Quote Originally Posted by Phogg View Post
50k tip for a 25k item? Umm.

Never takes me more than 10 minutes, I never offer a tip in my shout, and in most cases any tip beyond fireworks I offer after the fact (which I do offer just not in shout) is turned down. Fenrir that bad?
10 minutes of my time is already worth 80k.

There's no reason not to sell the base weapons used for GP items in crafts (Goldsmithing had a few two) on NPCs. They're releasing enfeebling items so people can 2-box their VW city path clears, but I have to waste time shouting to get a base item to synth a GP item when most other crafts can just buy ingredients and do a few synths?

Yeah, no. Of course it's doable, but there's no reason to not streamline it, with all of the other convenience changes they've made to the game at this point.

Let me summarize it this way:

Me: This aspect of the game is currently inconvenient (GP items requiring high-level synths from other crafts that are rarely made/sold). Here are some reasonable adjustments.
You: No, you can do it right now in an inconvenient way! There's no reason to adjust this.

tl;dr Add these items to NPCs somewhere, they don't have to be cheap. I don't mind paying for convenience. You want to spend time shouting for a crafter? Great! You still can, and such an adjustment would have no negative impact on you, or anyone else.