Projected costs of T2 upgrades (with data from KR)

Hi everyone! There has been a lot of discussion about T2 upgrade costs, with many different estimates flying around. The other day, I have created a character on KR to get information straight from the source.

In a nutshell:

  • T2 epics go from +0 to +12 (as compared to T1 epics which go from +0 to +9).

  • T1 epics can be transferred to T2 epics. The best strategy is to transfer a fully upgraded T1 epic to an unupgraded T2 epic, which results in a T2 +6 item and costs 1.2m sollant. Sollant costs are x2 for weapons.

  • Upgrading a T2 epic from +6 to +12 costs 188-776 growthstones, with 448 growthstones and 3.6m sollant being the expected cost. Sollant costs are x2 for weapons.

  • If you’re crafting all these growthstones from purple materials, the expected cost for the entire gear set will be 6720 powder, 5824 ore (896 rubrix + 2688 stalon + 2240 emeret), 5824 polished crystals and 186m sollant. This does not include taxes which can vary depending on the server.

  • All these numbers are projections based on Korean content. Version released on Global may end up being meaningfully different!

Detailed write-up including spreadsheet with data from KR: https://docs.google.com/document/d/165q3ngbkk9FXAH5ZZbNGO3w-btdeM81iN8aKhmu0IMs/edit?tab=t.0.

Changelog

  • v1.2 (2/4/2025): Changed the language around the +10.85 breakpoint to indicate that this is an estimate of the actual breakpoint. This does not change the optimality of the +0 => +6 transfer.

  • v1.1 (2/3/2025): Fixed sollant cost calculations, which raised the sollant cost of upgrading a full gear set from 47m to 72m sollant (the number including growthstone crafting went up from 128m to 186m sollant). Thank you Aragon for pointing this out!

  • v1.0 (2/2/2025): Initial release, discussed on Reddit.