So you’re telling me I need about 50k in reagents provided by me to get like 70 gold and 2 profession knowledge?
This seems like some sort of scummy way to entice whales to blow money on WoW Tokens.
Who else could this aspect of Patron crafting orders possibly be designed for?
You get some patron crafting orders for epics, you have to give tons of expensive materials, and the reward is the same reward you get for making blue stuff where it costs barely 100 gold to make it? That doesn’t seem right whatsoever.
Either reduce the materials requirements for the epic crafting orders, or the rewards need to be SUBSTANTIALLY increased to match the huge investment it’s asking of you.
It’s utterly ridiculous how it is currently.
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material prices are determined by the players, so i doubt there will be any changes made. it is up to you do decide if the investment is worth the acuity/knowledge (or skill up if that’s what you are after). it is really easy to say ‘not worth it’ and wait for the next round of orders to come up
o yeah they are complete terrible, not worth it just ignore them
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I only do them on my BS IF the mats are cheap enough AND I have them, as a Miner, I usually do, though. I will NOT craft anything purple because that is a monumental waste of resources.
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It depends on the profession. Some are fine and others aren’t very well thought out.
Blacksmith is notorious for having very expensive ones to complete, Engineering can also run into this problem.
I think another issue is requiring you to spec a certain way in order to complete them. Either through unlocking recipes or having to dump enough KP into a certain area in order to be able to get the required quality.
Just for an example I got all Rank 3 missives one week and had to spec into Missives to be able to get that quality.
Alchemy is another one that often requires Quality 3 potions/flasks. I don’t bother with them because that requires almost all my concentration which is basically potential Gold right now.
whales aren’t buying tokens - whales in this game are those with 100s of millions of gold.
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I’m talking about IRL whales, and if you know anything about them, they typically spend all their in-game currency on goodies right away.
They are bad period and please dont say its because what people sell mats for…
this has nothing to do with it… it has to deal with recipes requiring like 100 dust or almost 250 Ore for just a useless 10 acun.
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if the mats didn’t cost anything or were always provided by the npcs, you wouldn’t be griping at all. if it’s not worth it, don’t make it.
why is it when someone doesn’t like a certain aspect of anything new they automatically assume that there is no other way to do things without buying a stupid wow token instead of possibly getting items themselves, doing activities for gold, using alts. please help me understand
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Why do people not understand that spending your own time and resources still costs them?
If you farm those resources you could still sell it on the AH and have that Gold instead of spending 10k-40k for 10-30AA.
It’s probably the part where “buying a stupid wow token” bypasses all of the other stuff entirely.
Just a wild guess.
They never said there wasnt… OP is 100% spot on concerning patron orders. 10 acuity to make a 70k gold item? Why…are orders mostly rank 3? So burn my concentration, TONS of gold, and give me 50 gold back? Who…is in charge of this?
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I do most of mine and farm all my materials. It would be nice if the patrons covered a little more.
but why is “blizzard is FORCING me to buy a wow token because things are too expensive!” always the first response to anything in wow. I understand that the orders suck but at the same time you don’t need to buy a wow token for anything in this game. I’m not trying to take away from the actual stupidity that is the requirements for patron orders and how it should be changed, but in the second little blurb in the op, wow tokens are brought up as some kind of boogey man that you have to buy instead of all the other options that the game gives you
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When the items are just disappearing into the ether there is really no excuse for Blizz to expect top end mats from patron orders. It’s kind of a scummy way to try to create some scarcity.
And it really only effects the player because the bots are the ones they are buying the mats from for these after they spend real money on a blizz token.
What OP said was this ^ which is not this:
Or this:
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I’m not really all that affected, the only thing limiting me is artisan acuity and concentration, my reagent bank is filled with just the mats I use because it’s faster to farm than generate the time gate resource. Would be silly to pay money just to still have to wait.
I haven’t as yet and won’t. Just first craft using gathered mats.
btw one token just lets you forget your wasting money for a while.
There are players with I guess at least 5 times that.
A retail only player for the last 20 years must be swimming in the stuff.
It’s really not hard for the devs to go “Oh hey, this craft requires 125 Bismuth Bolts. Maybe that’s a bit too much. Let’s make sure the NPC always supplies it.”
Or “Oh hey, this craft requires a material that requires a Null Stone, which is incredibly rare when mining. The NPC should supply that too”
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