BMAH and Server Merges VERY Discouraging

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So, was curious if anyone else felt that the server merges have absolutely ruined the Black Market Auction Houses, per server.

Today the last mount I needed that is 100% un-obtainable, Swift Razzashi Raptor, finally popped up on Medivh. I have been waiting 2 years for this mount to show up. I have never missed a day checking it.

Now my complaint is that when servers were stand alone, their BMAH was only for their server. Even when Medivh merged with Exodar, the likelihood of getting BMAH items was still pretty good, at fair prices. Now Medivh and Exodar are merged with Khadgar and Alleria almost making everything un-obtainable millions of gold, or gold cap itself.

My HUGE gripe with all of this server merging stuff is that BMAHs shouldn’t have ever been combined to share among all connected realms to your home realm. BMAHs should still be unique to each server alone.

Grrrrrrr…it sounds so stupid but I really want to cancel my subscription over this because who knows, will I have to wait another 2 years to see it again and then be merged with 20 other servers and ONLY be able to get it if I gold cap it as soon as it shows up between 2-3 am my time lol?

The BMAH merging with servers, to me, is just super silly and discouraging. This aspect of the game is becoming geared toward pay-to-win players or players that play 24/7 and run the WoW economy.

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All i got from this was…

“Whaaa, I wanted something that I could get by exploiting a low pop realm, now I can’t do that”.

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BMAH is not pay to win since the only thing you get out of it is cosmetic.
Ask yourself if you really needed that mount? And for what reason?

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I want a swift zulian tiger, people in the maw want it to be less terrible, people in hell want ice water. stuff happens.

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I respect your ignorance, but read it again and you might see a few details you missed.

I have played on Medivh since Classic WoW. Yes, low population servers have been beneficial in this aspect, but I HATE and will always HATE high population servers simply because everything is discouraging, to include gameplay. I play to play the game and enjoy the content, not to fight with everyone over everything and make something that would take 20 minutes take 2 hours+.

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I am not sure what difference it would make. People from other servers would transfer over entire guild banks to the dead server just to pick this stuff up.

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Yes, I need the mount :slight_smile:

That +1 is crucial when you are a top mount collector!

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Some of the mounts you are missing are really easy to get - why worry about this one when you have plenty of others.

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You are right in the sense that a lot of the ones I am missing are easy to get, but that is the point, I can get them still. This mount you cannot. Like I said though, I am a top collector so the mount is a very important one to add to my collection.

I used to be able to look at BMAHs across many servers, but having to be level cap as well has also put a dent in my ability to find this mount and potentially get it at a reasonable price.

I will be honest, I had a kid since Legion and Legion was the last expansion where you could make gold by just simply playing the game and doing daily stuff, follower missions, etc. Now-a-days you either have to be an elitist that sells carries, dedicate your life to monopolizing the auction house, or farming something over and over again instead of just playing the game and doing gameplay stuff like Legion - I made a couple million gold a month in Legion by playing the game and not having to do anything crazy for it.

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I think you missed the boat on the ability to get it at a reasonable price already. People with gold think nothing of moving characters and guild banks full of gold over to these servers and if people have to be level cap to make bids, that isn’t really a major issue either.

Although, I never noticed that they made it so you do need to be max level to even see the BMAH, when did that happen. Pretty sure I look at that within the last 6 months and I was able to access it.

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I suppose I am the problem here so I just said screw it and cancelled by subscriptions. Maybe this is what I needed to quit the game for good.

You have had to be max level to see the Black Market Auction House since Shadowlands release. It was a new requirement added on release.

You are right, leveling isn’t a major task, I have like 62 level 50+ characters. But, having a kid makes it very difficult to play more than one character I suppose.

It is what it is. I been up in the air about quitting for a few months. I wouldn’t have lasted much longer anyways since I cannot afford keystone master carries every season and stuff to keep up. On top of that, I just don’t have the skill level to play that type of end-game content because I don’t want to play the game in that way, just isn’t fun. Raids put me to sleep so I just die all the time lol.

And I suppose missing all 4 season-only pvp mounts and those continuing through the game at this point forces me to play content I don’t want to play for my collections addiction - only reason I play the game. These mounts should have just been new saddle mounts, not time-gated rewards.

But thanks for the few posts made here. Maybe in the future a lot of this stuff will be fixed and/or changed. I have hardcore anxiety and all this game has done since BfA is make it go haywire so maybe I should have gave up awhile ago :wink:. Only good thing is I am a solo player, so nothing to miss!

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ITT: a gold capper complains about other gold cappers raising prices on things you shouldn’t be able to buy with gold to begin with.

By the way I have the mount you want. I got mine legitimately though. :slight_smile:

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Remember, BMAH is a gold sink. So merging servers makes sense to Blizzard because higher pops and competition enable the BMAH to soak more gold from ‘whales.’

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if they are going to merge servers though, they should have merged the ones they play on not just the central time zone ones. They literally left low population servers totally unmerged in the western zones.

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This is absolutely wrong, in your thought process. Let me break it down for you…

BMAH was made for gold sink. Back in WoD, the gold cap on BMAH was 5% less than 999,999 gold - this happened because you had to make a bid of at least 5% more than the current bid.

Now, in Legion, they raised the gold cap to 9,999,999. The new rule added to that was, once within 5% of the 9,999,999 gold cap, you could still bid up to 9,999,999 gold - only ignored the 5% mandatory raise once within 5% from cap.

Lastly, where you failed to realize, if Blizzard originally had 250 BMAHs across ALL servers individually, then decided to merge servers, this DRASTICALLY cut down the ability for gold dumping by reducing 250 BMAHs down to what, like 120 BMAHs now between shared servers, resulting from the server mergers?

This is an easy fix because of phasing. If Blizzard would restore the BMAH on every server individually, but kept the current server merges, there would be WAY more BMAHs to dump gold into. In addition, you have more players having access to items they otherwise wouldn’t ever get unless you do like I mentioned before, dedicate your life to the game to figure out a way to farm/make gold, or as I stated as well, pay-to-win with WoW tokens from the shop.

Unfortunately, I did not play during this expansion to farm it myself or else I would have got it legitimately. The only mount I got via BMAH is Thundering Cobalt Cloud Serpent because I got lazy/burnout from Nalak. I had over 1k kills across my accounts, and that was also the only world boss mount that took about 12 minutes total to get to from a major city, unless you parked all your characters out there until you got it. I refused to do that because I still needed a bunch of other old content mounts.

I started collecting in Legion, when I officially started playing WoW for everything it offered. I played in Classic when I was a teenager and TBC for a very short time in the military before I got volun-told to Iraq. During those periods of time, I only cared about PvP and raids.

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BMAH shouldn’t exist. All those items should exist in the game available in the content they came from (tier 3 from naxx40, old ZG/ZA, mop cloak quest and thus ability to access ordos, etc).

Inb4 salty poor person. I have a longboi and millions of gold, I would prefer having content rather than whatever nonsense this has been for the game.

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I couldn’t agree with you more. Thank you for your reply.

This is also an easy fix, if they want to keep the equivalent difficulty of that time/raid/content. That easy fix = timewalking. Allow us to utilize timewalking for more un-obtainable stuff OR utilize the NPCs on certain maps like Silithus that restore the “older” version of the zone and its content.

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everything you just said here proves his point that it was just made for a gold sink.

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The larger the group of bidders, the more competition for scarce items, the higher the bid prices.

Remember, not all items up for auction sell at gold cap.

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Okay and you completely missed the point, overall, with how that gold sink is effective. 120 BMAHs, after server merges = WAY LESS gold sink possibilities than 250 BMAHs individually. If you do not understand that then you shouldn’t reply my dude. Not trying to be mean or anything, but you are the one not understanding :slight_smile:!

Like I said, super easy fix. You phase the BMAH area on ALL servers individually, but still able to keep the current server merges as is, due to phasing.

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