Quote Originally Posted by RaenRyong View Post
Make it profitable for crafters to craft.

If you don't want to pay more money than what is obviously not attracting sales on AH, don't complain!
^ This a thousand times over.

I can craft plenty of low level gear. I don't do it though. Why? Because it's a waste of my time to go hunting for materials and spend 5k to make an armor piece, to put on the AH with a 500g fee (taking up one of my AH slots), when people are just going to complain to high hell if I charge any more than 2k.

RMT are dead. Because of this, the only source for basic materials is other players. Because other players don't go around and harvest nearly as much as RMT did, the supply for these basic materials went down and the prices went up. However, when crafters tried to raise the price of armor to coincide with the price of materials, people flipped shit.

The solution to this is twofold:

1) More low level players need to supply the AH with crafting materials if you expect crafters to make low level gear. We are not going to go out and spend 2 hours mining in Zeruhn just to make gear that sells for 5k.

2) Players need to be willing to pay reasonable prices for armor. I promise, crafters are not trying to jack prices up to rip you off and make 500% profits (at least, most aren't). The majority of price increases on gear come from price increases in materials. It is absolutely not worth my time to craft gear when I am taking a 50% loss by doing so; especially when I can make plenty of gil doing other things instead.

If people are not willing to both supply crafters with materials and to pay for both the materials and the crafter's time (which does include opportunity cost, we could be doing other things if we want gil), then sales will not happen.