Materia prices

I have noticed materia prices going down lately. Anybody knows the reason why?

Because all the gil is being concentrated at the top and the average player gets poorer.

Perhaps more players gotten into the market thus undercutting and demand is less.

Demand is lower every day while suply increases from people trying to find some way to get gil in the crashing markets.

Honestly these are probably reasons:

A) People are realizing more and more the 'not-worth-it-ness' of the iLvl 70 crafted gear like Vanya and Rose Gold. It's useful, but certainly not best in slot. Cost in tomestone materials has plummeted, and the ability to HQ those items is easily done by hundreds of competing crafters on a server. Since these items are the only items really *worth* putting battle materia on, as demand for these items decreases, demand for battle materia to put in them decreases.

B) People were buying lots of crafting materia for a long time to gear up their crafters in crafting AF hq gear, fully melded and all. Except by now, a lot of people have realized how little money there is to be 'made' by putting all that materia on that gear. Because no crafted items are really viable or necessary for top tier battle content, people are realizing that crafting as a market has been catering to *itself*, and that the profitability of that pyramid scheme has been collapsing for the last month.

C) The huge exorbitant gil cost of housing has prompted people to seal their purses tighter than Zeus' sphincter to save every last gil for their house, whereas everyone with materia stockpiled is trying to unload it now before the market crashes.

Those are my thoughts anyway.

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Originally Posted by Fatestorm

Honestly these are probably reasons:

A) People are realizing more and more the 'not-worth-it-ness' of the iLvl 70 crafted gear like Vanya and Rose Gold. It's useful, but certainly not best in slot. Cost in tomestone materials has plummeted, and the ability to HQ those items is easily done by hundreds of competing crafters on a server. Since these items are the only items really *worth* putting battle materia on, as demand for these items decreases, demand for battle materia to put in them decreases.

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This. Plus, the selling of titan runs also hurts the ilvl70 crafted weapons. Why would someone buy a hq weapon for 500k or more when that will buy them a free run hydra-titan.

stupid undercutting is the main reason. 1 gil lower is all you need to make the top of the list. not reduce the price by 50% or more.

SE also made crafting worthless, why spend gil when gear is free?

ilvl 70 gears will be much easier to craft after the patch requiring only 9 tome mats instead of 18 tome mats, this will drive the price of tier 4 materia down. This, in turn, will drive the price of lower tier materia down as well.

Unless, the endgame gear / new high lv craft gear, will be meld in the future, the price of materia will keep going down.

More and more people are getting allagan.

Crystal tower is bringing Ilvl 80 gear

You can now get 450 myth a week so getting af2 is going to be easier.

Aka crafting and materia is becoming more meanless now. Prices will crash soon. still trying to figure out why there are no materia slots on non-crafted gear.

Supply has outpaced demand. Normally a consumable, as more people get end game armors that don't allow melding, the less people will need to buy, which will cause supply to increase. Sellers will sell at a lower rate in attempt to get their materia to sell for -something-.

What RaideDuku said.
And they are being farmed like everything else.

Sargatanas has MB sell orders for 50 Materia III stacks. If I can't sell the 55 DoM suits, I can SB them and rather quick if I do it in WP speed runs. I can SB a full 13 piece set killing 49's in a few hours.

Materia prices are going down because the demand for i70 crafted gear (the only gear making use of materia) is crashing (I don't know how it is on other servers but over this last week philo mats have dropped from 19k a piece to around 7k a piece, in only seven days). This is mostly due to the availability of easily acquired i80 gear come 2.1. Thank god CT has a loot lockout or there would be literally zero demand for i70 crafted gear at all except for vanity purposes.

Because of the uselessness of crafted gear. Dungeon and Darklight gear won't cost you any gil...besides you gil you waste on repairs.

actually the 70 crafted jewellry with 5 materia in it is prolly as good as allagan jewellry if not better you can get more stats out from it. it's pretty damn expensive if you dont spiritbind your materia youself tho. :/

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Originally Posted by snipski

actually the 70 crafted jewellry with 5 materia in it is prolly as good as allagan jewellry if not better you can get more stats out from it. it's pretty damn expensive if you dont spiritbind your materia youself tho. :/

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Allagan is better for raw healing or damage, but the VIT you can get out of crafted accessories is nice.

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Originally Posted by snipski

actually the 70 crafted jewellry with 5 materia in it is prolly as good as allagan jewellry if not better you can get more stats out from it. it's pretty damn expensive if you dont spiritbind your materia youself tho. :/

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Heck, even il55 accessories fully melded are quite nice. I run them over DL.

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Originally Posted by Waliel

Allagan is better for raw healing or damage, but the VIT you can get out of crafted accessories is nice.

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The accuracy on some of the crafted accessories is needed to hit cap for some jobs. In these cases, crafted accessories are actually BiS. It is also possible to put accuracy, skill/spell speed, determination, and critical hit rate all on one accessory (gryphonskin ring for example), whereas allagan/dl have only 3 secondary stats. That's not even to mention the extra vitality you can meld on them. In some sense, you can meld 5 extra stats to crafted accessories if you count vitality as one of them.

As a BRD, the only major upgrade for me accessory-wise is the mythology ring and now the wrist (I believe?) just released. However, I may not use ANY of the ilvl 90 accessories with the new bow as the new bow has no accuracy whatsoever.

Pretty soon it might actually be a good time to start *buying* materia when the prices drop low enough. Might be nice to be sitting on a little nest egg of materia for when the new batch of recipes is released in 2.2.