Ecto price development - your opinion?

So, how do you think the price will develop, when currently it's barely 5k, 1k less than before Factions release. I do have Factions, but I barely play the missions/quests, so I really have no idea about the new materials and armors and how can they affect ecto or shard prices.
What I think is that people will make their way slowly from the "regular" Factions gameplay to areas like FoW and the price should go up again. I guess now it's still too early for that. I only have 12 ectos atm, but I really don't want to see their price drop from 60k to maybe 20k.

well i think it'll go up steadily in a month time, then news of chap 3 comes out and it'll drop slowly back to 5k ha

Because people realized that FoW armor is more time/effort/gold than its worth.

Not to mention..its so funny to see players with FoW armor who are still relatively horrid at the game.

Why should it go up?

Assasin FoW set sucks, and the others are not rehashed at all. Only the ritualist's is remotely worth buying. I'd say ecto prices will stay high for the sake of noobs only. It is worthless.

Don't count on the prices getting higher. There is a small chance, like when lots of people are done playing with their ritualists and assasins and want to get FoW armor for it For the rest...don't count on it!

Oh well, looks like I'll sell it now then. Damn, why didn't I start farming in UW and FoW earlier....

My opinion?

GOOD!

Glad the price is so low... I always wanted to get the FoW armor for my Ranger, but was unwilling, and unable to afford the insane prices of ectos. Remember when they were 13K each at one point!

Now I can buy them at 4-5K each. Which still makes me the very expensive when compared to other rare materials, but at least not at and overkill price.

I for one hope they stay at the price they are now. Sure it unvalues those's who farmed for them. But hey

id actualy like to se the Ecto sky rocket inte price then it gives you a reason to go to UW for better wealth and it's allso more exciting getting ecto if it's worth alot more and besides the FoW armor is suppose to be hard to get ore else it whouldent be so uniq hope ecto goes up to 9-11k ore atleast that they add a new area in Chapter3 where you need Ecto ore add ecto fore some new 15k armor that requires ecto but not nearly as much as the one in FoW

i don't mind the price development even at ecto being 5k FoW armor is still the most expensive armor in the game to get. What decides the price of ecto is the players and the reason it's not high because the demand for it is not high. Only 2 classes were introduced and that meant only 2 new sets of FoW armor was introduced and not many people want them. Chapter 1 was out for a year and the people that wanted FoW armor for themselfs (like me) already have it. I do not see the ecto prices rising anymore it's a safer bet to assume the price will drop even more.

the ecto at 5k is fair .. not ruining ppl, useful for 100+ trades and quite cheap for ppl crafting their Fow sets

ofc, i dont mind seeing it going up at all

Well your idea has merit, do you have any idea how rare ectos drop in the UW or tombs of primeal kings? On a Tombs run only 1 may drop in a 45 min run, sometimes none, same goes or the UW.

I wouldn't be "excited" to get one... I'd be annoyed by the time taken to get one. Thus the reason farming gold and buying them is a bette option.

I really think they need to make UW/Fow more accessible by Foreign characters, they need to make the factions only players know about FOW/UW. As i've met a lot of people who don't know UW or FOW. Then we'll get Chapter 3, which will make UW/FOW a long forgotten memory. Ecto prices sort of represent the popularity of these places...

Yes iam well aware how rare it is to get Ecto in Tomb's Ore Uw and besides ecto drop randomly so it can drop the first 10min ore 35min later all is random..it's a challenge to get the FoW armor if you have done everything in the game then you will get the FoW armor so you have something to do all that time and after you got your fow armor what are you going to do then this it's seems ppl are to tired to farm for ectos adn shard yes i know it takes Huge amount of time geting all those things but it's a part of the challange i think..

I sitll don't see what is the 'challenge' in grinding the tombs or UW for hours praying for a ecto or shard to drop Not really my idea of fun, but hey

I got my Fissure when they were 13k+ each. Then they dropped.

um why would you want this. it s one thing that they didn t have to buy a extra game to play it but now you want to spam to them to come to uw and fow? these areas should b what factions alone players are not allowed to access anet truelly messed up on this one.

Actually this is Transilvania, land of vampires and evil accents.

Anyways.. I think they wont go lower than they are now.. touch wood But they wont get much higher since FoW and UW are farmed a lot. I think Anet want to make it fairer for the average rich person, not just the super rich person

gotta remember with any game that has "expansions" that the newest one almost always cheesedicks those that come before, gotta raise the bar and change things up or people get bored and leave.

never bank on 1 item forever cause it -WILL- change over time

my 2 cp

edit: fixed my bad enrgish /~

Ectos will fluctuate between 4k and 6k. They will be at 6k about a month before Chapter III comes out, and then they will drop back down to 4k. However, after Chapter III, they might go down even more. Think about it, more and more people will be playing GW without the Prophecies campaign as later stand-alone chapters come out. Most people who have Prophecies will have FoW armor, and so maybe ectos will drop down to dangerously low levels...hm...

nice! now i can buy that HOD i always wanted....

as to why ectos are going town the drain? i have no clue! my option is all the newbies (no noobs) to the game don't need them and the market is flooded with them (or we have stacks of them in our storage) to go around. I mean when you traded away that mini pet for 100k + 90 ectos your just going reuse the ectos for more trades and not FOW. Right?

well just my 2 cents. I have 20 ectos tucked away in case they go back to 13k, but like sup abs and sub vig prices you never know -)