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So I'm Sold On Pets, How About Lowering the Upgrade Cost Now?
d4rthd00fus
Member Posts: 453 Arc User
I was having some real problems with some of the bosses and some of the mob swarms (looking at you Vanifer) and was banging my head against the wall trying to figure out how to stay alive long enough to complete them. A healer wasn't going to help, I needed something with TEETH. Enter the trusty Wardog who never really got a chance to show his stuff before and now that I had leveled him to 30 and pasted 3 greater bonding runestones on him as well as some choice gear to improve his survivability I tried again. What an immense difference it makes. He still doesn't have the sense to move out of the 1 shot AOEs but now that he auto-revives (when my bell is on cooldown) he always returned to the fight a few seconds later ready to gnash some evil. I was now skating through encounters that left me dead or near death so many times. Sure I gave up some stats putting away my aug, but the value of a good defender pet is immeasurable to take the heat off of you.
Ok so on to my point. Now that I'm sold on non aug pets viability in combat (sure his damage isn't great but I needed a damage sponge, not a reaper) I want to get him upgraded as well as a few other pets on this and alts I'm going to be leveling next. The thing I can't stomach is the absolutely ridiculous prices for doing these upgrades. I know this is old news and has been gone over many times but there is now a convergence of gameplay lending itself to using these pets with a large number of people eager to spend to do so, but unable due to the high cost.
It's time Cryptic. The prices are right around 50% more expensive than the value they represent so cutting the prices by 25%-50% would get many of those fence sitters down and spending that idle AD you want so badly to remove from the economy but have struggled to come up with solutions for. I understand if you don't want to slash prices forever as there are still some that will pay those exorbitant prices for the upgrades. I'll toss you a few ideas, maybe not as slick as my remix dungeon idea I'm so glad you took but toss these around the conference table and see what might fly.
1) You simply say hey, we need a good will gesture towards our wonderful community. Let's do this. We're slashing the companion upgrade cost across the board 25-50%.
2) You have an event lasting one week, announced in advance so folks can save up, where the companion upgrade prices are dropped 25-50%.
3) You create a pet-tastic event where players bring their favorite pet to take part in several different challenges (augs not allowed sorry) and win a chance to get those little companion upgrade tokens that can be saved up and used to upgrade the companion and other nifty pet approved gear.
Bonus Idea presented at no additional cost:
Add the companion upgrade tokens to the seal trader for a reasonable cost. Could even put em up on WB as well, but again keep the prices reasonable.
Ok so on to my point. Now that I'm sold on non aug pets viability in combat (sure his damage isn't great but I needed a damage sponge, not a reaper) I want to get him upgraded as well as a few other pets on this and alts I'm going to be leveling next. The thing I can't stomach is the absolutely ridiculous prices for doing these upgrades. I know this is old news and has been gone over many times but there is now a convergence of gameplay lending itself to using these pets with a large number of people eager to spend to do so, but unable due to the high cost.
It's time Cryptic. The prices are right around 50% more expensive than the value they represent so cutting the prices by 25%-50% would get many of those fence sitters down and spending that idle AD you want so badly to remove from the economy but have struggled to come up with solutions for. I understand if you don't want to slash prices forever as there are still some that will pay those exorbitant prices for the upgrades. I'll toss you a few ideas, maybe not as slick as my remix dungeon idea I'm so glad you took but toss these around the conference table and see what might fly.
1) You simply say hey, we need a good will gesture towards our wonderful community. Let's do this. We're slashing the companion upgrade cost across the board 25-50%.
2) You have an event lasting one week, announced in advance so folks can save up, where the companion upgrade prices are dropped 25-50%.
3) You create a pet-tastic event where players bring their favorite pet to take part in several different challenges (augs not allowed sorry) and win a chance to get those little companion upgrade tokens that can be saved up and used to upgrade the companion and other nifty pet approved gear.
Bonus Idea presented at no additional cost:
Add the companion upgrade tokens to the seal trader for a reasonable cost. Could even put em up on WB as well, but again keep the prices reasonable.
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I love the 5 second pet auto-revive - Thank you!
Cutting the AD cost for upgrading from white to green to blue ect., would be fantastic!
Selling 10 items @ 100k = profit
Selling 1000 items @ 50k = more profit
Come on Cryptic come make some $!!!!!
Absolutely agreed. Folks that aren't buying the upgrades due to the high prices are mostly just sales waiting to happen, especially with the increased interest in running non-aug companions. They have reduced many overpriced things in the past have mentioned that this and mount upgrades might be made cheaper at some point in the future. Well the future is now and the time is right.