There’s legit nothing to buy with gold outside of blues which are extremely easy to replace by doing BFD (Thieve’s Mantle being the only exception).
Like 150 professions and Ashenvale tiger is gonna run you, what, 25g?
Meanwhile, we have level 25 10-man raid purples going for upwards of 150g.
GDKP is the only consistently expensive part of the game for the vast majority of players. Cheaters are gonna cheat regardless, since they feel risk is low, but GDKP is the driving force behind buying hundreds of gold, rather than like 50 and being good for all of phase 1. That’s why you guys have a target on your back from the non-cheating original classic community.
We’re all inferring here dude. What % of gold buyers who GDKP do you think do anything but raid log, or log in at all after the they’re geared? Maybe they go WSG and use their cheated gear to stomp?
Dude wake up! A bis item going for less than ah greens is what players are getting from these gdkp runs. Coming into a bfd Gdkp with 50 g is more than enough to buy a few pieces of gear. They are definitely going to come back after they get gear because they are getting paid. Do you not know how this works?
You’re running on a server that runs GDKP. Of course your AH economy is broken. Talk about willfully blind.
You also don’t need tippy top prebis to start BFD. This phase is abnormal in that most prebis gear is BoE greens, rather than loot from dungeons. Yet you can still use quest and dungeon items to prepare for BFD perfectly fine. I hit 25, spent like 8g on some >20 greens, then went to BFD within the hour and did some 80 dps. We cleared in 40m and I got 3 upgrades. I could not get a single other piece for the rest of the phase and my DPS would be more than fine for this raid.
Prebis BoEs don’t even make sense for parsers because they’re SOOO easily replaced by just doing the easy raid. Again, Mantle of Thieves being the exception.
Exactly. Like I said above I don’t like GDKP but I do admit on my Paladin I did pay a Rogue 10g of my own quest earned gold to get the ring because I f***ing hate SFK.
Does that make me a hypocrite? Yes, but honestly if all GDKP was banned tomorrow do people really think people will just stop buying gold?
I’ll give you a reason why. GDKP is bad for the health of the game. With the rise of GDKP, there is the fall of PuGs.
In order for a game to be healthy, it has to support both the player that plays a lot and the casual to some degree. With no PUGs, and GDKP requiring gold, it is a hard gate keep. Literally, you can’t get gear unless if you have gold. At least with PUGs there is a chance you get in as a casual as not everyone looks at logs.
Soft gate keeping such as encounter “difficulty” or some time sinks are fine imo, but hard gate keeps aren’t right. And this is coming from somehow who thinks gate keeping is a good thing in MMO’s.
No it didnt. Era was popping off before sod launch and the only thing keeping the server group together before the resurgence was gdkp. I was there, you clearly were not.
None of what you said addresses how GDKP is the most expensive activity in the game for a buyer, and thereby drives gold buying more than anything else.
Like you mention raid logging and buying consumes, which is not even remotely comparable. That’s what, 9 gold a week? 50s FAP, 50s for 5 mana/health pots, 1g for 5 str pots + agi elixir, 1g for 2 SPP? Throw in a boggling root and you’re at 3.3g per raid
There are several ways you can spend bought gold, but all of them combined, at least in this phase, don’t add up to the amount you can spend on GDKP.
I’m talking about the going rate for items within a BFD GDKP, not the AH.
The AH greens going for that much are literal BiS items stronger than the raid gear, and oh look, they are going for around the same price that a BFD item goes for. Wtf is this reply
This is such a low IQ take. Players play the game to have fun. It turns out farming mats and smacking rocks isn’t as fun as PvPing or doing literally anything else in the game. If I run 1 GDKP reset a week as a carry I can afford everything I need and build a surplus so I can enjoy the game hunting rare pets or getting prepped for phase 2/build alt professions without doing the unfun things that have been replaced by bots anyway.
Would it? Wrath was dead on arrival without GDKP and so many people on this forum claim Wrath was “peak wow”
No, it isn’t irrelevant, you just can’t rebut it so you changed the topic lol
GDKP is the biggest source of demand for RMT. Easily. A GDKP RMTer has no reason to buy inflated prebis greens off the AH, cause they can pay you for the carry and go straight to bis from greys. That argument is irrelevant.
Again, cheaters are gonna cheat regardless, you guys are just such a big part of the problem because you spend so much effort on forums pretending you’re not at all part of the problem. RMT is in GDKP, RMT does exist without GDKP, GDKP is the place where you can spend most of your bought gold for the most meaningful impact. All of these are true.
