Slightly Off-topic: Unless we get lucky and they stick in the Guildhall Update between all the Holiday Promos, I'm guessing it's coming after the turning of the year... Any thoughts on this?
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Anyway, the details about Guildhall Furnishings were sparse in the Sept. Announcement by Nick. Simply that they will exist and that the primary method of bringing them into a Guildhall is by donating them via the new Guild Treasury feature. This does not suggest where they originate from. I see several possibilites, which I will List from least to most likely(IMO)...
1) Rare finds in the Clockworks(prolly Arcade Only) from Red Boxes.
2) Brinks, you know we love you... Trading Tokens for Furnishings seems like a definite possibility too, which would drive more players back into the Arcade, since you can't get Forge/Grim/Primals from Mission Replays.
3) From a New or Current Type of Lockbox. I can see them introducing Crates, which require a Silver Key. Otherwise, I think the rarer Furnishings will come out of Mirroreds and some of the less spectacular ones might come from Irons. Still, I smell a new Type of lockbox coming...
4) Recipes/Ordering: Weapons have Recipes, Ingredients, cr/CE costs and the Alchemy Machines. Nick mentioned a new Building in the Garrison Area which he gave no details on. I am choosing to believe that, among so many other possibilites, it will be at least partly where Guildhall Furnishings come from. Some will prolly be ready-made and cost CE, others may be made on order, requiring Mats and cr and possibly CE as well. So we could expect the release of a new Vendor - or vendors - which Offer Furnishings only.
I can see #1, as I thought of it, but I don't really expect much there. #2 I consider to be only slightly more likely than #1, since Brinks fills a specific role and there are already quite a few Items and Mats on his Token Trading Lists already. Regarding #3, they just gave us Mirroreds to accomidate the Knight Modefiers, so the introduction of Furnishings seems like a good excuse for them to introduce a new kind of Lockbox. And lastly we come to #4, which seems pretty likely, since there is such a wide variety of Mats to build Furnishing Recipes/Blueprints from, and this would prolly be a decent crownsink since demand for Mats would rise
Your thoughts? Personally, I'm hoping a good portion of the Furnishings will come out of the Current Lockboxes, but I'm not holding my hopes too high...
@Oatmonster Yes, on the first run-through; not on Reruns, I don't think. Anyway, the only Mission I have Rerun is the Tins, and I have not gotten a Token running it Solo in over 200 runs... Hence my conclusion. However, that may just be because it is a Boss run, or because I am running Solo...
@Xxpapaya The Papaya is confusing, too... The Above are not suggestions, or they would be in another Sub-Forum... Besides which, OOO has already figured out what they are doing with everything related to the Guildhall Update, if they are within 2 months of implementing it. I am simply speculating and inviting the Comment of others...
@Sketman I seriously doubt that a Guilds Population will affect the Furnishings very much, and the size if the Guild Hall will depend to a certain degree on its Population. And the Guildhall Update Announcment by Nick clearly stated that Furnishings are Donated by Guild Members via the Guild Treasury.
You can get tokens from missions.