Ironforge will be populated again in Classic! (i miss it so), just based off of the dwarves and gnome starting zones nearby.
And so, they’ll be using IF’s AH often.
Ironforge was also always my favourite capital city.
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You didn’t see items from other Auction Houses. You’d never have noticed it at all.
The big thing was that if you went to the Undercity the stock was different than if you went to Thunderbluff. There was never a situation were you saw an item from Undercity while standing in Thunderbluff. You never had a situation where you couldn’t buy it without traveling (visibly) because it didn’t show up at all.
So… you’re right. You never had to go to another city to buy something you could clearly see on the Auction House. However, the other cities had Auction Houses of their own with their own stock.
It’s like… if I’m selling Peach Lemonade on my street. Some little girl is selling Strawberry Lemonade on her street in Utah. Some little boy is selling Pink Lemonade on his street in California.
If you come to my stall, all you see is Peach Lemonade (what I’m selling). You don’t see that there’s Strawberry Lemonade in Utah because… well you’re not in Utah. You also don’t see that there’s Pink Lemonade in California because you’re not in California. You’d have to go to those places to see what type of Lemonade was being sold. You don’t see place markers on my lemonade stand that you can’t buy, though.
To be honest, unlinked auction houses didn’t really promote using the other ones in interesting time-savey ways, and I never really heard of traveling salesmen at least on my high pop server, though that would have been kinda neat. It just meant if you wanted to sell something, you went where everyone else was: Ironforge for Alliance, Orgrimmar for Horde. People still listed things on the other auction houses but they rarely sold.
The only think I’ll really miss about the unlinked auction houses is the absolute metropolis Orgrimmar and Ironforge were. With them linked, people are less inclined to congregate at those cities and can disperse among their preferred towns instead, unless they need to do person to person business.
There was ONLY one AH of each type until they linked them.
The other capitals only had AH’s in the beta, they were removed before release and only readded during the Linking patch (1.9).
If you want to be accurate, then ONLY IF has an AH, ONLY Org has an AH, and ONLY Gadgetzahn has an AH until phase 5.
your entire OP is built something that never actually existed in vanilla proper.
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Stop winking in your posts you insufferable rat.
We were told we’re getting 1.12. How did the auction houses work in 1.12? There you go.
Blizzard shouldn’t be picking and choose what patch to base things off of for every individual issue. 1.7 for this issue, 1.12 for this one, 1.2 for this one.
No. 1.12 for everything, because it was the last patch. Warts. And. All.
Sorry to bother ya, my good chap! ![:wink:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/wink.png?v=6" ":wink:")
This is why I find the whole argument, the OP is trying to make, funny.
Vanilla WoW, for a large part of its existence, had 1 AH for alliance, 1 AH for horde, and 1 AH for cross-faction.
The whole unlinked thing was only for about 1% of vanilla wow’s existence.
It’s not every individual issue, plus an Auction House being linked is a relatively small change at that. May I remind you that some things are still a grey area…
We know a lot going into the six-phase plan now, and the decision on progressive itemization cleared a lot of remaining topics up. Is there any content that’s a grey area you’d like to clarify? For example, can you get old-school mounts up until a certain phase? Or will Classic WoW only have the current vendor exalted mounts.
It is the current vendor mounts for 1.12. We aren’t putting back the unarmored mounts. We just talked about this recently internally. We know some people are interested in them, but we don’t want to put them in for a limited period of time, because we didn’t want to influence people through their first leveling experience. Especially people coming back for the first time. We don’t want people to feel like they have to rush. If you want to level slowly and enjoy the journey, you should. That’s how I like to play–taking it slow, running every dungeon.
Major flaw in logic… If you know the potion you need is in Darnassus and you have to go to DM in 15… go to Darnassus, get the potion, fly to Feralas… I get what you mean but that was not a good example. I’d go to Darnassus and fly from there no question.
I knew I should of said 5
As if anyone is going to use an AH other than the main hub anyway? Like the only reason to actually go to a non-hub is if you happened to be farming nearby, but mailboxes exist.
I’m torn on this topic. I do think the original AH design adds another layer to how to play the market and how to shop the market. That is not a bad thing. That said it also makes finding items more difficult and/or more time consuming. I could go either way but I do not think it will have a large impact on Classic either way. Players will play and adapt to whatever Blizzard throws in.
What is the main hub though? For alliance it is Ironforge due to its proximity to 2 of the 4 major raids. Blizzard likely intended Stormwind to be the major hub just like it is now in retail, it just didn’t work out that way in Vanilla.
Adapting to difficult situations is what the Vanilla experience was all about! ![:disappointed_relieved:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/disappointed_relieved.png?v=6" ":disappointed_relieved:")
I remeber that gadgetstan (is that the name?) Was were factions could trade. And there was very little on that AH.
It was usually all green hills of stranglethorn or some random grey for a few hundred gold.
Just think about what it will look like in classic when everyone knows this fact, with all the veteran players, hardcore beta-testers, mainstream fan-sites and Blizzard themselves spreading information out the Wazoo! There is NOTHING players won’t know in Classic because of it. The important part is how you deal with a situation in the game. I bet these unlinked auction houses will be flooded with a plethora of goods!
First of all. THIS IS WRONG.
When wow released, there was 1AH for Horde [Org] and 1AH for Alliance
[IF]. There was also the AH at Gadgetzan.
in 1.9 (i think) additional AH’s were added to the other capital cities. When the other AH’s were added to the capital cities, if a player went to any of these auction houses, they would see all items that a player FROM THEIR FACTION had put on the AH.
The Neutral AH at Gadgetzan, and later additions at BB and WS were the only place that horde and alliance could post so the opposite faction could bid on items.
I cant believe people are still getting this wrong! Must be a hangover from their P-Server memories or something…
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In 1.9, they added auction house to stormwind, darnassus, undercity, and thunder bluff. In 1.9 those AH’s were linked for their respective factions.
The only time they were unlinked were before they were removed early in WoW’s lifetime (I think just beta) and they were outrite removed until they were readded and linked together.