Simple enough question - have prices gone down or up on the Auction House do you think?
The only thing I keep an eye on are the Legendary Mounts which *seem* to have gone way up [purely anecdotal evidence].
They used to be minimum circa 5.5million and now are minimum 6.5million - so what's the score on AD prices please?
[Feedback from someone with a real expert eye on this would be great]
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Legendary mounts - I don't really follow that market, so can't really say. I suspect with the new lockbox, a lot of the popular ones (like t-rex) will go up, though, due to scarcity (no on opening that lockbox). That, and between keys being on sale over the Jubilee, plus the included keys in the Hunter Pack, meant more supply hitting the market, too, so it's probably coming back to normal, rather than "increasing" - more that the market was down with the extra supply hitting the AH.
Just because the supply of rAD is lower, it does not mean everyone is lack of AD right the way.
Even if there is a deflation, it does not mean everything will drop the price.
The price is still depended on supply and demand.
I have been selling certain non-masterwork 'equipment' in the weekend. To be my surprise, I sold them 10+ times more than last time I tried to sell them and failed. It is because of low supply. I was trying to sell them for 15K and failed. I sold them for 250K in the weekend.
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I suspect two things affects this primarily:
* Events like the anniversary with expected large discounts will push the ZAX backog up since people are saving up ZAX or buying ZAX for the discount.
* Events that give bonuses on Zen purchases will push the ZAX backlog down since people buy extra Zen that can be fed to the ZAX for rapid conversion to AD.
When none of these are happening it is my impression that the natural state of the ZAX backlog has been a constant slow growth.
Hopefully the queue changes have changed this but we'll see. From mod 14 until now it has been Zen events all the time, so if we get a period with no Zen events now we'll see how it goes. That the ZAX backlog seems to be rising again does not make me optimistic that Cryptic have solved the problem.
I just think it's sad 'some' feel the need to create 2 or more accounts. I don't do that, cause I thought it's even against the terms of service agreement, or if it's not it probably should be! I mean you can already create up to 54 character's, and I can't even believe some would 20 or 25, let alone 54?
Still I think I'm mostly happy with the new Astral Diamond changes, and only wished it came a little sooner!
Still while you can only run one Random Leveling Dungeon I think that's great, and while you can run Multiple Intermediate Dungeons, on a repeat for the day you'll just get a far lower AD refinement bonus. Still it's not a bad thing as at least that gives a wide range of queue's to do with various potential rewards and they spawn quite frequently enough!
The only thing I wish would run a little quicker is the Random Advanced Queue, however I suspect many prefer to do this in their alliance or with friends avoiding a PUG.
Still I'm HOPEFUL the new changes will restore the AD:ZEN Exchange to a lower surplus than we've seen for a long time! And like many others have noticed many older players have started to return as word of the refinement changes is still trickling out so hopefully that will also encourage more to be buying ZEN as well.
Yule (Barb): 72k : Siren (TR): 78k : Torun (DC): 73k : Siren OP (OP): 76k : Siren SW (SW): 78k : Modern (F): 80k : Cherry1 (CW) : 68k Siren HR (HR): 78k
in the grand scheme of things, this is but a drop in the vast AD ocean.
The following items showed an increase in price over the week;
Item
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Scroll of Life
5000
6000
6000
5000
6000
9000
11000
Cursed Artifact Pack
28000
30800
33000
31000
33000
30000
31000
Howling Adv Pack
4000
5000
5000
5000
5150
7000
6100
Full Moon Ench Pack
30000
32000
31500
34000
34000
33500
31700
Scroll of Mass Life
3200
5500
4900
4800
4700
4700
4850
Epic Dung Chest Key
2000
2200
2070
2050
2300
3100
2600
While these items decreased in price. All a matter of supply vs demand.
Mist
345000
340000
300000
290000
275000
250000
250000
Razorwood
820000
838000
813000
815000
749000
650000
730000
Bloodied Comp Pack
53000
53500
50000
50000
46000
49900
51400
Darkened Night SH Pack
18000
17500
18200
18000
17700
13000
14400
Variety Fash Pack
6400
6800
6000
5800
6000
6400
6000
These changes have effectively doubled the amount of rAD my wife is generating. Before these changes, she was running four characters through random dungeons every day, which amounted to about 45k to 48k AD between them. For me, it hasn't changed the amount of AD I'm refining because I was previously running 8 characters through random dungeons every day, which was about 105k AD per day (they tended to be low on AD bonus from invoking). The major change for us is that epic dungeons are a lot more fun than random queues, no matter the difficulty.
Personally, I think the developers will be making more changes later this year because I don't really believe anything will have materially changed when it comes to AD generation. So make hay while the sun shines, so to speak, because I wouldn't be surprised if generating AD becomes even more difficult 6 months from now.