Posts by Oni of Demonslaying
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1a plagueborn maul dz to start the bidding
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l don't usually buy non-hammers since l decided against branching out, but could save from merch for a couple of ectos if you don't find another buyer
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Thank you for making this possible for this long.
It made for some interesting choices every week, some of which amazed me to the extent of actually voting against my own drops.
Agree with Hyndzy, shame not enough people contributed to polls, it really was interesting thing to see in this ever-declining community.
As happy as l am about winning the last poll, it does come with a somber tone.
Thank you again for your efforts.
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Wow, l thought it was giveaway stuff at best. thanks for the info!
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Title says it all. What are your thoughts on this one?
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l always found low req items to be really cute, even more so in dv/dz
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A far more appropriate comparison would be somebody counterfeiting money or financial assets. Would you want to legitimatize that and tax it? Wana sanction and be a middle man for somebody creating there own money? OR would you come to the obvious conclusion that it is an unfair advantage, disincentives competition from legitimate sources and is wrong.
I'd be okay with someone printing money in a situation where
A) our central bank kinda died
B) we could control how much money is being printed.
Sales of 500+ items are ridicilous. It will soon make any chest running or farming obsolete and that's a fact.
The anet didn't implement 2 things that would prevent such things from ever happening and balance player wealth at same time (stronger anti-botting policies and centralized in-game auction house to further balance ). With that said, we can either ignore what's going on, have endless witch hunts OR start trying to do sth about it and prolong the game we all like a bit more. It may be beginning slippery slope, but it's better than doing nothing...
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Stone Crusher
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Hammer Mastery
Dual Vamp
GV 2281a
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First l'd like to thank you for creating this discussion, and for the tag.
Now, let's get one thing out of the way - bots are needed. No matter out personal views, they are needed.
To elaborate that, l'll start by defining botting. It is using 3rd party programming (instantly breaking EULA, as stated) to script toons (bots) to automatically perform certain actions, with little to no human input. To put it in other words, botting emulates human players.
Second, gw, as most other proper mmos has its own economy. Unlike real world, gw economy isn't interlinked with say, wow economy - it is self-contained, isolated on anet servers. You can compare this to real world Countries facing trade bans, or cold war soviet union to a degree. Imagine a Ban cutting off China - it would be shock at first, but a billion people is enough to make economy sustainable, as it is world in itself. It wouldn't grow but it wouldn't be lacking either.
Now, look at Cuba, a country that has endured 50+ years of isolation with a very limited population. It hasn't died, and in some areas (medicine) it is advanced and self reliant and just works. But on the other hand, they are mostly stuck with 50yr old cars...
The point is, gw May have started as China, but is now reduced to Cuba. And yes, some things could work, but some if not most would be lost. The size of gw economy can only be artificialy increased at this point - through emulating missing players.
Of course, in the end all those bottled items only profit handful of players (l'd include a remark or two on Ether at this point but l'll restrain myself). But as other have pointed out - whales of gw already have so much, with some early exploits yielding unimaginable amounts and incredible items, it's hard to Imagine anything tipping the balance in anyone other favor.
Speaking of balance, one of my jewels is dual zealous spiked club, which to my knowledge came from unids made from botting. As someone who only started collecting less than a year ago, there's no way in hell l could ever find one in a game with only several thousand players left (at best). Even with all the botting around it's incredibly rare. Without botting, items like this would only exist as long forgotten bytes, zeros and ones, on long inactive accounts, now only distant memories. And that would be a bloody shame.
The morality of it... Well, l'll paraphrase what Kabong once Told me -botting is there, the only thing you that each of us can affect is how close to the source are you. My personal take is to be as far as possible.
Now looking at this very long post, l know it sounds contradictory, but that is life. Anyone who ever dabbled in politics at any level can attest that world is horrible, with shades of grey all around, horrible people you despise using you and you using them, with only one thing that matters in the end - it's looking at yourself in the mirror every night. And if you think losing parts of your soul is worth the bigger picture, than maybe it's not all lost. In this case, l hope it is not.
And now to get on topic - l don't know what gw legacy stance on those threads should be. Maybe allow it but also put reaction options on sale threads? Dunno
Cheers and Thanks for bearing with me to the end of the post. Go treat yourself with something, you've earned it
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well well well
So clean :O
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bump, added new item, cauldron and q8 white wooden will be sold tomorrow 20:00gmt unless outbid
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the str req kinda kills it for doasc, but it's still rare af so you'll prolly get a buyer for it. put it on sale, but don't rush it
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Treated me like shit
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bump, added co and earth wand 19 19 air
edit: Mr. Clean(-Value) outbid notification due to ingame bid
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It's definitely not the rarest or most valuable l have, but it is my first dv/dz item and it has sparked my collection.
I don't usually go check out Jade Bros chests when doing Vermin chests, but l'm really glad l did that day.
p.s. those two screens are the same item, just different ways of screenshotting. l prefer the second one, as it includes the skin.
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WTH
Got q9 oni blade last week with that damage as well.....
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agree on the price range, high q and dz by itself make it collectors item, maybe 5-15e depending how generous the collector is at that moment
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Bump! Added some new items, etc
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Dv Stone crusher 100e
Ye,l really want that one
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Stone Crusher
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Hammer Mastery
Dual Vamp
GV 22880e
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Stone Crusher
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Hammer Mastery
Dual Vamp
GV 2281a
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What about purple shields with 21hp?
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butterfly dv gv
Praise l thought the fixed price was equal to gv hence l bid "gv", it was meant to mean the fixed price you stated.
Would still be interested in it, what ever the gv is
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There are some ppl who might find this interesting. There is at least one +41 shield collector on this forum, so your best shot would be reaching out to him.
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Agree with ardunian. SSS is almost always sellable, but don't expect much.
For pick, check my signature
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l always liked those shieldlike offhands, although since l only ever play sin l obviously don't use it (although have considered it for permaing - essentially it brings 3 armor less than shield, and 6 energy more - not a bad trade-off)
Here's small contribution to community collection.
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Daggers are, sadly, a give-away. Maybe several ectos at best.
Oni Daggers have dropped considerably in the past year, the q9 15 50 were 50-70e easy, then around summer they were 10-20e... I've still got several l've saved hoping they will rise up again in price - but l haven't seen any change for now.
