Arcane crystals and bars are spiking, and will remain high for a while without a fix. Naxx attune is now 3x as expensive as it was last week, catch-up aq40 crafted trinkets are twice as expensive, naxx tier piece turn ins are twice as expensive.
Did anyone think any of this through? SE requires naxx gear, it’s not really optional–so let’s not add an even steeper cost to the barrier to entry. Are the Dev’s trying to bring back some bot subs to farm mithril for endless hours? Yeah the cost is epic, but it’s so epic that everyone is going to assume anyone with it swiped a credit card. Insane.
I think a lot of people are taking t2 and 2.5 into SE because the nerfs to t3 and undead specific t3 6pc
But ya everything gonna be much more expensive now
For everyone?
My miner is making out like a bandit right now.
I think you really mean all the token paladins that just expected to be gifted the BiS 2H weapon in the game.
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I was just thinking the other day it sucks my miner/alchemist alt is useless now.
I get why Blizz did it…makes it relevant again
To make Thunderfury it costed around 7000g when it first came out
I scammed myself. I liquidated my arcanite when we learned will of the mountain wasn’t crafted, now prices are back up. Buy high sell low, kekw.
cashbringer 
credit to Jon, the wow sod secrets’ discord legend, for unintentionally creating the name in the other CA thread
It was said on Era as well long before any of this. If one of those drops on Era, everyone is getting paid well.
ah my apologies. didnt play era
trinkets right now are going for 2k+ minus some trinkets which go for 300g… for a complete new player I can’t even bother with such things in the current state… it’s already pretty overwhelming that I’m sitting looking for dungeons daily for reals that I have to also play the AH to get gold to gear further…
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This is a dumb take. Crafting thunderfury and hand of rag were both prohibitively expensive in P4/5 while being time gated as well. However most of the mats for Ashbringer can be farmed relatively quickly, by a raid group. The orbs and the obsidian bars which makes up like 80% of the weapons cost can can easily be farmed by a guild in a single lockout of AQ 20, AQ 40 and SE.
Legendaries were never supposed to be something a single player went through the effort of crafting (unless your crazy like me and farmed enough arcane crystals in P3 for 2 Thunderfury’s, before the double proc of crystals and double/quad proc of alchemy, that change legit crushed me lol). It’s supposed to be a guild effort, a collaboration of many peoples effort culminating in the Legendary.
Really the only exception to this was Atiesh which was very cost effective to aquire, but still required multiple raids worth of assistance to get completed.
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That’s the issue though, most guilds are not going to help the Ashbringer people with the mats, my guild has already said that you are on your own to farm the mats if you are on the list, so most people will have to farm out these mats by themselves to get their ashbringer, which is going to be impossible for most with how inflated this stuff is going to be now and not everyone has a mining alt to be able to farm this stuff. The mat requirements need to be cut in half, 10 bars, orbs, obsidian bars, and 60 truesilver is a lot more reasonable for this then what the current requirements are. And the rest of the questline directly contradicts what you are saying about it being a guild effort, after the hilt quest, the rest of the questline is doable solo, one part even requires you to do a solo boss challenge, the only part that requires a guild is the Iron and Hilt, which should fulfill the group effort requirement for a legendary, it did for Atiesh so why should this be different? Plus, why are melee screwed again with a high cost legendary when casters got theirs for free and possibly within one lockout? The casters got a free legendary, yet melee get screwed again.
Prices will go down since most people are far away from the completion.
Atiesh was already in the game and required farming naxx and killing the final boss of 2 end game raids.
Tokenbringer drops off the 2nd boss and the bars can be gotten from the weekly quest. Its the new welfare legendary and it should cost something.
Agree. A phase 8 legendary should be rare and impressive.
if they dont have mining alt then they can create a mining alt. i fail to see the problem. the most difficult part to get is the truesilver assuming you bought nothing and thats the cheapest mat.
All these dumb takes from people saying that CA should be a massive gold sink when Atiesh is literally free of mats. And a majority of those people don’t even play.
I bought 200 arcane crystals when they went down to 13g.
Easyyy
“wtf why can’t I get a BIS legendary for free???”
sounds like retail is the game for you
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