Meursault wrote on Aug 18
th, 2016 at 12:11pm:
What's the cost of 33% insightful fort? That sounds like it would be out of reach of most people in need of ML 7 gear ... I mean, you can buy the ingredients with the astral shards you pull from chests, but that doesn't make it a practical solution. Is adding insightful comparable to crafting heavy to begin with?
And the 3rd effect isn't an improvement because heavy only to 1 slot so both leave you with 1 slot free.
A) Fort is in "group 1" which has a base level of 1. Insightful is +175, so you could craft it at level 175. (160 with 50% success rate and no booster). To get that you need to have about 35k or so crafting XP.
Old Cannith required an elemental level of 100 for heavy fort. Level 100 required 35k of XP. So anyone who could craft heavy fort before can craft fort and Insightful fort in the new system.
B) I don't know what the ingredient costs are for an insightful fort shard. The old heavy fort shard required 2 PED's I think. I suspect the new one needs 5, so there would be a higher cost on it, is my suspicion.
C) Both items will still have 1 open slot. The differences will be: The new item will stay ML 7 with whatever you add. The old item, to use the other slot would require raising the ML. So the new item gets more power at ML 7 as the second effect will be an ML 7 effect.
It's more power, but at more costs of ingredients is basically the trade off.