Obviously you tip what you want. But im not sure what is even considered lowball, normal or generous?
I still use “UC port for 1g?” Frequently and mages never fail to whisper me. 1g is super cheap in outland but if you’re leveling in azeroth, idk 50s seems fine.
i’ve been getting nothing but 5-10g tips since launch
How much do reagents cost?
As a mage, I’ve infrequently had lowbies ask for ports and not tip at all, and I’ve infrequently had 5-10g tips, but typically 1g is common.
FWIW, in WoW Classic, it was around 15-18s per reagent to give someone a port.
5g is my standard tips for anything.
Mage on a heavily populated server here.
No tip - that’s just rude, I’ll still port them but I feel a bit used
1g - meh, I feel neutral about the exchange
5g - I’ll mean it when I say ty in party chat
10g+ You’re my new best friend. Call me anywhere anytime and I’ll be your pocket portal.
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I wouldnt even tip a retail mage 5g for a port. It literally costs you 18s for the rune to make a portal. I think any mage that made even 20s for a port should be happy. So theres your answer OP, it costs 20s for them to make a port lol tip whatever you want
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but you’ve just earned about 3 times what the reagent you used was worth. You feel neutral, but that’s a decent profit. You could easily give 5 ports a minute, * 60 = 300 ports an hour, and that’d be 300g/hour minus the reagent fees, so something like 275g/hour (if you had a constant stream).
Feeling neutral for that, when someone comes to you, gives you gold and asks you to click a button is totally your prerogative, but imo… a 1g tip is great.
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ppl tip me 20g per port and i never ask for the amount.
Here’s a tip: Get a real job!
Then laugh and run away.
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1g - 3g is all I have ever seen.
Usually its 1 or 2. Which is totally fair. I have never gotten more than 3g just for a port
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Man I’m trying to go to your guys servers I get no more than 5 gold and typically like 2-3 gold
1g is common and fine. especially if you’re a lowbie.
5g is very nice, more uncommon, usually for if the mage seems busy or is nice or something.
10g is extremely generous but much more rare
The rune is only like 20s (not sure i never look lol) so if you gave me 20s it wouldn’t really matter but I’d be annoyed
1-3g depending on the port convenience (even if the reagent cost is the same). Might be different on servers where there are more or fewer mages available or willing.
You’re not tipping the mage for the cost of the rune alone. You’re tipping them for the time you save traveling. If the portal saves you 10-15 mins of traveling time, that’s time you can be farming or whatever else and making money.
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I typically tip 3g if it’s from a City, 5g if it’s from out in the world.
I’ve never purchased a mage port in the history of WoW and I am a day 1 player. Why would people need to buy ports? Travel to anywhere on the map takes almost no time.
Clearly you don’t understand that paying for a service is distinguishable from merely recouping the service provider’s cost for said service.
For example, if you requested the service of an artist to paint your portrait, you wouldn’t just pay them the cost of their paints. You’d pay them for the service of something you either cannot or are unwilling to do yourself. In this case of mage ports, that means making a 15 minute trip through Azeroth/Outland a 2 second one.
If ppl only gave 20s for a port, no mage in their right mind would bother…
- inviting you to a party
- finding you
- spending 10 seconds making the port
- typing /thanks and /bow and “have a good one!”
- going back to the reagent vendor to replenish Runes of Portal at 18-19s each.
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You’re assuming that mages just have dozens of people lined up for individual ports all at the same time.
Believe it or not, like most other players, mages have certain goals or activites in mind for a play session. We want to quest, pvp, get out into the world, find a dungeon group etc. I don’t necessarily want to sit around hoping that someone needs a portal, and hoping that person will compensate me for the time and service it takes to find them, invite to group (dropping my own group sometimes), and make sure to replenish the portal runes at a reagent vendor.
If you’re not in my friend’s list, guild, or current dungeon party, you’re not getting a free portal. If you ask for a port, think about how much time that mage is saving you, and how much gold you could earn with that time.
1g is not even worth my time.
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