I wonder about that "insane" ROI.
How much of it is true and how much of it is sustainable?
Is that ROI mostly looting other rare tokens in mayhem? and if so doesn't it quickly devaluate the weapons initial price?
I think the OP is onto something for a bottom price. Sure one can wait until one loots one or more rare tokens, but what for people that don't?
And what a the point that all UL weapons are sold out of vendor? Unless they will continually restock every mayhem, in which case the weapon value will drop a lot over the years.
Also, that ROI assumes either that one values one's time as worthless, or one uses a bot.
ROI of a weapon is not like ROI of deeds.
It's something you still have to work for, a lot, if you want more value on your investment. And you have to work quite a hard. People that cannot be arsed to find even 800 peds profit (it's peanuts), no matter how much time they would have to do such a task, should not bother at all with these kind of tools, it's definitely 100% not for them, not now, not ever. Use the (L) version guys.
ROI of a weapon is very different than the potential of a weapon. The prices have been pushed up by resellers beyond the potential, for the loot 2.0 items and then the lockdown came and demand spiked past what resellers were asking just months back, past what most people (including me) thought it was ridiculous. The interesting is that opportunities followed, increasing value of these even further.
And since ROI of a weapon depends on one's ability to find opportunities past the norm, have more patience than the norm, push harder than the norm, this ROI will be very different for each of us thus is not subject to put under the microscope and explained in depth for everyone to understand (even with drawings and explicit specifications from developers people struggle with the basics). ROI is very different from person to person and depends on a ton of factors:
- do you have knowledge of what and when to hunt? and what NOT to hunt?
- will you tier it?
- how fast? do you know the cost of tiering and the struggle to find the mats?
- do you have good enough defense to have most opportunities available?
- do you have decent rings and attachments?
If you play "for fun" (too lazy to find markup and just want the big swirlies) or if you're after pure skilling (HP, evade, biggest lvl ingame) these have no ROI, they are not assets, they are liabilities. If you count the tokens for the value of Adj Hedoc, you'll get smth even worthless
Some players hunt "for fun only not for profit" for years then they whine they lost too much. Players that hunt for profit also hunt for fun, the difference is that those who play for profit, always have fun.
So because of all these, there can't be a base for the MToken. Once that's generally accepted. You said pills, I say the top item in vendor. Some may say adj hedoc or some other worthless item from vendor (did you see that people pulled (L) Mayhem amps from the vendor?). So no, this is not how to find out what's the ideal cost of a BP110, comparing it with pills price... and premium is not given by grinders, ROI, resellers, but by demand and opportunities.