Runes of Magic US / AU

I can see where they'd have issues w/ the P-Token shoppe... If I recall, the main move was to make premium currency account based so I'm guessing the same for the new Item Shoppe.

If RW could just make as many NPC's as there are P-token shoppe categories, that should take care of it.

So Varanas & Dalanis would have Bazaars where these NPC's hang out. Talk to them to trade P-tokens for stuff.

It's a little less convenient, but if put in this format, it's not disagreeable.

My only concern is that they aren't like the PoM / AA npcs that close the shop when someone else opens it

Hopefully the NPCs still sell the same if not better items than the current shop.

Of course this is gonna be inconvenience for most, myself included. Most of the time I buy a lot of one thing at a time, like plussers or puris, so it's not that big of a deal. But those times where I run out of TP runes and just buy 1 at a time, and im no where near varanas/dalasnis, yeah its gonna suck. Guess I am gonna have to stock up now from these NPCs

Or stock up tonight before it all breaks. Hopefully the NPC's will work properly on first implementation attempt.

Yes, they will have same items, we won’t delete any item from offer.

Not sure about where it says that you will still be spending phirius tokens on items in game. In the post it only states they will remain a currency not that the new npcs will use tokens for items. I am betting that you will only be able to use phirius tokens on mini games and that these vendors will use an alternate currency type.

If these vendors do use tokens, pls for the love of god fix some of the prices. I do not think you should get pfs for free and no effort but 4 days seemed a bit drastic in light of needing stats from the shell games meaning your spending about a week per stat or 6 weeks for stating one piece of gear assuming all perfect stat pulls. and about 7 pieces of gear to be stated before running content meaning about 42 weeks or 10.5 months. In reality, more like 3 months per piece of gear. But, guess we will see what tomorrow brings. (edit Assuming you hit it only free to play for stating and saved diamonds for plussing). (Edit 2 using blue stats cuts time in half, so 3 weeks per piece of gear or 5.25months for full gear set)

So what does this mean for people trying to play this F2P? And how and/or what will replace the previous f2p option?

Hell this almost makes me question where it's going, and even if I should continue on with waiting out a bunch of alts to just go all out when the level cap hits 100.

Quoted from "Isopod"

Yes, they will have same items, we won’t delete any item from offer.

So items like purified fusion stone and arcane transmuter charges will still be available for phirus token after the change?
will the items be the same price though?

Sounds like they're keeping the same items. I just hope the NPC's work properly. They can't fix recipe vendors but they can make new NPC's selling things work properly?

I hope that they add in some necessary items to the Phirius shop. For years they have never put the current top or second to top plussing jewels, nor the 3rd and 4th drill slot for gear.

A long time ago when the cap was like 50, the phirus shop not having these items was never really an issue. Yeah people could have a slight edge over you but the difference between +6 and +12 wasn't that great. Nor was the extra runes a big deal either due to the fact that only IV, and V runes were used. Stacking an extra set of Mind, Endurance, *insert your rank 0 & 1 rune here* didn't give a huge bonus like it does nowadays. Tokens could be used to reach endgame and diamonds just were an added convenience.

Flash forward to now. The difference between +12(current phirius jewels) and +16/+20(current top jewels) is so much greater than it used to be. This is why they need to add +16 jewels in the Phirius shop. Rune-wise, add in the 3rd drillers to the phirius merchant as well b/c nowadays a set of advance X's, Block X's, etc makes so much more of an impact. I would say leave the 4th driller as a ruby exclusive but at least add a ruby bonus to phirius purchases even if it's only half of a dia equivalent.

Quoted from "pachat93"

Quoted from "Isopod"

Yes, they will have same items, we won’t delete any item from offer.

So items like purified fusion stone and arcane transmuter charges will still be available for phirus token after the change?
will the items be the same price though?

Prices and items will stay the same. The only difference is the fact, that the items for tokens are going to be sold by NPCs in the near future.

Quoted from "ruisen2000"

Quoted from "sertet"

My only concern is that they aren't like the PoM / AA npcs that close the shop when someone else opens it

We should probably be more concerned about the "it'll just be gone for a little while", and hope it doesn't become a second coming of that "we're just going to remove dias on the AH for a little while for us to figure out some changes".

Apparently, temporary disabling something means "can be gone for a few years".

Fine, my only concern short of the NPC never showing up
Dirtynoble!

Quoted from "sertet"

Quoted from "ruisen2000"

Quoted from "sertet"

My only concern is that they aren't like the PoM / AA npcs that close the shop when someone else opens it

We should probably be more concerned about the "it'll just be gone for a little while", and hope it doesn't become a second coming of that "we're just going to remove dias on the AH for a little while for us to figure out some changes".

Apparently, temporary disabling something means "can be gone for a few years".

Fine, my only concern short of the NPC never showing up
Dirtynoble!

Lol, reminds me of siege war out of beta.

But seriously, after about a month of phrius tokens building up in inventory players will start demanding the npcs.

Because players demanding things has worked soooo well in the past...

Quoted from "Bigbaddaboom"

Sounds like they're keeping the same items. I just hope the NPC's work properly. They can't fix recipe vendors but they can make new NPC's selling things work properly?

Yes, items and prices will be the same, we will just change the method. Crafting recipe NPCs are not related to upcoming NPCs, anyway i want to inform you that they are being fixed right now.

I was not going to take the chance of running out of things just in case things were delayed, and spent one heck of a lot of tokens yesterday getting things I use frequently.

With the new item shop remove/turn off addons using the morphclock, which include d303fix and plant care.


edit:
going into the addon's folder and removing the
morphclock.lua and morphclock.xml will keep other functionality of the
addon without interfering with item shop.

this will teach me to hoard my ptokens. Now i'm giong to have them cluttering my bag for the next 10 years because "npc's coming soon™" always works out so well

On a semi side note, is there anyway the team could code the ptokens to just go into your currency page?