Daily quests did not exist in Vanilla. The only way to make gold after completing all available quests is by relying on the economy or selling to vendors (which is peanuts.)
The economy will be trustworthy as long as new people keep joining Classic and buying what they need.
But once the influx of new players dries up, and the auction house moves fewer and fewer items as a result of people having everything they need, how do you plan to continue making gold?
Farm cloth, use 1st aid to turn it to bandages which sell for more and vendor the bandages…and all the other garbage that drops when you are farming the cloth.
Roll Greed on BOEs and sell them to other 60s behind me in gear.
I don’t recall actually needing a lot of gold at lvl60.
You must not have played a plate class, those repair bills were murder.
If you’re tanking, you need lots of gold.
If you are ever losing more gold then you are making at 60 you arent doing things right. Finite quests are fine. The gold you grt from greys and vendorables is fine. With like 20k unique players per server there will be alot of gold floating around.
actually, theres plenty of ways to make good gold, and better gold, once you’ve finished all the quests
vanilla WoW on pservers have inflation problems, even when they aren’t P2W
the sole cause of said inflation is level 60 characters who already have their epic mount and don’t want to make an alt, and have nothing much left to spend their gold on except for consumables, enchants, and repair bills
and someone gets the money from selling those consumables
it is preferable that there be finite quests, and daily quests(that offer gold in the place of xp) were a mistake
As many gold farmers as vanilla had clearly lots of people were short on gold.
Lol… Yeah that won’t ever happen.
For one thing people are always going to be plowing through consumables like crazy. PvPers and PvEers alike.
I would be absolutely shocked if anyone was going through consumables like that and never thought once to level an alt whose sole purpose was to farm mats and make them. That just seems like the thrifty option.
Lots of ways to make money after your quest gold runs dry. Instance farming, professions, grinding mobs for drops (essences of fire,water,etc), playing the auction house. Yes it actually requires work!!!
You get out what you put in.
With 1.12 base noone is going to burn through consumables and flasks like old until at least phase 4. Phase 1 and 2 with 1.12 will be face rolls.
It really all depends on the person and how they farm gold.
Some people will farm Mauradon, some will farm herbs/ores and sell them, some guilds will charge 10,000 gold to give an outsider Might of Menethil.
There are many ways to make gold and spend gold. And as long as consumables are being used there will be a steady flow of them and the mats to make them on the AH.
There will be players making alts. There will be players who would rather spend some gold than run around gathering mats.
In addition, while selling to vendors might be “peanuts” compared to getting some unwary fool to spend 1g on a Cold Glass of Milk when the innkeeper around the corner sells it, there will always be certain things that do vendor well.
You kill things and vendor the loot?
The issue in MMORPGs like this is, eventually, inflation WILL happen because gold is NOT finite, it is in fact infinite.
Buy low, sell high. I have my gold-making plans in place early on.
I am actually kind of curious now. If the game does go on long enough where the influx of gold goes lower than gold sinks like mounts, repairs, and such, what would happen.
E: Not sure that can happen though. I do think gold made from raiding will be higher than the sinks, right? Just the gold the buses drop and vendor loot. But, I really don’t know.
Also, people saying anything related to the auction house clearly didn’t read your post. haha
You see on Pservers that the optimal ways to make gold, in an economy where professions are so overpopulated to the point of not being profitable, that Gold farms start becoming the norm.
Rogue Pickpocket Runs (BRD, SM or even RFD)
DM:E lasher runs (Typically Mages, but Lock, Ele can also do it)
Mara runs (basically everyone)
DM:Tribute solo runs (hunter only)
BRD AoE (Mage only)
ZG AoE (Mage only)
ZG- Herbing (Rogue/Druid only I THINK)
ZG- Bijou farming (no idea on classes)
Devilsaur Mafia- (part or raid monopolizing the devilsaur spawns for the leather, which is preraid bis for every physical damage dealer)
Eye of Shadow Solo (I know warlocks can do this one, not sure on others)
SM-AoE clears (tanks and mages are the main ones I think, I’d imagine locks can as well… You probably want to be tailor/enchanter for this however)
You get the idea I think…
Most of those pull between 40-70g per hour, with mage aoe and hunter tribute solos being potentially upwards of 100g… Mafia if you can do it is supposed to be fairly nuts gold/hour.
For reference, just grinding mobs in WPL/EPL is like 30ish gold per hour. So the above methods are all typically the preffered ways to go… You can find a number of gold guides on youtube that are worth a quick browse if they apply to your desired class/spec.
Me personally, as a warlock/Rogue/Shaman
I’ll probably spend most of my time BRD pickpocket farming, as it’s fairly mindless and doesn’t take super long per run.
That said, Eye of Shadow farming can make some fantastic gold in bursts (but the eye itself is incredibly rare so there can be times where you get 2 of them in 20 minutes and times where you can spend 5+ hours and not see a single one)…
Beyond that, DM:E soloing for locks can be lucrative as well, since we can solo more than just the lasher packs, and those demons are a prime source of felcloth.
Yah when i grinded out exalted Argent Dawn, I made a nice chunk of change by running the undead camps in EPL and WPL.
Exactly what I did in Vanilla. Grinding out specific dungeons or sections of dungeons that were very profitable. I was one of the few in my guild that was able to buy a mount @ 40 and also be fully trained with all levels of my spells. Location, location, location ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")