“Oh poop, I got a BiS drop, lets put it up on the AH for 500g”
That mindset need to go in Hardcore, due to that you can “bank” your gold IF you died makes the hardcore community to go into some sort of wierd mindset.
Many ppl just aim to get to 60, probably quit after that or if they aim to do dungeons, some even raids, but remember, if the char die, all the items dissapears, so I dont think ppl will spend thousen of thousen of gold on one char to just have one misstake take all of those items from themself.
A bow for example in lvl 20 goes for 10g, remember, many who plays eaither dies alot or are new players who just started, they wont have that gold to buy it from you…
When I find “good” items I try to put them out for a fair price for the level of the item, seeing some lvl 12 boots out for 30s is waaay to much, think of that person maybe trying to buy some other gear aswell, its just not normal to overprice stuff becuse ppl starting to hit 60, many of them wont probably lvl a new one, they achived what they wanted.
Yes ofc, I dont disagree there, but that one misstake can take it all away, it helps alot for some classes but even so, dont think anyone would spend around 1000g and then that one misstake take it all away.
@Dottie
Agree with you too, but buying a wep at lvl 20, 5-10g as a warrior for example, at lvl 26-30 you need a new one to get be able to have a “decent” weapon at that lvl and the gold is just going up.
An item’s worth is what the highest bidder is willing to pay. A buyer dictates the price of an item, not you.
If you don’t want to spend 10g on an item, then don’t. If nobody wants to spend 10g on an item, then the seller is going to have to lower their price. That’s how the market works.
You clearly missed my point. No the buyer dont dictates the price of an item, its the seller, if he wants an overprice for it and would not go down, its not the buyer who dicates it.
If a player tries to sell a popular item for 500g repeatedly over a long time periode without a sale, said item is not worth sellers price.
I can easy put an item on AH for 1000g. That does not mean its worth it. Hence @mylees earlie reply, this is how it works.
At this point we know which items are or will be in high demand, therefore we know they are valuable and the customers are willing to use more gold for those items. I am not defending a bis item for an absurd amount of gold, I am strictly backing up the supply and demand responses earlier in this thread.
I understand your point but you are exaggerating in my opinion. The best crafted gun at lvl 21 is for 60s in AH, and so many greens sub-20 are 30-40s at most. At levels you can earn 10-25s per quest and +1g/h i didnt see the problem with prices.
I spent lots of gold on gear. I am playing slowly, enjoying gathering, crafting & selling what I obtain. I happily spent 10g on wands from level 20-30.
I have no problem with players selling their wares at “ridiculously” high prices, as long as there is an audience willing to pay those prices nothing will change. It would be worse if a lot of gold sellers or wow tokens creep into hardcore, which will probably be a matter of time before that happens…
It is nice that the small economy continues to run in hardcore and everyone can sell their goods well, at decent prices
I don’t know where some of you are getting those prices, I just logged in and I had to get to Item 400 of 670 in the 20-30 range before the prices hit 1g. Item 501 was 2g and they were Blue.
This was on the Horde side on Stitches, the Alliance must just be greedy *******.
The most expensive things I’ve seen so far have been around 50g and that was Shadowfang. Just because it’s ‘hardcore’ doesn’t mean OP is going to get sought-after twinks items for basically nothing.
If they were worthless then players could farm gold on HC, buy twink items, mail them to an alt and die with them to have them transferred to era.
This is my experience on Stitches too (on Horde). I have no bank alt, just the one character and I have managed just fine buying crafting materials or greens for reasonable prices in the level 10-25 range. The blues all seem reasonably priced too, even if out of my price range.
