This article is reproduced from Safewow.com.
After analyzing the history of the Astral Diamond market and knowing players' urgent needs for AD, the official neverwinter site just confirmed to make some changes, including increase earn rates and decrease prices. All changes will come to PC when Underdark releases later today, while Xbox player will need to wait longer.
Changes that made on Neverwinter Astral Diamonds
1. Add +50% Astral Diamonds for dungeons, skirmishes, PvP, and the weekly quests doing. This includes the base activity, the daily rewards, and the daily limits to what you can earn for these activities (the stuff that Rhix talks about).
2. Raise the daily AD refinement cap from 24,000 to 36,000.
3. Lower prices for the Wondrous Bazaar companions, which now cost 400,000 AD rather than the original 650,000 - 800,000 AD
4. Lower costs to upgrading a companion at the lower qualities:
White to Green: was 300,000 AD, now 50,000 AD
Green to Blue: was 500,000 AD, now 250,000 AD
Blue to Purple: was 750,000 AD, now 500,000 AD
Purple to Orange is staying the same (1,000,000 AD).
More efforts are needed to make a completed market
Firstly, many players think that the price reduction on companion upgrades makes no difference as people still cannot reach the line even when they dropped the cost of upgrading one companion from white to orange by 750k, from 2.55M to 1.8M. "It is like telling someone working minimum wage that the house on the corner that was costing 3 million now only cost a million", someone said that on reddit to indicate that such a change does not make much difference for most of players. To be fair, it's probably worth noting that there is no tangible benefit to having more than one legendary companion, which means the most expensive upgrade is one there is no "need" to perform multiple times. Besides, players are also expecting for an overhaul for the entire gear transmutation and mount upgrade. Indeed, these are very nice and positive changes, but it is obviously more efforts will be required to make a completed economy market.
Still, that's a huge step forward. I absolutely like an emphasis on "earning" the AD rather than automated giving. It could be even amazing if it was taken even further with things like scaling rewards based on how well you do at things, etc. All changes will be available on Nov 17 for PC when Underdark releases and in later future for Xbox. If you need some astral diamond for preparation, welcome to buy neverwinter astral diamonds PC or Xbox on Safewow.
The Safewow Team
