Just to play the game I already have to spend a lot of gold on consumables, enchants, and gems. For example, enchants cost around 3k each, and gems are also expensive. I have no problem with that — it has always been part of the game, and back in the day we even had to put in extra effort to make sure we were raid-ready.
But right now repair costs are completely out of control. I spend around 1,000 gold per repair, and that is simply not normal. If I do all the world quests, I earn about 4–5k, which only covers 4–5 repairs — and that’s before even considering enchants and gems. Burning 1k gold just for a single repair makes no sense.
Either the repair costs should be heavily reduced (something like 100–200 gold for a full repair would be reasonable) or they should be removed entirely. At the moment it feels like Blizzard is just pushing players towards buying WoW tokens to afford the basics. I just want to play the game by paying my subscription, not by constantly farming gold or being forced into buying tokens.
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Sounds like a you problem, rather than a game problem!
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every mmorpg need money sink - or you get to the point of infliation, where gold or other currency won’t matter and won’t have any value. Reapirs are one of that gold sinks.
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If they removed repair costs, then they would have to increase the gold of other things to combat the gold inflation.
Again I stand by what I said, where this is a problem with the player if they’re spending that much of repairs and can’t make gold!
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It’s Blizzard’s way of forcing players to do one of the following:
- Spend less time progressing and more time farming, therefore extending subscriptions or
- Buy gold with token
If they reduced repair costs, they’d also reduce gold payout from various activities, so we’d be back to the same situation. If they don’t reduce gold payout, inflation will be rampant like it was during WoD.
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The gold from passive sources like mobs , were likely nerfed to combat bots , who can basically farm non stop and than resell it on shady sites .
But I will agree that drops from dungeons / delves / raids / pvp needs to increase , especially based on the difficulty .
Completing t11 delve and getting like 18 gold from those piles of gold lying around is a joke . Bots don’t farm M+10 , or heroic raids.
I remember back in the day I actually earned gold by raiding , because even shared with 25 people It covered my repair and than some .
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the best day in wow if they did.
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Remove that repair cost please.
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would make content better if they did remove it so yes.
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would make the game much better if they did remove it they earn gold anyway by transmog so remove repair thanks.
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Yes remove repair from wow everything is expensive as is.
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Would make raiding better because not needing that dam were is repair bot 24/7
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I approve of this remove repair from the game.
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Remove that repair please.
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Would make the game less boring having to repair every minute.
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Remove that repair baby yes i approve.
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I would love a huge reduction in repair costs. If it was just a menial amount it would be fine but it soon adds up.
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