Oh Swellguy, giggles
You are so right, if the recipe is really valuabel and horribly priced at market, I go the merit rout, that is why I do 1 to 2 TFs a night, so this way I acquire those ultra-expensive recipies that cost in excess of 150 million.
I must confess, that when I get a concept for my alts, I am one of those must do it now, and have difficulties waiting a week or two for the price to come down. You don't know, how tempted I been to buy influence at Gagora! Shame on me...Giggles
Still, I would like to see a ceiling on prices, so casual players and compulsive buyers like me don't get spanked too hard :<) After all, I am a woman and there is a market, how can I possibly resist to go out an shop at the WW or Icons?
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Stormy
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Allow me to let you in on a little secret. There are these people, a great many people, who desperately want to give you their money. All they ask in return is some of the nearly worthless trinkets you pick up along your way. The key to making a decent amount of inf? Sell. Sell sell sell. Sell everything. If you list everything for 1 inf those impulse buyers will, on the balance, give you enough for ten characters worth of SOs.|
Originally Posted by Heraclea
It is pretty much self-evident that prices for AH salvage are perfectly understandable as a result of player behavior. The prices simply are unfeasible to meet by the inf gained in not selling the stuff you don't need. If a piece of 10-25 common salvage can be reliably bought on the AH for 5K inf, but a level 10 character gets less than 15 inf per minion defeated, this means that the player is going to be comfortably wealthy by level 12. And many items of low level salvage go for many times that. The only player who can hope to participate is the one who also plays the AH game herself. The AH itself has fulfilled its function of providing an enjoyable mini-game while facilitating the exchange of goods.
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Want IOs for you low level alts? Forget sets; all the low level one suck and you don't have any slots anyway. Level 15 common IOs are pretty sweet though. It's like having +3 DOs from 12 to 22, but don't bother crafting your own. Take the money you got from selling over-priced common salvage and place some low bids a while in advance. Then go play the game, the real game. By the time you reach 12 some of those bids will have been filled by badgers. The rest of your slots can be filled by DOs, which work almost as good.
It's that simple. It really is. 80k inf Never-melting Ice is a quirk of the times, not a symptom of an unsalveagable system. If you are ok with normal enchancements you can ignore the market completely. It only makes buying the first full set easier. If you want to franken-slot, that takes a little effort and a bit of patience. If you want to solo the STF, well, then you gotta play the market.
Seriously, don't horde, sell. Especially low level salvage. Sell it all. Just look at the price history; those people are filled with an all-consuming need to give you money.
I have advocated, and been flamed much for it, for vendors selling salvage and recipies as a market price control. For example, you can buy IO recipes (not inventions) at the university right now, therefore the prices players may ask for an accuracy 50 will be limited by how much a player could simply buy it at the university. Frankly I would like to see the same practice with inventions, of course the prices at the university need to really make sense and be appropriate for the rarity and uselfuness of the invention recipe. It would also be so cool, if you could buy the recipe and its ingredients at the same time from the university as well, kinda like a package deal.
It is true, that the glitter of the market may be noticeably reduced for the exhorbitant profits to be made there will essentially go away. But good money can still be made, just not exhorbitant.
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Stormy
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.