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This page deals with the player-driven economy. For trading with NPC vendors, see Vendor and Vendor recipe system.

Current patterns[]

  • The Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. is the "silver standard", and Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. the "gold standard".
  • Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.., Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.., and Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. tend to trade at near vendor rates, namely 2 Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes..: 1 Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. and 4 Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. : 1 Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes...

History[]

Forsaken Masters, Rampage/Beyond (20 August 2014)[]

  • The introduction of crafting via masters changed which rare items were more valuable: now a rare item with high rolls in a few key affixes was better than an item with mediocre rolls in several. It also increased the power of rare items overall. The price of mid-range unique items dropped as a result.
  • Elreon, Loremaster's meta-crafting mod, Can have multiple Crafted Mods, started off at the fairly low price of 1 Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes... This resulted in quite powerful crafts via Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes..s and Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes..s. In response the price was increased to 2 Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. in Patch 1.2.3. The price of Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes..s rose to well over 20 Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. between the announcement of the price increase and the patch itself.
  • With strongboxes now less common, the price of Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. recovered to their former level of about 2 Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes...
  • Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes..s fell in value, due to competition from master crafting on items and strongboxes making top map rolls less necessary. The ratio of Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes..s to Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes..s reached about 48:1 mid-league, as opposed to about 40:1 in previous leagues.
  • Despite the decrease in strongboxes relative to Ambush, maintaining maps became easier due to the introduction of Zana, Master Cartographer. Zana gives 1% free increased map quantity per level. In addition, there is an approximately 1-in-14 chance of finding Zana in a map; if we estimate that the Zana map is of the same level as the enclosing map and has +40% quantity on average, this is similar to a +10% free increased map quantity and experience. Finally, Zana effectively gives one free map per day via the daily mission. Running maps as Magic instead of Rare became more popular even at high levels, leading to a further decline in the value of Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes..s.

Shadow of the Vaal, Ambush/Invasion (5 March 2014)[]

  • The large number of Artisan's Strongboxes in Ambush increased the supply of Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.., causing their price to drop still further, to about 1.5 Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes...
  • Similarly, Cartographer's Strongboxes greatly increased the supply of Maps in Ambush, particularly high-level maps.

Release, Domination/Nemesis (23 October 2013)[]

Open beta, Anarchy/Onslaught (23 January 2013)[]

  • The vendor recipe consuming a level 20 gem and a Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. and yielding a level 1, 20 quality gem became public knowledge. This caused a sharp decrease in demand in Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. and a corresponding decrease in price. Prior to this revelation, Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. were worth about 3 Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes... Afterwards the price dropped to about 2 Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes... Furthermore, the playerbase abandoned Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. as the economy's "silver standard", with the Lua error: Error: invalid field alias "items._pageName"; aliases cannot contain dots or quotes.. becoming the new "silver standard".

Closed beta (August 2011)[]

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