was looking thru the new recipies on beta and then thru all the current recipies and i discovered a slight advantage. in each skill there is a recipie that is 300 skill and does not use any of the cooldown mats , minor cat, or planar dust. like sword of honor for weapon. they use the "icebound tear" or "dark pith" etc. these are fairly plentiful on AH at about 10gp ea. using these and the "modified" (like cinerium) material you can quickly make 20 pts of skill without needing any of the new materials. which should save both time and coin.
to add, me personally i have been using alot of my time ramping up to release to farm mats and do ALL the dailys (the special faction ones take shadethorn, witchweave, orich bars etc) so far i have 2500 A-Marks and 75 Master marks. Send me a tell or mail (Akkmed) if you need a hand on mats, i have some stockpiled already.
thanks.
AKK
