GoD - Tribute Master (Information)Follow

I thought I would share this with everyone just in case people are searching.

GoD provides a Tribute Master that is accessible to all levels if you have the GoD expansion. These Master's are located in each "home" city. If your a DE then you must go home to deal with them. Humans have two places Queynos and Freeport. For us evil charecters there are Tribute Master's in your guild. I know in Queynos and Freeport there is a Tribute Master in the cleric guilds. I am not sure if this means every guild has one or if the good people go to the cleric guild and the bad people go to the evil guild but both sides have thier own. Good news for me!!!!!!!

Tribute Master provides buffs as an example being a Necro I may want to purchase clarity, health regen etc. You can donate things to the Master gear, plat etc. These items exchange for a bank of points that sit in your account on the Tribute Master. You are allowed 5 buffs at one time that will last 10 minutes. After the 10 minutes it draws more points from your account to continue the use, and so on and so on till either your broke or you turn it off.

Alt U will allow you to watch your timer, buffs and points. It will allow you to downgrade which basically turns off the buffs. This can be done anywhere at anytime. However, if you wish to restart these buffs you must return home to the Tribute Master and have them turn it on again.

Last night a level 51 cleric purchases clarity and it regen his mana from 0 to 100 % in less than 3 minutes. Later her let someone put clarity on him which overrode the Tribute Master buff. He suddenly was regening mana at the spell clarity rate. When he clicked it off within 10 seconds he was full mana.

The Tribute Master is NOT CHEAP!!!!! It is inconveniet but I can see where selling buffs it would rock or raiding would be extremely enhanced! The downfall being from Rollas Zek I can see where the PK'rs may find an advantage in continous uber buffs while they create chaios.

Hope this helps someone out there.

Thanks for the link and the information I provide was simply provided to me.

The Tribute masters are on the Find thingie if you can't find them easily.

Plat is a 1:1 ratio for points. Other items vary wildly, but basically the harder it is to get, the more it's worth. I use Architect Bejeweled Breastplates for points as they are worth 24,500 points and can be bought in the bazaar for as low as 6,000 on Rathe.

You cannot turn in No-Drop items.

You can only turn on or increase the level of tribute buffs at the NPC in your city, but they can be turned off or downgraded anywhere (On the Alt-U menu)

Clarity is FT1-5, and counts toward your FT cap of 15. Health regen is 2 hp/tic per buff level. Instrument bonuses seem to be about 1.4, and will allow you to use songs that require instruments last time I checked.

AFAIK you can get any spell focus effect from tribute. (Extended enhancement, burning affliction, whatever). The system is kinda wonky as the level of tribute buffs is restricted by character level, but that means you can't get appropriate focus buffs at some points. For example to get level 2 focus effects, you must be level 30, but level 1 focus effects only affect spells of level 1-20.

/em does the Jedi Mind Trick.

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Edited, Sat May 8 06:15:56 2004 by PsychoJester

I have another question about Tributes...

How long do they last? Everytime I have activated one a timer for approximately 10 minutes starts rolling. If the tribute only lasts 10 minutes then what is the purpose?

Sly

I still say the taking points every 10 minutes is way to much. How about every half hour or hour. Besides who wants to waste your items on this guy when you can go get the same effects and they are permanent? Just my 2 CP.

Very valid points, but not everyone has the high end toon to farm with or the money to buy stuff. Some of us actually are newbs who still are working on just getting past the hell levels. I've had my account for about six months now and my highest toon is only 39.

But anyway, if you got some spare junk to get rid of that won't sell for crap to a vendor, check out the tribute master. It's always worth at least a shot.

There are some items that have HUGE *** tribute values with crappy bazaar values. Cultured armor is a good example of this. A blessed full mithril BP sells for 8-10k but tributes for 22k (for example). Also I got some fists of iron from a vamp in Tim Deep that I would have a hell of a time selling in baz but tribute gave me a whopping 19k !

These effects are IN ADDITION to other items/buffs so that is why they are useful. A bonus 150 hp, FT 5, etc are VERY nice to have if you have the time/interest to donate.

Thanks for this thread, very useful. I kind of was aware of the tribute system but was too lazy to find out much about it. Now I am running around with an extra 150hp and FT5. Wootles!

Fist of Iron go for like 10k+ in the bazaar. There aren't very many good hand to hand weapons in the game.