By Garuda.Wooooodum 2009-04-11 12:40:33
The price of the Gobbiebag items is going to stay high for quite some time. There's always going to be somebody not so bright or too rich who will gladly pay more than they should for these upgrades. Since the Angel Skin Orbs are potentially massive money makers for Bonecrafters, the demand on Angel Skin is going to sharply multiply over the coming couple of months. You can see evidence of this on some servers already.
The supply of Angel Skins will not increase. Sure, there will be more fishers, but spawn frequency is going to be as regular as it was before. This means that the new demand, thanks to the Gobbiebags quest, is going to be poles apart from the supply. It wouldn't surprise me to see Angel Skins even out in the future worth potentially over a million gil; that is, until a quest provides an Angel Skin Orb or another means of Angel Skins is introduced. Neither have happened yet, but that doesn't mean it won't.
I make a lot of my income off of Angel Skins, or at least I did. I won't bother for quite awhile until the hubub of Gobbiebags has died down. As my favourite Galka Ishkur said, people will be releasing the Manta way too often to make it worthwhile camping it. The higher value on Angel Skins is going to bring many new faces down to Kuftal Tunnel who won't know what they're doing. Supply could even lower depending on how many "noobs" (for lack of a better word) are releasing Manta.
Angel Skin price may never stabalise if no other means of getting one is implimented. Adaman Ingots sharply rose to a stable 200,000 after the Gobbiebag VII & VIII updates, staying at the 200,000 mark for almost five months. It lowered to 80,000-100,000 and it hasn't recovered since; they're still selling for that price on Garuda (compared to an average 20,000-40,000 before the update). The exact same could and should be said about Molybdenum Ingots, too. I'm not complaining, though. I've already sold one for 1,000,000 and I'm going to wait a week and sell five more at that price. Somebody will pay for it!
As for personally camping Angel Skins, I think I'm going to be prudent for now and make money through other means until the Gobbiebag rush has died down.