POE 3.25 - The Radiant Hoax - A Price Fixing Scheme That Nearly Worked -Path Of Exile Settlers

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This one was cunning, ruthless... and ultimately, mostly unsuccessful. This is the story of how Faustus's instant trade empowered a price fixing attempt on Scarab of Radiant Storms - a powerful but clunky scarab that's good, but not nearly as good as a Reddit hoax claimed.

0:00 Intro
0:22 This is an unfortunate consequence of Faustus's currency exchange
0:34 The Scarab of Radiant Storms price trajectory before yesterday
0:54 The price trajectory today
1:24 Why I'm confident this was a hoax post
1:44 The Hoax Post
2:11 How It's Designed To Invoke Rage - Invoking Envy
2:53 How It's Designed To Invoke Rage - Pricefixers
3:20 The False Strategy: Overstating How Rewarding A Modestly Successful Strategy Is
4:32 Can Every Item Be Upgraded To Uniques?
5:22 How It's Designed To Invoke Rage - Claims GGG Messed Up
5:43 Why Did This Only Have A Modest Effect? Community 'Smackdowns'
6:19 This Is A Downside Of A Great Feature. It's.... Possibly The New Normal (and better than the old normal).
7:22 How To Respond - Be Skeptical, Apologize If You Are Wrong
7:52 Final Thoughts - This Scarab Is Actually Reasonable, Just Not S Tier.


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