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kvet
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Hey - so first off this is entirely my own fault for going by the imagery instead of reading the description first. The image looks like it's either any asset or a common one, but in reality it's your purple ones. I didn't notice until after 5, I was confused because I knew I had at least one more, and found... oops. I've lost my mithral assets... which really sucks, I'd never have exchanged my mithral assets for this, it's not even REMOTELY worth it. Lesson for me: pay more attention and don't assume some new event is actually designed to benefit players in some way before I RTFM.
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Sekhmet@kvetchus_
Guilds: Greycloaks, Blackcloaks, Whitecloaks, Goldcloaks, Browncloaks, Spiritcloaks, Bluecloaks, Silvercloaks, Black Dawn
Tredecim: The Cloak Alliance
Sorry you dove right in without reading exactly what you were doing, but it's pretty clear in the even description and in the vendor.
Cryptic isn't trying to trick anyone.
I should also point out to anyone interested that the companion is currently cheaper to buy on the AH outright than all the stuff you need to make it, including the book itself. The 1500 regis vita comes to around 2m, the book is just under 1m and the companion, last I looked was just over 500K.
In theory, you can make all the regis vita of course.
However, the companion, sorry to dispute ironzerg79 there, is not remotely worth that cost. It's a combat companion, which on its face makes rather unuseful, and it's bonus is... marginal - there's many companions that are way more useful that you can get for the same or less cost.
This event appears mostly to be a way for Cryptic to trick the unwary (or unobservant, like me) into throwing their most valuable Alchemy assets away, probably so we'll replace them by buying profession packs. That's how I look at it anyway. People are of course free to think it's awesome... I'm usually a cryptic apologist and supporter, but not on this one.
Sekhmet@kvetchus_
Guilds: Greycloaks, Blackcloaks, Whitecloaks, Goldcloaks, Browncloaks, Spiritcloaks, Bluecloaks, Silvercloaks, Black Dawn
Tredecim: The Cloak Alliance
I disagree. The Alchemist has some very unique properties that make it very valuable as a traveling companion, especially in Module 6. But people are feel to make their own decisions there.
But to keep saying that Cryptic "tricked" you is pretty silly.
We have the choice to take part in events or not, this time for me it is a NOT.
This makes me think of contacts and the part where I must read all the text in small letters which by an "accident" dictates the most important part of the deal.
Things totally changed since the implementation of the artifact gear system though. Zen Shop item like Companions and Assets totally plummeted to make RP virtually the only thing worthy in the game. Thus, when this event is run today, we have Alchemist selling for 500k AD in the AH but the same 100 Aqua Regia that are used to exchange for the Alchemist are being artificially pumped up to 1-1.2k AD each. Only a fool will buy 1 - 1.2 million AD worth of Aqua Regia to exchange for a companion for only 40-50% of what it is worth.
Even if there are Neverwinter Fools still there to fall for this trick, these Fools will only give their AD to the people selling the Aqua Regia. Cryptic stands to make nothing out of this event that was previously profitable to them.
I'm not sure I understand the concept of "travelling companion" in neverwinter, but I also don't personally try to roll-play in video games - I have flesh and blood friends to play pen and paper RPGs for that. I'm not a min/maxer really, but I also generally don't bother using pointless things when better, more useful items are readily available are are, in many cases, the same price or cheaper (or otherwise easier to obtain).
Anyway. At level 60, combat companions are worthless for anything any level 60 character actually needs them for and it's active bonus is, as I've said, no where near as useful as a lot of other companions out there.
That was true even the first time this event rolled around, but it's even more true now.
In Mod 6, they are working on making combat companions more relevant - they've openly admitted they are currently not -- but I doubt it. Not when the new companion gear will add thousands of boost points for augment pets that will likely be far more beneficial than a combat pet is... but the thread digresseth...
I stand by my assertion that this event is (and wasn't originally) of any value to players, but rather a tricky profession gear sink designed to make people part with their high end tools with the desired effect being they'll buy more (hopefully via Profession Packs after buying Zen to pay for them).
Sekhmet@kvetchus_
Guilds: Greycloaks, Blackcloaks, Whitecloaks, Goldcloaks, Browncloaks, Spiritcloaks, Bluecloaks, Silvercloaks, Black Dawn
Tredecim: The Cloak Alliance
Don't bother. Even if you can make 1500 Aqua Regia, you better sell them rather and use the AD to buy more than 2 Alchemists.
It was of significant values to players since essentially they could buy 500k worth of Aqua Regia and sell them for 1.5 million AD. Not that the Alchemist is worth as much as an augmentation companion. It was the trading value that mattered and it stimulated Zen Shop sales. But look at the prices of all those zen shop items now... they are all HAMSTER comparing to the RP needed to feed the insatiable appetite of the artifact gear.
edit: oh, you meant the companion... don't really care much about that, doesn't look like it's really worth the half-million AD anyway.
If no Fools buy them you don't gain anything more. Even if there are Fools, Cryptic stands to gain nothing. They are only running the game for nothing but just to let other people profit. Perhaps their bosses in China will take a hard look at who are the real Neverwinter Fools when their next financial report comes out.
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"If you're going to ride my HAMSTER... At least pull my hair"
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I had suspected what the OP found out the hard way, and cleaned out all good stuff from the char I tried it your way, with bought whites. Guess what, result was the same as yours...
Yes, I sure do. Con-artists of all sorts: corporate, private and governmental and non-profit organizations. This particular "event" is just another example. And, yes, it was my fault for not inspecting all the little mouseover options before making an assumption based on the visual. We know what it means to ***UME after all.
Sekhmet@kvetchus_
Guilds: Greycloaks, Blackcloaks, Whitecloaks, Goldcloaks, Browncloaks, Spiritcloaks, Bluecloaks, Silvercloaks, Black Dawn
Tredecim: The Cloak Alliance
The best you can hope to do at this point, is to sell resources to the folks racing to buy them up.
OK I haven't been around for an Alchemy event so I'm really trying to put this whole thing together...So you're telling me, this event is essentially only for high level Alchemists (a profession that crafts potions [items that drop in the game like candy]) who can trade their very rare, high value Alchemy assets, for items of significantly less value?
Sort of, except it's really for high level Alchemists with absurd quantities of disposable income, selling off their assets to get even more disposable income.
That or people with a credit card and a willingness to buy profession boosters out the wazoo. Really this second one is the entire point of the event. The assets required for this are actually impossible to get without someone somewhere having paid real money to get them, except for the Aqua Regia and frankly, if you can throw together 1500 of those in a couple days then knock yourself out I guess but you'd be far better off just selling them and buying the companion directly with ADs from the AH. If you do have the purple assets, don't get rid of them for this nonsense as all that will do is set you up for failure come Mod 6.
of course they are