After a little discussion in Cabal chat i wanted to hold on some calcuations just made.
The question came up: What to do with low xp destils? like below 400 xp from agent missions.
Some said they delete all below 400xp its not worth the shards to put them into red items, and some1 came up with leveling up blue gear to fodder those max lvl into reds.
How to figure out if its worth it or not? Well... thats your choice, whats it worth to you to spend your anima shards, but i can help you with some numbers.
Lets calculate the shards we need per xp to get numbers we can compahre.
each upgrade at Red costs 1000 shards. putting in a 400 xp would be 2.5shards/xp = short 2.5s/xp <-- baseline lets try to get better numbers.
Assuming the average destilate we use up is 250xp worth.
Blue item takes 24 levels with 500xp each level to get maxed at 25 with 400 shards for each upgrade.
12000 xp total, 48 destils, 19200 shards
Somehow its not clear how this works but the xp on foddering a maxed item seems kinda random.
fodder the item i got gives 5225 xp with another 1000 shards costs. ----> ~3.9s/xp roughly same as putting the 250xp into red.
From cabal chat some1 posted 5884 xp ----------------------------------------> ~3.4s/xp
Green item takes 19 levels with 200xp each leave to get maxed at 20 with 200 shards each upgrade.
3800 xp total, 15.2 destils 3040 shards
the items i got would give those xp and again 1000 shards to put it into red
1810 xp ~2.2s/xp
1850 xp ~2.2s/xp
1770 xp ~2.3s/xp
lets peek into destils of 1000 and lower.
1000 xp - 1000 shards ----> 1s/xp
Maybe you help lower cabal mates and burn some keys in E1-2 too... than the average destilate would be higher than 500 but with higher destilates its more likely to use more xp than needed and lose some at reaching max level.
Assuming the average destilate we use up is 500 xp worth.
Blue item
12000 xp total, 24 destils, 9600 shards
fodder the item i got gives 5225 xp with another 1000 shards costs. ----> ~2.0s/xp roughly same as putting the 500xp into red.
From cabal chat some1 posted 5884 xp ----------------------------------------> ~1.8s/xp
Green item
3800 xp total, 7.6 destils 1520 shards
the items i got would give those xp and again 1000 shards to put it into red
1810 xp ~1.4s/xp
1850 xp ~1.4s/xp
1770 xp ~1.4s/xp
Concidering that youll need 1 725 000 xp from 1 to 70 at red... dont level up all by those low xp destils! ;)
im also unsure how critical empowerment works into this, maybe those different numbers come from that.
And yes if you want to save some shards this would be a good way.... but dont forget you do "lose" quite some xp on that way. running those odd numbers shows something between 41-48% of the xp goes into it. you do save shards but lose about ~55% xp of the destilates in the process. maybe better than deleting them... maybe just very little impact on the long way to lvl up those items and not worth the hassle... as i said its your choice.
And obviously: it would be a bad idea to make greens fuse them and than make those blues to fodder. this calculation is from blue items aquired by looting or else.
