Appraiser NPC 1.2.0

Overview​

The Appraiser buys magical loot in bulk and pays the player with bank checks.
Players can drop:

• A single item, or
• A container/bag with many items

The Appraiser processes every eligible item, sums total gold, and pays out in one or more checks.

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What It Buys​

• Non-artifact magical weapons
• Non-artifact magical armor and clothing
• Non-artifact magical jewelry and talismans
• Non-artifact magical spellbooks
• Slayer instruments (instrument must have at least one slayer property)

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What It Rejects​

• Artifacts and artifact-rarity items
• Newbied items
• Non-magical items (items with no meaningful magical properties)
• Instruments with no slayer property

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Pricing Behavior​

The Appraiser uses an exponential pricing curve.
In simple terms:

• Item magic power is converted into an internal points value
• Higher points increase price slowly at first, then faster at higher ranges
• Final price is scaled by a fixed gold multiplier

Current multiplier and caps:

• Gold multiplier: 3,000,000
• Per-item cap: 100,000,000 gold

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Item Power Mapping​

For normal magic items:

• Base power comes from loot-oriented magic intensity
• Power is normalized to a shard-wide baseline scale

For slayer instruments:

• Any valid slayer instrument is mapped to a fixed high-tier point value
• Current fixed point value: 300,000

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Value Adjustments​

The Appraiser applies two optional adjustments before final pricing:

• Mod concentration bonus:
  • More concentrated magic on fewer properties gets a bonus
  • Bonus scales from 0% to 10%
  • Weak concentration is not penalized
• Negative-property penalties:
  • Items with negative traits (for example cursed/antique/brittle-like downsides) are reduced
  • Penalties stack multiplicatively

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Payout Rules​

• Each item is priced individually
• Total value is paid using bank checks
• A single bank check is capped at 2,000,000,000 gold
• If total exceeds that amount, multiple checks are issued
• Dropped containers are returned after processing (unsold contents remain inside)