Torpor's Price is Artificially High

[Extunarian]

Originally Posted by Orruar

To put it another way, I've seen a dozen commercials for 99 cent tacos for sale, while not a single commercial of people looking to buy tacos. Does that mean tacos are overpriced?

Orruar is a smart man.

Edit: I looked around for awhile today and found absolutely nothing regarding a mana drain, except someone claiming it happened on eqclassic forums in 2009. Maybe they were thinking of the rage line that regens hp but drains mana...?

[Orruar]

Originally Posted by Extunarian

Edit: I looked around for awhile today and found absolutely nothing regarding a mana drain, except someone claiming it happened on eqclassic forums in 2009. Maybe they were thinking of the rage line that regens hp but drains mana...?

Probably. I also couldn't find anything about torpor draining mana.

[Danth]

Here's one such archived site that mentions such a change: http://web.archive.org/web/200107251...ll.asp?Id=1219

I don't know if such a change ever got out of testing, or if it was patched then rapidly removed due to complaints, or if it was some sort of datamined info that never actually cropped up in-game.

Danth

[Orruar]

Originally Posted by Danth

Here's one such archived site that mentions such a change: http://web.archive.org/web/200107251...ll.asp?Id=1219

I don't know if such a change ever got out of testing, or if it was patched then rapidly removed due to complaints, or if it was some sort of datamined info that never actually cropped up in-game.

Danth

That site shows the mana drain is still in effect on 8/11/02. Meanwhile, Lucy entered the spell on 3/7/02, and never shows any removal of any kind of mana drain. So I'm guessing this was something only on test or just a typo.

[mwatt]

You have dug up some interesting statistics and I believe they do probably presage a reduction in price for Torpor - eventually, assuming what you depict remains that way for a while. Supply and demand is king in a free market so one might well expect an adjustment coming down the pike.

There is one thing that might derail said postulated adjustment however and I believe it has already been alluded to above. It is this: If there is no pressure, or low pressure to sell, then sellers, believing the spell to be intrinsically worthy of the 30K price range (and it is worth that by the way IMO*), may decide to hold onto their wares until a motivated buyer with sufficient resources comes along. If long term nobody buys the spell at 30K, then of course worth it or not, the price will come down.

Bottom line, you are talking about a snapshot in time, but the ebb and flow of prices due to economics is a process that occurs over time.

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* Torpor is a game changer.