The (modifiable) Forester's Axe

A breakdown of the modifiable forester's axe, and how to upgrade it.

The axe

Highlights:

(at least some varieties are) Bind To Account, meaning you only TRULY need to make one.
various cosmetic appearances, which have no effect on bonuses
Provides additional reduction of skill use time, like other tools
Higher levels provide + crit chance, unlike normally crafted tools (tool sets)
Higher levels provide additional chance for rare drops, again unlike normally crafted tool sets

The process

All modifications are single-use, apprentice level, processing recipes.

1) You start buy buying the basic modifiable axe.
2) You buy a cosmetic recipe, and a cosmetic appearance.
3) You proceed up the chain, buying progressively fancier (and more expensive) recipes, and buying luck stones to upgrade the tool with.

The currency

The currencies for the Combe Forester Event are ribbons, which are account shared (by server), and freely exchangeable between denominations.

1 Winner Ribbon = 10 Runner-up Ribbon = 100 Participation Ribbon

Currency caps are:

Upgrading

This table uses the Dwarf cosmetic appearance as a starting place, but if you replace "Dwarf" with Elf, Hobbit, Wsternesse, Primative, Ornate, Gold, or Mithril throughout the table, it will be equivalent.

Tier	Purchases	Upgrade Cost (W/Ru/P)	Cumulative Cost
Modifiable Forester's Axe	Modifiable Forester's Axe	1/1/50 = 160	160
Dwarf Forester's Axe	Dwarf Forester's Axe Recipe Cosmetic Dwarf Hatchet Design	2/2/100 = 320	480
Fine Dwarf Forester's Axe	Fine Dwarf Forester's Axe Recipe + 2 Luck-stone	3/3/150 = 480	960
Superb Dwarf Forester's Axe	Superb Dwarf Forester's Axe Recipe + 4 Luck-stone	5/5/250 = 800	1700
Splendid Dwarf Forester's Axe	Splendid Dwarf Forester's Axe Recipe + 6 Luck-stone	9/10/350 = 1350	3050
Exceptional Dwarf Forester's Axe	Exceptional Dwarf Forester's Axe Recipe + 8 Luck-stone	12/14/450 = 1790	4840
Extraordinary Dwarf Forester's Axe	Extraordinary Dwarf Forester's Axe Recipe + 10 Luck-stone	15/18/550 = 2230	7070

Notes

The total above are in "participation ribbon equivalents". Due to currency caps (and *actual* purchase prices), you will need to keep all three ribbon types.

The Luck-stones can be acquired from Umbar weekly crafting quests at cap, reducing the number of event ribbons you would need to acquire.