How/where do I get tungsten ?

[DanTheTerrible]

What are the best ways to acquire the tungsten reagent for crafting jewels?

[Dylan Windwalker]

What are the best ways to acquire the tungsten reagent for crafting jewels?

You can find some in the bazaar sometimes but there's no specific place where they're exclusively dropped by a creature.

[Willowdreamer]

What are the best ways to acquire the tungsten reagent for crafting jewels?

If you aren't finding it in the Bazaar, try feeding jewels and seeds you don't need to your pet.

Also, there's a transmute available from Torald Wayfinder in Northguard, but it's rather laborious to try to make, since you need 10 Bronze. Bronze isn't a very common reagent to find either.

How many Tungsten were you looking for?

[DanTheTerrible]

I'm looking for on the order of 100-200, for making jewels, mostly interested in accuracy to get my fizzle chance to zero. I did find some on the bazaar, I'll try harder.

[DanTheTerrible]

I managed to scrounge up 38 tungsten from bazaar realm-switching, enough to make four crafted jewels with the level 55 to 75 recipe. The third came out the life accuracy I wanted, at 6%, a result I consider pretty lucky. This is enough to get my fizzle down to zero on my main deck at the moment, but I will eventually want more when I upgrade my athame or add secondary decks. It looks like there is a slightly lower grade bronze recipe that can give 5% accuracy that may be more practical in the long run. Two 5% accuracy jewels are sufficient to get my 90% life spells down to fizzle zero. This lets me drop my 2% accuracy boots and wear full waterworks gear with no fizzles, I am quite pleased.

[Willowdreamer]

I managed to scrounge up 38 tungsten from bazaar realm-switching, enough to make four crafted jewels with the level 55 to 75 recipe. The third came out the life accuracy I wanted, at 6%, a result I consider pretty lucky. This is enough to get my fizzle down to zero on my main deck at the moment, but I will eventually want more when I upgrade my athame or add secondary decks. It looks like there is a slightly lower grade bronze recipe that can give 5% accuracy that may be more practical in the long run. Two 5% accuracy jewels are sufficient to get my 90% life spells down to fizzle zero. This lets me drop my 2% accuracy boots and wear full waterworks gear with no fizzles, I am quite pleased.

If you have the Crowns and want to invest in an attempt to acquire jewel seeds, some of the jewel plants drop Tungsten and other metal reagents. I wouldn't recommend it as a way to try to get the reagents quickly, but the jewel plants are known to occasionally produce a second seed at Elder, so over time, it may be something you want to try.

[ValdusWildheart]

If you have the Crowns and want to invest in an attempt to acquire jewel seeds, some of the jewel plants drop Tungsten and other metal reagents. I wouldn't recommend it as a way to try to get the reagents quickly, but the jewel plants are known to occasionally produce a second seed at Elder, so over time, it may be something you want to try.

Not only that, if one of those seeds is a triangle, it also produces some of those accuracy jewels! That said, it took me a LOT of crowns to get jewel seeds from those packs. It could have been bad luck.

One comment and few "easy" recommendations to the OP if accuracy is a concern:

• Waterworks gear won't give you accuracy. Life wizards start with 90%, so the gear tends to give other stats like pips instead.
• You can buy a bunch of cheap keen eyes TCs from the Bazaar and enchant your hits
• You can hatch a pet that has an accuracy talent or infallible aura (I've found the aura useful for a long time on storm)
• You can buy accuracy opals from Jordo Mistborn (sp?) for arena tickets if that's an option. It trades some specific accuracy for universal, but it adds a little.

Also, FWIW, the Bazaar aggregates items across realms (unlike picking up reagents directly from the ground), so you don't have to realm hop to find them. A page refresh should do it.

[DanTheTerrible]

Also, FWIW, the Bazaar aggregates items across realms (unlike picking up reagents directly from the ground), so you don't have to realm hop to find them. A page refresh should do it.

Omigod, that's a game changing bit of information! I hate to come off doubting your word, you sound perfectly reliable, and it inherently feels right, but if this is true I have been playing the game wrong for YEARS. Can anybody else chime in with a confirmation that what Valdus Wildheart just said is true, it doesn't matter what realm you are in when accessing the bazaar?

[Willowdreamer]

Omigod, that's a game changing bit of information! I hate to come off doubting your word, you sound perfectly reliable, and it inherently feels right, but if this is true I have been playing the game wrong for YEARS. Can anybody else chime in with a confirmation that what Valdus Wildheart just said is true, it doesn't matter what realm you are in when accessing the bazaar?

Don't feel bad. This is a common misconception that has been around since the Bazaar arrived in the Spiral, and no matter how many times I've seen someone ask, it has never gone away.

The only reason to be in a particular realm in the Bazaar is if you're meeting someone. The inventory is the same.

[mikahawkins1]

What are the best ways to acquire the tungsten reagent for crafting jewels?

Bazaar handsdown.