One of my characters is a tailor, but I guess this could apply to any crafting trade.
For example, the Robes of Power. You make the item, and without choice it goes into your backpack. You have not touched it, yet you cannot do anything other than sell it to a vendor or use it.
If you are a Mage or Warlock that might not be too bad, unless you already have a better robe and want to mail the item to another of your characters to use. Cannot do that of course the way it is set up.
I had it explained to me that the developers wanted to make some items "special", things that you could not buy from vendors. However, if your tailor (for this example) is a Warrior or Palladin then to what use is this object (specifically the Robes of Power).
I do not mind the "binds on equipping" part, but "binds on pickup" seems a bit ridiculous given that you cannot make an item in any craft that does not go into your backpack. Binds on pick up can be for quested items or even some loot items. But in crafting (jewell, blacksmith, cooking, tailoring, engineering) one of the purposes is being able to make things that the crafter can sell to others, sell to a vendor, use themselves or (yes, perish the thought) give to another character of yours or to a friend.
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If I understand your post, you are stating that all items should be BoE and not BoP.
The reason for this is to keep the economy healthy, if everything was BoE I am guessing that a lot of the great epic-patterns that people work for at 70 (epic tailoring sets, etc) would either be low or high depending on if there is any collusion in your market. It is something that you level the skill for, you have more than enough BoE items, but it is the BoP ones that sets the tradeskill apart. If there weren't BoP's I doubt many people would take up the tradeskill as they would all stick to gathering and plan to just buy the item to not need to invest any time/money into leveling it.
Oh, and this is part of the reason why you don't level tailoring on a person who will not benefit from the high-level items.
The reason for this is to keep the economy healthy, if everything was BoE I am guessing that a lot of the great epic-patterns that people work for at 70 (epic tailoring sets, etc) would either be low or high depending on if there is any collusion in your market. It is something that you level the skill for, you have more than enough BoE items, but it is the BoP ones that sets the tradeskill apart. If there weren't BoP's I doubt many people would take up the tradeskill as they would all stick to gathering and plan to just buy the item to not need to invest any time/money into leveling it.
Oh, and this is part of the reason why you don't level tailoring on a person who will not benefit from the high-level items.
Consider BOPs to be one of the benefits of spending the time and gold to level a crafting skill.
Edited, Feb 14th 2008 1:10pm by ItsaGaAs
Edited, Feb 14th 2008 1:10pm by ItsaGaAs
oldmanrick wrote:
I do not mind the "binds on equipping" part, but "binds on pickup" seems a bit ridiculous given that you cannot make an item in any craft that does not go into your backpack. Binds on pick up can be for quested items or even some loot items. But in crafting (jewell, blacksmith, cooking, tailoring, engineering) one of the purposes is being able to make things that the crafter can sell to others, sell to a vendor, use themselves or (yes, perish the thought) give to another character of yours or to a friend.
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\__someone who does not understand how BoP serves to keep the WoW economy from going to the RMTers.
The BoP items are that way because they are powerful enough to become VERY expensive items. As such, the gold farmers would soon corner the market on making them, the gold farmers would turn their gold over to the gold sellers, and the gold sellers would make real-life money hand-over-fist by providing the gold to purchase them. That's what you are advocating. You want to make the WoW economy stink, like FFXI's.
I love my primal mooncloth set, my boots of the long road, and my alchemist stone. All are BOP crafted items that are a special reward for my having leveled Tayloring and Alchemy. BOP crafted epics are just another path available to you for gearing up.
If you level tayloring on a plate wearer and intend to do anything other than making bags, then you have made a poor choice.
Edited, Feb 15th 2008 7:16am by dadanox
If you level tayloring on a plate wearer and intend to do anything other than making bags, then you have made a poor choice.
Edited, Feb 15th 2008 7:16am by dadanox
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