is there a reason why mail legendaries are like 10x more expensive than cloth / plate?
ilvl 225 is like 150k on my server and 235 250k++ for chest.
so i need around 400k to craft a legendary as mail wearer while my priest friend gets them for around ~10k?
I got all my mail pieces for 14-20K.
Maybe it’s just your server.
Ask people who post them, but my bet would be leather mats are just rariest
Rank 3 and 4 are far more expensive.
I was curious so I checked the prices for the mats required, at first I thought it was 45k but it’s actually 79k currently on my server and the finished product is at least 100k, the average across all server is not that far.
For now I suggest to not buy them and let prices go down, it’s already -20k gold since yesterday on my server.
It’s because of the material cost. With heavy callous hides at 2k a pop and 15 required for a r1 piece (5 enchanted+5 normal) you’re looking at 450k to rank up one slot to rank 2 in heavy callous hides alone, let alone the other materials, with no real return of investment because everybody wants rank 3 or 4 now.
Well, nobody plays cloth wearers, while everybody plays a hunter. Enha and rshaman being meta specs doesnt help you either.
On top of that, everybody loots cloths. Only few ppl have skinning. I suppose you still need leathers for mail crafts, right?
I have just accepted i will never be able to afford a 235 piece ever, they always hover around 150k-250k a piece, i can’t afford that.
Price of Heavy Callous Hide on some servrs is the reason.
On my server (Dreanor) one goes from 1.5 to 2.5k … And you need 15ish of these (and some other things) just to craft Rank 1 base.
Imagine how it is expensive to get to get to rank 4 …
Btw you can always get a Back, Ring or Neck legendary …
Cause material wise lightless silk is a direct drop compared to caulous hide or what not thats needer
It doesn’t help that it’s more profitable to just sell the hide instead of crafting and selling the base item.
Step 1: Pick up skinning
Step 2: Skin 24/7 for like 2 months, until you have about 1200+ Heavy Callous Hides. Send 800 of those to your maxed enchanting alt to enchant.
Step 3: Pick up leatherworking, push that to 100, learn the patterns
Step 4: Spend 125k before rep discount in vendor mats to level it to rank 4 and craft your rank 4 legendary.
Step 5: Put all the rank 1 and 2 junk on the AH for a fraction of the price of the materials just to get rid of them, flooding the market and making it even more difficult for everybody else to be able to afford levelling up their own crafts.
Repeat for every slot you want at rank 4.
Or just :
Step 3 - sell the skins(at 2.5k that’s 3 million) and buy a lego for 250k.
Step 4 - Profit
i understand what u say but why are the other armor type legendaries selling for literally nothing
this needs to be fixed asap and reduce the amount of materials needed or w/e; we will need to craft alot of legendaries this expansion and no way everyone needs to farm millions of gold for that
So there’s the blue hide of the expansion needed massively to craft those.
Turns out blizzard did a ninja nerf on the droprate of those hides (trolling the biggest part of the classes of the games is fun i guess)
If you look at cloth legendaries they only need the white and green cloth, that’s why they’re obviously way way cheaper.
It’s an investment for money making. And it’s rather risky, because of constant underbidding. It’s just useless to level up leatherworking, the chances are you’ll never cover those expenses. About cloth and plate, there’s a lot less demand, cloth drops from literally every humanid on all characters, ore is a lot cheaper because of bots/multiboxers.
Paid my 225 torso 150k. I’m broke.
Consider that only one person can skin a beast before it despawns, but multiple people can tap the same ore or herb node before it despawns. Mats for LW are considerably scarcer, which I imagine drives up the price as a result.
Really a change to skinning would be welcome at this point.
Resto sure is good, but enha hardly meta spec at all (ever since wod)…
This is the problem. The drop rate of the materials are simply too low 
Guess i have to craft rings and cloaks instead