So the House of the Chosen hyperspawn has been a thing for over a year.
Whenever I pass through, it’s always being farmed (botted?)
It got me to thinking, “These guys are basically just printing up gold…”
I wonder why such an obvious exploit has been left in the game for over a year? It seems easy enough to fix; just slow down the respawn rate.
it seems like a very time consuming activity to be considered ‘just printing up gold’. Every expansion has had hyperspawn points. I don’t see the problem.
Hyper spawns, old raids with gold, vendor shuffles, and your daily cov callings and tables all generate raw gold (I’m sure there are some other things out there but those are the ones off the top of my head).
These activities aren’t bot-able.
It certainly doesn’t look like fun but it is 100% just printing up gold.
Actually, the old raid instance farming is bottable (not so much in retail but in classic it’s a HUGE problem). Vendor shuffles, eh I’m sure they could but only thing with that is all the prices for x and y materials have to be right yada yada on that. Daily cov callings I wouldn’t think would be bottable, the tables potentially but why tho?
I see what you mean now with the post I thought you were talking about raw gold in general not this specific instance. You know?
If blizzard wants to sell tokens at the store every sold token needs to be bought from the AH.
Otherwise, the gold price will drop and discourage people from buying tokens from the store.
And what could be better for this other than an army of druids paying for account time with tokens.
This has been an issue for a long time and many expansions.
The way [if it’s botted] functions in a way that I guess WoW tech hasn’t really bothered to implement a way to fully restrict them or that it’s hard to when they just bounce around on stolen accounts.
That said it sucks and it also ruins a lot of the economy [dependent on the spawn etc] and ruins questing [also dependent on location].
Blizzard really are dropping the ball on a lot of things.
It is still done in retail. There are a couple instances you can go sit outside of and just watch the carousel of boosted Druids go in and out. Iron Docks was a popular one pre-squish, not sure if that still holds up now.
It proves again that players and devs both contributed to the game downfall. Not just one or the other.
I think iron docks was fixed. What’s the other one? I know arch or botanica in retail had some issues too but I think those were fixed too. I haven’t seen any as of late, but I’m sure they exist. They nerfed a lot of the raw gold out of old raids and dungeons a while ago.
Lol I know you all in classic have issues with bots in botanica (lol bots in bot… the irony), and they straight up fly hack to get there and fly hack inside (from what I’ve seen of reddit with people documenting it), which is absolutely bonkers.
Actually the npcs do drop raw gold when you kill them. It’s about 1.5g to 2g per NPC not counting grey items and greens.
Edit: least for the one he’s talking about. It’s the one out in Maldraxxus at the seat of the chosen (I think that’s the right spot) or house of the chosen.
Well, that too. There are no gold bars backing up the gold currency. Gold in this game literally comes from monsters and quests. It comes out of thin air.
You mean they’re generating in game gold the way it’s meant to be generated and not really fabricating or making things out of thin air?
If you want to get even more technical if you use the cloth dropped from the NPC for vendor shuffles, the items are converted into raw gold via the vendor shuffles.
I don’t 2x4 farm cause it’s stupidly boring, but I could see where if it was turned into a robe then vendored it would print off gold but even then, I don’t think that many people actually vendor shuffle cloth. Leather is mainly vendor shuffled.
Add income tax with brackets. Any gold over 200,000 a month across all characters on a realm per account is taxed 99%.
I pay taxes irl I ain’t paying it in the game.
Then your characters will be thrown into the stockades for tax evasion.
That is a bad suggestion. “Let’s lock players out of their accounts for not paying taxes on time in a virtual game.”
Like ??? No I wouldn’t play at that point lol and I think a lot of people would quit. Also taxes IRL are (supposed) to go towards roads, bridges, etc. In wow it’s just “poof” gone. Like what? No.
New world has weekly taxes for your house and you get locked out of your house for not paying taxes. Besides, the AH already takes a 5% ah cut when you sell something and your deposit if you cancel is taken. Some deposits you think twice about canceling especially for gems and other goods.
This would literally not stop botters at all either lol they will just launder the gold before taxes are due, delete the account and keep going.
Edit: I also looked at the tax rate
ARE YOU MAD?! 99% taxes on 200k would leave 2k gold for the person. They would have to pay 198k in taxes. At that point, why play the AH why do anything that’s ridiculous. How much gold do you think the average player makes? In classic 200k takes a while but 200k in retail I can /fart and make 200k.