Enhancement Converters

Hey everyone,

I've been following a ton of stuff that the board have been talking about since the Player Summit we held a couple weeks ago. We've taken a close look at your feedback on the various things announced, and are in the process of making changes where we feel it's appropriate and good for the overall game.

This thread is about Enhancement Converters. These are tokens that you can use to change Set-based IOs into other random Set-based IOs. The original thought was that the only way to acquire these would be through the Paragon Market. Several of you disagreed with this exclusivity to this item so we took another look at it.

We feel pretty comfortable in allowing these to be obtained in-game by VIPs. These will be sold on Reward Merit, Alignment Merit, and Endgame Merit vendors with the following values (subject to change):

10 Reward Merits buys 1 Enhancement Converter Token
1 Alignment Merit buys 10 Enhancement Converter Tokens (20 hour cooldown)
3 Astral Merit buys 2 Enhancement Converter Tokens
1 Empyrean Merit buys 5 Enhancement Converter Tokens

In addition, they will be rare drops from enemies for VIPs.

Remember, it costs 3 tokens to convert a Set IO into another, random, enhancement from that same set. It costs 2 tokens to convert a Set IO into another, random, enhancement of the same category, and it costs 1 token to convert a Set IO into another, random, enhancement of the same rarity. Basically the more possibilities it has to change into, the lower the cost.

Because of this, we're not going to initially sell these on the Paragon Market as we had first planned. These will be available exclusively in-game to VIPs by the above means for the time being.

Fantastic news, thank you for sharing it Posi.

sounds very reasonable, it can be another reason to be VIP and it just sounds all well and balanced

Does this include superior and PvP recipes?

Thanks for listening.

Will the tokens be character-locked, or can you shuffle them around so that you earn them across all your toons but send them to your main crafter?

---Dave

Very good idea.

*wonders if the prices of Kinetic Combat will drop due to this*

EDIT: saw Random

Maybe not.

Answering some questions:

Converters cannot be traded, they are bound to the character that gets them.

PVP is it's own "rarity", as is Very Rare and ATO. This means you can convert a PVP to another PVP, or a VR to another VR, or an ATO to another ATO, but you can't convert a PVP to a VR, ATO, or another Set (and vice verse, no way to get a PVP out of the system unless you put a PVP in to begin with).

Brilliant.

Speaking of PvP... I still want the old, face-paced PvP back....... >;'c

Edit: To be more exact, I just do not want the travel supression we have now.... It ruined the speed. x(

Edit: Question answered above!

Wow, that's awesome. I'm really happy that you decided to allow these to be earned in-game. The prices look very reasonable, and I think you just found yourself an awesome merit sink there. I'm normally not a fan of random rolling, but since you're rolling within categories, I'm even thinking about using them. The drops for VIPs is a good perk to add for VIPs, too.

Am I understanding correctly that purchasing them for merits is VIP only as well? It reads that way, but since you specifically mentioned drops for VIPs, I thought I'd ask for confirmation. I think it's a good idea to add some more VIP only perks.

Thanks, Positron.

Edit: Nevermind, I fail at reading.

PS: This sounds awesome!

Interesting! I do think this change makes it far more likely I'll make use of these.

Woah ... so for one token, I can chance a rare Pace of the Turtle or Glimpse of the Abyss will become a random IO of the same rarity of any other set? Count me in!

Edit: Hahaha ... thanks for the belly laugh, Quasadu! You rock.

So is it possible to go from common to rare or very rare just not pvp or ATO? I could see using these. What about the leve of the enhancement? Do you get the same level or is it lower? Now I kind of wish I held on to all those crap of the hunter enhancements I got.

These sound fun and should make it a little easier to put together a purple set.

Thanks for the update.

-Buxley

Posi can you post some conversion examples on how it works?