Evilclown5609: "surely Pissjiggle wouldn't lead exiles astray" had me dyin
jonathangoldfarb7089: It's the tradeoff of faustus - Without him, people can pricefix by setting items at low prices and never responding. With him they can more easily pull off this kind of market manipulation.
alewis514: It's like clamweaving from WOTLK classic.
Someone made a post that opening a jagged clam magically resets your global cooldown if you have unholy presence talent specced into. It was supposed to be a bug, but well - abuse early, abuse often. Ofc being able to reset your GCD at will would be insane imba, allowing you to machinegun your abilities and wreck in PVP where the most important part is to do a great burst of damage (rather than having high average DPS).

This caught a lot of traction and jagged clams shot up on the auction house. Obviously you would need to carry a lot of clams to perform many GCD resets. So the demand was created. People started cleaning the AH from clams, sellers jacked up the prices to 15 gold per single clam. It's a lot in classic, about as much as an entire daily quest or even two.

People bought clams but weren't able to replicate the GCD reset bug. No one seemed able to.

Guess what, clamweaving never existed. It was a well crafted troll post that fooled many players xDDDD Those that bought lots of clams at insane prices were left scamazed royally.
Zenbubbles: For Faustus I think they should add an average price of the last 100 sales or something similar. I have had many times when I either didnt know how to price a scarab because there were none being sold at the time, or the situation where people were selling or buying for rediculous prices that couldnt possibly be right (like Maven Splinters for 2 chaos).
squidbait1396: I feel like this is kind of a non issue. The people losing currency to this aren't just people wanting to use the scarabs, they are people trying to buy and flip the scarabs themselves. I care about what happens to them about the same as the original poster.
thornburg9170: TBH, I don’t see what Faustus has to do with this?

It was just as possible to buy low, post misleading info, sell high without the exchange.
thomasrad5202: No items have absolute values. the value of the item is what people are willing to pay for it.

If you are willing to buy something for 10C but later find out other people think it's only worth 5C, I can hardly call that a scam.

if people spread misinfomation about a strategy you need to use your brain. you can't just hear one thing and blindly buy hundreds of scarabs.

It's not a Faustus problem, it's a human/player problem. Faustus makes it easy for the supply and demand to find each other. It is up to us to make sure that our own demand is reasonable. we need to test it in small amounts and confirm it works before buying in bulk. otherwise you are taking a huge risk
fcz34: Attributing this to faustus seems very disingenuous.
JayBigDadyCy: This happened before Faustus as well. There are always price fixers. Unfortunately.
AmrishMahabir: Check your item value before posting, don't just pay attention to the most current available orders.
IslayToMuch: Quality phishing league...
banang: Okay, I understand there was some market manipulation. How did Faustus contribute to this whole situation?

Sep 02 2024

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