i was really excited about an ARPG with trading and playing it, i just joined merchants guild, and i realized its gold only trading? at the moment i am level 55 and gold is completely worthless to me, i have more than i need for sure, which brings the question, should i just swap to circle of fortune, feels like its just another no trade game if its gold only no? like, does gold become more valuable in the endgame, because pre-endgame its completely worthless it feels like to me.
It is clear to me that you have no idea on what trading actually is and it is probably cause you only played PoE and think every game should be like that. Trading for gold it is a very nice thing and it is how it should work. Only issue I see with it is the fact that MG has the reputation progress which I find unnecessary.
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Yeah, so perhaps instead of talking down to the guy, maybe explain why he should realize gold is important.
Your response contributes nothing productive at all.
Just āhurr durr this is how it should be, not like POEā
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Ironic how you did the exact same thing isnt it? Instead of ignoring me being ārudeā and explain it yourself to the guy you just hurr durr to me. Also I did not assume he is dumb enough to not understand how important gold is just like you do since he complains about gold being the only trade currency bad. So youre wrong x2
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I believe merchants guild should include another currency that only you have if you are in that faction.
For example devās : Add merchant coin and amount is receive trader for successful trade determined by how many high tier affixes has item (tier 6 and tier 7 drop only affixes). If you collect certain amount coins. Introduce shop of adventures , there you can buy ancient time rift stones. Rift stones can be bought only with Merchant coin . Rift stones activation gives portal to area with monsters, in the end get a boss with boss possible drop very rare unique items. Keeping in mind that drop rate is much higher than in normal or empowered monolith .
Yes, gold becomes more valuable in end game. There is three gold sink right now;
- Stash tabs, which cost more and more gold. You will get a lot of valuable items (uniques with or without LP, exalted of all sorts, high tier experimental affixes, etc. ) and you will want quite a bunch of stashtabs. Hoarders can expect to buy tabs at 300 to 500k in the end.
- The Light Arbor dungeon, the real good gold sink. The treasure at the end of the dungeon scale with how much gold you pay. I will not go into details but itās -in my opinion- a great mechanic, and a great gold sink. Iāve spent millions in it before 1.0 and I canāt wait to do 10x that with the profit of the MG.
- Items in the bazaar ! Itās the obvious new gold sink; no ? Iām already seeing 3LP uniques at high price that makes me DROOL. And I got that new addiction called āWeaver gamblingā; buying Weaverās will items in the bazaar and making them bloom and then dropping them on the floor and hating myself for being so freaking weak of will. No, you will not buy another one, enough is enough man.
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My Pov as a CoF player:
Stash tabs cost gold
Light Arbor Dungeon is completely worthless because if i setup CoF nicely the loot explosions make my game lag hard because so many items drop.
For me itās obvious that Iāll never touch the market if CoF stays like it is.
and what did you expected? Trade for chaos orbs and divines? 
You trade for gold then use that gold to buy better gear for your characters. Easy
People better ge tused to gold anyway because afaik gold is the main currency in PoE2 as well ^^.
itās because gold grind is relatively easy, iām playing on CoF and i got like 4 mil with dozens of stashes already, without any level limitations which are implemented now what would stop you from buying a BiS exalted item and combining it with 4LP unique making your build almost broken?
At least with level system this possibility is delayed so you will progress the monolith system and high corruption with some sort of challenge.
Yeah fair enough that is true. Indeed people would get bored of the game too fast if they manage to ram through the entire high corruption monoliths/high tier dungeons in the first 2-3 days of a new cycle.
Well gold has become more valuable since trading was added since it is the basis of all trading. So now gold is used for:
- Stash tabs
- Buffing the rewards in Lightless Arbour (can cost millions)
- Trading
That said, unless you are sitting on a mountain of gold, or a mountain of items you KNOW will sell easily and create mountains of gold, I do NOT recommend going anywhere near the Merchant Guild faction.
Everyone assumes Iām a Poe player, Iām not. Iām a D2 player looking for a fun similar experience.
Merchantās Guild - Diablo 3ās gold auction house without the pay to win.
Circle of Fortune - I heard you liked Diablo 2ās drop modā¦
This thread is full of bad ideas.
Do not gate the best content behind merchants guild.
People want the best dungeons/hardest content to be restricted to only merchants guild.
No Thanks. MG get to trade for the best stuff already. Exclusive dungeons that are better than the best empowered monoliths that only merchants guild members can access that drops better loot that cant be gotten anywhere else is too much.
Sorry not trying be mean.
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