I want to lead by saying, I’m really enjoy SOD P2 and the Gnomer Raid. I think Blizzard did a great job upscaling it and the mechanics are much better than BFD.
But…
Blizzard’s failure to control gold being injected into their game from outside sources has resulted in them putting the onus back on us. This is an effort to gold sink out the Botted/RMT gold. The problem with that, is that those of us who haven’t rmt’ed gold are now left with ridiculous costs which are prohibitively expensive to the majority of casual and semi-hardcore people.
- They increased the cost of mounts/training from SoM without warning.
- They gave each profession a new crafted item.
- They price the patterns for those items extremely high.
- They make the total number of items needed to craft extremely high.
- They make items needed to craft well above the current level (dream dust, enchanting sigil), and there are no crafted items to d/e into dream dust, forcing people to farm mobs well above their level (hit issues).
This is all in an effort by blizzard to bleed out the extra gold in SoD. They failed to do their job in keeping RMT gold out, so their solution is to price gouge everyone.
This is completely unacceptable, and Blizzard should be ashamed.
*Edit.
Additionally, these gold sinks are just going to encourage botting and RMT, because “the dads” don’t have time to farm the gold they need to make these items.