Runes of Magic US / AU

Ok. So, I don't think I'm the only one that thinks that the price to open the Arcanium Chamber and Hall of Earth is tremendously high. 200M gold and 200K resources (t5 stones and t4 runes) is WAY too high of a price to open an instance that hardly anyone can run for ONLY 3 or 4 days.

This being said.... If you guys want to keep the concept of opening and reopening the instance multiple times the same, that's fine. However, I have a suggestion to make it more manageable for the people playing the game. The cost for opening the Arcanium Chamber and the Hall of Earth should be decreased to 10% of the original costs. That would be 20M gold and 20K resources. To keep the ratio of the server inputs in line with the new costs, the server should then input 10 gold a second and 10 resources a minute (in respect to the current phase the project is in). The buffs that you get from contributing to the project and it reaching the certain points should also be decreased to 10% of the current landmarks. (these buffs I'm talking about are the 12 hour buffs)

A different option would be to keep the prices the same, but to make the Arcanium Chamber permanent. I personally am not a fan of this option because we are then unable to get the buffs from contributing after it's been opened. I know some would favor this option over the first one, which is why I chose to include this option as I don't want arguments about the cost only being a one time deal vs the cost being reduced.

I wouldn't mind if one of these options were implemented, as long as ONE of them was implemented.

Thank you. Have a nice day, and please no trolling or flaming.

Ok. I never calculated out how long it'd take for the npc's to donate the 200k mats; so on that, I was ignorant. And I'm not personally a fan of losing the gold sink, I just feel like the 200mil is too much just to keep an instance open. Eventually, the gold's gonna run out. I don't think Reni is a "small" server, but it takes forever to get that 200mil accumulated. I know that there's at least 2 other people on Reni that think the 200mil is a large price to pay for just 3 or 4 days of an instance when no one can run it. I'm willing to die and learn the strats, but not many people are willing to do that, either. Maybe with the gold cost being reduced, people will be more willing to die and learn it as well as want to open it. The way I see people reacting on Reni with the Arcanium Chamber is: "Why should we pay 200mil gold just to die and lose dura on gear before being able to burn or strat the whole thing?" I can't say for sure how people on other servers deal with the Arcanium Chamber, but hopefully we could come to a conclusion about what to do with the cost/speed of contributing.

I don't think we're playing on the German servers, so I don't know what they have to do with us, Cike. xD Tell me when someone from the US servers can clear it, then I'll change the "no one", lol. And it's not like it takes just 5 days to open, on Reni. It takes weeks. I'd help donate more if I had the gold, but, sadly, I don't have the gold. I was thinking reduce the cost, because it would seem like a larger gold sink. Less gold to open = higher willingness to run it = more people donating. That's how I sawthe situation, at least. Others may be see it like you do, Cike. I'll revise my original argument and increase the changed gold price to say, 50 or 75mil.

Quoted from "Cike"

that being said, maybe a better solution would be keep the 200m cost but it stays open until cleared. once cleared, you need to reopen it(another 200m).

That's a pretty good idea, Cike. Though, with your idea, I think it should be that it stays open until the day it's cleared on ends (resets at same time as dailies). So, if a guild clears it, they then have the rest of the day (however long or short that may be) to farm it. I think that would be better because then it wouldn't be: Open, Clear, Closed, Open, Clear, Closed, etc. etc. etc. during the same exact day.

And by "Clear", I mean killing the last boss.

Not to mention how all the accessories from Hall of Earth have magic crit rate on them. But I didn't intend this to turn into a discussion about how viable the gear will be in the future nor how it's a bad gold sink. This thread was intending to be a discussion for how they could make the instance more "player friendly" in terms of the cost to open it.

Ok. So, I just did some calculations for if the resources the npc's donate was upped. At 1k gold/sec, it would take 02:07:03:07 to open the Arcanium Chamber. While I feel that the time to open the instance should be decreased, I feel that not even 2 and a half days is too short. So, if it were to be upped from 100 gold/sec to 250 gold/sec, it would take 09:06:12:58 to open the Arcanium Chamber if the NPC'S ONLY were donating. Now, if 100 people donated 30k gold every day (3M gold/day), it would only take 08:03:07:12 in order to open the Chamber. Thus being approximately 9 and a half days to open Hall of Earth.

What is everyone's opinion on the NPC donation rate being upped to 250 gold/sec? I personally think this would much more manageable for smaller servers as well as making the cost more player-friendly while still being a gold sink.