Quote Originally Posted by The_Jackal View Post
It's not the quest chain that makes the mats worth 15k gold, it's the huge gold inflation from Garrison giveaway economics in Warlords. Also, I gather lots of gatherers dropped their professions in Warlords, because free garrison herbs and mines gutted the utility of the profession.

Bull crap. The Utility of the profession has never existed. Mining, Herbalism and Leatherworking were ALWAYS garbage professions to take. Starlight Roses are expensive because HALF of the ones you harvest turn to dust. And why is that? So they have have an arbitrary perk at level 2 which you only get at random. I love how people are blaming "TEH GARRISONZ" on stupid profession decisions.

Here is a hard truth. The Garrisons did not put that much money into the economy. 20K a week? that is chump change compared to farming of old raids. "Garrisons!" are a great scapegoat for something that everyone has known. Gathering professions should have been secondary professions that everyone can take, they should have been that way from the start of the game and there is literally zero reason for them not have been made secondary in the WOD prepatch when they gutted every other profession to make it "more fair" to the people who went gathering.