El_Borracho wrote: »

I can’t speak for anyone else but I personally collect all my motifesque consumables on one character and one character only. The people I speak to regularly do the same. Do you think it’s common for people to collect motif books on multiple characters? I consider it unlikely but I could well be wrong

@UnassumingNoob I do exactly the same thing. But I would compare it to what happened when the sticker book and reconstruction came around. Before then, a Mother's Sorrow inferno staff would easily go for high 5 figures to low 6 figures depending on the trait. Since then the price has gone way down as that set is account wide.

I don't know if there are people who max out every character for motifs, but I would imagine the same thing would happen with crafting.

I think that is apples to oranges if I am being honest. Right now the only reason to collect motifs on an alt are either you are OCD as all get out, or you are doing it for increased master writ drop chance. The later is wildly upside down from a cost benefit analysis. In other words, lets say I go buy 25 million worth of motifs, and spread them across my alts. I am not getting 25 million worth of additional writ vouchers out of them over the reasonable life of them all doing writs every day.

I think the number of people that do that are extremely small, and I think the impact of making them account wide on the economy would be negligible. In fact, I will make a counter argument, as really this is a Demand Side debate. If you make them account wide, their might be an incentive for some people to actually fill their collection that otherwise might not have bothered. If every motif I collect gets me additional master writs on all my toons, that could certainly be an incentive.

Gear was a different animal completely. You had one or two traits in a handful of specific overland weapons where the market crashed, you named probably the most obvious one. Transmute was the first big hit to the pricing, and sticker book finished it off. That's because it wasn't that hard to farm a staff, but it was a royal pain to get it in the perfect trait. So at one point, they were super desirable and difficult to obtain (high price). Than transmute came along, and now you just needed the staff, but the trait was mostly irrelevant, so the difference between say a precise and a completely worthless trait came down to the market price equivalency of 50 transmute crystals. Then sticker book came along, and yes, it killed overland set values. The price of any overland set roughly ammounts to the value of 25 transmute crystals, which most people can get in 2.5 runs of FG1, or about 10-20 minutes of PVP once a month. Not a lot of value there I am afraid.

I will say this. Prior to stickerbook or transmute, I certainly had several precise MS staffs so I could play on alts. Never did the same thing with Motifs other than a handful of the easy ones to obtain that were just filling up my bank and not worth the time to sell, so my alts gobbled them up. But honestly, I think they are completely different situations.