Ok this surprised me, but it makes sense when you think about it.
For this guy, the copper axe was a lot better than the titanium one. With the titanium axe I was able to harvest 1492 thorns in approximately 40 minutes. This will mint for 835.52 coins, or a 278% profit.
I edited the numbers in my earlier post for the correct fully coiled mint value of a thorn block, 0.56c. I had mistakenly calculated at .5 earlier. This makes the copper look even better with a real profit of 768%.
In terms of coins per minute the copper axe brought in 17.46 coins per minute, and the titanium brought in 20.88 coins per minute. The massive ROI on the copper really outweighs the titanium’s barely superior coins per minute in profitability though.
To clarify, using copper each 1c cost me 0.13c in investment. Using titanium each 1c cost me roughly .36c in investment. Just another way of looking at the ROI percentages.
At level 6-7 farming blocks for the chrysominter is not the best way to make money. However we have some dedicated soloists here and this test does show that it’s an effective method for multiplying your coffer coins in a safe and easy fashion.
The coils do help push the totals up but I could have easily bought a clean chrysominter with my first coffer coins and more copper instead of titanium. Without relying on shared coils the copper axe would have returned 137.2 coins at an ROI of 548% per copper axe, without even having the skills to use it properly.
I’ll advance this guy a little more later. At that point I’ll revisit these numbers and maybe include a silver axe in the comparison. As it stands, my character is level 7, and has 2052 coins in hand. Still no tutorial so he’s only completed 6 feats plus the dailies - and already earned 1027 coins in the field.
He actually has enough coin to buy a couple of gem tools or even better, a couple stacks of alloy tools. So if you’re not against “participating in the economy” (I’m not) he’s ready to start earning thousands of coins per hour. He has about 90 minutes of active gameplay.
Oh yeah and about 60 orbs. That’s a couple hundred coin if I took time to find a basket.
For fun I’m going to burn up a copper axe with a skilled axe user. I’ll edit in the result.
EDIT - Results from a fully skilled axe user:
OK I went out with my regular axe harvester. He has full axe and damage skills, mastery, epics, etc… and still has to 2-hit thorn blocks with a copper axe.
However he also has luck, and durability drain. This means he was able to harvest 494 thorn blocks taking about 12 minutes to use up the axe. This is an ROI of 276.64c or 1106.5%.
This is also approximately 23.05c per minute, outperforming the rate of the low level character with titanium at a much lower investment. With full luck he also received 54 vital orbs.
Still while this is a good way to help get a new character rolling, it’s definitely an activity best suited to bootstrapping your character into more profitable tasks.
I’ll return to the new character later.