Cleric epic MQ is like 60k, not 150k+ or whatever you listed. Still expensive, but worth it I think.

SEOC is expensive because it's difficult to come by. I can't remember if prior to the hate revamp the mini-bosses drop them, but I know that from all the time I spent soloing AA's up in hate with my paladin, I saw one emerald.

In this era, it may only drop from Inny.

I started playing on this server again in mid August of this year, my druid was level 15 with no gear.

I just bought an Epic and a full suit of gear for my rogue the other day. Once you get to the higher levels, there are countless opportunities to make money.

That being said, anything worth 300k+ still seems absurd to me. The limits of my fortitude to farm plat are right around the point I can afford to twink an alt with a fungi. I'm guestimating that will take me a month or so of casual plat farming. Though I believe someone of the right class to farm HS or Seb could do it in a matter of a couple days.

Moral of the story: there are a lot of people on this server, who have been here for a while, that have the capacity to farm obscene amounts of plat rather easily. You just have to build the right foundation first.

Just keep shopping around, I bought a pair of vib gloves for 3 fungis and 10k then I traded them for vs/seoc and a tolans Bp, so I ended up paying like 220k which is pretty reasonable. If ppl are pricing their shit outrageously then just don't buy it and hold out.

TLDR version for any pricing questions;
Supply and Demand

this is false. the rarer epic items get used up right away. using the warrior epic as an example --

severilous spawns about once a week. that's 52 severilouses a year. he doesn't drop the green dragon scale every time (i'm not sure of the exact drop rate but lets call it 2/3 of the time)... that's only about 35 green dragon scales per year. that means only 35 warriors per year can complete their epic.

there are a lot more than 35 level 50+ warriors on P99.

So I looked up the green dragon scale and there was a quest added to convert red scales to green at some point in time. Is that quest added in velious with the other epic revamps? I know faydedar will be triggerable and VS can be spawned off of VSR(plus VS will be a 3 day respawn instead of 7-8).

Monk epic is way harder. Rogue is literally pp two mobs, pick up a ground spawn and get a solid group+ to kill a triggered mob.

Monk epic there are 6 mobs you need to get a solid group for, not to mention the bother of finding the pipes and a book to mq if you don't loot them yourself. Even more of a bother if you don't kill q/z.

I think I'm going to start rocking some monk epics. 100k for the effort is way better than 25k for the rogue epic. One group can do all the kills fairly easily. Chardok pipe is so easy to get. So challenge is the KC pipe (5k?) My guess is the monk epic will be the next to drop in price once people realize that its doable by one group of friends who are willing to share in the profits.

the scale conversion quest is outside of the scope of our timline as far as i know