It’s almost always more profitable at this point in the expansion to not bother disenchanting for the Vibrant shards and even if there was the time to disenchant things far, far, far less profitable then other content.
What you did, effectively lowers every single item that uses vibrant shards as a component to produce. Which means less gold spent overall. If there was too high of a drop rate or some exploit, you deal with those directly.
TLDR: Reducing vendor price of Vibrant shard INCREASES everyone’s total wealth since less money is spent on all items that use it as a component. In fact, mats like hockenbloom should also have a higher vendor cost. 50 silver for Hock is never worth farming for gold. Even one gold per hock is never worth farming for gold.
To sell to a vendor. They used to be about ~7g50s. Now it’s ~3g75s.
The token in WoD was only like 20-40k max. So I see why in legion the dropped the cost of mats since it was easy to gain weath from selling off overfarmed stuff. Now the token is over 10x the amount due to inflation. In WoD what was a gold mine to farm is now insignificant and a huge timesink and gold loss to farm.
You shouldn’t assume that just because they voice a concern that they are directly effected by it. I have no shards to sell and will otherwise personally stand only to gain. It is, however, bad policy that is contradictory to their aims and that does affect me and everyone else.
How is reducing vendor prices to incentive leaving crafting mats in the player crafting market vs. vendoring them to an NPC bad policy? Also, what aims is it contradictory to?
It seems that your entire argument is that lowering the price for crafted goods is somehow bad, but I don’t think that you’ll find much support from the general player base.
Overall player gold and gold sinks. It’s an economy. If you didn’t understand what I said above, well… I’ll repeat my example. It’s pretty easy to see that people wasting time farming hockenbloom at this point will never be able to acquire any wealth. It is never worth gold/time to farm a hockenbloom nodule. Likewise, it’s never worth the time and effort to produce vibrant shards and when many disenchant they are unknowingly losing gold rather then straight up selling to a vendor. If you still don’t understand, then well, video game economics isn’t for you…
It’s never even occurred to me to vendor shards. They didn’t even have a vendor price until this expansion, as far as I know, which is honestly kind of annoying because it gave them an AH deposit cost when previously that defaulted to 1s
There is no issue. People were buying underpriced shards from the AH and selling them to vendors for the higher vendor price and the OP is upset that it is no longer an economical practice after Blizz lowered the shard’s vendor price. They were essentially making free gold by exploiting people who hadn’t caught on.
Although, I’m pretty sure they changed the price in 10.0.5 so it’s weird they are bringing it up now.
It was changed within the past week, likely Tuesday.
I had never even done so and take offense to the baseless speculation. If people had done so, it is still good for the overall economy, but you don’t understand video game economy. So you throw out baseless attack, speculation, with a complete and utter lack of civility.
It may have been reduced MORE on Tuesday, but it was definitely reduced in 10.0.7 from 9g 34s 1c to 7g 50s…
But I guess since the vendor price was above market price again it makes sense that they decided to nerf it more.
I think it’s pretty clear that they don’t want people vendor flipping vibrant shards. Really, they should just remove the ability to vendor them and be done with it.
Uh huh. More. You just looked stuff up and are covering for your BS that you spouted earlier. Think it’s clear that you aren’t worth interacting with so ignore land.
EDIT: I did actually put Nikolo on ignore. Not worth verbally sparring with trolls everyone looks stupid in doing so and encourages bad behavior / incivility
Hardly. If you call someone a liar in real life straight off the bat and make up stuff, they aren’t going to interact with you anymore and avoid you. People get away with far too much trolling and incivility online. Be civil, demand everyone else be civil. Accept no less.