Pendulums are pretty easy. They basically, you take the base and divide it by two, and the element of the pendulum's QI is rounded up in case it comes out uneven.
And for upgraded, just add 0.5 to the pendulum's original element.
Example: We have an upped/unupped Earth pendulum, an air mark, and a base of 5.
We divide 5/2 and get 2.5, round it up to 3 for earth, and down to 2 for air. Then, for upped, we add 1 to earth making it 4. So an upped pendulum produces the same off element amount, while it produces one more for upped on element. Sounds, right, right?
here's an example that uses upped pendulums and towers. We have 10 Darkness Towers and 5 Light Pendulums (all upped) with a Darkness mark. So let's calculate the towers. We do the following:
(number of towers) * (base) + (number of towers) In this case:
10 * 5 + 10 = 60
So our total Quanta Production is 60 from towers.
Now the light pendulums:
(Base) \ 2
5 \ 2 = 2.5 ; Then we round up to three for light, and down 2 two for darkness. Then we add 1 to light for the upgraded bonus, making 4. Since we have 5 pendulums, we multiply both Light and darkness' production from the pendulum by 5, thus making 20 for light and 10 for darkness.
Add the darkness part to the towers Quanta Production and we get 70. So our final results are:
70
and 20
Ready to be divided into the total quanta consumption.