Uthgard

The Item Exchange NPCs have come to the capitol cities looking for work. Look for the new "Master Smith" in Hibernia, Jordheim, or Camelot.

At the time of this posting, the Master Smith is available to exchange the following items:

- Necklace of the Body
- Pooka Lord's Mantle
- Yellow Silken Robes

If you know of additional one-time-drop or quest items with charges, please leave a note in this thread with the item name.

Several months ago, you nerfed the drop rate and implemented random respawn timers on named mobs. Price of Arnulv's ring of the butcher went sky high after that change, because you sometimes needed to camp there for days to get it, unless you played US time and parked your toon there while you were talking to someone/reading, so you just waited for pop. Even then, it took hours/days. You confirmed ring of the butcher is a classic item, and the NPC upgrader does not upgrade it? I had like 4 of those rings, 3 I used for my guildies and one I have in my zerker template. I farmed one, and payed ****** of money for other 3. It was not easy to acquire, because I payed a lot of money for a low utility item that's only usable by 2 classes, and back then you could use Kobil's ring if you wanted to exchange, cause it was cheaper.

My friend killed Arnulv 17 times, I killed him 10 times, other friend killed him 20 + times since the charge upgrade, only one ring dropped. That was a lot of hours, not to mention there are always 1-4 people there. If a quest cloak on Hib can be upgraded by NPC, I do not understand why ring of the butcher can't. Yes, it looks like a simple item, but it was not easy to get for anyone who farmed it after the drop rate/respawn timer change. Sorry, but this makes no sense to me, it's like you are deliberately trying to punish players to farm there for hours and hours and literally fight for the spot. I can understand you don't want to upgrade items from taj or items that are not proven to be classic, but if ring of the butcher is, where is the problem?

Please do not deviate from the topic. Discussion of drop rates is unwanted in this thread.

Raggar,

OTD's cannot possibly be acquired again by a player. Drops, however, can be.

No drop rates were nerfed. A bug was fixed. Please do not confuse the two.

you forgot to mention that it costs 100g to upgrade the items ...

OMG 100G didnt know ppl that had a s/c charge wasnt enough rich for upgrade the item

Akip wrote:you forgot to mention that it costs 100g to upgrade the items ...

Simply use up all your charges before you turn it in and you simply pay for recharging your item and you gain a free upgrade as a bonus!

Trishin wrote:

Akip wrote:you forgot to mention that it costs 100g to upgrade the items ...

Simply use up all your charges before you turn it in and you simply pay for recharging your item and you gain a free upgrade as a bonus!

very circumspect to consider the fact, that ppl could use the trade as a free recharge and thus add a fee to the exchange...nice 1

ermagherd someone using up their charges before swapping it in!!111 ermagherrdd, why would anyone use up gimp charges, when you can use pro charges? xd

Abydos wrote:Raggar,

OTD's cannot possibly be acquired again by a player. Drops, however, can be.

No drop rates were nerfed. A bug was fixed. Please do not confuse the two.

That bug was fine XDDD

For how long NPCs stay in main cities?
100g is not so much for ppl,who can afford neck of body

There are currently no plans to disable them anytime soon.

i gived the body neck in alb to the npc and got a mantle "duraek ... cloak " with only 3 charges back

omg

here is no info that the npc dont upgrade the item 1:1

the last message from blue was we talk about what we wil do, it because all albs and hibs will get angry

they cloak has bad stats and only 3 charges

something info is really missing here