A long, long time ago, in a Haven far away, there was a shining drought and people weren't happy at how annoying it was to get shinings to heat up their little 4* items. To make things a little easier at the time, it was decided that there should be fire crystal recipes and they were implemented. Back to the current day and the obvious fact that everyone knows a hundred times over, now it is radiants that are rather annoying to find and if you CAN get to them, you tend to not get much per run.
Why can't there be an upcrafting recipe for fire crystals? Glowings into shinings, shinings into radiants, etc. Now, it will by no means be easy to craft but it will be a nice alternative method to getting rads if you have an excess of shinings as well as some spare crowns in your pocket.
The current downcrafting fire crystal recipes are as follows:
Dim to Cracked: 3 dim to 5 cracked, 10 cr cost
Warm to Dim: 3 warm to 5 dim, 25 cr cost
Glowing to Warm: 3 glowing to 5 warm, 50 cr cost
Shining to Glowing: 3 shining to 5 glowing, 200 cr cost
Radiant to Shining: 3 radiants to 5 shining, 500 cr cost
I propose that to upcraft fire crystals, it would net a slightly smaller amount of crystals and cost a bit more cr seeing as you're making fire crystals that are more valuable.
Cracked to Dim: 5 cracked to 2 dim, 25 cr cost
Dim to Warm: 5 dim to 2 warm, 50 cr cost
Warm to Glowing: 5 warm to 2 glowing, 150 cr cost
Glowing to Shining: 5 glowing to 2 shining, 300 cr cost
Shining to Radiant: 5 shining to 2 radiants, 750 cr cost
This is going off of the current fire crystal recipes. Yes, it will be costly but it is cheaper than what one would buy from the depot at current energy prices (approximately 73 cr per 1 E). Radiants at current E prices are approximately 1,022 cr per radiant. This would make crafting almost twice as profitable, assuming you have the fire crystals to throw at it.
Feel free to comment suggestions for this idea and I may modify the post if I like it. :3
This has been suggested quite a few times, and I've always posted the same bit of criticism- radiant fire crystals are designed to force the player to master a certain bit of content. Making them craftable or attainable without mastering this content would kind of kill the point of having them-- a much better solution would be to place radiants and only radiants after difficult levels, from D26 onwards or perhaps to redo level payouts and hard code them to drop from specific boxes after danger rooms/missions/third arena sections in T3. Or of course, they could just expand the clockworks a bit and let us have a go at even lower depths that give us better rewards.
Of course it wouldn't be the worst thing to make them craftable, as it WOULD solve the radiant fire crystal issue, and if it were implemented, I would like to see it multiplied by 10 in the recipe costs, i.e. 50 shinning fire crystals + 7,500 crowns = 20 radiant fire crystals.