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Is the AD refunded with a month of VIP? thanks!
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...also ID scrolls (R1), lockbox keys (R1),...
I ID everything I find, maximizing my gold return at no expense; I save huge amounts of time via the travel signpost; I receive AD by mail from auctions anywhere, and bank from everywhere; I'll occasionally get killed running the Dragonflight, especially if I'm up against Ol' Blue, but injury immunity makes it a painless, cost-free experience.
If you can gather the Zen, get it!
See the announcement just published about the massive upgrade to the Trade Bar store. Assuming they don't change the rate at which trade bars drop on opened lockboxes - trade bars have suddenly become a really, really desireable currency.
And the only way to get them is opening lockboxes - for which you need enchanted keys. 30 keys would normally run about $30 (3000 Zen) US. So $10 (or 1000 Zen) for 30 keys, even stretched out over a month, is a big discount, and once the trade bar store upgrade happens it will be a pretty good deal.
If you get 1 month VIP you get 30 Keys. 1 Key costs 125 Zen or 75 if you use an the -40% offer coupon. This would mean the 30 Keys (-40% off) would cost you 843,750 AD (current ZAX at 375). The VIP Membership costs only 375,000 AD if you use an -15% offer coupon it only costs you 318,750 AD.
Whatever! You wanted to know if you get the AD back. The answer is simply: YES! It is a bit of a lottery game but in two month in a row i got enough items out of an lockbox to refund me another month and in addition you get Tarmalune Trade Bars which can be used to buy stuff out of the Trade Bar Shop. For example Coalscent wards which normaly costs 318,750 AD from the Zen-Shop. With one month you can get two Coalscent Wards if you are lucky but one is guranteed! BUT!!! Only with the current pricing of 200 Trade Bars for one Coalscent Ward with the Patch on the 17th November the new Module Underdark will be released and also the pricing of the Trade Bar Shop will be adjusted and the Tradebar will only cost 75 instead of 200. So yeah, it is worth his price and you has a good chance to refinance it.
I say chance because if many players use the VIP Membership the prices will drop more and you are more unluckly to refund for the next month. So be smart and fast.
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If you are able to login, even for the < 5 minutes it takes to claim these items, then you are good - the items, once claimed, don't expire...
One other note - the daily per-character and per-account "bags" do not stack, but their contents do - so the bound dungeon keys, ID scrolls, and enchanted keys *can* stack - just the bags they come from cannot.
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The changes to trade bars coming up with massively increase its worth, e.g. 5x preservation wards for 5 bars (every box drops typically 5 or so bars).
Either way you minimally break even if you used a 15% off coupon.
Because eventually you'll get to rank 5 and the signpost is worth having some AD in limbo. Generally you do much better than breaking even too. I'm averaging at least 100k profit each month not including tradebars. And with the changes to the tradebar store you basically will never have to spend any AD on preservation wards.
Time saving, free loot, discount on AH and Wondrous Bazaar, etc.
100% worth it.
Coalescent ward for 75 tarmalune bars, means you will earn one ward every 7-8 days per account by opening lockboxes with your free key
Can't say how much the ward will cost in the Zen store...atm its 1000 Zen
So its 4 wards in 4 weeks plus stuff from lockboxes to sell...its worth it by sure
If you intend to play this game and take 5 min a day to log in its a must have
No character need to go to PE or SH for the bank purpose. Deep in the dungeon? No problem.
Bank slot becomes (kind of) your bag slot. Quality of life improved significantly.
I've been very lucky and had 2 epic rewards from lockboxes so far, a Heavy Inferno Nightmare mount (sold for 950k AD), and a Phoera companion (which I got today, and haven't sold yet!) I've also had numerous Coalescent Wards through Tarmalune bars, which has allowed me to gear up 2 of my chars with nice weapon/armor enhancements.
I believe you can pay for VIP with the money you make from it, and still have a nice profit left over. Although not as easily as before the Leadership AD nerf which crashed the market.
Its worth it 3 times or more
both worth under 10k? =X
Factor that into your math.
edit: one time I got an ensorcelled equip arsenal pack.. worth 20k. then I opened it and got the GF-only shield. Worth 1900 AD .. =X Why can't the OP use the GF's shield? Cryptic.
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Black Ice packs have been above 9k for a while (12-15k). I'd assume that with the drowcraft armor coming in the next expansion they'll sell better too.
The newer lockboxes drop the enchantment packs, artifact packs, and professions packs more often than Genie's gift/companion kits too. Probably still averaging around 14k AD after AH fees.