I did some math a few months back when concerns about a raise in the chest prices were brought up, so I figured I'd do the same again with the newer months. I thought prices were high before too, but they're really not, at least not compared to what prices have always been for the chests. You could say they're high just in general, but they're premium clothing items so what do you expect?
Name of set - item count, price of chest, what the chest discount is
Mothlike - I can't find a price of its chest.
Forest - Didn't have a chest I think?
Leviathan - Also didn't have a chest.
Unicorn - 8 items, 1500, 100 discount
Wanderer - 8 items, 1500, 100 discount
Seraph - 8 items, 1500, 100 discount
Scholar - 8 items, 1500, 100 discount
Mystic - 8 items, 1500, 100 discount
Mage - 8 items, 1500, 100 discount
Forest - 8 items, 1500, 100 discount
Historian - 8 items, 1500, 100 discount
Verdant / Pale - 6 items each, 1000 each, 200 discount each
Advisor - 10 items, 1500, 500 discount
Artificer - 9 items, 1500, 300 discount
Botanist - 8 items, 1500, 100 discount
Wayfarer - 8 items, 1500, 100 discount
Warden - 10 items, 1700, 300 discount
Chef - 8 items, 1500, 100 discount
Symphonist - 8 items, 1500, 100 discount
Soiree - 7 items (incl 1 pet, 1 food/totem), 1500, 100 discount
Painter - 8 items, 1500, 100 discount
Garden - 8 items, 1500, 100 discount
Forager - 6 items (incl 2 pets), 1600, 200 discount
Vintner - 10 items, 1700, 300 discount
Lightseer - 9 items (incl 1 pet), 1800, 300 discount
Timekeeper - 9 items, 1600, 200 discount
Corsair - 8 items, 1500, 100 discount
Daydream - 8 items (incl 1 pet), 1700, 200 discount
Oracle - 10 items, 1700, 300 discount
Bowmaster - 9 items (incl 1 pet), 1800, 300 discount
This is is copy and paste from my last post in June, so take that in mind on some of the things I reference,
"So Advisor was the first 10 item set, and that was just when they started branching out to more than just 8 items so they were probably sticking to 1500 for that chest because they didn't know what to price more items at. Warden was the second 10 item set, and that's the exact same as the current set. So it seems like 10 item sets are going to 1700 for their chests, and the usual 8 items (and occasional 7 or 9) sets are going to be 1500. The only reason last month's 6 items were 1600 for the chest was because you were getting 2 hatchables that are 500 Turnips each instead of 200."
And now with the newer months added, unless my math is wrong, the only chest that technically had a price raise is the Timekeeper one. With 9 items at 1600 Turnips it was 100 Turnips more than the only other strictly 9 clothing item chest, the Artificer. Other than that, as you can see, the chests are all pretty much the same price when you compare what kind of items it has. Regular clothing (200 Turnips each), Hatchables (500 Turnips each), and then I believe the only Food/Totem we got from the Soiree set (100 Turnips).
I'm also someone who cannot and has not bought a single Turnip on here, so this isn't coming from someone who has no budget limitations when it comes to Turnips. The only Turnips I get are from the once-a-year birthday gifts from NPCs, ad theater, and whatever else DV has on the site to earn them. I'm not someone who wants to buy every single set though, I only buy what I'm interested in and sometimes that's just a few pieces, other times it's the chest but I also usually always look to buy the chest with Potatoes from another user just so I can save my Turnips in case I ever can't buy the chest with Potatoes or really need them for something else in the future. I currently have almost 5k Turnips in my bank (will be less after I buy some stuff from this set lol), and that's all from free earnings on site.
Obviously, I'm not trying to change anyone's mind, I just wanted to put the info out there again and everyone can do what they want with it. But as far as I can tell, DV is not raising the cost of Pai's chests for no reason, they're adding more or more expensive items to them at times so they at times are obviously going to be higher.
