Now, of course, it won’t let characters on Classic buy TBC items.
The idea is to make a list of certain items that are shared between Classic and TBC auction houses. So that if someone is levelling on Classic and found a pearl in a calm, you’ll be able to buy that pearl for your enchanter’s rod.
The reason is that with the way the transfers work, and the level 58 boost - low-level mats will be even rarer on TBC servers than they used to be on TBC private servers.
Naturally, this will apply only to items that are sometimes needed in TBC, but not available on Outland.
So… I could farm Matt’s that are available now but useful in TBC - duplicate my character, use the Matt’s on my TBC character, switch to my vanilla character, quickly put the Matt’s on the AH, switch back and buy them off of myself if I’m fast enough? (Obviously the gold is now stuck on the vanilla classic realm, but that’s no major loss - more gold on that version!)
That wouldn’t really work at all.
Retail auction houses aren’t even realm connected, but you’re wanting two completely different expansions to have connected AHs.
Not only the technical difficulties are a problem.
Imagine the economy on a classic era realm when all their ressources can be farmed with an overpowered level 70 character. Faster kills means more drops. This will make certain ressources available in higher quantities and therefore cheaper, while at the same time, making it harder for 60 characters to make gold, because of lower prices and farming competition from 70s.
So we have more ressources for poorer customers that. It will make it harder to sell your stuff and therefore not worth your time to farm it.
You can’t buy your own auctions.
And this is a really bad idea! It would pull mats from one expansipon and GOld from another much like xrealms ruined many reams’ economy.
Unless you have two accounts. Even if that wasn’t possible there is still the issue that at the moment that anyone buy those auctions you have duplicate those items, and that someone could be a friend who gives it back to you.
That’s a terrible way to make Classic players unable to access some key items like Dark Runes.
Those are used a freaking lot even in TBC and if they ever decide to connect the AHs then ppl in Clasic would have to spend so much on them that Blizz should really put Tokens at that point.
You just move them if you got those items after TBC prepatch, but if you got those items before TBC prepatch you have those items duplicated on both expansions with clone character option, wich is not a problem when both expansions are unconnected. But with connected AH you can move both clones of those items to one expansion, is even worse, forget about items, you can clone gold too.
Is easy, you have X gold now in Classic, when TBC launch you pay to clone your character to have a copy of the same character in both Classic and TBC, both with X gold, you put in TBC a grey item in the AH with the price set to X and then in Classic you use your Classic gold to buy the item. Now you have in one expansion two times the amount of gold your had before TBC prepatch (minus the AH fee).