1500 myth for new i90 accessories?!

[Brine_Gildchaff]

You guys... do realize every single i70 crafted item required 1350 philosophy tomes, right? And with the new patch, myth tomes are even easier to get in large quantities than philo tomes were at that time. It certainly LOOKS heavy on paper, but it's actually not even close to as difficult as you're making out. Hell, if you run all five roulettes each day, that's between 570 and 615 tomestones of mythology right there. You can get enough for a new accessory every 2 and a half days. And that's not even throwing in the possibility of doing a run at Labyrinth of the Ancients, which now gives a full two hundred.

And let's look at the i90 accessories themselves. If you HQ one, its main stat is identical to an Allagan accessory. We are now capable of making items that equal the might of ancient Allag. The accessory comes with only one secondary stat, but that secondary is actually flat-out better than the secondaries on the Allagan version. (Example: an Allagan Choker of Casting grants +11 crit and +16 spell speed, while an HQ diamond choker grants +11 determination. This is flat-out better than either of those individually, since det has a much stronger weight than crit or sspeed.) So actually, a top-level goldsmith now has the ability to craft things that blow COIL gear right out of the water. And for some classes a pentamelded i90 could become BiS, just like certain pentamelded i70 pieces were BiS back during 2.1.

This is not the blow to crafters you seem to think it is. They've made it a 1500 myth cost, yes, but you can get that much easily in just two days of basic content, without even 'flox-grinding. And these items fill the same niche that 2* items did in 2.1.