Using Blessed orbs to transfer skins

Blessed orbs have very niche use as a currency and their usefulness doesn´t compare to their rarity.

Skin transfers are obtainable with real money but they´re consumables and feel a little bit cheap way to make your character look nicer.

I propose making vendor recipe: X(10?) amount of Blessed orbs and item you want to take skin off -> Skin you can apply to other items. This recipe would permanently destroy the item you transfer the skin from and wouldn´t be salvageable as is the case with the current skin transfers. Also, skin transfer consumables would be removed from the real money shop.

Pros:
-Item sink. Transferred item would be gone.
-Character outfit customization available without real money.
-Make Blessed orb great

Cons:
-Removes a small way from GGG to gain profit through in-game purchases
-Current owners of skin transfer consumables could feel cheated
-Unique item effects would lose their uniqueness factor, because they would be available to everyone without spending real money.

What do you think?

Maybe, but this might make blessed orbs much more expensive than they are now, since they would become much more usable and all the good stuff is usually expensive.

Stupid Idea, Blessed orbs are used to reroll period.

MTX's are used to support GGG period.

Stop trying to get stuff for free. If you want to change your apperance in a FTP game then spend some money. Don't have the money Np you can still play the game 100% for free, but that doesn't mean you are entitled to all the shinnies that go along with the people who spend $$ on the MTX's.

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edgewood wrote:

Stupid Idea, Blessed orbs are used to reroll period.

MTX's are used to support GGG period.

Stop trying to get stuff for free. If you want to change your apperance in a FTP game then spend some money. Don't have the money Np you can still play the game 100% for free, but that doesn't mean you are entitled to all the shinnies that go along with the people who spend $$ on the MTX's.

This 100%.



You make it sound like blessed orbs are worthless, OP. They aren't worthless when rolling the implicit ES on a crystal belt from 60 to 80.

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edgewood wrote:

Stupid Idea, Blessed orbs are used to reroll period.

MTX's are used to support GGG period.

Stop trying to get stuff for free. If you want to change your apperance in a FTP game then spend some money. Don't have the money Np you can still play the game 100% for free, but that doesn't mean you are entitled to all the shinnies that go along with the people who spend $$ on the MTX's.

We have clearly different experiences with Skin transfers. They´re the black sheep of the MTX, they don´t offer permanent effects as in you can´t use them in new leagues. They don´t offer anything you can´t get in game, the skins you transfer are there available to you if you wear those items. All other MTX stays with you to the end of PoE and offer effects not available in game any other means.

In my case, I used them, died to standard and felt like I wasted them altogether.

Obviously, I don´t know how popular these are as a purchase, but making them available through recipe as I suggested could open new doors: character customization without spending anything else than in game money can be very attractive to players.

For the entitled part, this would be for everyone, not just for me.

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Docbp87 wrote:

This 100%.



You make it sound like blessed orbs are worthless, OP. They aren't worthless when rolling the implicit ES on a crystal belt from 60 to 80.

New base items that came in Atlas of Worlds sure help Blessed orbs a little bit, sure. They´re mainly used for the jewellery and to minmax at the later stages of the game. Getting your Eye of Chauyla from +12 all attributes to +16 attributes is improvement, but very minimal one.

I suggested Blessed orbs, because they would make some sense thematically and they´re still very underused.

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wrekkoko wrote:

I suggested Blessed orbs, because they would make some sense thematically and they´re still very underused.

How ???
They really don't.