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{{Subst:User:BlueNovember/Template:Barnstar Humour}} - For those ololo moments.

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PVP

Mantra of Recall (Mo)
Enraged Smash (W)
Sharpe Blades (A)
Shared Burden (Me)

PVE

Blue November (titles) (Mo)
Anwyn The Welsh (R)
Mist Form (E)
Rhodri The Welsh (N)
Sharpe Edges (D)
Spirit of The Welsh (Rt)

[edit] Economic value of using discounted lockpicks on Normal Mode chests

Credit for the original table code goes to the article on lockpicks. Tables below take into account the reductions in lockpick cost that outpost holders, people who buy from outpost holders, and lucky-title seekers benefit from.
1200g Lockpicks - Outpost price
1250g Lockpicks - Buying from an outpost holder. (I sell at this price)
1500g Lockpicks - See the original article
894g Lockpicks - 1200g minus the perceived value of (un)lucky points gained
994g Lockpicks - 1300g minus the perceived value of (un)lucky points gained
1194g Lockpicks - 1500g minus the perceived value of (un)lucky points gained

[edit] Lockpicks 1200g - Outpost price

Key price	Survival chance needed to break even	Inherent survival chance bonus ¹	Bonus needed from titles and base chance
50	96%	+55%	41%
80	93%	+54%	39%
300	75%	+45%	30%
450	63%	+35%	28%
480	60%	+30%	30%
600	50%	+30%	20%
750	38%	+25%	13%
1250	0%	+10%	0%

[edit] Lockpicks 1250g - Buying from an outpost holder

Key price	Survival chance needed to break even	Inherent survival chance bonus ¹	Bonus needed from titles and base chance
50	96%	+55%	41%
80	94%	+54%	40%
300	76%	+45%	31%
450	64%	+35%	29%
600	52%	+30%	22%
750	40%	+25%	15%
1250	0%	+10%	0%

Note that using lockpicks also contributes to Lucky and Unlucky title, so there is an added incentive to using them over keys which give slightly better value per use. The monetary value of this Lucky/Unlucky title contribution has not been factored into the above tables. The value of a lockpick with lucky+unlucky points obtained from it added in is approximately 305.6gold's worth of playing 9 Rings.
If you are interested in working on your Lucky / Unlucky titles, you should factor this into your break-point consideration. We can incorporate this into the tables by setting the "perceived key value" to (Original cost - 305.6g). This is because for each key you use you are either contributing to lucky or unlucky points.

Edit, Important Note:The following section is slightly off. The 305.6 value comes from (250lucky pts)x(0.886gold per lucky point)x(retention rate in decimals) + (25unlucky points)x(12.6gold per unlucky point)x(1.0-retention rate in decimals). (Ty Sirocco)
You should also consider the varying retention rate. This is pretty much impossible in a table, but if people are really that interested I'll make some graphs.

[edit] Lockpicks 894.4g - 1.2k keys, want lucky titles

Key price	Survival chance needed to break even	Inherent survival chance bonus ¹	Bonus needed from titles and base chance
50	94%	+55%	39%
80	91%	+54%	37%
300	66%	+45%	21%
450	50%	+35%	15%
600	33%	+30%	3%
750	16%	+25%	0%
1250	0%	+10%	0%

[edit] Lockpicks 994.4g - 1.3k keys, want lucky titles

Key price	Survival chance needed to break even	Inherent survival chance bonus ¹	Bonus needed from titles and base chance
50	95%	+55%	40%
80	92%	+54%	38%
300	70%	+45%	25%
450	55%	+35%	20%
600	40%	+30%	10%
750	25%	+25%	0%
1250	0%	+10%	0%

[edit] Lockpicks 1194.4g - 1.5k keys, want lucky titles

Key price	Survival chance needed to break even	Inherent survival chance bonus ¹	Bonus needed from titles and base chance
50	96%	+55%	41%
80	93%	+54%	39%
300	75%	+45%	35%
450	62%	+35%	27%
600	50%	+30%	20%
750	37%	+25%	12%
1250	0%	+10%	0%

¹ This is the bonus given to your chance of not breaking the lock pick when using on a particular tier of normal mode chests.
Use the lockpick survival chance table below to calculate your chance.

[edit] Lockpick uses required for Lucky title to become cost-effective

The above tables are far more useful imho, but many people are asked me for these, so here they are:

[edit] Cost to acquire lucky titles on 9 rings

Lucky	Nine Rings
Charmed	44.1
Lucky	88.2
Favored	220.6
Prosperous	441.2
Golden	882.4
Blessed by Fate	2,206

[edit] Lockpicks 1500g

Lucky	Retention bonus	Gold saved per use	Lockpick uses
Charmed	2%	30	1,470
Lucky	4%	60	1,470
Favored	6%	90	2,451
Prosperous	8%	120	3,677
Golden	10%	150	5,883
Blessed by Fate	12%	180	12,256

[edit] Lockpicks 1300g

Lucky	Retention bonus	Gold saved per use	Lockpick uses
Charmed	2%	26	1,696
Lucky	4%	52	1,696
Favored	6%	78	2,828
Prosperous	8%	104	4,242
Golden	10%	130	6,788
Blessed by Fate	12%	156	14,141

[edit] Lockpicks 1200g

Lucky	Retention bonus	Gold saved per use	Lockpick uses
Charmed	2%	24	1,838
Lucky	4%	48	1,838
Favored	6%	72	3,064
Prosperous	8%	96	4,596
Golden	10%	120	7,353
Blessed by Fate	12%	144	15,319

I don't see the logic in crunching the numbers for the 894.4 etc lockpicks; if you want the titles anyway, you're not interested in how financially viable it is to get them. If some disagrees, please write on my talk page and I'll make the tables anyway.

[edit] Lock pick survival chance

Level 20	Lucky
Treasure Hunter	0	1	2	3	4	5	6
0	10	12	14	16	18	20	22
1	13	15	17	19	21	23	25
2	16	18	20	22	24	26	28
3	19	21	23	25	27	29	31
4	22	24	26	28	30	32	34
5	25	27	29	31	33	35	37
6	28	30	32	34	36	38	40
7	31	33	35	37	39	41	43

Bold numbers highlight situations where it would not be economical to use discounted lockpicks on 600g chests. Ie, if you have some combination of the two titles that brings you to a non-bold number, you should use lockpicks instead of the 600g keys for that area, as there it will be cheaper in the long run.

[edit] Interesting GWG articles

Extensive lockpick guide. Similar idea to what I have above, but more scary and detailed. Will try to wikify at a later date.

Why Nuking Sucks
Kiting and Damage Mitigation Through Movement
How Deep Wound Works
Modifier Stacking and You
Killing Lich in Abaddon's
Killing Shiro in Sunjiang
^{Shamelessly stolen from User:Savio's page.}

[edit] Named and Shamed

Blue's Hall of Shame. Prompted to start this to highlight members of the community who shouldn't be.

1. Asshat
2. Eloc
3. Racist idiot
4. Chocobo1. Free speech on private domain rubbish, +hypocraziness, +thinking the only way to express extreme emotion is by cursing, +constant arrogance all the way through the thread. For a double-dose of retardation, there's carnage-runner's posts; quote people and say you agree with them then re-state your own contradictory opinions. Full marks!
5. "Supermarket shelve stacking is harder than programming" ^_^.
Suggestions welcome!

[edit] Amusing

Mr Hot Shot Economics "As supply increase price increases, As demand increases price decreases". (Scroll down to nvmu's posts, especially the #16)

[edit] Horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE builds

Best monk build known to man
"Spam skills 1-6". Apparently this player is beyond the energy requirements limiting us mere mortals.

[edit] Interesting Gwiki pages

Aftercast delay
Casting Symbol
Skill animation
Error codes

BlueNovember 1,130 edits since June 24, 2006