Well, just wanted to add a couple things (and probably destroy my rating in doing so because most will not like what i have to say here)
Now not to pick on anyone, but this is a huge misconception and I want to clear it up:
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And really, can you replace a scorpion harness? It's a crafted item, thus its the crafter's faults in making it so high AND the gil buyers who buy all that gil to pay for that scorpion harness.
Ok to blame this on crafters is kills me. As you can tell from my signature, I am a crafter. As a matter of fact a Bonecrafter...It took me a LONG time, and a ton of heartache to get where i am in crafting. I am thankful that I started crafting right away (as a levle 10 noob) because had if i had not I would never have hit 100 in bone. I farmed my *** off, made deals with all kinds of people, was blessed by good friends in game and out that all helped me to make it where I am. Now here I am at 100 and the items i thought would make me gil really will not. Yes the cost of the item has gone up, but only in relation to the cost of the supplies. The above quote blames the crafter, but I blame those that do KS30 and sell a V.claw for 16M! 16M for one of the supplies to make a SH and you complain about the price of the SH? A crafter has to do so much to reach their levels and the person doing the KS30 spent what, an hour? C'mon, now you get angry at the price of the weskit skyrocketing, but have you checked the price of the talon? At times there is a slight markup, but (taking the weskit for instance) for someone to have struggled to get bone to 100, leather to 60, and alchemy to 60, (all necessary for weskit) should there be no profit or reward for their struggle? Now, the prices have skyrocketed to a place where a crafter and nongil-buyer/seller like myself cannot afford to buy the items and those like Lbedo, Despina, Yukii, etc can and will so the cost will continue to rise! I know this to be true in many crafts (e.g. goldsmithing) as well. To make these highly sought after items you spend X amount of gil on supplies and lose gil if it's a NHQ. I could spend 16M on a Vclaw,(if i had it, but i don't and wouldn't if I did), create a SH and if it's NHQ sell it for 14M --
that's right lose 2mil!-- or i could get really lucky and fail synth so i could lose the whole 16M (which is a risk all these crafters take --talk about a gil sink) You want a lower priced SH...very simple solution lower the cost of the V claw...same goes for all these items that you complain crafters jack up the prices of! You sell me a Vclaw @ 6M I'd be happy to sell a SH at 6.5M I make a little and the SH is -voila- cheaper. Lbedo, Despina, and others would also lower the price in an attmept to once again control the entire SH market, but that can be allieveited by directly selling to crafters like myself that you all know.
Now there have been some solutions offered, some are good, some are scary...but here is mine: Create a NPC vendor that sells the ancient money (Tukuku Whiteshell, 1 Byne Bill, Ordelle Bronzepiece) for a
reasonable price (5-10k each) and give them an unlimited supply.
Yes, yes, I know it would make the relic weapons less rare, but you want to talk about a MASSIVE SINK HOLE? Tons of gil would be destroyed! And, hopefully, the market could return to where it was at one time when it was a lot more reaonable and gil was worth so much more! And in being fair, you still need the abj. to make the relic weapons so ppl w/o a great linkshell and access to all Dynamis areas would still not be able to obtain their relic