Rings of Lumnis

The Needle of Pentas is situated on the Isle of Ornath, and where scholars and adventures converge for the trials of the Rings of Lumnis. Each of the five Rings of Lumnis offers unique challenges to solve! The five rings are Planar, Spiritual, Elemental, Chaos, and Order, and rewards from each will be tracked on a powerful relic, a quintuple orb brooch, received upon entry to The Needle. As trials are completed, the relic will grow more powerful.

Information

Rings of Lumnis is a SimuCoins pay event that is opened to attendees on a limited release.

The quest has been run on the following dates:

• April 20–29, 2018
• April 19–30, 2019
• April 17–30, 2020
• April 16–30, 2021

Quest Info

When you use QUEST to be transported to the Needle of Pentas, you'll be confined to this area of the Isle of Ornath. There is some exploration that anyone can take part in, whether you want to participate in the event or not. There are five teleportation disks, Planar, Spiritual, Elemental, Chaos, and Order, that will bring you to Liabo. Each section will have a ring you enter which is where the trials take place. This is where you'll need a scholar's card and a brooch (the relic). You are awarded an increment to your brooch upon entering the puzzle area, win, lose, or surrender. The increment is only good for the "ring" you're entering. For example, entering Planar will increment the Planar benefit by +1. If you want to increment the Elemental benefit, you'll need to visit the Elemental "ring" to try your knowledge (and maybe luck) there.

Successfully completing both puzzles and trivia will award a prize on top of the experience. The common prize will be lightening notes. The uncommon prize will be deepening notes of different varieties. And a rare prize will be an RPA orb. If you have a free hand, it will be delivered right to you. If you don't, it will be on the ground. Hopefully they are both entertaining and challenging as well.

For additional help in completing the various puzzles and trivia found within the trials, please visit Research:Rings of Lumnis - SPOILERS.

Reward Info

Details

Planar	Spiritual	Elemental	Chaos	Order
Lumnis' Enlightenment	Lumnis' Vigor	Lumnis' Fortitude	Lumnis' Divergence	Lumnis' Repose
Larger experience capacity	Instant absorption	Adventurers' Guild task performance boosts	Randomly selected from other four benefits	Extra bounty point rewards

The brooch is a pin worn item that has five benefits. The benefits can be changed at this event via the TURN verb an unlimited amount of times. The brooch can be set to another benefit once a month outside of the Rings of Lumnis event. To change it to something outside of the event, you will need to make your way to the DragonSpine Fane and seek the niche dedicated to Lumnis there. (Lich Room ID: [Zul Logoth, Ancient Passage - 26072]) You will have an hour after you make the decision to change it if you want to change it back, but after that, there is a month cooldown. The brooch also unlocks verbs that do cosmetic changes to your character as well as additional messaging for your relic after completing a number of increments to your brooch.

The brooch can be upgraded quite a bit. It starts out gaining benefits very rapidly, but slows downs as the potency becomes stronger. Planar, Spiritual, and Order take the total you have and directly add it to the benefit. Elemental is a bit different in that the number translates to a percent bonus where +100 equals 10 (always rounding down). Chaos will randomly select one of the other benefits with a chance to be up to 10% more of a bonus.

The brooch MUST be activated to use. Spiritual is instantly used. The others stay active for thirty (30) minutes. The brooch starts off at 1x/day, but with many runs, you can begin to gain additional uses. Gaining extra uses takes the entire's brooch's progress into account, not just the specific benefits, as does unlocking verbs. Don't worry about memorizing the numbers. ANALYZE the brooch for details on your progress and brooch benefits.

The brooch is account attuned (only one allowed per account), but passing the brooch off is completely your responsibility. The cooldown resets at midnight. ANALYZE provides much information, such as: the unlocked verbs, the number of times it has been used today, and the currently selected orb (also available via LOOK).

If you need to respec which benefit you've assigned runs to on your brooch, you can do so by speaking to the NPC at the center of the zone and they charge 50k silver per run that is reassigned.
A lithe giantkin monk nods slowly and says, "You want to know more about changing the allocations of your trials? I am able to do this for you as long as you're holding the brooch in your right hand. In addition, there will be a charge for my time. For every rank that I transfer, it will cost you 50,000 silvers. It's a painless process on your end, and all you have to do is ASK MONK ABOUT EXCHANGE <# of ranks> <RING to move from> <RING to move to>."

Dyannae continues, "I will ask your approval first before making any changes to your item."

2021 Upgrade Option

ASK MONK ABOUT UPGRADE. For the cost 1,000,000 silver, your brooch will be unlocked for these new benefits:

1) You will able to change the selected orb (benefit) from anywhere and at anytime.
2) The previous orb bonus capped at 1,000. Additional runs will now continue to add to it at the rate of +1 per 10. i.e. you will be able to instant absorb more than 1,000 experience, boost your field experience pool by more than 1,000, earn more than 1,000 bonus bounty points, etc. The increased bonus doesn't apply to the Elemental orb since it's a percent chance for an additional roll when performing Adventurer's Guild tasks and caps at 100%.
3) The normal brooch calculates its uses per day by taking the total of all runs across all the orbs in the brooch. By upgrading it, you get a separate cooldown and uses per day for each orb (benefit). So if have 500 runs in Planar and 750 runs in Spiritual, you can use your brooch 3 times per day for the Planar benefit AND 4 times per day for the Spiritual benefit.

Fluff Tiers

Fluff Unlock Tiers
#Runs	Verb	Example
50	COVER	Hide the brooch from showing in your inventory.
75	TICKLE	Eye characteristic changed to "[color]-haloed"
100	SPIN	Unique line changed to "a sheen of [color] lends his/her skin a luminous quality."
125	PUSH	Hair changing to "incredibly long [special color]-highlighted Liabo-white hair"
Where [color] it is red, blue, green, black, or white. Where [special color] it is crimson, cerulean, viridian, ebon, or golden.

Cost per Reward

Bonus Per Run:	# of Runs:	Total Runs:	X/day:	Bonus Provided:	Total Bonus:	SC Cost:	Total SC Cost:	Premium Rate:
10	10	10	1	100	100	950	950	$9.99
5	20	30	1	100	200	1900	2850	$24.98
4	25	55	1	100	300	2375	5225	$44.98
2	50	105	2	100	400	4750	9975	$79.97
1	100	205	2	100	500	9500	19475	$149.98
1	100	305	3	100	600	9500	28975	$219.97
0.5	200	505	3	100	700	19000	47975	$359.95
0.25	400	905	4	100	800	38000	85975	$644.92
0.2	500	1405	5	100	900	47500	133475	$994.88
0.1	1000	2405	6	100	1000	95000	228475	$1659.90
Totals:	2405	2405	6	1000	1000	228475	228475	$1659.90
Max Ring:	12025	12025	11	1000	1000	1142375	1142375	$8299.50

x/Day Targets

In the case of the spiritual brooch bonus, the amount of experience absorbed is limited to the size of a characters field experience pool. Higher thresholds therefore require increased pool sizes. This is most easily accomplished with the planar brooch bonus.

Uses Per Day	Total Runs	Experience Per Use (spiritual)	Experience Per Day (spiritual)	Dollar Cost (with 40% bonus)
1x	0	0	0	$0
1x	10	100	100	$7
2x	100	390	780	$68
3x	300	595	1,785	$204
4x	750	750	3,000	$509
5x	1,250	883	4,414	$848
6x	1,850	987	5,924	$1,255
7x	2,500	1,000	7,000	$1,696
8x	3,250	1,084	8,672	$2,205
9x	5,000	1,259	11,331	$3,393
10x	7,500	1,509	15,090	$5,089
11x	12,000	1,959	21,549	$8,143

Liabo Moon Bonus

Total Runs	Bonus
500	10%
3500	20%

Liabo has a very short orbit at just over 7 days (7.3 days) and lasts roughly 29.2 hours. A carefully timed usage can get some extra mileage out of the brooch with these full moons. To see current Liabo moon phase, be outside and LOOK LIABO

Area Info

When you enter the area by QUEST TRANSPORT RINGS, you arrive at the Needle of Pentas Apex, at the top of a long flight of stairs. To get your Lumnis brooch, go downstairs and find a monk to ask about it.

Return upstairs to the first room where you arrived. LOOK at the archways, then go <type of stone> balcony, then enter the teleportation disk to transport to the puzzle area. With your scholar's card in hand, enter a ring in any of the rooms to start a puzzle.

To exit the puzzle area, find the teleportation disk and go through it, then move in the only obvious direction, which ends up back at the Needle of Pentas Apex.

[Needle of Pentas, Apex - 26938]

Rising from a perfect hole in the granite floor, a spiral staircase spills into the room amid a halo of five golden mirrors that reflect the moonlight in all directions. Alabaster, carnelian, aventurine, onyx, and azurite tiles form half circles upon the floor, their open-ends facing matching half-circle archways that lead towards illuminated balconies.

Obvious exits: down

Types of Stone Balconies:

Carnelian balcony = Planar

Alabastar balcony = Order

Azurite balcony = Spiritual

Aventurine balcony = Elemental

Onyx balcony = Chaos

There are 5 supernodes at the event.

[Garden of the Planes, Fountain - 26954]

[Garden of the Spirit, Fountain - 26947]

[Garden of the Elements, Pool - 26980]

[Garden of Chaos, Fountain - 26972]

[Garden of Order, Fountain - 26969]

To exit the event, go downstairs, look for a way out, head southward, go through the gazebo and enter a glowing ring.

[Isle of Ornath, Landing - 26962]

Frequent Questions

1. How do I get a scholar's card so I can enter the puzzle rings at Rings of Lumnis? You get scholar's cards using Simucoins at the Play.net Simucoin Store.
2. How do I enter Rings of Lumnis? In most towns you can type QUEST TRANSPORT RINGS to get there.
3. How do I get a Lumnis brooch? You need to seek out a monk near the bottom of a stairway and ask him. Once you have your brooch, ANALYZE it for more information.
4. Where are the puzzles? Go to the top of the stairway, look at the arch, and choose a type of stone balcony, based on your diligent study of the five realms of widsom and what they mean for your brooch.
5. How do I exit the Rings of Lumnis and go back home? From the monk, you go out, then all the way south, through a gazebo, and enter a glowing ring.

Resources

• Simucoin Store (where you purchase scholar's cards)
• Officials folder
• Rings of Lumnis Brooch Info and Upcoming Changes (2020)
• Rings of Lumnis Brooch Rewards (2020)
• Rings of Lumnis Prize Info (2020)
• Rings of Lumnis Brooch Upgrade (2021)