May Auctions, round two!

Ssaliss

**************************************************[ Current Auctions ]**************************************************
Id   Status    Max / Min      Title                                                                     Winner     Days
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1    OPEN   ---/       5      Temporal Freezer                                                          ---         160
2    OPEN   ---/       5      Cloak of Thorns                                                           ---         160
3    OPEN   ---/       5      Crit 4 Rune                                                               ---         160
4    OPEN   ---/       5      Wand of Windwalls                                                         ---         160
5    OPEN   ---/       5      Boots of Shanth                                                           ---         160
6    OPEN   ---/       5      Tear of Shallah                                                           ---         160
7    OPEN   ---/       5      Key to Gate                                                               ---         160
8    OPEN   ---/       5      Dragon Fire                                                               ---         160
9    OPEN   ---/       5      Cement Socks                                                              ---         160
10   OPEN   ---/       5      Beast Whip                                                                ---         160
11   OPEN   ---/       5      Beast Whip                                                                ---         160
12   OPEN   ---/       5      Beast Whip                                                                ---         160
13   OPEN   ---/       5      Beast Riding Crop                                                         ---         160
14   OPEN   ---/       5      Beast Riding Crop                                                         ---         160
15   OPEN   ---/       5      Beast Riding Crop                                                         ---         160
16   OPEN   ---/       5      Changeling Cameo                                                          ---         160
17   OPEN   ---/       5      Seeing Stone                                                              ---         160
18   OPEN   ---/       5      Clairvoyance Spectacles                                                   ---         160
19   OPEN   ---/       5      Gem of Cloaking                                                           ---         160
20   OPEN   ---/       5      Aetheric Power Ring                                                       ---         160
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** Summary for Auction #1 **********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Temporal Freezer
Prize:
     the Temporal Freezer of Preservation
Current bid:
     5 credits.
Description:
     Any items placed in the freezer will not decay. Holds up to
     100 items.
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** Summary for Auction #2 **********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Cloak of Thorns
Prize:
     a cloak of thorns
Current bid:
     5 credits.
Description:
     Causes minor bleeding periodically, but also causes anyone
     attacking you to bleed.
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** Summary for Auction #3 **********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Crit 4 Rune
Prize:
     a Divine Rune of Superior Mettle
Current bid:
     5 credits.
Description:
     This is an auction-only item! The level 4 critical hit rune
     will increase critical hits while bashing (an extra 8/100
     criticals). IF THE WINNER OF THIS AUCTION OWNS A CRITICL HIT
     RUNE, THEY WILL GET A FULL REFUND (as though upgrading).
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** Summary for Auction #4 **********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Wand of Windwalls
Prize:
     a Wand of Windwalls
Current bid:
     5 credits.
Description:
     Raises windwalls in every direction. Can only be used in
     outdoor locations. Syntax: RAISE WAND
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** Summary for Auction #5 **********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Boots of Shanth
Prize:
     Boots of Shanth
Current bid:
     5 credits.
Description:
     Increased movement beyond that that of the winged sandals
     of haste (+2).
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** Summary for Auction #6 **********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Tear of Shallah
Prize:
     the Tear of Shallah
Current bid:
     5 credits.
Description:
     Reduces the effect of stun and blackout on the wearer
     (20%).
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** Summary for Auction #7 **********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Key to Gate
Prize:
     a Key to the Gate
Current bid:
     5 credits.
Description:
     Turn the key to be flung to a random room on Astral.
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** Summary for Auction #8 **********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Dragon Fire
Prize:
     the Gauntlet of Dragon's Breath
Current bid:
     5 credits.
Description:
     Allows a player to target a row of rooms within LOS. Range
     of 5 rooms. Sets the rooms on fire and places a firewall at
     every exit in that direction.
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** Summary for Auction #9 **********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Cement Socks
Prize:
     a pair of cement socks
Current bid:
     5 credits.
Description:
     These heavy cement socks will provide great resistance
     against forced movement, at the cost of 33% less celerity.
     Cement socks provide approximately 130% the movement resistance
     granted by the Great Rune of Solid Mass.
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** Summary for Auction #10 *********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Beast Whip
Prize:
     a black beastmaster's whip
Current bid:
     5 credits.
Description:
     Allows owner to train any of his or her beasts for a minor
     breath blast of excorable damage. Costs 100 trains. Can train as
     many beasts as one wants, but must own the whip for the beast to
     use the ability.
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** Summary for Auction #11 *********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Beast Whip
Prize:
     a black beastmaster's whip
Current bid:
     5 credits.
Description:
     Allows owner to train any of his or her beasts for a minor
     breath blast of excorable damage. Costs 100 trains. Can train as
     many beasts as one wants, but must own the whip for the beast to
     use the ability.
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** Summary for Auction #12 *********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Beast Whip
Prize:
     a black beastmaster's whip
Current bid:
     5 credits.
Description:
     Allows owner to train any of his or her beasts for a minor
     breath blast of excorable damage. Costs 100 trains. Can train as
     many beasts as one wants, but must own the whip for the beast to
     use the ability.
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** Summary for Auction #13 *********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Beast Riding Crop
Prize:
     a golden riding crop
Current bid:
     5 credits.
Description:
     Allows owner to train any of his or her beasts for a minor
     breath blast of divinus damage. Costs 100 trains. Can train as
     many beasts as one wants, but must own the whip for the beast to
     use the ability.
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** Summary for Auction #14 *********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Beast Riding Crop
Prize:
     a golden riding crop
Current bid:
     5 credits.
Description:
     Allows owner to train any of his or her beasts for a minor
     breath blast of divinus damage. Costs 100 trains. Can train as
     many beasts as one wants, but must own the whip for the beast to
     use the ability.
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** Summary for Auction #15 *********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Beast Riding Crop
Prize:
     a golden riding crop
Current bid:
     5 credits.
Description:
     Allows owner to train any of his or her beasts for a minor
     breath blast of divinus damage. Costs 100 trains. Can train as
     many beasts as one wants, but must own the whip for the beast to
     use the ability.
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** Summary for Auction #16 *********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Changeling Cameo
Prize:
     a changeling cameo
Current bid:
     5 golden sovereigns.
Description:
     Marks you as being of the changeling race. Changelings have
     no true form, but rather transform into another race up to once
     a Lusternian month (once per rl day). This will not work for
     anyone but the owner. See HELP ARTIFACT UTILITY.
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** Summary for Auction #17 *********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Seeing Stone
Prize:
     a seeing stone
Current bid:
     5 golden sovereigns.
Description:
     Acts as if you're looking into the target's room. Syntax:
     GAZE STONE <target>
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** Summary for Auction #18 *********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Clairvoyance Spectacles
Prize:
     a pair of Spectacles of Clairvoyance
Current bid:
     5 golden sovereigns.
Description:
     Warns when allies/enemies enter the area.
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** Summary for Auction #19 *********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Gem of Cloaking
Prize:
     a gem of cloaking
Current bid:
     5 golden sovereigns.
Description:
     Removes you from the who, clwho, and bw/qw lists. Note: it
     does not remove you from gwho or cwho.
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** Summary for Auction #20 *********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 160)
     Aetheric Power Ring
Prize:
     a ring of aetheric power
Current bid:
     5 golden sovereigns.
Description:
     Reduces power cost of teleport and tesseract to 0.
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Cyndarin

I might have to take out a loan for the cloak of thorns. I've been wanting one so bad.

 

*raids the SD bank account*

Xenthos

This one might eat up my supply of credits.  Nooooooo.

Skye

What I'd like to know about the Key to Gate is what its restrictions are. Standard bix details, or can you teleport from anywhere at the risk of being eaten by crazy?

Tully

KtG sounds interesting, but it's kinda risky for me.  Temporal Freezer might be useful.  Otherwise, not much I desire.  

Still, remember, we have 2 more weeks!

Iasmos

Xenthos

They're an upgrade.

Karlach

They're an upgrade but with sandals/travel curio/beast trotting it's near impossible to get the haste message as is.

Xenthos

Don't forget Weatherproof.

Ssaliss

This just added!

----[ OOC ANNOUNCEMENT ]-----------------------------( 2013/05/12 21:32:10 )----
  The Rune of the Magi has returned in auction #21! See announce post #2184 for
  details.
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**************************************************[ Current Auctions ]**************************************************
Id   Status    Max / Min      Title                                                                     Winner     Days
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21   OPEN   ---/       5      Rune of the Magi                                                          ---         113
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** Summary for Auction #21 *********************************************
Title:                                     (Days until closing: 113)
     Rune of the Magi
Prize:
     a Great Rune of the Magi
Current bid:
     5 credits.
Description:
     This fantastic rune will decrease mana expenditure by 20%
     and stacks with a Magicrown. It works on nothing more and
     nothing less than a Magicrown works, which means that it will
     NOT affect mana drained from you by other players.
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Rivius

I hear it doesn't work for transmute. It probably should.

Shuyin

Beasts can use minorbreath during PVE now. Still doesn't make those auction arties worth it.

If you wanted an artie that legitimately was worth buying for bashing, it's the crit rune and the gilded cage. Might have missed that boat, bashers.

Rivius

It's hard to justify it as an arti especially since you need those extra trains anyway. Feels like you might as well just get psionicblast.

Enyalida

Yep! 

Shuyin

It would be more worthwhile if the artie breaths didn't consume the trains. Can't hurt at least.

Cyndarin

Rivius said:

I hear it doesn't work for transmute. It probably should.

Pretty sure transmute doesn't need that kind of buff.

Malayn

Hopefully the breaths still cost mana to prevent seeing them constantly in groups.

Transmute: the cost is directly related to the heal, it shouldn't be phased by the rune.  Except that small portion lost as a "cost", which is like what 5%? So feel free to reduce that 5% cost by 20% so you only lose 4%

Tear of Shallah: How to release artys to directly break combat balance for some classes. It may not be huge, but with the tear can people hit after a vapors hex before the blackout wears off?

Also freezer costs more than a shop, which is mostly mimics soooooo

Alban

The tear is the one arti that feels kinda gross.

Rivius

Malarious said:

Hopefully the breaths still cost mana to prevent seeing them constantly in groups.

Transmute: the cost is directly related to the heal, it shouldn't be phased by the rune.  Except that small portion lost as a "cost", which is like what 5%? So feel free to reduce that 5% cost by 20% so you only lose 4%

Tear of Shallah: How to release artys to directly break combat balance for some classes. It may not be huge, but with the tear can people hit after a vapors hex before the blackout wears off?

Also freezer costs more than a shop, which is mostly mimics soooooo

Reducing the amount lost in the transfer or making 'transmute 800' work like 'transmute 1000' sounds reasonable. Hellooo, transmute uses mana and this artifact is supposed to reduce personal mana costs. This isn't a 'buff to transmute', it's fixing a unique artifact to work as advertised. 

Lerad

Transmute is effectively a damage reduction ability, much like forcefield. You are substituting health damage with mana damage. Ie. Clotting. There was a reason why charisma rune + forcefield was nerfed, because the charisma rune wasn't intended to give additional damage reduction to its user as part of the design.

This is also why I am on the side of the fence that doesn't want to see the magi rune affect transmute either. The two artifacts need to be consistent.

Rivius

There's a massive difference though. Forcefield throws all damage done to you to your ego. DMP was factored in and THEN the percentage reduction, which led to taking hilariously small amounts of damage and effectively being imperviously tanky so long as forcefield was up. It's also a passive defense.

Transmute on the other hand is an active skill that doesn't work while hindered and the proposed mod would at most mean you'll get ~170 extra health when you transmute 1000. Big deal.

Lerad

Consistency is a pretty big deal, from my point of view. And maybe from Fillin's too, if he ever comes back. And probably from the point of view of whoever it was that won it the first time round, but gave it up when he was told of its function. And almost definitely from the point of view of Estarra, who told that person and allowed the re-auctioning of the artie.

Also, transmute is a great skill because it doesn't consume eq/bal when used. You can transmute multiple times in a row, and that extra reduction will then apply every single time. You can effectively transmute any amount you choose when you transmute, and that reduction will be applied to the entire stack. It's one of the reasons warriors can be so tanky (though it's a definitely risky thing to do against guardian/wiccans).

As far as I can see, transmute doesn't need to be any better than it already is at the moment, and on that alone, even a +1 health every transmute-1000 is unneeded.

Ssaliss

And... they're done! Congratulations to the winners, and better luck next time to the rest of us!

**************************************************[ Current Auctions ]**************************************************
Id   Status    Max / Min      Title                                                                     Winner     Days
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1    WON        1005/    1005 Temporal Freezer                                                          Rolan         0
2    WON         755/     755 Cloak of Thorns                                                           Wobou         0
3    WON        3205/    3205 Crit 4 Rune                                                               Saoirse       0
4    WON         805/     805 Wand of Windwalls                                                         Kelly         0
5    WON         955/     955 Boots of Shanth                                                           Wobou         0
6    WON        1005/    1005 Tear of Shallah                                                           Steingrim     0
7    WON         765/     765 Key to Gate                                                               Skye          0
8    WON         505/     505 Dragon Fire                                                               Azula         0
9    WON         855/     855 Cement Socks                                                              Llandros      0
10   WON         300/     300 Beast Whip                                                                Rolan         0
11   WON         300/     300 Beast Whip                                                                Malarious     0
12   WON         265/     265 Beast Whip                                                                Viynain       0
13   WON         600/     600 Beast Riding Crop                                                         Azula         0
14   WON         555/     555 Beast Riding Crop                                                         Malarious     0
15   WON         605/     605 Beast Riding Crop                                                         Saoirse       0
16   WON     9900500/ 9900500 Changeling Cameo                                                          Faragan       0
17   WON     4500500/ 4500500 Seeing Stone                                                              Svorai        0
18   WON     5900500/ 5900500 Clairvoyance Spectacles                                                   Nihta         0
19   WON     3000000/ 3000000 Gem of Cloaking                                                           Laxinova      0
20   WON     4000500/ 4000500 Aetheric Power Ring                                                       Laxinova      0
21   WON         610/     610 Rune of the Magi                                                          Ollie         0
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Caerulo

It took me a while to realise that, no, Ollie did not manage to buy a Rune of the Magi for 610 gold.

Tully

I know she's not Avatar's Azula, but it seems fitting she got the Dragon Gauntlets...

Karlach

Well at least the forests can breathe a sigh of relief knowing they won't be burned any time soon.

Malayn

I find myself wishing that instead of the chem skills we got benders <.<

Eventru

Malarious said:

I find myself wishing that instead of the chem skills we got benders <.<

Aquachemantics is fairly mistbenderish...

Sans the monkery, anyways.

Alban

Aren't the -mancers pretty much benders?

Neos

Eventru said:

Malarious said:

I find myself wishing that instead of the chem skills we got benders <.<

Aquachemantics is fairly mistbenderish...

Sans the monkery, anyways.

Monkeys you say?  :-?

Caerulo

Now imagine if Lusternian monks were benders instead...