I will give a brief insight of this idea following the forums suggested format and then below I will give a more in-detail explanation of the concept
For revampsWhat's the current issue? Theater of Blood drop tables are not putting enough of the ultra-rare items into the ECO which inevitably kills the content. What's your suggested way of fixing it? Creating a raid shop similar to the raid shops for the ::raidhub bosses.How will this benefit player/server? This will allow players to actually enjoy the items that are being introduced to the gameHow could this be expanded in future? Point boosters in the donation shop that allows 2x points for x amount of time (does not impact milestone bonuses).
What negative effect could this have? (Think eco, Item balances, Overpowered) Flooded Eco if the point values aren't applied appropriately.
Content: Creating a new raid shop that is specifically for the Theater of Blood raid
Reason: Currently there are VERY limited quantities of the TOB ultra-rare drops that were recently brought into the server. Since introduction in April there have been the following drops (none since the introduction of the new drop table)
Justiciar Faceguard: 3
Justiciar Chestguard: 5
Justiciar Leggaurds: 2
Scythe of Vitur: 12
Avernic Defender: 0
Sanguinesti Staff: 0
With raids taking around 10 minutes to complete and gear requirements being high for completion if someone were to hit one of those drops at a 1:250 rate (top 25th percentile of the 1:1000 drop table with 100% luck) that will take a player over 40 hours for ONE drop which has essentially killed the content (I myself am over 400 dry which is around 65 hours of pure TOB runs). The amount of players that now even use this content has dwindled down to about zero where it used to be a highly popular thing to do on Dreamscape.
How can we fix it to keep the content from dying? Introducing a new raid shop outside of Theater of Blood (using the mysterious stranger near the entrance) will allow players to essentially assure that they will receive a drop if they complete x amount of raids. Creating a raid point system for TOB completions is my idea of how we can bring people back to this content.
How will players receive raid shop points?
Players will receive one point every time they complete the raid
Every 100 raid completions they will receive a 10 point bonus on top of their one point per completion
What are the prices of the items in the shop?
All of the unique TOB items will be priced at 500 points ea
This price is fair because it will still require to complete a minimum of 460 raids in order to buy an item of that reward shop
460 raids would take a minimum of like 60 hours so the flooding of items due to this shop is highly unlikely.