I think nothing will ever be done about this. there's no incentive on their part to fix it, and let's face it, they've already "fixed" things one time - this is the "improved" jewelry minigame.

It was 80 Golden Tempers before to craft 1 Golden Jewelry.
Now it's 40 Golden Tempers. (They call it Grains, but I'll just call them Tempers to simplify the split into 10's)

Currently with the "fix", it's 5 times as expensive as any other craft in the game.
Even just half that again would be expensive.
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I like my profits from selling jewelry mats.

See no flaw in Jewelry being expensive to make, you can frequently find cheap purple/gold set jewelry on the guild traders for
a portion of the cost to make stuff yourself.

You can farm purple jewelry at dolmens, which just cost time or do harder content like trials to get gold jewelry, or just buy off the Golden Vendor for 100K a piece or buy with Alliance points.

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

idk wrote: »

Simply put it is supply and demand determines price and Zos stated they wanted it to be less common to upgrade jewelry than armor and weapons. Long ago they expressed concern about how adding jewelry crafting would impact the game and this is what they did to curb that.

They have reduced the cost of matters by half or about that but I expect will be the last adjustment we see for a long time.

Kind of funny that all this does is limit things to the more elite players, especially those with lots of gold. Keep it out of the hands of those casuals!

Bad idea, but it is where it is.

Most Casual players can barely afford purple gear, even if jewelry crafting were to cost the same as Golding out weapons or armor people would still be complaining about the price.

Many of those elite players you speak of earn their purple/gold gear doing the harder content.


Crafting end game gear is not something aimed at casual players, its for people who have invested the time and effort to be able to do so.


I swear people complain about the prices in ESO, play SWTOR for awhile and try to get a full set of end game gear crafted, costs run into the high tens of millions due to how inflated their economy is with their rare upgrade mat equivalents costing hundreds of thousands or even millions per mat.

It would take months of grinding to full gear out a character but here, it just takes being good at either making gold or the game itself to gear your characters.

Ri_Khan wrote: »

I find it funny that jewelry crafting benefits traders more than the actual dedicated crafters. The drop rate on zircon and chromium grains from processing mats and decon'ing jewelry should be increased. The benefits of having gold jewelry over purple is minimal and doesn't justify the rarity or cost at this point. I'm definitely not wasting any time or gold on it.

What do you mean by "traders" versus "dedicated crafters"?

It's been a long, long time since I've crafted gear for anybody (other than enchanting), yet, I still do my daily writs every day, because it's damn good gold!