Thread: How goes the jewelery trade post nerf?

I'm curious how other people are doing with jewelry sales in the auction house. The Vilya action house used to be fairly lively with the jewelry trade, but since the jewelry nerf, the AH is completely skewed with people posting the new jewelery for ridiculous prices. Way too high or for just a few silver. I used to be able to sell my jewelry (crits and non) without much of a problem, but now, even posting my crits for lower than previous to the "upgrade," I'm not moving any of the new jewelry.

How goes it for the rest of you?

For a brief time, the novelty of the new jewelry was high and it sold fast. Now it sells slow usually, and I have mainly stopped posting it. Making more money from the copper ore than I can off selling critted jewelry.

Originally Posted by Sonzia

I'm curious how other people are doing with jewelry sales in the auction house. The Vilya action house used to be fairly lively with the jewelry trade, but since the jewelry nerf, the AH is completely skewed with people posting the new jewelery for ridiculous prices. Way too high or for just a few silver. I used to be able to sell my jewelry (crits and non) without much of a problem, but now, even posting my crits for lower than previous to the "upgrade," I'm not moving any of the new jewelry.

How goes it for the rest of you?

Hey server buddy

I stopped selling jewelry on Vilya for the same reason you mentioned... it just wasn't moving anymore. I think the problem may be that people aren't playing endgame so much, they are leveling up alts. But not everyone wants to buy jewelry for leveling alts when there are nice quest items. Add to that all the folks with jeweler alts and the ease of making the newer recipes and you lose a big chunk of the market.

You can still sell stuff, but the boom times are in a bear market ATM I find that cooked goods, ore, and hope tokens sell the best. But even then, I don't sell too much of that stuff (I keep it for my own use and sell some excess to help offset costs).

Melee crit earrings from Loth are good sellers still...

Yea, Bracelets are total nerf

Don't even get me started on the Tac crit rings.

Just ugly over all.

i crafted an old dawn rose ring before the nerf and still have it. not sure what to sell it for. i figure it would carry a premium over the new nerfed ones.

the problem is finding a market.

There are lots of new people in starter areas so there should be a good market for low priced copper and silver jewelry.

Then again you may have to compete with a bunch of them selling a 9s copper ring, so would that be worth your trouble and time?

Originally Posted by DirtyDeeds2

There are lots of new people in starter areas so there should be a good market for low priced copper and silver jewelry.

Then again you may have to compete with a bunch of them selling a 9s copper ring, so would that be worth your trouble and time?

copper/silver jewelry isn't what it used to be, THAT was a nerf. What used to give +9 vit now gets +13 morale... I used to craft jewellery for my alts just because of the stat increases made soloing so much easier. Now, its not worth it till at least artisan.

I can still sell aureate jewellery on the AH for a decent price (3-5g) on Nimrodel when I bother to craft.

i don't know for market, but as you need to have a crafter for all your level 65 so you can get the crafted setting it must cut the market. I get 3 level 65, in my Kin the average is 4-5 lvl 65 by individual player, add that most of the players have started to play from day 1 of Lotro so they have almost all the crafter they need.

If they will have given the right to craft you setting to all your toon, maybe there will be a bigger market for crafted item. I would not have started another crafter if it was the case, not everyone are big fan of crafting.

As a returning beta player/lifetime subscriber; what was the justification on the jewelery nerfs? Their stats really did get hit quite hard. The only good to come out of it is that it's given me a market for a bank full of non-crit items out of the past... of course, when those are gone, they are gone!

I... Wow, I figured that there must be new recipes somewhere (maybe in the store) and that was why the ones I already had known looked so bad. I just came back and had logged my main to create some alt gear, but I couldn't find a single worthwhile thing to make. In fact, looking at the Lorebook, I'm probably just best off not bothering entirely. I don't understand what could possibly motivate something like this, they completely removed any justification for the existence of entire tiers for a profession.

Even more depressingly, I'd just hit Supreme Master when RL forced me to vanish...

I play on Dwarrowdelf and I found that selling ores is actually better than selling any jewelry for lvls lower than artisan. Anything below artisan lvl isn't bringing much money in and not worth my time to try to craft it in first place. Even at artisan or higher lvl, I stick with JIT (just-in-time) method to snipe sell (crit items) exactly what auction house doesn't have at the moment. So for example, if i don't see any crit ancient silver earrings, I'll go make a pair and sell them with buyout at price I think is fair. Right now 1.5g to 2g buyout has been working well. If I don't happen to crit, I sell those cheap because I don't like my auction or inventory cluttered. Overall, I don't make much but 3-4g coming in 2-3 times a week is pretty good I consider for lack of effort I put in.

I'm not sure what to sell above lvl 50 stuff since seems like majority in my server are f2p or new so not too many lv 50+ running around. I do hae to say crit rate made a huge difference in my selling style. Now that I have crit rate of 75%, it made it easy.

I know the AH is just crazy stupid on Meneldor for anything.

people are jacking there prices up so high, no one can afford to buy anything, much less try and sell something...

gotta love a free market eh

It's interesting that people complain both about too high prices and about not being able to sell.

I think the problem is that potential buyers stopped looking on the AH after only unreasonable sellers are left, creating a nice circle.

I've been crafting some new jewelry for a new alt from time to time, and I was happily surprised that the lower level non-crit jewelry is selling finally! I sell my non crit jewelry for at level prices. I think with the new players not knowing the travesty of the nerf, the new jewelry is all they know. Easily getting 10x the level prices for crits, though, not sure those days will ever return. but at least I'm not having to vendor trash all my failed crits!