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On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:17:41 +0100, "Peter T." <pinoc10@hotmail.cum>
wrote:

>My alt got his epic ilvl 600 cloak a few days ago.  I decided _not_ to 
>spend 500 VPs for the upgrade as the legendary cloak was just around the 
>corner.  That was a wise decision.  When I transformed the cloak to 
>Legendary 10 mins ago it also included 2 free upgrades to ilvl 608.  So 
>save your VPs. :)

Yeah, they did that because people would've been annoyed to have to
spend it twice; they apparently couldn't make it easily carry over the
upgrade level. Should've made the 600 cloak not upgradeable after the
legendary became available though!

On Friday, November 29, 2013 9:19:47 AM UTC-5, Catriona R wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:17:41 +0100, "Peter T." <pinoc10@hotmail.cum>
> wrote:
 
>>My alt got his epic ilvl 600 cloak a few days ago.  I decided _not_ to
>>spend 500 VPs for the upgrade as the legendary cloak was just around the
>>corner.  That was a wise decision.  When I transformed the cloak to
>>Legendary 10 mins ago it also included 2 free upgrades to ilvl 608.  So
>>save your VPs. :)
 
> Yeah, they did that because people would've been annoyed to have to
> spend it twice; they apparently couldn't make it easily carry over the
> upgrade level. Should've made the 600 cloak not upgradeable after the
> legendary became available though!

I'm suprised its that big a deal. Don't most people max out VPs every week?

pt

On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:05:41 -0800 (PST), pete...@gmail.com wrote:

>On Friday, November 29, 2013 9:19:47 AM UTC-5, Catriona R wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:17:41 +0100, "Peter T." <pinoc10@hotmail.cum>
>> wrote:
> 
>>>My alt got his epic ilvl 600 cloak a few days ago.  I decided _not_ to
>>>spend 500 VPs for the upgrade as the legendary cloak was just around the
>>>corner.  That was a wise decision.  When I transformed the cloak to
>>>Legendary 10 mins ago it also included 2 free upgrades to ilvl 608.  So
>>>save your VPs. :)
> 
>> Yeah, they did that because people would've been annoyed to have to
>> spend it twice; they apparently couldn't make it easily carry over the
>> upgrade level. Should've made the 600 cloak not upgradeable after the
>> legendary became available though!
>
>I'm suprised its that big a deal. Don't most people max out VPs every week?

I'd kinda thought most people didn't? Maybe hardcore raiders do but I
haven't since the first few weeks of the expansion, and I'd assumed
that was where most people were. Only a small minority of people are
min-maxing raiders, as far as I'm aware, and for the rest... well,
valor doesn't grow on trees, and it's too much effort for too little
reward to go out and try to max it every week; I personally pick up
200-500 a week, probably, varying depending on whether I can be
bothered farming 50 stones on the timeless isle or not, and how many
times I do the 20 elites daily.

Den 29-11-2013 15:19, Catriona R skrev:

>> My alt got his epic ilvl 600 cloak a few days ago.  I decided _not_ to
>> spend 500 VPs for the upgrade as the legendary cloak was just around the
>> corner.  That was a wise decision.  When I transformed the cloak to
>> Legendary 10 mins ago it also included 2 free upgrades to ilvl 608.  So
>> save your VPs. :)
>
> Yeah, they did that because people would've been annoyed to have to
> spend it twice; they apparently couldn't make it easily carry over the
> upgrade level. Should've made the 600 cloak not upgradeable after the
> legendary became available though!

Lazy dogs. :)  So apparently they gave up because it would have made big 
impacts to the code behind it.  I remember back in the lich king days 
they promised us that the default 16 slot bag would be replaceable by 
bigger bags in WOTLK.  that was 4 years ago.  5.4 is alive and we still 
cant swap it to a royal satchel or a single-slot pouch hehe...

-- 
Peter T.

<https://elite.frontier.co.uk/>

On Friday, November 29, 2013 12:15:21 PM UTC-5, Catriona R wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:05:41 -0800 (PST), pete...@gmail.com wrote:
 
>>On Friday, November 29, 2013 9:19:47 AM UTC-5, Catriona R wrote:
>>> On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:17:41 +0100, "Peter T." <pinoc10@hotmail.cum>
>>> wrote:
 
>>>>My alt got his epic ilvl 600 cloak a few days ago.  I decided _not_ to
>>>>spend 500 VPs for the upgrade as the legendary cloak was just around the
>>>>corner.  That was a wise decision.  When I transformed the cloak to
>>>>Legendary 10 mins ago it also included 2 free upgrades to ilvl 608.  So
>>>>save your VPs. :)
 
>>> Yeah, they did that because people would've been annoyed to have to
>>> spend it twice; they apparently couldn't make it easily carry over the
>>> upgrade level. Should've made the 600 cloak not upgradeable after the
>>> legendary became available though!
 
>>I'm suprised its that big a deal. Don't most people max out VPs every week?
 
> I'd kinda thought most people didn't? Maybe hardcore raiders do but I
> haven't since the first few weeks of the expansion, and I'd assumed
> that was where most people were. Only a small minority of people are
> min-maxing raiders, as far as I'm aware, and for the rest... well,
> valor doesn't grow on trees, and it's too much effort for too little
> reward to go out and try to max it every week; I personally pick up
> 200-500 a week, probably, varying depending on whether I can be
> bothered farming 50 stones on the timeless isle or not, and how many
> times I do the 20 elites daily.

I tend to run 1 Scenario and 1 Heroic each day, unless I'm maxed. That gives
130-135/day, or at least 910/week. This takes around 30 minutes, unless I'm
really unlucky with my fellow players and/or venues. Getting the other 90
doesn't take much work.

pt

Den 01-12-2013 02:13, pete...@gmail.com skrev:

> I tend to run 1 Scenario and 1 Heroic each day, unless I'm maxed. That gives
> 130-135/day, or at least 910/week. This takes around 30 minutes, unless I'm
> really unlucky with my fellow players and/or venues. Getting the other 90
> doesn't take much work.

+ the weekly 200 vps from killing 5 rares on waste of time.  I guess it 
depends on population of the realm though.

-- 
Peter T.

<https://elite.frontier.co.uk/>