Yes, very expensive. For my Safehold II I need 6 OE and 7 EB so over $600 to buy them. I can't transmute them, because I just don't have enough tokens to make even 1. Even if I bought an $8,000 condensed only then would I have enough.
So its the old supply/demand. The demand is very high right now and the supply of those tokens can't keep up. Too many big tansmutes happening right now with Safeholds and multi-years. I think there is a lesson for the future that it's probably a really, really bad idea to have 5 multi-year transmutes happen at the same time as well as a very big Safehold. If the plan is to still do that, then let's have a tarriff, I mean, token holiday. How about TD announces that from X date to X date, all recipes no longer require OE or EB to transmute. Or how about they just lower the requirements on Jan 1st for recipes with those. Something needs to be done and even a quick acknowledgment would be awesome. I don't expect TD to control the aftermarket, but they did 100% create this situation. And I realize it wasn't on purpose, but here we are. I just spent over $1,000 on trade goods to get 95% of my Safehold II made, but now need to spend $600 on the last 5%.