"Seaweed and battle staff changes explained.
Some people have been asking why we have removed these items from shops and put them elsewhere.
We have removed the battlestaffs and seaweed from shops because they were things which were balanced on having rather limited stocks.
Battlestaffs have a pretty hefty cost mark up once you've added the orbs which was a lot of the reason for making them.
And if you could get unlimited amounts of sand and soda ash the crafting xp rate is actually pretty insane for very little effort.
Fortunately before it was hard for many players to buy these things in volume, so they sort of self balanced, otherwise we'd have actually considered them broken.
Unfortunately if we left these items at limited stocks then as we removed other autobuyer targets such as runes and arrows - these would have been quite an obvious target for bots, the price mark up from shop prices on these objects is actually pretty good,
the legitimate people buying these items could quite soon be ranting at us, due to the bots selling out their stock thus that they could buy none.
A premptive strike was clearly needed.
Our aim is to keep these items at limited availability, but to change the ways for getting them to something not autobuyer friendly.
Our aim isn't really to make things any easier or harder to get overall.
If we've not got these altenative methods quite right, then I'm happy to tweak them
For example I understand that the mage training arena pizzazz cost might be a bit prohibatively high for pracitically buying battlestaffs right now. I am looking into this to see what a sensible cost in pizzazz points would be.
I'd like to get people using that area a little more anyway
We will also be increasing baba yagas stock levels a little.
Getting seawed from nets while fishing monkfish is quite good and was originally meant to be considered a bit of an additional reward for completing swansong.
Unfortunately it possibly got a bit nerfed when we then released the trade ships, but its still there.
Theres plenty of other less conveniently located spawns for the lower levels too.
I'll certainly be thinking of other ways for players to get seaweed too."
Paul
na und ob die nats steigen (sollten hihi)
die federn sind ja dann praktisch festpreis 6gp pro feder. macht ja gar keinen sinn mehr die zu sammeln - ausser man will es noch billiger.