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New to Reign of the Warlock... what the heck happened to the economy?!

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Hello all,
Until this ladder season, I hadn't played D2 since Reign of the Warlock released. What the heck happened to the economy? I first noticed that the values of more common items were really wonky...

1) War Traveler is pretty cheap, even at high MF. Like, a 47 or 48 MF only costs you a Vex. It used to be a Lo, like seasons 0 through 12.
2) Perfect cold facets are only 1 Ist each! Used to be Vex to Ohm, every season.
3) Perfect amethysts are like 30 to an Ist, used to be like 12.
4) A 4% life leech Arreats I found only sold for an Um... and that was me overcharging.

Then, I started looking into the value of like, the really elite items. A JMOD is ONLY 1 OR 2 Jah RUNES. WTF! It's supposed to be like... between 15 and 30 Jah. And a perfect 40/15 jewel like the one I found a few years ago and sold for 10 Jah? LESS THAN ONE Jah!

WHAT HAPPENED WHILE I WAS GONE? I take one little break from the game after doing like 10 straight ladder seasons, and you all totally change all I thought I knew about item values

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tatarjj `92`

2 hours ago (pre-Resurrected)

kerph `317`

1 hour ago (pre-Resurrected)

My best guess is it's lingering from the ban wave last season, high runes now are looking similar to last season right after it happened ( Jah = >30 Ist)

Less bots = less runes in circulation

If that's the case, there's probably also fewer obscenely rich RMTers, so less market for perfect / very rare items

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Derenzo `170`

41 minutes ago (pre-Resurrected)

Gem-to-rune ratio changed cuz of stackable stashes. What used to be heavy-click nightmare of hoarding those gems and runes in LoD is now as easy as shift-clicking into your stash tabs in RotW. Plus lesser space taken too, no more gem or rune mules as an addition.

kerph `317`

31 minutes ago (pre-Resurrected)

Derenzo wrote: 41 minutes ago
Gem-to-rune ratio changed cuz of stackable stashes. What used to be heavy-click nightmare of hoarding those gems and runes in LoD is now as easy as shift-clicking into your stash tabs in RotW. Plus lesser space taken too, no more gem or rune mules as an addition.

Perfect Amethyst to Ist ratio has jumped a lot in this ladder tho, even the previous (rotw) ladders have been 8-15 to Ist. So i think there is something else causing the recent huge difference

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leox `539`

12 minutes ago (pre-Resurrected)

you can try to get jmod by selling gems/runes.
jmod still very expensive in nonladder

facet are not worth so much today due to new jewels. A cold sorc can totally avoid it.
weapon: new jewel, rune Helm, rune armor, nix shield.

in non ladder , Perfect Amethyst will stay 15, even if ladder down to nl. it wont make it like 30-40 in ladder

Some Trade is available for both rotw and LoD, Most rune , Perfect Gems is only in LoD side.
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