On Wednesday, July 8, a patch was applied to Sol: Enchantment (hereinafter 'Sol') regarding Nine Cores, a key source of diamonds for minnows. Unlike the previous system, which only restricted accounts below a certain level, the new patch limited all accounts to crafting only five Nine Cores per week.

However, a notice on Thursday, July 9, announced a follow-up patch allowing characters level 40 and above to craft 10 per week, and characters level 50 and above to craft an unlimited amount. This is expected to cause significant price volatility once again. We have compiled the current market prices for key items, including Nine Cores, based on the streamer servers Caltheon and Lindel.

We first examined the price of Nine Cores, the focus of this patch. The average market price across the tracked servers is 64.73 diamonds; consuming 1M EXP and 100k Nine yields an average of 60 diamonds.

While the price of Nine Cores spiked on Wednesday, July 8, when the crafting limit was first imposed, it has been falling rapidly since the end of the Nine Core consumption event that coincided with the Tower of God launch. In particular, prices on the Caltheon 2 server have dropped into the 30-diamond range, leading to growing calls from users for more ways to consume Nine.

Meanwhile, for equipment Enchant Scrolls obtainable as field drops, Normal spellbooks are selling for 11.08 diamonds, Divine spellbooks for 232.8 diamonds, and Cursed spellbooks for 2852.4 diamonds. All three types of spellbooks have seen their prices drop rapidly.

With the end of the event that allowed entry to the Tower of God by consuming Nine for 3 hours daily, most users have found it difficult to access the tower after their 7 hours of free weekly time expired. While it was expected that the price of mid-tier materials would rise, most have remained stable or seen a slight decrease, with the exception of mid-tier gems.

General materials, which had risen in price because they were not dropping in the Tower of God, have fallen sharply as more users hunt in standard hunting grounds. In particular, iron and gems, which drop in the popular hunting grounds of the Artaron Temple and the Cursed Mountains, respectively, showed the most notable declines.

The Teleport Scroll for another floor, required to enter the second floor of the Tower of God, shows a wide price gap. On servers where top-tier guilds have a monopoly on major hunting grounds, prices have fallen rapidly, while they remain high on servers that are open to general users. Notably, on the Lindel 1 server, they are selling for 149 diamonds—more than 30 times the price on the Caltheon 4 server, where they are cheapest.

The price of Divine Shards, a crafting material for Gaiters, has fallen by nearly half compared to last week. It appears that top-tier users, for whom every stat point provided by Gaiters is valuable, have already finished crafting them. Meanwhile, mid-to-low-tier users do not see enough merit in crafting them.

Epic Spirits and Epic God Armor show significant variance depending on the type and server, but they appear to be maintaining a price point around 20k diamonds.

In addition, Bonus Time Stones for the Tower of God remain expensive, serving as a reliable source of diamonds for mid-to-low-spec users hunting in the tower.

Epic grade items are so rare that there are only a few on any given server, leading to large price discrepancies for the same item across different servers. The 'Curse Sleep' skill, in particular, has four listings on the Caltheon 2 server alone, resulting in an unusually low price due to competition among sellers.