Ship upgrades

[Alpha_Ghost96]

After the regular updates the ship can be upgraded even further. However, the last upgrade requires an impossible amount of resources. My mercenary ranking allows me to get upgrades at flat 50% discount. Does that not affect the last upgrade?

[BT]

the last upgrade is not necessary, but convenient to have.. it's quite expensive, but not impossible.

I suggests everytime you visit blacksmith, buy all materials from him and sell most of your equipments instead dismantling them.

I know nothing about the mercs bonus.. I'm one tier before the last tier.. S something, have been taking all the bonus for granted, so didn't really notice the difference.

[Darth Revan]

i personally already had the ressources for all the latest introduced upgrades laying around, the only thing i had to farm was the money for it. (only for 2 of it)

anyway while i dont know if you need the upgrades for the stats i personally think the ship looks very good full upgraded since with the new upgrades new visual changes to the ship were introduced as well.

[Dupmeister]

Upgrades do become prohibitively expensive as you reach the lv 10 spots for the ship. However as you level up you will get more and more gold for side quests. I suggest dismantling everything you can AND buying all materials he has for sale.

[Alpha_Ghost96]

Originally posted by BT:

the last upgrade is not necessary, but convenient to have.. it's quite expensive, but not impossible.

I suggests everytime you visit blacksmith, buy all materials from him and sell most of your equipments instead dismantling them.

I know nothing about the mercs bonus.. I'm one tier before the last tier.. S something, have been taking all the bonus for granted, so didn't really notice the difference.

You got the mercenary bonus in the previous tier. So I guess this is not a glitch.

[Alpha_Ghost96]

Originally posted by Legatus Lucanus:

i personally already had the ressources for all the latest introduced upgrades laying around, the only thing i had to farm was the money for it. (only for 2 of it)

anyway while i dont know if you need the upgrades for the stats i personally think the ship looks very good full upgraded since with the new upgrades new visual changes to the ship were introduced as well.

The maximum drachma I had was in 5 digits. The last upgrades ask in 6 digits.

[Alpha_Ghost96]

Originally posted by dupmeister:

Upgrades do become prohibitively expensive as you reach the lv 10 spots for the ship. However as you level up you will get more and more gold for side quests. I suggest dismantling everything you can AND buying all materials he has for sale.

Yep I do that always, I always find wood scarce so i buy all of it.

[Dupmeister]

Originally posted by Alpha_Ghost96:

Originally posted by Legatus Lucanus:

i personally already had the ressources for all the latest introduced upgrades laying around, the only thing i had to farm was the money for it. (only for 2 of it)

anyway while i dont know if you need the upgrades for the stats i personally think the ship looks very good full upgraded since with the new upgrades new visual changes to the ship were introduced as well.

The maximum drachma I had was in 5 digits. The last upgrades ask in 6 digits.

Sheesh. not sure why its so expensive for you, my level 10 upgrades cost about 200k each

[Alpha_Ghost96]

Originally posted by dupmeister:

Originally posted by Alpha_Ghost96:

The maximum drachma I had was in 5 digits. The last upgrades ask in 6 digits.

Sheesh. not sure why its so expensive for you, my level 10 upgrades cost about 200k each

200k is 6 digits right? The max I had once was 90k.

Also should I sell the Minoan artefact?

[Dupmeister]

Originally posted by Alpha_Ghost96:

Originally posted by dupmeister:

Sheesh. not sure why its so expensive for you, my level 10 upgrades cost about 200k each

200k is 6 digits right? The max I had once was 90k.

Also should I sell the Minoan artefact?

ok ok, my mistake I thought you said 7 digits, yes it pays to actually read.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Originally posted by Alpha_Ghost96:

Yep I do that always, I always find wood scarce so i buy all of it.

Wood? That's the one resource where I have some ungodly stockpile (over 40K wood now, IIRC; whereas I don't know if I've ever had more than 8K iron at a time).

I do disassemble all the common and rare equipment I get (the epic-tier items get sold unless they have a specific set of traits I'm looking for, and I tend to get a lot of bows for some reason), and I do tend to go after pirate ships if I see them while sailing.

That said, when I do have piles of drachmae, I spend it at Hephaesto's workhop to learn better engravings rather than the final tier of ship upgrades. It costs something like 450K drachmae to learn tiers 6-10 of any one engraving type, IIRC, even with the mercenary tier discount.

[ＳＨＡＤＯＷ２ＫＫ]

Originally posted by Alpha_Ghost96:

Originally posted by dupmeister:

Upgrades do become prohibitively expensive as you reach the lv 10 spots for the ship. However as you level up you will get more and more gold for side quests. I suggest dismantling everything you can AND buying all materials he has for sale.

Yep I do that always, I always find wood scarce so i buy all of it.

Not meaning this to sound bad, but how can you find wood scarce, there is wood everywhere to pick up lol.

[NecroMaster]

If you play the game like I’ve been playing it.

Exploring and doing everything as you go.

Resources like
Iron leather and tablets come to you so often you never run out.

The only issue is
Money and olive wood

I’ve been aquiring money by selling common gear
And as for olive wood I just buy it when I can from black smiths.
Alternatively you can also raid nation chests and supply’s for a fair amount of olive wood.

[Ragno Rosso]

For all of you, I have a tip. Go to Athens Walls and loot everything from the crates. Then, you can sell or dismantle. You can do this as many times as you want. Dont know if its a bug or something but works everytime for me. I managed to earn 2000000 drachmae with 4-5 passes.

[Alpha_Ghost96]

I have every other resource in abundance. Just wood I somehow find less, and next comes drachma. Though pillaging national chests is a good way to get drachma.

[meep_meep]

I've found that resources are actually harder to come by than money at endgame levels because I need the resources to upgrade my weapons as I level up. I've established a particular play style based on certain weapons and armor and I don't want to just replace them with new ones so I need to keep upgrading them.

So with that in mind, I have well over a million drachmae, more than enough to do all of the legendary ship upgrades, but I'm constantly running out of gems.