healers & potency kamas

[nostrafucius]

it seems as though 80% of the lfm's are for healers. Why is this server charging around 12 million gp for a potency kama? I know that a potency kama is really only valuable for a healer with a bit o' monk. Healer/monk builds seem to use item slots for survivability/ac & the only place for potency is a weapon, a 12mil gp weapon. i don't get it. Is it so the healer can pay a ton of plat to make their toon & hear you say "healz plz, my 6mil bloodstone didn't help me crit. and I am about to die", then *ding* & "you suck"? Please tell me why something that is only of use to the person healing you worth more than anything else on the AH when the people that are healing you are in short supply. Comments & your 'rational' are appreciated.

[Greydeath]

Agreed - no idea. It astounds me the amount of price gouging that goes on for perhaps the single most important element in the game

Sure, overcharge for your DPS weapons and whatnot, but FFS cut those healers some slack.

Unfortunately as we see with the DDO store, Turbine is all about price gouging

[Kyrn]

it seems as though 80% of the lfm's are for healers. Why is this server charging around 12 million gp for a potency kama? I know that a potency kama is really only valuable for a healer with a bit o' monk. Healer/monk builds seem to use item slots for survivability/ac & the only place for potency is a weapon, a 12mil gp weapon. i don't get it. Is it so the healer can pay a ton of plat to make their toon & hear you say "healz plz, my 6mil bloodstone didn't help me crit. and I am about to die", then *ding* & "you suck"? Please tell me why something that is only of use to the person healing you worth more than anything else on the AH when the people that are healing you are in short supply. Comments & your 'rational' are appreciated.

Just a correction: weapon type only matters if you plan on smacking people with them, and hence potency 1-handed weapons are valuable to ANY (offensive/healing) caster class. (if you want to smack people with kamas, just swap to a more DPS-focused weapon...)

[Sinni]

potency kamas are also valuable to pure monks. afaik it increases the damage of dragon breath and their healing finisher. it gets even more useful if said monk has the healing dragonmarks.

[Kyrn]

potency kamas are also valuable to pure monks. afaik it increases the damage of dragon breath and their healing finisher. it gets even more useful if said monk has the healing dragonmarks.

Not really. There're better, easier sources of sup potency 1 (assuming high level, since no low level can afford that amount of plat), which is what is needed for all of the finishers, if I remember right.

[FauxSho]

Not really. There're better, easier sources of sup potency 1 (assuming high level, since no low level can afford that amount of plat), which is what is needed for all of the finishers, if I remember right.

True, although you can't perform finishers while wielding a non-ki-attuned weapon. And with wraps being the better option for DPS, I find it hard to believe that any monk is wielding Kamas just for the finisher boost, especially since you'd need to be wielding them all the time just to get the bonus.

Honestly, I don't see how those higher level potency kamas could sell for those high prices... often. Sure, a potency weapon that can be dual-wielded with a spell pen weapon which doesn't knock you out of your stance is very attractive, particularly to a monk-splash cleric or FvS... but not so attractive that those price tags make sense versus just getting a potency quarterstaff for approximately one-hundredth of the cost.

[grodon9999]

It's because people are overly greedy. Look in the AH next week after it doesn't sell, you should see one cheaper.

[rimble]

It's nice to have a Superior Potency VI Kama available at 14, but at 18 you're all set anyways:







I'll pay a little premium for Superior Potency VI while-in-Monk-stance at Level 14 instead of waiting for 18...but not THAT much...

Also, being in Monk Water stance doesn't matter for healing, so your argument is a little disjointed. Monk Water stance is for that +1 DC on your blasta-blasta...and we don't want to encourage you to do that, so we overprice the Kamas to keep you in line.

[Superspeed_Hi5]

Its for those battleclerics that run around BBing everything under the sun with a splash of monk because they can stay centered and squeeze out every last drop of AC possible. Its gravy that it affects the heal spells as well.

IN regards to pure monks no self respecting monk will use this to improve their finishers especially when you only need Sup Pot I to affect all your finishers. By the time you are capped you should be able to find that on a ring fairly cheaply.

[Samadhi]

Potency items themselves are pretty worthless.

But yes, kamas so that a cleric/caster can stay stanced? Rare enough that the price has been around that for quite a while. It's not price gouging when it has consistently sold for around that since monks were added to the game.

If you can't afford it, buy a non-kama potency item. These are generally considered vendor trash.

[hermespan]

potency Items Themselves Are Pretty Worthless.

O.o

[Varr]

I believe the origional post is indicating sup pot 6 kamas should be in monk spalshed healers hands.

The higher the price, the more not Less likely this is. Until they are priced so high your server has a dozen of them floating unsold on the ah the higher thebetter.

Since it has been so high from day one (kamas release really) every pot Kama ever found has been sold or traded and not just dumped to vendors or tucked away for use on that ranger occationally. The more valuable an item, the more likely the market will drive it to it's best use.

[theweehours]

Agreed - no idea. It astounds me the amount of price gouging that goes on for perhaps the single most important element in the game

Sure, overcharge for your DPS weapons and whatnot, but FFS cut those healers some slack.

Unfortunately as we see with the DDO store, Turbine is all about price gouging

Just a clarification: Players set the AH prices, not Turbine.