Ion said in an interview that Dragonflight will be following the ZM model. And I approve, there are minimal demands on us players; we can get in and out and be done.
The ZM model worries me though in that there is minimal gold to be made. We have no Calling to ZM, our five quests offer three currencies: anima, cypher and gold; of which only one is gold, about 257g. On top of that, the LFR wing (which is the ZM model I think) now offers 92 gold and the Enlightened Paragon Cache offers zero gold.
So, there is the shift in the ZM model with less grind or time-spent on tasks on a daily basis. And, I think they call it passive gold, we will earn much less doing our daily activities.
Now, in our current expansion, the gold sink was the legendary system. I may have spent one million gold because I bought four different legendaries; the first was the best, then the covenant, then the two which needed new slots because I didn’t know about a tier system when I was making my first choices.
In ZM, there is a lot of chatter on the new Work Order profession system. For it to work, a lot of players have to be involved and the one thing that I know is that players will go to extremes for the best-in-slot piece and that the crafter gear offered will have to get better as the game moves along: so we will be pouring our gold into gear. Instead of a few players in the current expansion making an astonishing amount of gold, it should be spread out – if you want to time-sink into competitive crafting. It is the mini-game and many will play.
But, where does the gold come from that we need to spend on the crafted gear? The ZM model, that I see, is very minimal. That has me worried!
Of course, we don’t know really, the new expansion isn’t out. But, if we are really playing WoW-Lite as far as dailies and routine go … are we all semi-forced into the new crafting system? That is where the most hype is right now. I’m gonna be broke the whole time, I fear.
