Anyone else noticed that prices for Tier 2 harvested resources are now about what Tier 1 harvested resources were a couple weeks back- that is to say dirt cheap?
As recently as a week or two ago, I could sell Electrum Clusters for 50-80cp, Turquoise for about the same, sullied armadillo pelts for 40-60cp, Tuber Strands for 30-50cp and even iron clusters for 10-20cp. I check the Brokers tonight and see prices as low as 3cp for Tubers and around 5cp each for the other goods. One silver for an entire stack of harvested resources, especially if they're wind-swept rock resources (seem to be by far the hardest to find) doesn't begin to compensate the harvester for the time required.
I'm sure that the reason for this, at least in part, is that players have reached such high levels that Tier 2 goods are basically newbie range now. I see tier 4 goods being auctioned regularly already.
The problem I see is that, with the collapse of prices, players on their way up aren't going to be able to afford higher Tier goods because, unlike the now higher-level players, they weren't coming up when prices were high(er) so they didn't make as much coin as the first group did. It's one thing to come up with 10gp for a spell if you were getting 18sp/stack of goods; it's quite another if you're not even getting 1sp from that same stack now.