So I went to the vendor in Org to buy Penumbra Thread and noticed the price had been increased.
So not only is Blizz causing the price of mats to plummet on the AH driving down the profitability of crafted items, now they are secretly increasing the vendor mats to add insult to injury??
From a previous post on this topic…this is likely the answer.
Also
it’s not undocumented.
My beef is not that it was undocumented, because it WAS documented, but rather the reason is punitive to people who don’t use the auction house: they changed it to offset the decrease in cost of commodities on the new shared AH.
I don’t buy commodities from the AH. I farm my own materials and grind up professions. Now it costs me more to use my own materials for crafting? That makes zero sense. Blizzard is basically saying I need to stop crafting things for myself and start buying them on the AH. I’m being charged extra for wanting to be self-sufficient. Blizzard really does hate solo/casual players.
I’m no economist but even I understand that raising a fixed cost because you anticipate a decrease in a variable cost doesn’t make sense. The variable cost could also go up. In the real world you wait for the market to change before raising costs. Are you going to make periodic adjustments to penumbra thread prices to keep them in line with the week-over-week profit margin changes for cloth item sales? What about the other similar fixed cost items like vials and flux? Has WOW become an economist sandbox?
As it is the AH is full of 30 slot bags selling below the price of thread. I don’t think some people pay attention to things like thread. They just factor in cloth.
I can remember buying those “useless” Jormungandr scales back in WOTLK for under a gold from the AH and then selling them to a vendor for around 3g each. It was funny then too.
The reason vendor craft trash goes up in price is to make shuffles less efficient.
An example of a shuffle would be something like farming leather back in BFA then crafting cestus fist weapons and vendoring them for… I think it was something like 75g? In this case the only mats needed was leather and scales. Scales were basically free and the leather was cheap, so on the whole you could just raid the AH when leather was 2G and just mass craft them while you AFK and then vendor them all.
But anyways, raising the price of something like thread and including it as a requirement on an item can let you make shuffles less profitable.
That’s yummy though when I make new alts and want cheap and easy bags.
edit: conduct
Just came here after being told there’s another Thallia around to say… this isn’t me, don’t treat them badly as if it were me. Two entirely different people.
Carry on.
Yeah, this change nukes the vendor shuffle that I was doing with the green cloth chestpiece that vendors for 43g and change. Pretending that cloth wasn’t worth anything (I had tons of it, and it was selling for a few silvers on my server’s AH) - buy thread for 7g20s at exalted, takes 5 to make the chestpiece, so you get about 7g in profit. That’s gone now but I suppose the price of cloth on the AH is better now so I can start putting it up for sale again.