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Zax backlog coming back after todays patch?
warpet
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removeing wards from tradebar store is horrible idea this will make zax reach cap again in less then few weeks making them bop last time had similar effects its on 418 already lol looks like we will have it on 500 by the end of day
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The removal of Coal wards caused a jump in Zen price because people had advanced warning. Everyone was buying up as much zen as possible to get as many coal wards as they could from keys. That's all. Now that they're gone, the zen price will drop again.
It's kind of like when the Nightmare mounts were dropping from lock boxes at a highly inflated rate. The ZAX abruptly leapt to the max because everyone was buying keys before it could be fixed. It settled back down after the issue was resolved. That's all that's happening.
No one bot will inflate AD and for push up ZAX.
Maybe up, but not +400.
There never were bots to farm AD viw LS, at most some scripts which spared the paying customer - who bought character slots for cash, btw. - some clicks.
The limit to the AD generation was the time the profession job took, even then.
Cryptic were never able to tell scripting from personal clicks and just banned people who used this way of gaining their AD to efficiently (and in effect robbing them of the money they payed for those character slots.
Real botting is ingame botting, where ongoing customer interaction is omitted and done by a bot, effectively farming 24/7 for the sole aim of selling the stuff, supideously repeating the easiest and fastest way.
Scripts for the gateway WERE the bots that were generating all of the AD. It might be semantically a slight technical difference between the two (one is in-game, one is not) but the effect is 100% the same. Both are pre-recorded actions that are done constantly without human input.
The scripts were even worse, in fact. AD sellers could use the scripts on MULTIPLE accounts (since it didn't hog as many resources as actually running the game did), on 50 characters each, and, even with all white assets, hit or near the 24K cap every single day (assuming they were also invoking, which, being super easy to bot in game - they almost certainly were). That is, conservatively, 1 million refined AD per account, per day.
The scripts are 100% what caused the backlog. Just because it wasn't in-game doesn't mean it wasn't what was causing the damage. Hence why Leadership AD was taken away. Jep, that's correct - but with these sources of Coals and PWs barred, their prizes will rise dramatically, and many of the remaining customer with toons of level 70 will have to get their Zen for these at the ZX (and their AD for ZX probably from Goldspammers) -> AD inflation and backlog.
I seriously doubt that. People will always need AD way more than they need Zen. Also, if they invoke a significant number of characters every day (which most people who farm for their BIS without buying Zen do), they'll get plenty of free coal wards. There's almost no way this is going to have a big enough impact to cause a backlog. The cause of the backlog before was 100% the gateway scripts. There wasn't a backlog until those became widely used, and there hasn't been another one since (barring short periods when something was going on to cause Zen to be worth more than AD).
The ZAX always recovers as long as there's no way to exploit AD.
Now every account (including bots, goldsellers and these with hundreds of 2 character slots) independently of their VIP status received bound c-ward. For some time lesser versions of enchantments will be in good supply on AH.
C-ward was in 550-600 price range before mod 6, especially in weekends. People were waiting weeks to get their ZEN. ZEN backlog requests was counter per millions of ZEN. Entire refinement process was very frustrating because not only RP was expensive, ZEN price high but ZEN purchases had to be planned weeks ahead.
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yey fun with flags
zhentarim-warlock-companion
Pure -> Transcendent Plague Fire weapon enchantment giving 80damge/20 seconds for 500k+ AD is a joke.
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"Dear bot, sorry to interrupt your botting. We had to do something with our paying customers and the patch won't affect you. Enjoy free C-Ward and other stuff, don't forget to check mail box on other accounts. Peace." // sarcasm
— (The unwritten rule)
zhentarim-warlock-companion
Pure -> Transcendent Plague Fire weapon enchantment giving 80damge/20 seconds for 500k+ AD is a joke.
plague-fire-weapon-enchant-r11-vs-r12