Vanarch system info (for the curious)

Destian Profile Options #1

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Here's what the vanarch system entails, since it wasn't exactly crystal clear:

-You acquire the "Honor Steed" for simply being in a guild that holds office. It just appears in your skill list as soon as you join the guild. It's the fastest mount in the game currently at 290, 10 faster than the lion.

-It costs 3,000 policy points per day to keep everything up and running.

-If you plan to ignore the noble cleric, it's 500 less.

-The trade broker costs 500, both trainers together are another 500 (they're not separate).

-The specialty store costs the most, requiring 1,500 PP/day to keep open.

-Each of these services has a button where you can choose to extend the service another day in exchange for the correct amount of PP. When you do this, it announces it to the province.

-You can set tax rates on every individual service, including merchants and travel, up to 15% and as low as 1%.

-The vanarch quests are found on the guild board and are for all of the rare BAMs in the game (Arakia, Barraq, etc.).

-The vanarch quests are identical to the normal rare BAM guild quests, except they award 500 PP per turn in (you get credit for both the vanarch quest AND the guild quest, meaning every 500 PP should come with 4 cath award tokens, too).

-The fastest way to acquire PP is to hunt appropriate level rare BAMs with a group of 5 guildies that all have the quest. This means 2,500 PP per kill, total.

-A vanarch term is 3 weeks (22 days). It would take 66,000 PP to keep the service up for the whole 22 days. This equals a full party of 5 with the quest killing ~27 rare BAMs.

Hope this is helpful.
Edited by: Destian 12 months ago
Loaft Profile Options #2

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so 27 bams for a term, you could do that in less then a hour
Qilong Profile Options #3

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I see that if I want to get any achievement, such as the title "Dread Pirate" for killing Abraxis on Mistmoor Isle 50 times, I am now essentially either stealing policy points from the Vanarchy of Ostgarath ... or that I would need to be in that guild. I do not know if I should worry about this.
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Qilong on 06/02/2012, 01:23 AM - view
I see that if I want to get any achievement, such as the title "Dread Pirate" for killing Abraxis on Mistmoor Isle 50 times, I am now essentially either stealing policy points from the Vanarchy of Ostgarath ... or that I would need to be in that guild. I do not know if I should worry about this.


Just steal the points, and get your title.
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Catatonic on 06/02/2012, 01:24 AM - view
Qilong on 06/02/2012, 01:23 AM
I see that if I want to get any achievement, such as the title "Dread Pirate" for killing Abraxis on Mistmoor Isle 50 times, I am now essentially either stealing policy points from the Vanarchy of Ostgarath ... or that I would need to be in that guild. I do not know if I should worry about this.


Just steal the points, and get your title.


I like to call people out for douchebaggery. This would be hypocrisy. I haven't heard anything bad of Passion, on Dragonfall, who currently runs Ostgarath, and do not want to piss the guild off. I would actually like to help Ostgarath function as a hub for leveling and endgame instancing.
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Qilong on 06/02/2012, 01:27 AM - view
Catatonic on 06/02/2012, 01:24 AM
Qilong on 06/02/2012, 01:23 AM
I see that if I want to get any achievement, such as the title "Dread Pirate" for killing Abraxis on Mistmoor Isle 50 times, I am now essentially either stealing policy points from the Vanarchy of Ostgarath ... or that I would need to be in that guild. I do not know if I should worry about this.


Just steal the points, and get your title.


I like to call people out for douchebaggery. This would be hypocrisy. I haven't heard anything bad of Passion, on Dragonfall, who currently runs Ostgarath, and do not want to piss the guild off. I would actually like to help Ostgarath function as a hub for leveling and endgame instancing.


Your decision. Finding Abraxis is hard enough considering his spawn location, do you think other players are going to have the same logic? Plus how many players in that level bracket are actually going to go for the quest to kill him?
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Is there any actual benefit for this entire system or is it essentially a way to just force people to work for everything we had before the system was implemented, and a way for people with lots of alt accounts to get 15% of all money spent in their region?
Regpuppy Profile Options #8

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So a guild of 20 active people could keep everything running without breaking a sweat?

sweet, wonder what all these large guilds' excuses are :P
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Bringer on 06/02/2012, 01:53 AM - view
Is there any actual benefit for this entire system or is it essentially a way to just force people to work for everything we had before the system was implemented, and a way for people with lots of alt accounts to get 15% of all money spent in their region?


Technically EME chose to turn those things on, they didn't have to. They could have launched the game with them turned off, kinda like how they were in all the CBTs.
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Bringer on 06/02/2012, 01:53 AM - view
Is there any actual benefit for this entire system or is it essentially a way to just force people to work for everything we had before the system was implemented, and a way for people with lots of alt accounts to get 15% of all money spent in their region?


One vote per account, so I don't see how alts are an issue here