Does anyone trade anymore?

[ace_mason]

Does anyone trade anymore?
With the forums down I figured the trade threads would be bumping.

[Shyver]

The market is oversaturated from people being at cap and running the same 5 quests for what seems like forever.

The only things that have any worth, it seems, are Firestorm Greeves, large ingrediants, and W/P. And even those things have started to take a hit lately. Plat can't buy you anything, power 5 can't net you anything (except banishing and smiting rapiers, those seem to still have some worth), and most people are looking to use their larges and don't like to trade them away.

So you just get people looking at trade lists and either have what's being offered, or aren't willing to part with the larges for what's being offered.

[Lorichie]

Havent played heavily on this server for a while, but i suspect this might be relevant to all servers:

If we split up your question into their two parts we get:

Does anyone trade anymore-
--For me at least, there is nothing anyone one else has, that i either need, or cant get myself relatively quickly. After playing so long, for so many hours a day, you get everything you could possibly want, on every toon you have, and bankfulls of items that you might use someday, but probably wont.

Seriously, i'm down to probably a dozen or so +2 tomes that i feel i need and thats it. I transferred a bunch of low level toons over from others servers i had been working on, and i've already got the must have items for them in their banks when their time comes to level them.

--as for downtime and trade forums not flooded yet, man i'm still sleeping at the keyboard lol. Having screaming children in the house is usually not an issue, but this morning circumstances allowed one to sneak in and i'm up and grumpy lol. I suspect that a little bit of my first point may play in this as well. If there's not a large market of needs out there, there wont be much trading going on, at least not open trading. Looking for that last elusive item that everyone is looking for is different.

fwiw,

R

[Ringos]

I think Shyv has it right. Cap has been 16 for so long, and there hasn't been a huge influx of quests/items so there are probably a lot of people that have had what they want for a while. Having a cap that is stagnant allowed the 'have-nots' to get their hands on a ton of good items that the uber-leet have...trickle-down if you. When the cap is raised, the top-tier folks will surely pull away a bit in the loot department and trading will pick up.

Just my theory.

[Thrudh]

Having a cap that is stagnant allowed the 'have-nots' to get their hands on a ton of good items that the uber-leet have...

Yep... I'm almost hoping Mod 9 will be delayed a month or two... I am VERY close to getting all my guys "done".

Two spell-casters still need their Tier III SP item...
One melee still needs a bloodstone.
Two melees still need +5 resistance on DT armor.

That's about it... Everything else after that would just be gravy...

Firestorm greaves would be nice for my cleric (or maybe a cloak of ice)
That same cleric could also use a Mineral II greataxe
Maybe an extra planar gird for each of my melee (they all have one, but two would be better).

Yep, us semi-powergamers are almost caught up...

[Memnir]

I'd love to trade for things I don't have - I just don't have what people who trade want anymore.

[Ringos]

I'd love to trade for things I don't have - I just don't have what people who trade want anymore.

Come on man! I see you post here and I click on it as fast as I can thinking there would be a pic of a guy with one of those trading carts folks used to pull from town to town. You know, pots and trinkets hanging from the side, etc.




Anyway, I agree. There is stuff I want but the stuff I have to trade, nobody wants.

[Memnir]

Sorry bro - can't be funny till the caffeine hits the bloodstream.
(even then, the funny is often speculative hehehe)