Let's list the crappy items that will be in high demand in Factions

Gold.

Yeah, I see the price of gold going way up. -_-;;

Lower req weapons that are semi decent. Lots of low level chars won't be able to use the higher req weapons for a bit.

Pruning mods, you know why?

Luxon faces kurzick plant bosses, yep ^^

BTW, I know this thread is about buying stuff people don't want ingame for cheap then selling them for a fortune in cantha ^^

uhuh

*massive stash of greens*

Would be weird if there is no greens in Cantha. But there is some greens you can always cash on. I know the Zeal dagger mod will be huge. If you head over the Assa forum, they all plan on using Zeals.

can someone point me in the direction of what this is?

I thought there was going to be an increase in quality of items(at least I heard this), which would probably mean a jump from +15% to maybe 20% damage or a bluff to say 10% suddering 30% chance. These changes will make old prophecies greens rather worthless; other than their relatively easy aquisition of a "good" item.

EDITED: This was based on the lastest interview telling about factions.

Even if they increase sundering to 30% chance it will still be junk. It only triggers on skills and will only add dmg done by the base weapon dmg. Which means a 1-2 dmg increase

Vamp daggers will be in more demand than the zeals. Zeals are for nooby Zins. Zins real problem is dmg not energy.

Armor mods are going to go up. Zins don't need hp they need armor.

well my point was that our current weapons will probably be outdated. I was just speculating on the actual increases.

I think your basic clean weapons no matter what the skin will cost no more than 3k.

I have no idea what you're talking about twicky. 'sin's have no problems with damage. Vamp/Zeal dagger mods should go crazy though. a good perfect vamp/zeal dagger with 15^stance should go for huge ammounts, no matter what they look like. Keep in mind, the sins are also offered more versatility than most classes, offering at least 2 types of damage (piercing, slashing, and i forget whether or not blunt) + ele dmg. So that might matter to people also.

You're forgetting the biggest items of all: Amber and Jadite.

There's going to be a huge flood of people wanting to buy shiny new 15k armor, all of which requires amber or jadite.

So let's see... you could spend several days doing quests and playing Alliance battles over and over again... OR you could just buy them wholesale from someone else. Guess what the people who have hundreds of plat saved up are going to do...

I predict that those who spend the first few days simply racking up as much faction as possible and turning it into amber/jadite will make a tidy profit.

EDIT: The Fox, the max stats of items will not go up. They have said that there will not be new weapons or armor that is superior to Prophecies items, this would mess up a lot of things.

" We're improving the quality of all rare (gold) and uncommon (purple) items significantly. " That's in their last interview... Basically if they change the mods on all future drops then the old ones are worthless, BUT nobody has been given any "advantage" because people from Tyria could just play more until they get a gold that has the new and improved mods.

Here's a link to it. The quote I used is near the bottom of the page.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/guild...8088&page=2&q=

When I first read that, I took it to mean that the stats on gold and purple drops will just be better on average than they are now, not that the max stats would go up.

benefit of doing the pre release events is knowing what materials will be used so you can get them in advance

True enough but if the price of materials jacks up there will be a counter shift to farm and convert junk in to crafting material to make a profit (from npc traders even) then when people realize this, there will be too much crafting material which will drive the price down.

I agree all the item will suck.

If u want to go to fow check that the new armor stats be added or not
there will be more benefit.
because u can know the ecto price in future faction from this.

if no new stats on fow armor, its mean no Rt and Asn's fow armors there.
so...u can sell ur all ectos and shards earlier.

No, this won't happen. Right now, prices are low and stable because you don't have many current characters buying new armor. New characters and new people are. But the old characters are still bringing materials into the economy. The start of factions will involve new characters, new people, and old characters.. all buying new armor. The ratio of new armor being bought to new materials being salvaged will be much different than it is currently. And the % of people farming, compared to questing initially will be much lower than it currently is. There's no way in hell material prices are going to go down.

I would sell almost all items right now. When factions comes out, people will want new skins, and none of the current skins (even the chaos axes and stuff) will be worth crap compared to what they are worth now. Mods, materials, runes, sigils.. those will all go up, while most items prices will go down.

There will be more new players however, so I'm sure you can still sell items with decent stats for a decent amount.. but that's just do to them being new. And new people aren't loaded with gold, so it's really a mute point.