Gaming black lion

#1 - Nov. 10, 2013, 12:47 a.m.
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so as I’m going for my ascended, I dread the costs of all these exotics I have to make to get to 500 -

It costs 7 gold to make those pearl weapons – and someone is putting them up for 2 gold – it’s across the board with all pearl items also. You could sell the individual mats for more – and I was keeping a close eye on a particular weapon – I watched as someone added 7 of them back to back because the prices got too high.

no reasonable explanation for someone making 7 of the same type / style of weapon back to back – nor is there a reason for all pearl weapons to cost 5 gold less than what it costs to make. if someone was maxing their crafting – it would make sense to discover new items for better xp- not make 7 of them in succession because one item got too pricey and low on stock.

- just rechecked – not all of them, but a ton of them are far cheaper than what it costs to make – if it weren’t for observing the way this item was instantly stocked – I would have just thought it was a supply and demand thing – not a popular weapon actually being nerfed in price – to an extreme.

#30 - Nov. 11, 2013, 7:04 p.m.
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Pearl exotics are one of the byproducts of throwing rare weapons into the mystic forge in an attempt to generate a precursor. Selling them for 2 gold each is in fact profitable once you take into account the value of the precursor you’re after.

Crafting for levels was only a big driver of the exotic economy immediately after the patch introducing exotic weapons, and the excess exotic weapons were sucked right back out to be fed to the forge; these days the forge/precursor market dwarfs the exotics from people crafting to 500.

Beat me to it! In the last 36ish hours more than 200 pearl cleaver’s have come from the mystic forge, not an insubstantial amount.