Closed: 20/19% Smiting Dragon Staff
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Closed, thnx for the replies
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Thank you guys for the input, and thanks a lot for that link Luny, was a very interesting read
LicensedLuny
So you have there an r12 20/19 matched Smiting Dragon Staff. I recently bought an r12 20/19 matched Blood Dragon Staff for 20e from a thread here. I was surprised when no one outbid me on it, and I've since showed it to other players who also seem to think that was pretty cheap.
I'd met the seller before, and my impression is he's a nice guy who isn't much interested in trading or keeping track of prices. He had that staff along with a bunch of other stuff listed on a thread here without prices. I saw the staff and asked him if he had any ideas on buyout. He asked another friend of his who he goes to for price checks and then told me the friend said 5-10e. I'd been thinking way more than that and told him I thought perhaps his price checker needed a refresher course in 20/19 Dragon Staffs. The owner offered to sell it to me immediately, but I insisted he give it at least a day to see if anyone wanted to outbid the 20e offer I posted on his thread for the staff. No one did.
The current market for such "imperfect" staffs is rather hard to predict I think. There are a lot of buyers around these days who won't touch imperfect items or things with req over 9, etc. For the case of Dragon Staffs, I'd guess they're rare enough that a matched 20/19 is still reasonably over 100k fair market value, but it may take a while to find interested buyers?
Were that mine to sell, having no better information to go by, I would take a guess that Smiting is about the same if not a little less popular a Dragon Staff attribute than Blood. I'd put it in a high end thread with starting bid set to reserve of ~10-15e and just let it run a week or so to see who was interested. In the event it started a bid war, I wouldn't want to try to guess how high it might go.
There was this discussion thread in Trader's Outpost a few months ago. I'm not sure if it will help you pick numbers for this one, but perhaps it helps better illustrate what I mentioned about the current market for such things.
Cheers & GL!
EDIT ... Since I've heard from a few people now about my Blood vs. Smiting popularity comment here, I want to clarify. I realize that in game there may well be way more people using smiting than blood, yes. By my above comment, "I would take a guess that Smiting is about the same if not a little less popular a Dragon Staff attribute than Blood." I meant in terms of what kind of attributes more buyers are likely to collect "high priced" gear for. I'd think there are more players with Necros they'd spoil with snazzy blood gear than there are with Monks they'd spoil with snazzy smiting gear. Spoiled monks seem more likely to get snazzy Heal or Prot gear in my experience.
Please stop whispering me in game telling me how popular RoJ heroes are - I know, honest! I didn't mean anyone had to give up their RoJ hero by that comment, I swear!
And I put your reward-for-reading check in the mail right before posting this edit raptors - cheers!
I'd met the seller before, and my impression is he's a nice guy who isn't much interested in trading or keeping track of prices. He had that staff along with a bunch of other stuff listed on a thread here without prices. I saw the staff and asked him if he had any ideas on buyout. He asked another friend of his who he goes to for price checks and then told me the friend said 5-10e. I'd been thinking way more than that and told him I thought perhaps his price checker needed a refresher course in 20/19 Dragon Staffs. The owner offered to sell it to me immediately, but I insisted he give it at least a day to see if anyone wanted to outbid the 20e offer I posted on his thread for the staff. No one did.
The current market for such "imperfect" staffs is rather hard to predict I think. There are a lot of buyers around these days who won't touch imperfect items or things with req over 9, etc. For the case of Dragon Staffs, I'd guess they're rare enough that a matched 20/19 is still reasonably over 100k fair market value, but it may take a while to find interested buyers?
Were that mine to sell, having no better information to go by, I would take a guess that Smiting is about the same if not a little less popular a Dragon Staff attribute than Blood. I'd put it in a high end thread with starting bid set to reserve of ~10-15e and just let it run a week or so to see who was interested. In the event it started a bid war, I wouldn't want to try to guess how high it might go.
There was this discussion thread in Trader's Outpost a few months ago. I'm not sure if it will help you pick numbers for this one, but perhaps it helps better illustrate what I mentioned about the current market for such things.
Cheers & GL!
EDIT ... Since I've heard from a few people now about my Blood vs. Smiting popularity comment here, I want to clarify. I realize that in game there may well be way more people using smiting than blood, yes. By my above comment, "I would take a guess that Smiting is about the same if not a little less popular a Dragon Staff attribute than Blood." I meant in terms of what kind of attributes more buyers are likely to collect "high priced" gear for. I'd think there are more players with Necros they'd spoil with snazzy blood gear than there are with Monks they'd spoil with snazzy smiting gear. Spoiled monks seem more likely to get snazzy Heal or Prot gear in my experience.
Please stop whispering me in game telling me how popular RoJ heroes are - I know, honest! I didn't mean anyone had to give up their RoJ hero by that comment, I swear!
And I put your reward-for-reading check in the mail right before posting this edit raptors - cheers!
superraptors
i actually read your wall of text for once.
blood and smiting are equally popular so id agree witha 10-20e price
blood and smiting are equally popular so id agree witha 10-20e price