To evolve the master trophy, you must do non-trivial combines (obviously over 300 since you needed 300 to get the master trophy). Also, as previously stated, contrary to popular belief it does NOT have to be within 100 skill points of your raw skill. It can be anything non-trivial, which is anything higher than your current skill. Again, since I am talking about the master trophy, it is anything with a trivial over 300. From my experience, it seems to take around 8-9 combines to get 1% evolution, meaning it would take around 800-900 combines to fully evolve it.
However, I recently ran across a post from a developer stating that the number of combines required varies with the difficulty of acquiring the components involved in the recipe. He stated that any recipe that is trivial over 300 and involved components that are completely store bought will require the maximum of 1000 combines to evolve the trophy. The minimum number of combines to evolve it is 400, which would require a recipe with the toughest to acquire components (he used tailoring as an example). In other words, the harder it is to get the components for the recipe, the faster your trophy evolves.
So the verified fact on the number of combines needed to fully evolve your master trophy is 400-1000, depending on the difficulty of obtaining the recipe's components. That means no matter what, it takes between a minimum of 4 and maximum of 10 combines to evolve the master trophy by 1 percent. Anyone posting less or more than these values is incorrect.
Edited, Jun 7th 2010 12:35pm by Arcturys






