Originally Posted by
Vvildfire
"You will probably be able to obtain the birthday vanity without being required to have the weapon in the first place"
Technically they didn't lie to us, you're still able to get the vanity for 300 plat.
You couldn't expect such beautiful vanities to be easy to obtain I suppose :c
But you're right, about what they said here...
"Birthday is not us trying to cater to players who happen to still have a specific item".
But here's what I think.
Suppose the vanities will sell for 2m (except for the first few days, I guess), it wouldn't be all that convenient to craft them. Arcane shards cost a lot and the mythic weapons did, too, even before we knew they were required for the recipe, and will be even more expensive now. Let's not forget you need to buy the recipe/open cakes instead of selling them. That's one more gold loss.
If you sum up all the ingredients needed, it'll turn out to be a lot of gold... But! There's the 300 plat purchase available. If you're able to convert 300 plat to 2m+, it's an effing good deal. I'm guessing a lot of people who have that much plat, and more, available, will buy the vanities for 300 plat and sell them.
That will lead to a price drop, whatever the price will be. Meaning that buying the vanity rather than crafting it will be less expensive. Meaning that, in the end, the recipe doesn't really change things much!
Now I know that this could go the opposite way, I'm in NO way a mercher, I don't study economy, I don't even keep a (mental) tab on the average price of 99% of items. It's just what I thought, right now, while writing this post, of what could happen this incoming week.
Like I said, there was no way these vanities would be easy to get! If you want to buy it with birthday tokens, you can always sell the cakes and buy the vanities with the gold you earned. We don't know how many tokens they would have been, so there's no "right" price to pay them at.
I know for a fact that I won't get any :') but that's just me!
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