LadyNalcarya wrote: »

Good news from pts forum:

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Furnishings

• The "Alinor Bookshelf, Grand Full" furnishing is now actually filled with books, as intended.

JHartEllis wrote: »

Omg! :')

They listened to our feedback.

While they listened to the feedback, these shelves, along with every new gold recipe on the vendor, now require 2 night pumice each, which can ONLY be obtained by paying 16 vouchers for 2 pieces (the only other source being decon'ing Ravager equipment, which is both expensive and rare, so that's not really an option).

Much like the Culanda problem, the hard requirement of 16 vouchers to make each and every new item, from these bookshelves to the Psijic safe to the painter's palette etc, is definitely going to put a significant damper on my enthusiasm, and if this goes live, I will certainly save my Night Pumice for my own crafting needs, and not be bothering selling these new items through my 5 trade guilds. The prices would be insane anyway, you are usually able to sell stuff for 1k gold per voucher, so that's 16k right there, plus the cost of a gold mat and the cost of the base mats, that's easily 21-22k - and if you want a profit, you're looking at a selling price of 25-30k per item. That's similar to the Hlaalu Gong and the Hlaalu Turtle, which barely sell due to those high prices. Personally I don't sell them because of that, and I can see on my MM that there is barely a sell on them, once every other week or so, while the other gold recipes like the Alchemical and Mages Apparatus sell consistently and often for about 8k gold, and the same for the Poisonmaker's Cabinet, the Hlaalu tub, Dres sewing kit and some of the others, which usually also sell for between 6-8k.

With the Summerset PTS, I warned about the Culanda problem and what it would do to the furniture market, and the furniture crafter's headache that would come of it, and lo and behold, that's exactly what happened.
I passed on buying any Summerset house due to the fact that it would require some 1,400 Culandas to furnish it adequetely, and I know others passed on the homes for the same reason as well.
Whereas the Vvardenfell furniture market is vibrant and still selling after one year, the Summerset furniture market is dead due to the Culanda requirement, and house decorators are left frustrated if they wish to decorate any home in the Summerset style.

If the mastercrafter recipes go live with the Pumice requirement, the exact thing is going to happen. Very few people will bother to sell these items on the market once their stocks of Pumice run out, no one is going to buy mats for 16 vouchers just to sell them to someone else, and the prices will run so high that few will bother buying and selling these items.
I, and other crafters like me, will likely hoard our pumices to use in our own furniture crafting for ourselves, and perhaps buy the few pumices we need for our own decorating.

It's the Culanda problem repeated once more, or the 20 Hlaalu Bonemold for the Gong and Turtle recipes.