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Make Insignia Refinable

grogthemagnifgrogthemagnif Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,651 Arc User
in General Discussion (PC)
Insignia should be refinable, similar to Runes/Enchants. e.g. A Green Crescent + 4 Green Crescents (or 8 non-Crescents or combination of Crescent and non-Crescents) + optional Ward and 90% RNG = Blue Crescent. Blue Illuminated+4 Blue Illuminated (or 8 non-Illuminated or combination of Crescents) + optional Ward and 90% RNG = Blue Crescent. Blue Illuminated+4 Blue Illuminated (or 8 non-Illuminated or combination of Illumnated and non-Illumenated) + optional Ward and 50% RNG = Purple Illuminated.

What do you think?

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  • dupeksdupeks Member Posts: 1,789 Arc User
    I think your proposal would take the bottom out the epic insignia market, which is exclusively based on lockbox drops.

    Great for the players, but would effectively reduce lockbox value (by making insignia packs near-worthless). Which means in order for it to go through it would need to be balanced by some other monetization strategy.

    I am all for making high-level insignia more accessible, but I think the the value divide between green/blue and purple right now is so wide that we need to be careful about how we bridge the gap without crashing the market.
  • jaegernljaegernl Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 455 Arc User
    I think I have to be with Dupeks on this one. Lockboxes are a cash-cow for Cryptic, and they need to get payed somehow for keeping the server up. With the current lockbox, the purple insignia's are about the only thing worth gambling for. I mean, an Artifact with a rather poor active bonus and no offensive stats? A mount with Recovery and REGEN?! It's a wonder anyone is opening them at all.
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  • cdnbisoncdnbison Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 806 Arc User
    It'd absolutely destroy any sort of economy around insignias. 16 green = 1 purple? In some cases that'd take the cost of a purple to 200AD.

    So,to pull this off, you'd need to balance out the refining - first, by requiring hundreds (possibly thousands) of insignias to be refined, and second, making the upgrade chance exceptionally small (5-10% to go to blue, 1% to go to purple). The use of wards would make it more expensive than buying off the AH in most cases, but give people the freedom to actually upgrade.
  • oldbaldyoneoldbaldyone Member Posts: 1,840 Arc User
    Any idea that involves more use of inventory space and more use of the atrocious refining system, will be a resounding no from me.

    I also agree with the above points.
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  • plasticbatplasticbat Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 12,452 Arc User
    edited May 2017
    I would like to allow insignia to be RP and not a refineable item itself.
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  • niadanniadan Member Posts: 1,635 Arc User
    @plasticbat

    AMEN !
  • grogthemagnifgrogthemagnif Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,651 Arc User
    :)
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