In this Conqueror’s Blade blog post I am presenting the business case for the Well-Made Mortar to show if this artillery are interesting or not to craft and sell for profit.
10 Well-Made Mortars Business Case
I am showing here the calculation for 10 Well-Made Mortars:
To produce 10 we need:
- Improved Copper x 1,000 (Silver tax 5,000)
- Cast Iron x 1,000 (Silver tax 5,000)
- Planed Wood x 500 (Silver tax 2,500)
- Cut Stone x 500 (Silver tax 2,500)
- and 5,000 Silver
The silver taxes in total add up to 20,000 and this is the main cost element.
Then we calculate what the resources would be worth if we would sell them on the market instead of producing the Well-Made Mortar (in this case resources means the basic resources + exotics required to craft the improved versions of Materials):
Also let’s take cheap/low prices for these as sometimes players can gather more resources than they manage to sell.
- Resources for Improved Copper minimum price per piece = 0.1 x ~10,000 needed = 1,000 silver cost + minimum price of 2,50 per 1 exotic = 2,500 Silver + resources = 3,500 Silver
- Resources for Cast Iron minimum price per piece = 0.1 x ~10,000 needed = 1,000 silver cost + minimum price of 2,50 per 1 exotic = 2,500 Silver + resources = 3,500 Silver
- Resources for Planed Wood minimum price per piece = 0.02 x ~5,000 needed = 1,00 silver cost + minimum price of 2,50 per 1 exotic = 2,500 Silver + resources = 2,600 Silver
- Resources for Cut Stone minimum price per piece = 0.02 x ~5,000 needed = 1,00 silver cost + minimum price of 2,50 per 1 exotic = 2,500 Silver + resources = 2,600 Silver
- Results in total of 12,200 silver cost. (and it could be argued to take a higher or lower amount for this depending on your attitude / perception regarding resources for crafting)
The 20,000 silver tax + 12,200 silver cost of resources = production cost of 32,200 silver.
The minimum price at which we can sell a Well-Made Mortar = 4,950 silver (the reason i am using the minimum is because there are many on sale which pushes the price down to the minimum). That means 49,500 for 10 pieces.
This results in a pre-tax gain of 17,300 silver.
On this the auction system will take 10% tax (this may change some day but today it is 10%) which is 4,950 silver.
So the final result is:
- 49,500 gain
- less 4,950 silver auction 10% tax
- less 32,200 silver total production cost
- is equal to 12,350 silver profit. However, note that this value would go down a lot if we take higher than low/minimum prices for resources and exotics.
But could take a long time to sell
This is because:
- There are lots of Well-Made Mortars on sale so the chance of the buyer picking your offer is small.
- Also sometimes there are events which give high-tier artillery as rewards which would directly negatively influence Auction sales.
Careful with Weight!
Artillery pieces are very heavy and take a lot of space in your camp. Crafting a bunch of them blocks space which you need to store excess resources.
So definitely don’t craft many Well-Made Mortasr at once. I craft them in packs of 5 and only craft the next 5 when the first batch gets sold. This way I don’t block any space in the camp.
Don’t forget about Timing!
Make sure your Artillery sales do not expire before Territory Wars. While you can make sales on other days the days when there is a Territory War offer a higher chance / motivation to buy/sell Artillery, especially the types more popular during TW (not Scorpio for example).
How to do?
- If your sale is expiring soon cancel it and re-post it to refresh the timing.
- If TW is coming in the next 2 days then put on sale for a 3 day duration (ideal).
- Watch out for the “Pending” time required for your artillery offer to go live – items don’t appear in the market/Auction immediately. I have seen both 5 hours waiting times and 1-2 hours waiting times and these are decided by the devs, so know what the preparation time is for the moment you are playing (it is the same for any item usually changed only on Maintenance days IF they decide to do that).
I hope this calculation on Well-Made Mortars was useful to you and helps you make the best decisions for your hero in Conqueror’s Blade.
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