Confused about certain Crafting Ingredients

[aristarchus1000]

My understanding of adding rare ingredients to high level recipes is to prevent the dynamic where items are very easy to make after you have ground out the levels.

That makes sense to me. Even though the grind is difficult, it shouldn't be too easy to make tons of high-end stuff.

The problem with using Silver Flame and Yugoloth favor, however, is the same. Once you did the grind, it is trivial to go to the Favor vendor and just buy the pot. The cost is trivial to high end players. Heck, it is trivial compared just the essence material cost.

To me, using rare named drops made more sense. Not raid loot, but unbound items such as shroud ingredients, boot ingredients, seem reasonable. Runes from Reaver's Refuge isn't bad either.

Am I off base here?

[BeccaBop]

I know it is not at ALL what you were saying, but all I saw here was an argument to make it more difficult to buy the silver flame potions and yugoloth potions.

Which is NOT what I want.

I'd rather the crafting system be more like the favor system: you put in the time, now it's yours.

[aristarchus1000]

No, what I am saying is that this does nothing to control the supply of uber-crafted gear... if that was the point, because these items are available at vendors.

That said, I think the purified dragonshards do the trick, so I think they are reasonable. I would have preferred if they did that more, actually.

Right now, people are forced to buy the Necro packs in order to get Holy Burst Shards, and once they favor up one character, they can make unlimited number of them quite easily.

The Purifieds at least give you the option of using any combination of rare drops to get the ingredients you need.

Anyway, there is enough discussion going on in other threads.

[Khurse]

As I see it this system rewards players who play/explore more of the game than people who don't.
And I don't see that as a bad thing.

If you get the favor on one toon, you can craft Holy Burst and +4 Attack.
If you don't want to get the favor, you can still craft Holy and +2 Attack.

Obviously one is better than the other, but both are useful.