Any confirmed Manastone sales yet?

[deadlycupcakez]

The 'razzi are dying for a photo

[deadlycupcak3z]

Still curious - don’t think I’ve found a confirmed sale or valid price yet just pipe dreams

[Spineripper]

Sadly the people who have the amount of plat required has stones, it will take until end of kunark for casuals to afford stones.

[Guesty07]

I have grouped with a cleric that said they bought their manastone rather than camp it.

[aaezil]

By the time anyone has the plat to buy it will be a useless item that doesnt work in the new zones everyone is now in haha kinda ironic

[damus1]

if they keep the current zems in, I think alot of people will be leveling in old-world all the way to 60. Also I wonder how many stones got taken out by the RMT ban sweep, I'm sure a lot were farmed for that purpose and caught up in it. Haven't been paying too much attention lately but as far as I know none have been sold post-removal.

[Baler]

if they keep the current zems in, I think alot of people will be leveling in old-world all the way to 60

May be news to you but leveling to 60 in the classic world was always the best due to classic mobs having less hp than kunark-velious mobs. :)

[Stickyfingers]

I have grouped with a cleric that said they bought their manastone rather than camp it.

I bought mine. Pre-merge.

[DMN]

May be news to you but leveling to 60 in the classic world was always the best due to classic mobs having less hp than kunark-velious mobs. :)

Depends on the class. bards, necros, and druids, for instance would have a pretty strong incentive to headout and spend the majorty if not all their time in kunark. Enchanters, too, since they are often only capped in their kill rate by available mobs to engage. To some degree mages are the same, and as they hit 40+ it's harder and harder to find single targets from them to mow down. Wizards will have many more places to quad, but it really comes down to how camped old world places are for wizrads/mages 50+. And these are all just purely for exp considerations, excluding loot. For example shaman will certainly want to try to get to camps in their mid to late 50s where they have at least a prayer of getting torpor, even if the exp is bad. Though this is technically outside of the bounds of what you were mentioning, I think the compelling force here is so high it needs to be considered a fundamental part of the class. Shaman is virtually a different class when it has torpor.

[Tuljin]

Sadly the people who have the amount of plat required has stones, it will take until end of kunark for casuals to afford stones.

When nubs to the server want to join a ~~~rAiD~~~ guild and have to buy/quest a bunch of clickies and gear out their own toons theres absolutely no money left over. When you're busy investing in DKP rather than farming, which at this point isn't even particularly lucrative, what you are left with is a bunch of broke nubs with nothing but DKP funny money and a few planar drops to show for it.

The people who have been going hard since server launch have hoards of plat and don't need manastones because they already have them. Nobody with 200k plus plat is gonna wake up and say "hmmm....ya know what? I should really buy a Manastone right now, and ---actually--- pay 200k for one"

The price of farmable Classic gear has plummeted. Top priced 22-min drops sell for pretty much 8k max. The market is saturated. For someone new to the server to farm 200k plat? Nevermind buying gear he already needs?

Here's one of the few moments where EQ paper napkin math is actually appropriate - 30 Mithril 2 handers will get you 225k, and thats saying that the price of a Mith 2 hander will stay 7500 with you farming the living fuck out of them. ~30~ Mithril 2 handers. And the camp is absolutely perma-farmed by other assholes. What, is a nub gonna go farm 20 Yaks? Is a nub gonna blow all their DKP on....Swirlspine Belts? On....25 swirlspine belts?

Still waiting on that 200k Manastone sale. The nerds on this server are absolutely ridiculous. You cant price gouge nubs with no money. You also can't price gouge the other nerds who play the same exact game you play.

[Izmael]

May be news to you but leveling to 60 in the classic world was always the best due to classic mobs having less hp than kunark-velious mobs. :)

True if you rule out CoM and HS that offer a neverending supply of 45-ish melee mobs.

SolB, Guk, The Hole... all these places are mighty fine but are full of wizards, shamans, clerics and other annoying classes to kill.

[cd288]

Depends on the class. bards, necros, and druids, for instance would have a pretty strong incentive to headout and spend the majorty if not all their time in kunark. Enchanters, too, since they are often only capped in their kill rate by available mobs to engage. To some degree mages are the same, and as they hit 40+ it's harder and harder to find single targets from them to mow down. Wizards will have many more places to quad, but it really comes down to how camped old world places are for wizrads/mages 50+. And these are all just purely for exp considerations, excluding loot. For example shaman will certainly want to try to get to camps in their mid to late 50s where they have at least a prayer of getting torpor, even if the exp is bad. Though this is technically outside of the bounds of what you were mentioning, I think the compelling force here is so high it needs to be considered a fundamental part of the class. Shaman is virtually a different class when it has torpor.

For Druid quadding a long time ago I spent only a few levels in Kunark at the FM giant fort from like 34-38. Then went BB, to TD, to Velious.

[BlackBellamy]

The people who have been going hard since server launch have hoards of plat and don't need manastones because they already have them. Nobody with 200k plus plat is gonna wake up and say "hmmm....ya know what? I should really buy a Manastone right now, and ---actually--- pay 200k for one"

The price of farmable Classic gear has plummeted. Top priced 22-min drops sell for pretty much 8k max. The market is saturated. For someone new to the server to farm 200k plat? Nevermind buying gear he already needs?


Lol, right? If I have 200k in my bank at this present time and we assume a good farming rate it means that around the time I had 100k Manastones were selling for that or less. I don't need another one, I'm saving for fungis and mqs.

Rubicite was a huge moneymaker. Those 5 camps are now gone which is like a 30% reduction for camps of that tier. Of the remaining camps maybe half the items are holding their value but the rest have plunged. The First Platinum Age is over and the second one won't begin until Kunark.

Still, there are some mid-tier farmers on slower curves so I expect some Manastone sales to be always taking place as these people make their bank. I think the stone market is saturated though - we have to remember this situation is not classic and the stones are not as rare as they would be because of the silly Teal instance idea where people were farming gear simultaneously on both servers.

[DMN]

For Druid quadding a long time ago I spent only a few levels in Kunark at the FM giant fort from like 34-38. Then went BB, to TD, to Velious.

Charming is more effective than quadding for exp, unless you lack a decent charm location. charming is also more effective when more players are around than attempting to quad. if the server is heavily populated like green, too, it's highly likely people won't be respecting your quad camps. People being around your camps is the real wildcard to that will determine what is the best exp. It's hard to accurately predict anything without knowing. You'd have to either ignore it, in which case a lot of old world spots become better, or assume a lot of people will be around (most likely scenario) and then kunark looks far more appealing.

[turbosilk]

People have been selling manastones.

[rewinder47]

I imagine some guilds might purchase them for powerleveling purposes. But individuals? Probably not

[Jibartik]

You know what woulda been cool, if green had some sort of data tracking that would like, at the end of the year tell us how much plat was made, when, where, by who, from what mobs at what rate and with heat maps for like time's/zones/camps and all the other whatever data things that my lizard brain doesn't understand.

I'm curious at a cost between 100 & 200(+?)k, how many can be bought before kunark? Velious?

[Castle2.0]

Tuljin with the same "pplz has the dkpz, mean pplz no haz platz" argument. Ugh.

Phinny raid takes 30 minutes tops. Fear 1 day a week, Hate 1 day a week. What are raiders doing the rest of the time? What are non-raid guild people doing to get good items they can't get since they don't raid? That's right, farming dat plat.

Fact: 30kpp+/day flows in through HG camp alone. The server is flooded with filthy plat and will continue to be since this dirty bathtub has no drain.

By the time anyone has the plat to buy it will be a useless item that doesnt work in the new zones everyone is now in haha kinda ironic Invaluable item for wiz / dru, if you know how to use it. Video incoming this before June to show what most people just don't know. Stay tuned.

[cornisthebest]

blue functioned just fine without all these lame manastones floating around. i say make them all no drop. or perhaps even remove them :)

[Tuljin]

Tuljin with the same "pplz has the dkpz, mean pplz no haz platz" argument. Ugh.

Phinny raid takes 30 minutes tops. Fear 1 day a week, Hate 1 day a week. What are raiders doing the rest of the time? What are non-raid guild people doing to get good items they can't get since they don't raid? That's right, farming dat plat.

Fact: 30kpp+/day flows in through HG camp alone. The server is flooded with filthy plat and will continue to be since this dirty bathtub has no drain.

Invaluable item for wiz / dru, if you know how to use it. Video incoming this before June to show what most people just don't know. Stay tuned.

Dude lol, as if I have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. Unlike the ~~~rAiDeRz~~~ I actually brush shoulders with the hoi polloi. People who have money don't need manastones, and they certainly aren't gonna pay what people want if they do have it. Basic economics man.

And dude again....people are farming - - - - DKP. Camping green mobs for DKP, doing dumb shit for DKP. No DKP I don't go. That's the whole point man. That's the whole issue with DKP and its an inherently adversarial system. It is a "good" solution from many angles but it creates an environment where people don't get DKP they don't go do shit. ~~~rAiD~~~ guilds are full of nubs man. The nubs aren't farming. The farmers have made their plat and keep stacking it, and they also went and camped their manastone. Anybody new to the server is playing serious catchup. 200k is a massive amount of plat to stack. This is a fact.

Still waiting on that 200k sale. I'm not the one sitting here running my mouth about how much its "worth" when nobody is paying the money for it, and nobody will. People with money lowball people all the time, just like you do dude. Same nerds at the same game. And that's fine. When it does sell for 200k, 200k won't be worth "200k" lol. Gonna talk like I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about man lol absolutely ludicrous

[Bigsham]

there are hundreds of ways to generate endless plat on all eq emu servers via bugs

plenty of people are buying them

[kaev]

:waves hands making unsupported and unverifiable claims that might make an xtra few k plat in EC tunnel:

[Waedawen]

All these fucking bullshit tunnel rat assholes saying, "PEOPLE HAVE SOLD MANASTONES!" "I BOUGHT MINE, HURRR"

Where's the fucking price check, then? How much did you pay? How much did you sell it for? Where's the fucking screenshot?

None of you fucking assholes are selling manastones for 200k. None of you are selling them for 100k. Maybe you sold one for 50k. Maybe you sold one for 70k. But that's fucking it.

Enough with this fucking bullshit Tunnel Rat "don't say the price out loud" nonsense.
Anyone who has half a brain knows tunnel rats are fucking clowns, and everyone else is fucking broke so you're not gonna gauge them for any money anyways. The only people with actual fucking currency are the true blue farmers --- and they're not paying 200k for a stupid fucking Manastone.

So, again. Where are the prices? "People are buying them" yeah people are buying my bottled Gamer Juice too... you just can't see the invoice :^)

[Waedawen]

Tuljin with the same "pplz has the dkpz, mean pplz no haz platz" argument. Ugh.

Phinny raid takes 30 minutes tops. Fear 1 day a week, Hate 1 day a week. What are raiders doing the rest of the time? What are non-raid guild people doing to get good items they can't get since they don't raid? That's right, farming dat plat.

Fact: 30kpp+/day flows in through HG camp alone. The server is flooded with filthy plat and will continue to be since this dirty bathtub has no drain.

Invaluable item for wiz / dru, if you know how to use it. Video incoming this before June to show what most people just don't know. Stay tuned.


and then there's this jobber with his whole "i'm gonna make a video just you wait" schtick

GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK. PLEASE. You don't have any fucking secret technology. You're not a fucking prophet. If you want to be a visionary leader to a bunch of fucking noobs and write a guide about it, God bless you.

But this game is 20 years old and "Been there, Done that" is an understatement. Don't act like you're some kind of Oracle. Please, fucking spare us. This mug talking about farming hill giants without a drip of irony. Fucking Lord in Heaven.

[DMN]

Sorry you got manaboned.

[Waedawen]

Who the fuck are you talking to, DMN? Surely not me

Surely, from my scathing diatribe, you did not extrapolate that I am -missing- or -don't have- or -desire- a manastone?

Surely I don't already have one in my bag? Right? You fucking moron?

Surely I'm just making fun of the fucking knuckle draggers who engage in this rat race? Right?

No? You don't think so? Okay. Glad we got that covered.

[Waedawen]

:waves hands making unsupported and unverifiable claims that might make an xtra few k plat in EC tunnel:

this guy gets it

[DMN]

https://i.imgur.com/D8qo0DB.gif

[Tuljin]

(thick Austrian accent) My name is Detective John Kimball LOLLLLL

[Bigsham]

:waves hands making unsupported and unverifiable claims that might make an xtra few k plat in EC tunnel:

There are things you can buy from vendors or make via tradeskills that sell to vendors for more then they charge. Hundreds of ways to dupe and plenty of exploitable items still in game.

Nothing to do with ec tunnel bud

[Castle2.0]

Sorry you got manaboned. LOL. This.

https://i.imgur.com/D8qo0DB.gif

My madman Waawaawaedawen, as a man in the Caribbean told me once, "no pressure, no problem, mon." Ya just need dem good vibes, good vibes ;)

Video coming out soon™, bro. I'd bet it's something 50% of the Manastone Possessing Elite (MPE™) don't know about, let alone the masses. Just catch the video, and keep those good vibes good vibes coming. Booyah.

[Castle2.0]

P.S. Here is photo proof of one of my Manastone trades

https://i.ibb.co/h1YBxM2/EQ000370.png

[Bigsham]

Get manaboned nerds