Rarity of Golden Sansam and Arthas Tears are RIDICULOUS

[Shodokan]

Wrong. To add to Moorea's post

Primal Might - Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Removed the 20-hour cooldown.

BC Meta Gem transmutes also had a 48h cooldown, reduced to 1day in patch 2.1.0 and then removed altogether in 3.0.2

Mith>Truesilver / Iron>Gold used to be 48 hour cooldowns, dropped to 23 then finally to 20h in 2.4.2, when all profession cooldowns were reduced.

Removing and reducing cooldowns is not unheard of.

Most of these were done in 3.0.2 which is a whole expansion after they were introduced. So sure they get reduced or taken away, but seeing EPIC GEM cooldowns getting removed before cataclysm would simply RUIN economies. It's one thing to remove cooldowns that will help people actually gear up alts, i guess you can say the same for gemming that gear but the infrastructure of many economies on many servers are based upon gem and enchanting materials, it's been that way since BC. Not to mention epic gems were only released 2 major content patches ago.