Large groups of people refined hundreds of thousands of raw materials and compiled their data to find the average person would gain around 1 gold material per 100 raw materials they refined. This information was gathered by using very very large sums of refined data and not just one persons good, bad or average experience refining as they have played the game.
However I find myself in the tin foil hat community as it seems...
I have refined around 25,000 (multiple times in one go) raw materials and talked to other players who have also refined similar totals of raw materials and it seems the drop table for gold materials have been dropped by around 30% resulting in 1 gold material every 130 or so raw materials. This is not new information. It has been talked about before on the forums and other people have detailed spread sheets showing the results.
This may seem insignificant but in most cases this means you can sell your raw materials for more than the items you will get from refining on average.
So I guess the whole point of this thread is to let people know that you can normally make more gold selling raw materials than refining. Sadly.
However I find myself in the tin foil hat community as it seems...
I have refined around 25,000 (multiple times in one go) raw materials and talked to other players who have also refined similar totals of raw materials and it seems the drop table for gold materials have been dropped by around 30% resulting in 1 gold material every 130 or so raw materials. This is not new information. It has been talked about before on the forums and other people have detailed spread sheets showing the results.
This may seem insignificant but in most cases this means you can sell your raw materials for more than the items you will get from refining on average.
So I guess the whole point of this thread is to let people know that you can normally make more gold selling raw materials than refining. Sadly.