Fox the Clever
03-27-2006, 01:55 AM
A few days after the Prophecy of Ro expansion went live, my main character managed to sell his artisan's seal for a cool 5500 platinum pieces. Not bad, considering it had been rotting in his trading satchel for quite some time. Soon afterwards, I went about gathering up some rare gemstones to create another seal. Partways during that process, though, a thought occurred to me: Am I making something that will have little or no market value soon?
Here's my line of reasoning. As far as I can tell, artisan's seals are only required for the very high level trophy tasks. As such, one can expect an initial rush of people buying those seals in the bazaar (or making them) in order to create their grandmaster items required by those tasks. However, given the fact that this initial rush of people will eventually peter out, and that the lower level trophy tasks don't require these seals at all, what point will there be in making artisan's seals anymore? Sure, they can still be used to create the old style weight reduction satchels, but with the ability to evolve one's tradeskill trophy from the lower levels and end up creating a weight reduction container equal to that of the old grandmaster trophies, who would want to do such a thing? Another thing to consider here is that the statistics on the new trophies (at their most evolved level) are superior to the old trophies.
If I've missed something here, please let me know. Otherwise, I'll hold off on making any more artisan's seals.
Here's my line of reasoning. As far as I can tell, artisan's seals are only required for the very high level trophy tasks. As such, one can expect an initial rush of people buying those seals in the bazaar (or making them) in order to create their grandmaster items required by those tasks. However, given the fact that this initial rush of people will eventually peter out, and that the lower level trophy tasks don't require these seals at all, what point will there be in making artisan's seals anymore? Sure, they can still be used to create the old style weight reduction satchels, but with the ability to evolve one's tradeskill trophy from the lower levels and end up creating a weight reduction container equal to that of the old grandmaster trophies, who would want to do such a thing? Another thing to consider here is that the statistics on the new trophies (at their most evolved level) are superior to the old trophies.
If I've missed something here, please let me know. Otherwise, I'll hold off on making any more artisan's seals.