Quote Originally Posted by CPG215 View Post
Even just evolving your arrendal is going to cost you quite a bit.
80>81, requires Grade C crystals to enhance it. Need to make it +7. That's not too bad. Can be done with ~100m crones with reasonable luck.
100>101 on the other hand. lol... Needs to be +8 and requires Grade B crystals. Not an easy task by any means.
120>121 Grade A crystals and needs to be +9. At least with Grade A Crystals, those can be farmed with relative ease, if you know what you're doing and have a well geared main char capable of doing so.
Unless the enhancement rates(and forging by default as you need to forge items to break for crystals) are increased you'll be spending into the high end range of hundreds of millions, possibly into a couple billion crone from 80 to 121.
Current crone prices on EM are around 50m crone for 100 rps.

People are QQing all over forums making a huge debate about upgrades being sold permanently on IM so everyone has a chance to have one.
What about Trinities? Buying an upgrade on EM atm is cheaper and immensely less frustrating than playing a trinity attempting to get even just a normal weapon to use.
One thing myself and others have found is that using a transmute preservation stone reduces the success chance from 80% to about 10%. I've never failed to transmute without one (and I have transmuted an Epic Katar without one - long before the Dhan updates QQ) but have failed every time I did use one.

Transmute Pres stone = 100% SCAM.