A proposal is being put forth to a vote of all staked SPS token holders to decide whether or not to make Blood Stones and Power Stones (aka the potions for Gladius Cases) purchasable for Dark Energy Crystals instead of Merits.
This proposal seeks to introduce an additional place for players to spend their Dark Energy Crystals while giving guild brawlers the opportunity to open more gold foil and legendary Gladius cards, which should be even more important with the upcoming addition of SPS rewards in brawls. The proposed price would be 150 DEC for a Blood Stone or 150 DEC for a Power Stone and all DEC spent for these purchases would be burned.
A few items to note:
- The proposal is to replace Merits with DEC as the only way to purchase Blood and Power Stones
- The appropriate Guild Store building levels will still be required to have the option to purchase the stones in the first place (Level 6 for Blood Stones and Level 8 for Power Stones)
- We propose that guild Quest Lodge discounts should apply to Blood or Power Stone purchases just like they do for regular potions
To provide some data and context, there have been approximately 17,000 Gladius Cases purchased from the Guild Store over a recent 15 day period. If all of those players had high enough Guild Store buildings and bought Blood and Power Stones with Dark Energy Crystals to cover the cards in all of these packs, that could result in a total of roughly 17 million Dark Energy Crystals being burned. Currently, the majority of guilds do not have high enough Guild Store buildings to purchase the stones, and at the moment we estimate that around 300k DEC would be burned every two weeks as a result of this change.
Finally, we want to note that initially we had discussed proposing pricing the stones in Voucher tokens rather than DEC, however we felt that it would be better to price them in DEC as that is what we plan for most everything to be priced in going forward, on top of the fact that using vouchers would add additional delays in getting the SPS validators live.