WOW Platinum Ounces up up and away!!

ElderSmitter

Are people hoarding or something causing this swift Price rise or is this in anticipation of Plating being cheaper so much more jewelry crafting? Or Less Farming?

RagnarSw

My assumption was people trying to hoard old jewelry writs before U40. Basically lots doing Jewelry daily writs combine with platinum dust selling for high.

phaneub17_ESO

I got 60 Chromium Plating to turn into 600 new plating on patch day, I'm ready to upgrade Jewelry for my second account.

Twohothardware

No hoarding on PS5. Normal low prices.

ZOS_Hadeostry

Greetings,

After further review we have decided to move this thread to a category we think is more appropriate for this topic, s it's related to crafting.

Thank you for your understanding

endgamesmug

I think last time i bought platinum stacks it was 40k per i bought up a bunch. Yeah im hoarding jewelry writs for the change, i could see the stack price getting ridiculous so im mat farming again instead too.

Amottica

When Zenimax added jewelry crafting they gave old jewelry a different tag than new jewelry. This was done so that no one had an advantage over others when the system went live. Those who hoarded jewelry in wait for the system had a lot of jewelry that was nothing more than vendor trash.

I would not be surprised if chromium dust saw the same fate. Not saying it will and have not tested it on the PTS.

ElderSmitter

endgamesmug wrote: »

I think last time i bought platinum stacks it was 40k per i bought up a bunch. Yeah im hoarding jewelry writs for the change, i could see the stack price getting ridiculous so im mat farming again instead too.

I was seeing it for like 90k a stack on NA now.... That does make sense i have a ton of Writs to do as well. Every time i see one go up for sale for $500 or less on TTC i race to try and buy it lol.. Sometimes i get lucky sometimes not! got 3 yesterday for under $200 i was very pleased. I am holding almost 30k Plat dust so no need to buy ounces but checked and was quite surprised. I swear a year ago a stack was selling for like 11-12k.

ArchMikem

ElderSmitter wrote: »

endgamesmug wrote: »

I think last time i bought platinum stacks it was 40k per i bought up a bunch. Yeah im hoarding jewelry writs for the change, i could see the stack price getting ridiculous so im mat farming again instead too.

I was seeing it for like 90k a stack on NA now.... That does make sense i have a ton of Writs to do as well. Every time i see one go up for sale for $500 or less on TTC i race to try and buy it lol.. Sometimes i get lucky sometimes not! got 3 yesterday for under $200 i was very pleased. I am holding almost 30k Plat dust so no need to buy ounces but checked and was quite surprised. I swear a year ago a stack was selling for like 11-12k.

Why are you mentioning real world Dollars?

Amottica

ArchMikem wrote: »

ElderSmitter wrote: »

endgamesmug wrote: »

I think last time i bought platinum stacks it was 40k per i bought up a bunch. Yeah im hoarding jewelry writs for the change, i could see the stack price getting ridiculous so im mat farming again instead too.

I was seeing it for like 90k a stack on NA now.... That does make sense i have a ton of Writs to do as well. Every time i see one go up for sale for $500 or less on TTC i race to try and buy it lol.. Sometimes i get lucky sometimes not! got 3 yesterday for under $200 i was very pleased. I am holding almost 30k Plat dust so no need to buy ounces but checked and was quite surprised. I swear a year ago a stack was selling for like 11-12k.

Why are you mentioning real world Dollars?

While they are using the dollar sign it is pretty clear they are talking about gold.

Dagoth_Rac

Amottica wrote: »

When Zenimax added jewelry crafting they gave old jewelry a different tag than new jewelry. This was done so that no one had an advantage over others when the system went live. Those who hoarded jewelry in wait for the system had a lot of jewelry that was nothing more than vendor trash.

I would not be surprised if chromium dust saw the same fate. Not saying it will and have not tested it on the PTS.

There is no such thing as Chromium Dust. I assume you mean Chromium Grains. On PTS, every existing 1 Chromium Grain turns into 1 Chromium Plating and every 1 Chromium Plating turns into 10 Chromium Platings. This is explicitly defined in the PTS patch notes. If they were to abruptly change that between PTS and Live, it would be quite the shocking betrayal of player trust. They did not spring the "old jewelry can't be deconned" thing on players when Summerset dropped. It was part of Summerset PTS from the beginning.

ElderSmitter

ArchMikem wrote: »

ElderSmitter wrote: »

endgamesmug wrote: »

I think last time i bought platinum stacks it was 40k per i bought up a bunch. Yeah im hoarding jewelry writs for the change, i could see the stack price getting ridiculous so im mat farming again instead too.

I was seeing it for like 90k a stack on NA now.... That does make sense i have a ton of Writs to do as well. Every time i see one go up for sale for $500 or less on TTC i race to try and buy it lol.. Sometimes i get lucky sometimes not! got 3 yesterday for under $200 i was very pleased. I am holding almost 30k Plat dust so no need to buy ounces but checked and was quite surprised. I swear a year ago a stack was selling for like 11-12k.

Why are you mentioning real world Dollars?

90k Gold does that make you feel better. Sheesh! Quite obvious what I was talking about lolololol

ArchMikem

Amottica wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

ElderSmitter wrote: »

endgamesmug wrote: »

I think last time i bought platinum stacks it was 40k per i bought up a bunch. Yeah im hoarding jewelry writs for the change, i could see the stack price getting ridiculous so im mat farming again instead too.

I was seeing it for like 90k a stack on NA now.... That does make sense i have a ton of Writs to do as well. Every time i see one go up for sale for $500 or less on TTC i race to try and buy it lol.. Sometimes i get lucky sometimes not! got 3 yesterday for under $200 i was very pleased. I am holding almost 30k Plat dust so no need to buy ounces but checked and was quite surprised. I swear a year ago a stack was selling for like 11-12k.

Why are you mentioning real world Dollars?

While they are using the dollar sign it is pretty clear they are talking about gold.

Using the Dollar sign to denote another currency is a bit odd. Even more so when this game has a history of being subject to shady third party websites that arrange the transaction of in-game items for real world currency. Honestly when someone talks about in-game Gold, it's pretty simple to just but a 'g' after the amount.

Jaimeh

Maybe it's because people are not picking up their surveys till the next update and hence putting less mats for sale, so the demand goes up. Just be patient though, prices will drop soon enough, and anyway most people will be more than self-sufficient to upgrade their gear after the change.

xilfxlegion

going up ? oooh i hope so --- i have about 70,000 plat ounces

N3CR01

Doesn't seem to be going up on PC EU.

Twohothardware

Platinum ounces are 10-12k a stack on PS5 NA.