Boosted Mote of Yorick drop chance across the board
Base chance: boosted from 5% to 15%
Hasty Herb Chance: boosted from 0.5%-5% (level 1, level 75) to 3%-9%.
Normal Herb Chance: boosted from 1.5%-15% (level 1, level 75) to 7%-21%
Yorick's Jewlery: boosted from 4%-20% to 5%-26%
Gold price dropped from 14s 95c to 12s 95c.
Changed it so if you have Mote Find greater than 100%, you get a chance at a second Mote of Yorick.
Cornucopia have been boosted. Instead of 3 charges at 90%, they now contain 5 charges a 100%. All charter variations are rebalanced to take this into account. The chance to find them is now slightly more rare (0.5%)
Gathering hats now also increases the chance to find Motes of Yorick by 15%. With the new base mote chance of 15%, this doubles a hat wearers chances to find Motes of Yorick.
We have removed all ranks of supplies (ranks being the level ranges). Instead all supplies of a gathering skill will work at any level node.
We kept all the rarities of supplies (common, superior, premium).
We have added two new types of supplies: No trade superior and No trade premium. These items will work just like normal superior and premium supplies, but they will be separate items (including a different name and a different icon).
This will leave a total of five items per gathering skill:
Common Supplies (No Trade)
Superior Supplies (No Trade)
Premium Supplies (No Trade)
Superior Supplies (Trade-able)
Premium Supplies (Trade-able)
In total this will be 20 item (5 items * 4 skills) compared to 48 items from the old system (4 ranks * 3 rarities * 4 skills). That is 28 items less.
This is where and how you will acquire these items:
Common Supplies (No Trade): Can be found while gathering, Will be given out by daily distributors, can be purchased with COG coins.
Superior Supplies (No Trade): Can be purchased using COG coins.
Premium Supplies (No Trade): Can be purchased using COG coins.
Superior Supplies (Tradable): Can be found while gathering.
Premium Supplies (Tradable): Can be found while gathering, can be purchased using charter tokens.
All COG values (buy / sell / trade) have been adjusted to fit the new system.
COG patrons will now accept any type of supply in exchange for COG coins (common, superior, premium, superior (no trade), premium (no trade)).
A Note on this: All five can go in, but only three can come out. This means any of the five supply types listed above can be traded to a COG patron, but only the three no trade versions can by purchased using COG coins. Consequently, players can never take a trade-able supply, trade it with COG, and get a trade-able supply back out. The COG patron will give you a special warning about this issue.
Common Supplies will no longer be sold for Gold.
COG coins can now be purchased with Gold.
Transition from old types to new types:
All old supply types will be converted to new types by the system when the build goes live.
Any unopened bounty salvage, charter bags, or daily bags, will now contain the new type of item.
If somehow a player still has an old item type after the build goes live, that item will still work for gathering.
Xinzen carp were balanced to take into account the new changes.
Normal Herbs that give the Abundant Earth effect, now last for 20 minutes rather than 5. Hasty herb duration remains the same.
Bounties no longer drop Bounty Salvage. Instead bounties will give COG coins based on the level of the bounty.
COG coins now stack to 9500 (used to be 5000)
When a character first gathers with no supplies selected, a tutorial message appears.
Improvements
We made the X that indicates an item cannot be used smaller and less aggressive
Made Mail text and Auction House quantity text easier to read.
The "Mail" button was moved into the top-left HUD frame, and now flashes when new mail is received, as it did before Reborn.
The dark background behind the crafting window, friends window, and all the other windows has been removed, allowing you to chat and move items about while the windows are open.
Changed "Social" to "Friends"
When a character first gathers with no supplies selected, show a tutorial popup.