Crafting is BROKEN

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This “craft 50 of your legendary base items to level up” system is so beyond broken it’s a joke.

The AH is flooded with 190 items that are listed for 1/20th of the material cost. Even 210 items are going for 1/10th the cost.

The levelling system forces you to craft an excessive amount of items with no hope of making any of your costs back. There is absolutely no personal benefit to crafting your own rank 3 or 4 gear because it’s cheaper to just buy it off the AH way below cost.

Broken system is broken.

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Oh my gosh I forgot about professions…

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yeah i was genuinely surprised at how cheap all the legendarys are, but again this is why blizzard should, of banned multiboxing and not just the software that enables it.

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Wouldn’t the best way to make a decent amount of gold be to have a alt or a another person help you collect the mats for the items and than sell them. You also can’t blame blizzard for the player ran economy. Since people down cut and up cut people all the time. I do it myself constantly to make a good chunk of money or just to troll.

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I made a post about this before SL came out, All i heard was Oh your gonna make so much gold it doesnt matter.

The whole thing was build for Rich guilds, Goblins with infinite gold and of course token sales.

The profession system this time around was an insult to customer wallets they know how many of us are completionist, did you see how fast those tokens dropped in price like one day from 150ish to 110ish.

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That doesnt sound like you’re complaining about a broken system, it sounds like you’re complaining about a broken economy.

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I regret buying mine last week -.- 30k thrown into the Maw.

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Also doesn’t help that a lot of people aren’t making legendaries yet so they don’t get kneecapped and stuck with a subpar piece of gear.

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That has absolutely NOTHING to do with multiboxers.

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Yea I don’t want to hear any of this nonsense. Take a look at engineering and how bad it is.

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I wonder how much gold was purchased in a vain attempt to catch the 15 man whales having all slots rank 4 right away.

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Buy low sell high.

I’m buying elethium for 15K and selling for twice that.

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Agree completely; what lazy design

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You think blizz will ban having extra income on one players account?

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It’s not about multiboxers. It’s about the fact that to level a recipe you need to craft 15 of the base item. So you get the one you wanted, and have 14 left over - that then get put on the AH.

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It’s pretty excessive. It would be less of a problem if they didn’t discontinue the scrap machine.

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It’s both, but the design of the crafting system massively exacerbates the problem by forcing every crafter to flood the market.

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yeah but mutliboxers control the mats prices. you think someone selling over 500 herbs was collected by one toon? nah. not even farm guilds can get that much in such a short time.

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But this post isn’t about the cost of herbs, it’s about the cheap price of Legendary Base items in the AH.

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Lmao yeah, the moment I heard about this system and how it required 15 crafts to rank up I knew it would be a joke and a disaster. It should be 3, MAX. Better yet, it should be a quest or something more interesting, to learn the next rank of ilvl base.

Crafting 15? Are you kidding me. With the in game tips now telling you you can find things on the auction house, they aren’t even hiding the fact that they want people to pay $RL money for tokens anymore.

Such a slap in the face. Remember when Blizzard had dignity? Make no mistake, this system is entirely deliberate and entirely designed to sell more WoW tokens and move towards P2P/P2W.

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