Interesting stuff. Punch adds the crown sink that some players were looking for, that should give some people an incentive to sell crystal energy for crowns, and perhaps the price of crystal energy back down. I'm not sure whether the net result of Vise would be to push the price up or down, though I'm guessing it will nudge the price upward a bit.

When you reroll a UV is it completely random what level UV it will be (low, med, high, very high) or will it be the same level UV as the one that was erased?

What about unbinding? Will token-purchased items be unbindable?

Do you need to have a UV on the item already to reroll, or can you do it on an item without a UV? The former makes more sense but I'm asking anyway.

It doesn't say you can roll for NEW UV's. It says you can roll for UV's on your items.

Time to roll some god like UV's against fiends

Now I can get UVs on the rest of my stuff :D.

Hopefully it isn't too pricy...

"If you give Punch an item that had 3 unique variants on it, and pay for 1 unique variant, he will remove all 3 old UVs and add 1 new one."

Erm... I hope that's rhetorical. xD

Cory
If you give Punch an item that had 3 unique variants on it, and pay for 1 unique variant, he will remove all 3 old UVs and add 1 new one.

What if you give punch an item with no UV on it and you pay for 3 unique variants? :O

Maybe he means the other bonus of an item, like the CTR for a level 5 weapon... Or maybe he forgot that we normal player cannot cheat...

Lol at the 3 variants explanation.

Love this update, this will give us the much needed crown sink and allow me to fix some of my broken gear :P
I hope it's not that expensive though.

Punch is actually a good idea. There will be less ragecrafting, prices on lower level items will go up to reasonable levels (rather than below cost), and the cost of Crystal Energy should actually go down as there will be a new major crown sink in the game and CE won't be burned so much on crafting anymore. The biggest reason CE prices went up is that higher level players didn't need to burn crowns as much anymore and everybody wanted to hoard CE.

"I wonder if the UV market will crash when people can guarantee a UV on any piece of gear."

That depends entirely on how much it costs to roll for a UV. If it's 3k crowns, the market will crash. If it's 10k crowns, it'll probably stay the same. Right now, I'd wager that it's a net loss of about 1-1.5k crowns every time somebody crafts a major 2* item right now.

The item interface allows for showing up to 3 UVs on the same item. (If you have anyone on your ignore list, check their nametag in the Social menu, you'll see it.)

Presumably, Punch will allow you to get 3 UVs on the same item... for a crazy high crown price.

The best (and worst) thing about it is that now it's actually feasible to roll for a high CTR Divine Avenger.

jooozek, they're going to continue to have the better UVs be something that's rare to get. They expressed that they originally changed crafting to ensure that not every Tom, Dick, and Larry had the best items in the game. I think they want the best UVs to continue having high value, and reducing the chance to get those good UVs would go against that strategy.

Harry is allowed to get whatever he wants though.

You can just treat it as if it had no UV.

The devil is in the details with these kind of changes. I wonder how this is all going to play out

If Punch costs less to get a UV with than the current crafting system, then people will stop UV farming. This means that a large mat sink will disappear, cause mat prices to drop significantly. There is also the CE sunk in traditional crafting, which could easily reduce how much CE OOO sells.

If Punch costs more to get a UV than the current crating system, then people won't use it.

The suggestion I liked was to have a UV lottery of sorts. It would have a higher actual cost to get a UV over traditional crafting, but each chance would be cheap enough that people would be willing to buy a chance to upgrade their UV as an impulse buy. By making the buying habit different between the two ways to get UVs, both would be used quite a bit.

For the unbind shop, I really wish it was also a crown sink, rather than a CE.

New players will once again be able to start the game and instantly get all 5* equipment by just pulling out their wallet. (Whether that is good or bad is another debate.) Creating these 5* unbound items is not, however, that hard, especially if you get other party members to die to give you their heat. Basically, a very small percentage of active players can provide lots of 5* equipment. If, on the other hand, unbinding required crowns, then free market forces will crate a limit to how many of these 5* items will be made. If too many players come in and try to buy their way to the end game, then the only way they can get the crowns to do that would be to dump CE onto the cr<->CE exchange. This would drive the exchange rate down to the point where it it too expensive for most to buy 5* equipment just whipping out their wallet. At the same time this extra demand for crowns would mean that many other players could trade their time running gates in order to generate the crowns needed to unbind these items. The more people try to buy their way to the end-game, the more players can play for cheap.

Remember, the only way to generate crowns is to run gates and gate fees require energy. If 50% of all gate fees are currently Mist energy and the other 50% is CE, then by changing the unbind shop to use crowns at the rate of 10k-15k crowns per 100CE, OOO will end up sinking just as much CE.

Is the killowatt pulsar bug going to be fixed too? I could use that. The gremlins sound absolutely awesome, and FINALLY, someone that sells stuff who isn't 10 feet tall!

...So does that mean I can haz Steam Gas Mask? :D