Allied Seals Merchant: How does this make sense?

First off, no this isn't about sands/oil of time or the myth rewards. I just want to understand the reasoning behind pricing i70 armor 25 times higher than i90 armor.

http://i.imgur.com/WJF2nNp.png?2

http://i.imgur.com/i8FIqeQ.png?1

Because vanity gear.

i90 myth gear has about as much value as Darklight gear in 2.1

But I remember Yoshi did say something about the adjustments to armor prices in 2.35

It does feel like a total waste to me though, like content that somehow was not released in the correct order. I mean we finally get an upgrade to the GC gear for sale that has stats better than what's there now for the lvl 50 gear, and it will never see a day in battle.

The point is to make certain vanity gear take a while to acquire, thus adding value through rarity. It is not meant to wear as real gear.

As the others mentioned, you don't buy them for their stats. You get them for looks.

It's part of their really unfortunate philosophy that glamours should be made to be difficult to attain in order to increase their desirability.

Personally, I really hate this line of thinking and wish they'd go back on it. It's a big part of why I'm still only wearing basic cheap stuff for my glamours instead of anything from the new dungeons.

Because most had the relic armor it was outdated since the new weathered stuff came out and ST came out with that new armor.

So that's also new armor for vanity, I expected it to cost that much.

Though they better start making vanity look better than that, to me I wouldn't buy that unless it looked awesome.

or a reason to even get it.

Say like I have to do a quest and I need that armor to complete it, so far no purpose for that so waste of allied seals.

The weapons are crazy expensive. 1600seals for vanity? You could get 2 sands of time for that price and still have 100 seals leftover.

They definitely need to tone down the prices for those, or at least make daily marks worth doing. T_T

They already said they were going to buff the daily ones, as for the Myth gear I suspect the reason it is on the allied seals vendor (and for cheap) is as a catch up mechanic, before you know it you'll be running dungeons for (which you'll need a high enough ilvl to enter)ilvl 100 gear, CT for 110 gear, and Coil3 for 120, not to mention when Myth tomes get removed and the one above soldarity is added, they will most likely remove the Myth gear from the RT vendors, this way they are still obtainable.

as for the cosmetic items, I agree the prices are a bit steep, but then again you might as well consider the PvP gear purely vanity as well considering how useful it is in the content it was designed for, and its price is even worse.