Economic woes of inflation in the land of Arlor....

[FluffNStuff]

I don't see that connection at all. The arcane staff is at a stable, reasonable price.

The arcane ring? It is not. This is coming from someone that has made 60m+ merchanting them alone. If the price lowered, it would only affect my profit margin negatively as I need the crazy demand to justify gemming rings with tarlok wind gems. Otherwise, the cost just does not play out favorably.

However, at the same time that I am profiting off of this, I realized: isn't it a bit ridiculous at these prices? We're talking about a ring here, a ring! Is it really worth more than a Midas Touch or is it that the rich have a lot of hyperinflated gold in their hands and have nothing to do with it?

DING DING DING DING DING!!!!

This is not a 'we need to fix the economy issue', it is we need something, ANYTHING, that actually excites players enough to get the gold OUT of their stash and back into circulation. All the suggestions above are designed to take from the rich, but the real solution is to find what the RICH WANT and give it to them. That is how to get the gold from the rich into the pockets of the rest of the players, and not just the rich players that make it to 100M, but the 'dirt poor rich' sitting around with 10-50m in their stash. Enough of this 'boring itemization', this game needs new high end items and it needs them soon.