What's the price for tier 3 elven mail?

Question

What's the cost of a tier 3 elven mail? With this in mind, is it better to combine bear skins, make it to tier 3 and then transfer to the elven mail for tier 2 or just do it only by elven mails?

Answer 1

The example below assumes 100% success rate for simplicity, actual success rate is 60% when using cores
because of this, your actual costs to create these items will be higher.

Elven Mail @ 3kk

	Tier-1 (4kk)	Tier-2 (10kk)	Tier-3 (20kk)
Elven Mail	T1 Elven Mail	T2 Elven Mail	T3 Elven Mail
Elven Mail
Elven Mail	T1 Elven Mail
Elven Mail
Elven Mail	T1 Elven Mail	T2 Elven Mail
Elven Mail
Elven Mail	T1 Elven Mail
Elven Mail

Costs:

8*3kk = 24kk
4*4kk = 16kk
2*10kk = 20kk
1* 20kk = 20kk

Total = 80kk

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Using a bear skin and swapping it in makes no sense:

Bear Skin @ 300k
Elven Mail @ 3kk

	Tier-1 (4kk)	Tier-2 (10kk)	Tier-3 (20kk)	Transfer(20kk)	Tier-3 (20kk)
Bear Skin	T1 Bear Skin	T2 Bear Skin	T3 Bear Skin	T2 Elven Mail	T3 Elven Mail
Bear Skin
Bear Skin	T1 Bear Skin
Bear Skin
Bear Skin	T1 Bear Skin	T2 Bear Skin
Bear Skin
Bear Skin	T1 Bear Skin
Bear Skin
Elven Mail	→
Elven Mail	T1 Elven Mail	T2 Elven Mail
Elven Mail
Elven Mail	T1 Elven Mail
Elven Mail

Costs:
(Bear Skin T3)

8*300k = 2.4kk
4*4kk = 16kk
2*10kk = 20kk
1* 20kk = 20kk

Subtotal = 58.4kk

(Elven Mail T2)

4*3kk = 12kk
2*4kk = 8kk
1*10kk = 10kk

Subtotal = 30kk

(Transfer Bear Skin T3 to Elven Mail T2)

1*3kk = 3kk
1*20kk = 20kk

Subtotal = 23kk

(Fuse both Elven Mail T2)

1*20kk = 20kk

Subtotal = 20kk

Total = 131.4kk

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The more fuse attempts (which means more potential failures) the higher your overall costs.
This generally makes transferring even more expensive.