What is The Most Overpriced Piece of "Bad" Gear?

[captnamazing]

I don't think particularly AoN is the THE most overpriced... but it gets mention as something uber overpriced for functionality. Pras vanity

[Verath]

I'd say pre nerf fungi staff. I know its awesome but not millions of plat good.

You can buy pl to 60 for every class for millions of plat.

[Taminy]

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

yea you're right.. an item that gives you a skeleton illusion in a game that's all about customising your character is stupid... wrong.

I would literately murder someone IRL if the staff would give me a illusion dark elf mask.. so if Id go that far to be a dark elf, a skeleton is worth whatever plat ppl want for it.

Am i cia flagged now?

I have absolutely no interest in making my char look like a skeleton. /shrug honestly, if I was given a no drop AoN I would destroy it. But of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I didn't realize that it did faction related stuff though - but since I'm a barb faction is of little consequence. I just thought people liked it for the illusion and ghetto shrink - I have a guise though so I don't even need that [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Swish]

How about a guise of the deceiver? All that plat to look like a dark elf? Somehow that's "worth it"?

[Shjade]

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

I would hypothesize that fresh players are actually much, much wealthier (whether in liquid funds or item progression) than they would have been on live during the same expansion time period with the trickle down of mid-tier and lower-high end Kunark gear being liquidated by high end players, giving away plat to newbies for spells, etc. Very few players have to level with rusty weapons.

Sure there are some items which have higher values, but the vast amount of plat farming (Pre & post Kunark), epic MQ farming, and extended timeline has caused far, far more wealth to circulate on P99 than live had (without exploits). High end players have hundreds of thousands in plat (some with millions) ready to get the items/MQs they want.

Wealth is relative. When, as you point out, veteran players have hundreds of thousands-to-millions of plat stocked up, amounts that then have an impact on market prices (as items which might otherwise be somewhat more reasonably priced are inflated, knowing that they're often being sold to alts of the aforementioned extremely rich players as opposed to actual new characters who don't have those kinds of resources), the fact that new players may get more hand-me-downs than they would've during the same period on live isn't really a balanced tradeoff. They - and by they I actually mean "we," given I only started at the end of April myself - are likely much farther behind on the whole than they were on live outside of whatever lucky giveaways happen to land on them.

[tristantio]

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

Wealth is relative. When, as you point out, veteran players have hundreds of thousands-to-millions of plat stocked up, amounts that then have an impact on market prices (as items which might otherwise be somewhat more reasonably priced are inflated, knowing that they're often being sold to alts of the aforementioned extremely rich players as opposed to actual new characters who don't have those kinds of resources), the fact that new players may get more hand-me-downs than they would've during the same period on live isn't really a balanced tradeoff. They - and by they I actually mean "we," given I only started at the end of April myself - are likely much farther behind on the whole than they were on live outside of whatever lucky giveaways happen to land on them.

Most those hand-me-downs you are so quick to discount make leveling 1 to 60 much much easier.

Most the items that are out of reach and unfairly held by the fat-cats are either pure vanity, or needed only at the top level of raiding.

I'd say you have it much better than someone 5 months in back in 2010.

[Taminy]

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

Wealth is relative. When, as you point out, veteran players have hundreds of thousands-to-millions of plat stocked up, amounts that then have an impact on market prices (as items which might otherwise be somewhat more reasonably priced are inflated, knowing that they're often being sold to alts of the aforementioned extremely rich players as opposed to actual new characters who don't have those kinds of resources), the fact that new players may get more hand-me-downs than they would've during the same period on live isn't really a balanced tradeoff. They - and by they I actually mean "we," given I only started at the end of April myself - are likely much farther behind on the whole than they were on live outside of whatever lucky giveaways happen to land on them.

My main is a warrior, on live just like here. I started on server launch. If you think hard to get wealthy player stuff is a pain and hand me downs are all you got I don't want to hear it. I leveled when banded and bronze were leet.

You get much better stuff as a lowbie. The weapons alone that you can easily afford are a massive upgrade. Yeah affording a fungi as a new player is not going to happen, but you don't need a fungi to level up.

[Thulghor]

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

My main is a warrior, on live just like here. I started on server launch. If you think hard to get wealthy player stuff is a pain and hand me downs are all you got I don't want to hear it. I leveled when banded and bronze were leet.

You get much better stuff as a lowbie. The weapons alone that you can easily afford are a massive upgrade. Yeah affording a fungi as a new player is not going to happen, but you don't need a fungi to level up.

Preach.

[Herp]

Vibrating Gauntlets.

It's like 200k platinum for +5 or 10 mana over free quest armor.

Cleric MR is already a joke, and WIS is capped.

[Shjade]

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

My main is a warrior, on live just like here. I started on server launch. If you think hard to get wealthy player stuff is a pain and hand me downs are all you got I don't want to hear it. I leveled when banded and bronze were leet.

You get much better stuff as a lowbie. The weapons alone that you can easily afford are a massive upgrade. Yeah affording a fungi as a new player is not going to happen, but you don't need a fungi to level up.

I didn't need anything to level up; I rolled a necromancer, expecting that I wouldn't have anything to level up but what I could afford on my own as I could afford it.

Four months later I can still only dream about affording a lot of things less expensive than a fungi.

It's not about leveling up.