Nice Tribute Values

[Zacatac]

Lol, well if that value stays the same, I'll be using all my cultural smithing attempts to make MYSELF the items to turn in for tribute points.

No more Blessed Mithril for the rest of you!

[Anaxo]

According to Lucy, Tae Ew Shields currently go for 4200 tribute points. Pre-nerf, 22862. LDON smithed stuff varies oddly; a Large Sandblasted Ringmail Coif is 554, but the Large Sandblasted Breastplate is 240. Large Sandblasted Leggings are 794, quite a hefty amount of tribute considering how low all the other pieces go for.

Razamatazz posted an interesting hypothesis over at the Mage Tower, stating that he believed the new tribute values were based on an average of all the Bazaar sales of each item from all the servers. I find it an interesting, and somehow bizzarely fitting explanation for all the wild gyrations in tribute.

[Naedea]

If tribute value is a reflection of bazaar prices, that is massively exploitable.

[Kronepsis]

Um, not really. Exploitable is assuming the prices will be changed again, which as far as I can see, they aren't. Thus it really doesn't matter WHAT they're based off of.

[Naedea]

I was interpreting it as a dynamic system, yes.
A snapshot of bazaar data would not be usable.

[Anaxo]

It doesn't look like tribute ratios will be changing again. My guess is that sometime between the playerbase realizing the spectacular returns on tribute for stuff such as fine steel weapons and the actualy nerfing of the values, SOE wrote a quick hack program keeping track of Bazaar transaction during that period, then used the average to peg the new tribute points. It definitely is not a dynamic method at any rate.

[Thicket Tundrabog]

Tribute points from Shadowscream combines are more worthwhile than vendor sale. Shadowscream boots resell for 2 pp and change, but are worth 30 tribute points. I did 100 shadowscream combines for skillup last night and got over 2500 tribute points. Not a gold mine, but better than alternatives.

Thicket

[Kandrak]

Tae Ew Chain legs go for 10.2k.