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Sorry if this comes out a little angry, but the more I research scribing; the more I realize: that not only isn’t it for me, it isn’t for my small guild; and it isn’t for anyone who can’t prop it up by buying gems and trading for gold on a regular basis. I did some slop math, and I could either level my profession; or sell the mats on the TP and buy myself a legendary. >=(
I think the idea of having ink the different colors of ink, and you build your ink set up as you progress in the profession; is pretty cool. But you don’t have enough brown dye in the game to meet the supply, and farming plants is too low-yield to be practical: less than 10 brown in an hour, and that was after doing research to see where it drops. I mean: Peanut butter isn’t brown. Root isn’t brown. I mean, they ARE brown when you look at them visually; but the game has them categorized as another hue. I suppose I ought to be grateful you didn’t ask for pigment from Grey Dyes, which is the category with the fewest members. But griping aside, my point is that the economic demand for Brown pigment vastly outpaces the demand for every other color; and brown is far from being the most common pigment out there, but is in fact one of the less-common ones.
Overall, my opinion is that with scribing the bar was set unreasonably high in terms of materials cost. Now that I understand what’s involved, and that it will probably cost several thousand gold worth of mats just to level the profession up. And that in return; I’ll be able to craft chairs, and a fountain, maybe a few sigils and some consumables.
Well, I’d really like to have the chairs and the fountains, and all that; decorating our guild hall has been a huge priority for us, and something we looked forward to. Right now, we feel angry, frustrated, and totally locked-out by a crafting discipline that costs way, waaaay too much money to be worth it.
Suggestions:
1: Make ink sets re-usable, or at the very least let us manufacture multiple sets for the current material cost.
2: Either make Brown pigment less of a bottleneck; or make brown pigment craftable; or increase the supply of each color in proportion to the demand to make high-demand colors like brown easier to obtain.
3: Please add a tooltip to each dye to tell us what hue that dye is. Way too easy to buy Peanut Butter or Root and think “they’re brown”. Right now the only way to tell is to go thru the wiki. This info is important now, and needs to be visible in-game, please.
Thanks.
Usually, when I level, I will get a choice of 3 armor options to choose from. When I speed-leveled my guardian with tomes, I noticed L72 gave me all 3 items, not my choice between them. I suspect this is an error, because that didn’t happen to my any of my other toons.