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I opened 84 CWC envelopes
KMarble
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I also opened a bunch of the other ones. Here is what I found (YMMV). Out of the 84, 30 were purple. Even though CWC has a small pool, there were few repeats (I want to say between 10 and 15, but I confess to not paying much attention to that - my brain shut down after a while because opening those envelopes is very boring).
Is it worth it?
For me, not really. Out of the 84, 58 were already known either because I found/bought them before this PTS cycle or I got repeats from the envelopes.
If you have very few CWC furnishing plans, I say go for it. Like I said, I got a small number of repeats out of the envelopes. As a side note, I'd recommend buying any of the envelopes of styles you have little plans. Again, the number of repeats was small across all of the envelopes.
I don't think the envelopes were intended as a primary means of obtaining furnishing plans, but OTOH, the more plans you know, the bigger the chance of getting something you already have.
Do I think the introduction of new plans will ruin the market?
No, I don't. Take for instance Morrowind plans, those envelopes have been available for more than a year now (I don't remember when they were introduced), but the price for them is still decent. The people who buy envelopes with the intent of selling their content will continue to do so, but will now have a larger number of plans to work with, which will prevent the market from being flooded with a handful of plans and causes the price of those to drop.
Master writ vouchers are a very limited currency, and the only one (IIRC) dependent on RNG to be acquired. Relying on RNG twice - to get the currency and to get a "good" plan out of the envelope - isn't a sound business plan. There are better, more reliable ways to have profit from writ vouchers.
Is it worth it?
For me, not really. Out of the 84, 58 were already known either because I found/bought them before this PTS cycle or I got repeats from the envelopes.
If you have very few CWC furnishing plans, I say go for it. Like I said, I got a small number of repeats out of the envelopes. As a side note, I'd recommend buying any of the envelopes of styles you have little plans. Again, the number of repeats was small across all of the envelopes.
I don't think the envelopes were intended as a primary means of obtaining furnishing plans, but OTOH, the more plans you know, the bigger the chance of getting something you already have.
Do I think the introduction of new plans will ruin the market?
No, I don't. Take for instance Morrowind plans, those envelopes have been available for more than a year now (I don't remember when they were introduced), but the price for them is still decent. The people who buy envelopes with the intent of selling their content will continue to do so, but will now have a larger number of plans to work with, which will prevent the market from being flooded with a handful of plans and causes the price of those to drop.
Master writ vouchers are a very limited currency, and the only one (IIRC) dependent on RNG to be acquired. Relying on RNG twice - to get the currency and to get a "good" plan out of the envelope - isn't a sound business plan. There are better, more reliable ways to have profit from writ vouchers.
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✭✭Thanks for this! Yeah...I'm gonna have to check how many CWC purples I already have. I bought a few during the last Anniversary event that had come down to my price range. I also bought all the blues that I was missing and didn't get in the Anniversary boxes because they came down pretty quickly in price. Had I known, however, that these envelopes were coming, I would have waited and saved my gold and had a far less chance of getting plans I already knew. Ah well...there will be players buying these, so hopefully the price of the purples will come down a bit - not too much, but perhaps sub 150k. Right now on XB NA it's hard to find many below 200k (outside of the single panel and a couple others that seem to drop more often in-game).
As for the Alinor plans, I'll probably buy some of the purple documents, since I'm guaranteed to get a purple. And any duplicates should sell well enough. Problem is, there are only 4 purple plans I don't know. But, they are the most expensive ones and I think I'd be willing to wager getting a bunch of duplicates for the chance of getting one of them. Or, I might just wait and see how many come on the market and if the price will come down to 250-300k (as opposed to 800k-1M). Heck, even 400k for that stupid pink potted tree would be better than the 900k I usually see.
I just wish I had known these were coming sooner or that they had been released sooner. Would have saved me a fair bit of gold, as I bought quite a few of the Alinor purples, even after the farming was largely over. At least I stuck to my price range and never went above the 200k I set, which is why those few remaining plans have eluded me.0 -
KMarble✭✭✭✭✭@Jayne_Doe , I have most of the green plans from CWC and a fair amount of the blues which I acquired mostly by going to CWC over and over again. Out of the 84, 58 were known to me. I didn't post this before because different people will have different results.
Mind you, I don't know the exact number of CWC plans available in game, since the sources for this information are unreliable even on PC. Without this knowledge my results mean very little because I don't know if the number of envelopes I opened is large enough.
I see all of those envelopes as a fun thing that I don't rely on to obtain plans. Kind of like buying a dollar lottery ticket once in a blue moon - if I win, awesome. If not, I didn't lose much money (and in the case of the envelopes, I can always sell the plan).0