Lotus prices are still 120g+ and the supply on the auction house has not increased with a total of 58 lotus’s available on market right now.
Please allow Black Lotus to proc from high level herb nodes. That is the fix we want, that is the fix we need.
Players get a honest chance at getting Lotus and bots/sweatys can still camp the lotus nodes.
Win / Win situation with that fix.
Its not like were asking for a lot. Throw us a frickin bone here
I mean, I’m not surprised but it would take a bit of time for prices to adjust. They did say in their post that it would be a slow burn. I don’t think it’s gonna matter, but check next week.
No, that’s not the fix you want or need. It’s not going to matter. If the lotus is this locked down it’s not like they can’t lock down the other herbs too.
The change you want, and need, is the one from retail. Make resource nodes instanced so multiple players can pick them. Bots/farmers will continue to slurp up resources and list them on the AH for swipers to buy but the key difference is that regular players will still be able to go out into the world and pick what they need.
Alternatively, they can put a stop to gold buyers once and for all. Frankly, I’m fine with either 
Nightslayer- Alliance
Black Lotus (123)
Weekly High: 183g 99s
Weekly Low: 76g 75s
Current: 92g 12s 22c
hasn’t changed anything
it literally halved the price as of right now, which is very surprising, i was told that the bot mafia kingpin controlled all the auction house lotus prices and he wouldn’t let the price drop below his predetermined price, is that last week’s plot?
Can’t wait to see what the writers have in store for season 2
wont that hurt alchemist profits?
All the stockpiled lotus is being sat on in the hopes the market stays solvent or whatever economics term is. I did see an increase in butthurt posts about it though.
Yeah, it’s just a simple supply/demand issue. Are there people hoarding some lotus, sure. Is there a coordinated mafia of bots trying to keep all the lotus while stifling supply and keeping the price up? Probably not. According to IF pro there were 20k~ raiders on Nightslayer last week. There is nowhere near 20000 lotus spawns a week. Sure, not everyone that raids flasks (rightfully so) but you get what i mean, there is still more demand than supply.
buy every consumable item except flasks -OR- buy flask and skip every other consumable item (except maybe Mongoose).
still clearing MC in <1 hour
like i said, nothing has changed. there is still not enough lotus for the server pop, which is the root of the problem.
blizzard cant even be transparent about the changes they made, just that they increased the drop rate. i doubt they actually did anything at all and are trying to force the market to correct itself by scaring horders into losing profits by holding. a few players dumped their stock on the auctionhouse which is why the prices dipped briefly and went right back up.
There are very few black lotus spawns locations, covering all high level herbs is a much taller order as there are a lot more spawns in the current black lotus zones, plus a whole other zone (felwood) that currently spawns all high level herbs except black lotus
Not so tall an order. I play on a dead server where we have a few professional farmers who export materials to Whitemane and sell them to make gold. These days not so much but before Anniversary, a handful of operators were able to lock down EPL, BS, and Silithus. On a populated server where the demand is much greater, especially on PvE, it would be pretty easy.
With that said, why even give them the option? Instanced resource nodes yield the same result in a more effective way.
Just let people play the game, man.
sir please 
these things take time. i’m sure in 3-4 months you will see a good -10% adjustment in the price.
Prices on Nightslayer already dropped like 30g in just a few days. The change is reducing the price, I think OP just didn’t want that change and wanted a different one.
they were 120g last week and now dropped to 90g last time i checked yesterday.
the issue is they still see 100~ gold as exorbitantly expensive lol they want flasks to be as cheap as a regular pot.
Pretty much. 1-2 hours of gold grinding a week is just too much to ask for something you only use for an hour a week I guess. For some reason people just want to login for 1 hour a week to raid and not have to do anything else to prep for raid. Little odd to me personally that people would pay for a months worth of game time to only play 4 hours a month.
Personally, I would keep an eye on it over the course of a couple of resets and see. If memory serves, prices for raid consumables tend to spike on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Really though, it should never be about the price, it should be about the availability. I get that some folks don’t want to farm and just want to buy, but someone who wants to spend the time to go out and get the stuff should be able to in some reasonable period of time. Like, no expectation that you get it on your first lap, but after an hour or two you should be able to get what you need.
I think changing it too much would completely remove the experience of a MMORPG of finding something extremely valuable, which is an important consideration. Imagine if they made Blue Sapphires a 10% drop instead of 1%. I’d probably stop cheering every time I got one in a DME jump run because it would happen pretty much every other run instead of every 4-5 hours. Imho it would take excitement away from the game.
I’d imagine if you really were hunting for Black Lotus for 4-5 hours straight you would find one, which would be about on par with Blue Sapphires.
this is the root of the problem that they dont understand.
its not about having flasks for cheap. i can afford to pay 200g per week but i shouldnt HAVE to do that, especially being an herbalist, i should be able to go out and at least find some lotus in the wild and i havent really noticed any increase in spawn points, because i still cant find them. there is not enough supply to meet demand and some players have formed their entire gameplay around hording as much lotus as they can.
its not a matter of what is fair or unfair, its a matter of what is right and what is wrong, and the way lotus is being handled right now on the mega servers, its wrong.
anytime anyone points this issue out its always met with fLaSkS sHoUlNdT bE aS cHeAp As PoTs when that isnt even the argument. its availability like you said and players shouldnt be locked out of these resources because of that.
but these are the same people who thing GDKP is good and that whoever buys the most gold gets the loot is the best distribution system.
yes you should welcome to classic
if you want streamlined no effort crap, retail is →
i dont realy care what a swiper like you thinks.
lol cool ad hominem bro