granite lobster summoning question

[vleademir]

I heard of the method of bringing the 5kg chunks to the ogre obelisk and trading the pouches for shards, and apparently you can summon 400 or so in one trip with a BoB. It seems more efficient than precutting all of the chunks to 500g, plus I don't need 6k granite lobster pouches so I was just wondering if that is the advised method and best setup to do it. Thanks

[Quyneax]

You're going to have to cut the granite at some point anyway, it doesn't really matter where you do that. The main charm of that method would be reduced bank times, as you'd be banking only once every ten inventories (at a normal 25/inventory with kyatt). The downside is that you would be stuck with lots of full inventory spaces. For example, you have 18x5 kg in your tort, and charms, pouches and shards in your inventory, plus another 7x5 kg (for a total of 250 pouches per run). You have 18 inventory spaces left, so you cut 2 blocks into 20 pieces, make pouches, trade in etc. and then cut the next two blocks.

 

It's probably the best way to go, yes. I imagine that cutting blocks two at the time isn't such a bad thing. Don't make the mistake of bringing 20 blocks in your inventory though, it'd take ages to cut the first ten, because you'd have so little free space.