I always see this argument brought up when dual spec is discussed.
No, respeccing is not a gold sink. Why? Because most people don’t do it in the first place, BECAUSE it costs so much. It’s not a very effective “gold sink” because most people don’t even do it.
If you swear up and down that there NEEDS to be a “gold sink” in TBC (even though Harris Pilton exists), just make dual spec cost 1000 or 2000 or however much gold. Problem solved.
I would pay a few thousand gold one time free to unlock dual spec
Profits, you should fight a duel with this guy who just told me that if I don’t recognize that nearly everyone respecs all the time, then I don’t play WoW. (There he is! He posted here while I was writing that.)
Anyway. To be a gold sink it needs to be ongoing, not one-time. Shygirl is the only person here to have ever actually proposed a “still a gold sink” revision of respeccing.
(To be clear, I would have no objection to a purely cosmetic “save this build, make respeccing back to it a one-click affair” system, as long as it didn’t take away the cost or the need to talk to a trainer.)
That isn’t what I said at all, I said basically everyone maxes out on respec cost, which is true.
There are no effective gold sinks in Classic or TBCC and a few extra thousand here and there isn’t going to change that.
in early wotlk you could
just wait for classic wotlk
there is no problem to be solved tho
you can level 10 characters and givem epic mounts
thats around 57k total
Still won’t cool the economy. It would need to be triple that.
I never bring up gold sink. This is a rpg. You should have to go to town if you want to respecialize your character. You’re a gnome a big world. You can’t just whip out a make it easy button and become a tank because your raid didn’t plan for that. People always forget we’re playing a rpg and you’re just a person in a big world. You can’t do everything yourself.
I never respec if I can help it. I never have problems. If i need to for some reason I have no problems running to town to do it. This is a rpg after all. We’re all just people who saw what was going on in the world and decided to pick up our swords and do something about it. If we want to change our skills we need to go talk to our trainer!
then stop people from botting and buying gold from bots?
it is inevitable and Multi Dollar Company Blizzard does not have the resources or manpower to do so
15 years of knowledge scuffed the economy and there is nothing no one can do about it now
It’s not botting, it’s gdkp some people have infinity gold, guy in my guild has ~15k in meme itmes on his bank alt
and that gold comes from sellers who bot
Blizz makes too much money from botting to go after it seriously.
and so the botting will continue sellers and buyers will remain
why even bother complaining about screwing the legit players by increasing repair costs x200 or adding sinks that most wont even bother with ?
the economy is and will remain scuffed that is just how it is
I don’t agree with this premise. A “hot” economy where all your basic needs are covered by government price controls while there is an ever increasing money supply is actually pretty good for everyone. The things sold by the government are relatively cheaper and the things sold by players remain relatively the same. Of course, for it to work for you, you must engage effectively with the player-based portion of the system.
In video games only, of course. Does not apply to real life.
because only on a game and individual gets to print as much money as they want
no point on trying to fix a problem that just needs like 2 people botting per server to create
Then it’s working as intended. The fee is there to discourage people from respeccing.
I would argue that the farming done by “legitimate” players has far, far more impact on the economy than botting. Almost every activity we participate in is inflationary.
I’m not saying that botting doesn’t have an influence, but it’s probably closer to 5-10% of the issue, rather than the inverse, which is what most people believe.