Block of Velium changes

[KyrosKrane]

This is odd. According to Lucy, "Block of Velium" was changed in the last patch.

The item name is now "Huge Block of Velium", the weight was increased from 18 to 23.2, and the size was changed from small to giant.

Anyone have any idea why this might have happened?

[Tyfold]

Perhaps as a balance for the new stacking for large and small bricks? I can't think of anything else

[Heynanni]

I thought I was going insane, its so weird! I had no clue why I had those things in my inventory when I had on my buy list "block of velium". Least I know I'm not going nuts. Though I wish someone from SOE would confirm and clarify this for us.

*EDIT* Someone in bazaar told me you could "break" the Huge blocks into 10 smaller blocks. Haven't tried it yet, but he was also one of the people trying to sell a huge block for 1K, so it may be shifty info. On the buyer screen "block of velium" doesn't even come up, which I think disproves what the trader told me. Btw why weren't we directly told about it- I'm so confused!

[Zacatac]

Nope, it's just a name change. My receipes confirm all the "block of velium" in the UI are now "Huge block of velium". /shrug

[tnexus]

Well I can confirm the huge blocks make 2 large bricks when broken down.

[Ngreth Thergn]

It is not a change I made. So I am not sure what is up.

[Itek]

Ok, here's the -funny- thing about the change.

I had a mule solely for carrying my velium around. (I've not played all semester so I didn't notice when they all started stacking.)

So last night after reading about the changes I figured I'd combine them all up and put them back on my "shawl quests" mule.

Can ANYONE explain to me why I have TWO stacks of "huge block of velium" (weight 23 blah, size giant, stackable) ... One has 5 in it's stack, the other two...

BUT... I can't combine the stacks?

(HINT: I had 5 blocks and 2 large bricks last time I checked. Now I have ZERO large bricks and this mess...)

In other words....

BUG.

[Qaladar Bragollach]

Blocks only stack to 5.

I'm guessing you had 7 blocks (not 5 and 2 large bricks) and you still do.

[Itek]

Hmm...

Thought I had 2 large bricks... but that makes more sense...

*sigh* now if I could just be smart enough to edit the XML to have my favorite "player window" (with EXP / AA EXP shown) back in the new interface...

[Ilona]

I also thought there were two types of the new blocks, but if they can only stack to 5, that explains it.

Definately one of the more annoying changes!

[Cerpicio]

Definately one of the more annoying changes!

What?! Could you stack *any* blocks of ore before this change? I don't know about velium, but I've been dealing a lot with acrylia. Being able to stack 5 blocks is a godsend! Not to mention stacks of 10 large bricks and stacks of 20 small bricks.

"Annoying change." Yeesh. Don't listen to him devs, you just keep on making improvments!


-- C.

[Ngreth Thergn]

I made changes to most ore stacking a while ago... and did blocks at 5 large bricks at 10 small bricks and piecse at 20.

this was before the name on Velium changed for some reason (I suspect for some new quest that may not yet be out someone made without bothering to look at if it was already used by something ...)

[Qaladar Bragollach]

What kind of nitwit would think that tradeskill tagged Blocks of Velium weren't used for something?

[Lothay]

Play nice.

That is all.

[Ilona]

Don't listen to him

I and all my characters are female. Have a look at the names in my signature, none of them suggest a male gender.

And yes, I thought it was annoying, as I was expecting all things to stack to 20, as stacks have done in the past. Whether it's the blocks or the sheets didn't really matter to me, as I collect my velium in Crystal Caverns where I can use the forge in the dwarven town. Seems silly to me that the blocks will only stack to 5 when the sheets will stack to 20. Same with the large bricks stacking to 10 while rings will stack to 20 (though this arguably makes more sense, since you get 20 rings from 10 large bricks). If you're going to follow the logic of the current stack sizes, pieces should stack to 40.