In BfA Nylon Thread is I believe less than 1g each. Yet in Shadowlands, Penumbra Thread are 9g each. Nine. Now, that probably doesn’t seem a big deal to many of you ultrarich players, but I’m more annoyed at the logic of it.
Take the 32 slot Lightless Silk Pouch. To make this requires 25 Thread. There is no option with the prices of this, its not something we can buy elsewhere. And at 9g each, thats 225g JUST to buy the thread, not to mention the silk. So even before you sell it, you are out of pocket around 500g. Just to make one bag.
I really don’t understand this. The thread was originally less expensive than it is now, although it was still higher than Nylon Thread. Why make an essential item that costly? Bags are useful things, not only to sell but to use yourself. It seems an unnecessary cost when it is compared to what came before.
Sometimes I swear Blizzard is deliberately attempting to destroy professions.
Basically they are twisting the knife in crafting.
Every expansion prior to Warlords I used to enjoy leveling all of the professions. The completionist in me wasn’t happy until I capped everything and tracked down as many hard to find patterns as possible.
Now I just gather and get my tailoring up high enough to make bags. It is rather depressing.
Yeah, I don’t get what they’re thinking on this is and I guess they’ve set all of them to 9g. That’s what the Blacksmithing flux costs too. One small thing on the plus side, the faction rep discount does apply on these. Buying the them in SW they cost 7g20s with exalted rep.
They’re expecting crafters to be making a lot of money this expansion with the legendary base items. So they made some of the mats a gold sink.
Also, if we’re gonna be mad about any profession, let it be enchanting. So many of my guildies are having trouble even leveling up. So far it’s only me because my enchanter is a blood elf, and one other guy who got really lucky on the eternal crystals.
Gold is falling from the sky this expansion. One example would be turning in a chore for your covenant and getting 3 trash items worth hundreds of gold each. That might have something to do with it.
This is yet another way they are trying to remove WoD and Legion gold from the game. Those that didn’t take the bait on 300k, 5m gold mounts now have no choice but to spend gold on this trivial stuff.
People saying gold is easy to get in this xpac obviously never played in WoD.
They already had a gold sink on the legendary items with the orboreal shards, they didn’t need to raise the cost on the basic items for non-legendary items as well.
I understand why gold sinks exist, but injecting more gold into the game via tokens only exacerbates the problems with inflation in the game. It’s to the point now that gold sinks only hurt the little guy in WoW.
Once you’re 75, you’re really screwed because you need crystals. I somehow got one and I don’t know where to get anymore. It’s a nightmare.
I may switch out tbh lol. P.S. Really nice mog!
So what I’ve been doing, since I don’t NEED my enchanting max’d right now is selling the crystals for stupid high prices, like I probably made like 65k on them just from DE’ing the ones I got randomly. And I’ll buy them back in a month when people are more settled into M+ and they drop by 50%.
I had tried to just keep them for leveling it up but that wasn’t going to work under an extra 450k at the time, so I’m putting it off.
You can get epic drop equipment from raids and Mythic & M+ dungeons.
When you receive a quest reward it can sometimes get boosted up to epic, if you disenchant it, you’ll get a crystal.
Your mission board will occasionally have a mission that rewards enchanting mats. That can also contain a crystal.
Unfortunately, all of those are pretty uncommon sources still. So, crystal prices are still high, but they’re starting to come down now that M+ is out.
I dont know if you’re just telling a little white lie and intentionally twisting reality to make your claims seem more bigger than they are…
…but just in case if you’re not, and instead are just clueless, I don’t know if you are aware but there are quite a number of vendors who sell Penumbra Thread for only 4g each. Not just 9g. Rather than shop at one and only 1 vendor, try to actually bother to shop around, or simply look up on wowhead who sells the cheapest.
Lastly the logic why blizzard upped the price of profession mats accross the board (not just tailoring) is to reduce “raw gold making”. Literally for many expansions people have been making sellable items, such as boes for pennies on the dollar. i.e. craft an item for 50 gold worth of mats, but sell for 250+ gold except multiply this by many hundreds or thousands of items dumped on the AH, and if you make the right item for cheap on the right server, literally can game and farm the auction house for millions of gold.
Tokens don’t inject gold into the game. They’re just another transaction, like me buying something from trade would be.
The only difference is that they move gold between servers, but they do not inherently create gold, not like the ~2k gold per day the calling gives you in addition to all the crap you get from vendoring stuff, wq’s and mission tables.
