Now if you want to make the similar version it’s gonna cost you a small fortune, if you use them regularly.
The elemental potion of ultimate power requires two, TWO! Awakened orders and 20 primal chaos. But even the “cheaper” version requires primal convergent, which is not cheap at all.
You gotta be out of your mind if you think i’m ever gonna use these for a measly 500+ main stat for 30 seconds.
In general professions at the moment are way too expensive. Not everything, but there are some things that are just absurdly costly for what they actually give you in practice.
The system is cool i guess, but this is crazy. Consumables are crazy expensive.
You need to either significantly improve drop rates or reduce or completely change reagents required for certain recipes.
I think a mix of both is optimal, for example, rousing order is way too expensive, increase the drop rate, while the recipes that require reagents that are crazy expensive should have their reagents completely changed.
Prices are not created, prices are discovered as the intersection of supply and demand.
If something is extremely expensive it’s either because demand is way too high, or supply is low, or both at the same time.
So how do you lower prices? You increase supply, or decrease demand. But one is generally better than the other, because duh. People want more stuff, not less.
The people create and put it on the AH, also gold isnt really a problem in wow you can earn millions in this expansion ofc i am not going to say how, figure it out. And you have no problems then.
If you’re gonna say that these things in particular are not too expensive, you’re just wrong.
And that’s about it.
Your argument is effectively:
These things are too expensive, and here’s why, and how you can reduce the price. And you’re like, well you can earn money with the ah… Yea no s Sherlock, it doesn’t change the fact that they are absurdly expensive, like do you enjoy paying absurdly high prices for something? I don’t wanna drop 50 k everytime i wanna buy a devotion enchant.
A basic supply&demand. Now a few profesion-holics cold a monopoly for having maxed out profs and creating r3 or r5 stuff. Hence the supply is low and demand is high so the price will be high. Give it enough time for even the casual of the casual Tim to max out his prof and prices will flunk.
Same happened before…at least in Legion, I remember making tokens left and right just by selling a few flasks. Mid-late legion and the flasks prices where not even worth getting the cheapest mats for it.
Iv’e already talked about this, and explained the mechanism of how it works.
I’m talking about a few specific things. And no, those things are clearly out of line in terms of prices, the reagents are way too rare or expensive to make.
The potion of prolonged power only cost marks of sargeras in legion, the potion that gives you stats now cost a lot more than that. In fact way too much.
I wouldn’t buy that stuff if i had gold cap. And keep in mind i am not that poor.
As of now, a few recipes will NEVER be cheap, or at least bearable to make or buy.
So ill make a real world example, when will gold ever become cheap? Not cheaper, but cheap.
Never, because gold is way too rare and in high demand for it to become cheap. The only way for it to happen is if there was a supply increase of gargantuan proportions. Or if we suddenly found a material to completely replace gold. Which will likely not happen, at least not in the near future.
Potions should NOT be so expensive, because they are consumables, even more than flasks or enchants. They are the most consumable item in the game in fact.
You said yourself. Gold is expensive because its rare and highly sought. Potions and the rest of consumables follow the same principle.
But unlike gold, the demand for consumables will drop cause people will grow tired of raiding/m+/pvp, will have reached their milestones(Curve, CE) and will scale down their demand, same as more people will become skilled gathers and crafters that they will provide more supply to the market.
Its basic WoW economy. Been like that since…WoW was created.
By all means, create an herb/alchemist alt and sell the flasks for 50 gold. Nobody is stopping you from it?
Potions of prolonged power were the only ones I ever used regularily in the past decade. Other potions are just too expensive to justify using at any point other than when you’re almost done with a mythic raid boss with a tight DPS check and hitting enrage
Potions are indeed absurdly expensive for what they are. And at no point in the past have this been the case.
Why do a simple potion cost Awakened Order? That’d be like if Black Lotuses (lotusi?) were used in the crafting of potions back in vanilla. Anyone that has played Classic would realize how absurd that would be. But here we are.
Leave that stuff for the flasks (or phials now i guess).