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Fomor Volcano Cylinder Pricing
It's ~10x as expensive as the Hurricane/Earthquake/Tidal Wave, and I'd imagine has been that way since launch.
So... why? Is Flame Alchemy really considered that much stronger than the others?
I see no other reddit posts, forum posts, wiki posts, or whatever, so I thought I'd ask.
While I'm at it, weren't personal avatars a thing that were being considered like 4 months ago when I left?
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However if you were thinking about investing into one, I wouldn't recommend Fomor because you cannot special upgrade it. Your best option would be a standard Volcano cylinder. Fomor just have different enchants that they can use but the major draw back was special upgrade. Volcano cylinders also dropped in price significantly since their launch (Usually 350k+ for Clean volcano cylinder [at least in Ruairi]).
That or go for the demonic hellfire, also cheap to get.
Well, your question "Is Flame Alchemy really considered that much stronger than the others?" points that you are not that familiar with alchemy.
Flame alchemy works best for 90% of players using alchemy as a proactive combat set no different than archery or warrior, versus the utility based wind and earth-based cylinders.
Water works well with the stats, and can be the highest damaging skill set in the entire game....if you can get an Erg 50 Cylinder.
The root of my concern is the inconsistency; there are multiple limitations in-game that prevent fire from being 100% guaranteed better pick than water (unlike red and blue special upgrades, arguably), and the other tiers of cylinders (which includes the Abyss-tier, the Celtic cylinder, and arguably the regular volcano/tidal wave). Then, the Fomor Volcano is ~10x the cost of the other three.
It's like, is fire alchemy always better than water/wind/earth? If so, then EVERY fire cylinder should be more expensive, and Water Cannon/Flame Burst shouldn't be seem as equal competitors. If not, then EVERY fire cylinder should be the same cost/effort to obtain as the others (which has been the case for arguably every other cylinder 'tier'). The Fomor Volcano breaks the latter's case SEVERELY, thus my query.
Who knows, maybe it just falls under the 'As if Devcat knows what they're doing half the time.' category.
'cause I've never dealt with commercing, but was trawling the cylinder list the other day and thought it was a typo that three cylinders were 70kD, and that one was 750kD.