Guild Materials Tier List!

[toxic totem]

Want to know what materials are worth spending guild proofs on? I made a tier list for which ones make the most sense!

Note: We're not just talking about the cheapest, we're looking at what materials are the hardest to farm while still considering the material price. This is assuming a solo T11 player, who likely has access to a dungeon wayvessel. Materials that are easy to gain en masse as a T11 are tiered lower, and vice versa.

[tepid belfry]

Among S tier, titanium, realm ore, solarite are top 3 to buy, they're not only rare but also use for upgrade, MF, DF many good gears
The rest are rare too but mostly use just for ascension, hence you're more often lack of titanium, realm ore, solarite than the rest

[vale flint]

Hardened steel to b tier

If not a

[tepid belfry]

Agree, many things require hardened steel too

[vale flint]

Also its dirt cheap

[lofty haven]

All materials that are in GM should be in F imo

[vale flint]

Switch cavestone and adamantine too imo

[lofty haven]

yeah, adamantine is world farmable (apparently, never tried it though)
and its easier/faster than cavestone from dungeons

[velvet ledge]

I will argue that pure draconite should be lower simply becos they are plentiful during wyrmhunt

[tepid belfry]

GM?

Nvm, i understand it now. And yes, agree with that

[toxic totem]

I tried to both spread out materials between tiers so as to not swamp them but also give separation for players that haven't yet gotten a good GM set up - but GM mats are still exclusively D & F

[lofty haven]

i can agree with that

but

This is assuming a solo T11 player
i dont think there's a t11 player that does not have a max level GM, unless they're boosted / dont know about it ofcourse

[toxic totem]

I am mostly looking for year-round farms - if you got blocked today, would you have Wyrmhunt to farm? Would you wait until Wyrmhunt to farm it?

I did miss this key line when initially describing the tier list - these are centered around WHEN you are blocked on them, not IF

[toxic totem]

This is also why I mentioned D tier is "Easy to obtain with Grand Market" down at the bottom

The main question I asked with all of these was "if I was blocked on this material, would I have to drastically change how i do my normal gameloops (dungeons, raiding, anguish, etc.) to farm this effectively?" (or at least, significantly more effectively than usual - not looking for like a 10% increase)

followed by "if I do, would I be better off just doing my normal guild loops instead (considering price, etc.)"

[velvet ledge]

Fair enough. If you take event into account. Silk, pure draconite and wolf blood should fall down in rank.

[toxic totem]

I take them into account a small bit, since stuff like Twilightstone is both pretty expensive and hard to farm outside of their respective events, so some are already a smidge lower as a result - frequency of events that have that material in a farmable state is the important part

Hardened Steel for example can be farmed somewhat during Avalon, Ragnarok, and Riftfall, but also has a bit of a year-round farm in Arisen Behemoth and Nin-kilim, especially now that the main dungeon type to focus is horde normals instead of horde bosses for anguish

[solid zenith]

If you're looking for year round, then you might want to jiggle Fogstone a smidge, because you have exactly (Arisen/Lesser) Sluagh as a source year round, and it is painful.

Plus with them being t3 monster / t5 boss / t10 monster, you can't really overlap them either

[wintry flame]

Broken statue is easy enough to farm in towers with the carmen/4x gargoyle packs. I would think it's an A tier but it does require access to towers