Why was furniture stealth nerfed with this update?

[Cusashorn]

I went to my 5 room in south Qeynos and noticed I'm suddenly missing a little more than 10,000 status. I know for a fact that nothing is missing in my house and nothing was moved around or changed. I counted up the furniture and it came out to be exactly what it said that I had. Whats the deal?

[Valdaglerion]

<p>Wow, I didnt check that yesterday but I hope its a bug and not intended. That will truly suck. I can also see them not wanting to change status requirements on existing houses or build new house models so they are preparing for the new Lvl 80 caps of RoK by nerfing the existing items so they can use the new caps with existing formulas.</p><p>ie - you will get 900 rent status reduction for T8 items rather than T7 etc. again, that will suck and I hope I am wrong....</p>

[Cusashorn]

Well all my mastercrafted furniture is still the same, as are my quested items. Hmmm.

[vapporwolf]

I saw something saying that if you have items with rent reduction stored inside the house vault that you would not recieve status credit for those items

[Valdaglerion]

<p>True, I saw that too - all items must be placed out within the house to get rent status reduction. They made that change as part of the moving crate now. Did it to prevent exploits by multiple moving I think.</p><p> Have tons of rent status reduction items and move. New house would have 1 crate (only 1 item in house) but would be equal to rent status reduction items contained in it. Rinse and repeat until you have enough crates to have tons of rent status reduction. </p><p>Such a system would make the low end items actually useful then. If you had a crate full of 70pt rent status reduction items for instance, that one crate would be worth (500x70) = 35,000 rent status reduction and could be tucked away in the corner and quite honestly could be produced in no time at all at a very minimal cost. Then place you other items out to furnish the house however you want...</p>

[Grimwell]

Cusashorn - <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=363512" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">you already asked this question</a>. I have asked someone on the team to check on this and clear up what is going on. Locking this thread as the other thread is the one I used and I'd like everyone to see the answer at the same time. One thread > two my friend!