Stop making auction houses exclusive!

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People of Azeroth, whether you’re Horde (like myself), or Alliance, there is an annoying nuisance that has ticked off SO many of us (except for in Warlords) ever since MoP…

Yes, citizens of Azeroth, I’m talking about how ever since MoP (except during Warlords), in that latest expansion’s capitol city, the faction shrines in Pandaria, Legion Dalaran, Dazar’Alor, Boralus, and currently, Oribos, the auction house has been only accessible to players with a certain minimum of skill points in each expansions’ engineering profession.

And frankly, it makes ME one ANGRY bull. What… THE FRAG makes engineers so special that only THEY can use the current expansion’s capital city’s auction house, huh? I get it, some of you are probably gonna ask, “But Devastator, what about the brutosaur?” That’s just the thing. While a mobile auction house seems like a great idea, someone at Blizzard decided, “Hey guys! I got an idea! Let’s make a really cool three-seater brontosaurus mount, give it a vendor that functions as a mobile auction house, and have a vendor npc sell the mount for FIVE MILLION FRAGGIN’ GOLD!” Which, if you think about it, THAT much gold for a ground mount just seems like a big, fact middle finger to players who kinda have to use every bit of gold they can earn, to buy a wow token for an extra month of game time.

And what’s even worse, as IF the five million gold price tag WASN’T enough of a slap in the face, when the Shadowlands prepatch hit, the brutosaur was made into a Black Market-exclusive mount! And EVERY player knows the cutthroat bidding wars go down, when a MOUNT is up for grabs in THEIR server’s Black Market. Yeah, REAL butt move, there! Y’know, even WITH the original price tag on the longboi, it WOULD’VE been a little nice if it was STILL available from the mount vendor that was selling it, in bfa! Like MAYBE it’d could’ve been a goal for players, like myself, who DON’T have a brutosaur to work on, hmmm?

Now, do I find it nice, when I see some random player, chillin’ by a mailbox in Oribos, on a longboi? Duhhhhhh! Of course I’d find it convenient! But unfortunately, there are days when there’s never a longboi, when you need one, or the player on one might despawn, due to their queue for an instance popping up, or DC’d because, AFK, or the player might just dismount their brutosaur, and I’ve seen posts in various WoW group where some player was trying to use the auction house the brutosaur had, the brutosaur rider dismounted, and when the player was being polite, whispering to the brutosaur owner saying “Excuse me, Can I use your auction house”, the brutosaur owner responds rudely, being a jerk, saying something like “Go to Orgrimmar, loser!”

But still, Blizzard, yeah, could you do us ALL a REALLY HUGE favor, and add auction house npcs in current expansion capital cities that EVERYONE can access, please?

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Because us engineer types have to put up with randomly getting blown sky high, when we choose to use our gadgets. It’s like a little consolation prize. :smiley:

Hey, you leave my bruto alone. :rage: Five mill was nothing at all, after Legion.

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Blockquote Hey, you leave my bruto alone. :rage: Five mill was nothing at all, after Legion.

You FAIL to grasp my meaning, regarding the brutosaur. I DID say in the post, that KEEPING the option to get a brutosaur available from each faction’s respected bfa vendor that was ORIGINALLY selling it, would’ve been nice. Y’know, like even if they didn’t reduce the price on it, it would’ve been a good goal for players, like myself, to keep workin’ towards. But nope, what was out of my reach, in bfa, is now, even FURTHER out of reach. I mean, wouldn’t YOU think it would be good if the brutosaur was still available at it’s original vendor, so other players who aren’t as fortunate as YOU obviously were, given that you have one, could in time, FINALLY get, for themselves?

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I don’t have, and have never had, a problem with others getting the bruto.

Guessing by the rando all caps, and the tone of your paragraph, I think you missed the gentle teasing of my post.

I think you might just want to be angry, in order to be angry.

You do you.

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The reason bruto was limited time was to boost token sales.

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Their reason I think if I remember was so the older cities, namely SW and Org, will still have some foot traffic there with people needing the auction houses.

Putting them in the current city would be nice, but it would ensure most high level people just stay there with little reason to really go back and hang out in other cities. Outside of RP or socializing. The rest are already ghost towns as it is. AHs and portal rooms are the main things SW and Org have going for them, for functionality.

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I don’t think it’ s neccesary honestly.
There’s plenty of portals to plenty of cities that have them including Ashran that everyone can access fairly easily.

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RIP Ironforge. Best Alliance city.

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That… surprisingly makes some kind of sense. Because back during Warlords, and Legion, on my server, Orgrimmar was so quiet, you could hear a pin drop. Literally the only time there was any form or chatter, was when npcs roll out the “unwelcome wagon” for new death knight players. Though I do admit… During the “War of Thorns” BfA pre-launch event. Orgrimmar, on MY server (Sentinels being an ignored low-pop server, compared to the MoonGuard you’re from), MY Orgrimmar looked like a rave-party, with the many Horde players who were getting ready for the rhino dogs and s’mores we were gonna have in Teldrassil. Humored Laughter Ahhhh, that was such a fun party. And yeah, I TOTALLY was playing “The Roof is on Fire” by Bloodhound Gang, on repeat.

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holy wall of text batman

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I have a Bruto and I still use an AH-alt 95% of the time.

I really only use the Bruto to randomly check something. Anything else I send to my AH-alt.

And last but certainly not least, I am also an Engineer who never once used my Eng-only-AH-access. It’s just… I have an AH-alt. If I need immediate access, I have it: I just log on that alt.

I don’t understand why people are making this more of an issue that it is. Make an AH-alt. Done.

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I felt a similar frustration once. Getting the Legion/WoD Hearthstones have definitely helped. My key go to is usually Ashran AH since it’s easy to access.

I started this patch so the Brutosaur was out of my reach but I intend to save up cap gold and buy off the BMAH one day.

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Dal Hearth then use the Portal to Org/SW. Takes less than a minute to get to an AH as a non engineer from anywhere.

…or build the AH in your Garrison and pair it with the Bank.

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Unless your AH alt happens to land on a slower shard, and opening 100 mails would take him 2-3+ minutes of 0,5-2 seconds server lags between retrieval of each mailed item, then another 2-3+ minutes to scan said 100 items, and another minute to post them.

At least on a bruto you could look around for a less laggy shard without much pain in other places, while without bruto the only option for having access to AH and mailbox at the same time is bootybay.

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This is the main reason 10/12 of my toons have engineering. Bank alts also and oribos has ports. I also have three garrison auctions. Long bois move too much.

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In all fairness, I just so happen to write fan fictions as a hobby, and I’m a bit of a roleplayer. So, apologies for the long-written posting, I tend to do it, do to my writing hobby

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Um, they build stuff. Most of which can only be used by other engineers so their market is rather narrow and unprofitable. So throw them a bone.

Geez.

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My hunter has AH at garrison, so easy! :wink:

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Having faction/race/class/profession distinctions adds complexity, variety and flavor to the game.

Each profession is special in its own way. This just happens to be the way engineering is special.

I have to admit I am kinda shocked they don’t do this.

But I am also shocked they allow folks to endlessly cancel and repost. Personally, I would be putting a stop to that with one allowed a week, just for honest mistakes.

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Was likely the reason. Should have been a store mount rather forcing people to do things they didn’t want to.