your gonna need one of these

If you go with the OMG-U-R-KRAZY way, you will be spending way too much time on it.  That bird hitting enter will get you through some of it but you'll have to come back every now and again to reload another stack of shards to deconstruct.  You'll only get one XP per deconstruct with that method.  All you do is make the lowest level shard...4 lessers and a khyber/siberies shard...and all your XP comes from the deconstructing of these shards which gets you 1 XP per deconstruct.

It is supposed to be the most efficient with materials but it is not the most time efficient way.

I don't really think there is any efficient way time wise.

I've been making some higher shards and use up what greater essenses I have to crunch things then go with the OMG method and use up the lessers that I have.  I do the OMG method just to get some Greaters out of them.

Repeat till I either don't feel like grinding stuff up or get bored.  OMG method really is insane to do.  One poster had said it took about 122 hours.  He is supposed to have a video.  Check out the crafting section.  122 hours doesn't seem like much but it is really insane.  If you have a good selection of movies to watch, you can click and click and click, eventually hitting lvl 70.  You'll have to do this for all three crafting types if you want to level up in this method.

The higher level shards I make have a base of 50% chance and I put in one of the chance boosters.  I'll also use a crafting XP pot.  I do all my shard making at once so I can get the most out of that pot since it only lasts 15 minutes.  The pot doesn't get you more XP from deconstructing stuff.  Make that shard till you can't get much more XP out of it.  It also helps to swap to a different recipe(same ingredient amounts, just a different effect from the shard) and get the XP from it when the one you were using drops below that other recipe requirements.

Breaking down the shards that were a higher level to create will get you more than 1 XP per grind but it still isn't much.

What is this OMG method? Bear in mind that I have not been paying any attention to crafting at this point other than noting that I am pulling essences out of chests.

popejubal wrote on May 25^th, 2011 at 9:25pm:



You'll want to use a clicker tool for this and do it while you are afk.

Fuck Off wrote on May 26^th, 2011 at 12:14am:


They didn't have any problem with the G15 keyboard to turn in coins. I think they responded to Borror0.

It was even in their FAQ:
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Meh.  I feel like the intended way is less of a hassle.  Just collect essences while questing for a few weeks, then go to the crafting hall and go to town.  Sure, it won't be as quick as leveling 1 exp per click but you end up spending so much less time in the crafting hall and not wanting to claw your eyes out.

This is what I've been doing since U9 came out.  In the past week I've started shard crafting, aiming for the best experience-per-essence shards.  Already at the point where I'm able to craft +4 Alignment of Bane weaponry.  Sure, that's still a very long way from the +5 Greater Bane weaponry, but a +4 Holy Silver of Lawful Outsider Bane is still a very potent weapon--and I can craft more or less as many of these as I want so long as I have silver weapons to start from.

Inkblack wrote on Jun 7^th, 2011 at 10:45am:

Red

This is how I see it.

Now I know.  And knowing is half the battle.