As some may or may not know, I’m very interested in upgrading a relic dagger. However, I wouldn’t, and couldn’t, do this without the full force of my linkshell behind me.
I found this calculator. It basically says that, if I aquire 300 pieces of ancient currency per week (1.5mil – 4.5 mil), it will take 10 months. ( see http://lowone.org/annihilator/RelicCalculator.php )
As much as I’d love to have a Mandau, I don’t think this is realistic. At least, not without a radical change to the way Ancient currency drops or is aquired, or, me finding some super-secret way to make a fortune (because I won’t buy money online).
If you think I’m kidding, here it goes:
The Mandau requires (not including anything other than ancient currency)
Stage 1-2 – 400 Byne Bills, at approx 5000 each is 2,000,000
Stage 2-3 – 1400 Ordelle Bronzepiece, at approx 13,000 each is 18,200,000
Stage 3-4 – 6100 Tukuku Whiteshell, at approx 15,000 each is 91,500,000
Stage 4-5 – 10,000 Byne Bills, at approx 5000 each is 50,000,000
For a total cost (at today’s prices) of 161,700,000. Its not even a stretch to try to afford this, its completly out of my price range for the forseeable future, even if I were to buy the money online, it would cost too much. If I were to buy a handful of coins per week (lets say 10-20), it would take 20 years to complete. If I buy 150 – 200 coins per week, it would take 2 years.
So yes, as I mentioned, without the full force of my linkshell behind me to at least get to stage 4, it isn’t even close to worth the effort. If all coins fall to 1K each, then maybe, just maybe, this becomes worth the troubles. I can only hope the servers are still running by the time that happens.
-pyra
