Guild Wars 2

So I was wondering when a good time to buy the wings off the market would be. Piece of Zhaitaffy is 5g for 1k of them, Jorbreakers are 909g for 100, and the wings are 50g. Now, i’m no mathematician but things don’t add up. So its only a matter of time when the prices do add up right?
What happened with items like the Jetpack and Chaingreatsword, did they have high prices day one or did they just go up from there?

They drop from the RNG chests and apparently straight from enemies so the price of sweets isn’t really having that much of an effect.

They cost 60g an hour or so ago, so it looks like the price has dropped and it will probably drop further. I’d wait and see what happens before you buy.

dam, now its 40g…that’s tempting

I’d give it a week. Since they drop from Coffers and supplies of those will continue to grow as more people farm/do Dragon Ball, the supply can only increase as Dragon Bash goes on. Are Jorbreakers only used to earn the Holographic Wings? If so, I imagine their price will soon plummet as people realise it’s so much cheaper to buy the Wings outright on the TP.

It’s much cheaper to buy the wings off the TP outright.

Zhaitaffies would have to cost 5c each for them to be worth the same price as the wings. With Zhaitaffies being 60c right now, that’s worth 600g when converted to 100 Jorbreakers.

Also take into consideration that the dragon wings is a consumable that becomes soulbound once used.

The two things that bothers me right now is the (always) possibility of the drop rate lowered in open world (another way these wings are acquired). The Super GS skin was also an interesting case where it was 60g day one then leveled out to 50g but then a few days after the event it dropped to 30g. A separate case with the Jet pack that doubled in price after the event ended. Will this do the same?

Absolutionis.9427:

It’s much cheaper to buy the wings off the TP outright.

Zhaitaffies would have to cost 5c each for them to be worth the same price as the wings. With Zhaitaffies being 60c right now, that’s worth 600g when converted to 100 Jorbreakers.

Also take into consideration that the dragon wings is a consumable that becomes soulbound once used.

Candy Corn were ~40c each the first couple of days of halloween as well. By the end of the event they were down to 1c each and 6 months later they just dropped out of being the most supplied item on the trading post.

I’d bet on Zhaitaffy price plummeting to ~5c in the next few days.

The Super Greatsword could be acquired by doing SAB several times and buying the item with tokens. It wasn’t tradeable, but if you wanted the skin for personal use, you could get it with moderate ease. The drop-off was when speculators eventually noticed people weren’t buying after the event.

The Jetpack’s sole acquisition was doing the dungeon and hoping RNG was in your favor. It was desired by both market flippers/speculators and people that wanted the skin for personal use.

The wings lie somewhere in between. You can grind the skin out through normal play, or you could grind out Zhaitaffies. However, with the price of Zhaitaffies right now, it cots you over 600g of the stuff to get a skin, but it’s possible. So long as the price of Zhaitaffies remains above 5c, buying the skin will be cheaper. Thus, if you want the skin for personal use, you’re pretty much relying on the supply of random drops. It’s desired by speculators and personal-use-people.

Errant Venture.9371:

Absolutionis.9427:

It’s much cheaper to buy the wings off the TP outright.

Zhaitaffies would have to cost 5c each for them to be worth the same price as the wings. With Zhaitaffies being 60c right now, that’s worth 600g when converted to 100 Jorbreakers.

Also take into consideration that the dragon wings is a consumable that becomes soulbound once used.

Candy Corn were ~40c each the first couple of days of halloween as well. By the end of the event they were down to 1c each and 6 months later they just dropped out of being the most supplied item on the trading post.

I’d bet on Zhaitaffy price plummeting to ~5c in the next few days.

CandyCorn was also offered in bulk, had an entire farmable zone where every enemy dropped the stuff, had dedicated mining nodes, had dailies dedicated to it, and had no “end” goal aside from a few crafting recipes.

Zhaitaffies only drop from random boxes found rarely on any enemy and from farmable holograms. The “mining nodes” are pinatas that give you one each.

I did forget that there was a map just for candy corn making it very easy to gather. And the taffy is not a problem, since I don’t plan to make the wings from that. I did the math for how long it would take to collect said candy, it’s more stress then it is worth. I could sell my Super skins I got to get the wings however. The question I guess now would be, what’s the price to look for to buy at? So wings are easier to get from drops since you can get it off mobs that are not in dungeon chests making it worth less then the jetpack was. The wings are also more difficult to get then the super sword skins since they had a greater chance to drop from chests my farming p1.
-So maybe the sweet spot being 20-30g?