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Refining Stones are GARBAGE.

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They're not garbage, you (most likely) just about spent them all.

How o_O

I would give up some of my refining stones for more dew, except I figure I'll need my stones. So many dew refines I want

I don’t barely use anyone who needs Dew refines. All the characters I use who need refines need refining stones and I find it really annoying that you only get them from grand conquest, arena and maybe one other place I’m forgetting off the top of my head right now. I run through refining stones faster than I go through orbs, and that’s saying something!

You must refine a shit ton of weapons because I find it hard to acquire divine dew since there isn't that many units worth refining in my opinion.

I do! I do refine a lot of weapons. Most of my projects are still half done because I never have enough refining stones to finish them...

Arena coins is the real garbage.

I have enough Refining Stones to refine approximately 3 weapons, and enough Divine Dew to for about 2 weapons.

I should be good. Praying for Odin's prf + refine to be good.

I'll tell you what's garbage -- The fact that multiple regular units are getting prf weapons and refines on a monthly basis, and most new units being released lately have prf weapons.

This means less units to use regular inheritable weapons, therefore less opportunities to refine inheritable weapons for Dew. Forcing players to waste Refining Stones on refines they don't need just to obtain the Dew necessary to refine all of the new weapons that come out that are almost always worth using.

Poorly designed system and IS are very stingy with their hand-outs. That's the real garbage.

When we got the first Divine Dew refinements with regular Characters back then, i had the same thought like you.

Its totally understandable that Special Heroes like Lords or others who stood out more have a divine dew refinery. But, if even regular units get them, then there will be a point where no one will use the regular Weapons anymore.

And now we slowly come to this point.
On the other hand, i can also understand IS a bit. They just dont want older or weak units to dust in the barracks or always getting send home.

For example, i really do like Felicias Refinery since it lets her use glaciers against tome users all the time. At that point, it was pretty obvious that IS gave her the refinery so that she can shine more.

Its not like they can fix the Stats of some units afterwards, so they just keep adding new refinements instead.

For the Askr Trio for example, i dont use the dew refinerys on them since they just came way too late. I made a unique askr team in the past with Alfonse having Close Def, Quick Riposte and a Slaying Sword with Def refinery and Bonfire. He is pretty much overkill as a tank, he can even survive Black Luna and other devastating Hits.

Sharena got La3 and Riders Bane with eff+ and Anna got Hammer with eff+ and Fury3.

Last but not least is Fjorm with her usual setup. This team is in most parts near perfect, and i always can collect all the rewards from the askr quests in one round.

So, in this aspect, i can see that maybe some players will still use other weapons if they have different builds in mind, so the regular weapons wont die out that quickly. And we still have Seasonal Characters who have weapons which are mostly refinerable.

It's the arena medals that annoy me so much. I've nearly 19,000 but I only need 1,500 to use up my stone (2 refines worth) and few ( 1 refine). Yet we keep getting them as rewards for quests when they are utterly worthless.

They’re useless! I need literally everything else more than the medals!

Hopefully they'll come up with something else to do with them. Even it's just buying pointless accessories it would be something at least.

Really? How can 30 per week not be enough? I keep wasting them just to get the dews for prf weapons

Then the cost to refine a weapon is 50 a go, and you're working on five builds at once, you get a bit short handed on the refining stones.

I wish I had your problem. I waste refining stones for secondary refines on the same unit just to get divine dew.

Take my dew! I don't need it!