Hi community, with the recent rising of GDKPs and the (almost) extinction of any decent SR run, what is your suggestion for a normal player to continue playing the game? Let’s say a normal piece of tier item from sunwell plateau is going about 5k gold and that is what most players have in their pockets considering if you don’t get outbid by 10k before you even type out your bidding. So I ask those of you who are doing GDKPs non stop: How are you doing it? What is your suggestion to people who are just starting this out with low budget?
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Im more interested why are you going for gear with tbc ending very soon. You will replace it with wotlk dungeon blues.
TBC is my first ever wow experience and I don’t want to lose the opportunity to experience it fully.
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So how normal people afford items is by buying gold, and thats why everyone who is not already a part of GDKPs find them at best as a scam. Every GDKP is just a way to launder bought gold.
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Fair enough.
You were talking about getting gear, so I thought you are after gear, not experiencing sunwell.
For experiencing sunwell, finding guild would be better.
i am not sure that going to gdkp runs is a good idea to experience tbc as its fullest
i would try and join a guild if i were you
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Well, I was part of a guild but people taking a “break” had my guild stuck on KJ for a long time so they gave up. Also recruitment being impossible for non 6/6 guilds made it even more hard to progress
GDKPs are not the WoW experience. These people most likely bought gold. I actively avoid servers that have GDKPs as it’s an indication that you’ll be on a different playing field.
You can try building a community of like minded people on these servers but it’s my opinion the server has been compromised and it may not even be worth. Personally, I find it difficult to play when I know many people around me bought everything they have. It’s meaningless and takes away from the game.
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Just do GDKPs without any hope for an item first weeks. BT, ZA, TK/SSC/GRuul should earn you around 3k a week (without glaives, glaives add a lot to the pot possibly amping your cut greatly), SWP another 2k on its own. Thats 5k from GDKPs alone. Add some 1k a week from Isle dailies and another let’s say 2k from regular non-hardcore AH activities. Patiently wait two IDs and you have 16k gold which should be enough for 4 less-contested items or one contested.
That’s how I do it, only difference is I only gather gold and don’t spend it because in september all TBC equip gets obsolete. Actually, this is your hope, a lot of people won’t bother spending gold on TBC equipment meaning less competition for you.
You can fund GDKP item buying by running a lot of GDKPs as a pumper.
If one cannot run them as a pumper then they likely swipe their gold unless they are masochists who enjoy farming gold for 2 weeks straight just to buy one or two items. “Normal” gold farming is just simply not worth it any more, as even the farms which are considered the best (e.g. strat boosting) only net you 3-4 dollars per hour when converted to real world money. Its literal slave work for a couple purple colored pixels.
This guys statement rings so true.
GDKP ruins a server and can ruin peoples motivation to play, especially if they are not part of a great guild community.
I still cannot understand why Blizzard doesn’t ban GDKP. Yes the whales and bots pay a subscription but surely the amount of players it alienates has to be relatively high as well.
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You need to start making money …
It’s very simple, you get a percentage of the total revenue by participating in the raid. If the bidding is high, so is the pay-out, so it’s not getting more or less expensive at all. The ratio of running the raid to the ability to get the item does not really change.
Once you’ve done a lot of runs, you bid for the items you find most important. If you don’t get it, again you get a cut of the highest bidder who outbid you, so the next time you are able to bid more.
Hence the reference to ‘Dragon Killing Points’, they function the same way in the sense of currency, but they are realm wide.
Other than that you can always farm or get a profession, but that’s more for bots.
Edit: Also you might want to redefine what “normal” is, you might be setting the standards a bit too high in terms of loot with too little in what you have to offer the raid.
How can people shove insane summs into Diablo Immortal? Because they are whales.
It does. Not only gold inflation affects AH prices on your consumables, but there is also bid prices inflation. As people accumulate more gold the same BiS item might cost way more in mid tier, when everybody still needs it. Not mentioning the whales, who might bid you out regardless for an item dropping only in several weeks if you are lucky.
If you lets say did karazhan/gruul/mag SR in phase 1 and got lucky with full bis by the time phase 2 came out it wouldnt have been hard to get in a t5 gdkp as a carry.
So if you kept doing t5 gdkps you wouldve gotten rich “carrying” and spending the gold you earned to make more gold, T6 comes out and the same happens.
I would say the only raid that has unrealistic prices for a normal player is SWP.
Another way is having a paladin alt and making 230-260 gold per 5 runs.
Another way is being an auction house goblin.
Another way is being a PvP arena booster which is insane gold/hr like 1000+ gold per hour if you’re a great pvp booster to 1800 and 2k gold/hr if you’re a god tier arena player.
If the items cost more gold, you still get more gold in pay-out. If consumeables become more expensive, the price goes up, if everyone has an item, the price goes down. Of course there are ups and downs in between, but the market price is always in balance give or take a few weeks in between.
The only way it does change, is if you’re organizing gdkp’s for others with ‘buyers’ and ‘pumpers’. Players who are specifically selected to bid against each others to raise the prices and of which the buyers do not return in the market next week after receiving the item.
gdkp only is profitable if there are enough buyers in a run. new people buy gold due to blizzards lack of oversite of game. please don’t give in to the temptation of gdkp…buyers buy gold and sellers launder that gold back to the ‘pumpers’. either way, both parties are guilty.
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I saw a gold selling website the other day out curiosity. It literally made me want to puke.
I really wish Blizzard would actively ban bots and gold sellers.
I also don’t understand why they leave free transfers open for so long!! It’s literally a bots dream. They go on low populated servers, steal the resources and then transfer to a high populated server to make huge gains. 
I wonder if blizzard has the tools to automatically detect this.
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Yes, more actively banning bots by Blizzard would be really nice.
In the meantime, I would also like to have playerbase with higher moral standards, not taking shortcuts and getting advantage over other players by buying gold from goldsellers.
But one can dream, right?
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But how else would you unlock the Netherwing faction for each char? ^^