Aelonwy
Well-known member
There is a serious issue with your valuations - many of the things you put a value on you will not OWN when the sub ends unlike items you actually purchase.I look at the bang for your buck. , You could spend 100 bucks for the entire year of DDO.
TLDR ~$241 dollars of value.
For each month I am not listing all the item in the VIP bag, just the most expensive, or try to give something a value.
Non-Double Bonus points
Rough price $1.00 per 75 points
Get the easy one out of the way first. DDO Points.
VIP already get 500 points a month times a year... + 6000 DDO point. (6500 / 75) ~ $87 dollars
First Time Sign up
5 shared bank spaces ( 10 shared is 1000 points, so half is ) ~ 500 DDO Points
1- Month
Bonus +500 DDO Points
2- Month
Bag of Many Things
Ethereal Rest Shrine Statuette ~ 700 DDO Points
I would say the Omni Dust because you used to get 50 dust for 50 points.. so 2500 dust is 2500 points... But they are not selling it any more for some reason, but it is in the Trunk you can buy for 3700 DDO points but you get so many other things in that Trunk.. So I am just going with what I can find on the DDO store right now and that is.. Ethereal Rest Shrine Statuette
(Technically the Flawless Siberys Dragonshard (Feat swap token) is most expensive because you can only buy Flawed Siberys Dragonshard from the DDO Store and that is 60 DDO points per.. costs 1,000,000 Flawed Siberys Dragonshard to make one Flawless Siberys Dragonshard so 1 million x 60 DDO points is 60,000,000 ddo points or $800,000 dollars!!!!! )
3- Month
Bonus Character Slot ~ 625 DDO Points
4- Month
+10% Item Durability Ward ~ Worthless No DDO Point Value
This is a pointless gift.
5- Month
Bag of Many Things
Ethereal Rest Shrine Statuette ~ 700 DDO Points
6- Month
Lightning Storm Trail ~ 2500 DDO Points
Based on most expensive mount you can buy in DDO store right now.
7- Month
VIP Artisan’s Advantage~ Worthless to 160 DDO points
+10% to Crafting XP. In addition, each time you click a Collectible node you get a chance to gain a Crafting Material Token
I feel this is worthless because how many people sit around and craft nonstop for a year or however long you plan to be a VIP. You can buy 100% potion stack of 10 for DDO 160 points.
8- Month
Greater VIP Bag of Many Things
Lesser Heart of Wood ~2500 DDO Points
9- Month
VIP Discovery Boost ~ Worthless to 300 DDO Points
Get a +1% increased chance of named loot dropping for your characters in chests that stacks with Elixirs of Discovery.
Just using 10 poitions of the greater treasure +15 to rolls for loot. I dont know what 1% increase chance will be.
According to DDO wiki Running Elite quest gives you 33% chance already, every reaper + is another 1% supposedly if its still accurate.
The potions are supposedly 5% boost. So ... ya.. hard to give value to this.. Want 1 % just run 1 reaper higher than you normally do Run R2 instead of R1
10- Month
Bag of Many Things
Ethereal Rest Shrine Statuette ~ 700 DDO Points
11- Month
5 shared bank spaces ( 10 shared is 1000 points, so half is ) ~ 500 DDO Points
12- Month
Storm Cloud Rider Mount ~2500 DDO Points.
Total Sum of Points ~ 11,685 DDO Points or about $155 dollars of value. PLUS dont forget the DDO points you already get 6000 and 500 points $86 Dollars of Value
So my very very rough estimate of the package is about ~$241 dollars of value. For the price of 99 dollar Full year VIP SUB.
Disclaimer... I know its very subjective. Its hard to give value to the new mount, and the lightning cosmetic. Its hard to put accurate prices on those because its first time seeing it in the game when it comes. So the COOL FACTOR gives them more value, buts its subjective value.
My biggest issue with this is, claiming the stuff. If you pay them 100 dollars up front, and you dont log in for whatever reason. Maybe you had to run your kids to the Moon and you dont plan to be back for about 6 months. You 100% should be getting those items regardless.
You paid for it, you should better get it. This is something that I feel really needs to change, else its another Vaseline image picture I will put up.
They have the ability to do it, so do it.
Other issue is, the Shared bank space. My biggest beef with SSG is the lack of empathy for bank space. They create all this content and new items, but we have no where to put it. 30 mules is unnaceptable. Logging in and out for hours each day moving gear is unnaccptable.
Also what happens if you let your VIP run out and you lose those 10 shares bank spaces? Where do those items go? Im guessing they just stay there, you can withdraw only until you get back down to your non vip shared bank amount? Im guessing that is what it would be.
The Shared Bank spaces for instance you will only have access to while you are an active VIP. The same for the extra character slot.
The same for both cosmetics. You are renting these items not gaining permanent access as if you made a purchase.
Only months 1, 2, 5, 8, and 10 are giving you bonuses that are permanent even after the sub lapses and are therefor comparable to purchases.