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Cleavage · Jun 02, 2010, 05:07 AM // 05:07

Awhile back I got this shield as a drop and was shocked when I saw the gold value.

Many years ago I remember there were a few collectors of items with a gold value over 500. This is clearly much higher and does not have the added value inscription. With that added its worth over 670 gold. I know there are some screens of items like this on other forums throughout the world but it would be nice to see whats actually around today within the guru community.

Post anything you have with a gold value over 500.

This could be FUN !!!

Avatar Exico · Jun 10, 2010, 06:46 PM // 18:46

Iv seen couple of those in past. I think I stumbled a 640g shield that I sold to merchant. I don't ss to prove it rarly use my screenshot.

Yawgmoth · Jun 11, 2010, 12:12 AM // 00:12

This Iridescent Aegis is by far the highest I have seen. A perfect "Smtm!" could increase it to 695.

Highest ones I got are these:

(modded with perfect +75g)

One thing that has to be mentioned here is that ALL the abnormally high value gold items come from the Nightfall Treasures - those are set up differently and produce items at exceptionally high gold values, even as unids they can be above 70g whereas drops anywhere else never exceed 57g. Even Purples from NF Treasures have higher value, I got one at 280g I think, no purple anywhere else can be anywhere that high.

I estimate a theoretical maximum for NF treasure golds can be 672g (unmodded), but that would be a very rare occurence.

So when NF treasures simply beat everything else by about 50%, how about finding the highest value gold items that are definately NOT from those? (for example oldschool items). Above 440g it starts getting really rare for the oldschools.

Matrix Arcade · Jun 12, 2010, 10:47 AM // 10:47

Got a Fellblade olsq gold value: 444g; is kinda fun.

Kabong · Jun 12, 2010, 03:31 PM // 15:31

Here are the hammers from my collection with the highest merch values.

The War Ham is RamHam skin.

Red Fireball · Jun 13, 2010, 09:08 PM // 21:08

I got a q9 energy storage Portal Staff from a chest in DoA value:556g
never saw value 600g+ before - wow!

PowerRAV · Jun 14, 2010, 08:21 AM // 08:21

Looked over the weapons I have and this highest I could find...

went from....

to.....

system.fan · Jun 16, 2010, 12:45 PM // 12:45

Hmmm... found that bow on my ranger (never looked at gold value lol):

I also have some noninscr Staves with a Goldworth of 420-450 Gold.... And I'm pretty sure i had a Divine Staff with ~550g Value (without SMTM) too.... but not sure where i put it. might look for it later...

Pleikki · Jun 16, 2010, 01:32 PM // 13:32

Highests ive found were r8 oni blade with 420 and r10 Ornate shield with 428

Also 3 staves with 420-430

Yawgmoth · Jun 17, 2010, 01:44 AM // 01:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kabong

Here are the hammers from my collection with the highest merch values.

The War Ham is RamHam skin.

Wow, those are really high for oldschool! Personally I can't remember seeing any gold weapon above 456g except for lots and lots from nightfall free treasure so those amaze me. I wonder where those came from as there might have been some special dropsource working differently than ordinary mob/chest drops in Tyria aswell. I would guess certain explorable unlocked chests/barrels (before SF update that added keyed chests) or the infamous Dreadnought's Drift Strongbox may have had different drop generation parameters aswell. Or do you maybe remember that Swamp Club coming from where almost all of them came from - Hell's Precipice chests?

Kabong · Jun 17, 2010, 02:53 AM // 02:53

@Yawg - Thanks; at least someone around here admires a good hammar.

Like many of my hammarz, these came from one place: other players who didn't know what they had.

I was under the impression that many Swamp Clubs came from Portal Wraiths outside ToA?

sorry I can't be more informative, but feel free to insert link to "Past Trades" thread here.

Cleavage · Jun 17, 2010, 05:08 PM // 17:08

Yawg I had several old school items at 500-512 area in my time. Ill hunt around and see what i can find whether its the item or and old screenshot.

makosi · Jun 19, 2010, 09:39 PM // 21:39

I've had this for months. It's too intriguing to merch.

I do remember that it came from a free treasure in NF. I'm 90% sure it was Nightfallen Jahai.

system.fan · Jun 21, 2010, 12:05 PM // 12:05

Hmmm just found another bow on my ranger.... Guess this is the highest gold value i have on an oldschool item atm =)

had a few 500g+ noninscribables too earlier but guess i don't have any of them anymore....

cheers

Ultimadiorifiamma · Jun 24, 2010, 12:37 AM // 00:37

Hi

As System.fan,never looked at gold value,but after this thread,found this focus in a char:

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Cheers,Ultima.

Avatar Exico · Nov 01, 2010, 08:25 PM // 20:25

Iv had this for awhile, never really thought about it until now.

LicensedLuny · Nov 17, 2010, 06:24 PM // 18:24

Ok, since this probably isn't a large enough topic to start a new thread for ... and we already have this handy thread here which is semi-related ... and I can die knowing my life is complete if I derail another of Cleav's threads ...

Does anyone know the max amount of gold a foe can drop? I'd always thought it was something around 300g in HM and 200g in NM. A couple days ago, I was cruising through Raisu Palace in HM and that ele boss dropped 420g when it died. I took a screenshot, but I didn't realize until much later that I should've also taken another shot after picking it up showing the line about "party shares 420g" to prove beyond a doubt that I didn't simply put that money there myself to stage the shot.

Anyway, is a single foe, even a boss in HM, dropping over 400g normal? I don't ever remember seeing that much money drop before. Have I been killing really cheap red dots all these years?

Thanks in advance!

Here's a link to the full screenshot (I edited out my IGN and circled the gold.) It's a ~140 kB image post-upload, and photobucket seems to have shrunk it a good bit, sorry.

End · Nov 17, 2010, 07:15 PM // 19:15

@Luny
I really don't think those high gold drops are uncommon from what I remember gold drops were figured based on the level of foe along with a sort of rarity system like regular drops. I see your in Hard Mode so that ele was level I wanna say 30 if I remember right. So thats gonna make it a decent amount to begin with so it's probably just the equivilent to a gold (as in item rarity) drop. I'm fairly certain I have seen at least 1 500+g drop before in hm nightfall somewhere.

Cleavage · Nov 18, 2010, 02:45 AM // 02:45

GTFO My Thread !!!! Grrrrr *Angry Face*

LicensedLuny · Nov 20, 2010, 01:04 PM // 13:04

Thanks for the answer End! I'm glad to know it's not some kind of glitch, but I could swear I've never seen a foe drop more than ~320g. Damn cheap red dots! Meh, it's probably karma.

@ Cleav - *scary teeth face* No!