Rollback before the Legendary essence/dust

[Malong]

Those mats dropping more often now is actually the best thing about the update (if you want to call it a part of it), since it makes both house crafting and awakening easier, which does leave you with more gold, but it's the same with distilling a dragon axe: I don't think that gain is worth the absurd increase in prices that comes with essences (for example: I saved 2mil while crafting HC armour, because I looted 2 phoenix feathers, but the legacy I want is now 15mil instead of 2mil).

How do these two ideas exist in your head simultaneously? If people are spending less gold on house crafting (which subsumes upgrades), then buyers are willing to spend that more on items while sellers do not need as much gold, which contributes to offers being much higher.

You can't have it both ways.

I think I get what you mean, less gold spent on house crafting means more gold left to spend on legendaries. But the price of legendaries is directly tied to the price of essences for almost every item now, except for a few like volcs, so the price of legendaries is mostly no longer determined by what people are ready to offer, but by how many essences the item distills into. And then, the price of essences is so high, because you need a lot for upgrading, but nobody's got them, because there's barely any loots anymore.

No. Dead Shot distills to 6 Essence while Leviathan’s Guard distills to 3 Essence. Would you trade 2 Leviathan’s Guard for 1 Dead Shot? Dragon Axe distills to 1 Essence. Would you trade away 1 Leviathan’s Guard for 3 Dragon Axes?

There’s a floor now for the legendary items that are only used to distill and/or aren’t highly desired. The ceiling on the ones that are desired and/or used instead of distilled is still tied to what people are willing and accept. And now people are willing to offer more because they have more gold that they didn’t have to otherwise spend on crafting. For these items, it’s not tied to the floor of the number of Essence it distills into. 

Honestly, I really don’t think I should have had to explain this. After several of your offers of the equivalent amount of Essence with 2 Orichalcum for multiple of my best-in-slot items followed by quick rejections, I think you would have figured this out.