Lairshaping Materials Guide
I haven't seen anything like this on the Forums yet, so I thought I'd start one, suggestions/etc are appreciated. So far, it is only for Tier1, my hopes is that other posters can contribute, so that we will eventually have guides for Tiers 1 through 5 (and maybe even 6?).
Please note, that I am looking for guides that avoids using Player-Built machines, as these might not exist on other servers. This guide also assumes that you are an adult, and can fly. This also assumes you are using a 1-stack Flying Cargo Disk.
So....
Tier 1:
For all Tier 1 Work, I normally set my Bind Point in New Trismus, at the Shrine.
Primal Essence of Melding:
The easiest/fastest way I know of to do this, is to Teleport to Bristugo, then hit the Northwestern Portal, and Teleport to Parsinia. If it says "Unavailable", go to Kion or Sslanis instead, and walk to Parsinia (it is on the Western edge of the Island), and attune yourself there.
Take to the air, and look directly East, as you are rising up into the air. You will see a Dragon Lair entrance in the distance ahead of you, unless you have your visibility settings turned down. Keep flying straight East, you will find the Lesser Aradoth Deadlands. In here, you will find a lot of Viridian Azulyte crystals; land and start harvesting, and do so until your disk and your inventory both are filled. Once this is done, fly over to the Dragon Lair you saw earlier (it is a public one, it has a T1 Silo and a Crystalshaper), and make your Focused Azulyte. Stick all of the Focused Azulyte in the Cargo disk, and then exit the lair and fly south, descending as you do.
You should see a Public Essence Shaper in the distance, land there and un-attach your cargo disk, and fill your inventory with Dim Essence, using the wisps and/or the residue there. Do this, go back to your disk, and make the Dim Orbs, and the Essence of Melding both. I like to do two trips, make the Melding, then go back out for Essence, and do it again. Try to end up with a round number of Meldings (if you are max efficiency, end up with an even number, if you need 3 per unit, end up with a multiple of 3, etc) so that you don't have any left-over Meldings. Recall to New Trismus, and hop in the portal to Bristugo and proceed to your lair. Place those Meldings, and repeat until you have enough.
Imbued Bronze Bars:
From New Trismus, Fly down to the Essence Shaper, and proceed to harvest Dim Essence, until you have filled your Cargo Disk with Dim Essence Orbs. Fly your Disk up to the Smelter, and un-attach, and then make Bronze Bars, and use the smelter there to make your Imbued Bronze Bars. Use the NT Portal to Bristugo to go to your lair and place them. Repeat as necessary.
Weak Excoration of Earth:
From New Trismus, fly up to the Smelter, fill your disk with Bronze Bars. Once you are done, fly the disk down to the Stonework area by Pratt's Pond, and dig up Sandstone, and continue until you've made your excoriations. Repeat as necessary.
Rough Flowstone:
I've tried Copperton, but in timing myself, I found out that New Trismus is actually faster, for some odd reason. So, I will use my NT strategy:
Start out by gathering lots of Dim Essence (NOT Orbs!!). Fill your disk with them, and then fly your disk up to the Stoneworking Pedestal North of the Dim Wisps. Un-attach your disk there, and proceed to dig up Sandstone. Fill your inventory with the said sandstone, and then make sandstone cast stone. I'd keep doing this until you have about 50% of your inventory full of sandstone cast stones. Try to get an even number, if you need 20 cast stones to make one flowstone, then finish with a multiple of 20, etc.
Once you have this, fly over to the Smelting Area, and smelt up some bronze bars, 2-3 trips should be enough for you to use up all of the sandstone cast stones you are currently holding. Once you have your bronze bars, recall to the NT Shrine, and turn towards Kerian's Crafting Cave (west, I believe?). There's a Stonework Pedestal right in front of you; use it to make your Flowstones. Use the Portal to go to your lair and place them. When you're done, come back to make more Sandstone Cast Stones, and then repeat the above steps to turn them into Flowstones.
Rough Maelstone:
Another of the two slowest/most annoying materials to make. Start out by gathering as much sandstone as your cargo disk can hold. Once it is full, fly it up to the Smelting Area, and drop your disk off there. Use the Bronze there, to make Bronze Bars, and then Lodestones. Use the same method you did with the Flowstones; do it until your inventory is about 50% loaded with Bronze Lodestones, but keep to a multiple needed to make a Maelstone.
Once you are done, Recall to the NT Shrine, and fly down to the Dim Essence to collect some Dim Essence orbs. Once you have the Orbs, recall to NT. Remember the building that has the Pedestal? The same building has the Smelter, but instead of wasting time with the Khutit Form, just walk to the opposite side of the building and get up against it, you should hear the Smelter's ambient sound, and it should allow you to smelt without actually going inside the building. Repeat as necessary.
Viridian Crystalline Lattice
Ahh, Lattice. Everyone loves these. Fortunately, I believe these are easier to make than Flowstone/Maelstones are, by a longshot. One of the new 10-stack flyers would help tremendously here, but even with using a 1-stack flyer, it is still easy. Use the NT Portal to Bristugo, and go to Parsinia from there (Again, the Northwest Portal). Instead of going to the LA Deadlands, we are instead going to travel Northeast. N-NE of the Deadlands is a Gem Mine, that is our target. Once you are there, if you have a 1-stack flying disk, drop it on the ground by the Gemworking Bench. Proceed into the mine, and dig up exactly 1/3rd of your inventory worth of each gem: Malachite, Turquoise, and Garnet. Once you are done, go up to the bench, cut your gems. Put the Tri-cuts in the disk, and keep doing this until your disk is full of Tri-cuts (a T5 Mithril-Marble 1-stack Disk will hold 1,500 Tricuts!).
Once you are full of Tricuts, if there was a Viridian Azulyte Geode in the Mine, hit it now. If not, grab your disk and fly it to the Public Lair near the LA Deadlands (the same one you used while making Primal Essence of Melding, read above for directions), and drop it off near the Crystal Shaper. Proceed to gather Azylute, and turn them into Focused Crystals to make your Lattice. Recall and place the lattice, return and make more as necessary.
And there you have it, all of the T1 Lairshaping Materials made easy, using only a 1-stack disk, and public machines only. If anyone has alternative strategies that work better, feel free to post em, along with Tier 2, and/or strategies involving the 10-stack flying disks.
Originally Posted by Dhalin
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