Instruments

[Suppressed Poet]

What, if any, is the mechanical differance between a master quality instrument vs average quality? I've checked krakiipedia which tells me that an adept learner can evoke different tunes out of a master quality instrument.

Is the messaging different? Are there significant bonuses to 1030 from a master quality vs average quality? How rare are master quality instruments and what can one expect to pay for a two handed one in today's selling market?

[Nilandia]

So far as I'm aware, master quality instruments do not impart any mechanical bonuses over an average quality. Master instruments allow a player to access one tier of messaging higher than what their skill would normally allow. This will work for players of any skill level, bard or not, but the effect is most well known for allowing adept players to access a set of messaging that would not be possible otherwise.

Gretchen

[Suppressed Poet]

Good to know. Sounds like its pretty much fluff then.

[Savageheart]

I think with each tier of your play skill you invoke more messaging up to adept. When you have a master quality instrument you get one more.

Fluff but rare fluff, which is more often than not more expensive than most functional items in the game heh.

Have one zither thats master quality and enhancive to your stamina and health when you play it but it's crumbly so I pretty much stashed it and just look at it... The cost to recharge it was something obscene when I looked.

[Lumi]

So far as I'm aware, master quality instruments do not impart any mechanical bonuses over an average quality. Master instruments allow a player to access one tier of messaging higher than what their skill would normally allow. This will work for players of any skill level, bard or not, but the effect is most well known for allowing adept players to access a set of messaging that would not be possible otherwise.

Gretchen

This.

They're ludicrously overpriced and scarce for such little benefit. It's a prestige thing.

[Kitsun]

This.

They're ludicrously overpriced and scarce for such little benefit. It's a prestige thing.

That or bards trying in vain to find musical scripting that people haven't just squelched out yet.