I'm returning from 12 years ago starting fresh since I couldn't get my account back. Finally reached southern shiverpeaks and looking to gear up. Been wanting to find some greens for myself and my heroes. But everywhere I see they are selling them for like a ton of ectos and armbraces(higher trade good now?). I remember greens were selling for anywhere from like 1k to a few ectos at most. Why is it so much more expensive now?
Why is everything so expensive?
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common stuff like greenies are still cheap, what you see on trade is the rarer ones or prenerf one hence the high price. with 10 years passing wothout many new players the market for common stuff was just dead and people merched them.
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I'm returning from 12 years ago starting fresh since I couldn't get my account back. Finally reached southern shiverpeaks and looking to gear up. Been wanting to find some greens for myself and my heroes. But everywhere I see they are selling them for like a ton of ectos and armbraces(higher trade good now?). I remember greens were selling for anywhere from like 1k to a few ectos at most. Why is it so much more expensive now?
Shoot me a list of the ones you’d like and I’ll see what I can send your way 🤙
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inflation. what used to be 1k is now like 1e
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- Every day since you stopped playing, bots and players have accumulated a lot of wealth (bots much more so). 1 ecto therefore no longer has the same value it did 12 years ago or more.
- There is no auction house, no fixed price with low variations. Even if there are indicators (Kamadan trade chat, Legacy forum), they are not necessarily reliable. But everyone follows the trend, as long as prices rise. So they all increase constantly, because there is no economic regulator.
- Ectos and armbraces, whether they devalue or increase in value, are not regulated over time by sellers. If ectos/armbraces fall, the price of an item X or Y will increase in relation to the number of ectos/armbraces. But once the price of ectos/armbraces rises again, they will not lower this value again in relation to the number of ectos/armbraces. Leverage effect.
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common stuff like greenies are still cheap, what you see on trade is the rarer ones or prenerf one hence the high price. with 10 years passing wothout many new players the market for common stuff was just dead and people merched them.
Even back then the prices weren't nearly as high. But I guess with a constant decline in population over the years and these (prenerf- even though I see no difference in most of them) ones it could change.
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I'm returning from 12 years ago starting fresh since I couldn't get my account back. Finally reached southern shiverpeaks and looking to gear up. Been wanting to find some greens for myself and my heroes. But everywhere I see they are selling them for like a ton of ectos and armbraces(higher trade good now?). I remember greens were selling for anywhere from like 1k to a few ectos at most. Why is it so much more expensive now?
Shoot me a list of the ones you’d like and I’ll see what I can send your way 🤙
Ah man I honestly am looking for anything idc what it even is anything will be better than anything I have for myself and heroes. And I have like 15k I am willing to pay for what I can lol.
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To add, with this year’s anniversary update, the prices of previously super expensive mini pets have sunk drastically. They are still worth a lot, but by far dont reach the price level that they have reached before the update.
Thus, the immense amount of armbraces circulating, and increasing everyday, now in lack of expensive investment alternatives (hench and reindeer tonics are barely for sale) mainly concentrates on prenerfs. Already before the update the prenerf prices skyrocketed, but you can assume nowadays they are even more sought after.
Right now, with reforged some players return, and some of them sit on a big bank and are willing to heavily overpay.
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You’ve got both ends of the spectrum. Common items are dirt cheap. Items are pre-nerf are super expensive because you can’t get them anymore and lots are lost on old unused accounts.
