Guild Wars 2

so I can’t help but wonder if Anet is going to decrease ecto drop rates to increase their price. It just seems like they like to keep them around 30s (they tend to go above 30, then below, then above, then below, etc.). maybe this patch, maybe the next…
no, I do not have 20 stacks of ecto I’m looking to unload.
and, no, it’s not 19 stacks either.
it’s closer to 20 ectos (0.08 stacks), and I’m saving them for a legendary. I’m just thinking that right NOW might be the best time to buy more… I’d hate to regret it in a couple days.

I don’t think there’s a definate answer. But if I’m going for a legendary, I’d get my ecto now. Hard to perdict the future.

Rares from people running the FnF dungeon just ended, so that makes the supply of ectos just a tiny bit lower. Maybe that will help bring up the price.

In any event, I expect the price to go up soon with the next update. SAB and FnF had few new uses for ectos. Probability that there will be something new is pretty good.

Something like infused ascended neck/accessories taking 250 globs each is my guess

All Ascended weapons will probably take stacks of Ecto to craft. Invest while prices are low!

Smooth Penguin.5294:

All Ascended weapons will probably take stacks of Ecto to craft. Invest while prices are low!

I have the same mentality with the scavenge hunt for precusor.

Better buy all the t6 material and lodestone since scavenge hunt coming soon…

Actually bad idea lol. Probably bake a while till they release new ascended item.

Im having trouble figuring out why Anet would care what the player-set price of ectos are? o.O

ocgreg.3910:

Im having trouble figuring out why Anet would care what the player-set price of ectos are? o.O

They definitely pay attention to it. Because they don’t want content to be easily attainable, especially rare or treasured items. If people already have the highly-demanded items in, lets say, a week, then what is the purpose of them being in the game?

I think they’ll increase ectos to a point where it’ll be around 25s again. I don’t think they want it to drop below 15s again.

Last I checked ecto was around 20. I’ll buy up when it reaches 18s. I can buy up to 400g worth.

Vol.5241:

ocgreg.3910:

Im having trouble figuring out why Anet would care what the player-set price of ectos are? o.O

They definitely pay attention to it. Because they don’t want content to be easily attainable, especially rare or treasured items. If people already have the highly-demanded items in, lets say, a week, then what is the purpose of them being in the game?

I think they’ll increase ectos to a point where it’ll be around 25s again. I don’t think they want it to drop below 15s again.

Last I checked ecto was around 20. I’ll buy up when it reaches 18s. I can buy up to 400g worth.

You can or you are willing to? Less then 20G profit (according to your numbers 18s and 25s) seems to be a bit low for binding 400G.
Unless that’s your gambling change that is.
Nvm – did not calculate correctly, should not do this in between other things.
~90G ok, looks better

Players have all been trained now to crack unwanted “of” armor and weapons to suck out the gooey ectos and rune/sigils from profit. The ratio of buy vs sell at the TP went from 12:1 when it was at 40s to 7:6 now but the total number of buy orders are pretty much unchanged. So supply has increased by roughly 10×.

Now since the amount you can get for the salvage from rares have dropped off, so have the prices which in turn makes crafting those items less desirable.

So who back in Feb suggested farming ectos is the way to make lots of gold in this game? This is a classic example of “tragedy of the commons” in terms of exploiting a niche market.

well, good thing I didn’t go out of my way to buy boat loads. after reading the patch notes, it looks like they did nothing to increase ecto price.

The only way they could increase ecto price is to alter the salvage chance on high level rares and exotics. I guess they could have created a popular item that requires ectos to boost demand but it’s the shift in supply that tanked the ecto market.

Changes to master/mystic kits would go over like a lead balloon with much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

a lot of people already stocking up on Ectos, i doubt if prices go up it will not be quick, since most in my guild doesnt sell theirs but wait, i know more then 50 players with 1k plus laying around in bank.

By the time I ll have my laurels to buy an ascended earing it’s 30 dailies+1montly so one month long to gather laurels, in 30 days I can do each dragons events so 3 rare/day X30 days = 90rares items (salvaging them grants ecto) when I will have to have 50 ecto to complete my ascended earing purchase so why I would buy any on TP? I ll even have about 40 extra to sell ^^
By the time I ll gather all other mats and gold to buy a precursor I believe I can also farm dragons events to gather ectos I need to craft legendary so why I would buy any on TP?
I can say now if you are lazy you buy ecto. Well it saves lot of money to farm them ourselves and if you have more than needed you sell for good extra cash. Only TP flippers and people not aware that they can salvage rare items dropping from dragons events everyday that are still buying some ecto on TP.
Moreover, if I farm cof p1 gathering 300 badges will take like 3hours i can buy up to 10 rare armor parts QL10 per day so up to 10ecto per day… even if I run only each path of one single dungeon I can buy 6 rare armor QL70 salvaging them for ectos.
Ecto price will soon be at 10-15s range, and guess what I will still not buy any and sell my extra Thanks to the buyers for the free gold !
Ectos are not worth investment at all now seriously ^^

Titan: not to mention I often get an extra rare or 2 from the boss’s chest and not just daily rare chest. also, do you know there are like 20 events that give a guaranteed rare daily chest?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Valuable_Chest
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chest

yes so for all these reasons I really see no reason why ectos would be worth anything now as we can easily get as many as we need ourselves without buying any from TP…

If people already have the highly-demanded items in, lets say, a week, then what is the purpose of them being in the game?

Making a game challenging and fun to play with other people is far too difficult.