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Mark Of Power price

kaedennnkaedennn Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 361 Arc User
edited November 2014 in General Discussion (PC)
hello ;

So what's this crazy rising of this item price ?

it doesn't drop anymore from artifact provisions boxes , nodes ? .... idk , what is happening ?

share your thoughts .
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  • luxarkluxark Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Well, large demand and rising AD-inflation.
  • mmm1001mmm1001 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 497 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Weapon artifacts require blue marks.
    Now days getting artifact weapon is really cheap (around 90K AD) - 30k for dragon stone, 10k for dragon bone and 50k to start process. Because of this everyone has artifact weapon.
    About drop rate - it is same. These marks can e found in dungeon chests. BUT - there are not chests in ELOL and ESOT, and most people run those recently. Even when people run other dungeons, no one bothers to open normal chests anymore. Btw ELOL dungeon drops these with 1:10 chance (e.g you get 1 blue mark average every 10 runs).
  • healaryhealary Member Posts: 600 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    mmm1001 wrote: »
    Weapon artifacts require blue marks.
    Now days getting artifact weapon is really cheap (around 90K AD) - 30k for dragon stone, 10k for dragon bone and 50k to start process. Because of this everyone has artifact weapon.
    About drop rate - it is same. These marks can e found in dungeon chests. BUT - there are not chests in ELOL and ESOT, and most people run those recently. Even when people run other dungeons, no one bothers to open normal chests anymore. Btw ELOL dungeon drops these with 1:10 chance (e.g you get 1 blue mark average every 10 runs).

    Artifact weapons have been in game for MONTHS. The rise of the blue marks is recent. Not long ago they were selling for 3-4k each.

    eLoL and eSoT have also been in games for MONTHS. They are not recent change. People have been running them for MONTHS, not just recently.

    Nothing much changed in both the supply and demand of blue marks over the last 2 to 3 weeks except the prices.
  • luxarkluxark Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    healary wrote: »
    Artifact weapons have been in game for MONTHS. The rise of the blue marks is recent. Not long ago they were selling for 3-4k each.

    Easy: The mass reached the point, where they could get an artifact-weapon, just recently and not months ago. The mass is not grinding ToD on a daily basis.
  • myowmyowmyowmyow Member Posts: 1,923 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    This is easy. Can you say Mod 5?

    There will be several new artifact equipment pieces - the smart people are buying up and hoarding the marks in preparation for launch.
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  • letojarred1letojarred1 Member Posts: 306 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    myowmyow wrote: »
    This is easy. Can you say Mod 5?

    There will be several new artifact equipment pieces - the smart people are buying up and hoarding the marks in preparation for launch.

    Then I'm not smart but frugal, I'll just run any duns for 8 hours straight just to get 1. I don't like the idea of spending 100k ad for this mark alone :p at-least I can get some epics while doing duns :D
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  • myowmyowmyowmyow Member Posts: 1,923 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    letojarred1 wrote: »
    Then I'm not smart but frugal, I'll just run any duns for 8 hours straight just to get 1. I don't like the idea of spending 100k ad for this mark alone :p at-least I can get some epics while doing duns :D

    Agreed, Cheesecake! :)
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    myles08807 said, "Back in my day, we didn't have any of this fancy Mulhorand gear while we were leveling . . . we walked uphill both ways while dying once every five seconds while leveling, and we liked it fine!" . . . Now, get off my lawn, you kids!"
    pointsman said, "I don't rue the game. In fact I don't feel any regret for the game at all."
    looomis said, "I don't like people changing to alts and then bragging about their mains like schizophrenic role players."
  • kozi001kozi001 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 876 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    What I didn't understand is the big price difference between marks.
    Mark of power is 90k
    Mark of union 38k
    Mark of stab 7k
    And they all needed for the artifact weapon.
    Union and power was the same price (50k) a week ago.
  • k3ll0k3ll0 Member Posts: 373 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    They're also needed for the non-weapon artifacts already everyone who can be bothered to complete that one quest gets; probably fairly indicative of the relative popularity thereof.
  • vvergvverg Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 199 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I got a Mark of Power a week ago from a node in a ToD Daily "Dungeon" (Barrow Crypts? The Ebon Down one)... since then I'm hunting all the nodes ^^
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  • ridoxon1ridoxon1 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    myowmyow wrote: »
    This is easy. Can you say Mod 5?

    There will be several new artifact equipment pieces - the smart people are buying up and hoarding the marks in preparation for launch.

    Yep, thats why I bought tons of marks, some months ago when the very first artifact weapon dropped out of a box and I recognized you need those to level up! ( So everyone WILL NEED them)

    smart players do sell them now and make billions, but bought them for some thousands ;)
  • tbhdk2tbhdk2 Member Posts: 78
    edited November 2014
    kozi001 wrote: »
    What I didn't understand is the big price difference between marks.
    Mark of power is 90k
    Mark of union 38k
    Mark of stab 7k
    And they all needed for the artifact weapon.
    Union and power was the same price (50k) a week ago.

    Yea im using them to upgrade bloodskull raven artifacts so i can get those to level 59 to boost gwf and vanguard banner artifact - thus these marks are higher in demand followed by union for DC sigil.

    And add to opgrade of artifact belts and weapons the drop in prices of refinement points - peridots etc. And there is the reason. People are boosting stuff from 0 - to legendary in one day atm.
  • asterotgasterotg Member Posts: 1,742 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    First of all, this 'crazy' prices were normal prices, before bots looted nodes and flooded the AH.

    Cryptic replaced easy to farm nodes ad farmers use feyblessed enchants oe. to get their ADs, so there are no more cheap marks in the AH.

    I dont like this blame game, if someone wants something and does not get it for free or dirt cheap. There are either some 'evil masterminds' manipulating the AH for their personal gain or some intelligent players predicting their own needs, buying things BEFORE the masses realize the growing demand. It is neither evil to buy for yourself nor to buy in exess and make a profit of it, as long as you do not have insider knowledge.

    I made a few million ADs buying marks BEFORE the refinement weekend went live, using them myself and giving some to my friends, selling the rest. A friend who stopped playing did the same with Tymoras gifts and I 'inherited' some x000 boxes from him, making millions ADs. Thats neither manipulating nor evil, but clever.

    I stockpiled millions of RPs for mod 5. If cryptic changes the dragonhoard drops to BTA, I can either use them or sell them with a nice profit. If they dont make the announced changes, I overpaid.
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  • empalasempalas Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 804 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    They were much cheaper a few weeks ago. Its cyclical as to how many are on the AH...I got one yesterday from Cask Of Wonder from DF treasure trove. One other reason they are more than the others is that most of the good artifacts in general are Power so these are needed to upgrade those as well as people level those artifacts. And as some have said that people are probably hoarding them now waiting for mod 5. I am definitely keeping the one I got. I think this is only the second or third Mark of Power I have received since they have been introduced. The RNG has not been kind to me with regard to these.
  • hexanna22hexanna22 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Knight of the Feywild Users Posts: 204 Bounty Hunter
    edited November 2014
    They used to drop much more, when they first came out til about 5 or 6 months ago.
  • mutantdemocracymutantdemocracy Member Posts: 497 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    healary wrote: »
    Artifact weapons have been in game for MONTHS. The rise of the blue marks is recent. Not long ago they were selling for 3-4k each.

    eLoL and eSoT have also been in games for MONTHS. They are not recent change. People have been running them for MONTHS, not just recently.

    Nothing much changed in both the supply and demand of blue marks over the last 2 to 3 weeks except the prices.

    Uh huh... You know all those Resonance stones selling for cheap? People buy those, then upgrade artifact weapons and belts. That alone makes demand increase. The price changes also aren't recent. Marks of power have been increasing in price since a month after Mod 4 hit. It's just scaling faster since more and more people are demanding them.

    The high demand is perfect for those people who have tons of AD and the know-how to buy up cheap marks of power and price them up.
  • rayrdanrayrdan Member Posts: 5,410 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    AND you can easily drop 1/2 marks a day running eLOL which is bugged and gives you tons of free blu marks
  • asterotgasterotg Member Posts: 1,742 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    rayrdan wrote: »
    AND you can easily drop 1/2 marks a day running eLOL which is bugged and gives you tons of free blu marks

    I dont know if it is bugged. It seems, that the marks are one of the possible rewards. They do not drop, but appear in the inventory of one of the players. I think the one with the last hit.

    PS. They drop in LOL nonepic, too.
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  • aulduronaulduron Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,351 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I didn't even look at the price. I gave one away the other day, then traded a union for a stability.
  • katbozejziemikatbozejziemi Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 856 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    kozi001 wrote: »
    What I didn't understand is the big price difference between marks.
    Mark of power is 90k
    Mark of union 38k
    Mark of stab 7k
    And they all needed for the artifact weapon.
    Union and power was the same price (50k) a week ago.

    Because there's more power artifacts than other types AND most good artifacts are power type.
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