Human/High Elf Issues with Cultural LoY Robes

[AntionidesRZ]

I know that Human isn't the most popular choice for spellcaster, but there are plenty of High Elf spellcasters, and I'm furious about how shafted we get on our cultural robes!!

Gnomes get SH 3, Erudites ID3, Iksar BA3, Dark Elves get regeneration, what do we get??

Regeant Conservation 3! Woo! NOT!

This is bogus! I want an effect that I can sell

[Kieroth_whiteleaf]

RCIII is cool for people who expend gems on buffs, along with any other consumables spells... A lot of people keep an extra robe or item with RCIII on it in inventory for when they're going to be casting a bunch of reagent spells, then swap it for their normal combat robes later.

Granted, some of the other ones are better, but there's still SOME market I would think.

SFG

[Maevenniia]

What I dislike is that the Tribute values for some of the robes (ex: High Elf Robe of Virtue & Human Robe of Capacity) have always been less than for any of the other robes.... (both before and after the values were recently nerfed...er "fixed")

[B]Race            Robe                      Current       /      Previous
                                                Tribute Values[/B]

High Elf        Robe of Virtue              3000 points  /  8175 points
Erudite         Robe of Tempest             7500 points  / 20199 points
Dark Elf        Robe of Abrogation          7500 points  / 12627 points    
Gnome           Robe of Intellect           7500 points  /  8400 points 
Human           Robe of Capacity            1875 points  /  6157 points 
Iksar           Robe of Misery              7492 points  /  8400 points

Why are 4 of the robes values almost the same (Iksar is off by 8 pts) but the other two so woefully less?

[Lothay]

Moved to tailoring.

[Aalar]

Do you have the tribute value for the lessor robes?

Aalar

[Maevenniia]

Do you have the tribute value for the lessor robes?

Aalar

You can probably find them on Lucy, that's where I found the values for the robes I didn't already know about.

[AntionidesRZ]

re:

What kind of ape programs stuff like this intentionally?

I mean it's virtually set in stone now, there are so many more important issues - it will never be addressed.

And thankyou for pointing out that tribute thing, that's a complete joke.

[Nikochan]

My guess would be that certain focus effects are worth more tribute, hence the discrepancy. IE, because reagent conservation is far less powerful than Improved damage, it adds up to fewer tribute points. I agree, though, humans got the short end of the deal, but at least we got a cultural robe...having done tailoring to 221 on a half-elf once already, I'm grateful that human cleric even has the option.

[Sylphan]

The tribute values are based on bazaar prices. A few of the tribute values have been set by hand but mostly it's automated. High elf and human robes have a long history of low bazaar prices, while erudite and dark elf robes have a long history of high bazaar prices. It's because most players agree that certain focus effects, well, suck.

[Itek]

I'm going to make a guess....

Component rarity? As a DE I know I rarely see components for DE cultural tailoring for sale at ANY price.