Looking at the middle tier of founder packs. The mount and companion are great, the extra character slot has a clear face value, and lots of the other items are pointless but certainly don't detract from the package.
The AD value is a big part of the package, though. I do have some questions:
- How much is 600k AD worth?
- What can I buy in-game with 600k AD?
I didn't get past level 18 or so in the last closed beta weekend, so I haven't seen the AD costs for mid to high level gear, companion, or mounts. What can I really do with 600k Astral Diamonds?
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$120 at 50 AD/Z
$60 at 100 AD/Z
$30 at 200 AD/Z
$24 at 250 AD/Z
$20 at 300 AD/Z
$15 at 400 AD/Z
$12 at 500 AD/Z
Astral Diamonds essentially represent time spent playing the game (except for the Founders' stashes) and Zen represents cash spent on the game. The exchange rate will be set by the players in the Astral Diamond Exchange, though Cryptic can influence the rate by holding sales or placing new shinies in either the Astral Diamond or Zen stores.
The exchange rate will probably settle at one of the rates listed above. My guess would be at 100, 200 or 250, but your guess is as good as mine.
I think you mean Astral Diamonds at the auction house I do believe.
Tiko
I was hoping for some examples of items I could buy with AD, especially at higher levels that I did not reach during BW3.
Plus what fr0gurt said.
200 AD to 1 Zen is roughly about what the Questionite exchange offers around in the Champions Online equivalent.
Yes, but right now
1zen=100 Dilithium in STO.
My point is it is not a good idea to use other games to try to perdict what the exchange rate will be because there a multiple factors different in each game that affect it.
What starbucks are you going to? I don't think theres anything in mine that costs less then 1.25... and that's for some dried up pastry.
Yes...ID scrolls 800
Unsocket'ing I've seen 2-3k
Myself all these monies are gonna be so confusing to me. For example...Lets say if I buy the founders pack of 2,000,000 AD (199.99) and bank it...by the time I reach level 20 I could have 2,100,000 or maybe even 3million AD's right but how much gold do I got? 1gold! That means Im short 1.5gold to buy a mount So I could essentially trade AD's for Gold and maybe Gold for Zen to buy a Companion and then reverse it all ROFL!!!
I have started to play Star trek Online while I wait for Neverwinter and there are alot of similarities with the 2 games believe it or not.
So I imagine Astral Diamonds will be sold at a similaiar rate for Zen.
He gets one already if he purchases guardian pack.
the is a huge difference In the daily cap of refining both raw currencies, AD is almost 3 times the cap of Dilithium in Sto. As well as ease of gaining raw forms of both currency. In Sto one would be hard pressed to gain the 8K raw dilithium for the daily refining cap. In comparison, in Neverwinter one can easily get around 20k daily just from doing activities in the game.
Another thing to consider is the different sinks both games have with their respective currencies. ( I personally think Neverwinter has more/larger sinks ) ( but this could be balanced by the ease of gain )
And thirdly, probably the biggest "wild card" is the Auction House using AD instead of gold. Neither STO or CO use their respective Currencies ( Dilithium and Questionite ) in their AH's but rather their base currency. ( Globals for CO, Energy Credits for STO ) which has the potential to cause huge rises and dips in the exchange rate.
So using the logic that "The game is pretty similar, thus the exchange rate will act the same." is probably not a frame of mind to use when trying to predict the exchange in Neverwinter. . .
. . .Instead one should look at what is different and how those differences will affect the in-game economy. . .