Curse

ZennZero · Mar 22, 2006, 07:34 PM // 19:34

Reading this thread makes me wonder how many items of value end up getting sold to merchants because we hate trying to find human buyers. I hope Anet makes the auction-house a priority. It would totally revolutionize the in-game economy.

Then again, that is probably why it *isn't* a priority -- they may be afraid the bottom will drop out of the economy.

LoneWolfWinter · Mar 22, 2006, 07:37 PM // 19:37

Unless I missed a recent update where anet changed their minds about it, it seems to me it was hinted at (by the frog I think?) that there would be auction houses coming in the near future (possibly the same time factions is released).

Loralai · Mar 22, 2006, 08:21 PM // 20:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZennZero

Reading this thread makes me wonder how many items of value end up getting sold to merchants because we hate trying to find human buyers. I hope Anet makes the auction-house a priority. It would totally revolutionize the in-game economy.

Then again, that is probably why it *isn't* a priority -- they may be afraid the bottom will drop out of the economy.

Probably very true. Personally, I don't have the space to save everything and wait for a buyer, nor do I have the patience to spam Lion's Arch all day. I do my best to post auctions on Guru, or try to hang on to valuable items, but as it is, I already have one level 20 character that is a pain to unload (only to load up another one) just to play and be able to pick up drops. With saving materials, ecto, shards, armor, etc, etc... it is impossible to wait for someone for everything.

At one point I had a very nice Earth Staff that got numerous price checks of around 60k. I held on to it for about 4-5 months before I finally got fed up with finding a buyer and just sold it to the merchant. Sometimes it's just not worth it.

Dazzen · Mar 22, 2006, 09:12 PM // 21:12

Maybe this could contribute to XeNoGeArZ's experiment... As i had 6K to spend and some free time, i took my drok runner build to make the same chest run

Once again, 10 Keys running chests and picking the drops... Here are the results in order :

=== Chest n°1 ===

=== Chest n°2 ===

=== Chest n°3 ===

=== Chest n°4 ===

=== Chest n°5 ===

=== Chest n°6 ===

=== Chest n°7 ===

=== Chest n°8 ===

=== Chest n°9 ===

=== Chest n°10 ===

Overall results :
5 Golds / 5 Purples, as you can see, pretty bad drops

Total value of items (merchant price) = 1978 g
Total loss (Expense - benefit) = -4022 g (67%)

Personal notes :
2 mounths ago i did made some chests runs and stopped because there was hardly a chance to get some good drops from chests. This run was just for fun and to compare what i would get with what XeNoGeArZ dropped. IMO chests should be avoided at all costs, they're not gold sink, they're fool traps

Kool Pajamas · Mar 22, 2006, 09:49 PM // 21:49

the gold/purple seems about 50/50.

LoneWolfWinter · Mar 22, 2006, 10:20 PM // 22:20

Something I'm curious about for both experiments, did you guys have favor when you tried it? Also curious about whether or not you guys might have set off the anti-farming script earlier with your warrior? I'm also curious to test how different locations might have different drops.

As soon as we have favor I'm going to take 10 shiverpeak keys and try mineral springs, I'll keep everyone posted.

Dazzen · Mar 22, 2006, 10:49 PM // 22:49

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Originally Posted by LoneWolfWinter

Something I'm curious about for both experiments, did you guys have favor when you tried it? Also curious about whether or not you guys might have set off the anti-farming script earlier with your warrior? I'm also curious to test how different locations might have different drops.

As soon as we have favor I'm going to take 10 shiverpeak keys and try mineral springs, I'll keep everyone posted.

Mhh i can't really recall about who had the favor when i did the run... For the anti farming script, i've not been farming much (3-4 minos runs in elona) in the last 24 hours, and not a single chest open in like a week.

I did 4 runs total, warping to town beetween each run to reset the chests. on the 2nd run i've visited all of the map to find 4 chests, the other runs i've opened the first 2 chests i found (mainly in the eastern-center zone of the map).

Hope this answers your questions