Pumping Irony

Runes of Magic has three separate sections of the Item Shop:

1. Diamond Shop. Diamonds are purchased with money then spent in the shop. This is where the Good Stuff is sold, obviously.
2. Ruby Shop. Rubies are earned with any purchase in the shop from either the Diamond or Phirius Token shops.
3. Phirius Token Shop. Good stuff in here and only costs you time!

The Phirius Token shop is amazingly useful and is another way to reward players for simply playing the game rather than focusing on Diamond purchases only.

Each area of the game has multiple Daily Quests gained from either individual NPC’s or from a Bulletin Board in that zone’s town or city. Each character can complete 10 daily quests per day (for free), and each quest awards 10 Phirius Tokens for a total of 100 Phirius Tokens per day. The Diamond Shop sells a Daily Quest Token for 49 Diamonds that will reset your dailies so you can run 10 more each, but we’re not using that for this article.

Troy (formerly of the Voyages of Vanguard podcast) started playing RoM recently and I told him about daily quests and using the Phirius Token Shop and he was pleasantly surprised at learning about it.

My suggestions for initial usage of Phirius Tokens are buying a few items for your personal house. Houses in RoM are obtained free simply by speaking to a House Maid NPC in any town. Once you apply for a house, the House Maid lets you in and gives you a storage chest with 20 inventory spaces. Place the chest then go out and do those dailies!

Here is the Housing section of the Phirius Token Shop. My first suggestion is first buying the Long Beech Table for 400 tokens — 4 days worth of dailies. The table awards +15 TP (Talent Point) bonus. Next, get the Elegant Wooden Engraved Bed for 600 tokens — another 6 days of dailies — which provides a +10 XP bonus. TP/XP bonuses accrue while logged out in your house and function similar to Rest XP which we’re accustomed to in most modern subscription MMO’s. There are threads on the RoM forums detailing the math behind how the bonuses work, and they appear to be linked into your XP required for the next level, so as you level these bonuses increase exponentially.

From here, we can continue buying more TP/XP bonus furniture or my personal suggestion is to now start saving up for the Classical Wooden Chest which goes for 2580 tokens. Yep, it’ll take 26 days of dailies for that baby, but it’s another 15 inventory slots for spending your time rather than your dime. I am finding storage space to be a bit limited so any chance to get more (for free) and I’ll jump on it. Additional backpack and bank space is rented with Diamond purchases, as does increasing the furniture slots in your house from the basic 10 it starts with.

Another potentially useful aspect of the Phirius Token Shop is the Mounts section. There are two 30-day mounts in the token shop, the Brown Horse in a bag being the most useful at 1400 tokens. 14 days per month of daily quests spent on a mount that lasts 30 days probably isn’t a bad way to go while leveling, especially if you’re able to play every day to make the rest of the month worthwhile saving tokens for other things if you don’t want to spend Diamonds on a permanent (or temporary) mount.

From then, there are several convenience items such as Transport Runes or TP/XP potions and charms, etc. that can be purchased with tokens rather than Diamonds. At high levels when you begin using the Arcane Transmutor to enhance your gear, 300 tokens will get you another 10 charges. (I hear a lot of players simply make an alt, level it to 10 to get the free 10 charges, use them to transmute gear then delete the alt which lets them save their tokens for other things.)

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