2009-04-27, 06:55 PM
The real reason Ilbis don't cost as much as they used to is because they're not the best star anymore.
Nobody aims to fill their inventory with Ilbis. If they have big money, they go for Crystal Ilbis and Balanced Furies, which stresses other things (Black Crystals are currently the primary component of B.Fury on Bera at about 20mil per forge for a 27mil item) More monsters drop Black Crystals than drop Ilbis, and of course Jump hackers probably deflated Black Crystal quite a bit, but even so... Ilbis are not being stockpiled anymore. They get resold because they can be replaced.
Plus of course Steelys drop from very popular 2nd job monsters (Leprechaun and the MP3 ghosts), meaning anybody can hunt those up and use them, making Ilbis less in demand.
I studied some of the meso seller techniques and I'd say a decent estimate is that they were pulling in 25mil mesos per hour per character. If they use half a dozen characters, that's 3.6 billion a day. I'm sure that influences the market more than any stars some hackers find >_>
Nobody aims to fill their inventory with Ilbis. If they have big money, they go for Crystal Ilbis and Balanced Furies, which stresses other things (Black Crystals are currently the primary component of B.Fury on Bera at about 20mil per forge for a 27mil item) More monsters drop Black Crystals than drop Ilbis, and of course Jump hackers probably deflated Black Crystal quite a bit, but even so... Ilbis are not being stockpiled anymore. They get resold because they can be replaced.
Plus of course Steelys drop from very popular 2nd job monsters (Leprechaun and the MP3 ghosts), meaning anybody can hunt those up and use them, making Ilbis less in demand.
I studied some of the meso seller techniques and I'd say a decent estimate is that they were pulling in 25mil mesos per hour per character. If they use half a dozen characters, that's 3.6 billion a day. I'm sure that influences the market more than any stars some hackers find >_>