Weird market board pattern...

I wanna know if this is normal...

Useless glam items... Are WAAAY more expensive than real practical items. I literally geared up my level 60 monk for barely 100k, yet it cost 350,000 Gil for a friggin HAT. A useless, pointless HAT.

I then checked the price of a plain long skirt.

It... Cost... 1 MILLION GIL.

Seriously, a friggin skirt that costs TWO WHOLE APARTMENTS?

I became curious if these market board vendors were just trolling, so I asked people. They told me this was normal.

WTF...

The prices are most likely higher or lower depending on whether its part of the glamour thing in the gold saucer for the week, cause i've seen things that sell for like 10k go to like 1 mil during weeks that it's an item that people need, usually people craft those items and take advantage of the people who don't craft. Tends to happen often.

Actually useful gear will last 4-5 months at most and is easily replaced by better options.
Level 1 glamour gear lasts forever, and more often than not the materials to make it are much more rare.

Worthwhile crafted gear hasn't been a thing for very long, crafters used to make all their money on 50 different types of glamour prisms.

Not really weird, while crafted gear can be BiS, for those just gearing up there are many non gil ways to get gear, where as for crafted glamour theirs only buying it as the option so the prices are higher due to you need to go to said crafters to get it.
If you want a particular glamour item that can only be crafted, then making it yourself (or having a crafter friend) or buying it are you only options, when your options are limited the one who is your option can dictate it's worth and many people can't make glamour items themselves and want them now rather than later so will pay up, thus the prices are what they are.
If there was more ways to get them, prices would go down, if people wearn't willing to pay, prices would go down, there isn't and people are.

Glamour is the true endgame. Prices are correct.

Considering how boring itemization is in this game the only real long term value gear has is its looks. The "useless" glamour items are actually the ones with the most value and the market reflects that.

People want to look a certain way, the crafters have the abilities to make it happen. The prices tend to reflect the ease to acquire the materials to make the items as well as the demand.

Plus, some glamour items use ridiculously hard-to-get items - 'dress materials', for example, which are used to make the skirt, only come from unhidden treasure maps & level 50 dungeon chests.

100k on gear you'll replace within 2-5 levels and never go back to.
1M on an item that fits your style and can be used with any number of other glamour items to create your unique look.

Sounds like you're the one getting ripped off.

It depends on the rarity of the item too. The newest skirt, Quaintrelle's Ruffled Skirt, for example was 9million gil at the cheapest. Is it worth it? Depends on if how much value one puts on the appearance of your character.

For glamour items it tends to be expensive at first. Then as the content gets done more then the price dips down. Then the prices will rise up again once and the content isn't done as much again.

Some of it is down to the weekly fashion report, some of it is down to the fact that a lot of the newer novelty gear requires items that are excessively difficult or expensive to obtain and this drives the price up.

it is designed in such a way that the gear for the leveling process is easier to craft / needs common materials to make, to keep the costs low and make it accessible for everyone.

the glamour gear on the other hand has no practical use, nobody needs it to play the game, so when they are harder to make and costs more nobody is at a disadvantage from a gameplay perspective. so the glamour gear ss the stuff where you need the rare materials to craft them. it is meant as an achievment and having something special.

Welcome to the true endgame, felow monk!

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Originally Posted by Super_Bee_Brian

I became curious if these market board vendors were just trolling, so I asked people. They told me this was normal..

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Oh no this is deffo normal. Between fashion being a major part of peoples game play. Now with the Gold Saucers Fashion Report event on top of it. On top of that even players unwilling to look up where certain items come from. I know someone who made a killing in the last Fashion Report from selling a vendor bought item that can be bought in every major city for 3k gil, Then turned around and sold each one on the auction house at 40k gil a pop. They said they nearly instantly sold too.

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Originally Posted by Super_Bee_Brian

Useless glam items... Are WAAAY more expensive than real practical items. I literally geared up my level 60 monk for barely 100k, yet it cost 350,000 Gil for a friggin HAT. A useless, pointless HAT.

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Playing devils advocate a bit, but due to the games gear treadmill those practical items are often short lived and exist to be thrown away once a new item level hits. Fashion and housing decor though will always last forever.

OP start crafting and gathering at lvl 70 and you'll understand why mb prices are the way they are. The most expensive things are either a pain to craft because of how many crafting stages the materials need, or they require extremely rare materials that are near impossible to farm due to their tiny drop rate.

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Originally Posted by Super_Bee_Brian

Seriously, a friggin skirt that costs TWO WHOLE APARTMENTS?

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Only two apartments and you're bawling? There are glamours that cost more than a mansion :D

Easy, grafted gear isn't always your option. Some use dungeon, raid and savage gear. But cutesy girl glamours are in high demand by lolis which SE thinks is the only base of players in this game.

Glamour is #lyfe

Wow... Before posting this thread, I truly expected for everyone to be like, "I know right? It's stupid!" Instead I got what I got.

I feel like such an ignorant novice.

Occasionally a glam item will shoot up in value when someone posts the fashion report solution somewhere, usually reddit.

Upon which people will buy out all the existing glams and jack the price up.

at level 60 I recommend (upgraded) tome gear.
Also NPCs sell non-hq gear (are still good enough as level up gear)

If it wasn't for glamour a lot of gear items would have little value at all on the market board. Pretty much cut the value of leveling gear in half. Which would mean most wouldn't bother putting stuff up on the market board when crafting unless it was HQ.

The value of leveling gear is also driven down by quest rewards giving players multiple HQ sets over the course of the game.