BullsHead

I'd like to suggest: Inventable Potion of Doubler

There would be two invention recipe options (5000 and 7500). Everything would be available in the Arena Shop, while remaining balanced, costly to produce, boosting arena activity, and serving as a QoL buff.

 

 

1st Recipe – Potion of Doubler 5000

• One-time purchase recipe: 5,000 tokens from Arena Shop

• Bottle Cost: 1,000 tokens

• Ingredients (worth ~1,000 tokens):

  • Mix of Arena Shop ingredients (extracted resources + quest items)~ 500 token

  • 5× Doubler 1000 potions ~ 500 token

2nd Recipe – Potion of Doubler 7500
 

• One-time purchase recipe: 5,000 tokens from Arena Shop

• Bottle Cost: 2,000 tokens

• Ingredients (worth ~1,000 tokens):

  • Mix of Arena Shop ingredients (extracted resources + quest items)~500 token

  • 5× Doubler 1000 potions~500 token

• Inventor 2: Disabled for those recipes

Why This Works

• QoL improvement: Helps those who can’t hunt for long hours, especially in lag-prone events.

• Balanced: Kind of costly to invent for regular use.

• Token sink: Encourages spending for veteran players with large token reserves.

• Arena activity boost: Increases demand for arena items, encouraging participation.

• Gold sink:The more Arena joins the more gold sink
  
  
  
   

BullsHead said

This is exciting, I would say the chance to drop multiple items from chests isn't needed though, may bring too many of these items into the game, especially frag stashes.

This is purely for Item drop chests. Not frags. There might be some rejigging of contents. Speaking of:

BullsHead said

Remove Brew of the Buff Thief from Spirit Chests
Remove sundering Brew from Rune Engraved Chests
Remove Draft of the Revenant Hunter from Twisted Chests
Remove Potion of Genius Gatherer from Alchemist Chests
What's most needed is to remove Reborn Leaf Staff from the Steel Chest, its ridiculously outdated. 
 
These could maybe even be used in new recipes, the potions too.
 
I also I think the 4 potions mentioned should be split between Wooden, Gladiator, Solid Bronze and Studded Chests. Or maybe revamped into something new and worth looting.
 
A lot of the potions for the crystal key chest are worth 1/10th of the key itself, so distributing them to bronze key chests makes sense, or revamping them and maybe changing that level or even what buffs are in them so people get more use out of them.

Good feedback, thank you. I'll look into it.

~ Grim

the reck pot from new SE should be lvl 250 or 350 not the same as the chest one

I'm very happy to see my favourite part of the game get some attention!

I would have a lot more to say if the Arena as a whole was getting a much-needed revamp but, I'll keep this brief since we're just looking at prize support in this topic.

So, let's start with gold.

There seems to be some misconception that gold arenas bring more gold into the game however, this is factually inaccurate.

Tournaments with gold prizes use the following formula 1500 entry fee for each 10000 gold

Each tournament starts with a minimum of 8 players 

 

1500 x 8 = 12000

 

When you crunch the numbers, arenas for gold actually take gold out of the game.

Using this ratio, I think it's fine if we vary the gold amounts on show if the entry cost formula stays the same.

I personally believe that 2mill gold should be the new cap if the system can be tweaked.

 

Now regarding the option to convert arena tokens to gold, I'll be real and say until reading this thread I'd forgotten that was even an option because the ratio is so forgettable and bad that it's not even an option worth considering.

Unless it gets a significant increase, of course.

 

Potions

 

Now when putting in potions I will say that for me personally, occasionally having a convenience option for these comes up with the existing EW and FI 1k in the shop. So, for low-cost rewards I think the RF200 and Lesser Cloaks would be worthy additions. 

 

To introduce anything truly new into the pool I think it needs to be 100 or 200 cost at a minimum, I think other users have put forward some suggestions that would be worthy additions of similar expected value. 

 

Items

 

More gear is always more fun!

 

I'd like to see more crystal sets for purchase in the shop, regarding gear sets though usually 2 set combos give the best stats if you were to make a 3-piece set it would need to have significantly better stats in order to consider departing from 4 set + filler item model that optimised setups use in all aspects of the game.

 

The prospect of having some epics tied to the arena is exciting! 

I particularly like the idea of them requiring multiple parts like the Ward/Steamwork/Hammer line although multiple tiers of them would be unnecessary if they launched with modern epic stat lines.  

Another thing you could do is have alternate stat lines for epics as invent options.

 

... and that's about it! Thank you for consulting the community before making major changes, I hope that this dialogue can continue with future improvements! 

Remove the guild member 25% rule. Thanks!

 

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