...that prices are fair. But I believe that armor UVs only go low, medium, high and maximum, with NO very highs... perhaps I am mistaken though.

Also, I must admit the original post is not entirely clear to me. Are you suggesting that crowns should be accepted as equivalent currency to energy? If this is the case then I think you are right, but the problem is that the value of crowns is very unstable compared to energy... in fact it's consistently dropping. Since many of these high value items take a while to sell at a great price, vendors are obviously going to favor the more stable, upward-trending currency.

Are all UV's even an equal chance of happening? I've crafted lots of low UVs, a couple mediums, but never a high, very high, or maximum. But i've only done ~120-150 crafts.

So if high is even less common than low, and maximum less common than high, it would make the price considerably higher still.

"Take into consideration when CE prices were once 3.5k for 100 CE for a little while. And you can just get lucky with UVs, it's purely random.

Lets say if someone wanted to purchase a Vog Cub Cap/Coat having a Medium or High UV. Back then, you could have gotten a hat or a coat for 10k CE. Nowadays, since the CE price has nearly doubled, people are asking for 20k CE for the cap or coat alone.

If anything, it should be 5k CE for the hat or coat alone today.

I'm comparing all of my prices from Crowns to CE. My argument still stands.
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No, your argument doesn't stand at all with that response. You cannot base prices on the fact that people can get lucky. In that regard, you finding someone selling a UV item cheap is lucky, so why not balance both of your luck together and meet up over a bowl of pasta?

Someone selling a UV will typically be someone who is mass producing items SPECIFICALLY TO ACQUIRE UVs. They aren't out to make money, they are out to get the exact piece of gear that they want. So, the RNG loved them enough to give out a Maximum UV, but not of the type they want. They aren't going to sell that Max UV off cheap and sit through months more repeat alchemy/sell routines. They will sell it at a rate which allows them to have a decent chance at getting another Maximum UV, and hopefully the one they want this time.

The change in Energy costs wouldn't reduce the cost of UV gear either, because the MAJOR COST OF ALCHEMY IS ENERGY. As the price per energy goes up, the price per UV item also goes up, not down.

I can say, unequvically, that low UVs are much, much, much more common than high UVs. I've been crafting for not all that long, and i've crafted more low UV this and that (armor, weapons, and bombs) than i could even bother to count. I've crafted one Medium UV, and nothing above that.

So yeah, i've found the 1 out of 10 average being a UV to be spot on. And of those, for me at least, about 2% have been higher than a "low" UV. So from a rarity standpoint, HIGH/MAX UVs are worth the money being asked. From a utility standpoint, they probably aren't worth a fraction of what people are asking. And from an economical standpoint, something is only worth what people are willing to pay for it. And if you have visted the bazare recently, you'll see that peaple are willing to pay plenty for these items.