If you did calling boxes between now and then, you build up money on your main, mail it to your alts. shrug
And it’s not like it takes long to get 60, you could be 60 and have done 5 callings well before this update came out. Heck even if the update were this coming Tuesday (it’s not), that’s still 4 calling boxes you could do on your main/60s.
And it ain’t like Callings are the only thing that gives you money, you also got the weekly anima quest which gives about the same, and… well everything you do in SL dumps money on you.
If you somehow get an alt to Level 60 without 10k, I kinda have to wonder what you’ve been doing, lol. Get a gathering profession and sell some stuff on the AH.
That’s the frigging thing though, I do not want to have to get to 60 to be able to fly. Pathfinder would have let me fly at lvl 50. Before pathfinder would have let me fly as soon as I get to 60, not 9 months later.
This current system has all the timegate of pathfinder without its pros. I gotta wait AND buy on all my alts. That’s totally bogus.
That’s still assuming that the currency is gonna be gold. They didn’t give any info on that, strangely.
I have a Demon Hunter that I started, and I have purposefully not even attempted to give them any money from my alts.
They are standing in Dalaran (it’s been a couple weeks since I played this character) at Level 30. Not 60, 30.
They have 3,500 gold on them from an hour or two of leveling in Sholazar Basin because I mined some ore and sold it.
It isn’t hard, whatsoever, to find stuff that sells and then go sell it.
And it would be really really weird for the currency to be anything other than gold if they specifically said you could buy it for your alts, it wouldn’t make any sense to make it, say, anima when there’s no way an alt would be able to get anima to buy the flying.
How I can defend what? Spending gold for flying training?
Because of the ludicrous inflation. We need more gold sinks. Inflation is getting out of this world ridiculous when the game craps out 16,000 gold passively on a player every week if they do bare minimum daily content.
EDIT: That, and this is how it used to be back during Pandaria. You reached max level on one character, and unlocked the ability for all characters to buy flying training for Pandaria. Same is how it worked in Wrath, as well. Players told Blizz during WoD, Legion and BfA that we wanted to go back to that, and here we are. While not available at .0, being available at .1 and very minimal grinding is quite nice.
If Blizzard actually cared about gold sinks they wouldn’t have removed the vendor talent swap item and replaced it with a player made item. One time large purchases, like mounts or flight licenses (even if it’s on a toon by toon basis) aren’t gold sinks. Gold sinks are repetitive, so you keep spending money on it. Repairs are a gold sink. Vendor crafting reagents are gold sinks. Taxis are gold sinks. AH fees are gold sinks. Anything that a large number of players are going to constantly funnel money into work as gold sinks, not uber expensive items that only a handful of people can buy.
The actual patch 9.0 campaign ends at renown 22 or 23 . The rest of the renown is all just cosmetics or opening a soul bind layer and your final soul bind.
What many of us were saying is to have either option. If I want to unlock flying for alts, I will gladly do a Pathfinder achievement, and be able to fly immediately with any alt who can zone into the new areas. In lieu of that, for people who don’t have an army of alts, like I do, give them the opportunity to purchase it per character. For me, it gets exorbitant, to try and spend the money on every alt that I’ve leveled to 50, or if it is 60… they don’t even explain that, or the currency needed.
You mean we’re going to be able to unlock something that should have been available months ago in a patch that fixes literally nothing in the worst expansion ever made?! Yeah…okay. great
you’ll be rewarded with Memories of Sunless Skies. This consumable item allows all characters on your account to purchase the Riding Skill needed to fly within the four main Shadowlands zones!
Emphasis mine.
What exactly does “purchase the riding skill” mean? Because if that means I have to shell out gold on each character in addition to waiting months and months to fly in current content, that’s some BS right there.
ETA: And if that purchase requires anima, just no. What happened to this “pathfinder” achievement being account wide? Why does Blizzard have to make flying into some sort of huge issue every single expac?
You do realize you’re being completely ignorant of the fact that if it costs anything, it’s nothing more than a unnecessary change after delaying it to this extent?
Your argument works when they release flying with launch or with 9.0.5 or if 9.1 had come at least a couple months earlier.