Always Wanted to Ask, Now I Am

Take a look at these two links
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10378698
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Wayward_Wand_(unique)

Both items have the same stats and skin
Wayward Wand from Endgame factions can easily be bought for ~5k
why is it that the gold version (non unique) is worth 100k +?
What causes the great price difference, The ability to change mods?

any answer appreiciated

Well I would say this is because of the Gold version being very rare in the game and is basically a collectors item. The Green version can easily be bought or exchanged as the end-game reward (Factions).

Because the gold one is rare, so there are certain idiots who will pay a lot more for it.

Because you can mod the other one.

If I can choose between an inscribed item and a green with fixed properties, I'll choose the one I can mod, just In case I want to modify it later.

Ah, and some people consider its rarity something important. I only pay for usefulness, though.

This, same cant be applyed to endgame proph and nf becuz they are common/easily obtained.

QFT. The posts above MithranArkanere's one are moronic and hateful for no apparent reason. You can mod it to 20/20 which is the main type of wand that I use in PvP (90+% of the time). Moreover, you can dye it. Just a little bonus.

Its not worth 100k. Go into any town and do a PC. Anyone that would pay that much for one of these deserves to throw away 100k. Yes it will be worth more than the green, mainly for some of the reasons already listed. Also, one of your links is dead

Pfft. I wouldn't pay 100g for that thing, let alone 100k. Its godawful to look at (it looks like something out of Neverwinter Nights), and the stats are as common as dirt.

I would actually agree that it is just the rarity factor. People with nothing left to do in the game like to have the rarest stuff. The type of people that are like Mithran that simply care about functionality would opt for a cheaper skin if they wanted to be able to switch mods. I find it hard people would justify spending 100k more on an item to just be able to modify it.

+5e while health above 50% is shit, being able to mod a gold one to 20/20 is not.

I see that, but I think that even if the green was 20/20, the price difference would be the same. Just look at how cheep the end game GWEN greens are.

That's mainly because they are hideous skins. I've seen better looking stuff drop from undead in gates of kryta in NM

the one on the pc thread is NOT inscribable

I for one, think that that this is one if not the most beautiful skin for a necro wand. Maybe there're better options for other classes so the price isn't justified for them.

@ Misa ... The people at that thread probably skipped the uninsc part, because it's the same as the green's one. Thus, making it very cheap has the only advantage is being able to dye it and it's not that noticeable anyway.

There is a certain collector's attitude at work here that only counts rarity. Beauty and style is definitely not in the eye of the beholder there or of any importance at all.

Looks, stats or in this case the fact that there is a green duplicate do not count so much. In fact a non-inscribable (spelling? I have seen too many to tell the correct one) weapon/shield with good stats costs much more than a perfect inscribable weapon.

Same for perfect purples and perfect golds - you have trouble to sell a flawless r9 max stats inscription slots item if it is purple.

This is also the reason how the hooded black obsidian clown came into existence. I suggest selling such stuff here on Guru or in the US districts to fetch higher prices, even if you are playing in Europe normally.

they aren't that rare... very common drop in the deep, the price probalby comes from the perfect mods?

I'm sure the PC responders noticed the wand was uninscribable.

The non-insc. stuff with max and good mods is expensive because
1) it's rare for things to drop with good, max inherent mods, not to mention how rare it is for those inherent mods to match the item's requirement
2) enough people with money like the stuff.

So if the supply of these kinds of "old school" items is low and enough players want them/are willing to pay for them then the price goes up.

The green ones, as stated, come from a well-known source and are pretty easy to get.

Also realize that when talking about the player-to-player "price" of items, it's not fixed. Some people do a lot of trading in GW, and they try to give price checks based on what they've seen in the past. If the current owner decides to sell it, the final "price" will be what the new owner gives him for it. He could list it and take offers. If no one wants to pay him what he believes it's worth, then it won't sell. Those PC responses are people's best guesses as to how much money the owner might get for it. It still requires a buyer willing to pay that much.

To answer the OP's question, it's simply that while easily obtained with green text this wand with gold text is very hard to find. The wand in the thread you listed cannot be modified. Functionally, they're the same. Why would someone pay 100k+ for the gold one when it works just like the green one, you ask? Well, why would someone buy 15k armor when it works just like 1.5k armor? This is a game. We're talking about pixels and monopoly money. It's just a matter of personal tastes.

Except that the 15k armor, in many cases, looks a lot different (whether better or not is subjective, of course) than the 1k armor (or the 10k armor). This is not the case with the weapons in question, which only differ in the color of their name & tooltip text (neither of which anyone but their user will ever see unless they can find people willing to look at it in the trade box) and origin (again, only the user will know except in the abformentioned situation, and if someone in the field happens to ask what weapon it is). World of difference.

None of the links are dead

Yeah its working today. Wiki must have been down or glitching last night cause I tried it at least 4 times.

Yeah, I know 15k armor can look different than 1.5k armor. But it does work the same. The gold wand looks different to the owner, and any of his/her friends they show it to. To some people, the difference justifies the extra money; to others, it does not.

That's my point - Enough people put a premium on that gold text to make the prices a lot higher. Just about anyone buying the wand in question understands few or no other players will ever know the difference. Whether it makes sense to the rest of the playerbase or not, some people have the money to spend and want the gold letters, "old school" perfect stats, etc.

I'm not passing judgment. I don't care what weapons and armors and such anyone else uses. But the OP asked why the price difference, so I was trying to explain.

Umm. As some ppl speaking about gold being modable. Fire requirement Gold wayward wand cannot be modded as it only excist non insc. ..

The answer your looking for is... Rarity

For Instance

Q9 Strength Gloom Shield Inscribable -5/20 +30 hp = 10-15k max
Q9 Strength Gloom Shield Un-Inscribable -5/20 +30 hp = 100k+ Ecto

Why?

Because ANYONE can make an inscribable shield to any stats they want, but a perfect uninscribable drop is extremely rare

I Collect Canthan Staves for most professions and am happy to pay the cost for a q9 20/20 or 20/10 purely for the reason that it a perfect rare drop, yet I could buy a perfect stat staff for any char for 1-5k max, why do I and others do this?

Rarity, weapon snobbery, call it what you will.

Some ppl do this and some don't, the choice is upto each person.

put simply it is worth more than 100k, i will glady pay 100k for that exact item

ign Lummy goes ele, feel free to hit me up for 100k if u youve got the wand