Quote (Plaguefear @ Aug 17 2019 04:42am)

Headhunter is the only item that has always been relevant.

Quote (Grippster @ Aug 16 2019 03:05pm)

I am studying PoE's economy and I am trying to track inflation over the long term. Whats an item that has stayed consistently relevant and important to player builds over time? I am looking for PoE's equivalent of Enigma. I'm tracking prices specifically in non league.

Also, I've heard there is third party price tracking for traders. Can anyone point me to these resources? Thanks

Quote (Grippster @ Aug 16 2019 03:04pm)

I was looking up prices on the forum. looks like a tabula was worth 1-3 exalts in 2013-2014. now its like 40-50 chaos. an exalted orb is currently 180 chaos. so tabula has dropped 75% in price suggesting a possibility of a deflationary currency rather than inflationary

Quote (Ramy @ Aug 17 2019 12:16pm)

uuhhh tabula definitely not equivalent of enigma.

enigma is what every build wants and keeps using

tabula is like a shako

e/ this games too vast to have just one item be equivalent to enigma

Quote (Caulder10 @ Aug 17 2019 05:02am)

chaos is the baseline currency of the game, however chaos can be farmed by anyone (including bots) by very common vending recipes so chaos are worth less and less as they flood the market more and more.
added to the increase in player #s, the increase in bots and the massive increase to flexibility for crafting via crafting recipes (you used to have to just roll with chaos orbs for any decent rare items - now you can just craft them directly) the value of a chaos orb has drastically decreased. Most other currency items have remained roughly the same value.

headhunter was fairly stable until this league when it got a massive boost [doubled] in value because of how broken the new league mechanic is with it, same as inspired learning (about a 2000% increase in value) which used to be nearly worthless.