Hello,
ive been Playing the Beta a Lot and spend the Time to get the Merchant Favour faction to Friendly and get the 180 Coins to buy the Recipe for (Satchel of Bronze Bombs). // Thrown Weapon
I used the Copper Bomb Version before which is basically free since you get 50 Coins with the first Waylaid Crate turn in and has no Reputation Requirement.
For that, it was actually a nice Item. Damage, Stats and Attack Speed are fine for the level requirement.
But things change with the Bronze Bombs.
You Need Friendly which requires you to do about 15 Craftsman Wits that give about 75 Rep each or less if you do ones that give 125 (but then you need to go to high level zones like fellwood).
Each requires one of these Wits and then a specific Crafted Item from any Profession. You can do the same one only once ever 24 Hours.
I Traveld from Tanaris to Fellwood, Alterac Mountains to Wetlands. Booty Bay to Duskwood.
And then Obvioulsy the 180 Merchant Favour by turning in waylaid Crates that can give 5,10,20,30 etc. Favour based on Level and Rarity.
Overall, that alone would require you to spend dozens of Gold and a lot of Travel time to do.
Then you can buy the Recipe and Craft the lvl 28 Item.
Which does about 50 Damage per Hit and about 14 Aoe on each Target. Both can Crit.
Speed 2.0
To put that in Perspective, the Quillbor Blaster from RFK does about 110 Damage non Crit per shot on my Rogue. Speed 2.80
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My Issue is not even the Damage output. But the Requirement.
If this would just be an standard Eng recipe that you learn from your Trainer at 175 Eng i would say NICE.
But with the Rep Requirements and the amount of Merchant Favour NO ONE WILL EVER BUILD IT.
And it gets even worse if you look at the Iron Bomb Version for 280 Favour and Honored Rep.
In all Honesty.
Basically every single Crafted Item from the Merchants that is not on PreBis Level and has a Rep. Requirement will just never be crafted in all of WoW Forever.
They are all Bound on Pickup, so not Tradeable. Not usable on Alts.
There is no point for a lvl 30, 40, 50 to Spend potentially 100s of Gold (on launch you not gonna have) and Hours of Time (in which you will Outlevel that Item).
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I advocate to make ALL Craftable Items that are not on the level to compete with Max Level Dungeon gear to have NO Reputation Requirement and cost a Fraction of the Current Merchant Favours.
From 180 to at least 90.
And 280 to at least 180.
Otherwise, they will all be Dead on Arrival.