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With the new "rares" introduced with EoK being offered for multiple $100s each (and I offer no comment, critical or otherwise on this, just stating facts) I'm wondering what's the most you ever paid for an in-game piece of armor or weapon or whatever. You or "someone you know" if you don't want to admit to spending big money for a virtual good which eventually becomes not even worth storing in the bank as expansions make older gear obsolete.
I will spend up to 4mil plat for a decent piece of upgrade gear, but that's on FV, which suffers from plat inflation and basically anything can be traded. With 6 toons to gear up, and not being a raider, that means my expenditures can add up. But I tend to focus primarily on my tank, and then I might invest in Rank III spells and focus-specific upgrades for my casters. 4milpp on FV is about $30 or less, depending on the current market value of kronos.
Back when Gates of Discord was current I remember paying $10 apiece for the 90-HP augments that could be pharmed from "raid" nameds in Qvic. There was a guy who was probably using MQ2 who could pharm these items on his own and would sell looting rights for $10 apiece. Of course there were multiple 90HP augments and I had multiple toons to gear so the $ added up.
I heard a rumor of someone spending $1000 not that long ago on that artifact ranger bow whose name escapes me right now but I could never confirm it reliably. Back in the day manastones would supposedly sell for as much as $500. In my own experience on P99 I know someone who committed to "paying" about 40 hours of PLing services for a manastone so what's that much labor worth? (Lucky for him he got the manastone up front because the PLee, after a couple of 4-hour PL sessions, never showed up in game again lol.)
What crazy prices have you heard paid, and for what, and how reliably? Inquiring minds wanna know!
I will spend up to 4mil plat for a decent piece of upgrade gear, but that's on FV, which suffers from plat inflation and basically anything can be traded. With 6 toons to gear up, and not being a raider, that means my expenditures can add up. But I tend to focus primarily on my tank, and then I might invest in Rank III spells and focus-specific upgrades for my casters. 4milpp on FV is about $30 or less, depending on the current market value of kronos.
Back when Gates of Discord was current I remember paying $10 apiece for the 90-HP augments that could be pharmed from "raid" nameds in Qvic. There was a guy who was probably using MQ2 who could pharm these items on his own and would sell looting rights for $10 apiece. Of course there were multiple 90HP augments and I had multiple toons to gear so the $ added up.
I heard a rumor of someone spending $1000 not that long ago on that artifact ranger bow whose name escapes me right now but I could never confirm it reliably. Back in the day manastones would supposedly sell for as much as $500. In my own experience on P99 I know someone who committed to "paying" about 40 hours of PLing services for a manastone so what's that much labor worth? (Lucky for him he got the manastone up front because the PLee, after a couple of 4-hour PL sessions, never showed up in game again lol.)
What crazy prices have you heard paid, and for what, and how reliably? Inquiring minds wanna know!
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