Jedius wrote:
Locke,
Ah, thank you for the clarification. I hope they give something like that to tailoring. What's so wrong with giving tailors a way to add a socket an item? Are people hearing/seeing anything like that coming out soon?
Well, there
areis always
the tailoring-only shoulder enchants. And the flying carpet mount. And you can always sell spellthread I guess.
Honestly, I don't know how much JC will stand up as time goes on. The first people to get the neck and ring designs made good money, but as more people get the designs the prices drop. The dragon's eyes were very high, are now high, and will be a lot more reasonable as time goes on. That's because they take a JC token to purchase and you can only do one daily every day to get one token a day. As soon as the JCs finish using them for themselves (to buy designs) more will flood the market and prices come down.
In my opinion, JC isn't making money because Blizz gave it more things, but because they chose such a dopey way of getting the dragon's eyes out there. However, having said that, I don't know that I can think of a better alternative. Having them drop in heroics would have rewarded players in raiding guilds who could get into heroics faster, having more dailies would have rewarded players who leveled to 80 the fastest. Maybe they should have done a combination - use the daily at first to keep the supply limited until a certain percentage of people leveled to 80 and then opened up another daily or two or had them drop in heroics.
Edit: to correct a moment of stupidity Edited, Feb 24th 2009 11:12pm by cynyck
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