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Astral Diamond costs

toyeverdaletoyeverdale Member Posts: 91
edited May 2013 in General Discussion (PC)
So currently, it is free to slot items and train companions, despite it saying it will cost an arm and a leg worth of diamonds to do so. I am hoping this is a design feature because the current formula for cost is severly broken.

Some suggestions, actually one. Cut the AD cost for services by 1/10th. So something that says 39356 now would say 3936. Much more reasonable and in line witht he earning progression in game.
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  • yoitslinkyoitslink Member Posts: 19 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    lol those price arent high u mus b new sry but that is low lvl money 390000 is small
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  • wrenaqwrenaq Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Do you mean the cost to speed up the training? If so just train them before you goto bed.
  • atechhhatechhh Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    The prices are high because the company wants you to buy ZEN. Free to play = Pay to Win = Pay or Lose
  • toyeverdaletoyeverdale Member Posts: 91
    edited May 2013
    wrenaq wrote: »
    Do you mean the cost to speed up the training? If so just train them before you goto bed.

    Yeah, I meant speed up training. The way I saw it, it seemed like it wanted it for training period.

    Slotting and unslotting is the main cost issue I am looking at. But the fact that you don't get charged for slotting is a bug, and when it gets fixed you get double dinged.

    I know the purpose is to make $ through zen. however, they can make a lot more by doing something like cutting the cost down a bit on services to entice people to get AD faster via $ instead of any other means. Same with keys; make them a very rare drop.
  • elessymelessym Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    There is no cost to slotting. If you read the text, it is warning you how much it will cost to unslot if you choose to do so in the future.
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  • cathgar457cathgar457 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Don't slot in things that you are not prepared to pay to remove, otherwise you can slot straight over the top of it for no cost but you loose what was originally in the slot.
  • lcraw78lcraw78 Member Posts: 52
    edited May 2013
    YOU DO NOT GET CHARGED WHEN SLOTTING AN ITEM.... READ!! it says if you wish to recover the enchant it will cost you X amount of AD.... nothing about charging you to enchant it first.
  • naeron1966naeron1966 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 58
    edited May 2013
    toyeverdale wrote: »
    So currently, it is free to slot items and train companions, despite it saying it will cost an arm and a leg worth of diamonds to do so. I am hoping this is a design feature because the current formula for cost is severly broken.

    Some suggestions, actually one. Cut the AD cost for services by 1/10th. So something that says 39356 now would say 3936. Much more reasonable and in line witht he earning progression in game.

    No, it says it will cost diamonds to unslot things. Removing them costs, replacing them by adding a new enchant costs nothing but you do lose the original.

    Training companions is free unless you pay to speed up their training to get it finished early.
  • zahinderzahinder Member Posts: 897 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    The #1 problem right now is people unable to read.
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  • labbblabbb Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    zahinder wrote: »
    The #1 problem right now is people unable to read.

    What ?



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  • thesuperdthesuperd Member Posts: 26 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    What they should have is the option to over-write enchants, destroying the old one to put in a new one, instead of charging you tens of thousands of AD to take out an enchant before putting in a new one. When I was leveling, I used some runes on my companion that were fairly cheap low-level ones, thinking that I could just overwrite them to add better runes later, but then I found out that's not how it works.
  • reasonpolicereasonpolice Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    zahinder wrote: »
    The #1 problem right now is people unable to read.

    Pretty much this.
  • mconosrepmconosrep Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    thesuperd wrote: »
    What they should have is the option to over-write enchants, destroying the old one to put in a new one, instead of charging you tens of thousands of AD to take out an enchant before putting in a new one. When I was leveling, I used some runes on my companion that were fairly cheap low-level ones, thinking that I could just overwrite them to add better runes later, but then I found out that's not how it works.

    Um, I thought this was actually exactly how it does work. Or am I imagining things?
  • thesuperdthesuperd Member Posts: 26 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    mconosrep wrote: »
    Um, I thought this was actually exactly how it does work. Or am I imagining things?

    It didn't work like that last time I tried. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
  • mconosrepmconosrep Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    thesuperd wrote: »
    It didn't work like that last time I tried. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

    Can a third party please confirm this either way?
  • sockmunkeysockmunkey Member Posts: 4,622 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Drag and drop. It works like a champ
  • vrtesseractvrtesseract Member Posts: 631 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Yes you can just drag new stuff on top of old stuff free. Ive been doing it since beta 1. also sometimes you can right click on the slot in question and it will show all the gems you have that qualify for said slot, even if said stones are in your bank.

    I typically don't ever unslot/speed tings up things I get plenty of runestones/enchantments absolutely free. the only rreason to ever unslot something is is you somehow got an uber rare enchantment and need to move it to another pet/armour but if that's the cast the cost to unslot should be < buying a new one on the AH. Be sure to check the AH before unslotting ANYTHING.

    Often you can buy runestones/enchantments VERY VERY cheap. if not the level you one try one level down or one level up! sometimes you can buy 10 level 3 enchancments for the price of one level 4. or vice versa it often surprizes me that greens are often more expencive than blues because people try to use them to upgrade or just get the blue from a coffier. check the price on coffiers also typically a coffier is about 2x the price of the stones inside but ever so often it reverses if a lot of people are opening lockboxes.
  • thesuperdthesuperd Member Posts: 26 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    mconosrep wrote: »
    Um, I thought this was actually exactly how it does work. Or am I imagining things?
    You're right. I just tried it and that does work. I don't know what happened before that made me think it didn't.
  • toyeverdaletoyeverdale Member Posts: 91
    edited May 2013
    Weird, my bad. I think that text is superfluous.
  • pinkfontpinkfont Member Posts: 563 Bounty Hunter
    edited May 2013
    Never pay to unslot. Usually check the AH, because the prices for enchantments are actually very reasonable. For now at least.

    edit: And yes, the text IS misleading.
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