I'm pretty much with flashwolf on this. I don't feel like some of the ingredients requested are being generated enough for the amount of items requesting them.

Ooh nice!

But ohhhh yikessss... That ring blueprint requirement... Um I hate to be that person but can we have some not "murder yourself over obtaining / making" items? With the new shop additions, that's already quite a few which can be achieved with some hard work, and I like that. But unless a battleground is added permanently like Mystic Gardens to drop necessary reagents for Crystal crafting, that seems a bit offputting to be perfectly honest. And I wouldn't exactly call myself a casual player. ^^

Admin-Wisteria I will do my very best not to ramble on. <:)

Thank you for listening. I feel the real issue is scarcity of some of the ingredients needed to make many things on site, including these new items.

Amethystine Steel is needed in too many new recipes in too great of numbers. Thank you for acknowledging the low drop rates for the blueprints themselves. Maybe when I get a chance to make some, my opinion will change.

Dark mythic tablets, cherry lumber, all of the crystal making ingredients, feathers... these are all things that are being used in multiple different already-taxing recipes throughout the site. I'm also unsure if it is possible to earn 2.5 million chocolate candy corns.

All of that being said, I get that you are going for a challenge - and that is good. I just don't feel the player-base is generating enough of these items.

Maybe..

- Increase drop rates on these items or lower the recipe requirements. (easy flippant answer)
- If drop rates are increased significantly, I think it is OK to put them in a higher-charge battleground.

OR

- Make these items available in the Tourney shop for reasonable prices. Lift the VP point cap on PVE battles completely so we can click the site a lot to earn these items.

- Many items on the site have limited uses and are "worthless" I would love to see things like some of the cheap explore ingredients used - even in high numbers (not 2.5 million) - in lieu of the same expensive rare things over and over.

Having Vali's and the Legend's Armor as ingredients is just mean. *lip quivers*

Finally, I really really want to stress that I appreciate that this is a thankless job. I don't want the game to be too easy, I'll do the work! But I just wanna taste that delicious stick carrot sometimes.

That's all. This is only my perspective, and since you say that you were expecting to make tweaks, well, I'll wait and see what happens.

That's good news Admin-Wisteria it was disappointing last year to have to stop entering a warrior due to no longer gaining VP, it'll be nice to be rewarded per battle again, hooray for fixes

Christovski

Valour point caps now correctly reset every 2 weeks - you should be able to earn 30,000 points a month.

Like, I did really well this fest and I still can't afford anything but recipes for things that will take a year to get the ingredients for so I might as well not bother buying the recipes until then, so the shop might as well be totally empty still.

Isn't there a yearly cap of 15000 VP? Hell, my VP reset at the beginning of OFB fest, how will anything in that shop be possible to purchase for anyone???
It's not feasible to save every VP for 10 years to buy one armor

flashwolf

I don't mind making changes; I expect to - but you'll need to be a little more specific on the recipe front.

I'll increase the drop-rate on the steel recipes.

Okay. So I was going to defend the high VP prices because well, at least they are for sure earn-able... but some of those recipe ingredients? Come on now.

I get that a few of those items are "end game" goals, but who wants to get to an end game that takes years? Gotta' give us goals we can earn in reasonable amounts of time so we still wanna play.

I can't even get *one* amethystine steel blueprint to even drop. Why do you do this to us? :(

Furvilla you hurt me so much.

There's nothing wrong with the prices imo, those items don't need to be super cheap. Especially since some people worked their butt of/paid a lot for some of those...