For a lot of players the best way to make gold was solo DME runs, I am one of them. It was annoying enough dealing with all the bots so we tried moving to the instances to farm gold instead. Now DME is filled with a bunch of Latin and Chinese gold sellers spam running multiple runs of DME selling Arcane crystals for RMT.
They have dropped to around 65g on NS H atm. They were a steady 120 for the past week. Even prior to naxx launch they would sit around 90-105g. Can blizz at least try and ban some of these obvious gold sellers? Its already hard enough getting enough gold for raid consumes.
I think your confused, im aware why people are farming them. But its specifically due to how many Latin/Chinese gold farmers there are spamming DME 24/7 that is heavily causing the price to decrease to the extent that it has.
Styls hit the nail on the head, arcanite xmutes are consistent money. 15-20 gold per xmute. Last week Arcane Crystal demand skyrocketed since lazy players need 5 for Naxx attunement.
The price is returning to normal, and I’m happy about it
as someone who farms ungoro for arcane crystals with all of my free time I can tell you when the price of crystals went up (naxx attunements) the amount of farmers tripled. now the market is saturated.
with most people probably attuned now I am hoping the people who farmed the attunement mats themselves go back to what ever they were doing before. farming has been miserable for the past 2 weeks
While people running bots are for sure flooding the market the majority of people farming Arcane crystals (at least in ungoro) is Real players. I See the same bots as always but I have seen a ton more people who are HWL/GM or have naxx/aq40 logs/gear.
I think it is possible that Real people are a bigger piece of this pie then you think
Of course not, but when I run out of DME and I regularly see people in a Chinese or Latin American guild whos gear score is really low I start to ask questions.
The better short-term investment is in Refined Deeprock Salt / Cured Rugged Hides anyway. Of course, these items will crash harder than Arcane Crystals, but the spike in value is longer-lasting than Arcane Crystals.
Hopefully we get that in the next Vanilla re-re-re-re-release.
GDKPs wouldn’t exist if there was a chance you’d get banned for 3 months because some whale joined your raid with 3,000 bought gold.
Yeah thats true. Ive gotten 2 mooncloth chars going so thats decent gold every 3 days. Its just a lil disappointing is all with how DME is atm. I really wanna prep for TBC and DME runs were great gold to do solo. I suck at playing the AH so I might need to find a new gold farm if it keeps crashing like this.
Banning boosts has nothing to do with this or the real problems we have in the game. Boosts are 100% fine, its the morons buying gold that should be hit with a bigger suspension, but the worst offender is the 1000s of 3rd world gold farmers being allowed to run rampant.
The guy in the LATAM guild spamming DME for 5 hours while being 600 gearscore is most likely not a real player and is a gold seller.