We need to talk about current T3 material cost

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Can something be done about the materials needed for T3? Specifically “cured rugged hide”, which is so hard to get by that it’s currently up for 70-80g each on Living Flame EU. That’s just insane if you ask me, considering how much you need if you are a rogue for example.

3000g ish for the pieces you need + the T3 ring has arcane crystals going for 80-90g each so that’s another 900g.

So currently 4000g to get you geared in Naxx. That’s a bit… pricey?

Maybe reduce the cost a bit or make it easier to get the materials somehow?
I am not against sinking some gold into your gear but currently it seems a bit over the top.

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Level letherworking? You had 8 months, all needed cured rugged hides for the set can be made in 42 days with just 1 character. Their drop is also increased 3 times compared to classic (1 per 3 days in classic vs 3-5 per 3 days in sod). people just lazy to level professions.

You can also level 35lvl alt for letherwork + optional tailor or alchemy, its really fast to level to 35 in sod with all runes. All price for levelling leatherwork will be cash backed with just 1 refined deeprock salt cast. (you need just level to 250 to make refined deeprock salt, 300 for procs for cured rugged hides but you can just sell refined deeprock salt and get almost same money)

Ofc it’s insane that they cost much more then in classic with 3 times more drop rates when reagents for most sets are also reduced (in classic for some pieces you need for example some mooncloth and some rugged hides when in sod only 1 reagent), so its not blizzard problem, its problem that people really so lazy to just level professions

No, 4k for full bis set is not pricey. On prev phase some bis trinckets were 3k for 1 item. So maybe 4k for set is not so much? It’s really easy to make gold now in sod. Even just with ah flipping you can make couple thosands per day as prices are very volatile for some items (especially low level leather/cloth that can cost 5s one day and 50s other, also zg coins is very good option buy all that below 1,5-1,8g and sell for 1,99g a bit later - same with bijoes if they below 12g).

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Be a hunter on ally price is so cheap

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That doesn’t seem too bad, you can farm 4k in a few days on most classes with just mining.

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You’ve had ages to farm the gear ahead of Naxx coming out, and even if you had to purchase it, 3-4000g is low in the current economy.

I got all my Wartorn through Wartorn Undermine Supply Crates, ahead of the buff to em, for both of my raid characters.
If you just play the game, use gathering professions and crafting professions for your characters, getting a hold of the mats is quite easy.

Cured Rugged Hide you only need a single Leatherworker with 300 skill to craft, then you can have a few level 35+ alts with 250 skill to use the Salt Shaker. With 3 characters, I am getting about 20-30 hides a week, which is enough for like 4-5 pieces of Tier, from just crafting a single week.

Arcane Crystals just requires you to travel around mining. We’ve had 4+ phases of gathering that.

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Nothing needs to be done.
Play the game.

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Yet everything was done for phase 4 mats. Core leather, librams of resilience etc all accessable via reals.

Blizzard just need to add t3 mats to reals vendor and this will solve the issue. Also remove librams of resilience from the reals boxes as they are utterly useless now.

People saying play the game and to not change anything are those grossly profiteering from this. They are a racket which must be broken.

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That’s about the amount of gold i lost for my legendary mace on my druid months ago being the first in the guild getting it, even though i had prepared already a lot of arcanite bars and got the ingots from my guild. I got 1 piece for that to be replaced in the next phase, you are getting a whole 9p set for that amount.

Also you don’t get to pay that amount of gold in 1 go unless you’ve saved up all tokens.

The mooncloth and cured rugged hides to me are a non-issue as i had saved up my mooncloths for mage, warlock and the few i need for druid and the cured rugged hides for druid and rogue because i have 2 tailors and 1 leatherworker. I was even able to craft stuff for guildies because i had my mats saved up for myself.

Arcane crystals aren’t going to be a pain financially either, i have a 2nd druid for skinning and mining plus i’m waiting with getting those rings because i’m prioritizing other pieces so that gives me plenty of time to mine the crystals.

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Agree, first week it was 36 gold I thought prices would drop it’s currently 90g each. Can’t afford to craft my gear

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Little too late tbh, burned 4k just for this lackluster gear

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the legendaries are a guild effort, all the mats and consumables go towards one guild member. Not comparable at all

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I agree the costs are high, but with the gold inflation in SoD everyone can buy it.
The only thing I would change would be the 10 Arcane Crystals needed for the ring it should have been 10 Arcanite Bars. Due to this requirement there isn’t much need for Arcanite Bars.

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It is mind boggling how out of touch with reality some people here are. You need to touch grass if you think it is normal to expect the average andy to pay 3000g to buy a trinket or redeem a set that he already won to begin with

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Hello AH andy/price flipper/gouger here.

i can guarantee you that this is a self-made problem.
you failed to keep up with the concept of supply and demand, and now its eating your gold.

sorry not sorry.
buy my refined salts or level leatherworking.

these salts were about 5g a month ago.
cured rugged hides were like 2-3g each a month ago.
mooncloth was 6-7g a month ago.
arcanite bars were crashed into the dirt along with arcane crystals for about 6 months.

you failed to prepare and that’s all there is to it.
blizzard already stepped in and graciously allowed procs of 3-5 rugged hides/mooncloth/arcanite bars per craft.

every thorium node in the game (including the non-rich ones) has a chance to yield arcane crystals.
there’s sacks of gems in karazhan that can yield arcane crystals.

its funny that i don’t see you complain about the price of black lotus which was dumped so hard by blizzard’s antics that its a joke how easily affordable they are, and thus directly impacts the ability for alchemists to make gold, using their profession.

what are you gonna say when someone like myself rinses the AH for black lotus and pumps the price up?
“oh but that won’t happen cus bots are farming them”
yes, but the same can be said for every other profession material, so how do you explain the price difference?

its almost like people capitalize on the concept of supply and demand.
flasks are in high demand, but the supply is drastically high, resulting in price dips.
cured rugged hides are in high demand, but guess what… salt shaker is a 3 day cooldown, and only yields 1 salt, which means 3-5 cured rugged hides every 3 days at most.

bro do a bit of research and you wouldn’t run into these problems.
even if naxx phase had been 100% completely vanilla, you would have needed arcanite bars, mooncloth and cured rugged hides for your t3 gear, so the fact that this somehow comes as a surprise to people is extremely cringe.

again, sorry not sorry. skill issue.

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the only people here who are out of touch are you poors who think 4000g is a lot.
this is pocket change.
i spend 4k gold on a casual tuesday night just to buy stuff that i am going to sell for upwards of 8k gold or more the next day.

nothing needs to be done.
stop raid logging and play the game.
maybe level a profession or two.

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Your arguments are poor and unjustified. I can’t be bothered to explain why.

@Blizzard you just need to add t3 matt’s to reals vendor and/or crates. Or better yet don’t devise a system where you need token+mats for gear.

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No need it’s already buffed *3-5 compared to classic. Stop being lazy. You can farm gold in sod literally everywhere. Classic is not just raidlog game. And btw arcanits are in boxes but there price is also much higher then it was before xD

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I’m not being lazy. This is a seasonal game and not classic. Get over it

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you’re sitting here advocating that all high tier profession mats should be in the real boxes. (which will make them worthless)

you are being lazy.

level professions.

/thread.

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No you are the one completely out of touch if you think thousands of gold is reasonable and pocketchange