Guild Wars 2

As the subject says, ancient bones have more than doubled in value in a day or so and sell listings have dropped from 47k to 7k.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/24358

Is this not an obvious consequence of Risen now dropping a greater variety of mats?

The drop rate was reduced in the last patch; mobs in Orr drop a wider variety of materials now.

It’s funny how Anet patches the game in a way that seemed to be aimed at making T6 mats more accessible and/or cheaper. Yet the end result is they all end up costing the same or more than before the patch.

They may be rarer, but this is a speculative run right now… a huge buyout of 20000 bones in the beginning by a few wealthy (relatively speaking) players made everyone else panic and start buying them out too. They’ll start flooding back in soon, but the price will still be higher than it was before.

Things have to even out, this will take a while. Ancient bones have been very common and thus low priced. As the drop rate of other T6 mats has been increased and the drop rate of ancient bones has been decreased, prices will even out in a while. It just takes time. If you plan to buy or sell ancient bones, just wait a while.