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free4all

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

05 Jul 2005 at 23:47 - 1

I'm predicting that the price of ectoplasm will go up over the next few days/weeks. Allready today I saw it at 13k from the trader. It's getting ridiculous, just when you thought the economy was fairly stable (IE, sup vigor isn't going for 100plat), stuff like this occurs.

IndyCC

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2005

Standing United (UNIT)

05 Jul 2005 at 23:50 - 2

The economy is begining to stablize, but what you describes proves that it is working. As more people who bought the game recently hit level 20 they will slowly want 15K armor. As they want 15K armor demand for ultra rare crafting materials increase, as demand increases so will price. What should then happen is that once these people get their armor any of these materials they find will probably be sold since they dont need them anymore, so supply will go up, it will eventually teater out to a level state as was shown by the runes, spike when they came and eventually when everyone got the ones they needed demand dropped and supply to the traders went up.

Theus

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

W/Mo

05 Jul 2005 at 23:51 - 3

Currently the price of superior vitality and absorption has fallen right out.

*Sigh*

I can see this games economy being like that of so many Ragnarok servers I played.

Itbegins

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

A Van Down by the River

Best Rapper Ever[DMX]

Mo/E

05 Jul 2005 at 23:58 - 4

i believe once people would wisen up and realize that the 15k underworld armor is a waste then we wont have to worry bout it.....untill then be glad theres some shmuck out there spending 13k a piece for like 50 globs of ecto more power to him. i mean thats an aweosome money sink.

hydrak

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

06 Jul 2005 at 00:04 - 5

Quote:

Originally Posted by free4all

I'm predicting that the price of ectoplasm will go up over the next few days/weeks. Allready today I saw it at 13k from the trader. It's getting ridiculous, just when you thought the economy was fairly stable (IE, sup vigor isn't going for 100plat), stuff like this occurs.

This only means that some rich guy is trying to give you his gold indirectly. When you see the trader selling price is 13k, sell all your ectos to it for 10k+, and do it fast before the price drops to 5-7k. Whenever I saw the price of ectos shoot over 10k, it usually drops to 5-7k in less than 1 hour. With all the UW and fissure activities, the average price of ectos and shards should be around 5k each.

Magick Catastroph

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

06 Jul 2005 at 00:07 - 6

FoW Armor isnt a waste if a person wants it.

If i ever save up enough shards and ecto i'll buy some pieces.

PieXags

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

The Infinite Representation Of Pie And Its Many Brilliances

06 Jul 2005 at 00:08 - 7

Quote:

Originally Posted by Itbegins

i believe once people would wisen up and realize that the 15k underworld armor is a waste then we wont have to worry bout it.....untill then be glad theres some shmuck out there spending 13k a piece for like 50 globs of ecto more power to him. i mean thats an aweosome money sink.

I know what you mean, when I first created this ranger I had every intention of going for the fissure armor. I got him to twenty and made some good money, in a couple days I'd made 100k off a cruddy storm bow and some other things I got, not too bad...then the more I looked at it I realized...yeah, that's not worth the 500 (or more now) thousand gold just for that armor, forget it.

So I'm just going to buy the 15k druids set, and be happy.

Lasareth

Aquarius

Join Date: Jun 2005

Somewhere between Boardwalk and Park Place

06 Jul 2005 at 00:31 - 8

This is seriously a downer. I had gotten my arms and boots when the prices were low, and I've been making money steadily ever since then, but even with around 13k profit a day, I can't even approach the price of ectos. Really sucks, too... I just want my leg pieces. 200k and counting... I should've had enough by now if prices weren't so damn stupid... oh well.

btw. I'm not going to buy ectos at 10k each.. it's just not gonna happen. I hope others decide to boycott this, if they really do want the armor. I think 5k each is a reasonable price. Nothing more should be paid, but hey... not my choice.

Ensign

Just Plain Fluffy

Join Date: Dec 2004

Berkeley, CA

Idiot Savants

06 Jul 2005 at 00:54 - 9

There are a lot more people finishing the game now, and playing Fissure, but who are unable to get past the Aatxes in Underworld. They have their Obsidian, but need to buy the ecto from those who get it...

Yeah, the prices are soaring. People pay a lot for vanity these days.

Peace,
-CxE

Dumachum

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Florida

na

R/E

06 Jul 2005 at 00:58 - 10

1 week ago most ecto tradesmen in ToA were selling htem off at 4.5k

This morning I saw them going for up to 7k now.

hydrak

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

06 Jul 2005 at 01:19 - 11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ensign

There are a lot more people finishing the game now, and playing Fissure, but who are unable to get past the Aatxes in Underworld. They have their Obsidian, but need to buy the ecto from those who get it...

Yeah, the prices are soaring. People pay a lot for vanity these days.

Peace,
-CxE

UW monsters don't come in big crowd. In fissure of woe, you'll need at least 6 people to deal with the big crowd. In Underworld, 1 good calling/tanking warrior+1monk+2 ele nukers are all you need to take care of the Aatxes for smite runs.

Drakron

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

06 Jul 2005 at 01:57 - 12

The problem is that drops were nerfed in those locations as well, so even farming for then is dificult, expensive and with the rise of european guilds able to take and maintain favor not something we can just head in and start farming.

Crix Lionheart

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

Phoenix, AZ, USA

Eternal Knights

W/Mo

06 Jul 2005 at 06:42 - 13

The the people of Arenanet practice a very communist form of economics. I remember the good old days when players set the prices for goods. Then this red revolution occurs and now almost every item in the game has a trader. I miss the laissez-faire policy like it used to be.

Ensign

Just Plain Fluffy

Join Date: Dec 2004

Berkeley, CA

Idiot Savants

06 Jul 2005 at 09:32 - 14

Quote:

Originally Posted by hydrak

UW monsters don't come in big crowd. In fissure of woe, you'll need at least 6 people to deal with the big crowd. In Underworld, 1 good calling/tanking warrior+1monk+2 ele nukers are all you need to take care of the Aatxes for smite runs.

Oh, I don't disagree. But my point is this - what percentage of the GW playing population can successfully complete a 4/5 man smite run, as opposed to being part of a successful Fissure team? UW is theoretically doable with less people, but for your average pickup, Fissure is reasonably doable while your team gets mopped up by Aatxes in UW.

Peace,
-CxE

Divinitys Creature

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Somewhere between the Real World and Tyria ;P

The Gothic Embrace [Goth]

06 Jul 2005 at 10:50 - 15

When I went to Fissure recently I just didn't have inventory room and just salvaged all those ectos, *whoops*. I don't care much for the fissure armor, it looks sweet and all. Now that I know you guys need ecto so much I might sell it to players, or the trader.

Spark

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

06 Jul 2005 at 10:56 - 16

Quote:

The the people of Arenanet practice a very communist form of economics.

How is a TRADER communist? He works off of supply and demand. People are selling more ectos than buying? Price goes down. Buying more than selling? Price goes up.

How does this have anything to do with communism in the slightest?

Winds of Blood

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2005

Void Engineers [vE]

06 Jul 2005 at 13:12 - 17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Divinitys Creature

When I went to Fissure recently I just didn't have inventory room and just salvaged all those ectos, *whoops*. I don't care much for the fissure armor, it looks sweet and all. Now that I know you guys need ecto so much I might sell it to players, or the trader.

I didnt know that ecto drops in Fissure =/ And btw they are stackable, you dont have 100 seperate ecto -.-

This reminds me alot of Hides back in the early betas

Dzan

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

The Black Dye Cartel

06 Jul 2005 at 13:51 - 18

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spark

How is a TRADER communist? He works off of supply and demand. People are selling more ectos than buying? Price goes down. Buying more than selling? Price goes up.

How does this have anything to do with communism in the slightest?

It doesn't. Most people are clueless as to what communism or socialism really is, and for that matter, what capitalism really is. Far too easy for any economic practice people don't happen to like to be labeled "communist" thanks to Cold War era propaganda that people swallowed whole.

Divinitys Creature

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Somewhere between the Real World and Tyria ;P

The Gothic Embrace [Goth]

06 Jul 2005 at 14:08 - 19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Winds of Blood

I didnt know that ecto drops in Fissure =/ And btw they are stackable, you dont have 100 seperate ecto -.-

This reminds me alot of Hides back in the early betas

MY bad I meant UW. Normally only go to Fissure. They stack w00t, I salvaged them when i just had one, then again each time for room for that gold whatever it was. D'oh and double D'oh the ecto would have been worth a lot more. Yeah hides used to be so rare and fur.

Diomedes

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Blue Island (think Chicago)

Me/N

06 Jul 2005 at 14:08 - 20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dzan

It doesn't. Most people are clueless as to what communism or socialism really is, and for that matter, what capitalism really is. Far too easy for any economic practice people don't happen to like to be labeled "communist" thanks to Cold War era propaganda that people swallowed whole.

I know it's off topic, but I agree. "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)", they never even claimed to be communist, they simply /aspired/ to communism while practicing socialism. Most people still don't realize that while indeed the Communist party was in power, the USSR was never a communist state....

-Diomedes

Diomedes

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Blue Island (think Chicago)

Me/N

06 Jul 2005 at 14:10 - 21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Divinitys Creature

MY bad I meant UW. Normally only go to Fissure. They stack w00t, I salvaged them when i just had one, then again each time for room for that gold whatever it was. D'oh and double D'oh the ecto would have been worth a lot more. Yeah hides used to be so rare and fur.

My first run to FoW (about 5-6 weeks ago) I got 3 globs of ecto. I sold all of them to the merchant. A week later I learned about the armor crafter down there and kicked myself. I have yet to get anther ecto drop in the last 15-20 times I've been down there.

-Diomedes

uigrad

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Illinois

06 Jul 2005 at 14:33 - 22

Diomedes, Ectoplasm doesn't drop in fissure. Maybe it did before, but it doesn't now.

I had thought that originall ectoplasm came from UW, and that Obs. shards were unavailable. The devs realized it, and added Obs. shards to FoW in one of the big patches.

Diomedes

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

Blue Island (think Chicago)

Me/N

06 Jul 2005 at 14:40 - 23

Quote:

Originally Posted by uigrad

Diomedes, Ectoplasm doesn't drop in fissure. Maybe it did before, but it doesn't now.

I had thought that originall ectoplasm came from UW, and that Obs. shards were unavailable. The devs realized it, and added Obs. shards to FoW in one of the big patches.

Are you sure? I got it by the wailing lord.

-Diomedes

Rothgar

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

06 Jul 2005 at 15:22 - 24

Whats funny is last week I got a glob of ectoplasm out of a chest in one of the jungle missions when I was helping guildmates through the missions. Man was I suprised when that happened.

Rayea

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

west yorkshire, Uk

Sisters of Serenity

N/Mo

06 Jul 2005 at 15:54 - 25

yeah, i got a single glob of ecto, and i have never been further than Lions Arch ^^
but i got mine from the mission where we had to get prince rurik to the gates, from the ghosts in the graveyard....you know the one, where he gets dissowned by his dad, after telling him he is a dopy son of a late monarch^^

nechronius

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2005

Southern Cali

Herald of the Storm

W/R

06 Jul 2005 at 17:42 - 26

A guildmate of mine got 3 obsidian shards and 2 globs of ectoplasm on his first night of going into fissure (or was it underworld.. It may have even been his first run ever. hmmm...). Had said he got the 3 obsidian shards on a single run. He hasn't gotten any since then, but I did see a ruby drop for him. I wonder if those will be good for anything in the future...

capitalist

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

06 Jul 2005 at 17:42 - 27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diomedes

Are you sure? I got it by the wailing lord.

-Diomedes

Nightmares/Shadows and the like drop ecto randomly, I swear I had one drop in FoW, but I could be wrong.

Ludic

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2005

[XoO]

N/

06 Jul 2005 at 18:10 - 28

I sold two globs of ecto for 1k each a while ago. If it hadn't been to someone who I constantly partied with and did some PVP with, I'd probably be kicking myself.

hydrak

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2005

06 Jul 2005 at 18:38 - 29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rayea

yeah, i got a single glob of ecto, and i have never been further than Lions Arch ^^

So are rubies and sapphires. These can also drop in some low-level places, but they are really rare, probably rarer than ectos and shards.

Rayea

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

west yorkshire, Uk

Sisters of Serenity

N/Mo

06 Jul 2005 at 23:03 - 30

oooh, this is so embarasing 0.o
ok, ok, befor anyone says it, yeah, i do need my eyes testing :P so there

it wasnt a ectoplasme, it was bloody ghostly remains >.<
(well, easy come, easy go heheh....are rubies n saphires the gemstones, or realy rare item drops with red or dark blue names? just wondering lol)

Lews

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2005

Seattle, Washington

R/E

07 Jul 2005 at 00:49 - 31

You can get it from riverside province's random chests too. I get it and just sell it for 7k usually. Why? I have my marhands grotto 15k armor, I don't care about the Fissure.

sino-soviet

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Israel before, CA now.

R/Me

07 Jul 2005 at 00:53 - 32

Riverside worked for a while, and it was great, hardly anyone even knew about it. I made ~100k off it, but it was nerfed.

Antilles

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2005

Silverdale, WA

Confuzion

W/Mo

07 Jul 2005 at 01:15 - 33

It's the Koreans. They are whording all the Ecto,and threaten to use their WMD's on us unless we give in to their demands.

Lasareth

Aquarius

Join Date: Jun 2005

Somewhere between Boardwalk and Park Place

07 Jul 2005 at 01:19 - 34

I wonder why we can't transfer to the Korean servers :/

dbgtboy

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

irl

i quit playing

07 Jul 2005 at 01:30 - 35

i would kill to get into a korean server, most koreans speak english and i literally memorized where everything is, i really wish i could get onto that beautiful korean server.