is gathering in diadem worth it????

im just curious

There are items you can only get there. Given that, it's the same question as for gathering anything else. Given the market value of the items, is going to the place where you can get them and gathering them yourself (thus giving you the opportunity to either sell them or not have to buy them) worth your time?

For me, the answer has been both yes and no at different times, depending on the value of the mats and what else I'm looking to accomplish that day. Since a bunch of them are now used for the relic crafted items, that's pushing demand.

There are steel spoils too, but they show up rarely enough that it isn't really worth grinding Diadem for those in particular (in my opinion at least.) Best to go there if you want to gather the regular stuff and take the spoils as they come. Doing favors is still a more efficient use of time for the mats for i170 gear and spiritbonding while crafting/gathering is more efficient for materia.

Fishing Pterodactyl in Diadem is probably the largest DoL profit rate in the game currently. 40 in a run is a realistic haul, a week ago that was close to 1M on my server, and the price has more than doubled since then.

Miner/Botanist has a brief window where their gathered items are worth getting, but it will be closed in a few days.

How have the prices doubled on your server? Pterodactyls like immediately crashed on my server and are like 6k now.

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Originally Posted by basketofseals

How have the prices doubled on your server? Pterodactyls like immediately crashed on my server and are like 6k now.

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They doubled in price by being bought and sold for twice as much as before.

Before 3.15 - 30k
After 3.15 - 60k (Price a week ago, which was when I posted that)
Now - 40k

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Originally Posted by basketofseals

How have the prices doubled on your server? Pterodactyls like immediately crashed on my server and are like 6k now.

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That's surprising low given that they're necessary in crafting one of the materials needed to craft one of the third stage relic materials. I've actually been intending to create a Diadem gathering party just to go out and fish for them to build up some profit so I could get the relic materials, lol. No idea what they currently are on my server, but for at least a couple of weeks after Diadem was out, I was selling them in the 30-40k range, around which time I stopped going into the Diadem at all. I imagine they've only gone up since then....

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Originally Posted by Gamer3427

That's surprising low given that they're necessary in crafting one of the materials needed to craft one of the third stage relic materials. I've actually been intending to create a Diadem gathering party just to go out and fish for them to build up some profit so I could get the relic materials, lol. No idea what they currently are on my server, but for at least a couple of weeks after Diadem was out, I was selling them in the 30-40k range, around which time I stopped going into the Diadem at all. I imagine they've only gone up since then....

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The supply was just too much I imagine. When the relic was released they were thrown up for about 90k and then quickly downward spiraled into just a couple thousand. It's at 9k right now, which is the highest I've seen it since.

The price actually appears to be falling.

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Originally Posted by basketofseals

The supply was just too much I imagine. When the relic was released they were thrown up for about 90k and then quickly downward spiraled into just a couple thousand. It's at 9k right now, which is the highest I've seen it since.

The price actually appears to be falling.

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I suppose you must either have quite a few fishers on your server, or just a few that are extremely competitive about undercutting each other. Aside from fish that have no real value to begin with, on my server they seem to balance out at whatever they'll stay at after a couple of weeks, then vary by maybe 1k from that price. I'll get back to this and edit this post with what the current price is on my server. I know it's not really going to help anything at all, but I find it interesting to compare how markets are affected differently by server....

EDIT: They've currently dropped to the 17-18k range on my server which is still higher than any non-legendary fish currently, but obviously lower than it was a couple of months back when Diadem first came out.....