Portcrystals(HELP!)

[rednaZ]

hey, I was just wondering if anyone had any spare portcrystals, I would gladly pay a reasonable amount for them, I also don't mind getting them for free :) Thanks

[Nightwalker]

Or U could simply restart in Hard mode and pick up more that way. Hard mode..Easy..GS pawn guild everfall and then Hiifigure Knoll. Rinse and repeat.

[Chrysalis]

Acquiring them isn't really that hard, you can collect 4 in one playthrough and in NG+ you can also buy them in the black cat for 200.000 gold.
I don't know if you already knew this, but you can only place 10 portcrystals at a time.

[Zand]

You can also duplicate them from the black cat in a first run for 300k

[zadymek]

Originally posted by stopher121:

You can also duplicate them from the black cat in a first run for 300k

...but why would you do that?

[Zand]

Originally posted by zadymek:

Originally posted by stopher121:

You can also duplicate them from the black cat in a first run for 300k

...but why would you do that?

Maybe someone who doesn't want to go to NG+ yet?

[zadymek]

Originally posted by stopher121:

Originally posted by zadymek:

...but why would you do that?

Maybe someone who doesn't want to go to NG+ yet?

But what's the good of having a Portcrystal Forgery? It's not like it works.

[Zand]

Originally posted by zadymek:

Originally posted by stopher121:

Maybe someone who doesn't want to go to NG+ yet?

But what's the good of having a Portcrystal Forgery? It's not like it works.

Oh it doesn't? Well then i take it all back.

[Karathrax]

Any forgery of an item with a magickal property will say "forgery" in its item description and will not work.

It is kind of amusing to try to use a Ferrystone Forgery.

[zadymek]

Originally posted by Karathrax:

Any forgery of an item with a magickal property will say "forgery" in its item description and will not work.

It is kind of amusing to try to use a Ferrystone Forgery.

Its even more amusing how we constantly talk about "forgeries of items with magickal properties" who won't work, with all those, obviously magick, tomes that can be duplicated no problem ;)

Originally posted by stopher121:

Oh it doesn't? Well then i take it all back.

I'd say, anything that the game classifies as literal "Forgery" is just the cheap imitation of the original item. While anything that Mounty can duplicate 1:1 is a perfect, and functional copy without "forgery" in description.

[Karathrax]

Oh, "foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..."

We can forge a Surging Light Tome and it works just fine. Forge Salomet's Grimoire?

[Nightwalker]

Forgeries of gold idols work fine. A forgery of Salomet's Grimoire will complete his mission just fine when you give it to him. Supposedly he won't show up to help U fight the Griffon at blue moon tower in another quest but he's not much help even if you does show up so no real loss there. All magic tomes that I've had forgeries made of work 100% of the time as well as the various orbs. Same with all magic scrolls. About the only forgeries I've found that absolutely will not work are of ferry stones and port crystals.

[Chrysalis]

Well, from a logical perspective, it makes perfect sense that grimoires and tomes can be copied and are still usable, even if they are forgeries. They pretty much are just books, so copying them by writing a new book with the exact same content should be no problem.

[zadymek]

Originally posted by Karathrax:

Oh, "foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..."

We can forge a Surging Light Tome and it works just fine. Forge Salomet's Grimoire?

We can, and all non BBI too. Just not every is the perfect copy. Salomet's Grimoire will fool the questgiver, just like Idol forgeries fool shopkeepers. But they won't fool the game.
Fake Grimoire won't trigger archmagick and fake Idols will not expand shop inventories (also fake Wyrmking Ring won't open the Treasury chest).

[Grimbleton]

You should get enough in one play through to be serviceable. but before ou go to ng+ pick them all up so you dont loose them.

[Karathrax]

Originally posted by zadymek:

Originally posted by Karathrax:

Oh, "foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..."

We can forge a Surging Light Tome and it works just fine. Forge Salomet's Grimoire?

We can, and all non BBI too. Just not every is the perfect copy. Salomet's Grimoire will fool the questgiver, just like Idol forgeries fool shopkeepers. But they won't fool the game.
Fake Grimoire won't trigger archmagick and fake Idols will not expand shop inventories (also fake Wyrmking Ring won't open the Treasury chest).

Precisely. Forge Salomet's Grimoire, and Stefan is unable to cast its spell.

I was pointing out an inconsistency since we are able to forge working copies of the other spell-casting tomes.