Recent spike in charged lodestones
someone saved up enough money to buy what they needed and bought them? When you buy items at the lowest price the new lowest price is higher.
There hasn’t been any change in supply, it just has a high fluctuation because people tend to buy them all at once after saving for a while.
The reason they came down in the first place was because of those karma things that have a chance to have lodestones in them.
Tons of people spent hundreds of thousands of spare karma on them, selling the lodestones (and thus lowering the price). Now the karma is gone. Of course people can still go buy them but it won’t ever be like it was right when they were added and thousands of people dumped 500k+ karma on them immediately.