Posts by Surge goes pre

Even though I am a 99% retired player, I'll chime in as one of the likely few owners of a rare minipet that didn't RMT or bot it and has seen this update. I've owned my Island Guardian (Fern for those of you who have not met him) for probably 10 years now. That means I've had 10 years more to play with my Island Guardian than you have with yours. We've been on adventures all over Tyria, Cantha, Elona, and the North.

Turning to the market for rare minis. I can only assume that last month, there was probably 20 buyers willing to throw away some stupid number of botted or RMT'ed armbraces or dollars for a Mini IG/Panda/Kanaxai/MKG for every 1 owner. And how many owners were selling them? Maybe a couple. But how many people who obtained the minis without RMT or botting were selling theirs? Probably zero. I don't see how this math has changed. Maybe short term, there will be a couple RMT'ers who are hitting the panic sell button, just like people did last week in the stock market. But once all that weak money is flushed out of the system and things stabilize, the supply side of the curve for these minis in tradeable form is going to be similar. There was no reason last month for anyone who owns a Mini IG/Panda/Kanaxai/MKG to sell it. There still isn't this week. Especially given that nothing was done to kill the underlying problem of botting and RMT which is driving the hyperinflation in this game.

Looking to the future. I hope if this update did one thing other than make some people happy, it introduces a little bit of nervousness into RMT'ers that any time your "investment" principle can be at risk. I await some day in the future when this same thing happens to rare tonics and weapons. I see no reason Anet keeps EL Reindeer tonics exclusive when they can add a quest over Wintersday and award an untradeable EL Reindeer tonic at the end. Or create a chest that drops any OS weapon skin at the end of some quest... I think I've heard of a similar chest before ;).

Happy travels. And remember, Guild Wars is a game. It's not real life. Guild Wars items are not investments.

C1 dragon staff. 5e.

I'll give you 2e for the Raven Staff q9 death 20/10.

Dragon Staff - 50 globs of ectoplasm.

Bump, thanks for the offers, will probably sell the axe soon. Added some new items.

Selling this q10 Eaglecrest Axe.

S/b: 1e

C/o: 7a

B/o: Will probably sell soon.

Other OS Gold Items:

1. Grinning Dragon Axe, q9, +14% -1 Health Regen (Dual Vamp)

2. Gothic Sword, q9, +15%^50

3. Echovald Shield q11 Tactics, -5 (20%) +29

4. Aureate Daggers, q9, +15%^50

5. Kaineng Axe, q9, +5e

6. Gothic Axe, q9, +15%^50

7. Cockatrice Staff, q9 Air, 20/20 Air

8. Celestial Scepter, q11 Illusion, HSR All 9% HCT All 10%

9. Celestial Scepter, q13 Channeling, HCT All 10% HSR All 9%

10. Jug, q12 Soul Reaping, Unid

11. Celestial Longbow, q9, +15%^50

12. Celestial Longbow, q9, +5e

Item 16: 21 ectos.

S10 - 1e

I'm really glad that you are showing some of your stuff after all these years. You may be the only person where I thought 'this guy is a black hole for epic items, but I have no idea what he actually has laying around'. Most other people have shown off their collections whereas yours has more or less been more a mystery to me. I bet there are some truly epic items.

10k. Mostly bidding because I want to ask how this is ‘bugged’. Isn’t it just a bad luck item that dropped with no insc slot? We see BDS’s like this from time to time.

125 globs of ectoplasm on ds1

I just want to say how incredible it seems now that everyone has OS matching 20/20 wands. I remember those wands being so rare I barely ever saw them back in the day. I think I could probably count on two hands how many I saw in like 5 years. Now everyone has one or multiple.

I shake my head.

Dragon staff q9 death. 500 globs of ectoplasm.

Dragon staff q12 divine 20/20 healing - 50 globs of ectoplasm.

Platinum staff q11 domination 20/20 domination - 30 globs of ectoplasm.

I’ll give you 7 ecto for the raven staff q12 fire 20/10.

I’ll give you 500 pink snot balls for the staff. Why not.

Since I’m poor and don’t care about money anymore and don’t have much, I’ll start the bidding at 50e for the magnificent dragon staff that I couldn’t even buy for 3000e 5 or 10 years ago when ectos and dragon staves were worth something.

RIP.

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I don't buy UNID shields myself but isn't it intriguing to think you could potentially get a whole batch of dual modded 2^Ench 10vsXXXXX shields???? Yes, the 2^Ench can be tested but seems like much more of a pain than testing for +HP.

The only thing that can be done here is the general education that unid shields can be tested, surprisingly it isn't a known fact for all players, just not something everyone has been exposed to or had the pleasure of learning.

To sum it up, it's buyer's risk even though not recommended, but if you want to help line someone else's pocket as they are more likely to profit than you, it's your money being used.

I don't think that's very likely because you can also test for -2 enchant. Just go take some damage from some foes with a -0 ench and a -2 ench shield and you should see a difference of 2 on average. I recall trying that in the past and you can see a difference. But it was a long time ago.

The +10's would be a pain in the butt to test for, but it can be done.

Frankly, I'd assume that anyone selling rare skin unid shields already knows the mod combination on them isn't anything worthwhile. And I'd extend that to any unid anything. Anything can be tested. Staffs, swords, shields, etc.

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was just a curious seller, as they were at one point a pretty reputable trader, guess not anymore

Yeah I strongly believe that people shouldn't be allowed to sell rare skin unids here, as I've voiced previously. Want to sell them 1k each? Go for it. Want to try to get buku dollars suckering someone into a thinking they have a chance at an XXX a shield? That shouldn't be allowed. It's too easy to test these items. It's not a fair game when the seller has more information than the buyer. In blackjack, the casino doesn't know what card is coming next. The casino gets a small edge. But testing the shields before selling them would be like if the casino knew the next 5 cards.

Another exceptional skin, shame. I had no idea that Obsidian skin Earth Staves dropped in Cantha.... I always thought they were Tyria only.

I remember the Obsidian skin Earth staff being a really rare drop and for years I remember only really knowing 1 person who owned a 20/20. Now all of a suddenly they seem like they have become almost common. Multiple q9's for sale recently here and a q11. Where are they coming from? Obviously someone made a bot. But what is dropping them?

I guess I'm wrong. Go with the other PCs. Congratulations OP. Definitely something I would have just merched. TIL.

I agree with the above poster. It's gonna take longer to sell that holy vial for 2-3e than it's worth though, I'd merch it.

This is an item I would merchant. 124g. Maybe someone will come along and pay you more, I don't know.

These things are botted to death, as I'm sure you know. So basically whatever someone will give you. You're probably gonna have to find someone that's looking for it.

Marchhhhhhhhhh. There's one guy who buys naked items. So either whatever he will pay, or whatever the merchant will pay.

Merchhhhhhhhhhhhh. There's one guy who buys naked items. So basically whatever he will pay. Or otherwise merch it.

10e for the q10

Hey, I have a Req 12 Water, HCT 20% Communing.

Useless website, useless answer. Merch the celestial shield.

It only took me 194 months, but I got a GWAMM finally. Wasn't even playing the character at the time, but it still broadcasted it. Thanks Pleikki for the screen.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an inscriptable dragon staff.

I'll have to log in some time and check my storage but I think I have a set of Aureate and Salient daggers in q9 15^50.

Glad it worked out for you!

I'm just not afraid to voice my opinions when something doesn't feel right. It's weird to me that you are trying to get what must be a historically epic item and you won't do the commonly used approach of using a trade mod.

Here's a suggestion. Isn't someone selling an unded roller beetle right now? There's a 600a placeholder for you. Wasn't someone selling a ded MKG recently? Some pro derv or something. Look for some high end OS items. If you don't care what the placeholder is, maybe you can find something else to use.

There might not be enough IG and Pandas left for this anymore. Or you can use a trade mod.

Exactly. If I sold you my mini, a mini I played for years solely to get catching up in terms of its price increasing, a mini I plan to literally never ever sell, I'd be taking all the risk of trusting you and your friend to sell it back to me. If your friend doesn't sell it back to me, you lose nothing. You got what you wanted. And in that case so did your friend. And I'm out of luck. I don't know you and I don't even know who your friend is. And if your friend doesn't sell that mini back to me, I won't ever be able to afford it again because the next one for sale is going to go for more than you gave me. There are too many unknowns. I suspect that anyone who has one of these minis and doesn't want to sell it would have the same reservations that I am expressing. There probably aren't even that many on active accounts anymore to begin with.

Also and what bothers me the most as an outside with one of the minis you desire, is that you can find a trade mod who has been doing this for years with tons of references to back up their honesty. Whereas you and your friend have no such references. So you and you friend publicly say you won't trust a trade moderator, someone with many references. But you expect me to trust both you and your friend with no references. And you won't even say who your friend is.

Edit: You've been at this for a month because 'you want to save a few hundred armbraces' and you 'wont' trust a trade moderation'. Yet you claim to have enough armbraces to buy all these minis twice That doesn't add up either. If this was really that important to you, you wouldn't cheap out over a few percent.

The problem with this is that those rare minis like panda and IG are impossible to find now. What if I sell you mine and then your person on the other ends decides he'd rather keep the mini than sell it back to me for the ambraces? Afterall, they are basically impossible to find now. Well then shit now I've got 1500a and no mini. And there is no one else in the game who sell me that mini your guy just decided to keep for the same price, because if there was, you wouldn't have to be asking here. (Edit: this is a factual statement judging as you've been trying to obtain these minis for more than a month now)

I'm sorry but without more details, I'm calling this out as pretty questionable. It could be a ploy to buy one of these minis at 1500a from someone who is under the impression they are doing you and your seller a quick favor.

The fact that you won't rely on a trusted middle man is frankly a red flag. It's literally what they exist for. You could have had this transaction done weeks ago.

Edit: Just to add, you've not provided a single detail about this "transaction". Not who you are. Not who this "seller" is. Not what is being sold, nor the price it's being bought at.

:(. Finally a cool celestial scepter and it's 1 off.

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Haha yeah, think buzan was the one having the kappa shield too that got me mixed up ;D Surge goes pre could confirm it for us ;D

I think you're talking about the q8 45/-2 ench kappa. That was an awesome shield, yeah I did own that. I don't remember who I bought it from or who I sold it to.

I also saw chatter of the q7 30/-2 st Spiked Targe. I owned that one as well at one point. That one I remember. I bought it from Walles. I paid 2500 damn ecto for that shield, which at the time was like unfathomable to me. I don't see Walles mentioned here really at all, but his collection could only be described by "epic".

Bump to the top with all new items and pictures this time.