Midgardsormr Markets: A Question

[KrI]

While I'm not on Midgardsormr anymore, the issue of the weapon prices can be easily answered.

To get a -reliable- way to obtain demimaterias of any kind (whether they are primal/battle/field demis), you need to desynthesize your way to 90-100 in the corresponding classes, and THEN desynthesize what will yield the demimaterias. When primal weapons are concerned, we're talking about ten battlecraft demimaterias and three primal demimaterias.

In order to profit the most off of your synth, you would rather obtain those demimaterias by yourself. Before I left there were plenty of relatively cheap Ifrit demimaterias on the markets, but the supplies for the other ones were very low.

In order to obtain the demimaterias you'd have to farm the primals in question and then actually win a weapon so that maybe your desynthesis will be successful and have a -chance- of yielding 1-3 demimaterias. The only reliable way to get them is to have a full party of friends and have every desynth involved with the weapons spread out amongst the members and then pool all the spoils together.

This takes time, and farming Moogle HM is as dull as it gets. So as a crafter when you finally have all of the things and it's all said and done, you try to make a weapon sale and people won't understand why you're not selling all these ingredients synthesized into a shiny weapon at marketboards value + 100k gil, as opposed to the price you had in mind for all that time and effort you put into getting the damn things and/or leveling your desynthesis skills. So you cut it a bit, and then a bit more, and then a bit more, until finally your weapon sells for less than you had anticipated.

Now pair up that phenomenon with the fact that the Midgardsormr population either wants to hold onto their gil or doesn't have any in the first place, and that's why the economy for items that have a bit more rarity to them is terrible.

[Mitternacht]

Now pair up that phenomenon with the fact that the Midgardsormr population either wants to hold onto their gil or doesn't have any in the first place, and that's why the economy for items that have a bit more rarity to them is terrible.

I thought it was because you ran away with it all. :3

[KrI]

As far as the Midgardsormr consumer is concerned, you have two kinds of people. The one kind that has mysteriously high amount of money and that will bypass any advertising or any efforts made by crafters to buy straight out of the marketboards on choice items at very inflated prices. You've seen it happen and it will happen again. I personally hated playing the marketboard game as I preferred to leave a PF up and just do other things while my Final Fantasy does the advertising for me. In some cases, as my PF was up, something I would've sold for a million gil would get bought out for four times the amount on the marketboards. These people have so much money that they just bypass opportunities to save money and funnel theirs to the very few crafters who bother clogging the marketboards with their things.

Then you have the type that wants an item but insists on providing all the materials, thinking it will be cheaper, even if said materials aren't in their inventory and just as they are trying to settle with you for the price of a synth you notice them buying the materials you yourself had set up for auction and it makes you facepalm.

Otherwise once in a blue moon you will have the reasonable customer who understands that buying a fully-crafted item from you will be cheaper overall in the first place and will happily settle with you.

On a different note, I moved servers as this character is an alt to my main raiding one. We needed someone to powersynth a new FC to rank 6 in Balmung so we could get another large house after getting rid of Historia's.

YOU CAN HAVE A LOOK AT MY BEAUTIFUL GARDEN I SPENT HOURS CRAFTING AND ORGANIZING. IT'S BEAUTIFUL AND EXPENSIVE: http://i.imgur.com/fEcMQeT.jpg