Ok so this is a rather interesting topic I thought I would bring up, there are of course other threads that exist and if a mod wants to merge please be my guest, I just wasn’t sure where best to post this so I thought I would post it here since the Economy Questions Repost is an absolute mess at the moment
In John’s post he talked alot about how certain items, namely silk and charged lodestones, are overpriced and inflated at the moment, he’s not wrong about that and I agree with his intentions to make these items less inflated, but something that does concern me and a few other players I’m sure is the current market around mystic forge crafted weapons, alot of popular weapons require charged lodestones or other such inflated mats and artificially deflating the price of the inflated mats would in turn cause the price of said weapons to drop, which could result in some rather nasty ramifications when it comes to the weapons market, a rather common way to make gold off of the Trading post has been to buy the materials required or farm them in the world if they require a legendary gift, and then selling the completed weapon on the trading post in order to make some gold, if charged lodestones, or any other mats in the game were artificially deflated it could result in said weapons severely devaluing, I know this sounds alot like “first world problems” but it is still something I am a little concerned about and I am just curious if the dev’s have put any thought into this, when the expac drops the economy is going to be all over the place and I just hope the dev’s aren’t planning to artificially devalue more inflated mats by just flooding players with more opportunities to obtain them, there is a reason why silk and charged lodestones are more expensive, it’s not necessarily because they are rarer then other mats, it’s because they are in higher demand compared to other mats
TL:DR To sum it all up, I understand some mats are inflated, but there is a reason they are inflated and I hope that the dev’s consider the ramifications of just artificially deflating mats by deliberately dropping said inflated mats more often than other non-inflated mats