grogthemagnifMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 1,651Arc User
edited February 2014
I see 2 possible solutions to the 'way too expensive and way too rare' Blue Marks of Potency.
The price ratio of white to green is 20 to 1, for Green to Blue its 50 to 1, for Blue to Purple it's 4 to 1.
First, the Green solution is to change the Rank 5 upgrades from 1 Blue to 3 Green and to change the Rank 6 upgrades from 2 Blue to 4 Green and for the Rank 7s to 1 Blue and Rank 8s to 2 Blue leaving the prices the same. Rank 9s would be 1 Purple and Rank 10s would be 2 Purple.
Second the Blue solution would drop the Blue Mark of Potency price to a more reasonable 10,000 AD (20 time the Green cost) and Purple would remain at 100,000 (10 time the Blue cost).
I have my brother playing this game for the first time and i am just now realizing the cost it is to make his character ready for "End Game." I was also thinking about the prior to the module if i wanted to make an enchantment or runestone it took me about 10 preservation wards and i had a rank seven. So roughly it would cost me about 50k which i still think it rather expensive especially since you need to fill 12 slots, armor, rings, etc. The cost prior to patch for me was 600k in astral diamonds which definitely isn't easy to come by being a new player.
Now lets move on to post patch since it is require that you have 3 marks of potency's to create a rank 7 you have to spend at least 75k plus the preservation wards that my be lost. That's going to cost roughly 900k in ad to get your enchants ready. I don't see why the green lesser marks sells for 500 and then the blue at 25k which seems like a larger jump for me. I think the prices should be somewhere around 15k for the blue mark and 75k for the greater. There is a larger wall going from rank 5 to rank 7 that i think cryptic should look at and adjust the price at the vender.
I will agree that rank 8's are much cheaper than before. However my main concern is the rank 5-7 area.
What do you guys think?
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grogthemagnifMember, NW M9 PlaytestPosts: 1,651Arc User
edited February 2014
I haven't found any Blue Marks in DR chests, but have found a couple, and several green, in skill nodes. I've also found green marks in Leadership casks or Blue chests.
I have 3 characters who do the DR dungeons every day. I have yet to get a useful mark from an Arcane Coffer or Cask of Wonders. I've seen one drop from a boss. I've found 0 in skill nodes. I've got no Coal Wards from invoking, and the AH price has increased by about 50%. They cost more than lesser enchants.
Before the module, I had all rank 7s. Now, I still have all rank 7s. Some are fully refined, but until I can afford to buy more marks and wards, they're still just rank 7s. I've gone broke upgrading several Armor/Weapon enchantments to normal, and two out of four artifacts to blue.
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The price ratio of white to green is 20 to 1, for Green to Blue its 50 to 1, for Blue to Purple it's 4 to 1.
First, the Green solution is to change the Rank 5 upgrades from 1 Blue to 3 Green and to change the Rank 6 upgrades from 2 Blue to 4 Green and for the Rank 7s to 1 Blue and Rank 8s to 2 Blue leaving the prices the same. Rank 9s would be 1 Purple and Rank 10s would be 2 Purple.
Second the Blue solution would drop the Blue Mark of Potency price to a more reasonable 10,000 AD (20 time the Green cost) and Purple would remain at 100,000 (10 time the Blue cost).