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Not impressed.
What seems to be a completed mote (533 credits), another four mote pieces (400), four Yggdrasil branch pieces (648), snakeskin piece (125), bell piece (200), fire pendant (133), globe (12), phial (66), guidebook (133), vial (26), figurine (25), guidebook (133), box of parts (5), globe (figurine = 25), globe (11), top hat (16), guidebook (133), globe (30), guidebook (133), pipe (33).
Assuming you sell the figurines at 25 credits, that gives you 2,820 credits, plus surcoats and ink-stained rose thorns which may have tradein values I don't know, a few caches (you didn't say what opening those gave) and a Mayan crown. I'd estimate that's probably about 3000 credits total, for the price of ~2240, so about a 33% bonus. That's a lot more if you use the full, rather than trade-in, value of everything.
That's without factoring in whatever you get in the gold/platinum stocking for buying five.
Results of disembowel testing | Knight limb counter | GMCP AB files
I would get 2241 cr
at 1.4 bonus with Iron Elite, I would get 3138 cr with a straight buy.
Cf 2900 with pulling random things
Then, the coup de grace: two golden extravagant stockings:
You have been awarded with The emblem for a seared glyph talisman piece!
You have been awarded with The tendrils for a seared glyph talisman piece!
Your eyes bug out as you boggle in amazement.
Wellp, I'll be back to seafaring when I'm not a holiday potato.
Additionally, for every 5 stockings of each type you purchase, you'll receive either a gold or
platinum stocking of that tier! So if you purchase 5 fancy stockings, you'll get a gold (or
platinum) fancy stocking. These special versions contain double the reward value as the regular
versions!
This suggests that it's only "double the reward value" but if that's the case shouldn't we also not have received tier-one talisman drops from gold stockings?
I got a bunch of dreadpilar figurine pieces, which were definitely tier-one talisman drops. I don't think the talisman drops from stockings were doubled in value, which is very disappointing compared to what I was expecting.
Dunn tells you, "I hate you."
(Party): You say, "Bad plan coming right up."
You open a logosmas golden stocking and find 30 credits, a luxurious black top hat, 1375 gold sovereigns, 230 gold sovereigns, a group of 11 pieces of rope, a group of 25 valerian leaves, a group of 7 wood commodities, and a group of 8 coal pieces inside!
You have been awarded with The wax for a tablet talisman piece!
You open a logosmas golden stocking and find 1 mayan crown, a group of 32 valerian leaves, and a group of 33 bloodroot leaves inside!
But even if they were normal value, it is still a free stocking for every five your purchased on an already incredible credit sale.
Thats another 20% boost on top of what stockings are already giving. Sure is hard to please everyone though
Humgii tickets - 20 instead of 10
Credits - 25-30 credits added to pool
Mayan Crowns were in the pool, but weren't before
Nuts/Seftonium/Wood Boxes/Top Hats seemed less common
Overall they definitely did not feel "double" the value, though on average they feel higher. Out of the 22 I opened, 8 I valued at 30 credits or under. Crowns = 25-30, they don't sell at 50-75 like they used to. I also have more ice figurines than I can ever use (40 total), and more top hats than anyone should reasonably have (48).
I think opening for elemental would have been smarter for me, since I had more pieces of that already and the pieces are in higher demand.
Has anyone opened a lot of regular gold stockings for the elemental talisman set? I'm curious if we are supposed to get 1 or 2 talisman pieces.
@Nicola or @Makarios, mind having a look? This doesn't seem right, and is very different than the announce post suggests.
It was never stated that we'd get double talisman pieces, and the other goods look to average at least 50cr in value whereas in regular stockings you'd pull around 25cr in value before any talisman pieces. (With higher rolls of 50cr for figurines)
With all the golds it looks like you get around two prizes, with the pool expanded. IE. 30cr and a tophat versus just a tophat.
I don't think anyone is getting jipped, its a gambling promo and the value seems pretty consistent before taking in personal value. (Someone with no need for proficiency gets no value from a whetstone, but its still costs 100 lessons. Those of us with 50 figurines aren't gonna get the same value from it, but its still 50cr.)
Stockings were still a massive, massive creditsale and golds/plats only add on to that.