The ugliest ring

[Noquid]

I found a post about this ring but all it offers is a screenshot of the ring. I did the quest that ended up with the ring but there's more going on. The ring is locked to "carpets" wherever I go to sell/buy, and buy/sell prices are always red with the ring icon on the far left of the row. I can't tell what it's doing, either locking prices on carpets, adding to the price or lowering the price. I guess I could just sell it for 10 but I'd like ot know what this thing does first.

[Michal]

Actually you should get rid of it. It's so ugly that when you wear it you buy carpets for 2% higher price, and sell them for 2% lower price than usual.

[Noquid]

Ok thanks for the info :)

[Sojiro]

OK, this is just horrible design.

There is nothing whatsoever in the game that hints that this ring make things worse, instead of working like Dark Council tokens and making things better. You really should not make it look like it does the same thing when it does the opposite, especially when there's no real way to check.

[Fluff]

I'm fully in agreement with Sojiro.

This is a horrible design flaw. The ring's description doesn't hint that the prices are impaired, if it does, it's so indirect and roundabout in doing so, that a thousand other things could be inferred from a stretch of the same distance.

To top this off, both its "adjusted price" coloration, and the Dark Council's adjusted price coloration are both red, not to mention that both items are displayed to the side. Functionally, this item looks 100% identical, and there is no way to compare it to prices which are unadjusted, other than on a vague, generalized basis.

I've had this item for almost 14 seasons, and didn't know that it had a negative impact on carpet prices, when I'm a frequent carpet trader. The function that I had inferred was that it decreases *both* the buy and sell price, so that you can sometimes buy carpets cheaper, but may have trouble selling them if the ring continuously triggers. This is drastically different from the actual function, which ♥♥♥♥♥ you either way.

[Filurium]

I think it's implied that it's bad, because it's dirt cheap and is described to be of simple make. And when I compare prices from previous places, the carpet-costs never add up. It took me a while to sell it off.

I think I would have enjoyed a cursed object, that I couldn't actually get rid of! So I had to start my own quest-line, find the right character and have that person help me get rid of the ring. Now it's just a bother..