Why is fungi still 100k?

[ArumTP]

Originally Posted by Orotiagito [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Fungi's haven't been duped in my opinion, and they will only increase in price with the recent nerf to soloing the camps.

Seems to me that people want all these hardcore items to drop in price so they can afford it. I don't think its fair or safe to say that every item in the game is duped just because you can't afford them.

Pre-patch fungi was going for 65kish, post patch people are trying to patch it 100k+ this is speculative gouging. The price doesn't reflect true demand. Just because the camp isn't solo-able or duo-able doesn't justify the price spike. Crypt camp has just as desirable drops (hiero cloak), and that price has dropped. Fungi is a twink item, monk item or shaman item. It isn't quite even end game item like a hiero.

[Splorf22]

There may be a gradual trend towards inflation, but I think it's been overwhelmed by:

a) the IB sellof
b) the huge fall in population last summer
c) the moderate fall in population this summer

Take the BCG: It was 200k+ originally, then hit 90k during the IB sellof, stayed low last summer, and then returned to 250k last winter, and has mostly stayed the same since.

A better argument is green dragon scales. Those just seem to be going up from like 100k last summer.

[Splorf22]

Originally Posted by ArumTP [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pre-patch fungi was going for 65kish, post patch people are trying to patch it 100k+ this is speculative gouging. The price doesn't reflect true demand. Just because the camp isn't solo-able or duo-able doesn't justify the price spike. Crypt camp has just as desirable drops (hiero cloak), and that price has dropped. Fungi is a twink item, monk item or shaman item. It isn't quite even end game item like a hiero.

Generally speaking speculators smooth out prices. Those people were buying/hoarding fungis prepatch (and thus preventing the price from hitting 50k) and selling them now at 85k (and thus preventing the price from hitting 100k). I have been experimenting with some king pull methods recently and the king has been open most of the time - if I had to guess, I'd say we're getting 1/4 as many fungi tunics / hour out of the king as before. Now maybe a lot of that is the lag attacks, but still. I'm quite sure the price would be much higher if we had no idea an invis pulling nerf was coming.