When they finally make something hard to achieve everybody complains. Getting the highest level on the highest star version of things shouldn't be easy anyway.

I know, I know, Being stuck with level 1 5 star weapon sucks.

Try not to craft things from 4 star to 5 star when your inventory has no radiant heat crystals.

AAAAH, DAMMIT TWEETER!

Don't put damn brony links on spiral knights, i am allergic to anything related to bronies.

Now back to the subject, there is alrealy at least 20 topics about radiant.

Grinding =/= challenge. In fact, grinding is just about the opposite of what someone looking for challenge seeks.

Free elevator > pay elevator

I secretly hope that one day radiant complains will drown out this forum, as well as ingame chat, forcing people to flee from this unescapable monotonous wail. Maybe then Three Coins will notice that something is wrong.

@Shadowshadow
I feel your pain, bro. But right now the only option is grind.
Also, those who think UFSC is really an option for casual players - reality check! Not everyone can spend all day at the game honing the skills, and not everyone can find a group reliable enough to last through Shadow Lair. Come down from your gamer heaven and look upon this base earth, because it's casual players who bring money to this game. And Three Coins is milking them a bit too hard now.

Running UFSC six-seven times to heat a weapon = grind and not fit for someone who was just forced to downgrade their weapons to 5* because they need to pass HoH.

Downgrading to pass HoH is not only encouraged, it's forced and means whoever does it is stuck with worse weapons than before.

How many radiants does it take to heat a weapon to level 10, assuming you go for the 100% crafts, anyway?

Being 'endgame' before the forge revamp, I have barely crafted anything, and though I don't fully remember just how much I used, I do know that I spent about 200+ radiants in my most recent 5* item. I was a little more cautious with it though, using the 70-75% success crafts from time to time. I think at some point, I actually failed twice in a row before deciding to go with the 100% upgrades, but maybe made up for it when I lucked out and skipped from level 8 --> 10.

I feel your pain though - in about a week between someone asking me how many I had and starting to level up my WHB, I noticed I had only gained 3 Radiant Fire Crystals, and that's kind of terrible. (Maybe it was bad luck, or just me avoiding FSC for a while, because I got 12 radiants in one FSC run). Either way, 700 CE for 50 crystals is gauge-pushing.

I love how people keep suggesting for newer players with lvl 1 5* gear/4* gear to run UFSC 6-7 times.
Protip- That doesn't work.
Protip- Forcing players to either pour their money into the game or do an improbable task (UFSC spam as your first SL, as a 4/5*, as a newer player) is how you wipe your playerbase out of newer players.
Protip- Even if the newer player scrounges up money and confidence for UFSC and a newbie, nobody will let them in their party anyway.

What if we talk about regular FSC instead?

Assuming a normal player's Elite FSC run takes about 1 hour, and maybe about 6 Radiants (adjusted down for 'worst case' - though I assume that it's probably more moderate at maybe 9) at the end:
10 runs:
80kcr
30 Almirian Seals (+30kcr if you sell that)
60 Radiants
10 hours

That gets at least one pack of the 700CE 50 Radiants + the ~60 from the runs, which would leave you at about the 1/3 point.
So maybe about a 2-3 weeks or so of maybe 1-2 runs per day to get the 350 radiants for a single level 10 item? :|

I do make an assumption about # of radiants at the end of FSC though. I don't run FSC as often as I do anymore, so if anyone can shout out how many Radiants they've gotten from a single Vanaduke bossfight, that might be interesting to think about.

Average should be about 9 fire crystals, half of which should be radiants (other half shining) from D28. So 10 runs should get about 45. Your results may vary.