Where does the gold come from

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Odd question at a glance but I’m serious. I don’t mean how the mobs get gold. How do WE get gold. When I ask people how to make gold they say “sell stuff on the auction house”. Well that means someone else is spending gold, where do they get it. This isn’t a problem of just saving for a bit, how do you buy a mount worth 5 million gold from saving. Using world quests, raids, selling things to vendors, are all valid methods of making gold WITHOUT players or blizz coins. However, we used to have other methods of bringing in gold. WoD garrison and Legion class hall missions brought in quite a bit of gold as an example. Is Blizz trying to make gold worth something again by giving lots of gold sinks but not many gold making methods? I’m interested as to what this holds for the WoW economy or what the motive is. My overall question is how these mass amounts of gold enter the economy to begin with.

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You can mine 2 gold ore and Smith it into a Gold bar.

It sells for 10 silver coins.

Basically :woman_shrugging:

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Rule one of making gold: never tell anyone how you Really Make Gold

That being said, ah, I get it from the Gnomish Sorcery League, they pay me a large kickback every month not to eat them.

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Get a raid together and rob a bank, theres alot in there.

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For a serious answer, a lot of gold in circulation is from the days of WoD and Legion, where you could make hundreds of thousands of gold a day with properly set up Garrisons/Order Halls across multiple charcters. Hence why theirs the 5 mil Dino auctioneer mount, to get it out of the game.

Also in BfA, you can make a tidy sum doing Emissary’s when they award gold (2k for the average person is still a decent chunk).

But again, best way for you personally to make gold is to take Alchemy, max it out, and start cranking out pots and flasks to resell. Feasts from cooking are second.

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Well, gold comes when papa gold and mama gold love each other and…

Nevermind, they come from storks. Yeah… storks…

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We spent a long time without any gold sinks and it piled up to ridiculous levels. Only vendors can truly make gold vanish and fix inflation.

Should be fun watching how this unfolds on Classic this summer. People will likely list things on the AH for more gold than will currently even exist.

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I agree, I believe that Blizz is attempting to make gold worth something again with many gold sinks. However I don’t mean making gold through AH I can make gold if I need it but I just got curious as to where it comes from anymore or if we will see new methods in next xpac

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So basically 10 gold bars creates a gold coin.

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100%, vendors just eat gold at the end of the day so the only true way to bring it back to reasonable levels is to make incredibly expensive and desirable items. But what if people don’t buy those items and then when Blizz lowers prices again Gallywix still has his 5mil in the bank and buys a monopoly. Then we have an entirely new much more difficult problem to deal with.

With an ever growing economy each xpac Blizz can adjust prices and get things on track. With one rich person holding the keys to the auction house per server and Blizzards “let the account stay how it is” (like with human druids using the old worgen escape glitch) whats going to happen?

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Gold is made by failing at making Doritos. (It makes sense in context.)

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So basically each gold coin weighs approximately 124 KG?!
:scream:

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Majority of my gold comes from 12 characters doing Incursions, World Quests, Mission Table, and Paragon Chests from both Legion and BFA. I make enough to buy a WoW token every 2 weeks or so with some extra gold to spend on the AH to resupply potions, flasks, and food for my guild. I haven’t sold anything on the AH since WoD, the last things I sold were those 300% exp pots I been stockpiling. I had like 53 of them stored away.

Today is Tortollan Emissary for 2000g, that’s an easy 24,000g with all my characters!

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Yes, but there are still plenty of methods to make gold…just as a couple of examples:

And to be perfectly honest some people just dump real money into buying tokens and use that to “make” gold.

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I figure mobs get gold from less fortunate adventurers…

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small bars, big coins. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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from this originally - i.e mobs.

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I’m fairly certain he’s talking about Raw gold. those are the methods of gold making Blizzard has been intentionally pruning.

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I make a decent amount of gold running old raids and selling all the drops to vendors. Run everything as 25 man, heroic, mythic … whatever is the highest for that raid that you can solo. I would normally make about 5k per toon just running Blackrock foundry and Highmaul. I know its only once a week but if you have an easy 3 toons running it every week you will make a decent chunk of change in no time … run 12 toons through and you’re cranking out roughly 240K a month and running both raids takes me about an hour per toon.

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Gold is overrated go Platinum instead.

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