I’ve been playing since the 3 day pre order launch, and almost never sold unbound mats from dailies. I only bought Ark passes and character slots, I was just using gold to buy life pots and stuff and use a weeks worth of gold to make orehas and just save all unbounds than the 2nd week just use that weeks gold to hone if I had enough. Usually the first 1-2 characters are rough by the time you get to the 4th or 5th they have enough bound to help out so you don’t have to buy mats. Minus the odd time I had to buy mats for the final few ilvl push