So I just read through this.
Wrath Design and the “Value” of Gold
Circling back to what was mentioned earlier about why WoW Token feels like a tool we should deploy now, we have to look at the base design of Wrath of the Lich King. Ultimately, this is what convinced us to reconsider WoW Token after resisting and refusing this path for so long. In Wrath Classic, your normal weekly activities are, for the most part, self-sustaining. Buying potions, flasks, reagents, and other normal necessities of endgame can be subsidized entirely by mostly just playing the game normally. Doing your usual weekly raid, a few dungeons, or a few dailies a week will net even the most fervent and well-prepared characters more gold than they would need to maintain themselves. Simply put, gold is more plentiful, and the base design of Wrath minimized the focus on needing to “farm” to support normal play.
GDKP is your problem, wake up and smell the coffee!
You have just enabled players to buy gold and pop along to a GDKP and ‘earn’ their gear.
If, IF you want to solve the RMT issues and the token is your only real option then you should absolutely change how loot works so people cannot simple buy their way through the game.
You need to tackle GDKP, that is the root of all this evil, when will you realise this?
(94) Say Goodbye to Your Money - WoW Token Comes to CLASSIC - YouTube
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Why tackle it, when they can profit off of it.
Its in their financial interest to keep Gdkps rolling.
Personal Loot would have been the more logical and better solution for the problem at hand(even though I personally dislike perso loot), I agree on that, but it doesnt make them extra cash.
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There is actually nothing wrong with GDKP if the gold being used was actually made within the game. 
The problem is the gold buying (whether legal or illegal) that needs to go ASAP.
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Yeah I mean raid loot has no perfect solution and making it personal is meh, there is an advantage to having (for example) a well run loot council system where officers etc make choices that benefit the group as a whole. These are of course abused at times which is another story.
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They will never tackle GDKPers. Just like they dont tackle Boosting for gold.
Because its not against any ruling to do it. The only thing their breaking rules on is buying gold from gold sellers to currently fund it.
Personal loot would kill gdkp tho, thats a good thing
Mhm and the changes they made to leveling so that it’s impossible for Character more than 10 levels higher than you/content you try to run from boosting you weren’t made. Yes they absolutely can’t tackle it in any way. And yes I’m aware of Boosting in WotLK where half the dungeons still fall into range of Level 80 character but ironically spending some time in Gehennas I’ve seen no advertising for lower level Boosts
And that would exchange the best way to run a pug with “wts Ulduar boost run full hm, 20k”. In what world is that good?
Thats because they dont have to advertise it. Its only a handful of boosters that can do it, they have customers waiting for them 24/7.
Maybe guilds wouldent be strugling to get enough ppl. Maybe you like pugs, i prefer guild runs
I might shock you here, but alts are a thing in this game. And for those, gdkp is simply the best way to raid. If your guild is so bad that people would rather gdkp than join your runs, you kinda deserve it.
So how do people know about them? Honestly it’s at least less visible than GDKP so unless someone’s looking for that service specifically they won’t even know.
And you know what? I’d rather see offers for selling direct boost for flat price. At least it’s honest. Since you’re so knowledgeable tell me what’s minimal budget a “Naked Buyer” should have for a GDKP with “Minimum Bid: 1k”? It’s an honest question. I am curious how much gold one would need to buy for such privilege.
I dont know, must be a reason tradechat on mograine is spammed non stop by ppl recruiting for 25m hm only. Do ppl run those with alts only?
They advertised their discord in several gdkp discords, after that its mouth to mouth advertisement.
I have probably cleared ulduar 25 in gdkps about 70-80 times and have not seen a single naked buyer, so no clue. Remember that even most guilds arent breezing through Ulduar, how would you carry those naked guys. The only ones doing that are the top 1-2 % of gdkps and normal modes gdkps, which I would both never attend.
No, some people cant/dont want to commit to a guild so gdkp is their best alternative. Otherwise, almost all raiders pug on their alts and most of them go to gdkps.
Im talking content boosting in both retail and classic.
Levelling boosting maybe stopped. But the fact people input gold to pay more experienced players to finish raids and hand em the loot hasnt gone anywhere.
Levelling boosting peolly only got resolved so they can monetise buying boosts 
Ok thanks for saying. Been wondering since it was one of the more common advertisements that “Fresh Level 80/pure buyers welcomed”
Depends how fast and well established the GDKP you choose is. If you want a semi guarantee that all hard modes will fall I think you would need to be pretty stacked, as these groups don’t usually take naked buyers. The much more common variant of pure buyer you get will be ~4.2k alts of people with multiclear xp.
Pure buyer in full HM gdkp? Maybe 300-500k. A normal buyer? Less then 100k can still get you in. I’ve certainly gotten in with less then that on my fresh-ish alts
Less than 100k? How the frick someone without a loaded alt is even supposed to get within that range? No damn wonder gold selling is booming.
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Personally? Join a GDKP as a not buyer with your very well geared alt that is also filling a high demand role. If I show up with my near bis holy paladin with 20x+ clear experience, very few people will be sticklers for budgets. With the gold gained from that, you can gear other alts.
You see that’s a problem. I am not very well geared even if I decided to move to Golemagg. 4.1k GS mixed T7-T8 with pieces ranging from close to BiS to Naxx10 holdover gear. Hell I think some elements are even from P1 Pre-raid. That’s my Holydin. Tank in a better spot with 4.3k but lack of experience isn’t doing me favors.
And yes that is my main
Yeah, if you want into a group with much further progressed Players you always have to add value somehow, one way or another. Your case seems to be buy a lot of tokens or accept a very slow slog through full normal SR runs and then “some HM” SR runs.
Most people get around that by joining a guild.
That said, holy paladin is your best bet. They’re always in very high demand and you can get away with less gear/xp/budget when playing one then with other specs.