Easy enough to add Dragonsung to the Armory chest, but putting them on costs 6 CP vs. corresponding penta-melded ILVL 460 job colleagues. Here are stats from Shooter's Culinarian mainhand (as melded) vs Dragonsung Skillet:
ILVL 460 Facet Frypan ...(Melded - 13 CTL, 21 CFT, 9 CTL, 9 CTL, 6 CP)
Craftsmanship...............756
Control.........................431
CP................................6
Dragonsung Skillet.........(Cannot be melded)
Craftsmanship................770
Control..........................421
CP.................................0
It is certainly possible to fuss, expensively, with the 12-piece Culinarian gear set's overall melding setup to compensate for the Dragonsung's loss of CTL and/or Dragonsung's CFT gain - but I haven't found a way to compensate for the Dragonsung's inability to provide 6 CP. Even there, for most folks it won't much matter if their gear sets lose 6 CP - this based on the simple idea that adding an HQ ingredient or two, or tuning one's personal synthesis command list, can usually make the 480 combines work anyway. Boiled down, Dragonsung is nice if your setup is under-melded, but it is a tempest in a teapot vs extant top melding setups.
So... it looks like Shooter's (Crafting) Dragonsung gang of 8 will be trailer queens for now, at least until upgrades to Dragonsung tools appear. Anyone able to predict that? 5.3? 5.4?
Shooter!
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ILVL 460 Facet Frypan ...(Melded - 13 CTL, 21 CFT, 9 CTL, 9 CTL, 6 CP)
Craftsmanship...............756
Control.........................431
CP................................6
Dragonsung Skillet.........(Cannot be melded)
Craftsmanship................770
Control..........................421
CP.................................0
It is certainly possible to fuss, expensively, with the 12-piece Culinarian gear set's overall melding setup to compensate for the Dragonsung's loss of CTL and/or Dragonsung's CFT gain - but I haven't found a way to compensate for the Dragonsung's inability to provide 6 CP. Even there, for most folks it won't much matter if their gear sets lose 6 CP - this based on the simple idea that adding an HQ ingredient or two, or tuning one's personal synthesis command list, can usually make the 480 combines work anyway. Boiled down, Dragonsung is nice if your setup is under-melded, but it is a tempest in a teapot vs extant top melding setups.
So... it looks like Shooter's (Crafting) Dragonsung gang of 8 will be trailer queens for now, at least until upgrades to Dragonsung tools appear. Anyone able to predict that? 5.3? 5.4?
Shooter!
Continue reading...