An undiscussed topic about Maker

Why would you have to buy them? I get hundreds of Wisdom and Diamond ores at newties. Refined diamonds drop in APQ... The ores drop from mobs all over the place.

Only the lazy would be buying ores or refined ungraded items in the first place.

You're not going to get 40,000 wisdom ores on your own. Same goes for STR, DEX, etc - assuming you get one every 5minutes, that's 12 an hour. Don't have to do that math on that one to know that = suck. Even Wolf Spiders don't drop them that much, so in reality it's probably even more bleak. I'm talking in terms of mass-grading here, not "hey, I want to make an equip" (and APQ is a special exception, as Diamonds from it are the only mass-dropped gems in the game).