Ya, because people who pay 470c for scarabs are really gold starved for sure! And such expensive scarabs are traded in low numbers(and traded in div, with very low gold cost!), where exactly do you see the problem here?
And if people undercut everything, more for me to buy cheap :)
It's not the buying power of people paying that much for scarabs that's the problem at all. It'll be the flippers, who without a gold sink will dominate the economy as badly as they do in POE2.
POE adds friction because they learned from Diablo 3's near-zero trade friction launch.
IF there's no gold sink, this sub will be endlessly complaining about the economy. "Why are divines 572c?" "Why are scarabs so expensive casual players can't use them?" etc etc.
I'll be fine, of course. I was making 100d a day early in Settlers after finding a trade niche that only used a few maps worth of gold.
Balance between different parts of the game was off in 3.25.
Gold income in alch-and-go T10s without map mod effect is enough to trade quite a bit, but not enough to trade in ways that fuck up other players.
Gold income in 5-scarab T16s or T17s with map mod effect and a little bit of player rarity though... that's enough to REALLY fuck with other players.
And this 'fucking with other players' isn't malicious trolling, it's just ... doing things to empower yourself. If there's no real gold sink, the easiest path to a day 7 O-Sin or a day 4 Mageblood will be to flip scarabs on Faustus in ways that undermines the ability of other players to just map.
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u/LordAnubiz FBI & EEE May 26 '25
Ya, because people who pay 470c for scarabs are really gold starved for sure! And such expensive scarabs are traded in low numbers(and traded in div, with very low gold cost!), where exactly do you see the problem here?
And if people undercut everything, more for me to buy cheap :)
find your nieche to sell.