Criticizing auction house prices is silly.

[branmakmuffin]

I am a new player.

I have 20,000 plat between my 2 guys. I simply cannot imagine there will ever be a day where I can afford the auction house prices.

Is this some kind of joke or sarcastic comment? If not, just how 00ber do you want to be?

[Euthorcize]

That is all my money after 2 weeks of playing, scrimping and saving, buying few potions or wands and generally trying to save as much money as possible. Any item I would even think of buying would take all of my money and be worthless in a few levels, so it is not viable.

[Aranticus]

That is all my money after 2 weeks of playing, scrimping and saving, buying few potions or wands and generally trying to save as much money as possible. Any item I would even think of buying would take all of my money and be worthless in a few levels, so it is not viable.

i sold all my loot (kept a few ubers) from yesterday's (just 1 day) gaming and netted 200k pp

money is easy to get when u have high level toons rolling in the dough

[Detton]

I am a relatively new player. I had a founders account when DDO was released, but I only got my main to level 6 before I quit the first time. (At the time, I didn't feel like DDO had enough depth to it; a lot has changed since then, and I'm enjoying myself, but that's beside the point)

I'm level 9 now, solo/duo exclusively, so i'm not getting into the big quests at the key levels. I am making acceptable money. There are some things I can't afford that I would like, but everything I NEED I can afford. I'd like a Dusk Heart (I think that's what it's called), but I don't see myself giving up the Voice of the Master I just got (i know that's a new item, but still) so it'd be a novelty at best.

The thing about an inflated economy is... it works both ways. What, vials of pure water sell for 250k/300k gold per 5? Outrageous? Maybe. But they're also easy to farm for, if you really want to. =)

Strings of prayer beads... Tome: Prophecies of Khyber... When Monks were just released (about 4 days into my free trial before I officially subscribed), I made a killing selling Steady Spellcasting helms. To this day, low-level "Frost" handwraps sell for great money.

Prices are high, because people have a lot of money. People have a lot of money because, well, prices are high. Everything is just scaled upwards, and as a new player you can take advantage of that yourself fairly easily. The only way you honestly can't afford what you want on the AH is if you don't make an effort to do it yourself, or you're unfamiliar with things.

For example, I can't tell you how many vials of pure water and funerary tokens I *DESTROYED* to clear my collectables bag just to make room for "better" collectable turnins. /FACEPALM! Since learning about what they are used for (and conversely, why they're so friggin' expensive on the AH), i've made alot of money there, too.

What would help this supposed problem is by making the auction house searchable. As it is, people buy higher priced items because it is a pain to find out if there are cheaper ones posted. If it was searchable, prices would scale down pretty dramatically almost immediately. They wouldn't bottom out, but you'd see lower prices all around.

I don't feel it's a problem though. I'll sell vials of pure water, 'overpriced', to people who have a lot of money because they, too, sold overpriced vials of pure water. *shrug*

[Arianrhod]

Been playing 2 years now, and always been short of money. However, the posters saying "get higher level and your money woes will vanish" (paraphrase) are probably right. It's always going to be hard as long as your highest level character is more than 3 levels below the cap, because all the "loot runs" on the LFMs are for the highest level characters. But even getting to, say, level 9 makes it much easier to affor the static-price thigs like wands and potions than it was at, say, 5. Sure, the best stuff on the auction house is out of reach and likely to stay that way, but a +4 chain shirt is almost as good as a +4 mithral breastplate, and dirt cheap by comparison. The hard part is making yorself go out and run quests you've done before solely to make money. That's just not much fun. It works, but it's dull. Might as well be cleaning the basement :P Sooo....as others have said before me - if you want cash without too much tedium, pick a character and level up. Tell people you group with that you don't have the resources they might expect because it's your first character, and many will be understanding (some might even donate some hand-me-down gear or expendables). Once you get at or near the level cap, money will be .... not falling from the sky, but not unbearably tight either.

[branmakmuffin]

Sure, the best stuff on the auction house is out of reach and likely to stay that way, but a +4 chain shirt is almost as good as a +4 mithral breastplate, and dirt cheap by comparison.

You partly hit the nail on the head. There are certain things people go ga-ga over, for no readily apparent reason. I remember back in the olden days (level 10 cap), when people thought thundering weapons were cool, simply because of the way they looked. I remember explaining to someone once "You know, the game values a thundering weapon as much as a flaming weapon, but a flaming weapon does +1d6 on every hit, whereas a thundering weapon does +1d8 only on a critical" (I'm pretty sure that's how it was for thundering weapons back then). He thought a moment then said "Yeah, you're right." And today, I think there are people who value a +1 elemental weapon over a +4 weapon. Some stuff is trendy, like Monk stuff is now and I'm sure too many power-gaming, nose-picking adolescents are willing to buy plat to satisfy their desires to reach level 16 in a weekend.