We’re going in circles here.
It’s not a few lockouts.
It is a serious, long-term commitment. Meanwhle you get to watch trash players take the items you want because they swiped their credit card.
Not fun.
We are. But that’s because we disagree. From my point of view, you’re wrong and stubborn and being ridiculous, hyperbolic, and acting as if you deserve something for nothing and anyone who doesn’t give it to you is a cheater.
Trying to understand your point of view, it seems to me that you think everybody is spending thousands of dollars on gold just to outbid you so you will never have the items you want unless Blizzard swoops in and forces everyone to play the way you want them to.
I don’t think there’s a solution to your problem. But I also don’t believe your problem has anything to do with WoW.
Yes, this is actually what happens.
GDKP is a perfectly fine system if people didn’t buy gold. But they do.
This is why it was banned in SoD. And after playing classic with a GDKP ban, I could never go back. I get to actually play the game.
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It was banned in SoD because the SoD devs are catering to the loudest complainers in the community, as though they are purposely building a culture of loud complainers complaining, being mad, recycling the exact same complaints on the forums, LFG chat, guild chat and even discord, almost non-stop.
I stopped playing SoD, and have the SoD forums muted. They are far too distressing to follow, and I don’t think pointing to that will win me over with regards to GDKP.
Anyway, good luck.
A good chunk of GDKPs don’t really take buyers anymore because it isn’t worth the headache. Some will take buyers, but most want to take pumpers so the raid can get done in 1.5 hours instead 3.
You keep making these claims but those who are playing on Era are having a much different experience.
I’m not trying to win anyone over 
If you want Classic WoW to be your entire life while blowing your disposable income on pixels, that’s your choice.
I have other things to spend money on and a real life to live. I’d like to casually check in and play my very geared characters that I invested a ton of time into. But Era does not allow for that in 2024.
Era actually DID allow for that playstyle in 2021/2022, which is the crazy part… but the culture has gone downhill with GDKP’s becoming the dominant form of raiding. And it’s not going to get better unless Blizzard does something about it.
This is not strengthening your argument. No buyers? So now you have a raid where 20 players all want the same few items as me. And all they have to do to jump the line is buy gold (which all their friends are doing)
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Are you really claiming no GDKP will take you to naxx?
Every GDKP is constantly hunting for decent warriors, if you can’t find a group idk what to tell you.
You wouldn’t believe it, but we actually use the gold like a DKP system. Most players aren’t buying gold and you know after a war buys the big weapon because they are broke for months after.
You are psyopsing yourself into being a anti-gdkp karen, it is kinda wild. Maybe if you didn’t follow the SoD-waves of players that are now pouring back into Era, there would be less notice gold buying. All the gold sellers literally left to SoD with them and never came back until a few months ago.
Just login, join a raid, make 8k gold, do it 20 times, and you can buy any weapon you want.
Bro, you have a life and everyone who has a different opinion or perspective from you is a no life gold buyer.
Is that a reasonable stance in your opinion?
Anyway, I’d like to interpret what you’re saying more like, “I want someone else to organize raids of 40 people and spend all their time so I can log in just for the duration of the raid and have equal rolls on all the best gear, showing up only when it fits my schedule.”
But that’s the nice version. What you are actually stating comes across far more rude to everyone who has engaged with you.
Thats sort of off putting, so I’d also like to think that’s not your intent. But I digress…
Never said that. Forever Classic had a variation of SR in 2021/2022 that rewarded long-term players while still giving fresh recruits a chance.
Now they just GDKP.
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At least half the players I raid with have been the same people for over a year, we have more gold than we care for.
The majority of gold buyers are the players that come, play for a few months racing trying to get bis, and then they usually quit. Most rarely get bis or into naxx.
At least this has been broad view playing on Era since it launched.
And yet the popularity keeps growing despite your grouchy attitude towards it. You may not like it but everyone else does. Cope more
Affirming the consequent.
The auction house was and always will be the main source of gold buying. Sorry. I used to think you had half a brain till sod came and you started dropping the dumbest takes I’ve ever seen and spam every argument you make with literal logical fallacies
Sod is infested with bots even after gdkp has been banned for months. You think everyone just didn’t buy their 5k gold bis pieces off the AH? What about their .5 mats at p4 drop? No, nobody sat at incursions for hours and hours farming gold. Nobody did that
Face it bro. Sod is dead because the gdkps died(among a billion other reasons) and I don’t even run gdkps so this is from a neutral standpoint.
A SOD era would die indefinitely at lightning speed and era will still chug along while the non gdkp trolls rot in the corner. You can bet blizzard will never ban that again. Lol!
Its not really vanilla, never was but its the best we’re going to get in an official capacity.
Worst iteration? Sounds like a personal judgement call to me as some would consider it the best. All the issues listed are not products of game design but player attitudes and behaviors although I wouldn’t put geared players in the problem category.
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You can avoid getting ganked by not playing on a PVP server. Sure, they may not have as high of a population, but I can ride through Stranglethorn Vale without getting stabbed by rogues.
Good news OP, you don’t have to play Era.
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Weird, I run SR with them every week…
The worst thing about era is SoD patches causing bugs in era. For example, Nefarion not respawning.
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You know, there are alternative options. You don’t have to play like this… been enjoying Era since 2022 more than I enjoyed the original 2019-2021 run tbh.
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Dude you are actually tilted.
Hardly anyone actually buys gold.
Learn how to play the game before you come here whining about people that don’t cater to your needs.
Trolls gotta troll though, right?
Arcanite bars are 180 gold each on Whitemane atm.
They’re 5 gold on SoD.
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I would strongly recommend all new and returning players to roll on the Deviate Delight server. Similar to a low pop private server vibes where you don’t need to worry about all these issues that you are finding on Whitemane. There’s a few guilds ally side raiding, they still need some numbers, but are clearing content. It’s a PvP server, but the PvP is light. No lowbie camping no lifers.
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