I don’t know a lot about coding or whatever but maybe it’s something simple like the gold/vendor price being tied to Ilvl.
With the level squish you are now vendoring stuff that’s way lower so less gold.
I can’t give you an exact amount because legacy was not enabled when I tested it, but an item that did sell for 35g now sells for 11g. It would seem the loot was nerfed by a little more than 2/3.
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I… don’t feel like farming content where you 1 shot everything should ever be a legitimate means of making gold.
Like, if there’s some old crafted piece that you need raid mats for and you go make that piece and it sells for 100k because Transmog? Cool, whatever, that’s fine.
But just passive gold from sneezing on the raid as you stroll through? No.
Good change. They’ve done a similar change in the past, too, so it’s not like this is new.
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Being a casual type player myself, I don’t get to see raids/dungeons when they are current, all my friends have long ago quit the game; and I don’t PUG. Since buying BFA, I have leveled one character to 120, started on some rep and such, but I can’t even bring myself to fish most days. (my favorite WoW activity) BFA has kinda ruined the game for me right now. I finally got the first vision done about 2 weeks ago, and I NEVER want to set foot in there again. Terrible.
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Care to explain them? Because not just WoW but many MMOs have been struggling to combat bots as they’ve advanced.
Visions aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, but please be aware that they’re intended to be progressed through. The first run is intentionally not very productive. You don’t get far. Because your cloak is weak and you have no research. Both of those things improve your performance dramatically week-to-week.
Farm your mogs/gold now. Looking more and more like a don’t purchase for a few months to see how many changes are actually taking place.
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That’s “normal”. Cata/ICC used to give more gold in WoD, but the amount was nerfed in Legion. So i assume you have to farm Legion raids in shadowlands in order to make ends meet.
I was kinda hyped for visions in a way since I am usually a solo player or I do randoms in LFG. I really wanted the back pack since I like transmog and making all my alts look nice. Still yeah I can get what you are saying about not wanting to set foot in visions again… I did maybe five at most? Then said it is not worth the repairs and irritation. Especially hated the effect that made you bounce uncontrollably.
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I think this is Blizzards outlook on the subject as well.
Still, for players who do this to make their gold it will suck, but I think overall long term it is a healthy change.
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I can appreciate this and I understand some people like them. If I didn’t have to try to farm 10k of some currency in some zones I don’t really go, only to lose them if/when I fail, I might be more inclined to give visions more time, they do sound interesting.
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Chop chop those tokens aren’t going to buy themselves
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I wonder if this is what the aoe cap was really about. With the nerf to aoe and now loot values, blizz is making a concerted effort to stop legacy farmers. A classic case of cutting off ones nose to spite ones face. I guess they want another sub dive like with wod.
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Visions were bad because they were content that tried to play itself off as catering to hardcore players while still needing to be a progression system for everyone. Way worse than mage tower. Hated how blizz treated this content, no interest to do it after I got the title, and even then I stalled about 3 weeks on when I could have reasonably gotten it.
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You get enough currency for I wanna say 3 Vision runs a week if you only do the invasions (the minor one resets halfway through the week).
That’s ignoring the associated dailies and any literal grinding.
Doesn’t change anything if you don’t like that content at all, but just making sure you’re aware you don’t have to go grind mobs and rares and such in those zones to get the currency.
I’m not sure I have experienced this bouncing thing; my husband and I went in three times, the first time we died almost instantly, and we both said, “eff this”. About 2 weeks later tried again and made a little progress then died, third time was the charm, but we did NOT have fun, paid huge repair bills and were only relieved to have finally finished the associated quest.
If you can figure out a 100% perfect way of stopping all botting, you need to patent that and make all the money ever. As long as people want to take the easy way out, they will always, always exist.
As long as people want things they do not want to work for, this will be a problem. As soon as someone comes up with a way to stop botting/hacking/viruses, etc, someone else comes up with a way to circumvent the ‘stop’ and continue to do what they want.
I’m not sure about that. It was the goal they would leave the level at 120 so people would buy character boosts
I promise you, old raids aren’t even in the top ten reasons why this is a problem.
WoD’s money exploit is likely number one.
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