98% of everything is absolutely worthless now.
Making gold from professions is a waste of time , crafted mog , there’s no profit ( made it worse now that Goblins can just craft from one realm and flood every server )
Raw gold farms are a thing again.
I’m playing on 5 chars spent over 1 million since DF launched.
You’re killing any prospects of a player who doesn’t want to spend most of their time gold farming from making gold.
In SL I could spend 2 hours a week farming some herbs and make 30-40k. Done for the week.
Classic mats worthless
TBC worthless ( primal fire and air okayish but still not worth investing time in)
Wrath worthless
Cata , volatiles were a go too now absolutely worthless same with everything else thanks to bots in Uldum.
All the way uptoo DF , when there’s 235k of a resource , that’s an absolute oversupply.
Put in checks and balances , when a resource tips a certain amount , stop region wide posting for a bit.
I simply refuse to buy a token when I’m paying a sub with irl cash , I should be able to earn enough gold in game to play your game.
Region wide , is terrible for the player , amazing for the goblin
Cross server trading means the goblin doesn’t have to level a toon on that server anymore , learn a profession and buy mats from that realm. They are taking and giving nothing back to that server community.
How is this allowed or seen as fair ?~
Gold earnt just playing the game vs gold going out on repairs , craft etc I am not breaking even.
I have a toons on a low pop RP realm , and there’s 3 of every tbc classic epic , boes from every expansion. 12 posting of every crafted mog. All those players posting are lvl 1s , they are not players on that realm. They have no intentions ever participating on that realm. It’s scandalous. They just taking and giving nothing back.
Material cost isn’t down because of the region wide AH. Its because of 1) rampant out of control bots and 2) nothing to use the mats for.
1 - Before bots got smart enough to utilize dragon flying, the cost of materials stayed consistently high. I was making between 60-80k gold an hour from mining alone, well into february. Then around early march, maybe even late feburary, bots took over the market.
Just go stand near a gathering node in Azure Span or Zaralek Caverns, and watch as an army of bots do their thing. All following the exact same route. Don’t think i’ve seen this many bots since i started playing in late vanilla. It’s absurd.
2 - With Sparks being bi weekly, and work orders being the only way to sell gear. There is an abundance of materials because crafters cannot use the surplus to make stuff and sell it on the AH.
Also, there seems to have been a massive decline in active players. Further reducing demand.
I hear you on Zaralek Caverns just armies of miner and herb bots
I will find the video I saw but there was 20 druid all just runing in the same direction , mining , running to next spot all clock wise It was insane to watch.
While I don’t want to advocate for bots in a game with trading at all, I have to admit that bots lowering the prices due to high supply comes actually in favor to people like me who have not much gold in general.
Low materials prices shouldn’t really be an issue since there’s nothing significant in this game that needs a lot of money and isn’t player crafted… It just makes it cheaper to get things made for us. Having gold in WoW is about not spending money rather than earning it. ‘Playing the game’ generates quite a lot, as long as you’re not piddling it away on stuff you could have made/got for yourself.
But the bots are a problem because they deny real players access to resources. I remember the state of Nazjatar well enough; could take literal hours to gather enough herbs for 2 flasks for a raid night, because the nodes were constantly picked dry.
This was allways my favourite so im in a good spot with all wqs that gives gold I would be completly broke without them and the CTA satchels i feel. The material prices are a joke im even vendoring all i come across. And it doesnt look really fun standing in valdrakken all day spamming trade chat HOPING for people to want something crafted. Playing AH i have no interest in i cant even stand having to relist an item only once if it ends up in my mailbox again i underprice it so low that someone will feel forced to buy it and relist just so i can get rid of it. Boosting i cant do. We all simply gonna have to get to work and do them wqs
In a lot of situation it creates the issue of crafting, outside of work orders, bringing a deficit.
99% of the LW crafts you do are made with a deficit unless you get lucky with a multicraft proc. Most armor kits, including the end game ones, you crafted with a degicit about halfway through the first tier.
And it isn’t just because of bot, but also a result by the shift that happened in profession distribution. Most crafting professions became complex, and require money and time investment to start earning gold, so a large bulk of those who find it too convoluted swapped over to gathering professions. This caused a major spike in supply while the demand drops even further.
And if you take region-wide AH into the mix that just makes it worse. It is good for your average player, but it isn’t really good for crafters.
Depends on your realm population probably.
Cheaper materials are good for crafters. Lower pop servers would have cheaper mats now. Perhaps high pop servers have slightly higher cost mats (or would have without the bots).
It’s too soon to say what the region wide AH has done to the market. We need to go through a whole expansion lifecycle (or maybe two) to see. We’re late in this season so a lot of aspects of the game are quieter. Let’s see what the next big patch does, 10.2 might have new mats, recipes or such.
