Any effects of AMerits on the market?

Are you guys noticing price drops, due to increased supply I presume, on high-end IO's due to the introduction of AMerits? I've been sitting on a handful of (theoretically) popular enhancements for most of the week, as it seems that I may have vastly overestimated their value.

As soon as we got AMerits, the price on several high-priced Pool C/D rares dropped significantly from pre-I18 highs. Notably, they dropped below blue side highs; red-side highs were significantly higher.

It seems plausible that this is due to the comparative ease with which people can earn enough AMerits for both a large number of random rolls and individual Pool C/D recipes. While RMerits can be earned in large numbers, I do think the TF minimum team size requirements act as a barrier to entry for significant parts of the player base. So while the throttle on AMerit earning rates may be more significant compared to merit earning rates, I suspect more players are hitting the max AMerit rates than are approaching the max RMerit rates.

I suspect something similar is going on with tickets, but don't have as clear a theory on why. Perhaps fewer people are interested in ongoing ticket farming, or lack characters that are sufficiently good at it to spend their time on that.

I find it far quicker/easier to earn an A-merit for my random 5 recipes than to earn enough tickets in AE to get the same number or rare recipes or 100 R-merits to roll with those.

Of course my rolls have been junk so far.

My rolls have been pretty even. I have sold almost everything I generate at 25 and 30 (although it can take a week or so before people notice there is something to buy. But at those levels, even a pacing of the turtle proc sold very well.

At 35, it is about half and half. But I had one roll at 35 that was quite good; 2 LotG global recharge, 2 mako triples and an Oblit quad.

I don't roll at 50, I just buy specifics and if I don't need anything I let 'em build up.

But I am not sure it is really dampening demand. I haven't sold any of Luck's that I have rolled and only 1 Miracle recovery. I am sure I could sell 'em but I would rather slot them on my army of alts.

Before, I would just concentrate on one toon because of the expense of the high end stuff. Now I can spread my attention out to many alts and still make money on those things that I don't need.

I haven't yet gotten around to getting enough amerits for it to come up. It's hard for me to "spend" the kind of money involved -- even if I had two a-merits, it'd be hard for me to justify spending them both on a single recipe, but probably a better deal overall than the two random rolls would be. Probably.

The price of LotG: +RCH seems to have gone down a bit, probably due to the ease of people getting them (good thing imo). I can only think other ones have gone a bit.

Good point. The question is how players will choose to get their LotGs.

I've got a few billion to my name, but I still prefer to get my LotG, Numina, and Miracle procs with AMerits. I save the infamy for cheaper stuff - Positron's, Decimation, and anything else I can buy outright at ~10-20m per IO.

Lets see the effects......


1) Pool C recipes which are not the TOP demand ones have roughly halved in price. This may be due to increased competition among marketeers from blue/red sides in the combined market, due to the increased supply from amerits, or due to a combination. I'm going with mostly increased supply as my guess.

2) The price on top-demand pool C recipes has dropped significantly but not as severely as the middling pool C stuff.

3) The price on purples and PvP IOs has increased alot because they're not in the random rolls and people have more inf left after pool C'ing and have spent it on high-end stuff. Any effect amerit buying may have in increasing supply hasn't been seen yet.

Ok, Thanks. Yeah I did try that for awhile, but in general AE doesn't draw me like the regular content does.

Thanks for the clarification

My numbers on "what happened to pool C" roughly match Enyalios's- but I'm pretty sure she has data to back hers and I don't have data to back mine.

I think the rise in the price of purples is just human nature in action.

When LotG, Numina, Miracle procs were pricey or out of reach, that was the goal that many players had. (I just need 2 LotG to finish this build, etc.)

But A-merits made that more accessible, either through increased supply or straight buying with A-Merits. In esscene we all got a nice raise.

With more buying power we have raised our sights higher and purples which were never considered before for toons now become the goal. I have never slotted a purple, but I am now actively looking for places they could go without harming the goals of my builds.

I think there's a little bit of "Prices are higher because we have more disposable income". And there's a little bit of "We pay more because we've adjusted to the price shock." But about a month after GR hit, purple prices dropped noticeably- my interpretation was that most of the new Praetorians were now starting to beat up L47+ content.

Prices are NOWHERE near the start of I18 levels, and supply is nowhere near as low.