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Maverick2201 · Apr 14, 2008, 05:07 PM // 17:07

Has anyone noticed that prices for normal tomes seems to be falling? Not all that long ago, it seemed the standard price was 500-700g and now people are unwilling to pay more than 350-400g for them...

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed this?

sevendash · Apr 14, 2008, 05:10 PM // 17:10

I don't really see too much importance in them so they'll probably end up dropping to somewhere around 100-200g a piece. Could be just me, though.

JONO51 · Apr 14, 2008, 05:11 PM // 17:11

More people getting bored in NM, so moving on to HM?

take_me · Apr 14, 2008, 05:14 PM // 17:14

Tomes for W, R and A have been at 200-400g each for a long time now.
All Caster Tomes still sell pretty good, Rit and Monk and Ele Tomes are at 700-1k each from what I've seen. Some even pay more than that.

Of course there are always people who only want to pay 200g-300g for a Caster Tome, but they would either have to get really lucky on a seller, or have to wait hours/days until they get them.

Whenever I see Caster Tomes being sold for 200-350g each I buy them immediately, unless I already have enough of them.

kobey · Apr 14, 2008, 05:14 PM // 17:14

Or probably people finished unlocking their skills and demand got lower?

Can't expect people to create new characters all the time this late in the game

Kenny Mack · Apr 14, 2008, 05:17 PM // 17:17

your right,tome prices are depreciating

but, technically they are priced wrongly anyway

the purpose of a tome is so u can unlock a skill without using skill points. a skill bought from a main town trader (has all ur unlocked skills) costs u 1k+1 skill point, so by this method tomes should be 1k+. a way to get skills while saving points, shldnt it at least be even? lol

but i like the cheap prices of tomes, makes new characters move alot quicker

StormDragonZ · Apr 14, 2008, 05:20 PM // 17:20

Some tome sellers I've seen lately:

WTS 24 Warrior Tomes for 8.5k (roughly 354 gold each)
WTS 13 Monk Tomes for 3.75k (roughly 288 gold each)
WTS 10 Paragon Tomes for 3k (300 each)
WTS 18 Assassin Tomes for 5.5k (roughly 305 each)

So yes, the price of them have significantly dropped.

Phoenix Tears · Apr 14, 2008, 05:21 PM // 17:21

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Originally Posted by take_me

Tomes for W, R and A have been at 200-400g each for a long time now.
All Caster Tomes still sell pretty good, Rit and Monk and Ele Tomes are at 700-1k each from what I've seen. Some even pay more than that.

Of course there are always people who only want to pay 200g-300g for a Caster Tome, but they would either have to get really lucky on a seller, or have to wait hours/days until they get them.

Whenever I see Caster Tomes being sold for 200-350g each I buy them immediately, unless I already have enough of them.

That must be the absolute full morons, with no brains XD Lol, before I pay more than 1k for such a shit tome, i go to the NPC, anyone who sells normal tomes for more than 1P is a scammer

anyway, i find it good, when they get cheaper, because then will people with multiple characters have finally a cheap alternative to get one day maybe all unlocked skills for an other cha for just only 1/10th of the cost you would have to pay isntead on NPC, in the best case, that tomes would hopefully fall one day on 100g sell price XD

PS: the only way how anet could raise their value again, woudl be, if normal tomes would unlock any skills, regardless if unlocked, or not, but that should do imo all tomes anyway, totally sucks, that you can get with them only unlocked skils -.-

take_me · Apr 14, 2008, 05:25 PM // 17:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phoenix Tears

That must be the absolute full morons, with no brains XD Lol, before I pay more than 1k for such a shit tome, i go to the NPC, anyone who sells normal tomes for more than 1P is a scammer

They are just lazy. You can only buy Campaign-specific skills at each skill trainer.
If someone spams "WTB monk Tome for 2k, please. I really need it." then why would I sell it lower

makosi · Apr 14, 2008, 05:32 PM // 17:32

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Originally Posted by kobey

Or probably people finished unlocking their skills and demand got lower?

Can't expect people to create new characters all the time this late in the game

That's what I thought. All of my PvE characters have every skill unlocked for their primary profession so whenever I get tomes, I sell them instead of using them. I think other people are in the same boat too, and demand decrease leads to price decrease.

Jetdoc · Apr 14, 2008, 05:38 PM // 17:38

Tome prices have been pretty darn stable for a while now....the only dip I've seen have been with dervish tomes, which used to command well in excess of 500 gold each and have now dropped to the 400 gold range.

Thierry2 · Apr 14, 2008, 05:48 PM // 17:48

People found places to farm them.. so they get cheaper. Sin tomes for example are really easy farmable.. elite sin tomes are ~3k now.

Proff · Apr 14, 2008, 05:50 PM // 17:50

With HoM being the only thing we can prepare for GW2 most are only working on filling it and getting their next koabd rank which discourages the creation of new character making the only people that use tomes the ones that have nothing better to do than unlock all the skills on their "main" toon.

MithranArkanere · Apr 14, 2008, 05:51 PM // 17:51

Well, when you don't need or don't want skill anymore, you sell tomes, and thanks to the titles and the HoM, people tend to focus now in a single character, so sooner or later all tomes become useless, since less and less people play with other characters than the main one, and so they need less and less tomes, and that's when prices drop.

HawkofStorms · Apr 14, 2008, 06:03 PM // 18:03

I have a better explination.
There have been 3 nearly back to back weekends of event farming. Easter, St. Patricks, and the Frog/Gaile retirement. That means, for 6 days, a large percentage of the GW population was farming non-stop for ale/sweets/consumables, often in HM. It would coorolate that the number of tomes in the market would also rise due to this reccent farming surge.

Maverick2201 · Apr 14, 2008, 06:07 PM // 18:07

you could have a point there, Hawk

Snow Bunny · Apr 14, 2008, 06:11 PM // 18:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maverick2201

you could have a point there, Hawk

He has a point.

the Puppeteer · Apr 14, 2008, 06:21 PM // 18:21

whats to worry? Cheap stuff is OK for me

Ferret Deathsquad · Apr 14, 2008, 06:42 PM // 18:42

I've noticed while I've been trying to finish GW Prophecies that I've gotten ALOT of runes drops and a couple tomes. So I think Hawk has nailed it on the head.

cruzer · Apr 14, 2008, 06:55 PM // 18:55

Yeah they have dropped, except monk tomes.

I noticed they are harder to sell too even if you sell for a low price.