Quote Originally Posted by Ausdoerrt View Post
It's easy to explain - you want to make mats exclusive to specific packs, so that people have to buy them to craft the relevant items.
As I stated, if they kept the same mats, all they would have to do if introduce a single new mat or shard.

Let's use Shroud for example, since it was pretty much the one thing done correctly when it comes to crafting in DDO. The mats are all tradable, but you need the Shards to make GS. Instead of making a new set of mats for the Altar of Insanity, they could have used the Medium Shroud mats to upgrade the armor plus a new untradable shard (let's say the Watcher's Eyes). So the pack still needs to be bought (or a pass needed) to make the item.