Rune Currency Convenience Question

Hey folks,

As I’ve continued to get more experience and chatted with other members, I’ve had an interesting question pop up in terms of watching the relative speed of some of my rune trade offers.

5x

Hel for an

Ist—flies off the shelf at lightning speed, whereas some of my other trades are clearly going to take a bit longer. I totally get that the other low runes are far less popular than Hels and Rals, but I also started wondering if it had to do with the package size as well.

Using U.S. currency as an analogy, is a pack of 10,15, 20 less popular runes going to sit on the shelf longer in part because you’re asking for payment in half-dollar coins that few folks carry vs. a dollar

Bill, which more people have sitting around in their stash, even if you get the math right on pricing it equally to an

Ist sized trade?

5

Hel you can get

Ohm or even

Lo right now. People need to do last minute ladder runewords.

Right now

Hel is 2 or even 3 if people are desperate.

Ist is 3 or 4.

Ohm is 9 or 10 and

Lo is 12-15.

I have found that you get the opposite of the 'wholesale' effect in the D2R market. In normal economy the more you buy the better of a deal you get. However, from lots of personal experience, in D2 you can sell larger batches for a higher price. For example, 5

Hel for an

Ist is one batch in your scenario. Yet 15

Hel can easily sell for a

Lo rune with a

Lo being about 3.5

Ist. Even crazier you can sell 20

Hel for a

Ber. I sold 80

Hel for 4

Ber over the weekend. A

Ber is about 6

Ist. Yet 6x5=30. Batch sales do not follow a linear growth model. You as the seller get a better deal with larger batches, up to a point. Then it tapers off. Seems like buyers value the convenience of large bulk buying and are willing to pay for it.

Anyways, to answer your original question, yes package size tends to make a huge difference. Most people want to buy with either an

Ist,

Ber, or

Jah. Anything else you wont get many bites. So, sell your lower runes in batches that would equate either an

Ist,

Ber, or

Jah and you'll have more luck.

However this is for Non-Ladder. Ladder is unknown to me.

Knappogue wrote: 2 months ago

I have found that you get the opposite of the 'wholesale' effect in the D2R market. In normal economy the more you buy the better of a deal you get. However, from lots of personal experience, in D2 you can sell larger batches for a higher price.

You are correct. This is very common at this stage of the game.

People tend to value their time/convenience more at this point, so they would rather do fewer but bigger trade(s) to get the things they need, instead of going into one trade game after another buying smaller batches.