Omg why are IOs so expensive

[Grouchybeast]

On 9/7/2021 at 7:07 AM, macskull said:

The only part of the post that's wrong is the price of the Steadfast Protection Res/Def IO. Everything else is pretty spot-on. Here's a thread on the old forums from a week before the shutdown was announced where players are discussing purples costing between 200-250 million. Another post from April 2012 discusses purples going for about 300m each. Here's a post from August 2012 where a poster discusses prices of set pieces like LotG: Defense (not the global recharge IO) selling for 40 million

These are all post-converter prices, though.  Before Issue 22, which was only a few months before the shutdown, prices were way higher, and had been for a while.  Converters, even in limited supply, had an enormous effect on the top end of the market.  All of those prices can be at least doubled to get the pre-converter prices.  LotG+rech had climbed well over a hundred million.

 

Of course, the converters also had the opposite effect on 'cheap' purples, PVP IOs, etc.  Before converters it had been possible to pick up non-damage purple sets for (relative) peanuts.