as the enchanters here probably already know, at the moment it is litterally impossible to get the Recipe for "Runed Arcanite Rod" in any (decent...) way, other than paying the skyrocketing prices in Auction House. I'm writing this post not because I feel I'm missing out on an opportunity to gain some goldz, I just desperately want to get this damn rod for my lvl 300 Enchanting.
This issue is actually a combination of several issues, which should be adressed by the administration team:
1.: The Campers at the Vendor.
It is totally expectable that vendors for important "limited supply" recipes are getting camped. So I wasn't too suprised that this is the case, too, for Lorelae Winterspring in Moonglade - the vendor of the "Runed Arcanite Rod" recipe. I didn't even mind camping the vendor myself for several hours, constantly opening the vendor's window in hope of being faster than the people surrounding me.
The VERY SUSPICIOUS thing here: I actually managed to find a timeslot, where I was at the vendor almost by myself. The only other toon there was a Level 10 Horde Druid ("Moodudu") who was flagged afk. The odd thing: He never logged off, even though sitting there seemingly afk for several hours. So he must have been doin SOMETHING meanwhile, in order to not get auto-logged-out.
As I was trying to get this recipe for several hours, with only him being there (constantly "afk"), and noone else getting the recipe (I asked every single toon that passed by, everyone was pissed cause noone got it) I must heavily suspect this toon "Moodudu" of being using an automatic buyscript of some sort. Trust me, I was getting PRETTY bloody fast in opening => cklicking to last page => closing again at the vendor window (about 1,5 seconds each time). I didn't see the recipe pop up within 4 hours.
I added this guy to my friendlist, too have an eye on him. He is camping there ever since, every day, several hours a day. I once even chatted him to confront him directly with my supicion, see yourself how he answered:
Im posting his toon's name here not primarily to get his guy banned (which would be kinda useless anyway i guess...) but to show you an example of the situation. I'm pretty sure hes not alone. Just have a look at the current sellers of said recipe in the aucion house:
This aint one guy trying to make a quick buck for a single time - this is serious, script-aided farming, probably for gold selling reasons. Everyone knows by now these guys have entered Nostalrius quite some time ago already. This has to end!
2.: The Issue with "limited supply recipes" in general
This was an issue in general on retail vanilla already, and it is an even bigger one now and here on Nostalrius. Why are these recipes not "Bind on pickup" in general? Why can these recipes be abused for gold farming reasons?
There are many other ways to get freakin' rich in this game, but this one can be (like in the case of the Runed Arcanite Rod) literally gamebreaking - I just can not proceed with my main profession (Enchanting) without having that recipe! So this would be the best solution, which I already suggested in retail vanilla times, even though I don't know if it is possible to do this:
Make "limited supply recipes" BOP in general!
So why is this even a bigger issue on Nostalrius then on retail? Easy: We have about 13.000 players online at peak times at the moment. To adress this, the Dev Team already adapted spawn times for mining nodes, herbs, questmobs, even world bosses. They did not adapt the "spawn" rates of "limited supply" items. So we still got the same spawn rates for those items as on retail vanilla (in this case 2 hours), but we have about 5x as many people trying to get it. This ain't "vanilla feel", this is just plain wrong. So here is the second (and easier to implement) solution:
Up the "respawn" times of "limited supply" items accordingly to the number of players online, as it has been done already for mining nodes and such!
Even though I could afford it, I'm not willing to pay the actually requested +110g for the recipe in AH, because I don't want to support people making real money with selling gold on a private server. And it is literally impossible to get it in any other way right now.
PLEASE FIX THIS, SOON!
Besides that, keep up the awesome work.
Nostalrius, big loves <3
