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Originally Posted by TheRusty
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One thing to remember is that blue is a very mature server, and has very significant plat inflation as a result. So the majority of items will be significantly cheaper than on blue.
The high-end items - level 60 spell drops, fungi tunic, JBB, etc - are simply not going to filter into the East commons economy for a long time, as these items are going to first and foremost go onto the characters that collect them. When they do start filtering down to the buying public, then you can probably expect prices similar to blue, but perhaps with a premium due to the novelty of their sale.
The market for a lot of lower-level classic items is going to drop out entirely. No one's going to want your woven grass bracelets or charred guardian boots, except people who have a level 1 alt and a fat 100pp for twinking. Most of the level 30+ drops will be pretty stable though.
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I'd say any non trade-skill item under 500pp doesn't exist in a market at all but in more of a quasi barter economy, which was true at Green's launch and remains mostly true now that people are offering common drops for 50-100pp for some non-planar BIS off pieces, at least I've recently had decent trades for low value items people were happy to get in that range and that I needed to fill slots.
Kunark is going to introduce the one bandit bracer alongside hero bracer, so that's like 90% of non fatties handled with hero bracer + iksar bracer in wrist slot, at least until raiding or 45+ AC seeking tanks & clicky enthusiasts drop absurd early amounts for convenience clicks (ignoring standouts in price for rarity / difficulty like Donal's / Tolan's), back slot hbc will stay exactly the same and hiero cloak will just slowly lower in value over time until Velious/Chardok2.0 drop respectively. Dex will matter more than at present so warriors (always a big buying / twink force in the EC economy) will also lower the price some more on items that seem like they should stay high due to how good they are for all other classes besides maintank warriors.
I wouldn't expect Blue precedent to stand here as people that could stomach the nearly full year of Classic and make plans for kunark (and follow through) could have saved up enough plat for Melee Binds at fire pots, and it follows they'd hold out and keep farming planes & dungeons for another half year or whatever until Epics go in.
Ixiblat will add multi week chances at EC CoF through Ixiblat once epics are in until the servers end game, and literal Epic sales through guilds for things like Bard & Cleric Epic drops & Shaman Epic fights. So I expect high prices until Epics drop then Ragebringers flood the haste market and less-so VP keyed get their mobilization game on point because they've already bought up inflated everything that makes wonky itemized planar outside of Sky seem like a reliable cost effective alternative (or they just play a LOL Class that hardly needs stats in the first place) and from there we get the 5 year kunark dynamic on a crunch where content doable by 50s at Kunark's launch is held at bay until the most casual of casual EC vendors and grandpa dungeon crawlers just need to maintain presences on one of their alts near the epic fights they need done and the server divide between Epiced Casuals that will go Giant faction in Velious and the "We kill literally everything and poop sock" crowd will set in.
TLDR: Grandpa's with Druid Epics are going to gouge the fuck out of EC Vendors once they finally make it, haste will finally go down in price only for low end haste items and mid-tier haste will stay high, Torpor stays ridiculous, Fungi's stay rare due to boxing bans the same way manastones did once people realized they were fancy paper weights and not godly PL items which required a higher level healer to make them viable outside of Manadancing.
Brell Serillis followers will be comfy in the hole.