Zephyr's one of a kind modless items?

Hello everyone,
As said in the title I'm really curious about these items currently in the sell section :

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/y...t10533441.html

So here are my questions : how do such items (baseless, modless, basic skins) have any trade value? Are they that hard and rare to get? Is there anybody out there willing to pay something to obtain these items?

I have myself similar items, and they're pretty easy to get. So, yes they're purple ; but I'm pretty sure I can get more of those in gold.

I'm Definitely looking forward to read your answers, thank you.

Many weapons still drop mod less, this is true. However what our good friend Zeph has here are very rare old drops that are - as far as I am aware - impossible to acquire anymore. No modded Wands/Focus/Shields dont drop anymore. The reason other items with no mods exist is because of upgrades. You can get a sword easily that just has a prefix and a suffix but no damage mod. You just salvage the mods off and hey presto you have a modless weapon. This is obviously not the case with wands/focus/shields because they have no mods to salvage.

There are exceptions to this but they are few and far between and typically involve the "deathbane glitch" and the glitch that used to happen with staffs. I once had a modless Eternal Blade drop. Useless, but rare as anything and also impossible to drop anymore.

Hi, to clarify you're concerns i'll give you the following information.


1# : Notice how my weapons have NO gold value (pre-ID).

2# : Since they are OS, Mods cannot be removed.

3# : Gold or Rare ; In most cases, initially has atleast one bonus.
Values for variable bonuses are within the top quarter of their range, rounded up, which means that bonuses with narrow ranges can be found on rare items.

(Credit : http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Rarity)

Zephyr.