Remiem's Weekly Community Update | February 24, 2016

[Remiem]

Fare thee well, Hugthulu

Greetings Legends, and welcome to your weekly community update!

Announcements

The Lovecraft Event Ends!


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Today we bid farewell to our nemesis, and friend...Hugthulu. Hope you all had a great time with the Lovecrafting 2016 event. Don't forget to stop by the official feedback thread, here: http://www.spacetimestudios.com/showthread.php?297607-Lovecrafting-2016-Official-Feedback-Thread to let us know what you thought, and what you'd like to see improved for next year.

Seoratrek's Find Cupid Contest!


http://www.spacetimestudios.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=146622&d=1454878376

Thanks to everyone who participated in Seoratrek's Find Cupid contest! The contest has now ended. Keep an eye out for the 10 lucky winners of 50 platinum.

Jewel Elixirs Return This Week & Important Updates to Jewel Locations!


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Back in November, we released a brand new item: Jewel Elixirs. These magical draughts can be consumed to temporarily grant you the chance to magically coalesce a jewel type of your choice from damage dealt to a PvE enemy. Keep an eye out for an announcement tomorrow with the full details.

On top of that, we've added some changes that will make some of your most sought after jewels more accessible:

+ Chaos jewels now have the chance to drop in Normal and Elite Tindirin.
+ Tindirin maps no longer drop Water or Nature jewels.
+ Shuyal Normal and Elite maps now have the chance to drop Mind, Fury and Finesse jewels.

These changes are the precursor to a new 9th tier of jewel quality coming with the next expansion. More on that to come!

Game Updates

Arcane Staff Update

Based on further analysis of the Arcane Staff, we've made the following adjustments that will go into effect Thursday 2/25.

+ There can now be more than one Consecrate up at a time on a map--the effects do NOT stack.
+ The AOE range of Consecrate has been increased slightly.

We are continuing to monitor your feedback on this and the other Arcane Weapons. Thanks, as always, for making your voices heard and helping us to improve the game.

Coming Soon

Skill Mastery


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We released another post today with a first look at one of the next major features in Client 1.5: Skill Mastery. Check out the full details on Skill Mastery and join the discussion, here: http://www.spacetimestudios.com/showthread.php?300033-Coming-Soon-to-Arcane-Legends-Skill-Mastery!

We'll be releasing more info on Client 1.5 features in the near future. Keep an eye out!

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What's Next?

What do you want to see next, folks? Let us know in the comments what you would like to see us put our attention on next and share your most brilliant ideas. I'll see you in next week's update!

[Dragoonclaws]

firstcommentnotimeforspace

TBH, the 9th tier of jewels is scaring me...

I would like to know if gems will still scale (blood/glacial/fire) for expansion.

[Nabkro]

10 points instead of 5? Oh god

[hawkdee]

good weekly update..
wht the 9th tier jewel added???

[Thrucho]

If you could take a look at the duel arena that would great because it lags too much. It doesn't allow me to use my skill or it freezes. My game doesn't lag anywhere else let it be a PvE or PvP map, but as soon I enter a Duel my game starts lagging really bad and I'm not the only one that has this problem.

[uehi]

where is jewel kit for non plat user

[Jazzi]

Are those jewel lixes gonna be tradeable this time around?

[uehi]

Are those jewel lixes gonna be tradeable this time around?
nah this is noooon trade go buy plat ;)

[Saud]

1: i would like to see jewel elixer can be purchased by orc tags , this can make people do daily again
or with story tokens, hauntlet
dunno but if the only way to get by plat not good idea..

2: jewel elixer only this week? or it will stay for bit more longer?

and does water and nature drop from garetta maps?


9th tier of jewel quality coming

i still didn't make any noble jewel lol

[Kakashis]

A 9th tier jewel eh? Most of is are stuck at 5-7 tiers

[Justno]

firstcommentnotimeforspace

TBH, the 9th tier of jewels is scaring me...

I would like to know if gems will still scale (blood/glacial/fire) for expansion.

I too would also like to know if gems will scale! I think they should as its only fair to players who have spent millions collecting them up!

[Kingofninjas]

I am very disappointed with the current status of staff buff. Only issue addressed was the fact that 2 spells can't be active at once. No skill damage increase, no addressing the fact that the staff gives 1 less stat than sword or daggers, charge time, nothing. Disheartening.

[Opry]

thanks remiem,, omg no new skill?

[Aimanxasuna]

Is it just me, or Jerita is wearing a new armor? Never seen that armor before.

[Kriticality]

Staff buff is useless. Damage reduction is the coolest feature of consecrate but useless. Most times you either have nekro shield or Mage shield up and it does nothing. Make consecrate stack with other shields for the caster. Would go a long way to balance out duels for mages and also great for clashes. This buff would make many a Mage very happy. I'd prefer that over skill damage. Over everything. Would make it a much better all around weapon. Sacrifice skill damage for survival. Makes perfect sense. I've offered many times on other threads. Please come and play some games with us. I can show you better than I can tell you. Cmon.


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[Grudgegirl]

Whoa! 10/10 Noxbolt will be awesome! Cant wit for that :P

Tindrin maps are always be my best spot to farm jewels, specially Wild map :)

[ceanizes]

Regarding the arcane staff. Why does it use mana when you charge it? I thought only skills use mana?

[BacardiLove]

When is the client update?

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[Veenihiv]

If you could take a look at the duel arena that would great because it lags too much. It doesn't allow me to use my skill or it freezes. My game doesn't lag anywhere else let it be a PvE or PvP map, but as soon I enter a Duel my game starts lagging really bad and I'm not the only one that has this problem.

same here
:orange:

[Zynzyn]

The plan of releasing a new tier of jewel is appreciated but please make sure that the current best gems (event gems) are not socketable on the new gear next cap.

[Zeus]

If a 9th tier jewel is coming, please adjust the scaling that it requires to make a jewel accordingly. Unless someone finds the fountain of youth, it will be impossible to create a 9th jewel gem without a fleet of boats all filled to the brim with gold.

So, 2137 cracked to make a 9th tier jewel would be great!

[Serancha]

So...these skill upgrades are an excellent concept. However, if we're getting enhanced skills, is STS going to first ensure that the skills are working as they should? Like Shadow Storm Shot, which doesn't work correctly (http://www.spacetimestudios.com/showthread.php?235300-Shadow-Storm-Shot-Upgrade-Issues-(aside-from-the-usual)) and never has?

[bonjovi3223]

STS, 100s or maybe 1000s of us have not been able to cross the fortified tier (+5 stat) jewel. Why? Simply because the cost involved is just too high for us.
A 7m+ cost for a noble primary stat jewel is utter nonsense. You really need to fix the drop rates of these jewels. This jewels issue has been going on for months with no fix in the system.
Also I feel you need to increase the max stat on certain jewels like diamond. A +26 armor at noble is very weak for sacrificing an entire jewel slot. Double the armor value so we can mix & match properly.

[Gettee46]

Ninth Tier jewel would cost quite a lot to buy and to make..... Noble class jewels (Finesse, Fury and Mind) are ranging 6m-8m now. The Ninth tier will cost up to 20m for just one jewel. This is just my opinion but 20m for 1 jewel?

[Kingofninjas]

Please make the 9th jewel tier a combination jewel. Ideally 3 fortified + a noble lightning to make an eye gem equivalent. Or figure out a way to make mages not so dependent on crit.

[extrapayah]

ninth tier jewel, definitely great

sadly, with this, you tripled the requirement to become maxed, but you barely doubled the availability of the jewels permanently... i was hoping you will realize that you need to be generous with jewels... sad...
also, i think jewels need to have equal quality between each type, since they occupy exactly same slot... if you aim for players build variety, you should rethink some of the useless jewels, especially water, lightning, and nature

water give 12 mana per level, but an int can give 10 mana and 3 health, or 10 mana and 5 health for rogue... this is clearly discouraging people to use water -> giving them 20 points per tier won't hurt
nature is several times better, because for some class, it outperform str in giving health by 2 points... which is not good enough to make people go for nature -> at least 15 points per tier is needed to make it interesting
lighting is not eye, when slotting lighting, we sacrifice the slot for ability for getting primary stat... which is punishing players who's using lightning -> crit is percentage value, probably a logarithmic increase will make it more preferable

thank you

[DK]

Thanks for a great Lovecraft event!

But STS please look at this...
- The duel arena have some bug where skills freeze for a little time like 5 sec.
- The 9th tier will not change much since most arlorians haven’t passed the 5th tier
- The Shadow Storm Shot Upgrade is broken...
- 10 points will definitely create some difference in the builds which will be good :)


If you could take a look at the duel arena that would great because it lags too much. It doesn't allow me to use my skill or it freezes. My game doesn't lag anywhere else let it be a PvE or PvP map, but as soon I enter a Duel my game starts lagging really bad and I'm not the only one that has this problem.


A 9th tier jewel eh? Most of is are stuck at 5-7 tiers


If a 9th tier jewel is coming, please adjust the scaling that it requires to make a jewel accordingly. Unless someone finds the fountain of youth, it will be impossible to create a 9th jewel gem without a fleet of boats all filled to the brim with gold.

So, 2137 cracked to make a 9th tier jewel would be great!


So...these skill upgrades are an excellent concept. However, if we're getting enhanced skills, is STS going to first ensure that the skills are working as they should? Like Shadow Storm Shot, which doesn't work correctly (http://www.spacetimestudios.com/showthread.php?235300-Shadow-Storm-Shot-Upgrade-Issues-(aside-from-the-usual)) and never has?

[arcanefid]

9th tier Jewels and you demand constructive feedback. Not happening.

[Mimmay]

i want better inventory clean up plsss. like a select/deselect(induvidually and/or item rerity based) and liquidate altogether :D

-Mim

[Errorrz]

Please reduce nature and water jewel drops from watcher tomb,tomb of kraag,kraken mines . My hand very tired to scroll and remove tht jewel .

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[debitmandiri]

orc-estra aps, 5000 kills elite mobs do you know how many main stat jewel i got ? less than 25 !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :wink: , JEWEL ELIXIR MUST BE TRADEABLE !!!

[Tatman]

These changes are the precursor to a new 9th tier of jewel quality coming with the next expansion. More on that to come!

Since you obviously aren't going to revamp the jewels, can you at least give us a real jewel farming map? Like a new crypt (a la wt/kt/km)? Or update Arena next cap (it's high time anyway) and put jewels in there? And no, jewels in locks, jewels in jewel chests, jewels from Jerita - these do not count as "farming".

Thank you.

[Jazzi]

orc-estra aps, 5000 kills elite mobs do you know how many main stat jewel i got ? less than 25 !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :wink: , JEWEL ELIXIR MUST BE TRADEABLE !!!


These changes are the precursor to a new 9th tier of jewel quality coming with the next expansion. More on that to come!

Since you obviously aren't going to revamp the jewels, can you at least give us a real jewel farming map? Like a new crypt (a la wt/kt/km)? Or update Arena next cap (it's high time anyway) and put jewels in there? And no, jewels in locks, jewels in jewel chests, jewels from Jerita - these do not count as "farming".

Thank you.

Those 2. Most people are stuck at +4 or +5 jewels and they haven't farmed them themselves.
Been counting as well btw. In the last t2/t3 runs I got exactly 4 cracked finesse jewels. You can do the calculations yourself how many runs I would need for a single noble

[DocPeanut]

Hm. second run for jewel elixers (plat sales test/drop rate test/economy test) + planned 9th tier jewels (something to create demand for those elixers) + planned gold option to open crates (plat sales loss): sounds like testing out market conditions for shifting plat demand from opening rengols to obtaining jewels.

RE Double luck, double crate drops: speeds up plat sales/raising finances while also providing economy/demand testing.

RE two farming events at once: it would be interesting to know how much company cares about farmers (not saying they don't, just wondering); also could be a low-stakes test to see how plat sales would react to two concurrent events- whether it was zero sum or increased revenue. If revenue increase, then we will probably see more farming events running concurrently.

[Ardbeg]

The Jewels are definitive a great concept - why? They ensure that every small heads up in stats needs a *huge* amount of gold and at the same time constantly generates income for farmers. And they're not really meant to be maxed out, don t worry, even if you're used to it. The thing i don t understand is how rubbish jewels found a place in the line up. And why Gems are still here.

[Ydqm]

When is the client update?

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Next year, i guess.

[debitmandiri]

Those 2. Most people are stuck at 4 or 5 jewels and they haven't farmed them themselves.
Been counting as well btw. In the last t2/t3 runs I got exactly 4 cracked finesse jewels. You can do the calculations yourself how many runs I would need for a single noble

5.000.000 kills

9th tier means

15.000.000 kills

yet, jewel elixir

Is not TRADEABLE

[Energizeric]

I like everything I've read in the first post. Good Job STS!!

I see that the "must have everything" crowd is already complaining about the 9th tier jewel. I say why not have 100 tiers of jewels. If someone actually wants to spend the time to craft some enormous tier jewel, then all the power to them. Why is that such a problem to everyone? Does it really bother all of you that much if you cannot have all of the best stuff with ease?

If no 9th tier is added, then eventually the price of jewels will drop down to near nothing as more and more players continue to max out on jewels. I can't speak for others, but as a non-plat player (I haven't purchased any plat in a year an a half) jewel farming is where I make most of my gold. I'd hate to see the price of jewels drop.

Just as is my opinion with achievements, NOBODY should ever be able to max out their character with all the best gear, pets and jewels. The day someone has reached that point, it means there needs to be more added to the game. There should always be more to work towards.

[extrapayah]

I like everything I've read in the first post. Good Job STS!!

I see that the "must have everything" crowd is already complaining about the 9th tier jewel. I say why not have 100 tiers of jewels. If someone actually wants to spend the time to craft some enormous tier jewel, then all the power to them. Why is that such a problem to everyone? Does it really bother all of you that much if you cannot have all of the best stuff with ease?

If no 9th tier is added, then eventually the price of jewels will drop down to near nothing as more and more players continue to max out on jewels. I can't speak for others, but as a non-plat player (I haven't purchased any plat in a year an a half) jewel farming is where I make most of my gold. I'd hate to see the price of jewels drop.

Just as is my opinion with achievements, NOBODY should ever be able to max out their character with all the best gear, pets and jewels. The day someone has reached that point, it means there needs to be more added to the game. There should always be more to work towards.

hmmmm, when there was only 8th tier jewels maximum, having an all 7th tier jewels equipment is only one third of being maxed, and you call that okay? pretty sure 90% of the players have less than this 1/3 of maxed gears at the end of season

i think sts and people who think it is okay with the current jewel drop rate, failed to understand the huge numbers in 2000 cracked jewels, and the potential with exponential increase...

[Tatman]

I like everything I've read in the first post. Good Job STS!!

I see that the "must have everything" crowd is already complaining about the 9th tier jewel. I say why not have 100 tiers of jewels. If someone actually wants to spend the time to craft some enormous tier jewel, then all the power to them. Why is that such a problem to everyone? Does it really bother all of you that much if you cannot have all of the best stuff with ease?

If no 9th tier is added, then eventually the price of jewels will drop down to near nothing as more and more players continue to max out on jewels. I can't speak for others, but as a non-plat player (I haven't purchased any plat in a year an a half) jewel farming is where I make most of my gold. I'd hate to see the price of jewels drop.

Just as is my opinion with achievements, NOBODY should ever be able to max out their character with all the best gear, pets and jewels. The day someone has reached that point, it means there needs to be more added to the game. There should always be more to work towards.
No-one is talking about maxing their jewels in a week. But it's gonna be one year soon. How many noble mind or finesse jewels have you farmed so far? I've played almost every day (with a few short breaks) and I doubt I have hit 2k cracked jewels combined. Finesse, mind, fury, chaos COMBINED. This might be okay for you, but it's not for me.

[Avaree]

Will we see dmg & weak primary jewels drop from L56 mobs/bosses?

[Energizeric]

No-one is talking about maxing their jewels in a week. But it's gonna be one year soon. How many noble mind or finesse jewels have you farmed so far? I've played almost every day (with a few short breaks) and I doubt I have hit 2k cracked jewels combined. Finesse, mind, fury, chaos COMBINED. This might be okay for you, but it's not for me.

I haven't farmed any vegetables ever (in my life) but somehow I eat a salad every evening with dinner.

If you are relying on farming every item you need then you are approaching this game in a way in which you cannot possibly compete. The best strategy is to farm for items in general, sell what you farm, and then buy what you need. That's my approach and so far I have 4 noble jewels, 2 superb jewels, and the rest are excellent. I have no doubt that during the next cap I will have every slot filled with at least a superb jewel. And there are many players who play a lot more than me, and many who spend lots of plat (I don't) who will have maxed out their characters. There needs to be room for those folks to improve as well.

The jewel system is a very good one in this way. Even the most wealthy players can only achieve a very small advantage by having a +9 jewel over a +8 or +7 jewel. This is a far cry from the old system (last year) that had rich players having 100m+ arcane rings and 20m+ arcane pets while most others had to do with much inferior legendary gear and pets. Now the prices of arcane and mythic items are affordable for everyone. So then what is left for the elite players to spend their fortunes on? The answer is jewels. If you take that away, then there is really nothing to keep the top players interested in this game. And don't forget that they are the ones who spend the vast majority of the plat, and they support the game that the rest of us play for free. If they leave, so will the game.

So what if you do not have any +8 or +7 jewels and you feel they would be too difficult to obtain. Maybe some of us don't feel that way at all. Why then does their existence bother you? You are not being forced to obtain these items. The lower tier jewels will still exist as well.

[Tatman]

I haven't farmed any vegetables ever (in my life) but somehow I eat a salad every evening with dinner.
Eh, you said jewel farming is where you make most of your gold. That's why I asked.

Rest of your post is irrelevant to the issue at hand.

[debitmandiri]

I haven't farmed any vegetables ever (in my life) but somehow I eat a salad every evening with dinner.

If you are relying on farming every item you need then you are approaching this game in a way in which you cannot possibly compete. The best strategy is to farm for items in general, sell what you farm, and then buy what you need. That's my approach and so far I have 4 noble jewels, 2 superb jewels, and the rest are excellent. I have no doubt that during the next cap I will have every slot filled with at least a superb jewel. And there are many players who play a lot more than me, and many who spend lots of plat (I don't) who will have maxed out their characters. There needs to be room for those folks to improve as well.

The jewel system is a very good one in this way. Even the most wealthy players can only achieve a very small advantage by having a 9 jewel over a 8 or 7 jewel. This is a far cry from the old system (last year) that had rich players having 100m arcane rings and 20m arcane pets while most others had to do with much inferior legendary gear and pets. Now the prices of arcane and mythic items are affordable for everyone. So then what is left for the elite players to spend their fortunes on? The answer is jewels. If you take that away, then there is really nothing to keep the top players interested in this game. And don't forget that they are the ones who spend the vast majority of the plat, and they support the game that the rest of us play for free. If they leave, so will the game.

So what if you do not have any 8 or 7 jewels and you feel they would be too difficult to obtain. Maybe some of us don't feel that way at all. Why then does their existence bother you? You are not being forced to obtain these items. The lower tier jewels will still exist as well.
The problem is the supply sir, at normal day cracked prim stat at auction barely hit 10 pcs. more than that overpriced :wink:
i even was offering 33million for 3 finesse nobles couple months ago, but no one sell :wink:

[Jazzi]

I haven't farmed any vegetables ever (in my life) but somehow I eat a salad every evening with dinner.

If you are relying on farming every item you need then you are approaching this game in a way in which you cannot possibly compete. The best strategy is to farm for items in general, sell what you farm, and then buy what you need. That's my approach and so far I have 4 noble jewels, 2 superb jewels, and the rest are excellent. I have no doubt that during the next cap I will have every slot filled with at least a superb jewel. And there are many players who play a lot more than me, and many who spend lots of plat (I don't) who will have maxed out their characters. There needs to be room for those folks to improve as well.

The jewel system is a very good one in this way. Even the most wealthy players can only achieve a very small advantage by having a +9 jewel over a +8 or +7 jewel. This is a far cry from the old system (last year) that had rich players having 100m+ arcane rings and 20m+ arcane pets while most others had to do with much inferior legendary gear and pets. Now the prices of arcane and mythic items are affordable for everyone. So then what is left for the elite players to spend their fortunes on? The answer is jewels. If you take that away, then there is really nothing to keep the top players interested in this game. And don't forget that they are the ones who spend the vast majority of the plat, and they support the game that the rest of us play for free. If they leave, so will the game.

So what if you do not have any +8 or +7 jewels and you feel they would be too difficult to obtain. Maybe some of us don't feel that way at all. Why then does their existence bother you? You are not being forced to obtain these items. The lower tier jewels will still exist as well.

Hm what percentage of the game population do you think have +7 main stat jewels. I can assure you that at least 40% of the players on the timed lb don't have a full set of those, some don't even have a full set of +6 jewels. Based on that the majority is stuck at +4 or +5 jewels. now 4 man stat jewel * 18 = 72 main stat difference between one with +9 jewels and 1 with +5 jewels. Now 1 ex gives me 1,12 damage and 3 hp. So that is 80 damage difference and 216 hp. Still quite a big difference if you ask me.

Anyway the fact that most of the there arent enough main stat jewels on the cs for 1 single noble (say if I had the gold and wanted to craft it) tells you a ton. Look at the cs now during the jewel lix event. You can farm the equivalent (1 dam = 3 cracked) of 600-700 cracked fin jewels per hour yet there are 100 finesse jewels on cs in total. Tells you a ton too imo.

[Motherless_Child]

Fare thee well, Hugthulu

Greetings Legends, and welcome to your weekly community update!

Announcements

The Lovecraft Event Ends!


147533

Today we bid farewell to our nemesis, and friend...Hugthulu. Hope you all had a great time with the Lovecrafting 2016 event. Don't forget to stop by the official feedback thread, here: http://www.spacetimestudios.com/showthread.php?297607-Lovecrafting-2016-Official-Feedback-Thread to let us know what you thought, and what you'd like to see improved for next year.

Seoratrek's Find Cupid Contest!


http://www.spacetimestudios.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=146622&d=1454878376

Thanks to everyone who participated in Seoratrek's Find Cupid contest! The contest has now ended. Keep an eye out for the 10 lucky winners of 50 platinum.

Jewel Elixirs Return This Week & Important Updates to Jewel Locations!


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Back in November, we released a brand new item: Jewel Elixirs. These magical draughts can be consumed to temporarily grant you the chance to magically coalesce a jewel type of your choice from damage dealt to a PvE enemy. Keep an eye out for an announcement tomorrow with the full details.

On top of that, we've added some changes that will make some of your most sought after jewels more accessible:

+ Chaos jewels now have the chance to drop in Normal and Elite Tindirin.
+ Tindirin maps no longer drop Water or Nature jewels.
+ Shuyal Normal and Elite maps now have the chance to drop Mind, Fury and Finesse jewels.

These changes are the precursor to a new 9th tier of jewel quality coming with the next expansion. More on that to come!

Game Updates

Arcane Staff Update

Based on further analysis of the Arcane Staff, we've made the following adjustments that will go into effect Thursday 2/25.

+ There can now be more than one Consecrate up at a time on a map--the effects do NOT stack.
+ The AOE range of Consecrate has been increased slightly.

We are continuing to monitor your feedback on this and the other Arcane Weapons. Thanks, as always, for making your voices heard and helping us to improve the game.

Coming Soon

Skill Mastery


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We released another post today with a first look at one of the next major features in Client 1.5: Skill Mastery. Check out the full details on Skill Mastery and join the discussion, here: http://www.spacetimestudios.com/showthread.php?300033-Coming-Soon-to-Arcane-Legends-Skill-Mastery!

We'll be releasing more info on Client 1.5 features in the near future. Keep an eye out!

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What's Next?

What do you want to see next, folks? Let us know in the comments what you would like to see us put our attention on next and share your most brilliant ideas. I'll see you in next week's update!
Mind, Finesse, and Fury jewels ARE NOW dropping in shuyal........... Thanks........

[ilhanna]

I haven't farmed any vegetables ever (in my life) but somehow I eat a salad every evening with dinner.

There isn't enough salad in Arlor. The veggies people really need only grow very sparsely on 30 out of the 86 maps out there (the other areas grow copious amount of weed). And these tiny bit of greens are on demand not only by the endgame community, but by the twink population as well. So now there's a fertilizer to grow more veggies--special offer for this week only--but it's not available for, to borrow a term used by another forumer, freeloaders. Even if the same group of people will feel the impact of jewel price drop without reaping the benefit of being able to farm much much more of it.

But anyway, I get your argument about jewels being the final frontier for players seeking excellence. But the way it's set up now, the sheer numbers involved in it, are frankly making people have to choose between, say, buying pets or gear over, well, salad. Whether you farm them yourself, or buy them with money earned by farming other commodity, it's still not much fun to know that you need thousands of ingredients to make a decent bowl of salad. It's not a matter of people wanting to have everything. It's having a personal goal that looks to be attainable within in a reasonable time frame, as opposed to something that might be achievable by your retirement age.

[ilhanna]

Here's an idea to make jewel elixir less ALpartheid. How about making it a rare loot from elite golden chests. Nature and water in elite golden chests from Brackenridge to Dead City, diamond and lightning elixir in elite golden pirate and warchest, primary jewel and chaos elixir in elite golden puzzlebox, dragon chest, and elite golden ren'gol chests. Make it character bound at looting like Lovecraft vanities, while keeping the chests tradeable. An incentive for elite farmers and a nice carrot in AP grinding. More elite runs means more ankhs and elixirs are consumed, something the plat users (and STS) can profit from too.

[Morholt]

hmmmm, when there was only 8th tier jewels maximum, having an all 7th tier jewels equipment is only one third of being maxed, and you call that okay?
Just because the price is 3x greater doesn't mean a player is 1/3 maxed. Your jewel bonus would be 87.5% (7/8) maxed.
And that is only your jewel bonus--not your character being maxed. If a rogue has, say, 600 dexterity with 18x +7 jewels, that means they're at 600 out of a max of 618 dex. 600/618 = Just under 97.1%.



Hm what percentage of the game population do you think have +7 main stat jewels. I can assure you that at least 40% of the players on the timed lb don't have a full set of those, some don't even have a full set of +6 jewels. Based on that the majority is stuck at +4 or +5 jewels. now 4 man stat jewel * 18 = 72 main stat difference between one with +9 jewels and 1 with +5 jewels. Now 1 ex gives me 1,12 damage and 3 hp. So that is 80 damage difference and 216 hp. Still quite a big difference if you ask me.

Anyway the fact that most of the there arent enough main stat jewels on the cs for 1 single noble (say if I had the gold and wanted to craft it) tells you a ton. Look at the cs now during the jewel lix event. You can farm the equivalent (1 dam = 3 cracked) of 600-700 cracked fin jewels per hour yet there are 100 finesse jewels on cs in total. Tells you a ton too imo.An excellent finesse jewel is currently 1.3mil. 18 of those = 23.4mil. 9 excellent make a noble. So, 9x23.4 = 210.6 million. The difference between that 80 damage & 200 life is about 200 million gold. I think the player that spends that much money and/or time in this game deserves that bonus. Going from 1020 damage to 1100 damage...that is an increase of 7.4%. 200 life on top of 6000? 3.3%.

This is really how it should be. Being near max is relatively achievable for players. But for every little step towards actually being maxed, it is going to cost a lot to get that tiny edge.


And don't overlook into how many jewels are on the market. There are people who are currently able to farm those 2,000 cracked jewels in about 4 hours of using jewel elixirs. People are just busy farming & crafting jewels, rather than listing them.

[Solanu]

Here's an idea to make jewel elixir less ALpartheid. How about making it a rare loot from elite golden chests. Nature and water in elite golden chests from Brackenridge to Dead City, diamond and lightning elixir in elite golden pirate and warchest, primary jewel and chaos elixir in elite golden puzzlebox, dragon chest, and elite golden ren'gol chests. Make it character bound at looting like Lovecraft vanities, while keeping the chests tradeable. An incentive for elite farmers and a nice carrot in AP grinding. More elite runs means more ankhs and elixirs are consumed, something the plat users (and STS) can profit from too.

I agree something needs to be done to make normal and elite chests relevant again, I pretty much just delete them as it extra hassle to clear inventory after opening.

If there were jewels inside I would be a little incentive to open. :-)

[Sorcerie]

There isn't enough salad in Arlor. The veggies people really need only grow very sparsely on 30 out of the 86 maps out there (the other areas grow copious amount of weed). And these tiny bit of greens are on demand not only by the endgame community, but by the twink population as well. So now there's a fertilizer to grow more veggies--special offer for this week only--but it's not available for, to borrow a term used by another forumer, freeloaders. Even if the same group of people will feel the impact of jewel price drop without reaping the benefit of being able to farm much much more of it.

But anyway, I get your argument about jewels being the final frontier for players seeking excellence. But the way it's set up now, the sheer numbers involved in it, are frankly making people have to choose between, say, buying pets or gear over, well, salad. Whether you farm them yourself, or buy them with money earned by farming other commodity, it's still not much fun to know that you need thousands of ingredients to make a decent bowl of salad. It's not a matter of people wanting to have everything. It's having a personal goal that looks to be attainable within in a reasonable time frame, as opposed to something that might be achievable by your retirement age.ilhanna, forgive me for ever giving you any sass because this post is literally everything that needed to be said about this event and jewels as a whole.

[instasmash]

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