By multiple means from the deprecation of old crafting to reducing loot in older content. Some things have already changed.
Shame that old raid (MoP and Wod specifically) raw gold is getting nerfed. It was my primary method of making money, and I was intending to spend prepatch farming old raid gold so I could buy Shadowlands with Blizz Balance since my RL financial situation is brutal at the moment.
I wonder how hard the nerf is, though. And if I get enough toons leveled up, I could still reasonably make enough gold to buy Shadowlands, if not a month or two after release. Canât seem to find a decent source on how specific the gold nerf is.
Either way, itâs a big shame. Once again, Blizz seeing a problem and putting the exact WRONG solution that just screws with normal players instead of the problem players.
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Itâs not so much about dying, you get a repair bill just running content. I seriously spent like 25K on repairs in one weekend I was doing so much instances, it happens, especially when you pug and some groups die so much.
No of course, raiders and those who do lots of M+ prepare for this, by making sure we have enough gold, materials, pots and flasks before we go. And how do we do that? You can either spend time farming mats to sell on the AH, or farm old content.
You still have to farm something and if they kill gold from old raids, plus the reported less drop rates might still be a thing which is going to properly kill old farming. Along with people reporting nodes in SL are quite rare on Beta, this is all going to kill tokens, so they better put gold gains from normal content up or you are going to find people just not doing content.
It happened on my previous server before I moved, some people left the game entirely because of the time needed to prepare to raid, and the cost of things on the AH, it just meant some people could no longer afford to get what was needed for progression raiding. Itâs a primary reason why my guild moved, get a better server economy and more people to recruit.
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What are you talking about? I didnt play 2 patches and suddenly my opinion is invalid? I didnt know you were the arbiter of forum conversations about something.
If they really wanted to pull gold out of the game they could start by increasing AH deposits on some items, like premium cloth. I see the same players posting 10s of thousands of cloth week after week in the AH.
I didnt say time to prepare to raid was non existent, im saying as someone who participated in that content until this xpac extensively its not that big a deal, and certainly not such a deal that its a conspiracy to get people to buy tokens.
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Yep, put measures in place to stop bots farming gold instead of screwing everyone who is legit, but no, this is just the easy way out. Possibly nerfing drop rates, reduce iLVL of everything, and now bots wonât be able to make anything near what they were getting.
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No I never said that, what I am saying is that at a point I did have an issue participating in content, and if I had not previously prepared for it I would have had to stop doing what I was doing and go get more gold. I was down to like 50K at one point in BFA because I spent too much time doing M+ and raids and they donât give enough gold, M+ doesnât even give gold and mission tables give nothing, that I had to actually stop and go farm again to make gold or I would have had to just not do BFA content.
I didnt say you didnt have to get gold from somewhere, but lets not pretend farming old raids was the sole source. There are 2k gold WQs reguraly that would only take a couple toons to cover that. Leveling a toon to 110 netted me 8-9k in gold, even more if I pushed them to 120. Gold is not scarce in WoW by any stretch of the imagination.
The original point being made in the thread is the conspiracy to buy tokens. Literally what were discussing.
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Neither will I 
Now Iâm trying to figure out how Iâm gonna farm gold come prepatch, since Iâm not gonna be able to farm enough gold for 3 tokens by Tuesday. Unless BFA nodes are still selling decent by then, grinding to buy SL is really gonna suck.
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On the flip-side a good argument for holding onto your gold because it should theoretically go up in value just sitting in your bank.
Really? Since when? My WQâs give nothing more than a couple hundred gold at best. Maybe emissary do. But thatâs like 3 days of repair bills if you run enough content and that is not very often either. Add in other costs that you need for progression content and itâs certainly not enough, yes, some players run old raids to make enough gold to participate.
Just because there is X gold in total across all characters does not mean itâs fair to drop the gold income for those of us who rely on that gold to keep going. And yes, some of us rely on that gold. Some of us get super lucky with BoE items that sell for a lot, which I havenât had in like 12 months. The last BoE I got that sold for something decent was back in EP.
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So how much will Tokens cost now if gold is harder to get?
Itâs pretty darn scarce, especially when you take into consideration the price Blizzard is charging for stuff in game. Sure, 2,000 sounds like a lot, but simply changing your transmog these days costs 400g. Never mind the insane prices for mounts now. 300,000 gold griffins? 5,000,000 gold dinosaurs? 2,000 is barely a drop in a bucket compared to those prices.
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How about a more progessive AH tax? The more you post of something the more your deposit is on each bracket? Like say I post 1-1000 ore, my deposit is 5%. From 1001-5000 ore the deposit is 10%. From 5001-10000 ore the deposit is 15%, etc.
2000 is not a lot, but its enough to cover actual costs of doing content and repairs. Transmog and mounts are not required. We are discussing the requirements to participate in raids and M+. Those activities are not designed to be self sufficient.
Bringing in gold sink mounts are not even in the realm of this conversation.
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Itâll drop until it reaches the threshold people are capable/willing to pay. Could be a fair bit. It dropped roughly 100k between Legion and BFA.
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True, youâll just have to run two MoP raids instead of one to get the same gold. Maybe weâll get lucky and theyâll put other things in the game that produce gold. Iâm wondering what theyâre going to replace the 2,000 gold emissaries with.
Exactly, not self sufficient. So who does one get gold to participate in those? Like I keep saying, some of us rely on old raids to get enough gold, not everyone gets lucky with things in current content to sell to participate, or has the patience and time to farm their own mats. It takes a lot longer to get your own mats than it does currently farming old raids to get the gold for it, and it is a ton easier to just run an old raid knowing exactly where the raid is, what route to take how long it will take, itâs an easy thing to plan.
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The Garrison is still looking to be an easy source of Gold in Shadowlands in particular with no new bags. Not huge amounts but decent for the time needed.