I' d say it' s not only supreme materials, it' s any type or grade of material. Given the right mix it is possible to create choice items that can easily equal it' s excellent equivalent and the same goes for excellent items vs supreme.iphdrunk wrote:The problem is the lack of / unavailability of supreme mats....
The problem I have to deal with as an armourer with the plans for all races is that I don' t have access to any regionspecific materials of a decent quality except for Lakeland materials which I can dig myself. With all the stocking going on at the vendors and the exuberant prices put on even a single piece of ql120 choice wood (talking about 18k a piece here and a stack of only 25 units) it really is becomming impossible to craft decent armours for all races' paterns unless I start reaching expert levels in all those regions, including PR harvest.
And this is not only showing an effect on vendors but personal customer-crafter sales too.
So the options left for me personally are:
1) craft solely choice and/or excellent Tryker armours and craft fine armours for the rest of the races; and we all know fine items aren' t that high in demand
2) contract harvesters to provide me with enormous amounts of materials which takes a lot of time
3) start leveling up all my regionspecific harvest branches which takes again a lot of time and will only decrease the amount of time I have I could be using to harvest Lakeland materials to create Tryker armoursets to put up for sale.
And mind you, this is only about choice materials I' m talking about! And I' m pretty sure I am not the only crafter suffering from this.
So imo, unless the stocking and overpricing of even the most basic of goods continues I doubt you' ll see many changes in the market. At any quality!