The Paragon Market - A Quick Update

So no Gunslinger costume set this week?

Can I ask how these updates are done? I mean, are they done with the server folks in Texas?

Because this is second week in a row that a piece of content has sorta been on the market (Titan Weapons via Costume Creator last week, and the Gunslinger costume set under Historical costumes in the market) but not actually been on the market.

I understand it may be something beyond control of Paragon Studios, but it just reflects poorly on the development staff.

So the new IO sets are 450 at 50% off? At half price they're about twice as much as the maximum I'd consider paying.

Not (completely) downing what's on the market this week, but being online when the Gunslinger costume pieces popped up on the market only to see them disappear made me one sad panda. They looked so awesome, and now I've gotta wait. And didn't they just put the Autumn aura on beta YESTERDAY? The heck is point of testing it there if you release it the next day on live? Either way, another 'meh' week for the market, but not as bad as last week, though that would be pretty hard to do.

Hope we get Gunslinger costume pieces before titan weapons honestly.

If you actually want to make money of ios dont put up **** like pulverizing fisticuffs.

This is a slippery slope devs. Cause I know and you know that you WILL eventually have just about every set up for grabs because people will buy these. They are BETTER than the ones the drop in game which is complete rubbish.

The cat is out of the bag now too so dont do something stupid like nerf the ones your selling in the store, you have really only one choice at this point, and that is to make the set bonus on normal IOs scale as well.

In all honesty the invention system is currently a joke. You cant even take advantage of IOs until your lvl 50 and have farmed everything under gods green earth because the ones you should be slotting at level 30 cost triple what they cost at lvl 50 because the ones at 30 are just plain better due to the fact that they will work for 20 levels of gameplay and the ones at 50 only work for 5.

The more wealthy players or just players at 50 have complete control of the prices and the market, and therefor hardly anyone can take advantage of proper set bonus at a reasonable level.

The most fun I have ever had on a toon was my widow and it was because for SOME reason at that time there were an abundance of lvl 30-35 IOs on the market, I was all bonused out by lvl 35 and it really made the game alot of fun. Instead of the chore of grinding to 50 knowing all the time that you SHOULD be able to get some sets but you cant.

For gods sake do something about this. This is the perfect time to fix this crap. You want to sell IOs and such? Fine. You want to sell purples and PVP ios? Ok sure do that too I dont care. BUT PLEASE, fix this crappy set up. I dont like to compare to other MMOs because I honestly do think that 90% of the time we are better than any of them out there, but this is the first MMO ive ever played where you work your *** off to get an amazing "sword"(io whatever) but you try to do some lower level content charge into battle and realize the sword in your hand has disappeared.

Those IOs are too easy to get in game for that price point. It doesnt take half a month of playtime (900pts worth) to get them.

Now Kinetic Combats take weeks of farming A-merits to get or you buy off the Auction House for more than an entire set of Touch of Deaths or Mako's go for. I would buy those without hesitation. Multiple times. (Basilisk Gazes are good for that too).

The only motivation I have for buying these is to motivate Marketing to put the IOs I actually want up on the market.

A lot of demand for IOs comes from the mid range levels of the game because players can use them as they get higher instead of having to be higher to use them in the first place.

As others have noted, there is a lack of supply in the mid levels. You guys as the developers can remedy this in a few ways : the paragon market and seeding wentworths with mid level stuffs.

A lot of people would instantly jump on this suggestion and say ' but if they wanted to they could just increase the drop rate' . The problem with adjusting drop rates of mid level stuffs is that not all of that is going to trickle to WWs via the players and thus won't be as widely available as desired.

The problem with using the paragon market is pricing. Having multiple toons is a primary draw of this game, but having to fork out cash for each of them will instantly turn alot of players off, moreso if the prices are seen as 'unreasonably high'. That is how many people see the prices on the paragon market - unreasonably high. The reason for this is because players are expecting micro transactions and getting medium transactions instead.

I would suggest some combination of seeding WWs with mid level IO recipes (rare and uncommon along with salvages) and lowering prices on paragon market uncommon sets level 40 or below. This two pronged solution allows players two options for getting stuff they want. The WW seeding also has the benefit of fighting influence inflation by 100% instead of 10% of normal transactions.

Just got the Autumn path and although it's a very niche concept, I happen to have a couple of toons this would be awesome for (Primeva, woo!). I really like how the bigger plants show up when you land from jumping or flying. I kind of wish there was a heavy/lite variation so that you can choose to have the larger foliage effect as a standard one when you're standing still and not just have it for when you jump up and down.

I love the autumn aura but it has nothing to do with autumn (at least, as far as I can tell, the leaves are growing, right?). Change the name to the spring aura or the verdant aura.