A sign that the crafting system has failed and that orbs are essentially gold

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NotRegret wrote:

Its now not uncommon for 1 chaos to be worth MORE than 1 alch+1 scour. Thats right
2 orbs that when combined do the EXACT SAME THING as a chaos orb are worth less than the chaos orb because only like the top 1% of the economy actually uses these things to craft for most players orbs are just a fucking currency. The rest of us dont even care what the orbs do.

lol

sounds like you dont know anything about this game and are nothing but a filthy casual

OP should qq and play D3

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Sprongley wrote:

OP should qq and play D3

why not TL2? that is waay worse than D3 imo as its more casual.

I refuse to trade or group with others... crafting in the game suits my playstyle fine.

1 alch and 1 scour are always worth 1 chaos. Always. Anyone who refuses to acknowledge that isn't someone you should trade with. If someone asks for 5 chaos for something, they should always being willing to take 5 alchs and 5 scours instead.

They are equal, just because you want to sell them for more, doesn't mean I will buy them...

:P

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DaveSW wrote:

1 alch and 1 scour are always worth 1 chaos. Always.

They might have equivalent value on paper, but they're not necessarily equally tradeable.
Around the world many people are happy to accept US dollars, but not happy to accept the equivalent value in Nepalese Rupees. One currency is more desirable and easier to exchange than the other is.

If I'm on holiday overseas and I want to buy an item in a shop that won't accept the currency I have, I go to a currency exchanger and buy the local currency, doing so at a cost (knowing that the currency exchanger is taking a profit from the deal). Then I go to the shop and pay for what I want in their local currency.

If I want to buy something on poexplorer, I pay in the advertised currency, which has been in chaos for the items I looked at. To get chaos I sell other currency items, doing so at a cost. I don't care what the exact currency exchange should be. If I want to buy something in chaos, then I will sell other orbs to get chaos. If that makes me a stupid noob, so be it. But I do the same thing offline too. If I want to buy something, I just pay the advertised price. I don't shop around and get out my calculator to make sure I'm not paying too much. Why would I be more exacting and miserly with currency in a computer game than I am with real world currency? It's not even real money! :D

If you're not using some currency on maps, you may be doing it wrong.

Just my 2c.

some people just arent as intelligent as others.

I think that sums up trading in this game, other games and life.

Also OP, look up map running at some point. theres a few more than the top 1% doing that.