They buy it from all those bots u see everyone posting about.
Beers GDKP on mankrik. 220 to 450k.
Their T7 GDKPs were typically breaking in the 100ks before Ulduar, several broke 200k. Obviously the closer to Ulduar the further they went down. One only did 60k, and another barely broke 100k.
My eyes indicates it’s a booming industry. We have no good data to track it because it’s illegal and people generally don’t talk about it, especially in the actual game. You’d have to be going to the gold buying websites or “dark” discords to get any good sense of anything. Even then it’d be anecdotal.
What an actually dumb thing to say, my god.
Okay?
And what are the lower end GDKP’s doing? 100 min buytouts?
Oh lordy no 100g for a T7 25 man piece…
Another difference also is, back in og vanilla, it took 3 months for the first guild to clear BWL. And onyxia was considered at least remotely hard.
A full bwl clear is 1350-1450 gold worth from bosses alone, loot not included
And it was cleared by pretty much everyone, every week since week 1.
Onyxia is worth 250 gold + ~ 100 from loots, intended for 40 players but was often 15-20 manned. It even was 3 manned at LVL 60 , farming raids was an efficient gold.farm lol
In comparison naxx25 bosses in wotlk dropped ~120 gold each.
Exactly. Ive been in his Gdkps, people bid up just “for content.” Its silly
Completely misspelled “completely right, spot on man”
It does.
Come on, do you think every server would have 300 DK bots on 24/7 creating gold if they couldn’t sell it?
So called buyers just buy gold. People are not hiding it on disc. They just trade player to player to avoid mail. Apparently it’s where Blizzard is implemented red flags.
auction house tycoons. Inspect some bank alt that’s always sitting around town. compare your achievements and go to statistics tab on the bottom. Go to character stats, and scroll down to gold earned. You’ll see that you have lifetime gold earned from auctions: 42,069g and theirs is like 2-3 million.
But those are rare. The rest, they just buy it from illegal third party sellers.
Some players buy the gold. That gold came from bots in Classic and TBC. Rogues botting in BRD could generate hundreds or thousands of raw gold per day, just from pick pocketing. Blizzard rarely did anything about it, so more gold was just injected into the economy. Same with mage boosting in Maraudon. Or Zul’Farak farming. The more mobs that were killed, the more copper and silver entered everyone’s pockets and thus turned into gold. Not to mention the greys, greens, blues etc.
Flying and Epic flying were gold dumps in TBC, but it wasn’t enough due to botting still being an issue and Blizzard doing nothing about it.
I’m sure botting is still the main source of why there is so much gold in the game to be sold to various players. Wrath dailies are now a small part since they give a ridiculous amount of gold.
For players that have legit played since Classic, they are probably just rich by accident from just playing the game and dipping into a gdkp or two.
In short. Bot farming and gold selling are mostly why people have a stupid amount of gold to spend in gdkps.
The game is filled with narcissists. It’s pretty much a requirement if you want to survive in the game for an extended period of time.
Narcissists need the best at the expense of everyone else and so they buy all their gear.
I don’t know. He said one thing and I pointed out I found another. I did try to look up one other GDKP but they didn’t seem to have a GDKP log.
Maybe you should try actually doing some GDKP’s yourself 
I’ve done a few, not really that big into them anymore cause I have enough gold to do what I need to do, and I prefer a guild raiding environment progressing through as a team.
And how many of those massive payouts have you personally seen?
What does it matter what I’ve personally experienced when there is a log that shows what they are?
I’ve seen a lot of random crazy junk on the internet, that doesn’t mean it represents the average experience.
Well there’s two GDKP channels I reviewed now that have pots going for 200k to 300k on average. Maybe our server’s economy is just different than yours.
Our server was selling warglaives for like 75 or 100k back in TBC if I recall. They eventually fell to like 50k, and then a few rare illidan pieces always went for like 15-20k. I got in on a few runs back then and made some nice change.
And once again does that represent the average experience or is it just the outliers?
I think every server is gonna be different.
On mankrik I’m going to say based on what I’ve seen if you go to an Ulduar GDKP you should expect at least a 200k pot. 300k isnt unreasonable, 400k is lucky.
Obviously prices change over time. The iron is hot now because it’s fresh and no one has the loot. 3 months from now there will be smaller pots unless some specific items drop.