The winter break for Chinese New Year passed quickly. Guan Rongfei, who was so engrossed in crafting equipment that he missed the train, didn't even go home in the end. He spent the New Year with Chen Guo, Ye Xiu, and Su Mucheng. Because of this guy, Chen Guo didn't get to experience much of the festive atmosphere at the New Year's Eve dinner.
When Guan Rongfei didn't open his mouth, he just ate with his head buried in his mouth. When he did open his mouth, it was all about crafting equipment. Don't look at how Happy now had a full set of Cleric equipment. In terms of overall development of Silver equipment, Happy's foundation was still far behind. This topic was a bit heavy. Especially when Guan Rongfei ran straight to his R&D department and took out a stack of documents to show Ye Xiu the materials that they were currently lacking. This New Year's Eve dinner suddenly became extremely heavy.
With Ye Xiu's previous year and a half of experience in the game and Guan Rongfei's rich experience, Happy had already avoided many detours in the development of Silver equipment. Apart from the upgrade of the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella, the materials required to develop other equipment were extremely low. Otherwise, with Happy's foundation as a new team, it would have been impossible for them to develop so many pieces of Silver equipment on their own.
But after half a season, there was nothing left. Some of the low-end materials were still okay. The guild department led by Wu Chen was already on the right track. From the various servers to the Heavenly Domain, they were able to continuously accumulate materials. The dungeon material production was already quite stable.
But the rare materials from wild maps wouldn't be so easy to compete with the top guilds. Wu Chen clearly didn't have Ye Xiu's ability to make a profit amidst the chaos. What's more, Happy now had its own foundation. It wasn't like Ye Xiu, who had nothing to lose and wasn't afraid of running around on his own. Happy now had to pay attention to balance.
Happy had an advantage right now because the guild was very enthusiastic.
As a new team and a newly formed fan group, after obtaining such outstanding results, the fans volunteered to serve the guild and strengthen the team. Everyone's hard work allowed Happy to maintain a strong competitive edge.
However, rare materials from wild maps were different from those from dungeons. There was only so much every week. Furthermore, there was also the problem of whether or not they would be able to obtain the materials they needed. In the end, they were still struggling to make ends meet.
Happy was a new team after all. Their need for materials was much greater than other teams.
Looking at the materials that Guan Rongfei handed over, Ye Xiu knew that it was impossible to fully equip every character in Happy like Little Cold Hands this season. Next, he had to make a plan and choose which characters to focus on.
And within this, the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella was truly a huge burden. First of all, the materials required were already very high. Secondly, it required research products, so the consumption of materials was quite shocking. After seeing the damage Guan Rongfei suffered while researching the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella, Ye Xiu's heart raced. If they didn't need the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella, how many more pieces of Silver equipment could Happy have been able to create with these materials?
"Myriad Manifestations Umbrella …" Ye Xiu was a bit hesitant. Because Guan Rongfei wanted to directly upgrade the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella to Level 80, it added more variables to the research of this equipment. Variables meant consumption, and more importantly, consumption would continue.
"Should I give up for now …" Ye Xiu couldn't help but have this thought. But … if he gave up now, all the previous consumption would be wasted. The research of the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella had already reached a point where it was impossible to stop halfway. But even so, he couldn't just force himself to charge down. If he had to grit his teeth and cut his flesh, he had to cut it!
Ye Xiu took a deep breath, allowing himself to make a clear and rational decision. Guan Rongfei didn't seem to have thought so much from the start. Seeing Ye Xiu sweep through the materials for the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella, his eyebrows were raised in exultation. "It's almost done. There's only one component left. As long as we get the right material, I believe there won't be any problems."
"Can this component be fine-tuned?" Ye Xiu's heart raced again. Whether or not it could be fine-tuned made a huge difference. If it couldn't, then the situation would be very disgusting. In a situation where a single component's material wasn't right and the entire equipment failed, then all the materials would be wasted and they would have to start all over again. But if it could be fine-tuned and only replaced that component, then the consumption of materials would be greatly reduced.
"No …" In the end, Guan Rongfei gave an extremely disappointing answer.
Ye Xiu sighed deeply. The next part of the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella was completely made of Level 75 rare materials. Happy couldn't bear the loss of all of them. If these materials were used on other equipment, Happy's overall strength would increase even more. Looking at the materials for the other equipment, Ye Xiu made a decision. The Myriad Manifestations Umbrella would be left like this for now!
But before he could make this decision, Guan Rongfei continued, "It can only be fine-tuned locally. It will use up about three materials."
"..." Ye Xiu's decision immediately crumbled. Although the loss of three Level 75 rare materials was quite painful, compared to the overall loss of the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella, it was completely acceptable!
"Good luck!" The mood of giving up immediately changed to encouragement.
"When the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella is finished, shouldn't the other equipment be pushed to Level 80 as well?" Guan Rongfei said proudly. His love seemed to have spread from researching the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella to how to push all the equipment to Level 80 in the current level environment.
"This … the burden of materials is too great!" Ye Xiu said.
"I'll organize a list as soon as possible," Guan Rongfei said.
"Don't be in such a hurry," Ye Xiu hurriedly said, "Let's go step by step according to the progress we discussed before!"
"Don't you think it's cool to use Level 80 equipment all at once?" Chen Guo suddenly shouted.
"Calm down!" Ye Xiu shouted. He didn't think that Cheng Yaojin would appear at this time. Didn't they know what Level 80 meant? Didn't they know that Happy couldn't handle such a large-scale high-end development at the moment? Under such circumstances, it would be irrational to direct Guan Rongfei's passion for work in that direction. Ye Xiu paid attention to Chen Guo's wine glass. Did the boss drink too much?
"The basic attributes of a Level 70 Silver equipment is equivalent to a Level 75 Orange equipment. A Level 75 Silver equipment is equivalent to a Level 80 Orange equipment. Then, wouldn't a Level 80 Orange equipment be equivalent to a Level 75 Silver equipment? Can we think of a way to upgrade the existing Level 75 Orange equipment to Level 80 usable equipment? Wouldn't that be equivalent to Level 75 Silver equipment? Although it's not Level 80 Silver equipment, if we can fully equip Level 75 Silver equipment, then it's still very powerful at the current stage! "Chen Guo said.
The banquet instantly fell silent. Ye Xiu looked at Guan Rongfei, and Guan Rongfei looked at Ye Xiu. The two of them had already lowered their heads in thought. As for Su Mucheng, she was looking at Chen Guo in surprise. Although she wasn't particularly well-versed in crafting equipment, she had been influenced by what she saw and heard. Her skill level was far above Chen Guo's, and she was more aware of the value of her sudden idea than Chen Guo herself.
"This idea, although a little cheap, might be the most powerful idea in terms of cost-effectiveness," Guan Rongfei said.
"Cheap!" Chen Guo always paid attention to negative words.
"Isn't your idea just to make some cheap equipment to pretend to be high-end?" Ye Xiu said.
"Why does it sound so... bad?" Chen Guo couldn't find any evidence to refute, so she could only feel gloomy.
"Orange equipment can be directly modified with the modifier... Research in this area has been ongoing, but I'm afraid no one has completely figured it out yet. The modifier can only disassemble equipment into parts, but there are too many things that we haven't figured out yet about the final attributes, parameters, and formulas of these parts. We don't even know what materials are used to make many parts of Orange equipment. Currently, only the game company's update can increase the attributes and level of Orange equipment, "Guan Rongfei said.
"Orange equipment is just an example she gave. In reality, we're not using the system's Orange equipment. We're using the equipment editor to create Orange equipment, "Ye Xiu said.
"Equipment editor to create Orange equipment..." Guan Rongfei frowned.
"And then raise it to Level 80," Ye Xiu said.
"This train of thought is like taking an exam. Everyone else is trying hard to get 100 points, but we easily get 90 points, but then we do an additional question that no one else knows, so we also get 100 points," Su Mucheng gave an example.
"Of course, in the long run, getting 110 points or a solid 100 points is the safest. But in the short term, this is the fastest and most effective way to raise your score, "Ye Xiu said.
"Let's give it a try!" Guan Rongfei finally nodded. Ye Xiu was happy because he knew this guy. In essence, he wasn't very interested in team results, cost-performance ratio, or frugality. What he was truly passionate about and interested in was the creation of equipment itself. So the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella was a very interesting item. Creating Level 80 Silver equipment was also very interesting. Creating a set of Cleric equipment with the highest Intelligence and highest Critical Hit was also okay. Things with interest and passion would be more immersive, more efficient, and more outstanding. And at this moment, instead of creating Silver equipment, the equipment editor was going to create Orange equipment. This new train of thought seemed to have moved Guan Rongfei a little.
Of course, anything that came out of the equipment editor had Silver text. From this perspective, they were all "Silver equipment."
But if they didn't pursue the highest attributes possible with Silver equipment and only pursued the attributes equivalent to Orange equipment, then the standards of the materials used would undoubtedly be lowered by a lot. The only awkward thing right now was not making Silver equipment good, but purposely making it bad. This... Guan Rongfei probably didn't have a good idea.
Holding his chopsticks and hovering above the food, Guan Rongfei had already begun to think...
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