enh converters coming to a game near you soon.

Stop selling important stuff. Cash out now. Keep your merits. The game is changing.


To see people wanting to pay 2 billion for somthing worth 100 mill in a month is sad to me.

Enh converters are only going to be purchaseable with paragon points, right? Not a mob drop. They might have a minor effect on prices, but it's not going to be huge.

Hrm, interesting. Still doubt a 2 billion enhancer will drop to 100 million though. Might drop under 2 billion. Depends a lot on costs.

I think you mean stop buying important items and sell everything now.

Remember it isn't the fall its that sudden stop at the bottom.

the only thing that seems to be falling here is the sky...

If you go on BETA and play around with them for about a minute of so you will begin to realize this is a significant change in the game and will have substantial ripples on the market.

What people should do is keep all the "junk" recipes from drops and use those instead of selling them to vendors or heaven forbid even deleting them as some of my friends do.

how many merits are these converters costing? How deep is the pool of the options in the "spin the wheel" (that is... how big of a risk of your merits is it that you may just get another piece o' crap? Trade a crapofthehunter for a snipe at the cost of 100 merits?)

With the ratio of crap recipes to good recipes, I'm not worried just yet. No doubt we'll see a price drop in valued items, but you have to realise part of the reason people are willing to spend 2 billions on one particular IO is because they will only spend 100 millions, 10 million, 1 million, 10k on most other recipes. Even if it's not weighted, your odds of getting a high value item are fairly low.

Besides, the influence has to go somewhere, so even if you saw those 2 billions items dropping to 500m, you'd also see many 100m items raising to 120 or 150m.

One strategy that would make sense to me would be to buy a bunch of recipes at the lower price end of their category (i.e. sleep purples, some of non-unique res/def/heal pvp IOs that sell for 20m), grab a bunch of amerits from trials and go from there. Best case scenario you end up with useful IOs, worst case scenario you lost nothing.

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I suspect three things will happen:

1) An increase in demand for BAFs and LAMs to run for Astrals/Empyreans

2) A mild increase in demand for low-demand rare/VR recipes (Teleport, Immob, Sleep, etc) spread over many of these recipes. Perhaps a somewhat universal minimum price for rare/VR drops.

3) A modest decrease in the price of high-demand rare and VR drops (perhaps 100M dropping to 60-75M for example).

All of this of course assumes that people take advantage of the new system to about 50% of its capabilities. Most players play to have fun, not to make loads of inf. They make loads of inf solely to spend it making builds. As the requirement to make inf for builds drops their incentive to do all the above reduces and equilibrium is established well short of the "good purples are dropping to 100M" crowd's hyperbole.

Has anyone noticed the pattern of conversions within a set? If you plan on converting things, I strongly suggest getting familiar with the patterns of conversion, it can save you some converters.