With the recent changes to the AD economy, we are going to be reducing the cost on a few items in the Wondrous Bazaar, and adding a new item.
- Marks of Potency will be reduced from 25k AD to 6k AD
- Greater Marks of Potency will be reduced from 100k AD to 25k AD
- *NEW* Superior Marks of Potency will be priced at 100k AD
In addition, we are changing some of the upgrade requirements on higher end Enchantments and Runestones. Weapon and Armor Enhancement gems will not be changed at this time.
- Going from Rank 10->11 will now cost 2 Superior Marks of Potency, instead of 5 Greater Marks of Potency
- Going from Rank 11->12 will now cost 4 Superior Marks of Potency, instead of 5 Greater Marks of Potency
We are reviewing all of the locations Greater Marks of Potency drop/reward in the game, and are swapping those for Superior Marks where appropriate.
These changes will be going live very soon. Once they’re live and we can monitor performance for a bit, we will re-evaluate and see if further changes are necessary. As an FYI, we are continuing to monitor ALL Astral Diamond costs/performance/etc. as we work to balance this economy. Thank you for your patience.
Scott Shicoff
Lead Designer
Comments
Wasn't expecting it but damn.
You guys really need to do server wide announcements for this kind of thing though. Just use the system you use to announce server maintenance.
These sinks were added because of Caturday, Leadership and Astral Resonator. Now that there is no source (other than 24K per day) these sinks need to go away completely.
As a non-whale, I find it really a gigantic cockblock to try and go past rank 8 or greater weapon/armor enchant.
But still, this is welcome news. Well done so far.
You still need to add ways to farm items that players can resell in AH. I mean, how are people going to afford the wards needed? Theres simply is no way. Its still P2W even with these changes.
I actually would perfere expensive items with a way to earn a lot of AD by playing the game.
With 24k a day, it would take 20 days just to get one blue ward. And to get those 24k, it takes a lot of time and effort every single day with dungeons, pvp etc. Its way to little profit for all that work and time.
"We are reviewing all of the locations Greater Marks of Potency drop/reward in the game, and are swapping those for Superior Marks where appropriate."
I havent seen a greater mark drop from any T2 dungeon in months.
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They literally just cut something dumb like 75% of the cost of getting rank 9 enchants. Not sure what you were expecting but this is a lot more generous of a decrease in costs than I was expecting. Now they just need to work on Companion upgrade costs, armor kits, and Cube of Augmentation.
Depending on how they handle artifacts you could see a pretty generous decrease there too. At the very least getting your artifacts to epic is pretty damn easy.
after you make this review, could you please share those locations with the playerbase
appreciate the changes btw
*the only thing it is annoying adding yet another type of currency, seriously inventory is getting crazy with bound by account bound by character and unbound types of all stones
I also agree that this needs to be announced in game somehow as not all read forums.
Why not add earned AD/RAD for each quest completed as well? That would go a long way to helping us all out.
Thanks1
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EDIT: Never mind.
Instead of 5 GMOPS to Mythic, would you need SMOPS, or at they keeping it at 5 GMOPs at the lower price above?
So, this last Dbl RP I upgraded 4 artifacts to Mythic
20 GMOPs x 75k (VIP cost) = 1,500,000 AD
New system would be 20 GMOPS at 18,750 = 375,000 AD
Well, that sucks that I just wasted 1,125,000 AD.
Inventing new marks was unnecessary. Tbh I suspect it's a smokescreen to obscure the fact they didn't in fact reduce costs as much as needed. But maybe I am wrong and they ideed are doing something right this time.
The fundamental problem is this is like reducing the price of a mansion from 20M to 10M and trying to sell it to folks with a 24K salary.
These AD sinks need to go as the reason they came into being in the first place is now gone.
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Overall, a necessary change. Costs are cut a bit across the board and it makes me happy I didn't splurge on R12's this last 2xRP ('ll I'll save millions of AD).
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Once you have rank 10 enchants you're probably around 3k GS and you can run pretty much all the content in the game pretty easily anyways.