Back after 18 months, and trade chat is plagued with more run sellers than I remember before. I’d think after a while, they wouldn’t have anything left to buy with it, unless they’re just selling it on their websites for cash…
Mostly it is to pay off loans others that supported them doing their raids or other items like Long boi (which is expensive). Gold seller are a different matter.
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Most of them put “gold only” in the advertisement so they aren’t immediately banned, then when contacted for a carry, they ask to speak further outside of WoW, where they ask for real money for the carry.
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Well, i picture them Scrooge McDuck diving into a giant pile of it and swimming in it.
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WoW tokens!
Source: I sell Freehold boosts intermittently. Most groups that sell stuff for gold are actually legit; including and especially the Gallywix Community. Some of them are extremely sus, though, so keep your eyes peeled.
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So you run them through Freehold until they ding 120? And then cash in?
Why am I not doing this?
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I haven’t encountered this at all, but I try my best to make sure who I buy a carry from is a respectable guild or group of people. I do my research. lol
Yep!
You charge a price per level (generally 3.5k or so with Heirlooms) and they pay upfront for how many levels they want (so, usually 35k for an hour’s worth of work). Then you enter Freehold and complete the entire dungeon in roughly five enormous pulls.
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Theyre selling it on gold selling sites.
Well thanks for sharing this info, that’s decent gold per hour right there, might just give it a test run and see how it goes.
Again thanks for this.
/hugs
No problem! I do recommend memorizing the correct points your buyer should stack, though; you’re going to be pulling disgusting amounts of trash and three bosses over the course of your run, and every boss will be accompanied by one of your five massive pulls.
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I whispered like 5 carry spammers last time I played to gauge prices because I had a friend that was thinking about buying a carry for the AotC mount.
Every single one of them responded with a gold price in whispers.
Maybe it depends on server how many are trying to stealthily RMT.
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The megaservers have a lot of RMT going on, both explicitly and behind the scenes.
Always ask.
The content they are selling sucks, and people are being pigionholed into Esports or Die via THAT content.
Run selling is a lucrative market because Blizzard caters to the absolute wrong crowd, Method, in terms of tuning.
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I assume they burn a crapton of gold doing Mythic progression.
I have heard some groups use the gold to help fund their raid progression. I’m sure some are using the gold to help buy their Brutosaur mount before it goes to the BMAH in 9.0
In this game, you gotta make the gold first. Then when you get the gold, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.
That is what the run sellers do with the gold.
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Anyway, more on topic:
Guilds pushing for world (or even server, if the server is big enough) rankings stockpile the money to load up their raid with BoEs for the next tier / next expansion. BoEs are very expensive when they’re still relevant early on. Especially if you want to get multiple BoEs for every person in the raid.
If it’s a smaller / less serious Guild selling runs (and there’s plenty of these, they just tend to start selling later than the big high ranking guilds), it’s probably a combination of the same thing on a smaller scale + providing raid consumables for everyone without having to worry about having someone farm + in BfA, perhaps working towards Longboi for their raiders.
You can make some bank!
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Im gonna go out on a limb and say these but could not be true at all
- they buy runs for their alts
- they buy tokens and boost their wow balance for other blizzard games
- They sit on gold cap , bough every single mount
- They plvl professions on alts
- They swim in it
