That is one of the things I was talking about in the other topic. Even if I had heard 1.5 my jaw would drop. I spent something like 16 mil when I got one for my friend.

But it seems like crafting must not be as great as it used to be. Simple farming would be better, things that you can stack up.

I wouldnt say its down the toilet, I think finally prices are reasonable for what an Item is really worth.

For a lot of items, half the reason is simply the demand is not there anymore.
So many people have clothcraft at 100, and just about any sky LS can get Shining Cloth easy now. Pretty much everyone has sky these days, and Genbu can be killed with just a few players.

Same goes for Scorpion Harness, and Haubergeon. And Kirin's Osode going for 2million in bazaars now lol. Back in the day you didnt even dare to sell an Osode, and if you did it was for a lot of gil.

But over time, we've got better gear.
Things like relic weapons, both the originals and the ToAU ones still cost hundreds of millions of gil to get. Kraken club still sells for 10s of millions of gil. Salvage body armor cost around 10-12million gil to get crafted. New Ixion and other WotG HNM drops sell for a lot of gil, because of the rarity.

So the thing is, you probably could farm enough in a few days to get everything that was top tier years ago. While the current most epic gear would still take a lot of time/money to get.


I'll admit though, I loved farming Giant Bird Plumes when CoP first came out and selling them for 600k a stack, making millions a day because few people had the access at that moment in time... but since most people now have atleast the first 3 promy missions done now and can farm them thier self, its a little unreasonable to expect them to still sell for so much considering the drop rate and easy level of the mobs.

The people that say it sucks now are just upset they arent making the easy millions they once did. Its still totally possible to make good gil crafting, just a lot more work/research, theres a few in my LS that only craft for gil and do just fine.

It seems like the most popular end game items are almost all rare/ex now days so I understand that as one of the reasons a lot of things are lower in price. So strange to see so many rare/ex items btw, back in the day we just had one piece from each god and the three kings. Now there is like twenty kings with multiple items per mob.

But still some of the buyable items, that are still used situational are still surprisingly cheap. Sniper Rings just two years ago used to be 10mil at the very least. Or E bow which is still one of the best bows out there used to be 40mil. Now I couldn't find anything, even the best new items, that cost over 10.

Which is great in one way, because it is accessible to more people. But it just disappointed me because I was always a farmer and I loved having other people drool over my expensive items and armor. Now that it is accessible to everyone, not much seems like an achievement. I see they even changed the drop rate of dynamis stuff as well.

I think it's quite the opposite. For the newcomers the economy is amazing. Things are waaaay cheaper then it was for when the long time players were coming up. To start now or within the past two-three years would make the game seemingly a breeze.