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Change item appearance too costly! Outrageous!
chronomancer
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Ouch it cost 60K AD just to change the appearance of a lvl 60 item ? Highway robbery!
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Yep it is truly too high for what it is, I transmuted 3 items yesterday (2 weapons & 1 head item ) goodbye 180k then add the dyes on a full set of equipment..
Weep weep
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What gives? Do transmog items have to be the same rarity? The only other difference is my head piece is TR-only, while the pirate hat is non-class specific (anyone can wear). Is that why it won't transmog? (or whatever this game calls it).
Spending AD on changing items to make your character look a little more unique in a world full of clones is probably a very small price to pay..
Someone was asking the very same thing in zone last night and I tried to help but it just doesn't work so maybe your not alone an its either bugged or intentional...:/
Oh god no. Then we will see User generated dungeons that we have to buy from the Zen store, then we might as well be playing DDO
It's not a "small price", though. A small price would be a couple of gold. Or something you could farm in AD in an evening by doing two or three of the dailies from Rhix.
No, the items have to be usable by the same class. The problem and the confusion crops up when you understand that some items arnt class restricted and therefore have no class associated with them. That subtle difference is enough to mess up the transmution.
Basically, you can transmute a rogue item with another rogue item. Or an any item with another any item. But you cant mix a rogue with an any.
I'm not the original poster you responded to but thank you, that will be useful to remember in the future because I've gotten aggravated a few times trying to figure out why item A wasn't updateable with item B but could be done with C.
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. . . . . Cheaper costs means more will sell, wish this is a lesson that would be put into more practice. I've seen an inkling that this is being taken into consideration with the recent dye price drops. Now let's keep that up and also reduce transmutation costs.
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Agreed. I understand the game needs money sinks. I can only assume this cost was meant to be one of those. Problem is, money sinks are not effective when they start to feel like punishment and even less so when placed on vanity items.
The end result is a system that no longer works as a sink, simply because people wont use it. Causing it to fail as both a sink and a vanity item.
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But the funniest is the price of upgrading Level 2 mount to level 3.
You buy blue mount for 1800 zen. 1800*330=594000 ad. And then buy mount training 2064000 ad or 6254 zen. So 8054 zen for an epic mount.
Or you can buy an epic mount at Zstore for... 3500 zen.
Why buy a blue mount? It matches my costume.
Of course, one can say that it is a luxury service upgrading a mount so the blue one matches the epic one but still 80 bucks? Dunno.
They need to realize that a game is supposed to be fun, and having a slightly different appearance is a minor thing that makes people happy. It is not unbalancing to change your appearance, and you don't get anything out of it. The pricing for it is ridiculous. Many times the amount of AD you get from a dungeon run is waaayyyyy too high.
Particularly for lower levels.
Considering the rate of xp leveling of the game it's preposterous to think anyone would pay these prices to transmute a piece of equipment which last your character about 5 hours..
I find a blue rare drop and the broker suggest 320 AD to sell - but to transmute a piece of the same lvl it's 20,000 AD !!
Same with dye, it's just not worth it until you get to level 60.
It's a shame because I think people would be spending the Diamonds if it were affordable.
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DDO is a better D&D product than this game.
Back to topic though, retrieving enchants is the worst part in my opinion. You pay for the enchant, wards, time collecting, etc. Then, if you get a new piece of gear, you get to pay stupid amounts of ad to remove the overly expensive enchant. Fun. Go buy more zen from this pos company, turn it in to ad, and cry a little later.
Yes for this!
Though to address a few of the other posters comments.
60,000 AD is what, a weeks work, if you do a Daily with Rhix, perform your allotted number of Invocations, and use Leadership to gather AD's? Even for the casual gamers, who just log in to run a Daily, do a couple invocations, and have their Soldiers scour the lands for AD's!
So, you wait until 60th level (One week if you grind!
That all said, I think the prices could be cheaper, and in so doing, would result in more people spending AD's earlier, on such items. If Dyes where cheaper, I would be using them for every set of Armor, Helm, Shield, Bracers and Boots I had, as I progressed through the ranks.
And I would be transmuting the appearance to match something I liked better too.
As it stand now, I don't, and I use the AD's to get assets for crafting.
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Unfortunately, all the gears look every much alike. I do feel like trolling by changing my lvl 60 gear's appearance to those level 1, and troll around low level areas one-shotting everything, then newbies will be like "OMG! EXPLOIT! REPORTED!!!!"
also... Why can I not change a Helm to the Pirate Hat etc.. Unique item styles are not transmuting. I want my lv 60 to have the Pirate Hat - until then I will disable the appearance of my head gear!
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