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Ulivious The Reaper · May 16, 2007, 04:27 AM // 04:27

Doesn't effect me, never trusted my gold with items that, on forums and in game, are constantly complained over due to their ever changing price, i say your fault for even investing in ectos o.O

arcanemacabre · May 16, 2007, 04:35 AM // 04:35

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Originally Posted by Ulivious The Reaper

Doesn't effect me, never trusted my gold with items that, on forums and in game, are constantly complained over due to their ever changing price, i say your fault for even investing in ectos o.O

Exactly. Ectos are an investment, like stocks, and have an equal chance of going down in value as they do going up in value. If you have thousands of globs, you pee yourself in excitement when the prices go up, and have a conniption when prices go down.

Enter - the conniption thread.

lyra_song · May 16, 2007, 04:35 AM // 04:35

While i really dont know why ecto prices are falling.... (less demand maybe) i do know that my stash of ectos is depreciating. Do i really care? No. I save em cause i need materials for obsidian armor, not as a way to carry more money.

Sol Deathgard · May 16, 2007, 04:44 AM // 04:44

The price of Ectos drops EVERYTIME a new expansion is announced by Anet people. Then people that where saving Ectos & shards decide to wait to see what the new armors will look like in the next game. It's not Bots, it's not loot scaling, it's not Anet nerfing the price, it's people deciding to wait & see. Watch, 2 or 3 months after Eyes of the North comes out, Ectos will be on the rise again.

Guardian_Angel_MP · May 16, 2007, 05:11 AM // 05:11

More than likely the drop in ecto prices is a result of the loot scaling. It is, supposedly, 1/8 as effective to solo farm as it use to be so all of those uber farmers (and the people that ran bots on other accounts) now can't pull in enough cash through farming to keep them at the "standard of play" that they have become acustom to and now they need to start digging into their ecto stashes.

There was also the scare that loot scaling had affected the drop rates of ectos, ectos went up a bit then, but when Anet said that ectos would no longer be affected (and the anti farm code got taken out of normal mode) people maybe got scared that ectos were going to become more prevalent.

Lastly, they introduced UW passage scrolls so there are going to be more people going to the UW now than there was before (albeit probably not a huge number more); and whose to say more ectos aren't coming from other places?

I don't think there are going to be any new armors in GWEN that will use ectos, since there will be no new classes, so maybe people are realizing the time of the ecto has past and people really don't care too much to get FoW armor (the purpose for the existance of ecto).

HawkofStorms · May 16, 2007, 05:37 AM // 05:37

Gah.

Do we SERIOUSLY need a new thread EVERY time ecto drops below a certain 1k mark? There was a new thread for 9k, 8k, 7k, AND 6k in the past 2 weeks.

Seriously, anybody complaining on this thread should never invest in the stock market or manage there own money in the real world. You'd all blow a gasket.

Spazzer · May 16, 2007, 05:39 AM // 05:39

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Originally Posted by vdz

The 2 most logical choices would be either Black dyes or Ecto.

Why? That's not very logical at all.

Diamonds, Monstrous Eyes, a Lockpicks all seem much smarter to me.

Curse You · May 16, 2007, 05:50 AM // 05:50

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Originally Posted by Spazzer

Why? That's not very logical at all.

Diamonds, Monstrous Eyes, a Lockpicks all seem much smarter to me.

Diamonds were introduce with Nightfall, Lockpicks with Hard Mode. Monstrous eyes never used to drop (in large enough amounts) before Factions.

arcanemacabre · May 16, 2007, 05:58 AM // 05:58

I'd say Black Dyes, since they drop everywhere and no one can specifically farm them (save for a lot of farming in Pre or something), but then the prices would skyrocket.

Dammit, well I guess the news is out!

Black Dyes are the most logical choice, IMO.

Spazzer · May 16, 2007, 06:03 AM // 06:03

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Originally Posted by Curse You

Diamonds were introduce with Nightfall, Lockpicks with Hard Mode. Monstrous eyes never used to drop (in large enough amounts) before Factions.

Yeah hi, "ecto crash" is after these are introduced.

It gets better: diamonds have no use yet and are expected to be heavilly in demand during eotn.

Monstrous Eyes are always 100g - 200g, meaning when you buy them at 100g you can always sell them at 100g. They have the greatest transfer price of all right now, and that makes for smart moneyholding.

Lockpicks are always in demand, and their price is trader-set.

"You can't corner gold" as they say. Never invest money into something JUST BECAUSE IT IS EXPENSIVE. That is where ectos and black dyes fail.

artay · May 16, 2007, 06:03 AM // 06:03

What happened to using lock picks?

ichigo_panty · May 16, 2007, 06:04 AM // 06:04

No no. Mini Gwen will be the latest currency.

Wtb Crystalline Sword R9 For 100k+Mini Gwen

Unlucky Slayer · May 16, 2007, 06:06 AM // 06:06

Tear the economy to shreads!!! Bring on the low ecto prices!

Maybe then I'll be able to get what I want.

ichigo_panty · May 16, 2007, 06:08 AM // 06:08

Give it 2 more weeks, Ectos will be 1k each.

Unlucky Slayer · May 16, 2007, 06:23 AM // 06:23

I look forward to it.

Spazzer · May 16, 2007, 06:24 AM // 06:24

Ectos are a 4% drop rate and the cost to even start farming for them is 1k. I don't see ectos ever dropping below 3k. Still, going from 6k to 3k is a loss of 50% of your holdings.

Lord Sojar · May 16, 2007, 06:37 AM // 06:37

Nothing in the game should sell for over 100k. Duh. Stop using ectos as currency.

Gonzo · May 16, 2007, 06:46 AM // 06:46

If you have Proph, Factions and NF you have 8 characters slots. Once you've hit 1800k it might be time to consider spending some of that money instead of hoarding it. I mean, it wouldn't make much of a different if you have 1800k or 1800k and 2 stacks of ecto's, you're insanly rich in both cases.

arcanemacabre · May 16, 2007, 06:50 AM // 06:50

Seriously, spend your virtual dough. It's not like you can "save for retirement", drive around in an Acura NSX, or buy that beach house in GW2 with your life savings.

Though I suppose you could always sell it on e.... uhh, nevermind me.

ichigo_panty · May 16, 2007, 06:51 AM // 06:51

Not rich enough to buy any 15(no negative) weapon.

Soon, all the rare materials (sapphire, ruby, etc) will be <1k each .Finally, vabbian/fow for all.