by Lujo on Sat Mar 21, 2015 9:07 pm
Well, I agree with your reasoning Tinker. What fall_ark said is what I'm curious about past that point - the 18 gold price, regardless of the ratio, indicates to me an item which requires a significant investment and promises a significant payoff. Stone Sigil doesn't do that, and wouldn't do that even if it gave you 100 CP.
A single altar desecration costs no gold, gives 30 piety and 3 indulgences with no hassle if that's all you need. I don't have the SS vetod (I got nothing veto'd), and I occasionally pick it up if my gameplan works with Miser anyway, but there's just so little chance that spending 18 gold on it and not on just about anything else will make your life easier.
Back when Vampire had a way to spend piety on anything but Brandon, it was an engine, and the vamp would pay through it's nose for it. It still messess directly with the piety costs on many pacts - but Pactmaker can't really be prepped, and you're not likely to prep the sigil just in case you run into it (and Consensus was nerfed from what it used to be). I pick it up on anyone Preping Drac, just because I feel bad for it and it at least looks like when I'm supposed to pick it up.
However, it just compares badly to buying a Schadenfraude, CB for just one hit, or anything else that's not CP fodder. The opportunity cost of putting 18 gold into it feels too high. I'd put 18 gold into a Balanced Dagger, I'd put in 25, but in this game, an item which solves the map for you costs 12-15 gold, and this thing costs 18. It could be a nice "last ditch" purchase that would get me out of many unforseen sticky situations - except by that point I've allready invested my gold into other stuff hoping I wouldn't be in that situation.
I'd keep the CP EDIT: but knock the price down to at least 15, or even lower it, but put the price in the Bloody Sigil or Blue Bead range, tbh. Or at least try it that way, see what happens.
EDIT2: How much piety can you even get out of it? What's that worth, what possible situation could you be in where that's a better investment for 18 gold than too many other things?
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