Guild Wars 2

I noticed a lot of lower level stuff from gear to crafting components has gone down a lot lately. The only explanation I can think of (and that’s not really a lot, there are likely more possibilities) is the recent Chinese/Asia in general release, which would explain a bit in that since a lot of new players are in the lower level zones, earning those low tier crafting components it would drive the price down. This can’t be if the markets are not even connected, though.

So… I want to know, why do you think the prices of some lower ranked gear and components going down and do you know if all markets are connected (particularly North America, Europe, let’s not forget Australia and Asia)?

Chinese market is separate from the NA/EU one.

As already mentioned, it has nothing to do with the chinese version of the game.

I think the main reason, why lower ranked gear got cheaper is because the base materials got cheaper. If that happens, it is often a result of higher population in lower level zones, for example shortly after the game went on sale or after a trial weekend.
Both wasnt the case recently, i think.

The new LS Season passed through Brisban Wildlands, so alot of players picked up some mats and loot there, which could be 1 reason for lower prices.

But the main reason responsible is the departure of the bazaar 3 weeks ago. The Traders that let you exchange common mats for supply boxes acted as a huge sink, which let prices spike. With the bazaar gone, that demand vanished as well, so prices are returning values from before the bazaar.

Well the Bazaar left and the speculation on Level 500 Jewelry didn’t pan out. You could buy items from the Bazaar with basic mats and there was a spike just before it’s arrival. Then the rumor that LS2 would introduce Ascended Jewelry which kept the prices of Jewelry based materials up. As soon as it didn’t pan out prices have been creeping back down.

Now the price for a lot of items are based in some part to the value of the mats you get from salvaging them. Blue and Green items are salvaged for essence of luck as well.

Click on the follow link for silver and then click all on the charts.

http://www.gw2tp.com/item/19703-silver-ore

Top chart is price. May 20th was the start of the Bazaar. You can also guess when the rumors about Ascended Jewelry started. But as soon LS 2 started and the rumors were unfounded, boom.

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Well the Bazaar left and the speculation on Level 500 Jewelry didn’t pan out. You could buy items from the Bazaar with basic mats and there was a spike just before it’s arrival. Then the rumor that LS2 would introduce Ascended Jewelry which kept the prices of Jewelry based materials up. As soon as it didn’t pan out prices have been creeping back down.

Now the price for a lot of items are based in some part to the value of the mats you get from salvaging them. Blue and Green items are salvaged for essence of luck as well.

Click on the follow link for silver and then click all on the charts.

http://www.gw2tp.com/item/19703-silver-ore

Top chart is price. May 20th was the start of the Bazaar. You can also guess when the rumors about Ascended Jewelry started. But as soon LS 2 started and the rumors were unfounded, boom.

I would actually argue that the 2nd price spike (around 17th of June) had absolutely nothing to do with speculation about jeweler 500 because that spike occurred not only on common mats that are used in jewelry but all of them, check gossamer, same spike.

I think around that time there was a rumor that droprates for monocles, catcher skins etc from the supply boxes got buffed, which was responsible for the spike.

It was all mainly because of the Bazaar i think because especially Iron Ore got a nice boost (i think iron was the mat you needed the lowest number per box) , while Gold Ore was still low.

The Bazaar did exactly what Anet wanted it to do (their overall goal was pretty obvious from the variation in exchange rates for the Chests). Remove excess materials from players storage. I know it worked on me (to some degree).

I guess I have no evidence to support this so it’s pure speculation on my part….

Only problem is the quantity was set before the prices spiked in anticipation of the Bazaar. I can understand silver being one of the cheaper materials to buy boxes but gossamer?

Wood and the rest of the cloth was way overpriced and forget the limited event mats like sprockets and candy corn. Leather was cheap but not Thick Leather because the quantity required was so high so it wasn’t as good of a sink as the first time the bazaar came.