synthesizers in one of the Heart of Thorns guild halls. They are also available from Sigurlina Jonsdottir for 1 Guild Commendation each. You can craft Ornate Guild armor (FExotic) with any of them via Guild Insignia. There is only one set of armor in total for both crystals. You’ll need 66 crystals in total (and other materials) to complete the armor set. You can also craft Chiaroscuro weapons (FExotic): Two weapon sets, either Shimmering or Tenebrous, depending on the crystals used. You’ll need 160 Shimmering Crystal and 160 Tenebrous Crystal (and other materials, see this list) to complete both weapon sets.
Tenebrous Crystal	Gilded Hollow	Tenebrous

1 My suggestion:

• If you’re not interested in the weapons or armor (anymore), your only option is selling the crystals to the vendor (16  each, 40  a stack). Everything crafted from them is account bound.

Scribe

Various Items
Item	Main Sources	Used In	Conversion
Resonating Sliver	Ore Synthesizers Daily chests	Lots of Scribe stuff	Trading Post (…) Vendor (3 )
	Mail to your guild’s scribe(s), a stack is only worth around 10 . Otherwise, sell on TP. Since the usual TP price is just 5 , you can also sell it to a vendor, losing at most 30 % of its value (i.e. 7  50  instead of 10  62 ).

Other stuff

• The “Main Sources” column will not list every way possible to obtain the item, only the most common ones.
• The column “Used In” lists the most important crafting or forging results that consume the item.
  • The approximate costs are given in brackets, where “(3 + 8  53 )” means “3 of the item plus around 8.5 silver in additional materials”.
  • If the resulting item can be sold, I will list the approximate sell price after a colon.
• If the item can be relatively easily converted into gold or some other super-common item (like unidentified gear or basic crafting materials), these conversions will be listed in the “Conversion” column.

Various Items
Item	Main Sources	Used In	Conversion
Blade Shard	Sprocket Generator Promotion from Watchwork Sprocket dropped by Aetherblades	Ascended Back Item (925 + ~50  of other mats) Sigil of Peril: Minor (1 + …): … Major (3 + …): … Superior (5 + …): …	DMasterwork gear (1 for 100) via Equipment Bag: …
	If you’re a completionist or like the skin, get Tempered Spinal Blades. Note that there are way cheaper ascended back items available, e.g. via LWS3 materials. Otherwise, buy Equipment Bags from BLING-9009, then sell or open-and-salvage the gear. The sigils are not worth it.
Milling Stone	Lots of chests & map-specific containers (think Airship Cargo)	Vial of Linseed Oil (5 + …): … Bag of Cassava Flour (5 + …): … Cup of Light-Roasted Coffee (1 + 48  + 21 ): … Dollop of Choya Harissa (1 + …): … Pile of Jacarandere (1 + …): … Guild Weaponsmith 1 (100) & 2 (200)	TP: … Vendor: 9
	TODO: Suggestion

Planned sections and items

• LWS4 map materials
• Icebrood Saga map materials
• Watchwork Sprocket
• Pile of Bloodstone Dust
• Dragonite Ore
• Empyreal Fragment
• Bauble
• overview on crafting materials like wood, metal, cloth