I like the new tradeskill UI very much. Besides the obvious reduction in clicks, I also really love how my slots can be totally full and yet I can do the combine. With a recipe that relies on non-stacking items, this means you can stuff yourself to the gills wit the components and go and just replace one component with the by product and chug right through.
I did end up with my gnome crawling through the PoK with AGI=3 wiht a load of tinkered geerlok hammers in tow, but a kind soul SoWed and STRed me.
The reason I lugged the Geerlo hammers away from the Smithing merchant who sold me the Smithy Hammers was the tribute system. I am stil not sure what I use thos epoints for, but int he course of last night I took my gnome's tinkering from 195 to 207 on geerloms (mostly hammers, I had lots of stacks of acrylia). Except fora few I gave to guildmembers, I transferred all the rest, 2 bags at a time, to my main, who shuttled between the bank and his tribute master. Whether this is a big number or a small number, it seemed big: geerloks tribute at 1400-1440 per, and int he course of getting 12 skill ups, I also got 248,000 tribute points.
Since 5pp will get you 5 points (I tested) and these geerloks tend to sell back in the 10pp range, if tribute points are worth anything, this was like getting a 140-fold boost in value for a skill up item that I was gong to make (and VT... too many to save for bazaar I was overflowing with hammer) anyway.
Andy
p.s. The economic implications of the tribute system are pretty cool.
Assuming those points are worthwhile, it look slike some old-reliable bazaar standards are going to slowly disappear. geerloks is one of them. If tribute points are worthwhile, the flood of geerloks int he bazaar will dry up. OR, peopel will offer them as a consumable (for ribute points) and they will slowly increase in price as demand scoops up the cheap ones, etc. But even something like the Leaf Scale Glove, a great Poor ranger item which I snapped up (to test) for 25pp last night (and I've seen go as low as 10pp on a busy period, gave me 1,356 tribute points. The phenomenon of getting a drop that you are beyond but which you'd hate to VT, and thus you twink an alt or give to a newbie may be changing as this new option, tributing, becomes available.
And as I said, I have no idea if 248,000 points is a lot or what I will us eit for, but I think SOe just gave tradeskillers a great "by product" of their skilling up... right at the same time they made it easier to skill up.
EDIT: Post Second Patch, and the geerlok hammers still yield 1,400 points per hammer.
I did end up with my gnome crawling through the PoK with AGI=3 wiht a load of tinkered geerlok hammers in tow, but a kind soul SoWed and STRed me.
The reason I lugged the Geerlo hammers away from the Smithing merchant who sold me the Smithy Hammers was the tribute system. I am stil not sure what I use thos epoints for, but int he course of last night I took my gnome's tinkering from 195 to 207 on geerloms (mostly hammers, I had lots of stacks of acrylia). Except fora few I gave to guildmembers, I transferred all the rest, 2 bags at a time, to my main, who shuttled between the bank and his tribute master. Whether this is a big number or a small number, it seemed big: geerloks tribute at 1400-1440 per, and int he course of getting 12 skill ups, I also got 248,000 tribute points.
Since 5pp will get you 5 points (I tested) and these geerloks tend to sell back in the 10pp range, if tribute points are worth anything, this was like getting a 140-fold boost in value for a skill up item that I was gong to make (and VT... too many to save for bazaar I was overflowing with hammer) anyway.
Andy
p.s. The economic implications of the tribute system are pretty cool.
Assuming those points are worthwhile, it look slike some old-reliable bazaar standards are going to slowly disappear. geerloks is one of them. If tribute points are worthwhile, the flood of geerloks int he bazaar will dry up. OR, peopel will offer them as a consumable (for ribute points) and they will slowly increase in price as demand scoops up the cheap ones, etc. But even something like the Leaf Scale Glove, a great Poor ranger item which I snapped up (to test) for 25pp last night (and I've seen go as low as 10pp on a busy period, gave me 1,356 tribute points. The phenomenon of getting a drop that you are beyond but which you'd hate to VT, and thus you twink an alt or give to a newbie may be changing as this new option, tributing, becomes available.
And as I said, I have no idea if 248,000 points is a lot or what I will us eit for, but I think SOe just gave tradeskillers a great "by product" of their skilling up... right at the same time they made it easier to skill up.
EDIT: Post Second Patch, and the geerlok hammers still yield 1,400 points per hammer.
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