ilevel 70 crafted items mats bug?

[Sotek]

I think one thing often missing from this discussion is that darklight gear requires a significant time investment by you. Philosophy tome items, however, are community generated. Unlike darklight, If I choose, I can buy someone else's time. Currently the price may seem astronomical, but that will not be the case forever. As more people have nothing to spend their tomes on, the amount of materials available will increase

Sorry to burst your bubble, but by the time most people are turning AToP into Potash/Coke/etc. - enough to drive the prices down from their ridiculous heights, at least - they'll have already obtained their Darklight and thus no longer need iLv70 equipment. I am certainly not sitting around to wait for everyone to get Darklight and thus crafted equipment to be reasonably possible, I'd much rather the developers just wake up and see how colossally stupid this whole affair currently is.

If the AToP cost to make a full set of iLv70 equipment isn't dropped below that of a full set of Darklight, and soon, it'll pretty much be too late for most people. Crafting will effectively be the realm of "You joined the game late and still need iLv70 stuff to clear old content?" and that'll be it. A time saver for new players who don't have time to farm Amdapor for weeks, instead of something which works as an alternative for some of the top end gear. That's honestly pretty ridiculous and basically kills crafting (and half this games content) for me.

I imagine 1.0 players are doubly hurt by this... I mean, Potash used to be 22k? I don't remember, was in the 20s I'm sure. Now? Now it's on the Market Boards for 60~80k, which is 600~800k back then. I mean Jesus Christ... This stuff should be going for 2k... Instead they made it harder to obtain and multiplied the amount needed by 9... Honestly, the more I think about it, the more words fail me...