Deflation!! Can i have it!Follow

I sure do! It's called....do nothing :) .

FFXI price hikes like this care of themselves over time. Right now it's a buyer's market so gil is worth more (and items are worth less). And though they won't drop to their original levels, it's easier than ever to make gil today.

Don't believe me? Follow the trend. Remember back when leaping boots cost 300k? Remember when no one had 300k to buy them? Wow...300k was a lot of money. I make that in a day of farming to make that today.

Try not to think of it as losing; you bought a HQ stave, you still have an HQ stave. What really happened is that the money you used to buy it with was worth less then than it is now.

Down the road, you'll probably come out ahead. Inflation will still continue, money will be worth less. Your HQ stave, however, will not lose value. That is, unless a newer, better, cheaper alternative is introduced.

You know, you don't have to buy everything. You can try for the rare-ex version. I've checked on Argus a few times and he is not as camped anymore.

No patience on Argus? BCNM {You can have this.}

It's not impossible to find a few friends to do it, it's not even a crazy KS99 or uncapped BCNM or ENM. You don't need 3 alliances to do it, it's a regular old level 40!

Don't know what the BCNM is? Here you go.

For that insane price you would think the **** charm would be a drop from some level 90 HNM who only pops once a month at night during foggy weather on lightsday during the new moon. >.>

Not really, they go in different slots. The only thing that could really replace another piece of equipment is a "better" piece of equipment for the same slot. Obis are actually complimentary to the staves.

Actually most of the time I haven't camped Argus is not due to the competition but just because the general lack of time. I only 3 nights, 1's taken by a static, 1's currently being taken to do KS runs which leaves me sunday.

Maybe one of these days I'll camp him, its only a wish item right now considering I generally play either as beastmaster or mage jobs so chances are I won't be using it for a while. It was going to be once of those nice "Lookie what I got" items.

As for the bcnm, That things the bane of my existance. I've done it 4 times with friends, each of us have burnt through 160 seals and the biggest drop we recieved was 1 erase. I've pretty well given up for now because there are other things I'd rather burn seals on.

As for my HQ staffs, ya it'll definatly be nice to have them and chances are I won't be selling them till I'm done with FF. Other then my Kabraken's axe and maybe some low level gear I tend to keep everything that I buy.

2 Staffs down, 6 to go, with the way they're dropping, might be grabbing another 2 soon.

edit: duh, 2 - 8 = 6 2 down 8 to go?!? School system at work here.

Edited, Wed Jan 25 17:17:09 2006 by NuclearMayhem

I used to think that the inflation was mostly due to the fact that so much more gil is introduced into the economy via quests, missions, selling items to NPC, etc. than is taken out via chocobo, airship, taxes, buying from NPC, etc. since more and more gil = less and less value. I honestly didn't think RMT was the main culprit since it's only really transferring wealth from one person to another, not introducing more gil into the economy that wasn't already there (unless you want to believe the conspiracy theories that SE supplies gil to gilselling websites).

But when prices on big-ticket items skyrocketed at just the same time as gilsellers had their Christmas sales, and seeing prices on those same items go down once those sales were over, the correlation is pretty obvious to me now.

I still don't think that inflation will magically go away even if SE banned every single gilseller. The deflation seems to be more on big-ticket stuff that gilbuyers would want, more common items like food, ninja tools and crystals are still crazy high. (As a WHM, I find it disheartening that people still expect teletaxi service for what amounts now to half the price of a stack of earth crystals ; ; ...but that's another post xD)

Id much rather materials come down more. atleast to something reasonable. stopped playing as one of the "wealthy" N/As back in teh day, came back a few days ago to look around and found I couldnt afford more than 5 stacks of rainbow cloth... lol?

Tho it seems they are less than what they used to be, just wish things would settle a bit.

As for the correlation between teh xmas rush and price hikes. the 'conspiracy' of SE selling gil to companies still holds true if you beleive that. And plus, there still was no exxess money, its jsut that most of it st idle on gilselling mules until everyone wanted gil for christmas.