do you have to be a certin level to get fade touched?

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on the DA wiki says Fade-Touched Lustrous Cotton (Walking Bomb) drops in the hinterlands. been grinding for it for 5 hours and nothing. is there a level we have to be just to even get the lower teir fade touched. the only thing i am getting is fade touched obsidian from the box by the dragon

[barzai]

I don't think there are any level requirements, but I don't know for sure. The only thing is, fade-touched materials typically drop in lieu of normal materials, i.e. fade-touched lustrous cotton would only be a drop from a kill that would normally drop regular lustrous cotton.

Since lustrous cotton is a Tier 2 cloth, and cloth only gets dropped by human (or some undead) foes, you won't see it until you kill the appropriate Tier 2 foes, which likely means at the level 12-15 bracket. You're not going to meet anyone like that in the Hinterlands until you go south and get into the Avvar Valley and Hafter's Woods. The rest of the Hinterlands are levels 4-7 or levels 8-11.

Another thing to be aware of: once you root the Templars and mages out of their hidey-holes, you encounter a lot fewer of them, which in turn means less cloth drops. Less cloth drops, less fade-touched cloth drops. I'm always bereft of cloth in the early stages since I usually deal with the Templars and mages as soon as possible to avoid an excess of random encounters. YMMV.

FWIW the only fade-touched material I've ever seen in the Hinterlands with any regularity is fade-touched iron, which is not bad actually, but it's not what you're looking for obviously! :-)

Hope this helps.

Edit: Bear in mind that Masterwork Crafting doesn't become available until Skyhold (unless you're using a mod), so it's not worth getting too spun up about.

I'd also add, fade-touched materials are sufficiently rare and random that building a crafting strategy around specific ones is probably a waste of time, unless you use a mod that makes them purchasable at one of the stores, or gives you a bunch of 'em in the Prologue.

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Originally posted by barzai:

I don't think there are any level requirements, but I don't know for sure. The only thing is, fade-touched materials typically drop in lieu of normal materials, i.e. fade-touched lustrous cotton would only be a drop from a kill that would normally drop regular lustrous cotton.

Since lustrous cotton is a Tier 2 cloth, and cloth only gets dropped by human (or some undead) foes, you won't see it until you kill the appropriate Tier 2 foes, which likely means at the level 12-15 bracket. You're not going to meet anyone like that in the Hinterlands until you go south and get into the Avvar Valley and Hafter's Woods. The rest of the Hinterlands are levels 4-7 or levels 8-11.

Another thing to be aware of: once you root the Templars and mages out of their hidey-holes, you encounter a lot fewer of them, which in turn means less cloth drops. Less cloth drops, less fade-touched cloth drops. I'm always bereft of cloth in the early stages since I usually deal with the Templars and mages as soon as possible to avoid an excess of random encounters. YMMV.

FWIW the only fade-touched material I've ever seen in the Hinterlands with any regularity is fade-touched iron, which is not bad actually, but it's not what you're looking for obviously! :-)

Hope this helps.

Edit: Bear in mind that Masterwork Crafting doesn't become available until Skyhold (unless you're using a mod), so it's not worth getting too spun up about.

i know its useless tell skyhold just getting grinding out of the way now useing the obsidian trick with the boxes by the dragon. if you have teir 4 scamatics you can make gear thats good enough to get by for the entire game so i can just focus on story in prep for veil guard

[barzai]

Originally posted by davidwhistler:

Originally posted by barzai:

I don't think there are any level requirements, but I don't know for sure. The only thing is, fade-touched materials typically drop in lieu of normal materials, i.e. fade-touched lustrous cotton would only be a drop from a kill that would normally drop regular lustrous cotton.

Since lustrous cotton is a Tier 2 cloth, and cloth only gets dropped by human (or some undead) foes, you won't see it until you kill the appropriate Tier 2 foes, which likely means at the level 12-15 bracket. You're not going to meet anyone like that in the Hinterlands until you go south and get into the Avvar Valley and Hafter's Woods. The rest of the Hinterlands are levels 4-7 or levels 8-11.

Another thing to be aware of: once you root the Templars and mages out of their hidey-holes, you encounter a lot fewer of them, which in turn means less cloth drops. Less cloth drops, less fade-touched cloth drops. I'm always bereft of cloth in the early stages since I usually deal with the Templars and mages as soon as possible to avoid an excess of random encounters. YMMV.

FWIW the only fade-touched material I've ever seen in the Hinterlands with any regularity is fade-touched iron, which is not bad actually, but it's not what you're looking for obviously! :-)

Hope this helps.

Edit: Bear in mind that Masterwork Crafting doesn't become available until Skyhold (unless you're using a mod), so it's not worth getting too spun up about.

i know its useless tell skyhold just getting grinding out of the way now useing the obsidian trick with the boxes by the dragon. if you have teir 4 scamatics you can make gear thats good enough to get by for the entire game so i can just focus on story in prep for veil guard

Ah. My mistake then. I didn't realize you were trying to--in effect--speedrun the game.

If that's what you're doing, mastercrafting is the least of your worries!