The cost is astronomical and they are needed for almost every alchemy potion, flask, or phial. Please forums tell me I’m not alone!
You are not alone.
I have basically just written off silver or gold quality vials. They may as well not even exist. I heard from a friend that it is at least partly because the shards needed to make them are a bit of a pain to acquire.
Still, it sucks. Much too expensive to use anything other than the bronze ones.
Why though? They are worth it and improve the quality of the things you craft with them.
I have been wondering about this.
Why destroy the profit margin on consumables?
Because I am not making stuff for selling, I am making cauldrons for raid mostly. The amount you have to spend on vials is just not worth that little bit of extra quality. Especially when just supplementing the mats with the ones I can’t gather myself already costs so much.
If you are selling them and recuperating the costs, sure, I see using the higher ones. But for personal use paying over 100g a vial when you often need multiple vials a recipe seems pretty steep.
Well for personal use it probably isn’t worth using Quality 3 consumables. However if I am selling them people will pay more for Quality 3, so it’s worth me paying for Q3 so that I use less concentration when making Q3 flasks/potions.
Ive been saying in other threads the problem is the rate of acquisition for Glittering glass.
Prospecting 2500 ore to only get 70-80 glass is abysmal! Especially since it takes 6 glass to make 3-5 vials??? At 80 vials a cauldron???
The math isnt mathin!
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That’s probably why glittering glass is currently selling for 120g.
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While most professions have a current problem in that it takes mountains of raw materials to get just a handful of secondary materials, jewelcrafting might just have it the worst right now. You can prospect stacks and stacks of ore and come out with some pebbles, a bit of glass, and loads of almost-useless gems.
And this is something that likely isnt going to be fixed with time, as glass ratios dont seem to go up with skill, but demand for glass is accelerating. Would not surprise me in the slightest if glass starts going for 250g or more as the demand for R3 finished consumables goes up.
Solution: give JC or blacksmiths the ability to generate glass directly via another material.
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Let me crush the hundreds of useless gems i have and use the dust to make glass.
Well, I just looked at the patron order for my alchemist and they all require level 2 vial. The vendor doesn’t sell them; I have to have a JEWELCRAFTER make them. They’re 180g per in the auction house and I need 5 for just one order.
This is insane! I used to love professions; A wonderful side-facet of WoW that was simply enjoyable and you didn’t have to jump through meaningless hoops, may favorite part of the game. But they’re so &#)&@!$ up now it’s like a second tedious time-sink of a job and I just don’t care anymore.
I’ve currently been trying to figure out the best way to get my Jewelcrafter to level the skill to be able to consistently make lvl 2 flasks because of the outrageous price difference on AH between 1 and 2 for my alchemist.
Why though? If you did so would it be at a loss or would you need to get a reource/multicraft proc in order to break even.
Don’t get me wrong I had this problem of having to make everything myself but eventually it sunk in that many times it’s better to just buy off the AH rather than spending more Gold in order to craft something myself.
People will say “But I gathered the materials myself so it doesn’t cost anything.” But if you can sell the materials for more than what you are crafting then you are losing Gold just to craft something yourself.
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use them and turn them into flasks, get a multi-proc and sell them.