What is it with Auction house comodity price. its all dropping

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I actually bought 250 of those from different ppl in a day.
And that was for storm forged leather. And gloom chitin.

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you think prices will go up again? Crystalline Powder was selling for 6g per item & Ringing Deeps Ingot was going for 250-300g a pop

now powder is at 1.8g to 2.20 and ringing deeps is at 85g to 100g max

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depends on if its selling. if it is, theyre gonna buy it up and jack up the price.
Sometimes they flip stuff that never does sell.
its like they just flip just to have something to do half the time rather than actually watching the market to see if its something worth flipping or not.

Theyve gone NUTS this expansion flipping crap that makes no sense to even fool with lol

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I keep the prices up on certain items
:dracthyr_a1:

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It’s because of ‘Pilfering Parts’ in Engineering. As an Engineer you can now tear apart cogs, bolts, tubes and other stuff from every expansion and with the new skill tree, destroying all these parts results in getting items for a new mount that can be crafted.
So Thorium will probably stay relevant for a while, same as some other old ores like Laestrite.

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oh
right
I did see they put some old content mats on that one.
Might be a while before the price goes back down since thats the case.

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I think so, yes. I was really happy because I still had about 12k Draconium Ore in the bank that I forgot about and was pretty worthless in late DF. Now the prices spiked again and I managed to make decent profit from that. First time I haven’t cleared out my bank slots before a new expansion and it paid off. :smile:

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Prices are still surprisingly steady given that it’s a month into the expansion. Normally the bots would have obliterated the markets by now.

I do feel bad for people who fall for bait posts. I’ll go to sell stuff that I passively gather and there’s always several stacks of various small quantities posted at 1, 2, 3 gold lower than the rest. Trying to get people to just lazily go with the lowest price then snap them up.

I always price to the largest stack and my stuff has never failed to sell.

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I never personally intentionally drive up old mat costs
but if theyre already up and I have a bunch, Im taking advantage of the profits.

Im sitting on about 50,000 saronite bars too. I sold a few thousand but they dont seem to be moving as fast as the thorium bars were.

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The bots are being combatted against with exploding nodes and disappearing ones.

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if that would stop the botting entirely, Id be ok with ALL of the nodes exploding lol

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I have to say I appreciate that. Irradiated herbs just knock you a distance away in a random direction, which is a minor annoyance to a player but to a bot? It breaks their pathing and following. Weeping ore nodes can kill them if they’re already low when they get to it. EZ-Mine nodes blow them up unless they’re actively moving around and judging the terrain.

I love to see it.

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I think it’s because of the heavy RNG that heavily affects gathering professions this time. I already put so many skill points in mining and herbalism and still 50% of the stuff I’m gathering is R3 and only a tiny portion is R1. In DF everyone outskilled R3 very quickly, but in TWW it’s seemingly not possible anymore. Skillpoints give a higher chance to loot higher ranks, but it’s not guaranteed anymore.

I don’t think that’ll be a big problem for bots, they’ll figure it out or be programmed to ignore the EZ-Mine nodes. Even I ignore them because they’re not worth the effort.
Many players back then thought that Dragonriding would also be a huge problem for bots, but it only took them like one week to figure it out.

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Auctionator normally catches this sort of thing. But then again, when it comes up with a “low price” warning, I ask myself, “Do I care?”

And most of the time, the answer is, “No. No, I don’t.” Except for leather and fish, I can’t be bothered to care.

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guess what
every time you loot a new one spawns into existence. more gold and resources is created by the second
over time everything becomes less scarce

economy kid

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:robot: :pick:

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“its all dropping”

Would that it were. Enchanting R1 dust has gone down in cost only marginally and is still selling for 50g each and up, as it has been for most of the week. Which is still a ridiculous cost for a single piece of dust. And that’s just one consumable item.

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Supply is increasing. Fairly basic economic mechanic.

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What normally happens.

When an expansion launches materials are extremely expensive, then as more people post materials the prices slowly begin to drop because there’s too many for any one person to effectively corner the market and keep the prices high.

Same thing happened with Dragonflight. At launch everything was expensive, from crafted items (especially profession gear) to crafting materials, then the prices dropped and stayed down.

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something happened to the wow-economy, tokens went from 170 to 200 within 4 days, which is not the norm. i check often cause i buy often, can only assume something to do the Race to world first.