How did SOV affect item prices of pre-SOV items

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

Originally Posted by Erati [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

not sure why we need a 'price of things' thread every other day

dumping Kunark items you are using is not that wise unless you have excess alts to strip you dont want to play

it takes a lot of faction grinding, questing, and poopsocking to get the really good stuff

Velk's phat lewt and Loddy will be stuff hitting the market the quickest and only the top end plat hoarders are going to be able to afford the prices of Velious stuff the first couple weeks.

For example, to give everyone some perspective, when Kunark launched:

There was much less liquid plat avail in 2011 but some prices included

1. Hiero cloaks started around 90K ( which dropped to 65K I think 3-4 months in which is when I purchased mine bc druids dont go to crypt )
2. I sold a Goblin Skull earring for 10K on Day 2, might have had one of the first drops on the server in fact
3. ES arms / gloves and in general Class armor from KC were 5-10K, the T-Staff was around 100K


Basically most of the Kunark trashy 1-2k drops we enjoy now were all around 8-12K back on launch so the prices are very very high when these things come out

I would imagine with so much more plat in the game 4 years later that those price ratios I gave in my examples will double or triple with Velious items as many people know this is the end of the line of their gear

Good post, some very good history and perspective.

The long and short of it is, one of the pleasant things about p99 is how easily you can gear up a toon with second and third best in slot items -- and yes, those items sold for mega-plat on live during the appropriate eras.

Velious will be no different. It's a nice aspect of the server, and does not break the game, and when it does (like the Ivandyr's hoop fuckery) the staff steps in.

But a brief scan through the wiki and comparing velious era stuff with what we got can pretty quickly tell you which items are about to plummet.

And the FBSS is still 7-8k because getting a haste item is an eq basic, and at that price I am guessing many longer term players have one on every melee alt, as a basic piece of gear. I own two, and I am a relative newb on this server (december 2012).

At this point, I would def hold off on getting a fbss tho. We got release dates, baby. FBSS should be around 2-3k by end of year.