There has never been a better time to buy purples

Over the last three days, I've bought 8 purple recipes to give my fire/shield scrapper two sets of 5 (Hetacomb and Ragnorak if you're wondering). I used to not buy purple recipes on principle because they didn't fit my idea of price/performance (too little increase in performance for the price you paid). Not anymore. Prior to this issue, you could spend 2B to buy 8 purples, but I paid a comparatively paltry 810M.

Prices have fallen on some recipes by 50% or more. Oddly, you can buy some of the crafted ones for even cheaper than the recipes. This is probably the result of market lag as it adjusts to the increase in stock.

I'm sure this won't end the whine threads that purples are still "unobtainable" (an ironic word choice since you can just buy them off of the market). However, issue 16 has definitely opened the supply floodgates.

Purple recipes are definitely on my shopping list now and I will probably start slotting them on my characters en masse. I no longer see any reason to hesitate about them, since some sets are only marginally more expensive than rare set recipes.

The true irony is that when first released purples were below 30 million a piece and even then people thought the prices were too insane and cost prohibitive even then. Ah, the good ol' days, sure do miss getting 5 sets for less than that same 810 million.

Yea, the title is a little off. I remember the good ol 30mil days.

Heh, yeah, the prices are nothin much right now. I thought I was set when I dropped one on an ITF - I figured, even a confuse purple has to sell for *something*, right? Heh, 5 mil, whee. I laugh at those who whine about purple prices.

Confuse sets have been junk even at the peak.

Purples are still way more expensive than they were between I11 and I13-I14. I picked up an entire Ragnarok set redside for something around 150-200 mil.

Oh I completely agree that purples are nowhere close to the good ol days of 30M each, but they're no longer 1B for a set of 5 anymore. Prices of some purples are edging at or even below the cost of things like Obliterations, Luck of the Gambler and Numina's Convalescence.

PVP recipes are the new purples, when it comes to price. I paid 2 billion to get two sets of Panacea, and I have plans to slot 3 more. They really should be purples, considering their scarcity. Keeping those bonuses when ex'd down would be more than awesome.

I think purple prices are a ways away from bottoming out. We may eventually get to a point where even the priciest purple set (all 6 pieces) can bought for less than 300 mil if not less.

I'm not sure where the 'bottom' will be.

Don't forget playing a level 50 earns significantly more influence per defeat since pohsyb fixed a long standing error

Yes, I remember just before AE came out I was buying crafted purples for 10-15M and selling them for 30-50M. When prices went up considerably in just a couple days, I regretted not jumping on and buying everything I could in the 100-150M range. Could have had many billionaires with the sale of those, had I just trusted my instincts on where the purple IOs were heading. Good to see them coming back down though, since I have a few characters I want to purple out now (just about everything but my casual warshade).

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I don't have the slightest problem with high-powered recipes that can be slotted at nearly any point in someone's career being recolored purple.

Frankly, it might be a bit of a tip-off to those who consistently scream, "These are too expensive and rare!" Really? Duh!

I think the only reason they aren't purple is that they aren't as strong as purples. Setting aside how they give you two distinct sets of bonuses in PvP settings, they aren't any stronger in any one feature than other very nice rare PvE sets. They don't offer "Huge" set bonuses, and they honor the regular boost schedules for their enhancement types. (I.E. Schedule A PvPOs are 42.4% enhancement at level 50.)

The impression that leaves me is that the purple designation indicates not just the rarity or the special exemplar behavior of those IOs, but also their raw magnitude, which is much higher than other IOs provide.

What that says to me is that PvPOs should have some other color. They're not really like either purples or oranges. There something in between. Red seems like a nice possibility.