The only people to benefit from region-wide AH

Is the botters. Change my mind.

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I would think it would help people on low pop servers that had a hard time finding mats or the mats were out of this world expensive.

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The people who have two non-gathering professions who buy wow tokens! :stuck_out_tongue:

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Was region-wide AH since the amount of people still playing is so low and AH auctions thin? More people more auctions available.

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I love the new AH.

My stuff sells, quickly, at market rates. Pricing my stuff isn’t some arduous task, its simple to look at whats available, for how much, and place my stuff where I think I can maximize my return.

It makes it trivial when I jump over from my ally bank toon to my horde bank toon (which are on different servers) in that when I’m selling the same commodity, I can already see my other toons place on the list, making it even easier for me to price mine.

I’ve also done some trivial flipping, netting me HUNDREDS of gold!!11!

It is very rare that I put up a commodity that expires on the AH today, and I rarely put it up for the lowest price.

New AH is great. Bots will bot.

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New AH change is great. Finally got around to leveling up 2 professions and getting rank 4 for all lego recipes, not like it matters but the character has had tailoring/enchanting since vanilla. So I am a recipe collector as best I can be, even though I missed obvious desirable removed stuff. Only lost out on 7800g cause I was buying shards at 106g (okay obviously cheaper than vendor) but didn’t know that they could be bought for 100g at exalted until I was crafting my last three rank 3 item for exp (since I never did any crafting until at that point).

Even without the AH change and buying shards properly I think I probably would have wasted 20k+ easily from just creep up on mat cost for everything else. So I am ahead.

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We’re just in that end of expansion lul for crafting mats, where the market is over saturated. There’s a near infinite supply compared to demand being rather low.

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This too. And it’s the best time for people to get professions maxed out for SL if you are that “collector” type of player.

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The AH is just an unregulated free market, and its behavior can be easily explained by the simple forces of supply and demand.

Helps me sell more of my stuff.

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buyers benefit hugely.

no more ridiculously inflated prices

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All folks stand to benefit. Folks on low pop servers benefit especially. Basic economics. :dracthyr_shrug: :dracthyr_shrug: :dracthyr_shrug:

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My auctions sell now and I’m not a bot.

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When a WoW token sits at 340k, as it does in EU now, or vendor reputation mounts range from 20.000-500.000, those few hundred bucks are just… nothing. Also the prices for equipment in the AH didn’t really drop… expensive as before but there’s no profit to be made right now except when you start to sell the equipment yourself.

I’d think region wide AH hurts bots more than it helps them as they can’t corner the commodities markets on small servers anymore. The more players in a system the fewer monopolies can form.

Love it! Overall price for everything is a lot cheaper. I am sure I can sell my mats just fine in DF(most of my toons are gathering )

Bots rarely cornered anything. Those monopolies came from experienced full time goblins who dedicated their WoW experience to economy.
Bots just flood the market, drive prices down and spam-sell.

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I love it.

I’m a packrat, and I’ve made a small fortune dumping 17 years of hoarded crafting mats that I had stockpiled.

I put them up, and they sell very quickly. With all the servers put together, there’s always a buyer SOMEWHERE.

And my alts have way more bank space. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Well whomever was doing it they have a lot more competition now.

How would bots benefit from lower prices on commodities? Seems like a detriment since their product isn’t worth as much anymore.

Lower trade good prices would benefit crafters if they can keep the price of their finished goods high.