User blog comment:Axelaspeed/Pricing Inconsistenies/@comment-5574722-20130405204624

In order to have a better idea of how market is setting prices, keep in mind that there is 3 different type of loc Players:


 * Collector (cares only about art and attractive skills / stats)


 * Raid Player (cares about 5 super efficienct cards + raid cards. and doesn't need any more than that)


 * BR Player (cares about 5 super strong skills in front line and a super efficienct backline).

The latter two have lots of buying power (pp usually), the first one only has a few rares / low URs to trade usually.

Now, when a UR is realeased it can come from 3 places (I ommited odissey, sorry def is useless ;) )


 * UR from Card Pack. It will be collectors that will get the cards


 * If Raid or BR players are interested, it will sell at a high price because of a very high interest (not many Raid or BR will have the card, most will need to buy it). ex: Sakuya, Artesia, Usher, Oathbound, etc...


 * If Collectors are interested, card will have interest and will sell at a good price. Indeed: people don't have many copies, same people that are buyers are sellers, so they would only sell it if buyers pay high enough price. ex: Old Aurora, Athena, etc..


 * UR from BR Rewards


 * If BR people are interested, card will sell dirt cheap. Indeed: the weathiest BR buyers are the highest rankers, and the ones that get several of these rewards (2, 3, or if alts, 4, 6, 8, 9 copies, etc...). The ones that would actually be looking for a card are the ones that ranked low (and obviously don't have much pp otherwise they would have ranked higher). On top of that, low rankers + high rankers spent a lot of pp and are broke: even less pp to buy for the first ones, and need to sell fast so cheap for the second ones. ex: N.Tia, N.Aurora, Bettel at the beginning


 * If Raid People are intersted, card will sell medium price: Raid will have lots of pp and not spend much. BR ppl will have several copies of the card, and need to sell somewhat fast. didn't find any card example though.


 * If collectors are interested, card will sell kind of cheap like first category. ex: Old Tia, Ishtar, Goddess (even though this one is expensive because of rarity)


 * UR from Raid Rewards


 * If BR people are interested, card will sell super high. BR ppl have pp and didn't spend any, Raid people usually are never in a rush to sell (raid doesn't cost much pp and rewards give a lot of pp/mbds back from bosses anyway). ex: Theri, Twin Witches, etc


 * If Raid people are interested, card will sell somehow high. I would put theri as an example but BR people are interested too. Being in 2 categories, it's the reason why he used to be >1500pp reg before re-release, backline change and skill awareness.


 * If collectors are interested, card will sell medium price: Raid not in a hurry to sell but collectors don't have much pp anyway. ex: aethir (?)

Also a few things worth to notice:


 * BR Rewards are usually available to much more people (top20 guilds receiving top UR), raid is only top 5 / top10.


 * Raid players only need to buy 5 cards, so they usually have much more extra pp/cards to trade with than BR players.


 * LoC is repeatedly messing up availability and distribution of rewards (ex: N.Tia being distributed to all players above 10.000 rank, ishtar being distributed as half time reward on top of final rewards, N.Tia/Aurora/Ishtar being re-released when there were already way too many in circulation). Onyx being distributed 2-3x instead of once for most players, Albiga being distributed after the start of the next even (no time to sell to get pp back), etc etc etc etc etc etc etc (etc etc...)