Gift of the Gods Event

ddem0n888 · October 2016

Does anyone know if the items from the Blessed Gifts of the Gods are BtA, BtC or BoE?

sundance777 · October 2016

Bind on view

cscriv79 · October 2016

friend got an artifact and it was bound to character

I will not be buying any blessed packs from Zen market.

sundance777 · October 2016

There is a video of someone opening 50+ of the blessed from PC, I was not impressed with the outcome.

garlaanx · October 2016

I just finished my video on it.. Posting it soon. It seems the Artifacts are Bound to Character. I pulled a Tymora Coin and it was Bind on Equip.. So.. Meh

ddem0n888 · October 2016

Thanks for the replies. How very disappointing......

thedramacus · October 2016

Can you not buy the Blessed Gift from the zen market? I dont see it listed.

mordekai · October 2016

I just got Lathanders Belt, and that was bound to account not character.

As with the Invoke gifts, it might not play well to greed, but from an in game rationale, selling off a gift from your God would probably be frowned upon.

Of course, rationally speaking, a God that gifts you with a special injury kit when you've bought enough VIP that you don't get injuries... well that's probably the God of hamsters and kittens...

sundance777 · October 2016

I got a belt as well, it was bound to Account, so not much use to me other than refinement points or coffer food. Injury kits can be sold and my God (the God of Diamonds) did not mind one bit

mordekai · October 2016

Ironically, my DC got a rawer deal than my heathen TR.
3 coins and a couple of potions.

All that praying, and the Gods STILL prefer a high AP.

cscriv79 · October 2016

What good are these bound to character artifacts when my artifacts are all at mythic on my 2 characters I play.

zman81420 · October 2016

Great question^ ive received a greater Lathanders belt and neck which I already have legendary. So we just discard a perfectly good piece of equipment now? Seems silly to be honest.

mordekai · October 2016

cscriv79 said:
What good are these bound to character artifacts when my artifacts are all at mythic on my 2 characters I play.

Probably none.
But like most events, I imagine it has a broader demographic target.
It's obviously aimed at giving lower powered players access to some nice but not game changing stuff. The chances of netting at least one half decent item for someone below L70 are fairly good.
That's why it only lasts a weekend, and the items are bound. So it doesn't become an artifact/AD farm.

The top end players have just had a double AD, and are currently getting double RP. This event is to give those without the facility to farm hundreds of drow rings a little something as well.

It's called balance.

zman81420 · October 2016

Balance would also being able to sell these items to flood tell market and make items cheaper the general public again helping new players. If I cannot use something it would be nice to sell or even give items to others rather than discarding.

mordekai · October 2016

zman81420 said:
Balance would also being able to sell these items to flood tell market and make items cheaper the general public again helping new players. If I cannot use something it would be nice to sell or even give items to others rather than discarding.

That's very public spirited of you, but sadly flooding the market to make something cheaper isn't the general intent from many players. It would be farmed like an agricorp by people who could bust it without real effort for cumulative gain.
I'd suggest that if the event is too low level, don't bother with it. You can't expect every event to have equal returns for everyone. I spent about half an hour on that damnable water fight at the start of Summer, but loved Portobello's and didn't care that the best thing I got for four weeks work was a green gargoyle.

It's like saying that a low level zone is pointless cos high end players can't make good returns on it. If the loot drops in Tower District aren't worth the effort... don't make the effort. It's the same with some events.

sundance777 · October 2016

I would happily give my belt to someone that could use it or I would sell it on the AH for cheap, 3K or whatever. Instead the thing is bound to toons that don't need it so its going in the coffer, sort of a waste imo. I am sure 3-4 belts and a couple of coins would not wreck the economy especially since the blessed pack does not seem to be available in ZM.

The tool tips said drops of level appropriate enchantments, I need rank 12's please, not rank 6's

ddem0n888 · October 2016

Perhaps they should introduce a Bind to Guild option. Because we need more ways of binding stuff.

Seriously though I'd actually saved a few thousand Zen thinking this was going to be like the Winter Festival but I can't see the point.

My only hope now is the Winter Festival doesn't go a similar way as that was a great event last year.

mordekai · October 2016

sundance777 said:
I would happily give my belt to someone that could use it or I would sell it on the AH for cheap, 3K or whatever. Instead the thing is bound to toons that don't need it so its going in the coffer, sort of a waste imo. I am sure 3-4 belts and a couple of coins would not wreck the economy especially since the blessed pack does not seem to be available in ZM.

The tool tips said drops of level appropriate enchantments, I need rank 12's please, not rank 6's

You could always just happily give the 6's to someone else

zman81420 · October 2016

Please God no @ddem0n888

kclowe · October 2016

I got a green Oghma's token of free Movement. I was a little disappointed to see it was bound to character. The lathanders cloak and belt i got where bound to account and the tymora's lucky coin was bound on equip. Not waisting zen on stuff i cant make a profit from.

armadeonx · October 2016

I habitually avoid most events as I generally find them to be a net loss of AD (time = AD). This one is no exception.

cscriv79 · October 2016

The problem is EVERY single event is lower level that 70, max level for an event is level 60 and all of us sat at 70 get our level lowred, how about a level 70 event, you know for balance.

An event should not segregate a major portion of the players who are at 70/high IL just to cater to lower level players, those at high IL have shown there dedication and their reward for showing continued dedication and partaking in the event, a useless artifact.

Perhaps the rewards should change based on your IL or character level, below 70/certain IL artifacts are bound to character, above 70/certain IL they are bind on equip.

Or just remove the bound to character top prizes and make it all bound to account, at least then i could put them in shared bank and save them for a possible future character.

mordekai · October 2016

cscriv79 said:
The problem is EVERY single event is lower level that 70, max level for an event is level 60 and all of us sat at 70 get our level lowred, how about a level 70 event, you know for balance.

An event should not segregate a major portion of the players who are at 70/high IL just to cater to lower level players, those at high IL have shown there dedication and their reward for showing continued dedication and partaking in the event, a useless artifact.

Perhaps the rewards should change based on your IL or character level, below 70/certain IL artifacts are bound to character, above 70/certain IL they are bind on equip.

Or just remove the bound to character top prizes and make it all bound to account, at least then i could put them in shared bank and save them for a possible future character.

Really?
You really don't think that events like double AD and RP are of far more benefit to high powered players with multiple characters and loads of storage space to hoard hundreds of magic rings and enchantments?

I seriously doubt that anyone boasting of their 13 mill + hauls on the "How much did you earn" thread was a guy with two characters, both under level 70.

cscriv79 · October 2016

mordekai#1901 said:

cscriv79 said:
The problem is EVERY single event is lower level that 70, max level for an event is level 60 and all of us sat at 70 get our level lowred, how about a level 70 event, you know for balance.

An event should not segregate a major portion of the players who are at 70/high IL just to cater to lower level players, those at high IL have shown there dedication and their reward for showing continued dedication and partaking in the event, a useless artifact.

Perhaps the rewards should change based on your IL or character level, below 70/certain IL artifacts are bound to character, above 70/certain IL they are bind on equip.

Or just remove the bound to character top prizes and make it all bound to account, at least then i could put them in shared bank and save them for a possible future character.
Really?
You really don't think that events like double AD and RP are of far more benefit to high powered players with multiple characters and loads of storage space to hoard hundreds of magic rings and enchantments?

I seriously doubt that anyone boasting of their 13 mill + hauls on the "How much did you earn" thread was a guy with two characters, both under level 70.

Reward for time invested should not be a negative, 2xRP and 2xAD have no level requirement? 2xRP is as easy as buying refinement from zen store.

Since I have invested time and played the game should I not be able to make use of the top prize like any new player can instead of having to just leave it to waste?

prizes from an event such as this one should not be bound to character.

mordekai · October 2016

cscriv79 said:

mordekai#1901 said:

cscriv79 said:
The problem is EVERY single event is lower level that 70, max level for an event is level 60 and all of us sat at 70 get our level lowred, how about a level 70 event, you know for balance.

An event should not segregate a major portion of the players who are at 70/high IL just to cater to lower level players, those at high IL have shown there dedication and their reward for showing continued dedication and partaking in the event, a useless artifact.

Perhaps the rewards should change based on your IL or character level, below 70/certain IL artifacts are bound to character, above 70/certain IL they are bind on equip.

Or just remove the bound to character top prizes and make it all bound to account, at least then i could put them in shared bank and save them for a possible future character.
Really?
You really don't think that events like double AD and RP are of far more benefit to high powered players with multiple characters and loads of storage space to hoard hundreds of magic rings and enchantments?

I seriously doubt that anyone boasting of their 13 mill + hauls on the "How much did you earn" thread was a guy with two characters, both under level 70.
Reward for time invested should not be a negative, 2xRP and 2xAD have no level requirement? 2xRP is as easy as buying refinement from zen store.

Since I have invested time and played the game should I not be able to make use of the top prize like any new player can instead of having to just leave it to waste?

prizes from an event such as this one should not be bound to character.

I never suggested otherwise.
Maybe you misunderstood.
My point is that some events benefit lower power, others benefit higher. Its not the case that "EVERY" event is aimed at the lower end.
Its really that simple. I can try and explain it again if its not clear.

And while a couple of the rewards in the Blessed Gift are bound to character, it's certainly not the case for most of them.
And if you want to sell the potions, enchantments and injury kits... crack on.

Its simply an event that isn't geared toward farming for AD for high end players.

Big deal...

Besides, getting R6 enchantments for killing a bunch of Redcaps without using a daily is pretty good return on effort expended.

zman81420 · October 2016

Well I received no entire Lathanders set thanks for the feeder I guess lol

mordekai · October 2016

Between 4 (3 @ 70 1 @ 62) characters I got 2 belts, one cloak and half a dozen coins.
So that's a belt and cloak I don't need to source for my CW, the other was refined. Everyone has a lucky coin and the others can either be sold or saved.
Sadly no rank 12s, or multiple drops of anything worth over 30k... so obviously a total waste of time.

mightyeriksson · October 2016

A little advice to the developers, please make the artifacts BtA, that way you can at least use them as feeders on characters that need them...

mordekai · October 2016

mightyeriksson said:
A little advice to the developers, please make the artifacts BtA, that way you can at least use them as feeders on characters that need them...

The belt and cloak were.
I'm not sure exactly how many items were BtC, but it wasn't many.
Certainly fewer than those that weren't. And considering the BtC artifacts dropped on a double RP event, there's really not much to moan about.

eractic · October 2016

Well the event should be called Gift of the Tymora's Lucky Coin because I had more of those drop than anything else. All artifacts should be bound to account, I had two tokens of movement drop on my Cleric that I don't play on and now just gather dust in the bank, now if they were bound to account I would have either put them on other characters or used as feeders. For me this event wasn't well thought out but then again I've come to expect it now with the events....

Also did anyone have a companion drop? None in my guild saw one

mordekai · October 2016

eractic#9186 said:
Well the event should be called Gift of the Tymora's Lucky Coin because I had more of those drop than anything else. All artifacts should be bound to account, I had two tokens of movement drop on my Cleric that I don't play on and now just gather dust in the bank, now if they were bound to account I would have either put them on other characters or used as feeders. For me this event wasn't well thought out but then again I've come to expect it now with the events....

Also did anyone have a companion drop? None in my guild saw one

I might be being a bit thick, but how does something that requires playing the game drop on a character someone never plays?
Am I missing something?

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