AGS tried many times to influence the market in new world. Most of the time they changed stuff because of some crafting materials were becoming too expenisve. Like for example Iron Guardsman Insignia. They changed it so mixed stat attribute perks could be used as Guardsman Insignias.
They pretty much made crafting materials very cheap (timeless shards, attribute items, less rolls because of rune stopwatch or golden scarab). But since it´s a player driven economy these updates just changed the bottleneck. Now the FREEDOM PERk and the SHIRKING PERK is the bottleneck. And that is a very bad for the economy since the prices will skyrocket more and more and a smaller amount of super rich players will buy everything they can. In my opinion the bottleneck should be ASMODEUM, RUNIC LEATHER and ATTRIBUTE ITEMS again.
My reasoning is: If Asmo prices skyrocket or attribute items etc the market will be able to regulate itself more that in the current situation. Right now we´re heading to a few very rare items to be super expensive and the rest will crash in price. But with these items it´s very hard to supply all the demand. That means if there is a huuuge supply of asmo etc the average player has less chances to make money since the new bottleneck is perks.
AND if they increase the droprate of those two perk items it will just shift the problem until next meta.
The economic bottleneck should be something many people can influence like: Asmodeum, Runic Leather, Attribute items etc etc
Please read it, think about it for a second and then give me your opinions