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IMHO Zen store items should have a maximum selling price on the auction house equivalent to the Zen price times 500 AD. Thus it wouldn't be as easy to make profit converting AD to Zen and selling Zen store items on the AH (and repeating this cycle forever).
There'd be a break even point of 450 AD/Zen above which directly converting Zen will always give you the most AD for your ZEN. Depending on the actual AH selling prices the rate may be even lower.
This might help to bring down the backlog. And I think it is a better idea than to make all Zen store items BoP.
There'd be a break even point of 450 AD/Zen above which directly converting Zen will always give you the most AD for your ZEN. Depending on the actual AH selling prices the rate may be even lower.
This might help to bring down the backlog. And I think it is a better idea than to make all Zen store items BoP.
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The best "fix", if you're going to allow such a limit on Zen Market items, is to prevent them from being sold in the Auction House entirely and force people to use the ZAX to get any of it. But then the situation would be pretty much the same as it is now.
What about Blueprints that turn into Doohickeys? Keys that turn into lockbox contents? Wards that turn into Enchantments? You can't set fixed values for these items.
And let's not forget we're talking about a heavily exploit-affected market so adjusting to that is not simple and might not even be wise. It's like balancing around a bugged class.
In the end there seems to be no way of breaking the AD-Zen-AD-cycle... except of making everything bound. And that is a bad idea because it punishes legit players. E.g. they wouldn't be able to buy something as a present anymore.
Someone suggested to introduce two kind of Zen: Zen bought with real money and Zen bought with AD. Real-money-Zen works like Zen currently does. All items bought with Zen-AD will be bound to the account. Still won't fix the issue with lock boxes. But it will break the simple AD-Zen-AD-cycle.
And hence it helping with the backlog like the OP hoped for is completely negated and there's no difference expect that now people are forced to use the exchange and wait rather getting it instantly. I honestly don't get why people even pay over the odds, it wouldn't be an issue.
If you hate the ritual of opening lockboxes, then stay away from them and just buy the items you want from the auction house. That's the beauty of it. A lot of people love to gamble because of the thrill and risk and now-mentality (even though they lose most of the time). That's the reason why people buy lottery tickets, why people go to casinos even though the house always wins in the end. Simple stuff really.
that's the question cryptic is dodging to answer.
Right now whales are using this method to use their millions to make more millions.
The matter of coal wards being less available is a separate issue that needs it's own discussion. Coal wards are only available from the Zen market in two ways, lockbox trading bars and buying straight out. They need to start dropping form t2's and t2.5.
Don't you sell your items from drops for appropriate market values?
Why are HR items more expensive than GF items? Why does the HR have to pay more for a weapon than a GF?
(A rhetorical question, I know the answer)
Life is not fair!
Stop crying and join the fun! Buy ZEN and prosper!
All Zen Items are now BoA or have a 500:1 AH Price Limit.
People buying Zen items refuse to sell on AH because of the 10% surcharge.
People waiting to convert AD to ZEN still have to wait two weeks.
People wanting Zen market stuff get pissed-off.
Making a bad situation worse.
As it is right now:
Which is more important to you?:
Waiting two week to convert AD to Zen to buy that something.
Or pay more for that something with your AD to get it NOW.
Some people choose the former and others the latter.
Or whatever item I would deem appropriate for my coal ward at that time.
It would not change much. We changed our economy from keys, to coal wards, to enchants ... only way to stop this is to disallow trading of everything.
300k for a gpf? I'll buy 100!
You'd find it much more tiring to sell a coal ward on trade channel then on the AH. Instead of it sitting there, waiting for a buyer, you need to be logged on at the same time as a potential buyer, offering a better deal, and actively selling in trade.