Quote Originally Posted by Sephrick View Post
And there's the added effect of things being cheap enough that people don't see the value in leveling a craft and just sell mats.

It all balances out.
If things become so cheap that the value of selling them at the wards is decreased, people will vendor them, removing the mats from the economy entirely.

A balance in the mechanics is needed to keep this sort of problem from snowballing; Inflation is bad, deflation is worse. In any economy.