Drastic increase in essentials/merchant bought recipes

[Finora]

I didn't see this mentioned anywhere else on this forum so, I have to ask if this one is intentional.

Tier 1 advanced/essentials artisan books increased from 1 silver 20 copper to 12 silver.
Tier 3 books went from 19s 20c to 1g 92s. etc

Everything except the 90-95 advanced books (50p 40g 2c on both live & beta) and 91-92 (23g 32s 80c on both live & beta) essentials books changed.


It does look like the no more copper thing in effect, which is fine except it makes buying regular recipe books quite expensive for a crafter leveling up. Having your essentials recipes go from being about 15 gold and change for example to being 1.5 plat is painful. Not everyone is a veteran with oodles of plat (even some veterans don't have oodles of plat). Especially when even the 91-100 writs are only giving 18 g and change. That's something like 12 writs for the price of a recipe.

If that sneaks out with the TOV release with out any of the other no copper changes, there are going to be some annoyed people.

[Paddyo]

Along these same lines, the reward from quests in the quest line ought to pay out more consistently. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to one quest reward being 5 gold, and the next being a plat or more. Every quest should reward at least a plat in the quest line, in my opinion.

[Caith]

Finora said: ↑

“I didn't see this mentioned anywhere else on this forum so, I have to ask if this one is intentional.

Tier 1 advanced/essentials artisan books increased from 1 silver 20 copper to 12 silver.
Tier 3 books went from 19s 20c to 1g 92s. etc

Everything except the 90-95 advanced books (50p 40g 2c on both live & beta) and 91-92 (23g 32s 80c on both live & beta) essentials books changed.


It does look like the no more copper thing in effect, which is fine except it makes buying regular recipe books quite expensive for a crafter leveling up. Having your essentials recipes go from being about 15 gold and change for example to being 1.5 plat is painful. Not everyone is a veteran with oodles of plat (even some veterans don't have oodles of plat). Especially when even the 91-100 writs are only giving 18 g and change. That's something like 12 writs for the price of a recipe.

If that sneaks out with the TOV release with out any of the other no copper changes, there are going to be some annoyed people.”

Adding the ability to place this in the depot caused an double multiplier on the item cost, this has been fixed for the first hotfix after expansion.

[Finora]

Thanks for answering Caith!