Cant play anymore because of gold costs

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My main content is Mythic+, and I’ve always relied on a WoW Token to cover my in-game expenses. In previous seasons, a single token provided enough gold to cover at least three months of consumables and repair costs. But with current prices, it’s becoming unsustainable.

Here’s the breakdown of my typical expenses per dungeon attempt:

  • Hearty Food: 750 gold
  • Weapon Oil: 110 gold
  • Flask: 580 gold
  • Repairs: 1,800 gold

That totals 3,240 gold per dungeon attempt. At the current WoW Token price of 280k gold, this means one token only covers about 84 dungeon runs.

This is a massive shift. These days, a WoW Token lasts me maybe 2–3 weeks, whereas it used to last months. The rising cost of consumables and repairs feels unmanageable without either spending real money more frequently or dedicating hours to farming.

I love Mythic+, but I play the game to push keys, not to grind gold endlessly just to afford the basics. If this trend continues, I’m seriously considering stepping away for the rest of the season.

Does anyone else feel this way?

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you’re repairing 1800g per dungeon? …

And you play too much.

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If you’re seriously spending 1800g per dungeon in repairs, then you are dying too much and should seriously rethink what level you’re playing on at the moment,

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:astonished: :astonished: :astonished:

somethin ain’t right

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you need a flask every dungeon? they last an hour. how long are the dungeons?

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Honestly, squeezing 2 dungeons into an hour flask is feat. Technically there’s time, but when you factor in setup time it’s probably 10-15mins too short. 90 min flasks would actually be ideal.

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we had 30min flasks last season. somehow we went back to 60min for no reason.

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30 minutes wasn’t even as long as some of the dungeon timers. 30 minutes flasks were criminal.

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True, but three into two flasks is much more doable.

(Can even do 5, if you walk in, wipe first pull and go next.)

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you can always pop it at first boss.

THE HORROR!!! two trash pulls unflasked!!!

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Why even have a needless disadvantage?

Just go unflasked the entire dungeon.

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I’m an alchemist so it’s all moot anyway, but I think 1 hour flasks are definitely better.

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you didn’t miss the timer by 2 seconds, you were at 60% trash and still had 2 bosses left when the timer expired. It wasn’t the flask that held you.

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I’ve definitely had close calls, like being over time, but still getting it due to server latency.

Apparently, the death penalty isn’t instantaneous.

So people can die, then before the fraction of a second that the time penalty is applied, you can time the key.

Or sub one second close calls.

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If you are a dps pug, you will have to use 1 per dungeon unless you are giga geared for the dungeon.

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Hearty food is not worth it unless youre farming and cooking for yourself.

Weapon oils are a useless gold waste

If you’re pushing 12+ then rank 3 flasks are good. If youre doing 7-10s you only really need rank 2

If yiu have 1800G in repairs per dungeon, take a step back and figure out what youre doing wrong. My average repair after a 10 is about 200g

All in all I think I spend MAYBE 700g a dungeon

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Like everyone else said, 1800 in repairs per dungeon is sus

Hearty food is a bad idea unless you’re dying at least 6 times per dungeon, which if you are, then there’s other problems you’re having

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That’s because you don’t go past 10’s. Which your entire answer makes very evident.

“Oils are a waste of gold”

Tell that to EVERY single person pushing high keys. He’s not talking about vault keys my guy…

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You are choosing to drop a feast every run instead of eating secondary stat foods.

You can use R2 oils and flasks which are 1/3 the price.

Die less.

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The only time I’ve ever spent that much gold in one go for repairs was the first time I entered high level delves and I was struggling to understand the concept of using my interrupt, because I was playing WWmonk and I’m DPS and Brann should do it for me??? Hello???