Posted By Sareseras at 03:01 AM - Mon Oct 21 2019
Posted By Zairick at 4:54 PM - Sat Oct 19 2019
I thought that the difference between a recipe using common and rare ingredients was the rare status of the item, which is 20x times the cost of a regular item using regular ingredients, and is of legendary (artifact) status. Not sure how the scaleing goes when it comes to how much more useful the item will be but if an ingredient is rare then it has to be at least 20x harder to get then the regular item. An example of this is the bone grass that does grow wild but is WAY more unlikely to find then regular grass at the ratio of a billion to one (from snipehunter, though this might have been an example and not a hard number) https://chroniclesofelyria.com/forum/topic/33973/bonegrass
Hope this helps!
Glad you see the rarity in a similar way like x20 as shown in the wiki, with a billion to one statement from Snipehunter being a slight exaggeration.
Still does not answer if the recipe itself would be seen as rare/legendary, the only word to describe it was in the KSversary news stating it is "exclusive".
Your reply made me consider that every recipe would be of common quality and in the end only the materials used would matter. So just like we cannot purchase mythical walls (made of unobtanium) there may be a limit to the quality rating of blueprints, patterns, recipes and techniques.
Im not sure where this "20x harder to get" idea came from but it appears to be a misinterpretation of the EP cost multiplier for rare items.
Rare items being 20x is a combination of this original EP post here that gives you the multipliers, and this one here that splits the list into quality and rarity instead of just having 1 catch all list.
Long version short, if something is rare but is on another continent it isnt 20x harder to find, it will be infinitely harder to find as we cannot reach the other continents at launch.
If bonegrass only grows in specific temperate bands, in only grasslands, and is 1 in 1 million/billion or w.e. then its not 20x more difficult to get, its as difficult to get as it is to find this specific grassland biome and then stumble upon that 1 in a million grass.