Inspired by this topic, I'd like to propose a method of gaining HD Ore in-game while still benefiting WP through additional VIP incentives. My idea is as follows.
An NPC located in northeast Manuk will ask the player to complete a short quest.
This NPC will first request 20 Oridecon, along with kill counts for 10 Dimik (Blue), 10 Dimik (Green), 10 Dimik (Orange) and 10 Dimik (Red). Upon returning, it will request 20 Elunium and additional kill counts for 10 Venatu (Blue), 10 Venatu (Green), 10 Venatu (Orange), 10 Venatu (Purple) and 1 Archdam.
Following a 2nd return to this NPC with the above counts and materials, it will ask for 20 Bradium and 20 Carnium alongside a few final kill counts, for 50 Bradium Golem, 50 Knocker and 1 Bow Guardian.
After the completion of this quest, the player will be given the opportunity to 'compress' granulated versions of standard ores (Granulated Oridecon, Elunium, Bradium and Carnium), into the High Density equivalents of those ores using a hidden NPC located inside one of the "machines" in man_in01.
To access this machine NPC, the player must pay the original quest NPC a "bribe" of 50,000 zeny to look the other way while you use it. This must be paid for each subsequent use of the machine, but so long as you've already activated the machine NPC dialogue and have additional granulated ores to compress in your inventory, it will count as 1 use (functioning similarly to refinement NPCs).
Granulated ores are obtainable from the original NPC, who will issue additional kill count quests that, upon, completion, will reward a box of 25/50 granulated ores. This box may be traded. Once opened, the granulated ores inside are account bound.
The kill count quests to obtain granulated ores are as follows:
25 Granulated Oridecon: 50 Kasa, 50 Imp
50 Granulated Oridecon: 100 Kasa, 100 Imp
25 Granulated Elunium: 50 Rake Horn Scaraba, 50 Antler Scaraba
50 Granulated Elunium: 100 Rake Horn Scaraba, 100 Antler Scaraba
25 Granulated Bradium: 50 Dolomedes, 50 Centipede
50 Granulated Bradium: 100 Dolomedes, 100 Centipede
25 Granulated Carnium: 50 Banshee, 50 Flame Skull
50 Granulated Carnium: 100 Banshee, 100 Flame Skull
These quests have a level prerequisite of 125. Only one quest may be taken at a time. Once completed, each quest has a cooldown of 23 hours.
The proposed granulated ore conversion rate is:
50 Granulated Oridecon = 1 HD Oridecon
50 Granulated Elunium = 1 HD Elunium
50 Granulated Bradium = 1 HD Bradium
50 Granulated Carnium = 1 HD Carnium
The proposed chance of successful conversion is:
50% non-VIP
80% VIP
Upon failure, the NPC will return:
0-3 Oridecon per attempt at 1 HD Oridecon
0-3 Elunium per attempt at 1 HD Elunium
@ 0 = 80%, 1 = 10%, 2 = 7%, 3 = 3%.
0-2 Bradium per attempt at 1 HD Bradium
0-2 Carnium per attempt at 1 HD Carnium
@ 0 = 90%, 1 = 7%, 2 = 3%.
Thoughts and amendments anyone?
Edited by AlmrOfAtlas, 07 July 2014 - 03:10 PM.