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danielvv1
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I haven't been able to decipher it yet. Always that I have a piece of equipment I THINK is worth something I look for similars in the AH and I see prices floating from ~100AD to ~100kAD, for exactly the same item. the only thing I've been "successful" at selling is profession materials, and that's more because people buy them in large loads than because I have a clue of what is a good price. is there any general consensus that I'm not grasping? is it as random as it seems and people basically sell stuff based in luck?
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Usually people are trying to cover the cost of obtaining/crafting/fusing the item and gain a bit of AD to fuel their efforts to gear up or buy a mount, companion, respec, etc.
Level 60 blues are a mess right now. Its hard to gauge their value with all the recent changes. The price on epics are skyrocketing as supply is reduced. This trend would favor level 60 blues as a viable stepping stone for new 60s, increasing their value. However, they are dropping like candy at the moment. And any 60 paying any attention to the changes has most likely geared up in some fashion before the prices shot up. Driving down demand.
It will take a few weeks for things to get stable. But I expect the value on blue 60s will remain fairly marginal. By the time enough new fresh 60s start shopping for gear. The rapid drop rate will all but ensure total market glut. Over supply, with low demand equals near worthless. Belts and armor sets will most likely hold on to some minimal value the longest.
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i saw someone pay $4000 for a unique/one of a kind armor in a different game. people waste money. 15 is nothing to some people. thats why this system is so flawed, its pay2win or grind2gloom
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This. I bought cheap purple PvP gear for my now-60 DC and level 40 CW before it went bind-on-pickup, and I'm sure glad because now the stuff is expensive as all get out.
Also, this may not apply to the gear you're thinking of, but for a while there a lot of otherwise hard-to-get blue items were dropping from giftboxes, which crashed the market on them. This could benefit you, as you can snap them up cheap (like 300 AD) off the AH and flip them for profit in a few weeks after all the cheap ones have sold out. Aside from those, anything blue dropping from lockboxes will probably be cheap right now given the rush to open Nightmare Lockboxes right before Feywild came out. All this combined doesn't help the silliness on blue gear in general, because with some types of it being hugely abundant, the price on all of it is likely to stay down for a while -- even the stuff that's actually rarer.
Kaylee Krankenwagen, level 60 GF | Tavandruil Wayfinder, level 49 GWF | Aldith Langley, level 51 HR
well said sir
Yep.
I really want the new spider companion, but I am not going to pay 2mill+ AD for it, same with some of the gear like you said that sells for more than it should.
On the other side, It annoys me when the price falls stupidly low because of undercutting.
Another issue that will take time to settle is the influx of AD. I would guess that a lot of people bought the Knight of the Feywild pack. IIRC every one of them got 600K AD. So item supply went down while at the same time many people got some extra to spend.