Scroll of Instant Warp

[Mefuki]

I haven't used a Warp Cudgel in years, ever since the devs made the correct choice of making Warp scrolls 10CP each.

[Olor]

Good news! It's really funny that the devs worry so much about some items (like warp cudgels) while pretty much making entire events worth of gear completely useless every couple weeks... like why not worry about the value of plasm gear from original delve? That's something I'm way more concerned about... since it being worthless means no one has any reason to farm plasm which means I've been stuck at needing 120K plasm for my Tojil sword for weeks...

I mean I could do more win runs to get it but I find them stressful...

[Zarchery]

As an alchemist, who used to make a good living synthing silent oil and prism powder before Spectral Jig and Monomi: Ichi rendered them obsolete, I don't think I really care about what happens to the warp cudgel market. Crafting hasn't been nearly as profitable as farming in ages.

[Annalise]

Hello,

Just a slight update on this.

The team is currently looking into making it so warp scrolls can be stacked, and though there is a concern that Warp Cudgels may lose a bit of its luster, they are also looking into adding something to them that will boost their value a bit.

Again… changes have destroyed several markets over the years. Medicines. Food. Even look at trust and now people don't need things like au laits for regen anymore. Persikos Au lait were crazy powerful at low levels. Adding trust, I don't think I saw anyone cry over the impact it may have had on au laits.

Seriously, I just don't get the obsession with the warp cudgel. You might as well remove the adoulin gear for making the majority of crafted items worthless? Didn't think so.

[Grekumah]

Greetings,

I have an update to share in regards to making warp scrolls stack.

Instead of making it so warp scrolls can stack, we’ve decided to add a new enchantment item that can be purchased with conquest points that will allow you to warp.

While there is no limit on the charges for this new item, it will have a recast time of 10 minutes, and in the event that you need to continuously warp in a short period of time we’d like players to utilize warp scrolls or Warp Cudgels. (To coincide with this change, we will be shortening the recast time on Warp Cudgels.)

This new item is scheduled to be implemented in the August version update.

[Mnejing]

Hello Grekumah,

The JP post and a fan translation says that there will be unlimited amount charges on this new item, while your post states that there is a set amount of charges. Can you verify that this is correct?

[woie]

ok let me get this straight.... you dont want to make scolls stack because you are concerned it will effect Warp Cudgel sales so instead you want to add another item that we have to carry arround that does the same thing but i can get with the same almost useless points im using for scrolls instead of forking over gil to woodworkers...idiots

[Camate]

Hello Grekumah,

The JP post and a fan translation says that there will be unlimited amount charges on this new item, while your post states that there is a set amount of charges. Can you verify that this is correct?

There are unlimited charges on the new item. Sorry about the confusion. I've updated Grekumah's post as well.

[Demonjustin]

I honestly have no idea what goes through the minds of the people in charge of this kind of thing.

We ask for the ability to stack warp scrolls, a limited number of uses due to the fact they will, one day, run out.
We are turned down due to Warp Cudgels, another item with a limited number of uses, being a source of gil.
We are then told that a new item, with unlimited uses but a 10 minute timer, will be added.

In what way were Warp Scrolls going to hurt Warp Cudgels that wasn't done in making an unlimited use item? I don't understand... Really, I just don't understand...



This isn't a complaint about the change, but rather, I wish things made more sense. When I see things like this I simply can't help but scratch my head and wonder how this made any logical sense to anyone on the team who was involved in it...

[Raydeus]

This isn't a complaint about the change, but rather, I wish things made more sense. When I see things like this I simply can't help but scratch my head and wonder how this made any logical sense to anyone on the team who was involved in it...

The way I see it it probably has to do with at least 2 things. 1) Allowing Warp scrolls to stack would be immediately followed by the requests to allow players to buy more than 1 scroll at a time, which would mean completely changing the way you acquire warp scrolls in addition to the modifications to the item itself. 2) Making a new item would be far easier as it allows the old warp items to be left untouched.

Also, I can see how they didn't want to affect warp cudgels at first, and how they changed their minds once they looked at the data and confirmed the market for Warp cudgels is virtually dead. And now we'll have 3 ways of using warp at our disposal. So all things considered I'm very satisfied about it.