evilbry

Hey Evil --

Where would the xp bonus come from?  Sorry looks like others get where, but I'm not getting it.   Though on principle I like the idea - just curious the source for the boost.  Are you referring to the Prestige we earn from PvP/BH'ing and can use for leveling and now could use for composing boost or from elsewhere?  

Clueless in California, Kath

quite simply when you enable the "boost XP" checkbox it will double the amount of frags used and given increased XP when you collect the completed potion you used XP boost on.

The source of the boost comes from the additional cost of frags. If that makes sense?

How about an XP boost feature.

When you creating your potion (skills/level/duration) you have a checkbox you can tick. By ticking this checkbox it will give you an XP boost say 25% or 50%.

What this will mean is if you made a 20xp potion normally it would now return 25xp or 30xp (depending if it's made to be 25% or 50%). The downside is the Frag cost will be increased (suggest doubled).

This could also be aligned with an increase in gold cost as well.

Pros:

- Event was a great idea, something new and interest.

- frag stash drops were a real hit. A way to get something for essentially nothing. Well done.

Cons:

- Doubling the stashes awarded removes the need for future frag events for quite a while. Aside from the busiest composers, the amount of frags gained will last for a LONG time.

- No means of extracting the small frag stashes in bulk. this became a chore for many.

- Composing doesn't have enough skills above level 300 (for crystalline frags) or 400 (for SE Frags). There need to be new skills added, and available at early level composers otherwise the frags will sit and grow mold for the most part..

The one observation I have which isn't really a criticism, is that while it's nice getting stashes that contain the more elusive frags, there's not the variety of skills to use them on.

In fact as far as I am aware, there are only 3 skills in composing which go above level 250 (lightfoot, Animal Magnetism and Doubler). Those are the only ones which will use crystalline frags. Only Lightfoot and Doubler level 301 or higher will use SE frags.

Perhaps it could be worth while putting some new skills into composing which go above 300 such as Find Item or Enchant Weapon for examples.

 

Later folks. Now for a chest locator buff....

there's the 1080 quest reward for that!

I checked with hoof when I first saw shield wall and the 5 level bump each time. he indicated that it was intended that way.

the issue with the mystery potions is you need to have unique[to the bazaar] potions to make it worth while, especially if they are going to be bound.

balancing the chance of a good potion, against maintaining existing potions (whether from caves, composing or arena for example) is going to be the headache for BG.

Best place to hunt the ants?

here is where you can hunt ants

Personally (just my opinion) I think this is a bit of a 'can of worms', where HCS starts allowing independent scripts here and there. If it was a feature which would add value to people, I would much rather it be added as an optional feature within FSH. That way it would remain the only third party script.

I think this would work well tied in with an upgrade to scout tower(level 4)

Thanks for the event Grim. What spawned these creatures, as I think most of them were spawned semi-recently correct (ie within the past 6 months)? Why not some other creatures where you can rarely find the items on the AH? 

usually if there is enough demand for creatures, HCS will often oblige by putting them in the caves. If you have other suggestions, make sure you post them in this thread and they may be earmarked for future cave events.

This wouldn't be the first time there was an issue with Beta versions of a browser being the cause of an issue. People need to be aware if they choose to use a beta version of a browser, they may run into issues which will not be supported by HCS (as per their previous responses with Beta issues).

That said, I'd be hoping they are able to address the issue before it moves from beta to stable and don't wait for the Google to put a fix in.

I would like to see an increased chance of gear dropping specific to talent trees you have points invested in.

for example, if you have talent points invested in ranger and assassin, there is a higher chance of medium armor gear dropping or bows/fist weapons/throwing blades

In the example of the group the spread of talent points would be considered before weighting towards a type of gear.

if there was say a mage and an assassin, the game would see the talent points allocated and weight fine or medium armor above heavy armor.

Sounds pretty good to me also. Would the cost change though? 

with this thought, if the gold cost was capped, what would be a reasonable cap? 5 million gold per item?

you must be new to this EOC thing!

heh heh..