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The game economy is completely and utterly broken
yukishiro3
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 94
Something needs to happen. Either all the exploited level 60 epics need to be removed and the exploiters banned (lol good luck with that with current customer service staffing levels) or it needs to be all obsoleted with new gear and harder content. Right now the situation is completely and totally borked.
You know something is deeply wrong with the economy of a game when level 30 blues cost more than level 60 epics.
Preferably the new gear should also be BoP so it can't just be xploited and sold again.
You know something is deeply wrong with the economy of a game when level 30 blues cost more than level 60 epics.
Preferably the new gear should also be BoP so it can't just be xploited and sold again.
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Most leveling gear does cost more then level 60 gear. As the end game gear has been farmed a lot already and the items have spammed the AH making more of them, thus making them cost less and less.
I leveled my 2nd toon yesterday and I went from new level 60 to having 9.7k GS within 20 minutes and I only spent 100k AD.
Wow seriously? 100k AD for 9.7k GS O_o
I'm not sure why you think it is broken though.
I wouldn't think an economy is broken if there is a set of gear that is hugely desireable being sold at an inflated price because people are willing to pay that price versus gear that is only moderately desireable (or, realistically, not wanted at all because people already have it) being cheap.
In this situation, lots of players are leveling up and I would suspect that the majority of players are in their "mid levels" (30-40) so there is a lot of interest in mid-level gear. Only a few players are at 60 and those who are there are getting their own gear through their own efforts so why buy it from the Auction House?
Plus some of the people who have made it to 60 are leveling up other characters and just buying their gear from the Auction House which is driving up the already inflated prices seen there. So, is the economy broken as such or is it working?
Give it a month and you'll be able to buy a full set of epic gear for 5k.
Economy is unf'd. Influx of 60s = lots of dungeon grinding = more very rare items hitting the auction boards (t1s mainly) = epic items sold cheaper, and cheaper, and cheaper as more people get to lv. 60 and farm those dungeons then lowball another seller.
WTB Big-Giant Robot Camels, tbh...
Bull**** meter detected. Sure it's not hard to get epics at 60 but you didn't go from greens to 9.7 with 100k. Lying doesn't help the cause.
Actually, I know somebody else who did right about those same numbers. I think he spent 150k.
He's not wrong,
I bought a complete set of Indomitable Gear for my Tank for around the same cost. there are other set gear items that are priced much higher. Wizard and Rogues gear seems to be the highest priced gear. but its not impossible to buy gear at that cost.
The only gear worth spending AD on is jewelry and belts. You can do a full set of pvp epics in ~6-8 hours.
Edit: actually Pirate King loot is crazy cheap too. T2 sword for 3000AD!
Please review my campaign and I'll return the favor.
is that Ethereal Joe from PS2? ^^
That's cause people were exploiting him left right and center
Were? Oh nice, he got fixed?
My bad they still are. The profession box exploit is still there too so unlimited rare profession materials going around. And of course the 1 hit kill GFs running around too. Pretty sure there are more.
I figure the level 60 purple market will totally crash with items going for ~2k AD each.
I'm curious to see what, if anything, PWE does to address this kind of thing. Castle Never loot won't sell in the 10 mil range if you have to sell 2000 crappy epics just to afford the prices.
I suppose it's actually nice, the p2w economy is going to largely disappear since 3-20k AD prices are well within the range of any player without spending a dime.
Zen is going to be largely cosmetic and mount oriented. Who knows, this could be glorious.
Well, that teaches me to go shopping for gear on the weekends... There wasn't a single piece for my Cleric for 5k on the AH yesterday.
Maybe if you play a DPS class. For a cleric, there is nothing fun about running around in circles putting hots on yourself while you wait for the CD on your knockback to come back so you can knock back the trail of 30+ adds running after you for 1 second before you have to start the kite again.
I'd love to run dungeons for fun. However, everyone rolling need on stuff they can't even use, kind of ruins the fun a bit. Can't wait until all my gaming friends hit 60 (had one slacker that just started the other day) and we can just do our own runs.
I wish cleric items were that cheap. On the Beholder server all purple cleric items are 50k to 90k AD.
I'd actually like to try running a dungeon with two clerics with the same heal power to see if we could ping-pong the mobs back and forth across the room.
You should just need on everything, sell it, and get your GF gear from the AH. It's what everyone is doing these days.