Can’t seem to find a reliable way to obtain this through prospecting, and no skills influence it. Was hoping to have a good means of 3-star vials for my ALC main. Anyone know a good way to get them?
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I get most of my glittering glass from treasures and dirt mounts etc. … the yield from prospecting is annoyingly low.
Getting rank 2 vials is easy enough - but you need to be specced deep into jc for rank 3.
Thanks. I respecced to engi and the parts i make sell for the same as vials and are 100x easier to make lol.
Any other good sources for Glittering Glass found? I feel like I am always so short.
Treasure chests can contain any profession items, but that would be really slow. I think you can get glass from an alchemist thaumaturgy too. That will get you a lot more glass, but you need an alchemist.
Check the NPC next to the JC crafting bench often. While it’s certainly not a reliable source, she does sometimes have some in limited supply.
A reliable source of this needs to be introduced. My entire purpose for leveling my JC was to make vials - And after prospecting thousands of ore I have 20 glittering glass (6 vials worth???) and am swimming in gems I can’t use.
Can we use crushed gems and press them into glass or something here? I don’t understand how this resource is as rare as it is. It’s selling for 100g a piece on my server currently…
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Did you spec heavily into prospecting? Is easier to just buy vials off of the AH?
There needs to be a special recipe for generating glass like there is for generating gemdust. Hell give it to blacksmiths if necessary.
Ive specced only into prospecting. Theres nothing there that really increases output of glass though. And of course its easier to buy from the AH but the point is to not have to spend 10k+ on vials every time i want to make a cauldron for raid night when i should be able to reasonably craft them from gathering materials.
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Please! I have so much of every other matt. I crushsd hours worth of ore and got dozens more gems than i did glass like…give me something!
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Glasswork doesn’t help at all for crafting vials? Is it cheaper to buy vials or to buy glass and craft vials?
Glasswork helps with crafting of the vials in that it increases your skill for them so you can make silver or gold quality - But it doesn’t help with the problem being addressed in this thread. To craft vials you need Glittering Glass (Which comes from prospecting) but the amount of glittering glass you get from prospecting is abysmal.
I prospected 200 times last night using various types of ore and received 25 Glittering glass total. So 1000 ore yielded enough glass to make less than 20 Gilded vials total. A Cauldron needs 80 vials.
Servers are down so I can’t do the math right now - But spending 9k in vials instead of 10k in vials isn’t a super great solution when, in theory, the ore I am gathering should be giving me the materials.
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Part of the reason professions feel abysmal right now is the extremely poor return on raw materials to first-tier crafting materials. Like you said, you can prospect an entire stack of ore, and end up with mostly useless ambers and only a bit of pebbles and glass. Way fewer than what’s needed to really do JC. Blacksmithing has similar problems where it takes mountains of low-generation materials to make anything.
Herbalism has less of this problem to an extent, but the issue there is that the raw material generation side for herbs is 200% worse than mining for no other reason than creating artificial scarcity. I have a maxed miner and a maxed herber, and the herber is mostly getting 1-2x 1* herbs each gather where the miner is getting 2-4 2* ore each mine, with significantly more finesse procs.
Prospected 415 times
2075 ore of various kinds (the only one I didnt was gold quality bismuth)
84 Glittering glass.
What an ABYSMAL return rate???
The amount needs to be increased exponentially, Or we need to be able to craft it with crushed gems or something.
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I’m averaging 1 glass/150 ore. So need about 900 ore for 1 vial. Something’s off…
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And currently it’s a loss to prospect even with a maxed prospecting tree. Ore is too expensive and pebbles aren’t holding up the market anymore.
I’d expect glass pricing to jump as there is currently no reason at all to prospect.
Yea I stopped prospecting when I saw I was destroying 5x Bismuth (roughly 125 gold) for a yield of 1x ambivalent amber (roughly 35 gold).
I’m currently working on the prospecting tree…I was hoping to have some better results but judging by what you’re saying things aren’t looking good…
When you want glass from prospecting, use t1 ores. Higher tiers give more dust/gems and less pebbles/glass.
I wonder if it has something to do with skill as well? I just prospected 50 ores and I got a decent amount of glass, probably 5-6. But then, I don’t have much of the Shaping Tree filled out. I wonder if, as you fill out that tree, you get more gems and stuff, which is flooding the market with gems and increasing the cost of glass?
It may sound wonky, but try to create a new JC and send your ore to him. Have him try prospecting and see if you get more glass.