A problem I'm seeing here is on event completion. Thousands of players would have collected thousands of resources, or spent both time and money crafting with nothing at all to show for them if they lack arcanite to complete their items. Since all recipes require arcanite which is BY FAR the rarest and most difficult to obtain. Nothing can be crafted in this event without it. Not only this but the AH will be stuffed with all this other useless junk for months, years to come as players try to offload it to offset losses. Scams and complaints will of course result. Its a train wreck waiting to happen.

The whole artificial scarcity/forced shortage of arcanite thing, isn't working. Will not work.

A new crafting conversion recipe (or more) is needed. Craft to exchange an amount of basic ingredients for an arcanite. For example 12 wood = 1 arcanite, 8 mineral = 1 arcanite, etc.

Sell recipes at vendor, say 1k vardan tokens each.