Curse

Mablung · Jun 14, 2005, 04:29 AM // 04:29

Have prices for rare items really gone through the roof?

Before the patch I farmed my tail off to buy black dye and weapons to outfit some of my characters. The most I was seeing rare swords and such go for was around the 10k mark. Not anymore. I constantly see people saying that their "rare" sword or other item is worth well over 100k?

What gives?

I thought the patch was supposed to get rid of the dupers and limit the need for farming by flooding the market with these items. The game is supposed to be geared towards skill as opposed to gear but if a max dmg wpn or high health fortitude of anything is pulling in over 100k it seems to me that more time is needed to farm for gold or buy from ebay.

I personally would rather spend my time in the arenas than farming for gold or items that may never drop.

Perishiko ReLLiK · Jun 14, 2005, 04:41 AM // 04:41

Yea right, they wanted to give the people who have the upper hand the ability to keep the upper hand... now that all the needed superior runes are 100k, and alot of the good items are 100k... sigil prices dropped to 60k... bad trade off if you ask me...

It made absolutely no sense to me to nerf drops in areas where people knew where to get items at... i mean... they didnt drop godlike items all that often even without the patch... now they actually drop, well... a nothing item every other monster, and sometimes every other two monsters... gotta love it... so now, all the farmers are just using what they got already to go into pvp... and now the market went CRASH, straight into the ground...

They said something about relieving this problem, but i don't see that, and it seems like it's too late with the way the economy is right now... way too much gold compared to the items/gold sinks in the game...

But heck, they're anet, and so far they havent dissapointed me with the incredibly pvp balancing (even tho alot of people are using the same characters, because they don't know anything better then to follow the crowd.)... This game needs more leaders, and less followers, we really need more stradegy... They probably have something coming after a while that will fix/stall these problems for quite some time...