4 DEX I believe was my record ‘minimum’ price I bought an amulet for, during what I’m sure is that same worst time that you describe. 5 mins doing sprite worlds for what previously was a couple week’s farming to buy. Madness wasn’t it.
I laugh remembering one of my guildies who went on a year or two hiatus when 1 Vit was worth 2 or more Def, must’ve been pre-pets, so had all their ‘wealth’ in 100s of muled Vits, then came back and it had become like you couldn’t buy even 1 Def with 6 Vits.
Gotta move with the times! The economy as a whole hasn’t really had a major event in a long while. Sure, item prices continue to be depressed, and during a particular chest event GL selling whatever pot is in that dungeon, but I don’t think anything crazy has happened for a long time, rainbows 6:1 to 8:1 with life has stayed that way for quite a while, def/att 4:1 or 5:1. Overall pretty stable/stale.
Additional to the OP: thinking about Decades for this topic reminded me about how the HP tier is kinda slightly off wack, made a post about this here: T7 rings wtf? HP/MP tiers aren’t right. Had the T6 been done as +160 HP, Decades would’ve been +170 HP which yeah sure is still the best HP ring in a game where HP is the meta, but would’ve slightly lessened its cache. A minor problem!