The Flame Geode Thread...... Again.

[Louispv]

don't care about flame ring/earrin price, people need a maximum of 2rings/2earings TOTAL, but 55 geode PER WEAPON
gem coming from geode is a problem because it increase demand of an item that is in too low supply

Supply has little impact on prices. Demand drives prices. And there is WAY more demand for flame geodes because of flame gems.

No one makes fire weapons because flame geodes are hard to get. No one needs flame geodes for weapons that no one is making.

Go to Port jeuno right now. The people sitting next to the AH crafting the geodes into gems are the people buying all the geodes. The people selling the gems/rings are the people (and the mules of the people) who bought the geodes. It's listed in the sales history. There are none for you to buy, and they are so expensive, because the goldsmiths are buying them to make pyrosouls.

Yes it takes 55 per weapon. It takes about 40~ to make 1 flame gem unless you get lucky. It's a 99% loss if you don't get a HQ freaking 3! So let's use your own logic. 55 for your weapon and then you're done. 2 earrings and 2 rings takes 160 geodes. And that's assuming they won't sell an infinite number of said rings and earrings, since they're doing it for money and not equipment. I wonder where they're all going...

Almost all geodes go to the crafters and not the weapon makers. So if we changed flame gems to come from ifritites, almost all ifritites would go to the crafters too. So thenifritites would be just as expensive as the flame geodes because there would be the same demand for them as there currently is for geodes. (Or maybe even more, since this is SE we are talking about. A higher level ingredient would mean a higher level synth, and thus harder to HQ into a gem, thus driving the prices up.)

SE does not change old game mechanics until you've bitched about them for almost a decade. Unless one of the new expansion zones has constant fire weather, you're screwed. Even if one does, good luck competing with everyone else for them. You will never be able to farm them easily. Your only option is to make them cheaper to buy, by getting rid of the demand for the geodes.

It was stupid for geodes to be crafting materials to start with. You don't see any STR+8 rings made out of heavy metal plates, now do you? Do away with that and they will only be slightly more expensive than the other geodes.