I’m curious how this works.
If this is trade-able, companies with lots of gold are gonna have a field day. The ability to lock in 2 perks and roll a third (if that is the case) is a significant advantage.
I’m kinda hoping either it drops frequently enough (so is accessible by all like the stopwatch) or is bind on pickup like the PvP crafting mods (you can still sell the end item)
hopefully these things and the crafted items are Bind on Pickup.
I understand some people want to keep them BoP. What I don’t understand is - beyond forced scarcity - why. Along comes a major QoL addition from AGS that will hopefully help to start driving down prices on really good gear and the first thing I see about it “Make these harder for people to get”.
The intent here to increase the availability of good gear, which will wind up helping to drive prices back into a reasonable place. How that’s a bad thing that needs to be countered by making them BoP is beyond me…except for the people who are already wealthy.
ideally this is exactly where we would be - but the reality is that companies already have this on their radar (discord discussions) as well as certain individuals who do nothing but sit at trading post to flip (nothing wrong in this but it ofc increases prices).
As an individual (playing the game straight up) you are not out-doing the purchasing power of a company making 4-6mil a week.
Also my post wasn’t about making this harder for people to get - in fact I’d love it if these were relatively straightforward to acquire for players looking to grind/play content as oppose to simply who has the deepest pockets via trading post.
BoP is trash for crafting weapons and armor. The only BoP, schematic weapon of note has been the Troublemaker 9000 Blunderbuss since it was one of a kind and the only Refreshing Move BB; it quickly lost all value when they removed RM instead of not making it proc off of every pellet… The crafted VG Nothingness was a great addition since it was already a guaranteed 600 with BoE label, even though that was not intended. Nonetheless, was awesome to pay crafters for making them.
As to a more recent phenomena, shields can finally be crafted as Legendary with Runestone Stopwatches which has been an interesting development considering they have four perks. Here we have two problems: Runestone Stopwatches are BoP so the crafts are limited already on a daily basis while Brown Tonics for crafting Sturdy Fortification are BoP AND locked behind the RNG PvP Reward Track. So not only do you have to ensure your crafter is stocked up on RS from their own crafts, you also have to hope that they are actively participating in PvP and actually getting the dang craft mod…
BoP crafting stifles and inhibits the gear making process while arbitrarily locking it behind frustrating systems. People just want gear, simple as, and artificially inflated the price and making the process more difficult is not what we need more of.
Guys, hear me out, if the golden beetle thing is looted from chests with the same chance as a trophy piece, we are beyond fked.
I haven’t picked up a single trophy piece, literally, in more than 4 months. I’m extremely salty about this. I do all the elites daily if I log in, so, 4 out of 7 days a week.
If it’s by mob drop, same issue, different context.
I could not agree with you more - I’m not at all in favor of making these BoP.
Yes, some people will make money off this if they are tradable, but it will also result in a lot more gear with very good perks. The cast offs that still have the two best perks with something between trash and only pretty good for the third perk will be amazing gear at a much reduced price.
The bigger issue is how they are obtained. If they are not exclusively farmable by elite players, it will go a long way to siding the wealth these will produce. If they are simply rare and random from a variety off activities, that could benefit everyone with equal opportunity.
NWDB says they are from Elite Grave Offerings, “Take Grave Offerings” (Quest?), and Elite Ancient Chests. So it sounds elite run trains will be mandatory to get them. Like @OmarTheDank said, if it drops like trophy items, I’ll probably never see one of these either. Full set of luck gear? PvP flag? I still get garbage,
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