July Promotion

Brona

Anyone get anything worthwhile from the coins?

Vivet

Coins are hit and miss. They're still okay, but they're much better if you're an otherwise low investment player and have lots of things to work on at once. Even better if you'll have lots of free time to bash (and the will to bash) for a few RL days.

Exp gain and gold are the most common results of the spins, and these aren't as nice for the higher level players since the essence you gain feels weak compared to the same gains at 80-90 (demi also crit more and can gain it faster otherwise). The next most common seem to be lesson gain, 24 hours of TF (stacks with previous spins), and 24 hours of crit bonus (again, stacks with previous spins). Lessons are always more enticing when you're missing key skills like focus mind and tumble, TF and crit bonus are better if you can actually be around to make use of them.

Then there's curio pieces (ambiguous value, likely can't be traded for credits to other players and will rub into a pittance of gold - will need to be patient and hold onto them in order to gain from them), small artifacts like the vial rune, pipe rune, lips, and dagger of reincarnation, and a divine present (which turns into another random chance for either really good stuff or a small handful of gold).

Besides that, I think there's just a chance to get even more coins for more spins? Can't recall if there's more offhand.

Hope that's helpful.

Lavinya

Honestly it's not as enticing a deal as it used to be. The wheel is pretty terrible these days.

Karlach

The wheel is great if you are an active basher. Otherwise not really all that.

Llandros

30 coins to spin and i got 16 credits and an artifact pipe rune and then about 6 true favours, 5 days of crit bonus, some money, some lessons, some curio pieces, some coins to re-spin.

Brona

So that's disappointing.

Xenthos

Wheel spins got nerfed heavily because of how easy it was to get the coins (you could get them by rubbing curio pieces down).

That got changed at a later date (you can no longer rub curios into coins), but the wheel spin nerfs were never un-done.  This leads to them being a really unsatisfying experience in general.

I'd love it if the nerf was undone and put back near the way it was originally.  This would make coins actually worthwhile on the whole when part of a promotion / when generated via various other means.  Right now I have a bunch of coins that I just don't even see the point in using.

Ardmore

There would be a lot more sales for these crates... I'm considering buying them now and coins aren't even great... I just like when I decide to bash to have some coins to ensure I have a TF / lucky clover. If they were put back to the way they were before... yeah, it wouldn't be a consideration any more.

Dys

I watched Vermilla spin the wheel 1,205 times in January 2013. The breakdown of her wins was:

Truefavour 18% of spins

Clover 17%

Gold 16%

Lessons 12%

Experience 11%

Curios 10%

Coins 5%

Free credits, Bound credits, Dingbats 2% of total for each (2%+2%+2%)

Artifact dagger, Glass rune, Pipe rune, Lips and Present 1% for each (1%+1%+1%+1%+1%)

The percentages might have changed again since then, and there's always randomness so those percentages might not work out for you.

Shaddus

Brona said:

So that's disappointing.

When the Wheel first came out, with minimal investment, I took a character from level 84 to level 100, omnitrans'd + all trade skills, with about four tradeskill artifacts, a level 3 magic rune, and about 18000 lessons left over. Trust me, it needed the nerf.

Rivius

I heard someone traded in his cubix and used the credits to fund coin spins which eventually bought him a torus and a bunch of credits and lessons left over.

Karlach

At one point you could convert coins to dingbats, which is how the torus owners club doubled overnight.

Rivius

And thanks to that, we no longer have toruses for sale

Xenthos

Clearly toruses should be available with aethergoop.  And with a custom skin, too.

Ardmore

Sprinkled donut skinned torus plz.

Nihta

@Xenthos I already suggested that and got shot down ;_;

Karlach

I still have a torus exit saved for future use, one day I'll find something for it. As is though most places can be reached through curio sets, there's very few locations that require manual travel.

Xenthos

I still have all 5 torus exits saved for future use... one day I will actually get around to setting them.

Karlach

I thought toruses have 6?


Though technically they should be able to accommodate 8. As they use N,E,S,W and NW at least. That leaves NE/SW/SE available.

Xenthos

Karlach said:

I thought toruses have 6?

I sure don't know, since I have never used any of them.

Karlach

Would help if the torus was on the HELP DINGBATS RETIRED list so we could reference!

Ardmore

It's 6.

** Summary for Auction #8 **********************************************

Title:                                                (Auction over)

     Transplanar Torus

Winner:

     Steingrim

Prize:

     a transplanar torus

Current bid:

     2505 credits.

Description:

     The transplanar torus is a remarkable device that expands

     upon the powers of a cubix. It travels to a unique room

     reachable only via that specific torus. This chamber leads onto

     the normal cubix room with an exit down. The unique room can be

     modified with up to six exits leading anywhere across Lusternia.

     The exit locations must be requested via issues and approved by

     the administration and are subject to certain restrictions.

************************************************************************

Also the room description makes it quite clear that there are (can be) six exits.

Illidaen

Brona said:

So that's disappointing.

In a nutshell so far

Cyndarin

The poor wheel. I got a full set of level 2 warrior artifact runes with a small purchase when it first came out.

Acrune

So, I keep pondering this and wondering what I'm missing, so maybe you guys can help me. I'm just not seeing much point in buying aethergoop with money. For example, a cubix. This one is pretty:

101   an effulgent stained-glass cubix          400    2000cr

400 Aethergoop. From the website:

10 jars = 150 goop = $230

10 jars = 150 goop = $230

6 jars = 90 goop = $140

26 jars = 390 goop = $600

For $580 dollars, you can buy 2000 cr, but $600, you can't buy enough goop for a cubix? On top of that, you're missing out on your elite bonus, if you have that. Are the coins good enough to make up for it and the slightly higher cash expense for artifacts? I'm just surprised to see the promo this month is, for a limited time, all the artifacts cost -more-. Unless the coins are better than this thread lets on?

Karlach

The coins occasionally give pipe runes, vial runes, daggers, lips, dingbats and credits both bound and unbound.

Rarely they give presents.

Lavinya

I got two presents. Both had gold in them. Yay.

Shaddus

Acrune said:

So, I keep pondering this and wondering what I'm missing, so maybe you guys can help me. I'm just not seeing much point in buying aethergoop with money. For example, a cubix. This one is pretty:

101   an effulgent stained-glass cubix          400    2000cr

400 Aethergoop. From the website:

10 jars = 150 goop = $230

10 jars = 150 goop = $230

6 jars = 90 goop = $140

26 jars = 390 goop = $600

For $580 dollars, you can buy 2000 cr, but $600, you can't buy enough goop for a cubix? On top of that, you're missing out on your elite bonus, if you have that. Are the coins good enough to make up for it and the slightly higher cash expense for artifacts? I'm just surprised to see the promo this month is, for a limited time, all the artifacts cost -more-. Unless the coins are better than this thread lets on?

Been here, done that.

Why would the company have a promotion that would let you spend 600$ and get two cubixes?

To paraphrase Estarra, "people aren't buying that much Aethergoop just to buy those items. Aethergoop is meant as a bonus."

Synkarin

Acrune said:

So, I keep pondering this and wondering what I'm missing, so maybe you guys can help me. I'm just not seeing much point in buying aethergoop with money. For example, a cubix. This one is pretty:

101   an effulgent stained-glass cubix          400    2000cr

400 Aethergoop. From the website:

10 jars = 150 goop = $230

10 jars = 150 goop = $230

6 jars = 90 goop = $140

26 jars = 390 goop = $600

For $580 dollars, you can buy 2000 cr, but $600, you can't buy enough goop for a cubix? On top of that, you're missing out on your elite bonus, if you have that. Are the coins good enough to make up for it and the slightly higher cash expense for artifacts? I'm just surprised to see the promo this month is, for a limited time, all the artifacts cost -more-. Unless the coins are better than this thread lets on?

Spend the 580, get the cubix, then spend 10 aethergoop to reskin it.. that should work right?

I believe the only thing you really need to buy goop for would be the censers and the tinderboxes

Acrune

Shaddus said:

So, I keep pondering this and wondering what I'm missing, so maybe you guys can help me. I'm just not seeing much point in buying aethergoop with money. For example, a cubix. This one is pretty:

101   an effulgent stained-glass cubix          400    2000cr

400 Aethergoop. From the website:

10 jars = 150 goop = $230

10 jars = 150 goop = $230

6 jars = 90 goop = $140

26 jars = 390 goop = $600

For $580 dollars, you can buy 2000 cr, but $600, you can't buy enough goop for a cubix? On top of that, you're missing out on your elite bonus, if you have that. Are the coins good enough to make up for it and the slightly higher cash expense for artifacts? I'm just surprised to see the promo this month is, for a limited time, all the artifacts cost -more-. Unless the coins are better than this thread lets on?

Been here, done that. Why would the company have a promotion that would let you spend 600$ and get two cubixes? To paraphrase Estarra, "people aren't buying that much Aethergoop just to buy those items. Aethergoop is meant as a bonus."

I don't think we're even talking about the same thing. I'm referring to buying aethergoop with cash, not as something extra when you buy credits (does that still happen this month?). Its not that I expect a two-fer deal on cubixes, I was just expecting more of the prices along the lines of the artifact packages in the past. For example, I think a cubix was bundled with a cameo(?) for $600. @Synkarin's suggestion makes the most sense to me, but doesn't really make sense in the scheme of a promo. Hence my wondering what I'm missing. I guess its just the coins. 

Ardmore

That was last month's promo. The coins aren't -terrible- you'll get a lot of lessons with 300 coins... lots of days / months of TFs / lucky clover crits... some credits, etc.