I hereby declare that Gaudiguch is the new home of snugglers.

Explains why we have so many Serens nowadays at our nexus.

Former Serens. They're yours now!

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No, Serens. As in, they are still in your guilds.

Current plans for domination: make friends with Aubrey on my seren.

No, Serens. As in, they are still in your guilds.

It helps!

Still not nearly as painful as the double commodity costs on forged equipment. Those low leveled knights are really put in the hole to get decent weapons/armor.

I hereby declare that Gaudiguch is the new home of snugglers.

Secondly, the Ascendance skillset is gone. 1/3 of the essence spent
learning it has been refunded (roughly 30m at trans).

Message #512 Sent by: (system)
07/25 18:54 "You have been refunded 39600 essence for your skillpoints in Ascendance."

Because it would be wrong of me to further hijack the Trades thread:



Still not nearly as painful as the double commodity costs on forged equipment. Those low leveled knights are really put in the hole to get decent weapons/armor.


I'm already spending, at minimum, 25k+ on fieldplate for my Serenguard and that's taking advantage of the cheap comms in the guild shop. It's taken me the entirety of my character's life (levels 1 to 37, currently) to save up that much and that's after doing scholars, commodities quests, pixies, and pilgrims almost non-stop to rake in gold - and even then, I'm competing with characters from all other orgs for all those sources of gold, except the pixies. The only saving grace I have as a forger is that I can make all-metal weapons and smelt them down to recycle commodities so I don't get killed on forging a decent non-masterwork axe. However, masterwork weapons are almost as expensive as fieldplate and I don't even know if I can make all-metal masterwork weapons/fieldplate to do the same.

Raising elixir/salve prices would put both of my characters in permanent poverty because I buy potions much more frequently than I do commodities for armor and weapons. It's taken me nearly an RL week just to scrape together enough gold for a full set of cures on Denust and that's only because Eldanien sells a bunch of them dirt-cheap to Tahtetso in one of his shops. And, to boot, his tahto decays in 6 IG months so I have to replace that soon.

Tweet: At this point, I'm praying for that commodities revamp that Estarra mentioned in another thread, because things are looking pretty bleak for me and everyone else in my position. If prices for herbs and potions go up, prices for everything else need to start going down.

Commodities revamp won't help alchemy prices, since herbs aren't part of that system.

It should probably be noted pixies/bards/scholars/pilgrims are not the best method of getting gold.

No, but if herb prices are going to skyrocket again, then prices for everything else need to start coming down to compensate. It's slightly easier on magic-using classes because you don't need to have a weapon forged and because Greatrobes don't cost nearly as much as fieldplate, but enchanted Greatrobes are in the 7k - 9k range to my observation and that's pretty hefty for a new or poor character.




Yes, I know. But I've got no armor and only one vial each of mending & regeneration antidote (because of Marani). I can't really go out and bash for gold yet.

Getting gold is not an issue in this game, just start by doing easy village honour quests and the likes.

Presuming that:

• The majority of villages are not owned by an organization or alliance that is hostile to yours.
• You know how to do honours quests in the first place.

Then, yes. Getting gold as a newbie is not a problem in this game. In all other cases (which is what I'm trying to get at...)

This is a non-issue for alts. I get it. But if you'd refer to Aubrey's post which got quoted earlier, this situation hurts actual newbies pretty severely, especially warriors.