Bump for PaiPai<3. It is more over pride of owning a character, it is about economically speaking on time spending vs. alternatives.
WS is more useful than bio for those who wants to set a line of themselves on gear-wisely. I remember countless people asked me for borrowing my WS for them to upgrade because they wanna keep it low profile. Thinking about where those +10 IP and +10CK coming from.
Well, if odin leeching is still here, lower than 45M was okie. Not now though. Making a WS from starting is not cheap. Leeching wisely, not all people have full exp boosting gears.
Not to mention when you leeching yourself, you didnt make much money from it.
Let's make a list
18M lvl99 character
1 to lvl 69 3.5 hours
69 to 90 10.0 hours
go lh3 starting at lvl90 because there isnt much way you can earn 2.5M/hr in niff usually. I even doubt how many can make 2M/hr nowadays without using upgrades and resell.
lvl90 to lvl98 takes about 8 hours by the time of 98 at this rate, probably job68 to 69.
job68 to 70 takes 6 to 8 hours (say 7 hours here)
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total hour used = 3.5+10+ 8 + 7 = 28.5 hours
like we say, 2.5M/hr if you sell that kind of fast leech. 2.5M/hr * 28.5 hours = 71.25M
71.25M + 18M (non-trans lvl99) = 89.25M
now say, from lvl69 to lvl90, you started to greed and say averagely you make about 1.5M/hr (since lower lvl gives less income while earning more at higher lvl.)
1.5M/hr * 10Hr = 15M
Net cost = 89.25 - 15M = 74.25M
Sure, some people might sell it low for thier own reasons. I have even heard people traded sqi with some job70 trans too. The act was wise or not; that is out of the topic of discussion. Rather than that, it is the beautfy of free markets. However, economically speaking, selling at 50M is pretty fair.
Above are based on the experience i played on RO on my WS. I do play WS pretty often. I have|had experiences to mjoh, meg, brys, meg, suiken.