Charm Prices....

Nael - Dreamweaver

SmifnWesson - Lost City wrote: »

Not that I dont think that 5-6m for a charm is absurd, but the fact that you can go thru 2-3m worth of charm hp in a week is just plain rediculous...what are you doing outside of TW thats eating that much damn charm, i cant remember the last time I equipped a new charm, its been a few weeks, and its about half full still, and i solo fcc on that character regularly, tank bosses and bh's for friends/faction...

If you participate in 3 hour TW's between the top factions you are likely to go through at least half, if not whole plat charm or two in one session, depending on your class. Cata Barbs usually burn a whole charm in a full blown 3 hour war.

Nobody really needs charms for casual PvE. My Archer can solo FC using only crab meats. Nowadays you don't even need a charm for Delta because everyone has OP gears. Only time when I actually do need a charm in PvE is if I'm soloing/tanking TT3-x on my BM.

Deant - Raging Tide wrote: »

Sale is there, buying is controled by you. If ppl dont buy prices will drop. So if many ppl buy prices will stay same or raise up. The economy here is controled by greed of the players. Dont blame pwi for that. U choose to charge or not to charge. Cant u ppl understnad that? many of u complain but there is a simple solution, JUST DONT CHARGE ZEN. Im sick of ppl blaming pwi that they work for money. ARENT U WORKING FOR MONEY TOO? Dont tell me that u busting ur **** off whole month, pay bills and u dont get money on the end of the month? When u shout about fixing the economy first of all learn how free marekt economy works. Controled marked economy is called COMUNISM, maybe most of the ppl dont know what is that but controled market is bound to fail. maybe u will counter me with something like "real world rules doesnt aply" but u are wrong. There are server where charms cost like 20 mil (not private servers).

You'd be kidding yourself if you think players have the control of the market. Much of end game contents in this game is DESIGNED TO REQUIRE certain things from the boutique. The only way players can control the market is if you can get all the merchants to stop making profit and others to stop playing altogether. Look at the track record of boutique sales, EVERYTIME gold starts dropping there is either rank or orb sale for people to improve their end game experience. Permanent pack sales are there to keep the gold prices at steady 1mil+. Sure, if people stopped playing the game, prices are bound to go down. But realistically speaking that is not going to happen, and PWI knows it.

There is also the fact that unlike real life businesses, PWI boutique has no competition therefore they can do whatever they want with their prices and get away with it. Paramedic put it perfectly, players' greed is just a tool used by PWI to control their game's economy.

Deant - Raging Tide

"A cap on gold prices would help a bit, but I don't foresee that happening any time soon."

I have seen that on PW-MY, where the cap was 999 k. So ppl didnt use AH. they shout on wc "i buy zen 1,4 mil each" so ppl with zen pm him "What u want from the CS..." . even i gm would ban ppl who wc, there is still guild chat , normal chat and so on. Believe me i have seen the cap and this doesnt work. buying charms with tokens is good idea for us, but will bring down the income of the pwi. and when the company`s income is lowered, it lowers paycheck, lowers the broadband, lowers the develepers fee ... maybe pl with their own busines know what I mean. i dunno the busines plan of pwi, but maybe a lower price in zen would be a good solution. for example not 6 zen but 5 or 4.. but u know low end price, lowers the quality (as in quality of services, updates connection and all..) if ppl work for less money they stop to be productive.

Longknife - Harshlands

For the love of god put those damn things on sale.

Heartstone - Dreamweaver

Nael - Dreamweaver wrote: »

If you participate in 3 hour TW's between the top factions you are likely to go through at least half, if not whole plat charm or two in one session, depending on your class. Cata Barbs usually burn a whole charm in a full blown 3 hour war.

what cata barb can do a 3 hour Tw on 1 plat hp charm? gotta be a claw barb puller with no hp i guess o.o.
2 or so sounds more normal and ppl like bigC can eat 4.

Nael - Dreamweaver

Heartstone - Dreamweaver wrote: »

what cata barb can do a 3 hour Tw on 1 plat hp charm? gotta be a claw barb puller with no hp i guess o.o.
2 or so sounds more normal and ppl like bigC can eat 4.

Well I doubt hp makes much difference when +12 R9 Archers are constantly on your tail...cough b:shutup

Traz - Dreamweaver

Nael - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Well I doubt hp makes much difference when +12 R9 Archers are constantly on your tail...cough b:shutup

Maybe not, but then again when you do it right...we kill those people before they kill us. Them being dead tends to help out on not using charm. b:cute

RioNHale - Archosaur

wtb super hp charms with 12million hp on the ticker for 6m each

Burnout - Harshlands

I complained about charms almost a year ago...PWI ahsn't done anything for charms since the charm packs came out. With our higher refines/higher hp/higher damage nowadays, charms can be used up multiple times in a single day, and it's just not reasonable to have to pay $50+ a month *just* for charms.


The high cost of charms is ruining pve, pvp, and TW, and is one of the main reasons why people don't actually "play" this game. It's more profitable to just sit there and merchant because charm costs are so ridiculously high and playing uncharmed is no fun.

If charms were added to an npc, I guarantee more people would pvp, TW, and thus find incentive to spend their money on refining better gears, etc.