Skaw said:
Veresko said:
Actually, you can make Black Ink with Calamary so it's not the true cause of the price increase. If anything, it should go down since more fishes can do the recipe.
You need two Cone Calamary, where as you'd only need one Nebimonite. Back before they added Cones, Nebs and Monsters were the only thing you could catch with crayfish paste. Now it's Nebs, Monsters, and retardo-squids.
I'm not much of a fisherman so I don't know what the calamary/nebs ratio is on catching them, but I could see the price of black ink go up if Nebs became rarer, period. But in that case, there is an alternative. Even if it takes 2 Calamary to make one ink, each bite (other then monster) still provide the material to make the ink.
Granted, 2 calamary vs 1 neb to make the ink, so technically 2 stacks of fish vs 1 stack. But is'nt calamary like half the price of nebs? And if not, spread that on all the HQ you get, you should'nt see a difference, if any, on the cost to make Black Ink.
I have'nt made ink in ages, but I think the problem is more that few people know you can make ink with calamary, so they don't sell, meaning fishermen don't put them on AH and put the Nebimonite for more, since they throw away Calamary, i.e. the bait/ time to.
I could be wrong tho for that last part. :wink: