Parchment is Worthless

Thank you ANet for nerfing all farming except for outside droks where people farm their heart out for wood. This has caused the value of parchment to plummet, a rare material that now sells for no more than 60g.

I agree with the first statement.

Thank you Anet for nerfing farming. Its about time.

farming has not been nerfed, AREAS have been nerfed. Just farm somewhere else. And I thought people went outside droks to farm trolls? Am I wrong? And surely there are easier areas to farm something as simple as wood?

I would say this has more to do with the huge amount of players trying for easy money by crafting and selling, which flooded the market, thereby reducing the value. Can't really blame anet for that. And they were doing that well before the farming 'nerf'.

It's called playing the market. Prices rise and fall. You picked an item that just had its price dropped--poor you. You'll survive.

Those trolls are about as easy as it gets and you get ALOT of raven staffs.....

Hell, go farm Charr Hides for a material. Fur Squares always have a constant price due to the fact that people are always buying Ascalon and Fur-lined armors in Ascalon City.

here is my tear '

I found other places to farm since the nerf... move on too many posts like these

If you look at the price of wood that you sell your still making 10 gold making parch.

i stopped when i was only making 20g down from40-50 each

10 - 20% of the trade chat in Drok's is "WTB all your wood..." and "WTS parchment..." It's been that way for a long, long time. Why? Because people found out how cheap it is to get it crafted and how easy it is to get to the guy outside of Sardelac.

The key is to pay attention to the market & see how the supply/demand balance is. In the case of parchment, the supply is way up - so the prices dropped.

I think barrage + topk did that, usually leave with 200 wood. Count that for all the people doing that and it's a rainforest.

OMG! Save the forests of Tyria!

Its kinda like what riverside did to feathers :l

I still can sell parchment pretty easily for 80 gold and hides for 10 gold.

Selling iron or cloth for 10 gold has suddenly gotten hard.

I've got 2500+ wood muled and climbing, just because its not worth selling right now. When I get low on inventory space or if the price jumps, it's gone. The FoW Spider run nets me around 150 wood every 45 min.

Maybe I should stop giving parchment away to people looking to buy a few.

Nah.

Parchment is piece of paper.. no wonder its not worth anything now a day.

Then get some glittering dust from your salvages, and have Vellum crafted with the wood and glittering dust.

It is only 20 gold at the crafters that make it, and last I checked it is worth somewhat more than regular old parchment.

Parchment was a nice business a while back, but the secret's out and the party's over. At least wood still has a little value.