Tiering an Item.

Tiering is much easier than statting. It's so easy in fact, I'm not even going to post any pics for it.

Tiering means you don't need to look at any stats, or worry about matching stones.
All you need are a bunch of random fusion stones, those are the cheap ones, or leftovers from when you were making matched sets for statting. Sometimes on the auction house, you'll find fusion stones for a bid price of less than the 1,980 it costs to buy them. Always check there.

If you look at your weapon, you will see how much damage it does. You also see what tier it is. Tiering a weapon is simply raising it a level. A tier 4 weapon will do more damage than the exact same weapon at tier 3, which does more than tier 2.etc.

Every tier of the weapon will add 10% more damage to it. I have a staff that does 402 magical damage at tier 2. I want more damage than that, so I'm going to tier it. I can go as high as I want to with tiering, it just costs a lot of charges on my transmutor.
You can find out what the damage will be before ever touching it, if you want to compare it to what you are using, or another weapon you see somewhere. If I take this staff to tier 3, it will do 442.2 damage. If I go to 4, it will do 486.4 damage. Just multiply by 10%(or 402 x 1.10 = 442.2 x 1.10 = 486.4 etc.)to find out what the next tier of damage will be.

Now it's time to make the stones.
Just use any old fusion stone, put it in the transmutor with any old tier 3 item, and there you have it, a tier 3 mana stone. It doesn't matter what stats or anything. Just use whatever cheap junk you pick up that you're going to sell to a vendor. I save anything that gets me less than 600 gold to use for tiering.
The reason I'm saying tier 3 item is simple. If you start with 2's, you use more charges to get to 3. I'll explain next.

Ok, so, the transmutor likes to work in 3's. It takes 3 manastones to stat an item. It takes 3 manastones to make another manastone. If you put in 3 tier3 manastones, you will get a tier4 manastone. If you put in 3 tier 4 manastones, you will get a tier5 manastone. And so on. Pretty simple.

Once you have 3 manastones of the same tier, and that's the tier you want to take the weapon to, just put them in the transmutor with your weapon and there you go, a tiered weapon.

I made 3 tier 6 manastones and put my staff in. I now have a tier6 staff, and instead of doing the 402 damage it started at, I'm now doing 588.6 damage. That is a huge increase in comparison to staffs that are still tier 2 or 3, and are 5 levels higher.

You can tier a weapon to 8, 12, 20, whatever you like. You have to buy a TON of charges to do so though.

Here comes some math.


It really does take a lot of charges to tier a weapon, I'll add them up for you in a minute. It really makes sense to only tier a weapon to 6 once you're over level 40 or so. Until then, you level up so fast, you will outgrow your weapon even though it's tiered. Bringing very low ones to 3 makes a huge difference, and lvl 20-40, go ahead and bring it to tier4. You can go higher if you like, or just wait until you have a really good blue or purple weapon at level 50 before you tier. There's no right or wrong here. This is just to increase your weapon or magic damage to help you along. It also increases healing power for a priest or druid. OK, math time....

To find out how many charges and how many fusion stones you will need, you just keep multiplying by 3.

I'm assuming starting with tier 3 manastones for this.

Tier 3 will take 3.
Tier 4 will take 9. I need 3 tier3's to make a 4, and I need 3 of those to tier the weapon.
Tier 5 will take 27. Yes, that's 27 charges, and 27 fusion stones to make 3 tier 5 manastones.
Tier 6 will take 81. This is the average tier.
Tier 7 will take 243. Yes, that's a lot. It gets worse.
Tier 8 will take 729.
Tier 9 will take 2,187. Now you know why people sell them for 8 or 9 million gold.
Tier 10 will take 6,561 charges and fusion stones. Most people don't go this high until they have a really good purple or orange weapon from a raid instance that they're going to be using for a very long time.

I'm not going higher than that, it's easy to just multiply by three to keep going. I once saw a tier 12 dagger. It was an epic piece from some raid instance. It was also +12 and statted. He was selling it for 30 million gold.


Those are just the charges needed to make the stones to get that high. You still need to add in the charges to combine the stones into higher ones.
Add 1 charge for Tier3, to put the weapon in and make it, making it 3 stones, and 4 charges
Add 4 charges to a tier4, because you need to combine 3 sets of 3's just to get the 3 4's(3 charges), and then put it on the weapon(one more charge).
Add 13 charges to a tier 5; 3 charges to make the three tier4's for each tier5, multiplied times 3, because that's how many you need to put on the weapon, and one to put them on.
It goes up from here. By a lot. That's a ton of charges by the time you're making a tier 6, an insane amount for a tier 10. Always do all 10 dailies every day! You need the tokens for charges!


You can tier armor, shields, jewelry, anything you can wear. There's really no reason to tier your clothes though. Statting them makes more sense. When it comes to shields, tiering increases the defense of it. I've seen people tier shields, I've seen people stat shields. It's personal preference. The most common thing I've seen with shields is stat tiering. This is by far the most expensive thing you can possibly do in the game.

To stat tier something, you first make yourself some very nice manastones, like you're going to stat your item. You want to make really good ones though, you don't want to use the "dirty" fusion stones from the store, you want to use the Purified Fusion Stones from the item shop that I mentioned on the page about statting. You will have 3 manastones with stats that you want to put on your gear, but you need to tier them up using only puris, and gear that has no stats, so you have blank manastones to work with. If you want to make a tier 6 statted weapon, you will need 78 puris to do so. You start with 3 statted stones, and add the 78 puris to bring them to tier 6 and that equals the 81 it takes. You only do this with REALLY good stats. It's a total waste to do this with green stats off of level 40 something gear. You want to use yellow or orange stats for this, or at least green X, XI or XII stats. Remember that each puri costs either 55 diamonds(about $2.75USD) or 1,100 phirius tokens each! Unless you have cash to burn I wouldn't suggest stat tiering until you have an amazing weapon or shield over level 50.

Since transmutor charges cost phirius tokens or diamonds, they are hard to come by. Charges cost 30 phirius tokens each, or 29 diamonds for 10 (about $1.45USD for 10). You really don't want to waste them. You can win them sometimes in Malatina's Dungeon mini-games, and you get one for completing each of her games as well. There's really no other way to get them though, besides buying them. You can see how this can get very expensive, so the best way to do it is to start making your tiering stones as soon as you can. Around level 45 when you get tier3 items dropping all the time is a good time to start getting serious about saving up stones. Go ahead and make an alt just to hold them for you. Tier stones are also good for trading because of their value. I've gotten a very nice level 50 tier6 +10 overdura staff just for one tier7 manastone. They take time and charges to make, therefore are worth a lot.



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