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psion6
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Thought I'd ask- if you weren't one of the players who had Caste on farm exploiting to finish it, or one who buys illegal currency outside the game, how are you supposed to obtain the items that are 5+ mill AD on the auction house?
Save up 5-10k astral diamonds a day for a half a year? Cmon...it just seems like some of these items on the auction house and in the market in general are somewhat unobtainable for players unwilling to exploit or use cash to stimulate their AD reserves.
With market prices like that, I would almost say NW players are encouraged to use outside means to gain enough AD to be able to afford some of the better items in the game. I've seen some armor enchantments listed at 7-9 million AD...I mean.....really? Who has that kind of change laying around besides the one who exploited the market that they didn't ban?
Save up 5-10k astral diamonds a day for a half a year? Cmon...it just seems like some of these items on the auction house and in the market in general are somewhat unobtainable for players unwilling to exploit or use cash to stimulate their AD reserves.
With market prices like that, I would almost say NW players are encouraged to use outside means to gain enough AD to be able to afford some of the better items in the game. I've seen some armor enchantments listed at 7-9 million AD...I mean.....really? Who has that kind of change laying around besides the one who exploited the market that they didn't ban?
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2) I has made over 6 million AD as a completely F2P player. No ward exploit, no exploit farming. Just pawned off a few of the more valuable things I've gotten in T2 delves. The AH is your friend even if ridiculously buggy.
Understatement of the century.
+1 internets for that.
What things? you mean the T2 gear that now sells for less than 25k AD? You'd have to sell a lot more than a 'few' of those to come up with 6 million AD. Oh, and btw- that 6 million AD it took you months to accumulate won't even buy a top notch enchantment on the current market. You're making my point for me.
I've gone from around 100k AD to around 3 million AD in under a week. Twice. Only took around 4 days the second time.
It doesn't take months if you know how to play the market. It does take a while to figure that out, though.
Also, what top notch enchants are you talking about here? Rank 10 and Perfect enchants? Why would you expect to be able to get those easily? More to the point, why would you even want to get them easily? You really think that would be good for the health of the game and your enjoyment of it?
Like you say, they're top notch. Top of the top. End of the line, you win the game, nothing else to get status. Of course they cost A LOT and take a long time to make and/or afford.
If they just handed them to you as soon as you hit 60, you'd have nothing else to do. You'd get bored and quit. They are the ultimate carrot on the mile-long stick.
You don't need them. But you do want them.
And you'd get them faster if you stopped whining and started focusing on figuring out how to get them.
I don't know what server your on but i can fully gear my GF and my pet, stock up on pots, buy a "rare" mount, and get dyes to look awesome all at around 1.5 Million AD. Which i can easily make in a couple of days. I have AD i don't spend because i already have everything i want. Oh and "btw" if i takes you months to earn AD you should go play another game, this one is not for you.
Eh. If you don't have T2+ on farm, it's likely you aren't making mass amounts of AD in a short time. And if everyone ("play another game, this is not for you") had T2 on farm to get that AD quickly..... they wouldn't be, because everyone would have their T2 already. (Ditto for the auction mega-traders.... only so many people can do the "flip things on the market" approach, because it depends on lots of HAMSTER being posted & bought by people who don't understand the market well.)
(tl;dr - you can only "work the system" to get large profits if there are a lot of people who aren't "working the system"....)
...that said, I've made enough AD to exchange for a T3 mount, 3-4 big profession packs, half a dozen small profession packs, and some dye. Haven't stepped in a dungeon since regular Mad Dragon, but I've got eight characters doing crafting & invoking & selling celestial coin enchant boxes.
Easy to say but hard to do.
You sir, should definitely write a short guide on how you make that much AD in under a week.
It might be a surprise for you, but one option is to GET GOOD and GO FOR THEM INTO DUNGEONS.
The auction house in this game is the deal breaker, because it's mandatory. Sadly this is assumed to be a good thing and immediately is used as the go to excuse for everyone.
Lame.