This game has 3 problem areas that need an attention / improvement:
- Excess gold in the economy and the resulting inflation (people would have in-game gold / $ dumps on top of the vanity items if they’re not into vanity but into alts)
- Twinks are leaving game en masse (including myself) due to fun police for the reasons disclosed in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aprwLF5zMAM
- Blizzard is missing out on a huge hidden market of those players willing to pay their way through to gain practical in-game benefits as opposed to useless gadgets
All of these 3 problems would be offset by implementing either of these 3 options (and bring me and my 5 accounts back into game on a subscription basis):
Option 1:
Item vendor: Behsten / Slahtz
Item name: Potion of the Void
Item title color: Teal/Cyan (same as WoW Token)
Item level: 1
Item bind: Binds when picked up
Item description: “The longer you stare into the swirling vortex of this vial, the more you realise that it stares back at you…”
Item effect: character’s experience gained is decreased by 100%* for 3 / 6 / 9 hours GCD (note: the effect is not the same as xp disable, a character who uses a potion can still join the normal xp-on battlegrounds, but only while effect duration lasts)
Item cost: $5 / $10 / $15 or 35,000 gold / 65,000 gold / 100,000 gold
*only your default innate XP will be axed by 100%, this does not count in the heirloom xp bonus: i.e. if a character is wearing heirlooms, then a chracter would still get xp bonus from heirlooms)
Option 2:
Item vendor: Behsten / Slahtz
Item name: Nethertwist potion
Item level: 1
Item title color: Teal/Cyan (same as WoW Token)
Item bind: Binds when picked up
Item description: “This vial contents are a perfect pitch of vantablack darkness and consume all the light around it. Merely holding it fills you with a sense of an eerie dread. All that is sane tells you not to drink it…”
Item effect: character’s experience bar is reset** to 0% through a current character level
Item cost: $15 or 100,000 gold
**For example:
your level 55 character experience bar is 87,349 / 134,430 (65% through)
your character uses the potion
your level 55 character experience bar is set to 1 / 134,430 (0% through)
Option 3:
$2 / 12,000 gold fee to enter an xp-on battleground as an xp-off character once (each Battleground takes about 20-30 mins)
Basically I want to pay real money to Blizzard to allow me to enter normal xp-on battlegrounds as the xp-off character.