I agree chromium plating is stupid expensive, but on the flip side, have you looked closely at the stat difference between purple and gold jewelry? It's not very significant at all. I also like to have my jewelry golded out for sets I use regularly, but really it's not needed other than we all like to be as shiny as possible.

notyuu wrote: »

Given that getting a single plating requires you to get X10 the mats is it so surprizing that it's X10 the price?

No, it's not surprising that there are scalpers who purchase the mats just to flip them at higher prices.

The only way for prices to stablize is for the mats to be purchased in game through an NPC vendor. Let's say the devs do, and it's fixed at 500k each, this would lower prices and keep them low. But the people who will actively say "No!" to this are the ones explicitly scalping just to be some jerk-merchant RP. lol

"But mercantilism is a valid aspect of RP!" Yes, but when something is too rare, the prices get out of control.

Pro tip: Build up AP for purchasing Gold-Jewelry (overland sets) during Midyear at Golden Vendor in Cyrodiil. Also, check each weekend at golden vendor to pay a fixed price for dungeon sets. This solves 95% of chromium plating sourcing issues.

Stick it to the scalpers.~

You know you can do the same thing the people selling them are doing to get them in the first place, without having to pay any where near those prices.

Do max level daily jewelry writs on as many characters as you can to have a chance of getting the grains or the low chance of entire platings.

Harvest jewelry mats from the surveys and jewelry mat nodes in overland refine them with all the passives from the jewelry crafting skill line and the CP slotable for a chance at grains.

You can turn around and say that takes too long but that is where the plating's on the market are coming from, there's no magic tree that drops them in abundance for the sellers. You either get them yourself or if your in a rush blow your gold on them.

End of the day the stat boost from purple to gold is bugger all, you have plenty of time to get your own plating's if your not in a rush.

I’m glad that these items continue to be in demand — housing and fashion are expensive!
I’m only surprised that the price has jumped up so much so far ahead of even the announcement, much less an update!

bmnoble wrote: »

You know you can do the same thing the people selling them are doing to get them in the first place, without having to pay any where near those prices.

Do max level daily jewelry writs on as many characters as you can to have a chance of getting the grains or the low chance of entire platings.

Harvest jewelry mats from the surveys and jewelry mat nodes in overland refine them with all the passives from the jewelry crafting skill line and the CP slotable for a chance at grains.

You can turn around and say that takes too long but that is where the plating's on the market are coming from, there's no magic tree that drops them in abundance for the sellers. You either get them yourself or if your in a rush blow your gold on them.

End of the day the stat boost from purple to gold is bugger all, you have plenty of time to get your own plating's if your not in a rush.

i get most of my platings over time from deconing gold trial jewelry (most perfected trial jewelry can be recreated AT gold, so i just decon it to get the mats out)

Im the same i rarely sell them normally i get that many i end up gifting gold jewellery to friends 😁, use them on new characters on new accounts also 😀. I get more than enough gold from selling stacks of dreugh wax.

SaffronCitrusflower wrote: »

I agree chromium plating is stupid expensive, but on the flip side, have you looked closely at the stat difference between purple and gold jewelry? It's not very significant at all. I also like to have my jewelry golded out for sets I use regularly, but really it's not needed other than we all like to be as shiny as possible.

The stat difference between infused purple and gold rings is actually significant. For some reason it’s more severe of a drop than bloodthirsty arcane etc. then there’s the set bonuses to consider. Purple jewelry lowers the stats on 2,3, and 4 pieces bonuses too (unless they changed that).

boi_anachronism_ wrote: »

Farm in elswyer during the event and refine it after the event ends. Don't do it during the event, the drop rate for gold mats is decreased during the events when they have 2x node drops. Your welcome 😁

Can you source this claim? I've never once heard that the drop rate for any mats is lowered during any event for any reason. Keep in mind there's a rule against spreading rumors or misinformation on the forums these days.

Unless this is just a joke.

The prices are ridiculous. Having an NPC vendor for gold mats (and not just for platings) would bring that down.

I'm so glad perfected gold jewels cost no mats to reconstruct.

vsrs_au wrote: »

PC/EU prices for chromium plating are about 1 million. Now I'm not surprised rings and necklaces cost so much.

No they're not. Chromium platings are on average between 200 and 250k each on PC EU currently (I double checked as I sell around 3 each week that I get from crafting and surveys and knew they weren't that price last week lol).

After coming from a game a year ago where pricing was junk and EVERYTHING except the most basic gatherable resources were in the gutter, I LOVE things having costs and encouraging me to game in a way that makes me money. I do my surveys, I farm, I do writs on all my characters, I do a lil dance every time I get a chromium grain. Thanks the Daedric Princes that loot/resource *** still have a place in this game.

I guess there are a lot more players willing to pay high prices on PCNA than on the other servers.
On PCEU noone would pay 2 million for a 4 stack.

I am getting more and more the feeling it is a customer sided problem and not inflation. 😅

Hamish999 wrote: »

No they're not. Chromium platings are on average between 200 and 250k each on PC EU currently (I double checked as I sell around 3 each week that I get from crafting and surveys and knew they weren't that price last week lol).

On NA, there are also some available for that price.... but this is what it says when you price check. Most people I know are going to follow the average and suggested price; so yeah, I wonder how long people will continue to sell them for 200-250k. There are already fewer listings of them in that price range than the 400-500k ones.

XSTRONG wrote: »

Gold plating is 85k on ps5eu was over 100k like 2-3 months ago.

Having a NPC that sells Gold Plates would be weird, should we console players have to buy them for 500k or PC players buy them for 100k at the NPC?

Up the drop rate and maybe more sources added where they can drop from.

I've often said we should have vendors selling everything except gold for roughly the same price they do the style pieces. I know this would hurt some people selling in the market but to be fair no one person is competing with the rampant bot farmer's on Xbox anyway and recipes/furniture plans/rare drops tend to do better. It WOULD kill the bot farmer's need to be there. Ironically while many like the idea there's always a few that are almost hostile in opposition to the idea lol. I don't SEE as many bots on pcna and have no idea how bad they've gotten on ps or eu, but Xbox na they've gotten nasty.