Editing Treasure in Asheron's Call (section)

== May (Letter to the Players) ==
''From the Mired Hearts [[Announcements - 2004/05 - Mired Hearts#Letter to the Players|Letter to the Players]].''

We've introduced part four of our ongoing treasure revisions.

'''Art Items and Casters'''<br>
We're moving "art items" (mugs, plates, and the like) and casters into several loot tables where they previously did not exist. This will result in both being found in places where you could not find them before – for example, in May you'll be able to find casters in the casino golden chests. This will make casting items – as well as certain types of salvage – easier to find. You will also be able to find art items with spells on them, such as a bowl with Alchemy Mastery for example.
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'''"Mundane" Items'''<br>
This category covers all the "other" things found in loot – spell components, mana stones, healing kits, lockpicks, and potions. These categories of items have not changed much since the early days of Asheron's Call, and the treasure revisions have only highlighted this.
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To improve the situation, we will be adding new types of mana stones and potions, and low-level healing kits are being improved and renamed. Then we'll be redistributing all mundane items across different levels of treasure.
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Healing kits will also now provide more information regarding their effects. Healing kits can provide a bonus to your skill check, or a bonus to the amount you heal, or both. Now you'll be able to see which is which just by ID'ing the kit.
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Just as an example, here's how the changes would affect the types of items you could find in wealth rating 5 treasure, intended for level 80+ characters.

{|class="wikitable"
!Item Type
!Old Selection
!New Selection
|-
|[[Spell Components]]
|Pyreal Scarab, Iron Pea, Copper Pea, Silver Pea
|Copper Pea, Silver Pea, Gold Pea
|-
|[[Mana Stones]]
|Mana Stone, Greater Mana Stone
|Greater Mana Stone, two new types of Mana Stone
|-
|[[Potions]]
|Health Elixir, Mana Elixir, Stamina Elixir
|Health Elixir, Mana Elixir, two new types of Health Potion, two new types of Mana Potion, three new types of Stamina Potion
|-
|[[Lockpicks]]
|Good Lockpick, Excellent Lockpick, Superb Lockpick, Peerless Lockpick
|Excellent Lockpick, Superb Lockpick, Peerless Lockpick
|-
|[[Healing Kits]]
|Good Healing Kit, Excellent Healing Kit, Peerless Healing Kit
|Excellent Healing Kit, Peerless Healing Kit, Treated Healing Kit
|}

In general, we've made existing items show up sooner and created new items to fill the gaps at the high end. You'll note that there are no new lockpicks yet – don't worry, we're working on some ideas for interesting high-end lockpicks.
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'''Chests and Fishing Holes'''<br>
One effect of the treasure changes is that a number of newbie and low-level chests had their treasure bumped up considerably. This resulted in many newbie chests generating treasure that no newbie could possibly use. We've adjusted the loot in many of these chests, and will continue tweaking additional chests in the coming months.
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We've also adjusted the magical jewelry that could be generated by fishing holes in rare cases. After the treasure revisions, fishing holes were generating jewelry that was much better than intended. We'll be bringing them back into line in May.

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