I'm uber rich according to the scale. But I'm not uber rich by a long shot. 1st time I saw a stack of arms, I realized I'd never get to that level. The dupers and early exploiters had gotten theirs and it would take luck or ridiculous amount of trading to catch up. I had 1k+ ectos a while back and decided to diversify so I bought a bunch of kuuns at their peak. Now they are worth a third of what I paid. Should have bought rare minis, weapons, ectos, but who knew. Weapons have taken a dive a different times and so have ectos.
Everyone is saying they're in the middle (100-1k e)? I'm counting gold, ectos, and minis and semi fluid items - anything dedicated or unsellable. If you have a weapon collection worth 2k+ ectos, then by the 1k ecto cap, you are wayyy over. Maybe it should be more like a stack to 7 stacks you are in the middle. With 7 stacks you could buy a polar bear, but can't buy an uber weapon or mini. There is value in collections. So more of you are ultra rich or we change the parameters. I also think there is a value on armor and uber weapons that are unded/ded. Armors have a set value. You have to pay the same amount of materials etc to craft them. Ded weapons on the other hand would be trickier. Though some we know.
Wealth is relative and it changes. If they reintroduced all the nerfed weapons from the early days? Then that valuable weapon collection wouldn't be worth nearly as much. If they started giving out ultra rare mini's as prizes, the value would drop. If they offered you to trade in unded year 1 whites for a special mini those 1k whites would sky rocket! :8)
The main thing we use to measure wealth in GW is ectos. If suddenly people needed large amounts of gold cuz they raised max trades to 1k plat and storage to 1000k platinum, ectos would probably drop like a rock. I have a theory that at any given time there are more ectos in the game than any other material. Simply because I don't know too many people that hoard several stacks of anything that doesn't get used on a regular basis (consumables etc). But we hoard ectos. Even check other rare materials... I've had stacks of shards, onyx, diamonds, steel, etc., but usually only for a short period of time. I never even seen a stack of rubies or sapphires.
Besides markers, what good are ectos? They can be used for 2 things and 2 things only. Obisidian armor and chaos gloves. That means there are probably enough ectos to get obs armor and chaos gloves for every active player that needs a set. Most people already have their set of fow for hom. Many have several sets. By supply, ectos could be one of the least valuable materials in the game.
Thats to note that nothing is safe in game. Only the people who have inside info know what's up. Did you notice how much alcohol spiked the month leading up to update? You couldn't give it away for weeks and then people were getting 70+ a point? 90 a point days before? Why was that? It was probably because some players had inside info and bought it up.
So I may not have as much as lot of people, but I've found the best investment by far and a lot of the ultra rich have no clue. I help my friends. I find out what goals someone has for their title or hom and get them it. Probably the best thing Ive done with those pink pixels.
Games dead. Finish your titles, homs, your one last collection and then help others. Save some for the potential gw2 to gw1 trades that you might need to make and then make someones week. When one of the old school ultra rich quit my friends guild, he bought his guildies everything they wanted. You can do that or horde it all to impress some geek. It's just a game.
