crazier things have happened, but i am here totally with what Poophammer in the beginning and later Okin said sofar.(edit:well not that political stuff, i would keep such a conversation for reallife or at least TS)
The inflation encourages everyone to hoard their stuff. Even if you don't need a particular item its better to put any excess gold into it and taking it off the market, depriving it of someone who may have genuinely needed it. Kind of a bad situation to be in
I hoard "my" stuff, i don't gamble on the marketplace at all, i just want stuff for my own use.
When i use full gear, it takes me around 3 times as long to get 100k gold as before when i was doing generations.
The stuff got more expensive to repair through looming as well ...
And what also has been mentioned the soaking changes. I now use rather often my light gear set, not because of money but because my medium tear armor just doesn't give me the edge anymore then it used to before.(You argued with plate, but it is the same with midtier armor which was ok for my agi built in terms of protection, but with less protection and the high weight which slows me down considerably it just isn't worth using it anymore on most of the maps)
I don't really know for sure but when I see what is the gear people claim they break even with, I can really imagine that there are significant differences between players when it comes to average multi. Especially on low populated servers, one player can repeatedly win matches.
your point being?
I think a big majority of the retirements being done result in the player that retired selecting an item for his char and be done with it. There is little reason to retire, but even if you do, there is still little reason to sell your loompoint. Some people need it for their upkeep, others do that because it's more effective when you want a low priced item.
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My point is, heirloom points are not produced at a sustainable rate at the moment, which results in the prices going up.
why would they ? In my view the marketplace main role is to "get rid" of stuff you don't wanna use anymore, either through nerf or just because you are bored of it. At the time you sell, if you have half a brain, you check the actual prices, get half a decent price, take/need perhaps some more gold for a replacement of what you sold for another piece of gear. Over all, win!
Those who are making money out of it because they just like the meta game and also to get cheap looms instead of investing all the playtime themselves(i got no problem with that) and well ... they do need someone to buy it from wont they?
@Blueknight
the marketplace is a game within the game, why would you take that away from people enjoying playing it?
Even if some dudes would have a 100 loompoints in total in gear, that wouldn't make them the ueber player
There have come along from native, a lot of good players over time and they all rule without loomed gear.
But your suggestion with free monthly reloom of gear would make a great addition to the existing system, not replacing it but making it more versatile.
@Vodner
If like me you had a goal you are aiming for, yes retirments are getting tiresome at times, still being peasent again always gave me perspective and also the chance to develop tactics and sometimes just time to mess around and play less seriously hrhr.
Well no offense but people like you are the reason heirloom prices are "so high". I don't know whether you buy heirloom points or not, but those that complain about the prices usually are those that buy them, and those are usually the people that stopped retiring, which caused this situation in the first place. Like what, it's the heirloom point sellers fault if the prices are high ? 
That is a bit harsh, not like he alone planed it all from the beginning, the evil mastermind to fuckup the loomed prizes.
If at all it is the fault of our god chadz ;) , who is trying to test us till he finds a way to make our life better.
