Verite hammers sold I think 3 times in 2016 for a little less than a mil. I assumed that price was at least close to what I would get because not all of those 25 charges end up being successes. 25 charges does not equal 25 exceptional verite weapons. I guess things have changed now and green runics are making a price comeback or not everyone has one anymore. Mid-2016 they tanked big thyme and I think everyone who wanted one had one.
The valuation comes from the challenge of getting them more than the demand. They are not even remotely as difficult to obtain as valorite and only marginally more difficult than agapite. There's 19 of them on the shard right now so we're clearly not running out any time soon. Sure there's more agapite out there, but for the work, I'd rather use verite. Besides, it looks cooler. If someone's willing to pay more than a mil, more power to them. It won't be me, pretty much ever, inflation or not. There's a line in the sand where I'll either pay it, or just go make it. For verite runic hammers, that line is around 1m gold. For what it's worth, I've also lost two verite weapons in the field in recent weeks.