The issue is prices are generally the highest they are ever going to be at the beginning of an expansion
I feel as though, if you don’t blitz to 450 now and have a fair amount of investment gold to put into, say, berserker enchants, you may be better off just selling your materials and buying them back later cheaper.
Then perhaps trying to recapitalize on the fervor in the next raid tier.
Whether modestly more generous tips lead to more enchanters may be a fair stretch idk, but a part of me thinks people have have an interest in supporting more enchanters if they want their GG stuff sooner than later and for cheaper.
Yeah, and coming down to the fact that this is a video game and not real life, I think it’s important to support the community and just have fun. Tip the enchanter because it’s going to make them smile and feel like WoW is less of a job.
But if you do want to invite real world comparisons (which the pro-tippers are employing) expecting a ‘minimum tip’ for a tradeskill is completely incongruous with reality.
I’m not really interested in drawing any serious comparisons to real life–I think I used a tipping analogy simply to sus out the difference between a “demand” and an “expectation.”
I think there should be an expectation that your labor nets some kind of a possibility at a return–say if you were to play virtual shop-keep in Dalaran. Generally paying people with reasonable tips would make that more of a possibility. Like I implied, it is not just a nice thing to do, it is to some degree materially in your interest to support enchanters if you want people to have motivation to get to 450 and create a more competitive enchant market. The investment they put in today for their training will be worth less and less in the coming weeks. If you don’t want interest in people getting max enchanting to flag, put up a reasonable amount of money for the service.
That is what I think, anyway. It is something you see with ore speculators and that’s tied to an actual BiS performance profession that you would want ASAP.
In either case, there is a lot of room for everybody to win with the very low expectations for tips expressed in this thread.
I’ll tip 5g unless they say there’s a commision fee. If you don’t say how much to pay you have no right to get annoyed when they pay less than you’d like.
All you’re doing is wasting both their time and your time, if you just said that you want Xg minimum then that wouldn’t happen. They deem your service is worth that much and while you have full right to decline and return their mats, if you simply state a price it’d be for the best of both you and the people seeking your enchants.
Then it doesn’t sound like you’re arguing for fairness, you’re just greedy. You want the benefits of an open market and the safety of market regulations.