Pls can anyone Explain me about Infusible and Powersouce?Follow

Powersources are primarily purchased in The Buried Sea and in Katta Castrum off of Trader Vallarines for Orux, the TBS specific alternate currency earned through doing progression missions or purchased from other players in the bazaar. These powersources are listed under their vendors as "Energeians" because they are a variety of "energeian orb" whose power level depends on your faction rating and how much you're willing to spend. You can also, if you are able to complete some raids in Solteris, purchase raid Energeians whose benefits can be found here.

Now, Infusible simply means that having an energeian orb will increase or decrease your stats based on the quality and type of orb you use, for each piece of infusible armor. If you have 3 pieces, your stats will go up and down by the amount specified in the orb's type and quality for each piece times the percentage of purity (30 purity = 30% purity). Say it adds 10 Str and 15 HP after purity mod, you get 30/45 added for having 3 pieces of that quality. I haven't had the most time to play with them, but if you want a good look then check out Latan's page, he's great for info and he posts quite a bit on Alla.

I may have left some stuff out or possibly even gotten it wrong, I don't have the most experience with these as I'm out of Orux and still needing to outfit 3 alts with Katta spells. (looking at needing thousands of Orux yet) If anyone has corrections then please don't let me misinform someone. It will help me as well in the future.

Recap:
Latan's merchant guide (some description of Energeians related to their merchant.)
Latan's Raid Energeians (Stats based on 75 purity armor for the raid quality powersources.)
EQWiki's description and stats of normal energeians. (contains a link to Latan's raid stats at the bottom)

This is only MY opinion, of course, but I view these orbs as a needless and fairly close to useless additional timesink to the game. I mean for every benefit they give you, they take something of close to equal value away, and to top it off, they "decay" over time so you have to worry about replenishing them.

Now I know some players just HAVE to maximize their favorite stats, which means to them chasing down a +50 food item to replace their current +40 food item is worth spending hours on bakery skills or pharming needed components. But not for me and frankly for "younger" players I think this just makes the game seem more complicated than it is.

I feel somewhat the same about tribute, although that can be worth a certain effort since the benefits to be obtained can be significant. But with tribute you do need to remember to turn it ON and OFF and who hasn't kicked themselves in the posterior when they left tribute running for hours while they browsed the Bazaar or just goofed off without fighting for a stretch in game.

One could argue that this kind of "depth" makes EQ different from every other game since there is so much in it that even experienced players don't know. But this depth also can make the game real intimidating for new and returning players. So if you're a noob or a noon-returnee, maybe think about tribute at some point but leave the power source stuff for when you really have some spare down time.

Hey, I'm open to being convinced. Show me a powersource that a returning player, presumably with a whole inventory of slots needing serious upgrades and improvements, is really going to benefit from.

Yeah, I can see where a serious end-game raider with most stats maxed out can benefit from them. But someone who's just returned and trying to acquire some knowledge of the game would be far better studying armor quests and drop locations than fretting about an infusible item that, for example, trades 200 HPs for 40 ac, or 200 mana for 250 HPs.

I mean, no offense to Torgayeth, but read his first two paragraphs again... trying to absorb all that gives me a headache, let alone a newly returned player. Can't we just agree that Sony made the whole infusible/powersource thing just a tad too complicated?? They do have a tendency to do that... like inserting 100 different types of campfires, even though 99% of players tend to use 1 of maybe 3 different types. (I mean I can't remember the last time I needed to boost the entire group's, oh say, DEX, as opposed to their HP, AC or mana. And I doubt I'll ever be in a group that needs to be in evil eye illusion!)

Same for tribute benefit options. Far more than most people ever use. Choices are always nice but overkill is not.



Edited, Jun 24th 2009 6:21am by Sippin