100 Major Mana Pots @ 490 Points, Too Cheap?

[Unreliable]

In the ddo store you can now get 100 concentrated major mana potions for 490 points...
Used to be 10 mana pots for 250 points.

Does anyone else think that this is an absurd price? thats 4.9 points per major mana pot, about a nickel...

At first i thought it was a mistake, but then after i read it in the website post about new store items I was shocked.

Whats going on? Before the store collecting 100 potions would take months of choosing that mana potion in the end reward when you could, or looting from chests. Now for $5 you can get 100? I dont dislike the turbine store as much as a lot of people, i think items should just be more accuratly priced.

if 10 are 250 100 maybee for 1500 or 1600 points, like the xp pots. 295 pts for 1, 1200 for 5. Seems more accurate.

So far, after asking about 10 people that i know on my server, 3 thought that this was a terrible idea that could potencialy lead to the downfall of many aspects of the game, 3 didnt care, and 4 thought the potions are now more reasonably priced then before.

Want to hear some more feedback, as 90% of people still DONT KNOW. Go to spell point potions > page 2 > first item.

Thanks everyone for your feedback.

[Uska]

Hmm I think I will stop playing casters since pots are cheap people are going to expect casters to carry them I think maybe.


Nice I dont like an easy option and I get dinged for it.

[jasonchrist]

Hmm I think I will stop playing casters since pots are cheap people are going to expect casters to carry them I think maybe.

I don't feel this way, but I don't care what people expect.

Until they stop putting shrines in quests, or it is impossible to manage sp from shrine to shrine, I don't think we'll have a problem. I never have a problem with sp, but I don't nuke mobs that are at 5% hp just to get kills either.

[spyderwolf]

anyhtign that brings turbine money to help create more content of any kind is ok with me. if someone wants to bu yand use 100 mana pots , let them. there playing doesnt affect me. and the old beat down arguement that the ywill design dungeosn with mana pots in mind is ridiculous. if anyhting they seem to be putting more and more shrines in dungeons. you have to be a really bad player to run out of mana at end game unless your doing epic and arent in a solid group.

[Twerpp]

Why play with skill when you can just pummel any adventure into hammered sh*t with your credit card?

[Auran82]

Why play with skill when you can just pummel any adventure into hammered sh*t with your credit card?

Tail swipe.

More dots MORE DOTS.

[Uska]

I don't feel this way, but I don't care what people expect.

Until they stop putting shrines in quests, or it is impossible to manage sp from shrine to shrine, I don't think we'll have a problem. I never have a problem with sp, but I don't nuke mobs that are at 5% hp just to get kills either.

I was mainly thinking of my healers since the more shrines there are dumber people seem to act as they think ahhh well the cleric/fvs will just keep me up. Had a couple of groups who through acting stupid failed the hound or shroud and blamed me or the other healer for not having more pots or using more scrolls.

[toughguyjoe]

I would not put much validity to the OPs claims, but today..In the Pit..i saw something.....

Doing a run of the Pit on Hard.

I know the quest very well and already have a level 11 cleric so I just take what I can get and get the quest done.

Theres a wizard. He is level 8. He keeps getting lost, and dies a few times. We rez him. We are all at a shrine right before the end fight and the cleric and the sorc are telling him to shrine as he has only about 10% mana.

He says "nah. Watch me. are you Watching?"

Then gulps a pot and his blue bar refills to full.

Im not sure what bothered me more.

That his mana bar only held ONE major mneumonics worth of SP....

Or that he had purchased so many pots he felt Shrines were.."beneath" him....

[Fenrisulven6]

Now for $5 you can get 100? I dont dislike the turbine store as much as a lot of people, i think items should just be more accuratly priced.

My cleric was getting gouged on the AH at 100,000gp per pot.

For an item I would use to prevent a party wipe.

You think 100k was "more accurately priced"?

[GunboatDiplomat]

Its supply and demand innit? They were way overpriced before for something you can just grind in-game. Now I'll probably buy a stack.

[UnderwearModel]

How much do you think it costs Turbine to manufacture these mana potions?

This is Turbine's new model. Sell game stuff for real green.

Personally, I will not whip out a credit card to purchase the mana potions. But Turbine's business model is to sell stuff to the gamers now. I know a lot of the F2P players will purchase these pots. Because I know a lot of F2Pers actually have paid more than $100 per month to play the game.

I pay $10 per month for VIP, and I am entertained with what I get.

I say good for Turbine because at that price you thought it was too cheap so a lot of other people will think the same thing. A nice, quick influx of cash to end the calender year with.

[Cade_Wells]

having just moved over here from euro, are these pots Bound to account? ior are they bound to the toon you buy them with?

seems like people will expect people to use them, however decent casters and arcanes know how to ration there sp from what i see, however new content always burns resorces untill people know how to play them.

[Falchion123]

They are bound to account

[prettychaos]

while normally i don't like spending my vip turbine points on anything but hairstyles and stuff i can't buy with my ingame plat these potions are handy for running epic as someone has hinted on already

went to store in epic wiz king yesterday to buy 10 and found the 100s for sale for less than double the price

bargain in my opinion and yes while its open to people gulping down potions to complete quests thats their choice i guess as long as it works for em, and hey more money to turbine to make the game better

considering i spent a ton of cash on pots for epic via the auction house (3 mill for 20 pots or so) this is a nice back up if your not uberly rich in game but either have real money to burn or turbine points from your monthly sub

however using pots over shrines is just crazy even if it fills your sp

[Hendrik]

I was mainly thinking of my healers since the more shrines there are dumber people seem to act as they think ahhh well the cleric/fvs will just keep me up. Had a couple of groups who through acting stupid failed the hound or shroud and blamed me or the other healer for not having more pots or using more scrolls.

I have run into that on occasion myself.

IMO, buying up these pots, and I mean no offense, is just a crutch for poor gameplay.

There is NO quest, past, present, or future, where one 'needs' mana pots. None.

EVERYTHING in this game came be overcome with the use of tactics and cooperation of the party and not requiring one to buy a single thing from the store.

If a fool and his money want to part, please do it in the DDO store! Just going to make the game all that much better for the rest of us.



If I am using more then 1~2 Major in Epic, then there is something wrong with the group....

[Fenrisulven6]

EVERYTHING in this game came be overcome with the use of tactics and cooperation of the party and not requiring one to buy a single thing from the store.

See, I mainly run with PUGs. Some are good, and some are weak but trying hard.

Can I add your clerics to my friends list? For say VON3 runs?

[Executie]

Wonder how much longer till there will be scroll packs in the store, along with scrolls folders... and little tabs you can stick on em so'z you can file them all nice and neat.

Hell wonder if they'll ever try to sell plat. >.>

[Lithic]

Enjoy it while it lasts. I'd bet my FvS's soul that someone forgot a 1 in front of that (100pots for 1490pts), and it will be changed shortly.

Either that, or the accountants are trying to get everyone hooked on mana pots so they can jack up the price later... Hmm now who else do we know that behaves like that?

[Superspeed_Hi5]

Well I think Pots were too rare in game as it was. Yes they are powerful, but look at it this way. For spellcaasters this is essentially tied to their life bar - no blue = painful death. You have cure crit pots which allow the melee types to continue on after getting hurt but if you are a caster you are SOL if you run out of blue. I think making mana pots more readily available is a good thing but they really should have put them into the regular store as a gold sink. I have no idea with them having the equivilant of Cure crit Mana pots available from vendors.

[Tumarek]

As stated above: As long as Sp-Pots are not mandatory to solve a quest but are great backup if something goes wrong let them sell them in the shop for whatever they want.

If they start making quests you cant solve without pots they are screwing up a real good long term business model. But the latest quest series they published doesnt seem to be headed in that direction.

If people run around showing off that they don't need shrines, because they are stupid enough to pay for something that is free and sitting next to them, I couldn't be more happy. Stupidity normally doesn't have too many positive side effects. Enjoy it when it does.

After all he is paying for your game.