Posts by MaxBorken

Wow.

Each of those is worth a small fortune. Exactly how much is impossible to say as it will depend on the bids if you sell. List them for sale here. Do NOT accept private bids, as you’ll massively undersell yourself and rip yourself off. Low ballers are everywhere.

You could be looking at up to a couple of thousand ARMBRACES in total for those awesome relics if you spark a bidwar. All of the notable collectors frequent this site.... (Assuming the serpent axe is Tyrian)

Also, thanks for your kind words about Legacy. We started it the day guru was taken down, intended to keep the community alive.. in fact, we are due to roll out a hugely improved version of Legacy this week, using a greatly improved software engine and a snappy new look. And once that is up and running, we have massive plans to build upon the plain forum you see currently and turn it into the central hub for everything Guildwars.

Max.

Good luck!

If it’s pre-nerf, I would keep it just out of respect for its pre-nerfery. But it doesn’t have any market value other than for a oddities collector, and even then it’s not worth a lot. Pre-nerf doesn’t always mean valuable.

If it’s not pre-nerf I’d merch it.

There will be a thread in the competition section I linked to above. Kev just hasn’t made it yet, so keep checking back. It’ll go live as soon as he has time!

The competition has started already to give you time to prepare, print and photograph your entries.

Merch it. Anyone buying that needs to be shot. It has no value other than hero usage, on the off chance you re-he-heally need to run a sword hero on 8 swordsmanship. And the mod is terrible anyway

You’ve seen a picture of *AN* unused code card. The one you get sent may not be the card you saw.

Buyer beware.

Happy new year folks!

https://wintersday.guildwarslegacy.com/

Last year’s entries were great fun to judge, and you all put some serious effort into your creations. We loved the effort. And we thank you for that.

This year, we dare you to do better - give us an even harder time choosing the winners. And then to make it more interesting, there are two mystery prizes up for grabs too. Obviously I can’t reveal what they are, but they are something I know the community would be excited about based on conversations from the SubReddit and our own forum.

It’s a continuation of last year’s ideas. We liked the notion of a physical competition- something to get out of your pit and go into the real world outside of Guildwars.

Well, Avengers, that is superb. Some legendary items there, congratulations. Wow. Just wow
On a side note - if you posted those in 2017 where you are, you won 2017. If it was 2018, I think you’ve already won 2018.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES Ikki.

Just yes!

A lot. Exactly how much will only be seen by the bids, but I’d say it’s capable of going very high.

Don’t sell to private bids, and don’t sell it in game. You’ll undersell yourself. That is a very nice shield.

List it for sale on Legacy and take your time. Don’t sell in a hurry.

Shields definitely merch.

Is the serpent axe Tyrian or Canthan?

Yep. Red Fireball Rusher is the authority on this. He’s been researching this for years. Probably a decade. He won a Nobel Prize for his work on this.

Same response from me here as I have Kev on the Facebook group:

Thanks Kev. For those that don’t know, we have big plans for the future of Legacy. Sadly however, the current software provider for the forum software isn’t equipped to handle these changes. Kev has been busy in the background building a new forum using better software etc, which will replace the current format of Legacy you use today. Once it’s ready, kev will migrate everything and everyone to the new system, but not until it’s ready. Once the new system is running, then we can begin to implement the changes we have planned. Legacy was always destined to be far more than just a forum, and this is the first stage in realising those plans.

Kev has put a huge amount of work into this, and quite frankly, he’s my hero.

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so bot word is not allowed? wtf.. can you show me rules where that is writed?

Of course it’s allowed. I even used it in this thread. But to start a conversation about it isn’t allowed, so I edited it so as to stop it being a conversation starter. Call it a pre-emptive strike, as the next question could have been how?......

And ironically, here we are having a conversation about it. Don’t turn this into an issue that isn’t there please. Leave it alone now.

**MOD ENTRY**

Can we have some proper bids please? We don’t want to delete what has been (almost?) bid. Technically non bids? Hard to say, but please bid properly.

That is all.
Max.

Big update coming in a few months., with new forum software. Should be more user friendly for mobiles too. Kev is working on it now, but it won’t be released until it’s ready.

Hold that Reddit thought though, we thought of that too

These are two unpriceables.

To put a value on them would be unhelpful. It’s as Emma says, it’ll come down to who will pay most.

Also, I am very interested in one of them, so I’ll decline to offer my thoughts on its value ...

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Where's that dude who tells everyone to merch stuff. He should be here.

Here I am.

Merch it.

No moderation has been required thus far, so your point is moot.

However, as you wish, I am closing this thread now. Perhaps had you taken a different approach to me calling you out instead of attacking my moderation, this wouldn’t have happened.

Consider yourself moderated.

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I do not find it odd you know a lot about Motoko. A lot of people know a lot about Motoko. That seems to happen with people who become obsessed with players who have been considered top players for almost a decade. I find it alarming you and your sad group of friends have a stalking crush on Motoko. The game is old news, I think it is time you grow up and find something to do with your lives. You seriously came on here 3 years later and registered with a website because you are so obsessively infuriated.

Also, I find it entertaining the hacker group is primarily Germans. Maybe if you had put as much time into practicing your skills instead of cheating the game you might have been able to compete on the same level such as players like Motoko.

Side note: Titles don't matter. Whether or not he did cheat them it doesn't make him any less of a successful player (He won golds before getting those titles) and I know plenty of guilds who would take him to play regardless.

Time to stop crying about what you couldn't accomplish. If you want some peanut butter to go with that jelly, let me know.

P.S. Sorry for the thread derailment - Support is crap for doing that and should be compensating better than what you claim they have done.

Ok. Firstly, you should know that I have moderator privilege here. Indeed, i am one of the original creators of this site. Therefore i have the ability to IP check posters. Creating additional accounts and posting as a third party to back yourself up isn’t really what we’re looking for here. Please don’t use this site to push your own agendas. History is exactly that, let’s keep it there. We are currently having a discussion at admin level as to whether this thread will be allowed to remain, but creating an alt account just to back your own point up is hardly going to restore a reputation.

Max.

Well, I would merch that.

Why anyone would pay for a non max crystalline sword that can still drop tomorrow eludes me.

It has no collector value (unless someone has started collecting merch-food for no apparent reason....)
It isn’t even useful.

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According to my /age... 147 Months ago.

Also: Hi everyone. I was just informed this website exists. I actually thought the GW2Guru forums were all that was left of GW1.

Welcome back. Early parole?

It was born out of the New Hope Facebook group. Turned out we had the people and skills to make it happen. We started Legacy within days of the news that Guru was to be closed. We even saved virtually all of the old guru site as an archive up at the top of this site. We have Smoke Nightvogue to thank for the archive.

This site has big plans for the future. Stay tuned.

It’s one of those unprice-ables.

I’d wager many hundreds of armbraces, but it will depend on demand.

It’s excruciatingly rare.

Thanks Tyrant.

Seeing your stuff always make my day

So a couple of things have happened here, which have taken the discussion off on a tangent. At no point have I suggested that one person has manipulated the market. That is simply not that case. Ikki’s response to my general point of market manipulation, (where he incorrectly assumed I had accused him directly of this, and then he showed a spectacular lack of class by accusing me of manipulating the market, and then going further and calling me a SCAMMER) has led to this discussion being about the power of one individual to manipulate the market by hoarding and pricing. The notion that Ikki has the influence all by himself to influence the market to this extent is frankly laughable, and shows a hugely inflated opinion of his own ability. Amongst all of this, my point has gotten lost. My point was that (as Surge correctly said) that prices have gone crazy, and items that are junk (and would have been given away) a few years ago are selling for insane prices, riding on the crest of the wave of inflation caused by the perception that these junk items are valuable, overpricing these items to make a profit, and generally encouraging the idea that a junk item is collectible. Certainly, Ikki has been putting random high price checks on items, falsely causing hype and demand for these junk items, but to derive from this that he is manipulating the market is just wrong. It’s a general trend across multiple traders, not one individual. And it is also fuelled by the gold sellers who facilitate this overpricing and overselling by making the funds so easily available. It’s a combination of several things. It was Ikki who accused me of market manipulation by hoarding my shields (coming from a guy with multiple copies of the same item) and of scamming by telling him not to assign these random high prices to items, based on the notion that not putting a random number on an unpricable item is scamming....

I will always defend my reputation from anyone calling me a scammer.
Ikki’s response to me was childish and petulant, and sadly has shown his true colours. To suggest I accused him directly (especially when I have clarified this in another post) is a jaw dropping assumption, and has soured what should have been a sensible conversation. But to suggest I step down from Legacy is way over the line. We all have our opinions, but to make it personal as he has is unacceptable.

My my my.
Seems I’ve hit a nerve Ikki.
Just to add, I haven’t mentioned you as manipulating the market to serve yourself, yet you have jumped straight back with a personal attack on me. .... maybe I’m closer to the truth than you’d like to admit.

Also, if you check any of my sales threads (apart from my last one) you’ll see I always sell for what the bids are assuming the reserves are met. So I’m not sure why you’ve brought that up... seems bitter to me .

Seems to me there is a distinction between pricing and selling something in order to make a profit, and pricing and selling for a fair price....

Maybe I’m just cynical, but I view it as people manipulating the market to serve themselves.....

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Love it when people say merch stuff and the bids within first day hit 2arms, pmsl.

(not directed at you max, i think you just got a bit carried away with this one, deep down you know it aint merch food)

It seems that people will pay stupid money for junk these days

I’d merch it or give it to a collector. Certainly wouldn’t pay anything for it.
(r7/16 single mod celestial shield, +41/stance).
@Rav, I did concede that it shouldn’t be merched, but not because it has any value, it should be kept for its age. And donated.

I’m not sure how you arrived at the conclusion I am being offensive. I’m just defending what appears to be a sleight on wealthy people valuin items....

I’m not claiming otherwise.

Ikki, you have considerable influence over the economy here, so I would expect you to wield that influence responsibly instead of artificially increasing prices by assigning random numbers. We have had this discussion before, and I see you are still doing it. It’s unhelpful.

That’s quite some leap there Ikki. My price checks are always objective and fair. No one is talking about what I collect, and I have made no comparisons to mys stuff either.

The issue here is people passing off junk as treasure, and thereby falsely assigning a value to an item that shouldn’t have a value.

2 years ago, those junk pre-nerf staves were 10k, today they are being sold for 50e+. This is not because the are suddenly rarer, or more valuable. It is because people in positions of influence within the community have said it should have a value. And those who don’t know better have followed the advice.

Junk is junk, treasure is treasure. We, as price checking gurus have a responsibility to keep ourselves honest and transparent. We cannot do this if we are assigning random high numbers to items that aren’t valuable.

And to Chevy, I would add that I don’t value items based on my wealth, I value items on their rarity, collectibility, availability and age. I presume you are referring to my price checking of the r7 celestial shield recently. To suggest otherwise is wrong.

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Max u Have to remember ecto has decreased in value tons so thesedays 200e IS less then 20e was 1.5year Ago in "buying Power" which matters quite alot

I’m not disputing that.

But what has caused it? (Rhetorical question)

This shield should have no value, even by 2 years ago’s prices.

Forgive me for the rant, but this is one of the reasons we are seeing such ludicrous inflation in the price of items. There is nothing special about items like this. There are hundreds of r7 and r8 single mod shields, and unless there are 5 or 6 collectors of such junk, causing a bidwar to complete a collection, there is no way in hell this can go so high. It’s quite simply not valuable. The celestial shied is by FAR the most common r7/16 shield, and this one has ostensibly the worst possible variant of its mod.

It is not collectible, it is not collected (that I am aware of, and I know virtually all active collections). It is not a rare shield. It has nothing going for it other than it’s age. And that does not automatically make it valuable.

It is arbitrarily putting random prices on such junk items that raises people’s expectations, and those unaware of how not-valuable it is can be easily taken in by this hype. They then go and purchase ectos and armbraces, and pay the exorbitant prices, believing they have acquired a gem, thereby pushing up prices right across the market.

Ok, so perhaps it shouldn’t be merched, simply out of respect for it being pre-nerf, but this is a 10k or donation shield. Absolutely nothing going for it to make it valuable.

As guardians of the economy, we are responsible for it, and throwing large prices onto junk items is not being responsible.

I’d merch it.

Sure, it’s r7 And I’m assuming 16 armour?
But single mod and with that mod being so far off max, it’s not worth anything I’m afraid.

Sorry it’s not better news.

Damn Ikki..... there’s no way it’s worth selling. Just cos it's old doesn’t make it valuable.

Holy bananas that’s impressive. Have your left your house in the last year?

25a.

10a on the sotw, thanks.

Yep. What Ikki said.

But I would add that it’s EXCRUCIATINGLY rare to get one with those stats. That’s why only three (?) are known to exist. Good luck, but I fear you’ll be chasing a unicorn.

Oh, that is very special indeed, Legend. Congratulations on assembling a consecutively numbered set of the rarest inscribable shields in existence. It’s only 4 shields, but those 4 are über rare, and worth more than many collections comprising of many more items.