Making the cost of Hero a crafted mat (like a mini Dark Offering)

[Malong]

The proportion of new players that train hero class instead of craft support items which cost less than said hero class is incredibly high as is. Requiring materials for hero would probably make it worse. Keep the system the same.

This is basically the argument of what should i get 1st "Thing" or Hero


The answer to that is really up to the player as points can be made for both of them. 
Even then its not much of a problem as when you do one you start working on the other normaly.
At some point, you do make a hero for the stats and to be abole to use better gear from light blue to red even some market place crap.


Why someone may do it this way.

Hero
If you pick up items that are better than cts you can use them better then if you picked Cts
...

Cts (for example)
If the run does not have throwing weapons as good as cts you will be stuck with them
...


Now atm cts are no longer close to a Mill they are not even 200k. So most people will have Cts before they go hero now.

However.

Back then good throwing in runs was not as common as it is atm. I would guess the avg run may even have a legendary in it or more.

I specifically mentioned support items. It's bad when you see heroes with normal barricades, particularly when even something like heavy barricade is so inexpensive right now. I did some quick math and you can buy the 85 lumps and 25 waters required for a tome from the auction hall for 700k (i.e. less than hero class) right now. And it would be less if you bought the materials from the forums. Despite this, Ragnarok attempts with terrible barricades and very few tomes are commonplace.