boycotting hardened metal

[greekdragonkdl]

5k is really low for Hardened Metal, if thats the price you want it to be sold it, bear in mind all items involving HM will be messed up in pricing. Anyway, The Price in my opinion is fine, newer/poor people need the money to buy gear which is gained by selling that Lucky HM they found. If your at the point of being able to buy it in large quantities for crafting, your probably in a economically good position [NordInvasionWise] and likely already are geared out compared with alot of the poorer people who lack the money for decent gear in the first place.

Keep in mind HM was sold at a pretty consistent 4k each rate before the last patch was released and was like that for a while. I was very surprised to see it even rise to 5k when the patch went underway, and now I refuse to buy it at prices like 6k-8k+, as that is just ridiculous imo. I don't really think that the increased HM prices really help newer players a lot, since they aren't able to get as much HM as they could pre-patch. I went through 9 full hard and rag runs one day without looting a single HM. Pre-patch I could kite the first few waves of hard for only a few hours and get 20-30+ HM in that time. Although they were worth maybe even half of what they go for sometimes on the AH today, the quantity you could get was substantially greater. Also, when I was more of a redshirt I was able to get some decent gold by kiting hard and selling HM, which you can't really do as well anymore.