Did Christmas come twice this year?
... and Hanukah too? Best Empyrean Apparatus ever, seriously.
lala Angelica! ...Eliza! ...and Peggy! The Schuylar sisters! lala
Now witness the firepower of this (almost) fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!
Signal Fire is that expensive? Last league they were around 5c if I remember correctly.
I guess it's the new Drillneck. 35% Signal Fires are being priced at 200 c (plus conversion to fire, compared to Drillnerfed's 50% more damage at 100% pierce)
It's basically a lottery ticket. Quivers have 9 possible vaal implicits so there's a 1/27 chance that when you corrupt it, it can hit the jackpot and get +1 additional arrow.
A corrupt Signal Fire with +1 additional arrow sells for 28+ ex on poe.trade
A corrupt Signal Fire with no modification sells for 20 c
So basically an uncorrupted Signal Fire sells for 60 c since, once corrupted, the chances are:
9/27 - F### turn into a useless rare quiver (33% chance) < 1 alt
12/27 - BRICK no change to implicit/ bad vaal implicit (40% chance) 20 c
5/27 - mediocre implicit (23% chance) 1 ex
1/27 - jackpot (4% chance
update: Reddit says the chance is 2.97% for some reason) 28-30 ex
And a +1 arrow 35% Signal Fire's price is astronomical.
So basically uncorrupted Signal Fires are for bowyers who are willing to pay 40 c extra for 3% chance to upgrade to a +1 arrow Signal Fire, and ~ 23% chance of a small profit consolation prize.
I would corrupt mine but Vaal Orbs hate me.
UPDATE: Actually after some research, if I understand correctly, a Signal Fire with ilevel < 50 has a 5% chance of getting +1 arrow (since this is a ilvl 1 mod). So the chances then would be:
5/20 - F#### 25%
13/20 - BRICK 65%
1/20 - 1 ex 5%
1/ 20 - 28-30 ex 5%