AYRT. I've been pretty actively involved in it, mostly on the FR->LW end (since I'm pretty much set for life on FR wealth.)
As someone who's been trying to trade gems -> MS and competing with about 5-6 other threads of the same recognizable users who have also been trying to do the same for quite some time, I have found the demand greatly exceeds supply in that regard, hence saying it was so difficult to find. (It's also driven up the ratio, but people still aren't selling MS to G very commonly even when offering the best rates in ibaz.)
WWs are extremely subjective, but I've been seeing a bunch change hands. Difficulty with that is that because it's such a subjective thing, it's hard to say whether the ones that don't sell are because there's no interest, because they were priced too high for their actual value, or because they're just not finding the eyes of the right people to find them worth buying.
LW KS items, as I said, have been mostly languishing but I've seen a few sales here and there, and I've been seeing them fairly commonly used in larger ticket sales as item-to-item transactions.
My summary of "There's a lot of KS items available for gems that aren't really moving in the market (FR favored), but wolves are going for insane gem prices on a semi-regular basis (arguably pretty even), and it's nearly impossible to exchange gems for moonstones (HEAVILY LW favored, though that's to be expected with premium currency on a new game vs one that's been around 10 years). So it doesn't really seem to be that it's a one-way LW->FR, and more that different markets are moving in different directions." still stands as an accurate summary of what I've seen.
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As someone who's been trying to trade gems -> MS and competing with about 5-6 other threads of the same recognizable users who have also been trying to do the same for quite some time, I have found the demand greatly exceeds supply in that regard, hence saying it was so difficult to find. (It's also driven up the ratio, but people still aren't selling MS to G very commonly even when offering the best rates in ibaz.)
WWs are extremely subjective, but I've been seeing a bunch change hands. Difficulty with that is that because it's such a subjective thing, it's hard to say whether the ones that don't sell are because there's no interest, because they were priced too high for their actual value, or because they're just not finding the eyes of the right people to find them worth buying.
LW KS items, as I said, have been mostly languishing but I've seen a few sales here and there, and I've been seeing them fairly commonly used in larger ticket sales as item-to-item transactions.
My summary of "There's a lot of KS items available for gems that aren't really moving in the market (FR favored), but wolves are going for insane gem prices on a semi-regular basis (arguably pretty even), and it's nearly impossible to exchange gems for moonstones (HEAVILY LW favored, though that's to be expected with premium currency on a new game vs one that's been around 10 years). So it doesn't really seem to be that it's a one-way LW->FR, and more that different markets are moving in different directions." still stands as an accurate summary of what I've seen.