As in the title. I do not understand why craftable-by-players base item is still a required item for the new legendaries? These pieces stay on auction house for insanely expensive costs for at least a few weeks. For an average player the prices are unaffordable unless they buy a WoW token. Game is literally pay-to-win just as much as something like Lost Ark is. Yeah you can eventually purchase it but without WoW token it’s gonna take you weeks. I’d like to know thoughts of the community on that matter? I understand that scamming RWF raiders for all their gold at the beginning of the race might be fun(for the crafters) but 90% of the community is suffering as well
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Opportunity cost, you don’t need the upgrade immediately to progress content.
Players set the prices.
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So be average and wait a bit for prices to drop.
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Well, I honestly hope this won’t be repeated in the next expansion.
I’d rather wait for the prices to drop and do my part by gathering the mats this early, especially Progenitor Essentias, and reap some cash.
Of course you can save them up as well and make your own base items, but it will take a lot of time due to no catchup and the huge mat costs on top of that XP thing. Even getting to rank 2 cloak was offputting, let alone rank 7… 
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yes and no. if you are a casual you’ll most likely not need a legendary (the same way I never did the legendary cloak in Pandaria, no thanks). if you are committed to raid and mythic, then yes, but this means you’re taking the endgame seriously and as such is your responsibility to be prepared.
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It is not really helping for the accessibility though. I do think it has gone a bit too far.
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Blizzard set how many materials are required for the legendaries, plus the cost of vendor materials.
Blizzard very much set the prices of legendaries. As someone who profited massively from the Legendary market in S1, it’s been something I have been shouting about.
If it wasn’t for the pandemic, I wouldn’t have been able to play without buying additional gold. That’s where I draw the line.
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eh, it’s easier than pandaria legendary at least. you need only gold and nothing else to have your legendary in shadowlands, maybe just some torghast runs with friends to get enough soul cinders but other than that we are golden in comparison with before.
or…craft them yourself.
easier yes, well sort of, the pandaria legendary you pretty much got with doing quests and nothing else, Shadowlands legendaries recuire you to farm and a lot, meening if you do not have time to farm for atleast a coupe hours a day you have to buy it, what again meens farm the gold or buy the gold to get one, and still you would have to farm Thorgast for it every week for weeks.
pandaria cloak you got eventualy if you just played the game, highest one maby not, but still.
Shadowlands unless you have the gold or buy the gold and farm thorgast, you will not get it, no matter what you do. this is bad and actualy directly contributed to gold sellers and boost runners to get more gold
well i don’t know how it was initially, but i got my soul cinders in a couple days last month because there was not any timegating and i simply spammed a dozen of runs at the highest level i could.
Highest itemlvl legendary items are not for average players.
it has been like this since launch of SL
how otherwise they would make such profits while loosing 90 % of players if not by milking whales.
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What a stupid comment. That doesn’t make them cheaper. If anything, it makes them more expensive since you have to craft loads of the lower ones that nobody wants.
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The raid will be here for like 8-10 months atleast.
You can wait a few weeks.
Blizzard should have changed that in 9.2 to craft 1 base legendary to get next rank.
Too expensive to craft 15 per rank per base legendary.
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Absolutely, this whole legendary thing has been a cynical exercise in how much they can screw people over.
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Yeah, i spended previous season 175k for my first leggo in the first week. The price stayed also for quite a while around ~125k. I bought in the 2nd week for my 2nd char the leggo, so i payed around 300k for 2 leggo’s.
I rerolled so i basically do not have leggo’s of a respectfull rank (i am using a R3 that i was able to buy for 7k a couple of weeks ago). I guess i am going to use the free belt we will get from the storyline. And then i will see the options for the 2nd leggo… But i will not spend fortunes anymore on it. I prefer to choose a R2 over an unpayable R7. It is a crap situation. I also understand they are difficult/espensive to make for crafters.
This must be a great day for botters
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The legendary system is dumb. It should not be so expensive and time consuming to level up legendary crafting. Also having to level up each slot seperately just makes it worse.
It feels like this system is made, to make you buy tokens or bot materials.
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