Obby shards

Revolutionen

Revolutionen

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2009

Sweden

A/E

I was just thinking ... since shadow form will be nerfed soon. Fowsc will probably be a lot less popular, wouldnt that make the price of obby shards raise just like ectos did? cause I just bought 132 shards so pls dont tell me they will get cheaper or something

Kumu Honua

Kumu Honua

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2008

Shards are not difficult to get. I highly doubt they will increase in value for you.

Dzjudz

Dzjudz

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

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Shard farming is a lot easier than ecto farming.

Turk The Legendary

Turk The Legendary

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2009

Fissure of Woe

Club of A Thousand Pandas [LOD???]

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if shards raise id say they will raise to 3.5k at the very most because like everybody here is saying... shard farming is very easy

kupp

kupp

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2008

The Shiverpeaks

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Originally Posted by Revolutionen View Post
I was just thinking ... since shadow form will be nerfed soon. Fowsc will probably be a lot less popular, wouldnt that make the price of obby shards raise just like ectos did? cause I just bought 132 shards so pls dont tell me they will get cheaper or something
Shards should remain more or less the same. They might get a small inflation imo more because of the paranoid (read: greedy) kids who wanna jack up the price on everything now where perma-sins set their foot on.

I sure hope zkeys will get some love though, still have 82 of those, leftovers from the glorious RR days.

Twin Blade Warriror

Twin Blade Warriror

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

I was in a guild by myself with 2 of my other accounts..but im banned now

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back to going to forgemaster and giving up ^^ but im pretty sure now with all the new skills fow clear is still possible but it will be slow

mathiastemplar

mathiastemplar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2008

Denmark

Jade Reapers [JD]

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They won't go up much.. They were always cheap/easy to farm. Anet would have to nerf all of GW skills to make em rocket..

jonnieboi05

jonnieboi05

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

Mableton, Georgia

Guild Ancestors Reunited [?????????]

Only time will tell tbh. :\

deluxe

deluxe

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Monkeyball Z

S.K.A.T. [Ban]

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solo farming nets you more shards than fowsc. got 14 shards in 1h clearing cave & forest with spiritspam. fowsc is 2-4 in ~30 with pugs.

Frozen Ele

Frozen Ele

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2009

Mirror of Reason [SNOW]

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There is a slight possibility that the price in shards could drop in price. As the UW clear becomes more tiresome and long, there might be a shift to FoW (easier, solo farm which could yield more money vs. time than UW), causing shards to be even more commonplace, and thus less expensive.

Jinkies

Jinkies

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2008

Korea

Peace And Harmony [PnH] War Machine [WM]

Like the above posts, FoW is easy and fun to do with even balance build teams. UW is alot harder. I'm guessing, if anything, shards will go down because more people will migrate from UW to FoW.

mrvrod

Guest01

Join Date: Jul 2006

Over the 5 year life of GW, how many "overpowered" builds have been nerfed?! The ecto prices are going up because people think they're going to cash in on the SF nerf.

When the nerfbat finally hits, and everyone goes back to business as usual, prices will level out to where they've been for the past several years, and a lot of speculators will lose money.

SF nerf is NOT a world changing event! It's just one more in a long line of builds getting hit.

Yawgmoth

Yawgmoth

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

You have to remember that shard prices are strongly tied to ecto prices, since every 1 shard needs 1 ecto to become of any use. If they nerf farming builds heavily, shards will drop instead of rising. Also remember that there are lots of possible solo builds able to farm FoW, from shadow army and forest to beach and cave. No way they nerf even 1/4 of them.

Gennadios

Gennadios

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2009

N/A

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Originally Posted by Yawgmoth View Post
You have to remember that shard prices are strongly tied to ecto prices, since every 1 shard needs 1 ecto to become of any use. If they nerf farming builds heavily, shards will drop instead of rising. Also remember that there are lots of possible solo builds able to farm FoW, from shadow army and forest to beach and cave. No way they nerf even 1/4 of them.
Not so. Cow's Gloves only require ectos to craft and are a massive ecto sink.

Aside from that, even if solo farming wasn't piss easy, FoW can still be completed with a well balanced and organized 4 man team. There's no difficulty in the FoW to justify higher shard prices.

Turk The Legendary

Turk The Legendary

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2009

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Frozen Ele View Post
There is a slight possibility that the price in shards could drop in price. As the UW clear becomes more tiresome and long, there might be a shift to FoW (easier, solo farm which could yield more money vs. time than UW), causing shards to be even more commonplace, and thus less expensive.
lol where have you been since the addition of dhuum to uw? Fow has already become 5x more popular since dhuums addition and it cannot possibly get any more popular. Shards are already very commonplace

MMSDome

MMSDome

Raged Out

Join Date: Sep 2005

warrior spider farms still work

tmakinen

tmakinen

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

www.mybearfriend.net

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

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Originally Posted by Turk The Legendary View Post
lol where have you been since the addition of dhuum to uw? Fow has already become 5x more popular since dhuums addition and it cannot possibly get any more popular. Shards are already very commonplace
This also makes me wonder whether FoW will get the same treatment as UW at some point and we'll get to play tag with Menzies himself

The Arching Healer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2006

Super Kaon Action Team [SuKa]

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Originally Posted by deluxe View Post
solo farming nets you more shards than fowsc. got 14 shards in 1h clearing cave & forest with spiritspam. fowsc is 2-4 in ~30 with pugs.
Ah well. Some people are just lucky to get a shard every 2mins while others struggle to get even 1 shard in 30 mins

chaosincarnate87

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2006

Behind You ;)

DPR

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Originally Posted by Gennadios View Post
Not so. Cow's Gloves only require ectos to craft and are a massive ecto sink.

Aside from that, even if solo farming wasn't piss easy, FoW can still be completed with a well balanced and organized 4 man team. There's no difficulty in the FoW to justify higher shard prices.
pretty sure the poster you were quoting in your message was referring to the redundancy of shards without ecto, not ecto without shards.

and yeah... shards are hitting 2.5k at the trader now and wouldnt surprise me to see them fluctuate even worse... but atm its all just speculation and opinion.

Yawgmoth

Yawgmoth

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gennadios View Post
Not so. Cow's Gloves only require ectos to craft and are a massive ecto sink.
Irrelevant. I was talking about SHARDS which are the topic of this thread, about that there's no way to use a shard without also using an ecto, NOT about the obvious fact that ectos are much more than a component for Obsidian armor.
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Aside from that, even if solo farming wasn't piss easy, FoW can still be completed with a well balanced and organized 4 man team. There's no difficulty in the FoW to justify higher shard prices.
Ofcours shards are much easier to farm and also have much higher droprates.
They could even be Nick's item of the week and trade 1:1 for gifts, since they're easier to farm than Ruby essences... That would be an interesting market shakeup and a fun farming week, fun because there are soooo many ways of getting shards.

Chushingura

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jan 2006

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Originally Posted by Yawgmoth View Post
Ofcours shards are much easier to farm and also have much higher droprates.
They could even be Nick's item of the week and trade 1:1 for gifts, since they're easier to farm than Ruby essences... That would be an interesting market shakeup and a fun farming week, fun because there are soooo many ways of getting shards.
If that happened, there would be no need to farm. Just buy from trader or sell the ones people have stocked up on.