Gilded locus

This page is based on an earlier version of of the Locus and needs to be rebuilt and updated. In the meantime, you can use This Gilded Locus Builder to construct your Locus. It accounts for all of the Locus' rules, and displays the total cost and time-to-build.

Summary

• A new enhancive item
• Worn in its own slot
• Built over time at special events
• Holds up to 20 properties
• Holds up to +20 per property (yes, +400 ceiling!)
• Cannot be charged with Simucoin potions
• Can be charged with BPs
• Can also be charged with another method(s), TBA

• The first 2 properties added will start at +5 with no extra fee
• You may boost a property, up to 5 times, per event.
• The price of the boosts reset at each event
• Each time a locus property is boosted, a one month enhancive charge will be added to the locus.

• It comes with 200 charges, and can be recharged at the Adventurer's Guild.
• Subject to existing enhancive caps

Details

Analyze

G>analyze locus
You analyze the gilded locus and sense that the creator has provided the following information:

The gilded locus is a unique relic that is capable of granting vast enhancive power.  It is an arcane invention of a multidisciplinary scholarly collective that incorporates techniques of lapidary work and glasswork with complex magical infusion.  As an intricate, artistic construct that serves as a expansive repository for enhancive properties, any two loci are unlikely to be identical in either enhancive inscription or in form.

The crystalline structures of the gemstones used amplify and stabilize the enhancive magics woven into the locus, while the amorphous structure of the glass integrated into the design serves as a strategic buffer and arcane counterweight to the flows of magic throughout the construct.  The enhancive properties that any given locus supports are typically etched or applied in alchemical ink beneath the surface and sealed in glass.

The locus can receive up to 20 enhancive properties.

The locus is permanently attuned to Nyxus.  It can be TUCKed while worn in order to hide it from sight.  It has received 1 new properties and 1 property boosts since the last event reset.

The locus's enhancive properties can only be adjusted by its creator and cannot be recharged with enhancive potions.  The locus can be altered, but its noun must remain 'locus'.

The gilded locus may not be lightened.

Off-the-Shelf

The locus is free off-the-shelf and comes with one of the following enhancive properties prior to any additions/boosts:

   It provides a boost of 1 to Max Mana.
   It provides a boost of 1 to Max Health.
   It provides a boost of 1 to Max Stamina.

Distributed Stats Recharge Cost

G>recall locus As you recall your song, you feel a faint resonating vibration from the gilded locus in your hand, and you learn something about it...

It is an enhancive item:

   It provides a boost of 5 to Strength Base.
   It provides a boost of 5 to Constitution Base.
   It provides a boost of 5 to Dexterity Base.
   It provides a boost of 5 to Agility Base.
   It provides a boost of 5 to Discipline Base.
   It provides a boost of 5 to Aura Base.
   It provides a boost of 5 to Logic Base.
   It provides a boost of 5 to Intuition Base.
   It provides a boost of 5 to Wisdom Base.
   It seems to have almost innumerable enhancive charges remaining.

...

G>order 5 Duane peers at the locus through a large green crystal lens. He says, "I can charge this up a bit. It'll cost 26,400 of your bounty points, though."

You have chosen to recharge a gilded locus. The cost is 26,400 points. Please enter ORDER 5 CONFIRM within 30 seconds to complete your order.

Condensed Stats Recharge Cost

G>order 5 Duane peers at the locus through a large green crystal lens. He says, "I can charge this up a bit. It'll cost 86,400 of your bounty points, though."

You have chosen to recharge a gilded locus. The cost is 86,400 points. Please enter ORDER 5 CONFIRM within 30 seconds to complete your order.

G>recall locus As you recall your song, you feel a faint resonating vibration from the gilded locus in your hand, and you learn something about it...

It is an enhancive item:

   It provides a boost of 20 to Strength Base.
   It provides a boost of 20 to Constitution Base.
   It provides a boost of 5 to Dexterity Base.
   It seems to have almost innumerable enhancive charges remaining.

Resources

https://discord.com/channels/226045346399256576/1273671107035271271/1273796017472409651

Nyxus: The noun must remain locus, and it must remain glass.

https://discord.com/channels/226045346399256576/1273671107035271271/1275606721880002570

Nyxus: Yes, that is correct. Only two properties can be added per event

https://discord.com/channels/226045346399256576/1273671107035271271/1275565654052831337

Nyxus: The price for locus boosts will be lowered to 5/10/15/25/35k

https://discord.com/channels/226045346399256576/1273671107035271271/1274051669210038353

Nyxus: Thanks everybody for your candid feedback, which helped inform a good discussion on our end about how to fill in some gaps on this new item. I have some changes to announce as a result.

Disclaimer: Note that the locus still cannot be charged via simucoin potions.

Changes:
Each time a locus property is boosted, a one month enhancive charge will be added to the locus. The locus can also still be charged via the AG. Property additions do not charge the locus.
Battle Vaults will contain an account attuned 1 month locus charge.
The first 2 properties added will start at +5 with no extra fee.
The locus no longer starts with +1 max health/stamina/mana. Instead, it will start with +1 to one of the three, according to the player’s choice. This property is excluded from AG recharge cost calculation. This property is not subject to the normal +20 cap.
The +max property is boosted "for free" as other properties are boosted, at the following rates: 1:1 for the first 50 boosts, 1:2 for the second 50 boosts, 1:3 for the third 50 boosts, and so on and so forth.
The locus will be account attuned rather than character attuned.