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Post by Valishan on Apr 12, 2011 14:30:25 GMT -5
Any library talisman requires 550,000 donation points to claim. Going off the donation rate of 1 point equalling 15 gold, that means a library talisman costs 8.25 million gold.
Any library glasses require 800,000 donation points to claim. At the same rate, this is 12 million gold.
Obviously, this is insane. This system was scripted for EA shards, where the economy is, well, insane. We don't have such wild inflation or 1000+ per day pulling in millions of dollars. The only things we have that could even come close to trading at that value are Gwenno gear, Shield of Salvation, or Wolfbane.
I could get long-winded about it, but I don't think I need to. The donation system needs to be scaled to PF's economy, plain and simple.
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Post by Religio on Apr 29, 2011 0:58:19 GMT -5
Although i agree donating gold is insane. Its actually quite ez to donate enough wood, ingots, or leather to get your talisman. Now they are virtually worthless as none of their +skill works. I was quite disappointed when my talisman didn't give me +5 in taming.
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Post by Valishan on Apr 29, 2011 18:05:39 GMT -5
My concern is less with the ease of getting these items and more about the value of the items.
That ease is also quite subjective. As a veteran player, having nearly 37K Barbed leather laying around is a possibility but a new player is going to have to spend a lot of time in Destard to get that. Even donating Valorite is going to be difficult since some players may not manage to pull the just over 14K Valorite in all their playtime on the shard.
Also, that's 37K in leather for the talisman. The glasses are an entirely different story. You can only donate for the glasses to a specific person and they don't all take leather, wood, or ignots. For the one collector that takes leather, that's still over 53K Barbed for the Reading Glasses of the Trade. If you want something like the Wizard or Necro glasses, you'll need 800K in regs or 80K spellbooks. I pity anyone that wants to get their hands on the Treasures and Trinkets glasses, since that takes over 33K level 6 treasure maps which are worth an easy 30K gold each themselves. You could drop level 5's instead at a total of 40K, but you're still giving up more monetary earnings than if you'd just donated the gold.
So I'm not sure I would agree with these items being that easy to get. The real point remains that these items are not worth what we're paying for them. Nothing on Paradise costs as much as these items do. I'm not saying we should be getting the 800K point items for 5 bucklers, but there's definitely some room for re-balancing.
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Post by monkeyking on Apr 29, 2011 20:20:43 GMT -5
you can toss my vote in as well
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