2011-06-25, 05:44 AM
Exidous Wrote:I think there is an upside to secret mastery books, and that's making supply a nonissue. In the current system, if your book drops from something hideously untrainable, or not at all, supply of the book is seriously constrained or nonexistent in fm. With secret mastery books, people can at least farm the least annoying mastery book droppers. Demand effects will still mean the early-max skills of popular classes will be expensive, but at least there won't be any particular weird barely obtainables anymore. Assuming equal probabilities for all books from secret mastery books, the most common book in fm will be the least played class's last-max skill.
Supply is a non-issue?
People can farm? Unless by "people" you mean botters, that's completely wrong. You can go to the least annoying mobs, but if they drop a smb once in 10k kills, and each smb has about 0.5% chance to be the one you were looking for, you will need to kill, on average, 2 million of these "least annoying" mobs to get your book.
So for example, suppose you start farming at 105 on Captains, and stay there because it's a mini-dungeon where botters and ks'ers can't interfere. Captains give 1495 exp each, so 2m of them give almost 3b exp. You will be 150 long before you find that TT20 you needed at 123.
Also, regarding "most common book in FM" - wrong. People will just drop the less-valuable books. Just as, in the past, people would leave books lying on the floor at Zakum's Altar or Manon's Forest. Not because it's a useless skill of an unpopular class, but because it was so easy to find, and therefore cheap. People wouldn't waste inventory and shop space on a book worth less than 5m meso.