Repairing Repairs

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There are huge differences between crafting demands and repair demands.
People only need repair once every 2-3days if they play alot, Demand will be big for sure but not enough to drive the item price insane or empty the market stock.

Alright, since you want to believe market trend will remain low priced and low demand, lets just see what happens when patch comes.

Here's the current pricing for some common repair materials according to yg global median
Maple Plank - 250
Ash Plank - 1000
Copper Nugget - (400) via NPC
Brass Nugget - 1500
Iron Nugget - 1200
Silver Nugget - 1750
Dodo Leather Spetch - 600
Buffalo Leather Spetch - 1000
Boar Leather Spetch - 500
Cotton Fent - 1000
Canvas Fent - 270
Linen Fent - 750
Velveteen Fent - 1000

So, taking those common materials, roughly cost 1000 for r20-50 equipments, and roughly about 300 for r1-20. Lets see how much dark matter is going to sell for when the patch goes live and settles in after a week or two. Lets hope it's around 1k all around for grades 1-5.

[lackofwords]

Alright, since you want to believe market trend will remain low priced and low demand, lets just see what happens when patch comes.

Here's the current pricing for some common repair materials according to yg global median
Maple Plank - 250
Ash Plank - 1000
Copper Nugget - (400) via NPC
Brass Nugget - 1500
Iron Nugget - 1200
Silver Nugget - 1750
Dodo Leather Spetch - 600
Buffalo Leather Spetch - 1000
Boar Leather Spetch - 500
Cotton Fent - 1000
Canvas Fent - 270
Linen Fent - 750
Velveteen Fent - 1000

So, taking those common materials, roughly cost 1000 for r20-50 equipments, and roughly about 300 for r1-20. Lets see how much dark matter is going to sell for when the patch goes live and settles in after a week or two. Lets hope it's around 1k all around for grades 1-5.

Thankfully, SE prices for grades 1-3 Dark Matter is reasonable. It matches roughly the cost if not lower for repairs materials pre-patch 1.18. However, prices for 4 and 5 cost twice and four times as much as one would pay for repairs respectively for the materials alone. Don't forget, I didn't add tip cost if you were asking someone else to repair. I'm speaking solely about the repair materials themselves.

You can see the price increases exponentially from rank to rank. So, you can just imagine what the price would be when we break free of the r50 cap.

Here's the price from the NPC selling Dark Matter ;
(anyone that is selling it on bazaar over that price is ripping people off)
Grade 1: 100 gil
Grade 2: 600 gil
Grade 3: 1,500 gil
Grade 4: 2,800 gil
Grade 5: 4,500 gil

Cheers.