Asked for T5, got T4. Now I have to waste acuity for a recraft

[Loveleigh-moon-guard]

@Shadybolt-thrall

The Bind on Pickup, aka. soulbound reagents, is what makes the crafting order system work in the first place. This is why these aren’t BoEs and why they aren’t anything remotely like the legendaries in SL. Because every single item is crafted at the time when it is wanted, and not mass produced with no soulbound component dictating that a player has to engage with the game in order to utilize the gear.
In essence, you can’t disconnect any one item that is soulbound from the templates themselves as they are a key component of it to make the system work. This is why you saying “[…] were it not […]”; I’m not saying you don’t get this or that you are saying that components can’t be soulbound or anything else than that… I’m simply pointing out that one cannot disconnect them in the sense of distancing the way you are doing.

The system, and items, work because they are soulbound. It ain’t a case that “these items work, but we make them soulbound.” Which is how I’m reading your framing of what you are saying here.

@Paulshack-nerzhul

1 - You honestly don’t believe the player base back then would call each other twinks out of frustration in battlegrounds as an insult? Because i specifically remember worse being said. I’m not encouraging the behavior, but I’m also not trying to rewrite history here. Both can be true.

And this is fundamentally misunderstanding my entire point.

I’m very well aware that crafting orders exist to deal with BoP – my entire post was about how orders are not actually creating items that are meaningfully more complex than existed prior to the order system, such as BoEs with missives. You cannot compare it meaningfully to a handcrafted piece of work IRL vs. a generic item because there is no such actual difference.

I probably could have made my point clearer, but you’re pretty obviously trying to read the worst version of my posts, and I have no idea what your agenda for it is.