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  • theycallmetomutheycallmetomu Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,861 Arc User
    "Normal" players can cap out at rank 10 enchants. Artifact refinement is now much cheaper. Refinement for under rank 10s is also much cheaper.
  • theycallmetomutheycallmetomu Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,861 Arc User

    reiwulf said:

    oh please, some people will never be happy. People have been complaining for the price of GMoPs for quite some time, and now that they are cheaper, people also complain.

    I'm not complaining about the reduction of costs in refining items and enchantments, thats fanfreakingtastic, its the sudden hit where all my existing items have suddenly been reduced in value because of the way they have approached this by lowering the existing 100k gmop to 25k and 25k one down to 6k then adding a new item worth 100k to replace it (?!) instead of just adding a new one in at 6k
    Well, why were you carrying a bunch of GMOPs anyway?
  • andorrabellandorrabell Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 437 Arc User
    goatshark said:

    As a reminder, we are currently investigating AD sources for players who don't want to run queued content.

    Thank you, the solo players thank you and the people that want solo players to stay in the game thank you. Make it speedy though, we need them! :)

  • ghoulz66ghoulz66 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,748 Arc User
    Weapon and armor chants already cost a coal ward for each upgrade. 12+ required. Can you be a little merciful in that regard?
  • psyb3rtr011psyb3rtr011 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 340 Arc User
    I foresee a problem......

    Alt Armies still rule!

    Now they will be able to buy one GMOP every 8.33 days, per character, just by Invocations (3,000 per day at 70th level)

    These GMOP's can be fully traded or sold.

    This does not fix the problem of people having 50 alts ruining the economy, it just kicks the can down the road, and simply slows their effect.

    It slows them down a little, as they are only able to get 1/8th the AD per alt that they could before, and their main use, GMOP's are 1/4 the value, so effectively they are earning 1/2 per alt that they earned before (Given 24K/day conversion rate limiting what they could really get.)

    So, 50 alts, at 3,000 AD a day, over a 3.5 hour period (The time to login to each alt, invoke, Convert AD and log out plus an hour at 1 minute each final login. You only have to do the first 5 invocations, the 6th gets no AD, and is only good for extra Celestial Coin a day... Even with this, that is 5 hours/day.) equal 150,000 AD a day, or 4.5 Million a month.

    That is 22.5 SMOPs a month on average.

    Not too shabby, and more than enough for me to keep my Primary Character maxed out Gear and Refinements, while allowing me plenty of GMOP's/SMOPs to sell in the AH...

    Again, I will reiterate, the problem was NOT being able to get AD through Leadership. It was allowing more than "x" characters a account to be able to do so in the first place.

    Limit the number of Characters an account can use for crafting, restore a means to get AD from Leadership (And other Crafts as I have proposed in another thread), and most importantly, change the Invocation to Award bonuses to AD/EXP/Gold gains for a set period/amount.



    You want Multiple Invocations a Day. Great.

    Make the First one each day award a Celestial Coin & Invocation Blessing

    Make the Second one each day award Double Gold for a maximum amount, a Celestial Bag of Refining and Invocation Blessing.

    Make the Third one each day award an Experience Boost of 10,000 at 100% rate & Invocation Blessing.

    Make the Fourth one each day Award a Celestial Bag of Refining & Invocation Blessing.

    Make the fifth one each day award an Astral Diamond Boost of 8,000 at 100% rate & Invocation Blessing.

    Make the Sixth one each day award a Celestial Coin and Invocation Blessing.

    Just some ideas....
    Psyb3rTr011
    AKA Cyber Troll and Euben Hadd
  • ghoulz66ghoulz66 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,748 Arc User
    edited September 2015

    I foresee a problem......

    Alt Armies still rule!

    Now they will be able to buy one GMOP every 8.33 days, per character, just by Invocations (3,000 per day at 70th level)

    No, just no. People with multiple alts have been punished enough. There should be at least one little reward for dumping millions into character slots still....

    And I'm not having much of an advantage, I have to waste time invoking with each one, while other people can keep playing and getting ADs. When I want to do a run I usually get sucked back into the hellish cycle. Plus, it's not going to help me afford dozens of SMoP.....
  • reiwulfreiwulf Member Posts: 2,687 Arc User
    They could make invoke account based instead then. That way way you can do it on any char youre playing, and we dont risk of getting punished because of people with invoking armies now XD.
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  • torontodavetorontodave Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 992 Arc User
    100k for the superior

    is still dropped to 75k for VIP rank 12 people.. right?

    in fact, it better be.

    part of the VIP package was the discount at the wondrous bazaar. the discount better apply to these new marks going forward.
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  • psyb3rtr011psyb3rtr011 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 340 Arc User

    Let's admit it, there are two camps of people commenting here

    • People that invested heavily in leadership and profited from it.
    • People that didn't
    The people that didn't invest just got exactly what they wanted with this change, and are happy. To them, the other group are nothing but "complainers" and "whiners".

    Try and understand the other group's point of view. If lots of those players leave (continuing a trend), your game will be a lot less fun to play, and Cryptic will feel the need to turn the P2W screws to keep paying salaries.
    Profittted? Did you Price Men-At-Arms, Adventurers, & Hero's?

    Even at current, depreciated costs, my 8 characters total investment, if bought in the AH today, amounts to close to 10 Million AD. Much more when I was spending 800K per Hero, 175K per Adventurer and 70K per Man-At-Arms.

    Suffice it to say, I have well over 20M AD invested in Leadership, more in other crafts, since I have Epic Grandmasters and Assets for each, to allow a 60% chance to create the best in each, and the ability to get a 100% speed increase for each character.

    So, I am having a hard time seeing where I was profiting from Leadership, given the most I could create a day, with all 8 characters, and if I was able to get all prime AD Tasks, was under 192K a day. (8 x 24K = 192K).

    That is almost 4 months of Leadership tasks alone, if I am able to max all (Which I never was able to do) to pay for the Leadership Assets I currently have acquired. I was getting less than 10K a day on average (Being they take time, and I only can get on twice a day to check and change them) before the previous change, and less since then, and now ZERO.

    A lot of my Leadership Assets were acquired through Lockboxes and Combining in Leadership, at 18 hours per upgrade. Time when I was not earning AD from that task....

    Psyb3rTr011
    AKA Cyber Troll and Euben Hadd
  • solerrosolerro Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    urabask said:

    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.

    ^^

    All this. Bag of chips optional. :)


    Edit addition:

    Agree with followup statement as well. If you have all rank 10 enchants, anything past that is utterly for bragging rights. If you have a gear score of 2.5k or higher, nothing should be giving you a seriously hard time with decent players.
  • reiwulfreiwulf Member Posts: 2,687 Arc User
    Sorry for those who invested so much time and money on LS but i always though ut was stupid that the main source of ad generation in this game was pressing a few mouseclicks repeateadly on an army of alts.
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  • therealairheadtherealairhead Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 79 Arc User
    zebular said:



    I also am hoping to see more solo and alt-friendly ways to earn Astral Diamonds, such as Foundry Rewards (both player and designer), story-line mission rewards, and possibly even as character/account achievements. Foundry Authors and Players need to be earning AD too for their efforts and adventures.

    +10. Let people earn their AD creating content. I've not been in the game that long, so maybe I missed why this didn't take off... but jeeze, this SHOULD be a huge part of a D&D based product. Was it that players were not getting enough rewards when running it? or creators enough tips/kickback?

    Maybe evolve the foundry into a real process... like players create stories, dungeons etc. Dev looks at it, tweaks it some, as far as difficulty/reward, then releases it as a more 'integral part of the world'. Even tweak the writing here and there, a few model changes, touch it up etc. Cryptic picking the 'better' ones, maybe linking them up, putting chain-starters in the real world etc. Player creators get kickback reward (ad or zen) and cryptic dev cost is cut down, total content increased... bam. I mean... really work it more... Why not?
  • reiwulfreiwulf Member Posts: 2,687 Arc User
    Believe me, it has been suggested thousands of times, alongsize many other foundry suggestions too. Ans we authors have been ignored time after time.
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  • ghoulz66ghoulz66 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,748 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    reiwulf said:

    They could make invoke account based instead then. That way way you can do it on any char youre playing, and we dont risk of getting punished because of people with invoking armies now XD.

    lol how are you getting punished because I have many alts? You don't have to login and invoke every moment losing much time being able to do anything else. You think it's a huge advantage then you should try it everyday and see how sane you are after a couple months :s

    Then factor in the nerfed leadership. You have no idea how much time I lose being able to play the game.
  • cyberranger71cyberranger71 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 46 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    This really sucks. Since the removal of making AD in leadership I been in such a depression I do not wish to play this game much. It's was fun but there seems nothing worth doing if I can not get AD to help my Guild or my Characters. I solo play mostly and they make it to were I can not. I play lots of money each month for what seems like nothing.

    I earned so I do not have to play so much out and get some thing back. I get punished for some thing I never did I see at as. Not my fault you guys made the game so Chinese farmers can so easy hurt you. I pay out $100 to get all 12 levels of VIP just to get screwed big time is how I see it.

    Screwed for the almighty $$Dollars$$. And not getting much in return. A scam rip off Free to Play is. No wonder they were attacking the servers they saw this coming. I could not play much over the last two weekend cause of it. Then you try to fix it by making things less costing in AD. But this to little to late.

    Do not play or get addicted to this game or waist your time and money on this game. If you do you only regret it. They care nothing for those who payed lots of money and played a long time to earned it and they just want to pull more money out of you all they can. That is my advice.
  • therealairheadtherealairhead Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 79 Arc User
    reiwulf said:

    Believe me, it has been suggested thousands of times, alongsize many other foundry suggestions too. Ans we authors have been ignored time after time.

    :'( ... bummer.
  • reiwulfreiwulf Member Posts: 2,687 Arc User
    ghoulz66 said:

    reiwulf said:

    They could make invoke account based instead then. That way way you can do it on any char youre playing, and we dont risk of getting punished because of people with invoking armies now XD.

    lol how are you getting punished because I have many alts? You don't have to login and invoke every moment losing much time being able to do anything else. You think it's a huge advantage then you should try it everyday and see how sane you are after a couple months :s

    Then factor in the nerfed leadership. You have no idea how much time I lose being able to play the game.
    punished in the sense that if people didn't make LS armies in the first place and just used LS on the characters they actually play, the whole removing AD from LS would not have happened at all. LS was just a way to get some extra AD, it was never supposed to be used with 50 alts to be the main AD generation system.

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  • inyawayupdeepinyawayupdeep Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 206 Arc User
    Not sure if it will be enough but am optimistic. Thank you.
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  • ghoulz66ghoulz66 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,748 Arc User
    reiwulf said:

    ghoulz66 said:

    reiwulf said:

    They could make invoke account based instead then. That way way you can do it on any char youre playing, and we dont risk of getting punished because of people with invoking armies now XD.

    lol how are you getting punished because I have many alts? You don't have to login and invoke every moment losing much time being able to do anything else. You think it's a huge advantage then you should try it everyday and see how sane you are after a couple months :s

    Then factor in the nerfed leadership. You have no idea how much time I lose being able to play the game.
    punished in the sense that if people didn't make LS armies in the first place and just used LS on the characters they actually play, the whole removing AD from LS would not have happened at all. LS was just a way to get some extra AD, it was never supposed to be used with 50 alts to be the main AD generation system.

    There are people making better money using alchemy and still are . It doesn't require an alt army to have an impact either.

    Besides, I wasn't getting anywhere near BiS with it. I used it to feed my 8 characters I play. It costs and epic ton to gear up several. It's not my fault the game is so alt-unfriendly in the first place. If it wasn't so harsh I would have never bothered with leadership in the first place.

  • regenerderegenerde Member Posts: 3,047 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    reiwulf said:

    Believe me, it has been suggested thousands of times, alongsize many other foundry suggestions too. Ans we authors have been ignored time after time.

    Botters can run foundries, the Devs better remove all rewards from foundries next week.
    Sorry you wasted time with foundries, but we can't have botters ruining the game by pressing a few buttons now.

    On a more serious note, i'd like to mention those "farm" foundries...
    Before the Devs have found a way to prevent those exploitable foundries, why should they even think about adding rAD to foundries in one way or another?

    Anyway, still hoping for seeing Stronghold Vouchers as Leadership rewards.
    And at least some rAD in the campaign quests to finance campaign boons a bit easier.
    I do believe in killing the messenger...
    Want to know why?
    Because it sends a message!
  • bilitheaxe66bilitheaxe66 Member Posts: 38 Arc User
    While I now see at least a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel for this game, the reduction in all of the AD sinks, in addition to more thought out rewards for LS, should have gone live at the same time as the removal of 99% of the AD production LS provided. Guilds are still not going to be able to progress through SH, at a rate fast enough to hold their attention, unless those massive AD sinks are reduced. Really do not think it should have been/would be that hard to code the addition of AD to every quest you can complete (Level and Difficulty based amounts). You could even give a special bonus for completing a Zone as an incentive to get more people to run through the entire content of the game. My understanding is that was one of the main intentions of this dramatic change was to increase the ability of earning AD by "playing" the game.

    My cup of kool-aid is not even close to being even half full yet. The speed at which it refills will be based upon how quickly the necessary changes are made so that the game can be enjoyed by everyone and in their preferred play styles.
  • untamedengineer#6733 untamedengineer Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 100 Arc User
    You are aware I hope that those slot were created by Cryptic at a cost 250 Zen a piece when there were only 5 character classes in game correct? Given that is no realistic way that anyone would have wanted 50 slots for playing characters.. I mean would you want to play each and every class 10 times through? The 50 character slot limit was created by the company for the sole purpose of generating additional revenue in game. No can you try to deduce what exactly they intended people to do with all of those slots?

    Personally I have 19 character slots. Each and everyone one of them was purchased and the character played all the way up to 70 during times when there was no new content.
  • reiwulfreiwulf Member Posts: 2,687 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    regenerde said:

    reiwulf said:

    Believe me, it has been suggested thousands of times, alongsize many other foundry suggestions too. Ans we authors have been ignored time after time.

    Botters can run foundries, the Devs better remove all rewards from foundries next week.
    Sorry you wasted time with foundries, but we can't have botters ruining the game by pressing a few buttons now.

    On a more serious note, i'd like to mention those "farm" foundries...
    Before the Devs have found a way to prevent those exploitable foundries, why should they even think about adding rAD to foundries in one way or another?

    Anyway, still hoping for seeing Stronghold Vouchers as Leadership rewards.
    And at least some rAD in the campaign quests to finance campaign boons a bit easier.
    all rewards from foundries have already been removed. No AD for running them, the only thing you get is a lousy green item piece at the end.

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  • kazoo83kazoo83 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    goatshark said:

    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

    Always the same,
    some game companies try to attract few invest lot of money first by making them played happy, something like 4K gs vs 2K gs in pvp. so everything is expensive at first.
    After that, companies will turn to giving "fair", like lower price, like now.
    because almost "normal" players now may be invest some and easier to increase their GS and against "top" players..or they are easy to increase their gs even nothing invest. all this make the "top" not as before.
    Finally, "top" player either quit because they feel disappointed by "The money they input ≠ they earn" or invest more money. then "another fair" comes.
    again and again... >:)
  • psyb3rtr011psyb3rtr011 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 340 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    reiwulf said:

    They could make invoke account based instead then. That way way you can do it on any char youre playing, and we dont risk of getting punished because of people with invoking armies now XD.

    I like, especially if combined with my recommendations on rewards... You would be able to get the AD rewards for your primary character through actual playing.

    That said, I agree with Ghoulz66 "No, just no. People with multiple alts have been punished enough. There should be at least one little reward for dumping millions into character slots still...."

    To which I reply... The intent of this suggestion was inherent upon Leadership being a means to get reasonable amounts of AD again, and a limit on how many per Account could Craft.

    I agre Ghoulz66... Those of us with multiple account have been punished, but then there are Multiple Accounts Character Alts(Read: 10 or so) and there are MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS CHARACTER ALTS (Read: 50 Character Alt Armies...)

    Where would you draw a line?
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    Psyb3rTr011
    AKA Cyber Troll and Euben Hadd
  • psyb3rtr011psyb3rtr011 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 340 Arc User
    reiwulf said:

    Sorry for those who invested so much time and money on LS but i always though ut was stupid that the main source of ad generation in this game was pressing a few mouseclicks repeateadly on an army of alts.

    Yeah, instead you just do click them far more often and repetitiously on your Primary fighting Mobs and Bosses for the umpteenth time. ROFLMAO....

    Leadership required conscious thought and planning. Fighting mobs rarely requires near the level of though and planning.



    Psyb3rTr011
    AKA Cyber Troll and Euben Hadd
  • fenyxdrayvenfenyxdrayven Member Posts: 59 Arc User
    edited September 2015


    Well, why were you carrying a bunch of GMOPs anyway?

    +

    It is called money laundering.lol
    It's a pretty much standard currency used for player trades on higher value items.....
  • psyb3rtr011psyb3rtr011 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 340 Arc User
    solerro said:

    urabask said:

    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.

    ^^

    All this. Bag of chips optional. :)


    Edit addition:

    Agree with followup statement as well. If you have all rank 10 enchants, anything past that is utterly for bragging rights. If you have a gear score of 2.5k or higher, nothing should be giving you a seriously hard time with decent players.
    What about us Solo gamers.... My main has a 2.7K Gear Score, and a Legendary Angel Companion (With a Base +37 of her States transferred to my Prime, up to +62% if I get Companions Gift to Activate) which are not counted in my GS. I still routinely get my butt handed to me in Dragon Well.

    Psyb3rTr011
    AKA Cyber Troll and Euben Hadd
  • ghoulz66ghoulz66 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,748 Arc User
    edited September 2015

    reiwulf said:

    They could make invoke account based instead then. That way way you can do it on any char youre playing, and we dont risk of getting punished because of people with invoking armies now XD.

    I like, especially if combined with my recommendations on rewards... You would be able to get the AD rewards for your primary character through actual playing.

    That said, I agree with Ghoulz66 "No, just no. People with multiple alts have been punished enough. There should be at least one little reward for dumping millions into character slots still...."

    To which I reply... The intent of this suggestion was inherent upon Leadership being a means to get reasonable amounts of AD again, and a limit on how many per Account could Craft.

    I agre Ghoulz66... Those of us with multiple account have been punished, but then there are Multiple Accounts (Read: 10 or so) and there are MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS (Read: 50 Character Alt Armies...)

    Where would you draw a line?
    People with multiple accounts are *supposed* to get banned for it... And alt armies aren't the only thing that are being exploited by non-legit players. A botter has no need for an army. He can just farm nodes all day with a single character and net in more RP than a leadership farm could ever dream of. I had to spend millions to now just have RP get churned out, that botter is just getting fat without any investment, not even on the character he's farming with.

    Someone with an army just invoking now isn't going to be buying out enchants and mounts all over the place anymore.

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