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Servers are running out of Astral Diamonds.
kaasdoek
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So, i am actually not sure why people are so silent about this. Or do you all not notice?
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I'm sure someone out there is hoarding those AD.
Probably. It was down to ~315 on Mindflayer.
That said, you need a couple of weeks of stability before you can actually see where things are going.
Sounds like it's zeroing in on the ~300 +/- 50 that many have predicted it will land on long-term.
Yeah.. it means the value of AD is appreciating. It's harder to earn AD than shell out US Dollars.
Dailies. And Invocation. And Leadership. And Idols.
You see, the svirfneblin miners of Blingdenstone, Northdark are on strike. They have been unappreciated for millenia, and in a final desperate plea for recognition from their patron deity, Callarduran Smoothhands, they have limited their mining operations to every other Tuesday and Thursday, after crumpets. Beyond that, a large dispatch of Xorn from the elemental plane of Earth have recently arrived near the mines and are gorging themselves on various gemstones and minerals including rough astral diamonds, so even when mining is occurring, the ratio of astral diamonds to other gems is poor.
Personally, I've shifted my investments to Aurora's Magical Emporium stock during this period of volatility. Aurora's, headquartered in Waterdeep, offers near instant transaction and delivery of all your magical item needs, and with the influx of adventurers from all over the place, its business can only go from boom to shproing!
With the current design you generate AD from leadership profession and praying. You don't actually have to go anywhere or fight anything.
The only "cap" is the 24K rough AD per day that you can polish. You can't cap AD, afaik, unless your in doing your dailies.
So items on the AH should be based around those numbers. They are getting to that level but are not there yet. Maybe another week or two.
I agree, I think this is just the economy normalizing from the hyper inflation of the caturday catastrophe. Good to see it. Look up, the sky is still there. Huh...
I think that's high.
Any reason to believe this figure rather than say 250 or 75? I am actually curious because I don't see how anyone could really be at all certain since we started with a glut of AD (for various reasons).
Yep that was pretty much the forecast, I was surprised to see it at 497.
We are? I've spent 500K of AD, and have 570K currently on my character and still haven't dispersed to myself 550K of my initial starting AD.
Running out? Really?
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I are confused...English is mah only language.
I can see how people SPENDING money on ZEN would be upset. The zen has less buying power.
Then again I only buy zen to...well spend zen. Whoda thunk?
Give you a short example.
Every character in game is allowed to generate 24k AD. This is the maximum amount of Astral Diamonds that can enter the economy every day per character.
However, As of today (and today is just of many), i already made over 300k AD vanish into thin air due the Auction House cuts. This means that on the long run (and it will not be that long) the amount of Astral Diamonds leaving the economy will be greater than the amount incoming.
Not only does the Auction House causes an Astral Diamond drain. But once the new Paths will be introduced next month and people having all their gear worked on and start working on gems/enhancements then this problem will only accelerate. Taking out a normal enhancement costs 234k or something and respeccing FEATS ONLY costs around 160k? These Astral Diamonds vanish into thin air as well.
My point is that currently more Astral Diamonds are leaving the economy than entering it. It takes 42 days to accumlate 1 million Astral Diamonds normally and i don't even think anyone will get it within 42, because frankly i only reached my 24k cap once in my Neverwinter lifetime and that was during the double AD weekend.
The reason why people are selling and buying items for millions is because of the Guardian and Founder packs, but soon all of that will just vanish due the Astral Diamonds sinks.
That's really nice mate. I earned over 10 mil and i have 3 mil left. That's not what i mean though.
Actually, this is one of the few PWE games where Zen is totally useless. Play Battle of Immortals and see there how valuable Zen is.
All the gear and enhancements are funded with Astral Diamonds and not Zen. The reason why Zen is deflating is because how scarce Astral Diamonds are getting and people are less willing to let them go so easily. So the demand of Zen is starting to exceed the offer of Astral Diamonds.
I am assuming he picked 150 because other people have said that diamonds in Star Trek Online (another Cryptic game that I personally have never tried) had diamonds normalize around 150 per Zen.
Considering that 1 Zen is only 1 penny it should only be a matter of time before people realize that the time it takes to earn 400 diamonds is worth more to them than 1 cent. Founders got so many diamonds so effortlessly that they did not value them (and the AH exploit had the same effect), but once people start actually looking at the effort it takes to earn diamonds they will probably stop selling them so cheaply.