Hey guys, let's not turn this into a crafters vs raiders thread, or a high level vs low level thread, or anything else like that.
The fact is that for most people there is no one single playstyle that entirely encompasses their activities. People who craft, may also adventure; people who raid, may also enjoy low level content; etc. Interestingly, the reason I came to know LFG in the first place was because he was a very active and passionate weaponsmith on the crafting forums, long long before he started his own site. And although I myself obviously enjoy crafting lots and have 4 70+ crafters, I also have 3 70+ adventurers that I enjoy in different ways. So I don't think an Us vs. Them perspective in any area of the game is really representative of what people are doing out there, and doesn't get a productive discussion going anywhere.
The large majority of the Kunark faction recipes do not require the chromatic essence drops. Of the items that DO require the chromatic essence drops, there are only two that are even usable by someone who isn't capable of getting the items him or herself: the vault expander and the house item increase thingie. Requiring a chromatic essence as a component allowed us to make the stats on these items nicer than were justifiable from using the normal mastercrafted rares. Any adventurer who is capable of equipping these items is also capable of finding an instance group and going through an instance to get a chromatic essence. For the two house-related items, both recipes make more than one product, so if you get an adventurer coming to you with an essence wanting one, make a deal to keep the second for yourself. Or charge a sufficient amount for your time so that you'll be able to afford to buy a chromatic essence from the broker yourself. They WILL drop in value, just like those components used in The Nest did.
As for lower level content, these faction rewards were always planned around the new RoK content that is, yes, aimed at high level crafters and adventurers, so yes, they are high level recipes. That doesn't mean there isn't lower level stuff coming, and in fact you should be seeing two more new crafting quests for lower levels coming from the Grandmasters with the next game update, and some new crafter cloaks for level 50-ish crafters also. It's not physically possible to do ALL things for ALL people at once, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen as time permits.
In the mean time though I'd like to ask that (a) y'all give it a couple weeks and just see how it goes with the chromatic essences. If there really does look to be an issue, it's definitely something we're open to addressing. And (b) let's lay off the us-vs-them in this thread, it's really not constructive and is probably just going to end up getting people cross at each other till the thread gets locked. It's just us and more us around here!
Thanks!
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