The cost is so high because no one is playing the game right now and there’s no real reason for the people who are still playing the game to waste their time farming Arcane Crystals from Rich Thorium Veins in Level 55-60 areas at level 50 when they could just wait until they’re able to level 60 in two weeks.
The cost will go down in Phase 4 IF everyone comes back and you suddenly have hundreds of thousands of players playing the game again.
Or it won’t if Phase 4 turns out to suck and everyone quits before hitting 60. But at that point, the price of Arcanite Bars will ultimately be the least of SoD’s problems.
Now that you failed to think ahead and sold all your arcanite you want them to change recipe?
Current prices are entirely speculative based on how awesome that and other arcanite pieces look and 20 year knowledge that you can’t just farm arcanite overnight. We are locked to how much can be made at a time. Many people have had alt armies making arcanite since the start of the phase. They knew what would happen and are prepared. Now we wait and see how much arcanite exists and how much is needed. Likely prices will be sky high for some time and thats just too bad for those that haven’t figured out how to prepare for a 20 year old video game.
Exactly. There’s a limited supply because so few people are:
A) Playing the game
B) Mining Arcane Crystals
C) Transmuting Arcanite Bars
So the price is high because supply is so low because there’s no reason to make them outside of the niche market of speculative selling/buying.
Depends on how Phase 4 goes. If Phase 4 flops, then SoD dies and it won’t matter in the end what Arcanite Bars cost, because nobody will be playing the game anymore. We’re already down to about 40,000 players across the entirety of SoD, at this point if P4 isn’t good, then the only place for SoD to go is into the grave.
If Phase 4 turns out to be good and brings back a good sized chunk of the 400,000+ players it had at its peak, then there will be enough miners and alchemists out there that a ton of Arcane Crystals will be farmed and a ton of Arcanite Bars will be made, driving down the price, especially on the larger ‘mega-servers’.
You’re basically looking at the price of Arcanite Bars now and have decided that it means Arcanite Bars in Phase 4 will be just as expensive. But comparing the price of Arcanite Bars now when the supply is at its lowest to when the supply should be at its highest during Phase 4 is pure folly.
At this point, we can only wait and see how Phase 4 plays out and what sort of population and economy SoD has.
SoD’s economy is dead right now because SoD itself is dead right now. So prices are high. Pretty simple.
The main problem is they’re removing Incursions, which is a good thing, but the gold they brought into the game and those that benefited from it will be leagues ahead of any new player. Adding more gold to the players only makes the market move accordingly.
Those players that have the capital to buy the already overpriced bars, are only going to be able to buy more bars if that price lowers. Assuming it’s drop rate is like it has been in the past, it’s going to be a very competitive, high priced item on the AH compared to the market as a whole. And from a whole, players who played in Incursions will have a lot more gold as already mentioned.
This is all unless they do make the drop rate absurdly high, and arcanite bars become a meme because of transmute procs + high arcane crystal drops.
But there is an issue at hand. See for yourself.
Why do you say this but we get others who say…
Sounds like if the bars remain high priced, people are going to be questioning the development decisions, and if the prices drop. Same thing.
Then why did you make this thread in which you said several times you think the price is going to be too high???
It sounds like you agree with me that the price is going to drop. You agree so much you literally pulled out of your speculative position in the market.
I think at this point its fair for us to be a little confused lmao.
I am betting the arcanite bars will drop in price phase 4, reason is that there is 4 more maps opening up for mining arcane crystals, Eastern Plaguelands, Silithus, Winterspring and Burning Steeps, now these maps get mined a little bit now by stealth , op classes and groups but nothing like they will when the average miner hits level 60, this will drop prices.
honestly, i think the cost for bars will drop pretty quick. more and more hunters know about the Dire Maul East solo farm. i know my hunter will be in there farming some. when i did it in Era, it was about 10 min a run. so ever 10 min you get 2 to 3 rich thorium veins, and there seems to be a lot of hunters in SOD.
that added to the fact that every Alchemist can get x-mute specialty, i think they will drop in price.
