Hi! The servers are in a weird spot right now with the Ashbringer material news. I think it would do a lot right now to reduce the price of the weapons you can craft from AQ. Currently an alt or a friend can get to 60 and get a full Scarlet set which lets them immediately do Naxx and these weapons would be a big aid to reduce the “rat” problem in some of these raids. As of now on Wild Growth Alliance, these are the crafting costs of the Obsidian weapons:
- Obsidian Claymore - 3542g (3080g bar cost)
- Obsidian Defender - 2447g (2390g bar cost)
- Obsidian Destroyer - 3179g (3080g bar cost)
- Obsidian Heartseeker - 2447g (2390g bar cost
- Obsidian Reaver - 3239g (3080g bar cost)
- Obsidian Sageblade - 2468g (2390g bar cost)
- Obsidian Stormhammer - 2549g (2390g bar cost)
The big issue with these costs isn’t the Idols, only 3 of them use a slightly expensive Idol. The biggest problem is the now inflated cost of Arcanite Bars and Obsidian-Infused Thorium Bars.
Arcanite Bars hover between 30-40g now. OIT Bars at a whopping 180g. Each craft needs 30-40 Arcanite and ~10 OIT Bars. Taking up a cumulative 92% of the craft. If crafting costs were reduced by 50% on just these two materials the crafts go down by about 1500g. A 75% reduction gets you closer to 2000g off the costs.
I love crafting in SoD. I’ve made a ton of gold myself crafting Lodestones and cloaks. I would love to see these items actually have a place in the market and be valuable for alts, or all the new folks coming into SoD and getting help from established friends. Getting their prices closer to 1000g crafting point would be amazing, and even more so if they got closer to the 300-500g point… this would allow the typical 10-15% markup to exist without totally reducing the value of these items or making them no brainers for people instead of raiding or getting BWL weapons with reals.
Just an idea if a systems designer on SoD has any time for a quick change for us <3