Heavy Metal Plates

[Mirabelle]

I keep hoping SE will increase supply or decrease requirement but if they don't I'll wait until Plates become rare during the new expansion, sell mine off and buy a relic.

It's already hard to get Qilin parties going these days. Once the new expansion hits, VW will be a ghostland.

[detlef]

I think they will go down because as time goes on more and more people will gain access to the events and more will come into circulation, if not again blame the player base not SE.

What the H? More plates will come into circulation, I will grant you that. However, as VW becomes less popular, the rate at which plates enter the system will slow down. But why would the price go down? A single empyrean weapon costs 1500 plates. Every empy owner can potentially use them. The only thing keeping prices semi-reasonable is that people view 1500 as too daunting a task to bother with. If VW slows down and fewer plates are being created, people will start snapping them up wherever they can.

I'm not sure why you you bring up "more people gaining access to the event." Anybody can participate in any non-Provenance VW fight from the very beginning. However, any new players doing VW for the first time are countered by the loss of players who have gotten what they want or have given up. That's why fewer people do VW now.

Also, blame the player base? What? Because fewer people will be doing an event after capping out on gear or becoming frustrated? Because prices of riftcinder are high because the majority of the desirable empyreans require it? I don't even... I think you enjoy getting people worked up on the internet by posting badly. You're doing a good job of that because it's keeping me interested in this thread.

[Demon6324236]

Honestly I still don't understand why I am supposed to blame the players, last I knew it was SEs job to make content both rewarding and enjoyable to make us want to do it. VW does not fulfill this and thats why I wont blame players, and instead blame the source of the content itself.

[FrankReynolds]

[Afania]

Heavy Metal Plates aren't a huge issue now, but I can just imagine the nightmare that collecting 1500 will become as time passes and Voidwatch becomes a more and more minor part of endgame. It doesn't help that even within Voidwatch, what drops pouches or even singles is limited using rather byzantine logic.

Collecting Heavy Metal Plates won't be on nearly the same scale as collecting Alexandrite at present date, but it'll be the same principle. It's impossible to buy lots of something if only a small quantity is for sale.

I think you worried too much.
From what I've seen HMP on our server actually increased recently, and caused price to drop a bit lower.
Ppl seems to spam Qilin very often for gil. It's easy to kill, doesn't require a full alliance, can be killed with various setup, and after we know about /fume + no more merit magic proc, it's even easier to make lower tier VW pt when we don't have to worry about procs.

[detlef]

The addition of pulse cells has increased interest in VW recently. But that won't keep people doing VW forever.

[FrankReynolds]

The addition of pulse cells has increased interest in VW recently. But that won't keep people doing VW forever.

Lol 5-10 million per cell on cerberus. Who the hell is buying these things?

[detlef]

On Valefor, the body cells have settled into the 1-3m range. Weapon cells are still stupidly rare.

Edit: Just checked your Cerb prices, those are pretty crazy to me. But Valefor has always been one of the cheaper servers.

[svengalis]

Honestly I still don't understand why I am supposed to blame the players, last I knew it was SEs job to make content both rewarding and enjoyable to make us want to do it. VW does not fulfill this and thats why I wont blame players, and instead blame the source of the content itself.

I make a ton of Gil from the drops. Not boatloads of money but enough to keep me afloat. If you don't join for the plates/gear/drops can still always go for the cruor which you can also turn into Gil or Max out your atmacites. Oh and lets not forget the experience points. Doing VW is the fastest way to Max out merits. I don't know what else they could do to get you guys to do the events.

[detlef]

Are you using stones? Buying voiddust? Buying cells?