Why are the items in Standard league way more expensive than the new league?

[Loune]

I thought it would be the other around, since standard league is like dumpster of the expired league..

[Slow ☣ Poison]

Well for one, brand new leauges literally dont have the capital - cant sell something for 100 ex when there's not even 100 ex found by the players.
Expensive items still remain expensive, just scaled down to account for less existing currency.

[Raraldor]

So the entire idea behind the dev's deciding there would be no gold in this game, only tradeable orbs, was to try and eliminate the economy problem that other games have. (eventually there's just too much gold for that currency to actually be meaningful).

On the small scale it sort of works out. I'll use a few chaos now and again because I have enough that it doesn't really hurt me, effectively eliminating some of the currency from the world. On the large scale you still have the issue that other games have. There's just too many exalted and chaos orbs in standard league. They have lost all meaning

[Loune]

Originally posted by Slow ☣ Poison:

Well for one, brand new leauges literally dont have the capital - cant sell something for 100 ex when there's not even 100 ex found by the players.
Expensive items still remain expensive, just scaled down to account for less existing currency.

But with all the items and currency accumulated through all these years in standard league, I expected items should be cheaper
Just looking at one example of this armor "Geofri's Sanctuary Elegant Ringmail"
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Delve/6M4pMdTG
Any 6 linked of it are selling for 3-4 ex in the new league, while it is listed for 8 ex (min) in Standard

I never played Standard league before, and am really sick of restarting new character over and over and over again without having chance to play some end game contents.
After doing some searches on the trading site, it made me think that items are really really hard to come by than the currency in Standard league, or some items are actually not in the drop list =(

[Awesome!]

part of the problem is you are searching for something with only 4 results online right now on standard. not many people play standard. search offline and now you have 140+ results as low as 1.5 ex for a corrupted one.

[Raraldor]

You have a much better chance finding many items worth a combined 8 ex than you are finding a 6 linked unique out in the wild, and you have players who have done that for 5 years. In fact, the main reason people play new leagues every 3 months is because of the fresh economy, where your lucky drops matter much more

[Loune]

Originally posted by Awesome!:

part of the problem is you are searching for something with only 4 results online right now on standard. not many people play standard. search offline and now you have 140+ results as low as 1.5 ex for a corrupted one.

I always have a thought that the chance of making a trade via offline PM is very slim. I don't know if I right or not though

[Awesome!]

oh yeah definitely. im just saying the items are there people just arent online as much to sell them to you in standard.

[Swagmaster Love 🇪🇺]

Inflation, willingness to trade, playercount, etc.

I'd say players in standard league are probably almost not interested at all in trading.
They probably hog on a ton of resources and all have gear.

What's the point?

In Leagues everyone needs gear and therefore everyone needs currency in order to get their best in slots as fast as possible.
Standard though? No urgency, no interest, no demand.
Once characters leave Leagues, they ditch all their currency into standard.

[Shiringa]

Originally posted by Awesome!:

part of the problem is you are searching for something with only 4 results online right now on standard. not many people play standard. search offline and now you have 140+ results as low as 1.5 ex for a corrupted one.

He basicly means all players who normaly play standart, are playing the new league atm. So there are less poeple and therefore less options to buy from. Wait for the end of the league and compare the prices agian.

[kazaddum]

Originally posted by Loune:

I thought it would be the other around, since standard league is like dumpster of the expired league..

Inflation. Crafting does not remove enough currency, thus ever more accumulates, thus the prices rise. Basic economics.