What is considered expensive? (In game)

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I see posts every now and again and people say stuff is too expensive or mats cost too much.
I have two questions. How are people not able to afford things and 2, what do you consider expensive?

I’ll admit I buy wow tokens but one will last me months and months. Virtually the only thing I spend gold on are repairs, transmogs, or when I get a wild hair and decide to pay to level professions on all of my alts. I play extremely lazily, I don’t flip auction houses, I’m not gathering mats to sell. I’m not doing any gold earning strategies other than selling what I pick up. Yet I have more than I’ll ever need from just one token.

When I need gear made for my sparks, financially it’s but a drop in the bucket.
Is no one else doing this?
Potions are for wimps and I try to cook my own food.
Genuinely curious how people have money woes in game.

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Depends on the context.

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I believe for the first few weeks the token prices were relatively cheap , as of now its even . The prices of mats have dropped and are dropping further and token price is stabilizing around 200k

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I judge it based of how much I can make per hour of farming materials.
If an enchant is equivalent to me farming ore for 2-3 hours I’m just not going to buy it.

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10k plus for one item, 5k or so for single mat costs I start checking my budget.

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Spent 100k in mats for a crafted sword.

That right there.

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Is an hour of farming enjoyable game time for you? If so more power to you but as the goblins say, time is money friend.

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Weirdly yeah, I’ve always enjoyed farming ore & herbs in WoW lol.
Not when I’m actively playing, but it’s what I do on my 2nd monitor when watching something

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I stand corrected, didn’t know they could get that expensive.

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The cost of consumables and crafted items has gone way up compared to the final 3 seasons of Dragonflight, so I can understand why people feel things are expensive.

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there are no recipes i’m aware of that are actually cheaper to make yourself, so calling “not likely” on this one

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Anything above 1 copper is too expensive. Make Azeroth Great Again

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You got me on that one. I leveled fishing to cook for myself, didn’t work that way. I “tried” but failed.

Edit: but also cooking mats are pretty darn cheap

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To be fair, this was week one. They might’ve went down, but since I ain’t ever having anything crafted ever again (prolly a lie), I haven’t checked.

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It is wild to think that once upon a time 1k gold for an epic mount was an insurmountable tasks, now world quests drop almost 1k gold.

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oh yeah, they are. but you need insane amounts to make any of the good food.

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Expensive: more gold than I have
Cheap: less gold than I have

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My own customizable house with a mount that instantly lets me teleport back and forth from it for 20m gold.

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I was able to get just over 900k at the start of TWW. Which is by far the most gold I’ve had in a while (been only playing for ~2 years).

I know I’ve nope’d out of making some patron WOs that would cost me about ~40k in mats to make.

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Bots making it impossible to gather and sell mats on the auction house. A lot of people made money that way almost exclusively.

First bots came and crashed mats. Now they dominate the auction house too.