I am ‘vendoring’ 10s of thousands of extra mats this XP. I don’t recall ever doing that before. Everything from blue ink pigments to hides and calcified bones to gems. Do you think this is an intentional design?
There’s blue ink on the AH for 15s and tempest hides for 10s and nobody needs them. It’s kind of crazy.
I think the BOP material requirements are one of the things that’s killing crafting (or at least turning people off from it) during this expansion.
In legion when mats got down to 1g you could make stuff and vendor the stuff you made for a small profit. Can’t seem to do that this time because there’s really nothing you can make that doesn’t require some sort of premium mat and there aren’t enough of those “special” mats to make use of all the other stuff.
Welcome to the end of xpack offload. Alot of that stuff was never worth much to begin with because it wasnt really useful for crafting. But take bloody bones for example and they are still strong at 6-8 gold a piece. Theres always junk mats and useful mats. But right now everyone is dumping their collected excess, clearing out banks and guild stores to make room for the new stuff coming
I think the AH speculators are keeping the price of those limiting mats like blood-stained bone up. They can control the entire leather market with one mat. But even things like the premium viridian inscription ink are rock bottom, which is not something that happened in Legion or before that I can remember. Crimson Ink is still over 10g but that’s it.
Bloody bones seem to have had a few nerfs to the popular farming spots recently and they are needed for the vendor shuffle so their price will always remain steady. But things like tempest hide and calc bones even at the beginning of bfa wernt worth anything.