Dunno what else to tell you hulk, after 6 months for me, the only real bottleneck may be bismuth and that other thing you dun want your thread about. The other mats, my alt army provides. I sometimes run out of bismuth and have to use the AH for that. The other problem I told you has been addressed for me in a suitable manner. I noticed the alloy bottleneck early on and turned around to be able to produce em. It did delay my filling of the armor tab, but I am working on it now and the alloys are contained.
My bs is specced to produce the alloys if required in good quantiles if I go all out on them. Four spark WOs you say? Are they all for KPs? 2s? Or 1s? Or some pithily 10 AAs? You gotta make choices. Id leave the 10 AAs there. Personally for KPs Id go for it, better get them than having it comes back in 2 parts with flickers. But you can leave em there too. Id go for flickers too prolly. Like I said, 6 months in, I rely a lot less on the AH to fill my alloy requirements. Got a multi tool and the multi/resource part of ignition is filled.
Now you’re starting to understand. It only took a handful of comments. Regardless of the rewards (irrelevant), if I decided to skip the crafting order, it would be the only profession where I had to do that. Which brings us back to why the original post was created. Glad we could finally get back to the spirit of the post.
Then this post isn’t for you. This post is for people who enjoy doing the professions and keeping up with all of the knowledge points and acuity. Even though the acuity isn’t needed for any of my characters anymore either, the completionist in me likes to do them all and then turn them in for the aa bags. That alone shouldn’t dictate one profession being more expensive to craft with than any others. It’s a small oversight, and should be addressed.
?? Orrrrr just have them supplied in the Patron Crafting Orders MORE OFTEN than they are now. I shouldn’t have 4 items in my orders that require 28 of anything that isn’t already easily accessible in game. There are plenty of solutions I’ve already given that you either just didn’t read or glossed over in spite of disagreeing with me for whatever reason.
Yeah, blacksmiths really got the raw end of the deal on this one. Gathering for it just takes way too long and needs super rare mats. I don’t know if all the mats need filled in patron orders, but the ones with the rarest mats need too be WAY more often then they currently do, especially for blacksmiths because sanctified alloy is a massive pain.