HMP, Riftcinder, Beit prices are kind of ridiculous recently. I was talking to an LS member about it and he mentioned it is usually the result of the beginning/end of an Ambuscade cycle, which I agree with in some part. This time seems a little bit excessive, though. HMP prices grew by almost 3 million gil from 5.5m --> 8.2M, and the rise took less than two weeks. Riftcinder prices are kind of absurdly high, but they have been like this for 3 weeks, which doesn't technically coincide with Ambu refresh. Swarts have jumped back up a bit as well, and I'm seeing shouts from barely legal endgame players to buy them at fairly high prices... But Beastmen Medal prices have not recovered since the campaign?????
I get that there's a lot of transactions going on/end of year purchases, but who/what is responsible for these exceptionally high prices as of late? I want to say it's careless gilbuyers who are just throwing cash at everything, but it's never gotten this high before. Verethragna + Caladbolg (DRK) got bonuses recently, so perhaps it is due to an influx of players making those weapons. I'm not buying atm anyways, just wondering if anyone else has their tin foil witch hat on wondering wtf is going on here...