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Originally Posted by Keebz
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No one has mentioned the different item valuations across teal / green that are now visible because of the merge. On teal it wasn't uncommon to see Mith 2h for 8-10k (a fair price imho). Green had much higher valuation on everything, probably because of more poopsockers and therefore more plat. Now that the worlds have collided, it makes sense to see these disparities.
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This can be explored even further. When the servers were split, it didn't modify the drop rate or availability. So just as many axes were dropping as now, but to enter a market of 700ish players. Of those 700, only a fraction would want the axe, so the prices would naturally go down over time, since a constant rate of axes would be filling a diminishing number of interested parties. The merge doubled the population (and therefore doubled the number of players who would purchase), but kept the rate of axe drops at the same constant it was before. So with the combined demand of both servers we saw an instant increase in price, and now we'll have to wait until enough of the demand has been filled that sellers feel compelled to drop their price to cater to less and less interest.