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Thoughts on the 2x Astral Diamonds?

This kinda escalated the price and will keep escalating the Zen/AD
In my opinion, I kinda don't like it, since I was planning to work on getting the 20 Enchanted Key pack without using money, but I knew they were gonna do this at some point. It's been going up by a few thousand, which makes it a little difficult, but I feel like it's gonna be a lot higher by the end of this event.

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  • onewingedmenace#5432 onewingedmenace Member Posts: 148 Arc User
    Made nearly 200k AD today, between the box AD prizes and doing salvaging and dailies with the x2 event active.
    Things will spike for a while sure but trust me it'll go back down pretty quickly. Just take this time to make as much as you can.
  • bandrashubandrashu Member Posts: 19 Arc User
    I checked the prices this morning and it was like 122AD/ZEN so the prices seem to have stayed the same. Last night though there was an increase and it went up to like 140ish.

    I am enjoying this event and I do not think that it will boost prices in the long run. If we have this event every weekend, then that is a different story.
  • darkcult#2246 darkcult Member Posts: 31 Arc User
    I'm loving it!
  • nicodemisfinch#1513 nicodemisfinch Member Posts: 11 Arc User
    edited August 2016
    I had almost as much fun playing in the AD exchange as I did playing in dungeons and skirmishes! I'm not sure at what price it peaked (I think 145 or 146) but I played in and out of the Zen/AD market as it rose from the 130's into the 140's. I was sweating! Anyway, I bought more Zen at a low, low price overnight, so I can confirm it's a temporary boost to the price of Zen at peak hours.
  • bandrashu said:

    I checked the prices this morning and it was like 122AD/ZEN so the prices seem to have stayed the same. Last night though there was an increase and it went up to like 140ish.

    I am enjoying this event and I do not think that it will boost prices in the long run. If we have this event every weekend, then that is a different story.

    Yeah the increase was high which scared the hell out of me. My friend said the same thing about the AD going down eventually. Probably right about that lol

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  • terrordactyl#4367 terrordactyl Member Posts: 133 Arc User
    The AD exchange seems like a mini stock market game in itself :-)
  • spritemysticspritemystic Member Posts: 66 Arc User
    I must've been doing something wrong cause I only made about 40k ad yesterday
  • omegarealities#7219 omegarealities Member Posts: 1,004 Arc User
    XBOX User here:

    It will fluctuate during events. When I first started it was in the mid 100s. About 3 months ago it skyrocketed in the high 300s/low 400s. It is now in the mid 200s.

    Check the XBOX/PC boards for hints on what causes fluctuations, to best benefit from the market.
  • nicodemisfinch#1513 nicodemisfinch Member Posts: 11 Arc User
    > @terrordactyl#4367 said:
    > The AD exchange seems like a mini stock market game in itself :-)

    It is! I really enjoy it. I bought 500 Zen as seed money and I've invested some AD I earned in game. Made good money last weekend, then the price was stagnant all week. After the price craze yesterday, my "pot" of Zen is now close to 1000 after a week. Not bad! Fun too. I enjoy the AH too, but not as much.
  • mebengalsfan#9264 mebengalsfan Member Posts: 3,169 Arc User
    edited August 2016

    This kinda escalated the price and will keep escalating the Zen/AD
    In my opinion, I kinda don't like it, since I was planning to work on getting the 20 Enchanted Key pack without using money, but I knew they were gonna do this at some point. It's been going up by a few thousand, which makes it a little difficult, but I feel like it's gonna be a lot higher by the end of this event.

    Pricing isn't that bad. It goes up and down. I find 8am is usually best time to convert AD to Zen. I traded some AD for Zen at 98 AD for 1 Zen and I average around 120 or less. This morning it was a bit higher, around 125.

    I exchanged 1000 zen at an exchange rate of 138. I than log in this morning and than used that AD to buy zen. I went from 1K to around 1.4K without adding any additional zen. I than bough more Zen and bought 2 bags for my wife character.

    Now that she has her bags I can now focus on gaining AD for upgrading my companions and not worry about grinding for AD for someone else.

  • malfunction3000#5338 malfunction3000 Member Posts: 49 Arc User
    edited August 2016

    This kinda escalated the price and will keep escalating the Zen/AD
    In my opinion, I kinda don't like it, since I was planning to work on getting the 20 Enchanted Key pack without using money, but I knew they were gonna do this at some point. It's been going up by a few thousand, which makes it a little difficult, but I feel like it's gonna be a lot higher by the end of this event.

    Pricing isn't that bad. It goes up and down. I find 8am is usually best time to convert AD to Zen. I traded some AD for Zen at 98 AD for 1 Zen and I average around 120 or less. This morning it was a bit higher, around 125.

    I exchanged 1000 zen at an exchange rate of 138. I than log in this morning and than used that AD to buy zen. I went from 1K to around 1.4K without adding any additional zen. I than bough more Zen and bought 2 bags for my wife character.

    Now that she has her bags I can now focus on gaining AD for upgrading my companions and not worry about grinding for AD for someone else.

    Now that I think about it, maybe I should've done that.. Damn
    EDIT: Ima do it right now. Hoping for price to go up lol and then down later

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  • nicodemisfinch#1513 nicodemisfinch Member Posts: 11 Arc User
    I'm not going to pretend that it's not risky, but if you pay attention to the Zen/AD market price you can consistently make a profit. Just don't get too greedy. @mebengalsfan#9264: I had no idea that the price of Zen could drop below 100 AD! I may have to rethink my target buy price.

    Maybe I should put out some "test sales" to see how low the price gets. For example orders like this: 1 Zen @ 100, 1 Zen @ 95, 1 Zen @ 90. Then look to see what orders get filled. I could do the same on the high end. Too bad we don't have online access to market data for PS4 like the PC players do.

    Right now it's easy to see the bottom. Wait until Zen prices hit 200-400. That's when the risk of a big drop gets real and you can lose your a$$.
  • mebengalsfan#9264 mebengalsfan Member Posts: 3,169 Arc User

    I'm not going to pretend that it's not risky, but if you pay attention to the Zen/AD market price you can consistently make a profit. Just don't get too greedy. @mebengalsfan#9264: I had no idea that the price of Zen could drop below 100 AD! I may have to rethink my target buy price.



    Maybe I should put out some "test sales" to see how low the price gets. For example orders like this: 1 Zen @ 100, 1 Zen @ 95, 1 Zen @ 90. Then look to see what orders get filled. I could do the same on the high end. Too bad we don't have online access to market data for PS4 like the PC players do.



    Right now it's easy to see the bottom. Wait until Zen prices hit 200-400. That's when the risk of a big drop gets real and you can lose your a$$.

    I seen it 1x and had arould 100K AD and it made me a nice profit. I bought the dusk gloves with the companion. Best move as it let me get the ichor quicker to get my leg and chest pieces to be 135 IL vs the 115 pieces I had.

    The market will eventually level off and you won't make much playing Zen vs AD, not like now where players are trying to figure out a good balance between Zen and AD exchange values.

    Like I said, I'm just going to now focus on grinding for AD for my main to raise my companion to max level.

  • demigodgamer#7121 demigodgamer Member Posts: 194 Arc User

    Made nearly 200k AD today, between the box AD prizes and doing salvaging and dailies with the x2 event active.
    Things will spike for a while sure but trust me it'll go back down pretty quickly. Just take this time to make as much as you can.

    +1



  • demigodgamer#7121 demigodgamer Member Posts: 194 Arc User
    So did this "event" start today? I have been on a break from NW.



  • kreatyvekreatyve Member, Neverwinter Moderator, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 10,545 Community Moderator

    So did this "event" start today? I have been on a break from NW.

    Weekend events start on Thursday and run through Monday, so you are missing out.
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  • Ooh, the price for AD/zen went up to 150 today.. Hardly went below 130.. A little scared 'cuz I feel like I'm gonna lose a few ad.. But then again, the 2x AD kinda makes it ok

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  • frostreever#9329 frostreever Member Posts: 269 Arc User
    For anyone coming across this and wanting to plan for this week's double ad.

    Highest I saw on ps4 after the last one was mid 180s. That being for the week following.
    Actually saw it hit high 120s the other day, and today, Monday, it was high 130s.

    So it'll spike, and then come back down.

    Have what you can in zen before Friday.
    Over the weekend it'll spike, so try to sell out Sunday evening.
    But next Friday it'll come back down and you can buy back into zen even cheaper.

    Thankfully I doubt we will ever see the heights of Xbox, much less pc.
    Highest sustainable I'm predicting is <210, with 190s being the long term average.

    Man, what I wouldn't give for some tracking data like can be found on the pc.
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