Torg wrote:
I just did a lil auction house searching and a little math. it in fact doesnt cost 10x more for the staves to make an iridal. not counting buying ores/beads and other materials, u could buy all the ele staves off the AH for 248k. also not sure if u knew but u cant HQ an iridal. iridals are only made from NQ ele staves. Chatoyant can only be made from HQ ele staves.
Sure - Except you're willfully ignoring his point, and that's not a great look. No one buys the NQ staves on the market to make an Iridal, they're attempting to make HQ staves and then turning the NQs they do get into iridal, because the NQ of the staves sell like dirt when an Iridal is that cheap already.
To buy a full set of ores (not counting anything else) its 950,000... So it's not a long shot off of the 10x that he threw out. The Iridal is the NQ synth of trying to make HQ staves for crafters, and that's the loss that he was referring to.
In the time it's taken for these posts to be made though, he could've just farmed another 80k and bought an iridal at what already represents a massive loss for a crafter.