Gladiator's Armor Defense enhancement.

I am having difficultly finding the Gladiator's armor plus defense/teleport protection enhancement anywhere on the market both in Freedom and virtue. I assume it is in high demand. Unless I am mistaken it appears to have the same effect as Steadfast Protection plus 3 defense in PvE. Correct me if I am wrong please.


Bids on a lvl 50 total to about 2 billion and there are absolutely none for sale at any level, neither the recipe or enhancement itself. While cost is not a major obstacle , any reason why this enhancement is so rare ? Others are in high demand but are still available in small numbers on the market. What would be the best course of action to obtain it other than placing a large bid and hoping one comes? Anyone face this same problem ?

I am trying to get it for my hero so if anyone has it for sale let me know. Name your price.

Thanks

Well, for one thing, the markets are cross-server, so the freedom and virtue markets are the same (although they are not cross-faction, so the hero and villain markets are not the same). So, yes, it really is this rare, across all servers, and for good reason - it does indeed function the same way as the steadfast 3%, and you can stack them.

The reason it is so expensive and rare is that demand is huge and supply is tiny. Everyone who wants to soft cap their build in PvE wants one, so demand is through the roof. The IO is in a PvP IO set, so it is only supplied by the (extremely rare) IO drops from defeated players in PvP. Given that very few PvP in this game and the drops are very uncommon even for those who do PvP, the supply of these IOs is next to nonexistant. So, there is no standing supply, thus those that want it bid higher so that they have a chance to get the next one that is posted, and so the bids keep going up. If it wasn't for the 2 billion influence cap, the price would probably be even higher.

If you want to get one, the only real way is to place a 2 billion bid on either the enhancement or recipe at level 50 (whichever has better turnover) and hope the RNG smiles your way and chooses your bid from amongst all the other 2 billion offerings. If someone were to try and sell it on the forums, I'm guessing it would go for well more than 2 billion.

edit: I suppose it might be possible to farm for one, but that would require extra accounts, likeminded friends, or both, along with a huge amount of time investment and patience. I don't know exactly how such farms work, but I do know that the restrictions on drops make even that method slow, also farming for a specific recipe is always hit or miss.

Definitely not. Currently, you can't even trade inspirations between red and blue side, although we hear that will soon be available (inspiration trading).