That’s like saying if herbs were tradeable, there’d no longer be a reason for them at all.
There shouldn’t be a limitation on being able to craft. It’s why I just stopped. Don’t have mettle? Can’t level crafting. Can’t fill orders. So I’ll just not even participate in the system and that’s less people helping others.
I admit I did greatly enjoy my garrison herb garden passively producing herbs on alts with the fairly trivial amount of gameplay required to harvest them.
But I do seem to remember some other people being less enthusiastic about the effect it had on the game economy.
You can’t buy mettle. So this doesn’t apply.
This isn’t Warlords. So this doesn’t apply.
I didn’t buy or sell herbs in WoD, I simply traded them amongst my alts. So I stand by my analogy to trading mettle amongst alts.
Again. This isn’t Warlords. Mettle is not an herb garden. So you can stand by your analogy all you want, but it’s extremely wrong.
shrug. Ok fine. If you don’t see it, you don’t see it. And if you don’t see it, it’s not helping communicate the point:
For better or worse, mettle exists to be a speed bump, to limit your per-character high end crafting. It’s the entire reason it exists in the first place.
So if you are talking about moving mettle between characters, you are really talking about allowing characters to escape that limitation. Which means you’re questioning whether mettle should even exist any more.
(And perhaps that’s a worthwhile conversation to have)
But the question remains: why? Why are we limiting how many crafters exist? All this does is make the system suck. There’s literally zero reason to do this.
No… it’s just another material for crafting. One that limits who can even craft.
Know what happened with that on my server? People didn’t have enough mettle, got disillusioned with the system and now there’s no one to craft anything.
And I have stacks and stacks of mettle I don’t need even on my crafting mains because I rarely encounter anyone asking me to craft anything.
Okay. So you didn’t answer any of my questions and just gave me some anecdotal statement that’s irrelevant.
They aren’t limiting the number of crafters, they are limiting the monopoly of any one crafter.
The goal of mettle was to limit any one crafter from becoming too popular, to try to get surplus demand to overflow to other crafters and/or make customers complete for that crafter.
When you ask why they would limit the number of crafters, my anecdote about having surplus mettle is to point out that there isn’t any shortage of crafters out there.
If only a few crafters have mettle and no one else is leveling their professions for lack of mettle, that’s creating a monopoly.
The forums, my server and various Discords concerning professions would like to have a word with you on that.
checks for crafting orders
sees NOTHING listed
(Correction: one alchemy order for cauldron of extracted putrescence is listed: I don’t fill those because I don’t do alter of decay runs and ordering a cauldron for myself to be able to fill an order for a cauldron is a bit circular on top of the negative income)
Don’t the two fellows on the bench offer a weekly mettle reward based on your artisan’s renown?
One with a lot of alts could accumulate a fair amount from that if it was BoA, though I don’t see how that would actually cause a problem…
It’s not for very much and doesn’t get you far. Especially with Inscription leveling.
Exactly. Especially this late in the expansion.
Okay, you claimed you wanted to have an actual conversation and you’ve yet to have an actual conversation, so I’m not even going to entertain you any longer. I tried to ask questions and give points in return, but all you’ve done is come back with poor anecdotes that don’t relate to anything. Have a good day.
If you ever want anything crafted, feel free to let me know.
A month or so ago someone was charging 10k for insights and he was asking if that was too high. Mettle was an issue for him because he was doing so many orders. His price allowed others who weren’t as aggressive about advertising, to get orders because they had lots of mettle and were willing to do it for a lower price.
Making mettle account bound would give him plenty of mettle again to fill those orders and the others wouldn’t have a chance. Now you might say he deserved those orders because he advertised so much but that is another issue.
So the more mettle, the lower the price of items. How is that… bad?
How? He won’t do the lower priced ones and others will.
None of this is making sense to me at all.
It’s also nearly 10.2. Why do people want to limit what others can craft and how they level professions??
if he has plenty of mettle you think he won’t lower his price? it is simple supply and demand
And again… how is a lower price bad? LOL This is just a weird conversation.
“Don’t allow alts to exchange mettle! Prices will drop!”
it is a weird conversation because you don’t want to think at all and want to argue - you went from not understanding how less people would be participating in the system if mettle was account bound to you making up me saying lower prices were bad.
Pretty sure you belong on ignore anyway.