^ I dont’ even understand what he is trying to say.
So I buy a sword for 100 gold. and If I resell it for 130 gold, I’ll end up only getting 30 gold?
No you’ll end up with 10.5g after fees but that’s neither here or there. The guy I was quoting was suggesting yet another artificial means to reduce flipping when flipping isn’t what’s driving prices up. The player who bought it from you for 130g could have competed with you to acquire it in the first place for 100g. Nothing prevented him other than either his own indifference or impatience which is what a flipper capitalizes on. At the end of the day one player gets an item they wanted, the flipper got 10.5 gold, the player who sold it for 100g got 85g after fees and the TP removes 34.5 gold from the game.
In feudal Japan, merchants were considered the lowest class because they were considered parasites on the rest of society and I feel that’s what a lot of players believe the same about those who play the TP. But they are necessary in keeping the economy flowing.
Get one thing straight, Flippers are not merchants, they are commodities traders. They neither create product, nor relocate it from an area of high supply to one of low supply. The only services they really provide are in short term price stabilization and deflation (through removal of gold from the economy). Both of which are nearly undone by the short term profit generation they so desperately crave and the shear number of flippers.
At the least Anet should flip the margin system so 10% is paid up front and 5% on the sale. Having more skin in the game would reduce the rampant speculation and encourage listing at prices that are more likely to sell. It would be very interesting to see real usage numbers for commodities vs speculation/investment. I.E. how many times does the same stack of iron ore get traded before someone actually uses it to craft something?
Even if it is missing the tooltip for the power stat, in assassin stats the power is a minor trait. So here we have an exotic lvl80 amulet with what? The equivalent of 30 total stat points? I can get a lvl 20 masterwork amulet with more stats.
you also get 20 empy each dungeon path. 30 dragonite from each temple, 20 from each dragon, 10-35 from world boss chests, and i think 20ish from caping keeps in wvw. empy is the hardest to get if you’re not a dungeon fan, but all of the above is per toon per day, so it adds up fast. faster than you can make the daily wood and metals anyway.
The “recipe” is built into the refinement section of your artificer production tab.
5 blues = 1 green, 2 greens = 1 yellow, 2 yellow = 1 gold (10,50,100,200 respectively)
