i spent much more than that

I sold my Mage staff for 1 million + Green Dragonscale (Ended up selling GDS also for 1 million) like 2 years ago. I also got several other offers over 1 million when I was looking for a buyer. Considering the market, 950k is pretty fair.

I don't think anyone was commenting on whether the price is fair vis a vis the market. They were commenting on the insanity of being willing to pay that price for a useless epic.

sorry you don't have skittle stick

Sorry our classic server doesn't believe in classic epics.

*Well, mage epics at least; I don't want to overgeneralize.

Obviously plenty of other epics can be completed by actually playing the game as designed (vs. having to play EconomyQuest to purchase it from a farmer .... something that rarely, if ever, happened back in '99-'01).

Yeah exactly. I thought shams paying 150k for tear MQ's on green is insane, and that epic is at least useful.

Pretty sure you can get them a lot cheaper than that. Its not that Epic MQs are non-classic or that the encounter or drop rates are non-classic, its really a function of a server time locked for an extended period of time.

In live EQ people didn't spend time farming components for additional epics they didn't intend to use as additional expansions and game progression continued to follow and there were bigger and better things to focus on once you achieve your own main epic. Combine this with accounts being something you had to pay per account, it created a world where there was less time in this era to farm this gear, new gear came along that was better and obsoleted the benefits of obtaining these classic items (which also made them less valuable in the market), and the propensity to have multiple characters was much lower as most people were limited to one account or had one shared account for the household.

Simply put if the people that are effectively gate keeping epic pieces for re-sale value had something better to do with their time they would be doing it. Its the same reason that velious armor and NToV droppables were never really sold on live either but are quite common on P99, progression is what prevents a build up of high end items in the marketplace.

Not sure how it's not classic. It's a contested drop. Don't want to pay for it get a group together and go track and contest...just like classic

Yeah but those don't go for literally over a million plat, the MQ prices are totally reasonable for the quality of the item provided, so it's kind of an apples and oranges comparison.