When I play and only have lets say 40mins time to play, I just do some ore farming for fun and it gives you about no gold at all.
So it is also made p2w by blizzard.
Crafting could have been just 1 quality or the rank 5 quality should be easy to guarantee. Now you want r5 you pay people 20k commission for a guaranteed proc or you luck for recrafts which could be more or less depending on luck.
besides of course the fact that everyone just uses r3 quality mats making everything else useless and you waste a metric ton of mats if you are skilling your profession.
System is dumb, just plain and simple. I tried since weeks to catch up my BS but well I am stuck on skill lvl 80 and i am still missing about 40 knowledge points to be even remotely viable for crafting lvl 4 gear lol
it was very clear that when they required another profession to make your crafting crap it is just for the sole reason of gold sink to sell more tokens.
Even more so because now sparks will be unlimited so you basically can equip every slot with crafted crap making your gear worth millions of gold in the process and that just to cancel out bad luck of the vault.
only thing still missing is that you would be able to convert craft into tier and adding decent crafted trinkets lol
Exactly, I’m likewise considering cancelling my subscription at the moment. I almost did last season for the same reason but luckily I was able to pool the collective wealth of all my alts to be able to craft gear for my main.
I just can’t understand why Blizzard makes it so hard for you to enjoy playing their games at times. I don’t seem to have this problem with any of the other online games I play. Whoever decided to to tie player power to microtransaction gold is ruining the game despite all the other improvements they’ve made since Shadowlands imo.
All I can recommend to you OP is to try to minimize your expenses and, if possible, look into joining a, decent community, or a guild, as many guilds tend to have one dedicated crafter for most professions.
I personally went with managing what I use during keys: I only use r3 phials in 18 keys and up, and use cheaper, r2 burst potions up until that point because with my gear it is not required to have the best of the best potions.
I levelled up my cooking so I can make my own food, and I did the community feast event on as many characters as possible to get myself a few flavor pockets.
I get everything that I need crafted within the guild for a symbolic price+the mats I provide.
All of this would be much more expensive if I’d have to rely on the wow community for it, as a lot like to get themselves a token or two so they can use it for gametime. Communities are much, much more reasonable with their crafts. Within my guild I freely use my insights, which I charge anyone outside of my guild for.
Everything in this game tend to be more expensive, time consuming and frustrating without being part of a community.
I logged in after they fixed undulating spore cloak not being craftable through the crafting order system and I earned 180k gold by filling 3 crafting orders.
Just this last week I’ve made some 70k gold just by selling patterns I’m getting from playing solo shuffle on the AH.
Having to budget expenses in a video game, how depressing lol.
Appreciate the advice though, I already have some amazing guildies that help out with the crafting, but the majority of the cost of crafted gear seems to come from the materials and not player crafting commision.
Your missing the point. Why should we have to buy gold for a game we already pay to play. When it has never been required in the past. The have done this with the intention of forcing you to do that by nerfing WQ and removing tables and i will cancel and move to another game before i throw more money at a company that is more interested in gouging it’s loyal fan base of more money than making a decent game without these ridiculous, obvious attempts to take more and more.
What is interesting is they keep promising they will never make it pay to win in so much media. Their shop their D4 all promise no pay to win but that is exactly what they are currently doing just being extremely sly about it and using gold instead of cash.
This is the first time since i first played in Vanilla wow, how ever long ago that i am truly infuriated by Blizzard. I understood bad games or bad launches but this is something else and i imagine its only going to get worse because they are increasing it slowly until its the norm to buy gold.
Yeah I will sooner just stop playing the game before I even think about buying a WoW token. This is a game I pay monthly to play ontop of expansion costs, not some sketchy mobile game off the IOS store.
Why do you think its the highest in years? Because there is an obvious issue with the game and Blizzard are intentionally forcing players to either quit, spend all their time gold farming or buying their gold.
It’s a shame so many are buying the gold because it will only get worse and worse as they do. If people didn’t blizzard would soon fix the problem but i doubt that will happen it will only get worse as their profits increase. Time to find a new mmo.
I’m aware this isn’t an amazing solution to the problem but the tuskarr boxes are quite good for grinding gold, especially when you’re waiting for things to start and need to kill some time anyway
I don’t think people buying tokens is the reason why players are quitting. We had 2 " bad" expansions in a row. Alot more people enjoying classic.
Problem about retail is the game is designed for hardcore players who wanna push keys.
Or collectors just want those mounts and mogs.
Classic is easier and therefore appeals to a much larger audience. No this isn’t a classic is better debate , it’s not , but it’s more social and mmo than retail is.
yep true, the crafting system isnt truely pay to win, but we are moving in a direction here.
at least it is p2w to get strong basic gear. the saving grace is that you have to pay someone else to get higher gear instead of blizzard, although blizzard will still receive the money in the end.
i didnt care much about boosting and tokens before because i never bought one. but now everything cost so much gold that i have to decide whether i p2w or farm 100000h for 1k gold. i dont have time to farm and even if i had, i would prefer doing things that are fun
Correct me if i’m wrong, but i assume you directly asked people in Trade Chat for there Services, idk if i’m out of touch but there is certainly a ton of people over charging at an insane Rate, best example is one of my buddies asking for a Jewelcrafter to make him a “x Main state + x Secondary Stat” Gem and this dude litteraly tried to charge him 25K for a Gem, meanwhile i just made a order and got mine Rank 3 for 1.5K Gold.
The AH is full of people who are price gauging on everything. To the point that i rarely buy anything at all from there. The things i sell are also marked up at ridiclous prices cos if i dont then somebody will buy it cheap and then flip it.
To the OP, ask your guildies to make stuff and offer to make stuff for them. Headache solved. There is no reason to help blizz with its inflation problem. And a problem it is when a shield or a piece of gear starts costing in the realm of being unaffordable with using real life currency.
