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WastedChances

10-31-2008, 10:30 PM

Greetings,I spent some time leveling a Templar to level 9, then headed out to the digsite to run some quests for tokens. Iwent at 9 because the T2 quests are way out of my league (level 15 mobs) as opposed to the T1 quest which werelevel 5 to 7. Sure I could level to 15 but 1-9 was painful enough and I have alts to level :)At any rate, I finished up the quests from Jimbo and had 15 tokens; 5 for the cloak and 10 for the helmet. Much tomy dismay, when I clicked to purchase the cloak I was hit with a lag spike and saw:"You purchase Cloak of the Ancient Champions for 5 D.I.R.T.Y Money"twice in my chat window. So now I'm left with only 5 coins which isn't enough for the helmet. I realize there is apetition option however I was under the impression there are a limited number of restores per account and didn'twant to waste it.So there are two things I learned from this "adventure":<ol><li>Templars are horribly slow to level without AAs</li><li>Buying things can be dangerous and in my case I should've bought the more expensive item first since I didn'thave enough to accidentally buy two of them anyway.</li></ol>

Elorah

11-01-2008, 09:26 AM

I can unerstand your pain (I bought 2 cloaks as well, thankfully they can be placed in your home too). However, those quests are repeatable..... You can still get more coins to turn in if thta is your wish <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Ama

11-01-2008, 09:42 AM

Sorry to hear the luck bud you maybe able to get reimbursement by the CSR if you report the incident as a bug. Say you want 1 of the cloaks in your inventory removed and you want just want 5 more DIRTY coins to purchase the hat. You could also suggest to them that they take the cloak + the rest of your coins and give you the hat due to the lag spike.However this is a grey area and it maybe hard to prove the lag spike on their end. Luckily you just have to earn 5 more coins so if you do the naga event 5 times about 6 quick kills a pop you'll be golden. Or you could work your way up really quick and do the crafting quest, but that's a level 20+ quest.

Bratface

11-01-2008, 03:38 PM

This is a good reson to make the clithing items lore, I can't remember which alt has which items already from previous purchases, would be nice if they were lore so you couldn't buy two boots or whatever when you can only use one.Not the furniture or other things, just the items that you can only use one of anyway....

Ama

11-01-2008, 06:12 PM

<cite>Bratface wrote:</cite><blockquote>This is a good reson to make the clithing items lore, I can't remember which alt has which items already from previous purchases, would be nice if they were lore so you couldn't buy two boots or whatever when you can only use one.Not the furniture or other things, just the items that you can only use one of anyway....</blockquote>Well the problem with that is the cloaks can be turned into banners. Already on either my main or an alt i've spent about 50 DIRTY coins purchasing the cloaks. Put 7 of em in my guild's guildhall and took 2 for myself. Have one that I keep as a cloak.

Bratface

11-01-2008, 06:30 PM

<cite>Amana wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Bratface wrote:</cite><blockquote>This is a good reson to make the clithing items lore, I can't remember which alt has which items already from previous purchases, would be nice if they were lore so you couldn't buy two boots or whatever when you can only use one.Not the furniture or other things, just the items that you can only use one of anyway....</blockquote>Well the problem with that is the cloaks can be turned into banners. Already on either my main or an alt i've spent about 50 DIRTY coins purchasing the cloaks. Put 7 of em in my guild's guildhall and took 2 for myself. Have one that I keep as a cloak.</blockquote>Well then, that would be a furniture item wouldn't it?

Lethe5683

11-01-2008, 06:37 PM

No point in making them lore. Just be careful when buying them. maybe they could make them resellable to get your money back or at least most of it.

WastedChances

11-02-2008, 04:32 AM

<cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite><blockquote>No point in making them lore. Just be careful when buying them. maybe they could make them resellable to get your money back or at least most of it.</blockquote>This would be a decent idea. Since the dirty money is no-trade, I don't see why you can't sell the item back toJimbo for the purchase price. That way in a case like mine where I didn't double-click the buy button but wasa victim of unfortunate coincidence, I'd at least be able to get the 5 dirty money back without the hassle of apetition.On a side note, thanks to the above who mentioned it could be turned into a wall hanging. The tooltip didn't saythat (unlike the claimable cloak) and I was unaware.

ke'la

11-02-2008, 05:30 AM

<cite>Bratface wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Amana wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Bratface wrote:</cite><blockquote>This is a good reson to make the clithing items lore, I can't remember which alt has which items already from previous purchases, would be nice if they were lore so you couldn't buy two boots or whatever when you can only use one.Not the furniture or other things, just the items that you can only use one of anyway....</blockquote>Well the problem with that is the cloaks can be turned into banners. Already on either my main or an alt i've spent about 50 DIRTY coins purchasing the cloaks. Put 7 of em in my guild's guildhall and took 2 for myself. Have one that I keep as a cloak.</blockquote>Well then, that would be a furniture item wouldn't it?</blockquote>Yes, and therefor your "Solution" wouldn't help the OP.

Bratface

11-02-2008, 10:21 AM

Never said it would, so why are you picking a fight over this?The clothing lore tag would help keep us from getting two things that cannot be used at the same time, the OP can use both his cloaks so what IS your point? It can help OTHERS!I swear some people just have to post an argument no matter what the topic is.

Lethe5683

11-02-2008, 05:53 PM

<cite>Bratface wrote:</cite><blockquote>Never said it would, so why are you picking a fight over this?The clothing lore tag would help keep us from getting two things that cannot be used at the same time, the OP can use both his cloaks so what IS your point? It can help OTHERS!I swear some people just have to post an argument no matter what the topic is.</blockquote>Your name is appropriate. The lore tag would cause problems with trying to use the cloaks as house items.

Bratface

11-02-2008, 06:34 PM

<cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Bratface wrote:</cite><blockquote>Never said it would, so why are you picking a fight over this?The clothing lore tag would help keep us from getting two things that cannot be used at the same time, the OP can use both his cloaks so what IS your point? It can help OTHERS!I swear some people just have to post an argument no matter what the topic is.</blockquote>Your name is appropriate. The lore tag would cause problems with trying to use the cloaks as house items.</blockquote>Nice try but no dice at a flame,I happen to LIKE my name very much so thank you =)Try actually reading the thread before you post nonsense, I clearly said clothing, not house items/furniture, so since as you needed to point out, the cloak is furniture then it would NOT be included, got it?Do I need to make it simpler for you? Can you discuss anything without insults?What EXACTLY is the problem with wanting the CLOTHING (bolded for those who miss it)lore tagged so we don't end up with duplicates of what we can't use two of? I honestly DO NOT get the animosity here, what on earth is the problem?If it isn't clothing then no lore tag, but gees what is the problem? Explain it to me so I can stop thinking bad things about you please.

Lethe5683

11-02-2008, 07:01 PM

In posting the reply I was assuming that you had actually read (and understood) the thread but appearently not so I'll post the details.<cite>Bratface wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Amana wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Bratface wrote:</cite><blockquote>This is a good reson to make the clithing items lore, I can't remember which alt has which items already from previous purchases, would be nice if they were lore so you couldn't buy two boots or whatever when you can only use one.Not the furniture or other things, just the items that you can only use one of anyway....The cloaks can be turned into furniture, so they would not work correctly with the lore tag unless you expect them to make it so anyone decorating their house has to run back and forth to the merchant to their house for ever item. And thats assuming that when you change it to the cloak house item the lore tag disappeared.</blockquote>Well the problem with that is the cloaks can be turned into banners. Already on either my main or an alt i've spent about 50 DIRTY coins purchasing the cloaks. Put 7 of em in my guild's guildhall and took 2 for myself. Have one that I keep as a cloak.</blockquote>Well then, that would be a furniture item wouldn't it?</blockquote>They don't start as furniture items and I don't know of any lore items that when changed to furniture become no longer lore. This comment in white above is what you were sassing a previous poster about when they said that it would not help the OP and it wouldn't. That's not "trying to pick a fight" it's just correcting someone who is wrong.

NightGod473

11-03-2008, 09:52 AM

<cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite><blockquote>They don't start as furniture items and I don't know of any lore items that when changed to furniture become no longer lore. This comment in white above is what you were sassing a previous poster about when they said that it would not help the OP and it wouldn't. That's not "trying to pick a fight" it's just correcting someone who is wrong.</blockquote>That's one interpretation of it-the other is that the person talking about it not helping the OP was being snarky when someone else came along and posted a suggestion that might help prevent a similar (thought obviously not the exact same) problem in the future. Because, honestly, that's how I read it the first time through, so it's obviously an area open to different interpretations.

Bratface

11-03-2008, 02:08 PM

<cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite><blockquote>In posting the reply I was assuming that you had actually read (and understood) the thread but appearently not so I'll post the details.<cite>Bratface wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Amana wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>Bratface wrote:</cite><blockquote>This is a good reson to make the clithing items lore, I can't remember which alt has which items already from previous purchases, would be nice if they were lore so you couldn't buy two boots or whatever when you can only use one.Not the furniture or other things, just the items that you can only use one of anyway....The cloaks can be turned into furniture, so they would not work correctly with the lore tag unless you expect them to make it so anyone decorating their house has to run back and forth to the merchant to their house for ever item. And thats assuming that when you change it to the cloak house item the lore tag disappeared.</blockquote>Well the problem with that is the cloaks can be turned into banners. Already on either my main or an alt i've spent about 50 DIRTY coins purchasing the cloaks. Put 7 of em in my guild's guildhall and took 2 for myself. Have one that I keep as a cloak.</blockquote>Well then, that would be a furniture item wouldn't it?</blockquote>They don't start as furniture items and I don't know of any lore items that when changed to furniture become no longer lore. This comment in white above is what you were sassing a previous poster about when they said that it would not help the OP and it wouldn't. That's not "trying to pick a fight" it's just correcting someone who is wrong.</blockquote>You don't have a bayle amulet then from the seeress event? Was and IS lore as gear, but not lore when turned into a house items, in fact which house items DO still retain a lore taig besides teh AA mirror? I can't think of any offhand so tell me which ones do keep the lore tag. I have a whole bunch of Bayle Amulets in my guild bank because they added the notrade tag afterwards, but when you turn it into a house item it is no longer lore, try it.Just because you don't know something doesn't mean it isn't possible and in fact a realilty.