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Ingrediants can be stable but are still subject to manipulation. I made a killing by having a lot on hand, pushing bids down during busier periods, which would
by Grimblewald 3y ago
Ingrediants can be stable but are still subject to manipulation. I made a killing by having a lot on hand, pushing bids down during busier periods, which would work synergistically with the lil goblins on during this time who list everything they sell at an undercut. This can cause the ass to fall out of pricing. You then buy up the cheap mats as fast as you can, but also alchemists will start making potions for cheap looking to undercut other potion makers with their zero time investment potion making for cheap. You buy those as well when they get cheap. Then you delist the series of sales you made that pushed prices down and buy the undercuts that helped get you there. Suddenly theres a big rift between current price and the bulk of items and most sellers stop undercutting and cheap supply runs out. relist regular small batches at 1s under market and make bank.
- DeathArrow 3y agoJust like in real world. But you have to own at least half of the market to pull that. Or some else can short you.
- Grimblewald 3y agoMuch like real world, but unlike real world - Ok in a game. It's totally cool to murder in a game, but morally and ethically deplorable to do IRL.
- hinkley 3y agoWoW was fully sharded at the time, so you had to control a fraction of a fraction in order to use these strategies. And you generally became expert in one or two and ignored the rest except for slow days. Probably more like a third, or the plurality instead of a simple majority. The price most players saw was slightly above what the market would bear. During peak times everything else would disappear.