145635-why-dont-the-ga-crafted-master-weaponsmith-weapons-go-to-ilvl-96

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the crafted gear is mainly ment as an alternative for people/raids with bad luck with drops during progression. the imbuements are easy and once imbued those items are better than dungeon drops and help you during progression. you can buy all recipes at the vendor in thayd so you dont need to wait for the recipe to drop in the raid. If your guild for example has bad luck with weapon drops your weaponsmith can craft ilvl92 weapons which are a huge upgrade from ilvl80. if your tanks have bad gear and ilvl80 gear you can craft them ilvl92 gear. Those items are not meant to be BiS. They didnt even exist pre f2p, so stop complaining.... The question of why some ilvl96/ilvl116 items are BoE i cant answer but its a nice feature to make some plat for the guild (activate guild repair cost for a raid or two) or to give it to someone who wasnt in the raidgroup this evening but could need the item. If you dont have a guild buying those items are worthless so you cant make money from them to sell to randoms. I can craft all GA/DS heavy armors and i dont really bother to make them anyway. the mats are so expensive, no random would buy it atm.

Edited October 29, 2015 by furoflo


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It doesn't drop 20 genetic matrix at once either. Each miniboss give 3 96 piece and a genetic matrix and each boss give 3 100 piece and a genetic matrix. Why is it that the genetic matrix that require tons of crafting mats on top of 900 vouchers from the crafter give items of lower quality than a miniboss drop when that very crafted item require you to kill an actual boss in that raid? Nobody here is asking for the crafted gear to be better than the gear dropped from bosses, but when the gear is 4 item level behind miniboss gear and 8 behind boss gear while requiring you to kill bosses. This doesn't make any sense at all. It would make sense if the crafted gear could imbue up to 100 by increasing the imbuement by X for each boss killed in GA so when  you are 6/6 in GA you have a iLvl 100 crafted item and those of us who care about getting the best gear we can will go out of our way to get overcharged crafted fully imbued gear versus the lazies who only use the dropped gear. Not only that, but the recipes for this gear is very costly to the crafter.


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Tunnel vision much?


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it had been like this on the PTR prior to f2p and someone discovered it and thats why they changed it to eliminate the pay to win possibilities of it. the craftable raidgear was created with the intention to make it possible for guilds to gear their raiders if they had bad luck with drops and therefore progress faster.

the BoE drops are always used guild internally first to gear players who could not be there for the raid. then they go to twinks for a lower price compared to the AH. Then they end up in the AH and i agree this is a pay to win element but NOT for every slot and NOT BiS.

Edited November 5, 2015 by furoflo


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