Crafting materials level cutoff

Jamar870

Can anyone enlighten me as to the reason why some games decide to cut you off from some crafting mats because of your level? In this case, ooo you're too high level you shouldn't get this mat anymore unless you buy it of the game market board/auction house/etc. I'm in a game where I waited til I got to end and then decided to start working on crafting. Well lo and behold, some of the mats I need only drop from lower level mobs and even then not all the time. In their wisdom the devs cut you off, you kill the mob but not damn thing drops and the mb/ah/etc does have that mat. I been in other games without that restriction. So I'm frustrated and confused.

cheyane

This is usually to help low level characters sell the raw materials on the auction house as when players reach max level they have the money to pay for them. It stimulates the economy and allows the lower level player to make money while allowing the higher level player who has the money to save time. It also prevents high level characters monopolizing and taking away mobs from low level characters. This can lead to situations where all the mobs die as soon as they spawn because the high level can one shot them and harass the low level players.

Jamar870

Well I think the population has a part to play in that. I didn't ever experience that in WoW or FFXIV. Well then it also depends on then item. Like in Tera you have mats that only drop off of what they call BAMs(Big Ass Monsters) and even the drop rate isn't that great. Also it seems that they are pushing everyone to the endgame. Think it maybe because of dome elements of the game's population cried for faster leveling. So you would probably need to make an alt that's throw-away. Because you don't do storyline quest or dungeons so you don't level too quickly out of the level you need to get those special mats for. Just wish they weren't pushing so hard. Hell you can even level faster when you sub. Remembered when it was slower paced and you could do all the content. Now you just breeze past 80% of,  ie don't do it because you wind up so high you just  oneshotting everything and get nothing for let alone not much enjoyment. (rant off) Also wonder if this is a thing for the F2P games?