Well, I’m betting a lot of people lost a LOT of money on these. A lot of people are also probably now stuck with thousands of these post-patch because of buy-orders.
Personally I dumped about 7k of these at 97 copper immediately after the patch. I bought them for ~50 copper though so I’m happy but I imagine whoever I dumped them on isn’t.
This IS a long term investment that will most certainly pay off. You can’t expect to sell them ten times the price right after the first patch. I have bought 25.000 of these, and I think this is a good investment. Making a single Pile costs now over 50s, as it has the exact same recipe as the lodestones. So my advice is: DON’T SELL.