User:TEF/Market Watch/Achievement Points
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How Much are Achievement Points Worth?[edit]
Each Achievement Point is worth between 69 
and 11 
79 , or on average 1 65 . About half that value is from the coin received on reaching each milestone and another sixth is from the gems received.
This suggests that, in general, unless you are very close to a Massive Achievement Chest milestone, it's not worth it to use waypoints or walk just to pick up 1-2 points. It's definitely not worth going out of your way to maximize things like slayer achievements, unless you are multitasking, e.g. watching TV while killing ambient creatures with a focus.
At the same time, it means it's very much worth the effort to try out new activities during Living World events, because you can pick up extra points just for zoning.
Analysis[edit]
Pending enough time to post the details.
Plausibility, i.e. the Naive Analysis[edit]
It is difficult to place a value on some of the benefits of earning achievement points.
- Over long periods of time, extra experience, magic & gold find, and karma can turn into something valuable, but over the short term, they aren't worth much at the level of APs most people will earn.
- Under any circumstances, the value of the non-liquid assets in the chests will depend greatly on the person: 500 Badges of Honor is worth a lot of time (and therefore money) to someone trying to finish off a legendary weapon, but not nearly as helpful to someone who has already outfitted all their characters with exotic & ascended gear. The value of boosters and instant-repair kits can diverge even more: if you don't die in fractals frequently, a repair canister is worth maybe 14 ; to those who die a lot far from repair services, they are invaluable.
There are only three items that are easy to evaluate in terms of benefits:
- Coin — 1
is the smallest benefit, 30 is reserved for the massive tiers. - Gems— 400
, but only for the massive chest. I've valued them at 33 /100 . - Laurels — I've valued these at 36 , based on 18 /Unidentified Dye and getting 10 dyes/5 laurels.
Accordingly,
- The ordinary tier (every 500 points) threshhold has a minimum value of 1 /500
or 20 /; - The massive tier is worth no less than 46 80 /500 or 9 36 /
- Averaging over 5,000 points, the values are 57 68 or 1 15 /
Based on various assumptions (documented below), I believe that these liquid assets account for about 70% of the average value of points, about 40% of the value of the small tiers, and nearly 80% the value of the massive tiers.
Detailed Analysis[edit]
Pending enough time to post the details.
Assumptions[edit]
Pending enough time to post the details.
