I am currently digesting the prices at duskruin and wondering something. When general merchants offer this service, is it going to be adding a number of points or adding one point? The price is steep enough, if I need to spend an hour tracking down a merchant for each of the 100 points before I see a combat change it is going to make me reconsider my approach.
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KRAKII
Re: A question about future WPS services
08/29/2017 09:32 AM CDT
"is it going to be adding a number of points or adding one point?" -- Menos
At any given transaction, you are going to get <some number of points>, B(ought).
For any given effect to kick in, you need <some number of points>, T(ier).
Points, in groups of five (5), all have the same S(urcharge), which may be 0 (for the first points bought in a time F[rame] of 60 days).
You may buy as many points as THAT PARTICULAR MERCHANT allows, as a L(imit). At Duskruin, this run, that happens to be 25. Other merchants could choose lower (10 or 15), or higher (50? 60? Who knows what some bank accounts will bear!) as they choose.
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So there you are at some merchant event. You pull out your item, and approach the <automated clerk? merchant with your ticket? merchant with your raffle win?>...
- Because you have had no work done in the recent past (last 60 days), the first points you buy will start your F(rame). You now have a 60 day clock running.
- You Buy Points. Congrats! You now have some points, B(ought), to apply to your item. They go on the item. Let's look at your item: have you crossed a 'New' level according to Zissu's chart? If 'no', you need more points; go buy more points, below. If 'yes', you have no crossed a T(ier) and have an additional point of padding/weighting/sighting, as appropriate to your item.
- The first five (5) points you buy in a time F(rame) all have the same S(urcharge), +0. The next five (5) points you buy in a time F(rame) all have the same S(urcharge), +<something>. The next five (5) points you buy in a time F(rame) all have the same S(urcharge), +<something more>. Consider this like the inverse of the skill rank progression, where instead of starting at 5 and counting down, you start at 0 (S(urcharge)) and count up.
- At the NEXT merchant to roll around, if it has been less than 60 days, you are STILL WITHIN the same time F(rame), so the "# of ranks you have purchased recently" is the same, at this new event, as if you were buying more points at that previous event. S(urcharge) will continue to increase.
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So at Duskruin, you take your weapon and you got an invite. You go to the smithy.
- If you buy only 5 points, a) you start your time F(rame), and all of your points are at-cost, with no S(urcharge). However, you do not make a T(ier) on your item.
- If you buy 10 points, a) you start your time F(rame), the first bloc of 5 are at-cost with no S(urcharge), and the next 5 are at cost+S(urcharge1).
...
- If you buy the max 25 points allowed (at this event), a) you still start your time F(rame), and you pay: 5 at cost with no S(urcharge), 5 at cost+S(urcharge1), 5 at cost+S(urcharge2), 5 at cost+S(urcharge3), 5 at cost+S(urcharge4)... ALL OF WHICH TOGETHER, will--according to Zissu's chart--cost you LESS THAN the final bloc of 5 at cost+S(urcharge5).
Now you apply these B(ought) services to your item.
- If your item started at 0/plain-Jane, and you bought 5 (minimal cost), you don't make a T(ier), but you're halfway there for the next time around. Congrats on being Thrifty!
...
- If your item started at 0/plain-Jane, and you bought the 25 limit, you have made not just one but TWO T(iers)--so you now have 2 points of Padding/Weighting/Sighting, depending on your item--and are halfway to the next point.
- If your item started at 10/'Heavy' (maybe from Premium Point work), you have gone from 150 'New' +25 B(ought services) to arrive at 175 'New'... but 11 points of requires 180 'New' cost, so you are 5 B(ought services) away from making it. IF YOU GET those next 5 B(ought services) WITHIN THIS SAME 60-day time F(rame), you will pay cost+S(urcharge6), which will probably be silly high.
- If your item started at 45/'Incredibly', and you apply all 25 B(ought services), you are now at 3525 'New' on Zissu's chart. Unfortunately, you need to be at 4000 to go to the next T(ier) 46/'Incredibly', so you only need 475 B(ought services) more to get there....
At any given transaction, you are going to get <some number of points>, B(ought).
For any given effect to kick in, you need <some number of points>, T(ier).
Points, in groups of five (5), all have the same S(urcharge), which may be 0 (for the first points bought in a time F[rame] of 60 days).
You may buy as many points as THAT PARTICULAR MERCHANT allows, as a L(imit). At Duskruin, this run, that happens to be 25. Other merchants could choose lower (10 or 15), or higher (50? 60? Who knows what some bank accounts will bear!) as they choose.
.
So there you are at some merchant event. You pull out your item, and approach the <automated clerk? merchant with your ticket? merchant with your raffle win?>...
- Because you have had no work done in the recent past (last 60 days), the first points you buy will start your F(rame). You now have a 60 day clock running.
- You Buy Points. Congrats! You now have some points, B(ought), to apply to your item. They go on the item. Let's look at your item: have you crossed a 'New' level according to Zissu's chart? If 'no', you need more points; go buy more points, below. If 'yes', you have no crossed a T(ier) and have an additional point of padding/weighting/sighting, as appropriate to your item.
- The first five (5) points you buy in a time F(rame) all have the same S(urcharge), +0. The next five (5) points you buy in a time F(rame) all have the same S(urcharge), +<something>. The next five (5) points you buy in a time F(rame) all have the same S(urcharge), +<something more>. Consider this like the inverse of the skill rank progression, where instead of starting at 5 and counting down, you start at 0 (S(urcharge)) and count up.
- At the NEXT merchant to roll around, if it has been less than 60 days, you are STILL WITHIN the same time F(rame), so the "# of ranks you have purchased recently" is the same, at this new event, as if you were buying more points at that previous event. S(urcharge) will continue to increase.
.
So at Duskruin, you take your weapon and you got an invite. You go to the smithy.
- If you buy only 5 points, a) you start your time F(rame), and all of your points are at-cost, with no S(urcharge). However, you do not make a T(ier) on your item.
- If you buy 10 points, a) you start your time F(rame), the first bloc of 5 are at-cost with no S(urcharge), and the next 5 are at cost+S(urcharge1).
...
- If you buy the max 25 points allowed (at this event), a) you still start your time F(rame), and you pay: 5 at cost with no S(urcharge), 5 at cost+S(urcharge1), 5 at cost+S(urcharge2), 5 at cost+S(urcharge3), 5 at cost+S(urcharge4)... ALL OF WHICH TOGETHER, will--according to Zissu's chart--cost you LESS THAN the final bloc of 5 at cost+S(urcharge5).
Now you apply these B(ought) services to your item.
- If your item started at 0/plain-Jane, and you bought 5 (minimal cost), you don't make a T(ier), but you're halfway there for the next time around. Congrats on being Thrifty!
...
- If your item started at 0/plain-Jane, and you bought the 25 limit, you have made not just one but TWO T(iers)--so you now have 2 points of Padding/Weighting/Sighting, depending on your item--and are halfway to the next point.
- If your item started at 10/'Heavy' (maybe from Premium Point work), you have gone from 150 'New' +25 B(ought services) to arrive at 175 'New'... but 11 points of requires 180 'New' cost, so you are 5 B(ought services) away from making it. IF YOU GET those next 5 B(ought services) WITHIN THIS SAME 60-day time F(rame), you will pay cost+S(urcharge6), which will probably be silly high.
- If your item started at 45/'Incredibly', and you apply all 25 B(ought services), you are now at 3525 'New' on Zissu's chart. Unfortunately, you need to be at 4000 to go to the next T(ier) 46/'Incredibly', so you only need 475 B(ought services) more to get there....
