How much would you spend for Rare/V.Rare iSalvage?

Aaah, well see, that's a whole 'nother question than the OP asked, isn't it? Though i suppose it comes with the territory.

I'm trying to come up with an answer, but my head is spinning with complicated math and normal marketing trends. For instance, unlike with purple farming where you could possibly kill a thousand enemies and never see a drop, with the raids you're guaranteed at least a common after about 30-45 minutes. And 15-23 other people get the same chance at an incarnate salvage. While also earning threads, Emp merits, and Astral merits (which can be converted back into salvage with a few steps). The way i see it, supply would be HUGE, especially since there's not a whole lot of different salvage anyway.

To put it more specifically, someone could easily spend a month (farming, AMerits, etc) getting one Purple IO, one of 60 available. Sucks to be you if it's a sleep or confuse recipe. By contrast, you can play for a half hour and get at least one of 20 incarnate components. And it's several dozen people getting these all at the SAME TIME. One raid will produce 16-24 pieces of salvage (one for each person). Assuming about 6 raids per hour across all servers (On virtue there's sometimes that many going on at once, so I'm being very conservative with my numbers), that's 144 raids in ONE DAY, producing at least 2304 pieces of salvage (assuming all raids are successful and no one picks inspirations), or a maximum of 3456. For the month, that's 103,680 pieces of salvage. Mind you, these are the LOW numbers, assuming an average of 6 raids at a time across ALL servers. If you wanna go with 1 raid per hour per server, that's 24*15= 360 raids in one day, times the number of players IN those raids (let's just meet halfway between 16 and 24: 20), equals 7,200 pieces of salvage PER DAY.

Now, assuming everyone just wants 1 V-rare in each Incarnate category, they'd need, what, 21 pieces of salvage total? Those 7,200 pieces is enough to give 85 characters a VRare slot in EACH current category. Now, that's not a lot, but that's also PER DAY, using, IMO, low-balled numbers.

True, not everyone is going to put their salvage on the market. But those people are going to be the same ones not buying off the market, either, unless it's that last component they want but can't seem to get. With such potentially high supply, why pay several million to save yourself a half hour? Granted, VRares, by their nature, would be very expensive, but tens of million for something that would have a thousand for sale at any given time? No.

In other words, I do not foresee a shortage severe enough where the prices would be high enough that I would farm for the salvage, so I cannot answer your question =(

You are drawing a distinction between the price you WOULD pay for an item and the price you did, in fact, actually pay?

I feel like I just had a breakthrough in communication in this thread.

Yeah but your phrasing is functional and accurate whereas his has a massive implicit value judgement attached, which are always fun.