Anyone else hate the shared auction house?

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I’m a simple gal , If I wanted to make gold for 16 years. I went out and herbed , skinned and mined.

All three are worthless thanks to everyone having the same resources.

One hour of herb and mining , brings in ( If i’m very lucky ) 3k gold.

The only fix I can think of is the next zone has new , ores , herbs and skins. To give us some income.

Do older farms simply ? TBC ore , 3g for fel iron , 1g or less for adamantite.
Wrath almost the same, same for cata , mop , bfa and SL mats.

It just sucks man , I don’t want to buy token , already paying a sub with irl money.

I just want to able to pay for reps , elixirs , crafts on alts pushing keys and the odd mount here and there.

I want the mule from bfa , I am trying to farm it myself because it’s 600k on AH like how on earth am I going to afford that with 3k / per hour material farms.

I remember going out doing 2 hours herbing in SL and bringing in 20-30k easily

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It’s your choice to participate in the ratrace. Quit farming gold and just be happy.

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Fish :dracthyr_shrug: Islefin dorado go for 50-100g each

Edit: although if you really want to make gold go farm lost tuskarr tackle boxes, the junk in them vendors for insane amounts!!

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Gathering really bad this expansion. I’ve stopped bothering few months ago.

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I know you’re going to have some person comment supply and demand , well duh reduce supply to meet demand

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Basic economics, no?

Just stop farming if it isn’t netting you GPH you want, do something else
duh

There are hundreds of farms out there and still you want to farm current exp resources which are heavily farmed by bots. Dont want to farm? Crafting at your service, you can make millions every day if you know what you are doing.

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But why should people like me who farms stuff to use it myself in crafting be disadvantaged? There’s about the right amount of mining nodes at the moment to keep my jeweller happy. Any fewer and I wouldn’t have time to play the game at all, just permanently play my alt miner.

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This. When I was raiding I only farmed mats for myself. I will never buy your ridiciously overpriced AH mats even if you reduce supply. I don’t play this game to farm gold. In BFA gold earnings went negative for a lot of players like me, which Blizzard had to fix, and they did.

Look for other ways to farm gold. Other gold farmers always find a way.

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prob is that there to many bots that kill actionhouse prices and there is to much scam like super cheap items that you cant buy.

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Are you forgetting about, or ignoring the higher tier TBC ores? Eternium, and especially Khorium are always worth farming.

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Me too, kind of.

It was a great opportunity in the first few weeks, because the mats were brand new, supply was low, and everyone needed them for the initial rush with not everyone having time to farm them.

Well… I did. Because I don’t really care about endgame so I’m fine with something weaker too for the time being.

That said the prices quickly ramped down compared to SL where even post 9.2.5 (or 7… hell if I know), the base herbs still sold decently. Less so than in the Sanctum patch, but I could still earn fairly well from farming elethium in the Maw (or just collecting from zereth later). I was cashing in 10-15ks regularly.

Now… not so. Only Order (maybe Decay) has any value if at all so I won’t be bothering.

The one thing that reliably sold in my brief time back on AH was dark runes and essences of undeath. Those still fetch a pretty penny, or maybe crusader orbs :sweat_smile:

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Sorry but you completely nab: 1 hour of farming is at least 15k worth.

Even you should not be able to demand anything if you don’t know basics of WoW.

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If you want to make quick gold you can always use the controversial AH sniping addons.

Bait, Snipe, Bait, Snipe. :fish: :gun:

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The gold wqs are still my favourite source of income atm

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imo they should drastically increase gold income through world content - wqs, events etc, event that reward with tons of golds, mounts pets and cosmetics will always be fun

in legion people were earning milions of golds through mission tables and it didn’t bother blizzard that much, world content is something you actually have to do yourself

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Even now it can net around roughly 5-10k per reset it’s more than enough to supply people with their needs

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And so does every other player now. Shared commodity market probably has little to do with it. When people’s default behaviour is to farm herbs and ore then there’s bound to be an oversupply.

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i love that we have shared ah but also agree on prices . could be solved with putting a min. price for some items but i don’t think blizz getting involved with the game’s economy is a good idea . gathering needs some change to block bots from doing it but i honestly don’t know what can it be

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That brings an interesting question of the economy topic, which we should keep in mind. Everything is connecting to everything in terms of prices. So you want bigger market prices for ores, herbs and skins to sell them. But then prices of elixirs and crafts will increase also, because crafters buy mats you are selling and making goods out of it. Will products be more affordable in case of realm-bound AH and without bots in situation of increased mats prices - we can’t be 100% sure without research. People were making PhD thesis in the topic of WoW economy, you know, it’s not that simple.

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Alt-runs on the dragonracing WQs is honestly a decent bag of gold for modest effort.