Quote Originally Posted by Fenral View Post
..

If we're following patching patterns, we won't see new nodes until 3.2. And even then, you still need the offhand to be crafter, and all crafting gear needs to be crafted (you could do scrips, but there's a huge stat deficiency and probably won't be enough by the time new recipes roll out).

Even with cooperation, the timesink is utterly absurd to make one piece of crafting equipment. The materials themselves are already gated through crafting scrips so it's not like people are going to be bursting out of the gates on release week anyway. We had already decided to pool the materials obtained from red crafting tokens to one person so they can pump out offhands for the FC, but what we're hitting with now is that the materials also require favors that have a 15-minute gathering timer attached to them, for an incredibly varied yield due to RNG.