the price of Phrik

vulture811 · Ensign Joined: 19 Feb 2013 Posts: 35

So..I am trying to figure out the price for phrik to make a staff weapon.
Any ideas ? I have not been able to find anything about its price other
then rare and expensive.

dicemauler · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:27 am Post subject:

I've never seen a price table for Phrik in any of the Saga books and it's not in the FFG rule book that I own (admittedly that's just one book, but there you go).

A quick look through Pirates and Privateers in Chapter Four: Plunder and Equipment tells me that Hyperbarides go for about 2200 CR per kilo. Looking to wookiepeedia tells me that Hyperbarides are extremely rare and required for turbolaser technology.

So I would start with 2200/kg being the high end price for Phrik.

garhkal · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:52 am Post subject:

Exactly. Its price is Plot..
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Pel · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 6:06 pm Post subject:

Given phrik's rarity, versatility, and strategic nationalization by the Empire, I'd say that 2200 is on the low end of the price range. Of course you can always start there, apply the 4,X modifiers, and end up with much more exhorbitant costs.
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ant · Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:56 pm Post subject:

Heh, I gave my players approximately three kilos of it and the armorer they took it too to make armor for them offered 35k for it, i think. Maybe I was high, but I was just winging it. They still went with making armor, two suits plated in phrik with removable phrik spikes in the forearms. Something like 2d protection and no dex penalty. Even owning the phrik I made them pay like 25k for the workmanship and extra alloys.

Naaman · Vice Admiral Joined: 29 Jul 2011 Posts: 3190

My character took an electro-staff from a magna droid and used some of the alloy to rebuild her lightsaber after it got damaged in a duel.

I guess that has nothing to do with the price haha! I was going to say that in D&D, Mithryl adds 2000 gp to the cost of a weapon, and adamantium adds 3000 gp to its cost. Given that a greatsword costs 50 gp and I think a longsword is 15 or so, if you wanted to use another game/system for a frame of reference, there is one.

garhkal · Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2015 12:06 am Post subject:

IMO the bigger issue is how Would an average PC even know what is special about Phrick?
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vulture811 · Ensign Joined: 19 Feb 2013 Posts: 35

average pc's might not know much more then its a rare light weight and tough metal, even then its probably some type of knowledge check right?

garhkal · Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 1:17 am Post subject:

I'd say Scholar-ore, Scholar-history might tell ya..
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After rewatching How Much is BESKAR Worth? | The Mandalorian, i was curious about phrik. One google search & a few articles later, still no answer, as this thread is the only one i found trying to tackle that very question.

Using American Ben's calculated value for Beskar, ¤20,833 credits for a 4 lb. bar of beskar, or ¤5,714.07524 credits/ozt of beskar, we can make a guess.
The lore in both canon and Legends establishes phrik to be a very close second to beskar in both durability and rarity.
Beskar's only known source was the Outer Rim world of Mandalore and its moon, Concordia.
Phrik was mined on Gromas, in the Perkell sector,[1] and Tatooine in the Arkanis sector. Other few or several worlds (not many) had phrik but those are neither named nor numbered, only mentioning that those sources were seized by the Empire.

My guess then, is that phrik's value must be in the neighborhood of 50-75% of the value for beskar.
¤10,416.5 credits to ¤15,624.75 credits for a 4 lb. bar of phrik.
¤2,857.03762 credits/ozt to ¤4,285.55643 credits/ozt of phrik.
A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams or 0.0311034768 kilograms.
¤91.855892457656052136267930021251 credits (or 92 credits)/gram to ¤137.78383868648407820440189503188 credits (or 138 credits)/gram of phrik.
¤91,855.892457656052136267930021251 credits/kilogram to ¤137,783.83868648407820440189503188 credits/kilogram of phrik. Round off as you will... Enjoy!
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