23-05-2012, 10:55 PM
(23-05-2012, 10:01 PM)Maskan_Rill link Wrote: In short: Removing them would be awesome for the lower players, but hurt the higher players greatly.
Would not fix a thing. You would just be priced out of the new market by those older players who did not rage quit.
I like Senni's idea, except that I would prefer to see any potential gold sink tied directly to team-play.
----On the legendary items----
Contrary to popular opinion it is possible to buy legendary items. Before the 4.0 patch the average warpick went for around 900k, the price is only now returning to that level. The 4.0 patch freed up large amounts of legendary items for trade because of the large amount of people re-specing, that was a one off and the market has now stabilized.
One can still get into the legendary market through high level craftables; which is what is suppose to happen. Before 4.0 and just after, people skipped the high level expensive craftable items, instead, directly purchasing the next level up, legendaries. Its just silly that for the better part of the last few months, the Swadian Hope has been out-pricing many of the legendaries. The game has been designed to go; marketplace > craftable > high level craftable > legendary. You can still get into the market, but it does take more effort.
Where the real inflation has been is in the high level craftable area, specifically, things like hardend metal. Now that people have been forced to enter that market, the prices have gone up. This is not because of some unique event due to high level players dominating the market, that is just a consequence of the fact that people are supposed to want to craft high level items. What is the point of making a sharpshooter bow, if the fiendish is only 500k? Now people must move through the progression.
The devs have stated that the legendary drop rate has specifically been reduced. This is a tool they can use to increase and decrease the rate so as to maintain the progression through the game at the rate they want.