Guild Badge

[Kotin]

Greetings,

I've searched for information about maximizing the enhancives on my badge, but I can't find any.

I've begun my own research and have my badge up to 2, 2, 2, 3, 2 improvements.

If there is research already available, might someone post links for me to read?

Thank you.

Sincerely,

- Kotin

[Ososis]

http://forum.gsplayers.com/showthread.php?96881-Findings-adventurer-s-guild-badge-costs-limitations-progression

This has some legwork.

[Kotin]

Thank you for the links.



If I get a new badge, do I need to get new bounty points to upgrade it or do the points used to upgrade my prior badge return to the pool?



Are badges always free to get if I ask for a new one? If not, what do they cost?


Thank you,

- Kotin

[Ososis]

With the testing being done it seems the total badge upgrades is limited by lifetime BP, so none are ever spent, you just have a cap. So you should be fine to start over with no lose.

Guild badge costs 10k...BP maybe? It’s somewhere in the thread. You get a free replacement every so long, then after that you have to pay.

[gilchristr]

What level are you?

[Kotin]

Greetings,

I'm level 41 with 201,995 lifetime bounty points....

I'm trying to max health/stamina recovery. I can presently get +4 stam OR health recovery.

I'm also free to play.

It's all in my Notebook.

Sincerely,

- Kotin

[gilchristr]

You need 310k lifetime bounty points to get two enhancives. Upgrade the badge to 6/4/0/0/0.

As for right now, have you thought about going for max stamina instead of stamina recovery? You can get +8 to max stamina at your level, which depending on your stats may provide more noticable boost than +4 stamina recovery.

[khorpulent]

Stamina recovery is nearly always the better choice than max stamina, as the bonus is actually a percentage (of your overall stamina, I think). Max stamina will increase your stamina recovery slightly, since your recovery rate is a percentage of your max, but usually not as substantially.

The exception to this is obviously low level characters (especially professions who can only 1x in PF) who don't have much stamina in the first place and won't gain much from the extra percentage recovery.

Still, I'd rather boost my CON stat or bonus than max stamina or health recovery, as it will boost your max stamina and health (and consequently recovery rates), as well as provide phantom crit padding.

In lieu of boosting your health recovery, just get your weapon ensorcelled. Well...if F2P can even benefit from ensorcellments, I don't know.

[Kotin]

Greetings,


A friend lent me their T5 weapon to test.... it flared +25 AS. I was in squirrels, however, so I did not get hit.

The temporary boost never worked for me. I think that one is restricted.


For me, max stamina and stamina recovery are about the same.

As for health recovery, unless you have another formula, this is all I have to go on: https://gswiki.play.net/Health#Health_Regeneration and https://gswiki.play.net/Constitution

Health Recovery = Base Regeneration + truc(Physical Fitness ranks / 20) + modifiers

In that formula, I not see anything about constitution. That is why I started going for health recovery.


If there is another formula, I'd like to see it.


Sincerely,

- Kotin

p.s. I am looking into getting T5 ensorcelled weapon. I just learned that I can't get my fusion claidhmore ensorcelled which makes me super sad.

[khorpulent]

Yeah, stamina recovery and max stamina are about the same now, but the bonus from recovery will increase as you gain PF ranks.

Guess I'm wrong about health recovery. I thought it was based on total HP, not on PF ranks.

Still, health recovery does seem like a waste of a perfectly good badge slot, considering that acantha will accomplish the same thing. Society powers (sigil of mending actually gives +15 to health recovery) would help too. Of course, if you're F2P and don't have a society pass, your options are limited. I'd much rather get an enhancive that boosts combat skills (or helps to avoid getting hit and losing HP in the first place) and just eat acantha or yabathilium or something when I need it.

And also, why get a T5 weapon if you don't get any benefits from it?

[Kotin]

Greetings,


I have 100% chance to get hit in battle.... even with dreavening. The rational behind the recovery is that I fight using the martial art I developed and call Rage Plate Do. I outline it in my journal here: https://kotin17.wixsite.com/kotin/rage-plate-do

The longest berserk I've had was a bit over 5 minutes... there is NO time to eat acantha leaf.

If I can get the max health regen (~65 per minute [15 from PF training, 50 from enhancives], I believe), then I can live through those times where I have multiple level three bleeders.... I once returned to town, with more near 40 points of bleeders from getting boiled three times in a row.

I figure, if I don't get killed by the crit, with enough hp regen, I'll outlive my opponents and continue to fight on

Sincerely,


- Kotin


p.s. I've been in plate since level 17 -- when I first found plate.

[Ososis]

Acantha leaf is for suckers, my friend. Green mushroom potions from zul are how the hero’s get home.

[Kotin]

Hey! I had only 7 hp left the other night and several bleeders.... I got home just fine.


Then Silverli patched me all up when I got home.


But... I could have stayed out even longer if I had better regeneration.


Besides, carrying stuff is for suckers ;)

[Ososis]

Besides, carrying stuff is for suckers ;)

excellent point! Ensorcell is my go to healing tool now.

[khorpulent]

excellent point! Ensorcell is my go to healing tool now.

Yeah, we're having this whole discussion cause ensorcell doesn't work for F2P. Otherwise, it would be the obvious solution.

Forgive me if you already know this, but you might want to look into the Armor Reinforcement specialization skill (assuming it's available to F2P) to help a bit with stacking all those wounds.

Combat Toughness will also give you a little bit more max HP.

And of course, you can always stop berserking after 9 rounds and eat some herbs....

[Roblar]

Ensorcell does work for F2P, he states in post #9 that it does (plus I tested it with him).

He mentioned temporary ones doesn't but it doesn't for anyone but sorcerers I think.

[Kotin]

Greetings,


I DO use armor reinforcement -- it's in my notes: https://kotin17.wixsite.com/kotin/skills-stats

Also, as Roblar pointed out, I did test the availability of T5 for me.

I'm presently looking to get a T5 Battle Axe....


Sincerely,


- Kotin

[Beniah]

How can you tell what the current upgrades are on the badges? Don't think mine have much rhyme nor reason about them and can't recall what I did in past.

[khorpulent]

Ensorcell does work for F2P, he states in post #9 that it does (plus I tested it with him).

He mentioned temporary ones doesn't but it doesn't for anyone but sorcerers I think.

Apparently I can't read. Pardon me.

[Kotin]

Greetings Beniah,

Here is a list of the possible upgrades: https://gswiki.play.net/Adventurer%27s_Guild_Badge


They come in groups of three. So ask the guild to change one aspect at a time (it's free) and you'll be presented with a list of changes available to you. You then compare this to the list I presented above and you can determine what you have upgraded so far.


Once you've done this, I advise making a index card with a table showing "Badge Upgrade" in one column and "Level" in the next column. Then, fill it in as you go. As I said, my current badge has 2, 2, 2, 3, 2 upgrades.


Sincerely,

- Kotin