Quote Originally Posted by MiRai View Post
Kind of how an addict would rather spend the little money they have on drugs, as opposed to something useful like the rent or groceries?

You mention freshly dinged but, how freshly dinged? Someone that just started playing a week ago with no friends and no money or someone who is on their third, or fourth, or fifth level 85 character of the expansion? There's quite a difference.


I don't find what you've stated as a valid argument because you're saying people don't have a gateway into battlegrounds to slightly even the playing field, when they clearly do (the Vicious crafted set gave over 3,000 Resilience). Then the argument turns into, "That's stupid. Does Blizzard really expect people to pay money for that equipment?"

If you have limited money you obviously need to weigh your priorities -- Would you rather fly around at the speed of light and get your ass handed to you for a few weeks while you build up Honor Points to purchase gear or would you rather start off with over 3,000 Resilience by paying a few thousand gold and fly around a little slower?

My Blacksmith/Miner was able to buy every single one of those Vicious patterns in a single week of casual mining on a high population PvP server with plenty of competition from players and bots; and from there on forward, she supplied the equipment needed to both my Paladin and Death Knight before they ever stepped foot into any level 85 battleground.

An alternative route from that would be to, I don't know, maybe find a guild with other people in it and try to meet someone who might happen to know the patterns... I'm just throwing things out here.

I mean... just because your neighbor owns a BMW doesn't mean that you deserve a BMW as well. If you were a carpenter/plumber/whatever, you wouldn't have to pay someone else to fix your house when it breaks. If you were a <insert profession here>, you wouldn't have to pay someone else to craft the gear for you.

Pay the market price, level the profession, or suck it up and take the cheap route.

(In before, it's just a game and it shouldn't be hard like real life.)
Flying is helpful forever. The crafted set is helpful for a weekend. That's my point. Either the sets need to have a lower barrier of entry to bring down the cost or Blizzard and players need to accept that they're a waste of time and gold.