I know I’m not the best at farming or making gold. Just enough to get my epic mount and maintain arrows and foods and what not.
But where is everyone getting so much gold from that people can buy so many boosts and what not. Are people just buying it mainly? I can’t seem to think that everyone is some sort of AH god when it comes to selling items.
Thoughts?
You know the answer.
Edit: I saw a Drakefang Talisman sell for 44,000g in a gDKP run on Herod. I’m sure that Warrior farmed all 44,000g of that at a rate of 50g-per-hour. Yep.
I mean is that the answer? Lol. Genuinely asking because I’m trying to hop on this train
It’s my perception that the ‘norm’ is moving towards buying gold. I get in-game mail spammed by a couple gold sellers all the time.
I haven’t had a dungeon boost but from the relentless spam of mage boost prices I’ve seen it doesn’t look super expensive. Like people who have been sitting on gold because they have nothing better to spend it on… I bet they can afford to get a good chunk that way.
I made my gold from selling dungeon boosts.
I’m sitting around 33k gold.
Dungeon boost prices have skyrocketed with prepatch.
People selling 5 SM runs for 75g per person. With no more cap you could easily farm 3k gold a day.
Mostly people make gold from boosting on a mage, swiping a credit card, or GDKPs. I just tanked GDKPs and I went from 300g to 3300g which I was very proud of.
Right but people can only buy those runs because they are buying gold. The prices for boosts should have been way lower if the economy wasn’t so messed up.
Blizzard absolutely needs to crack down on gold buying, but with the amount of gold already in the economy - it is likely too late even for tbc.
No one had this much gold in vanilla.
Edit: Also people shouldn’t have to be on a mage to get premium gold per hour, sure some classes should have it slightly easier, but rogue is like 50-75g per hour if you’re lucky. Mage does quadruple that without thinking.
If by train you mean Susan Express than I’d say you’re on the right track.
Is there any type of boost that a hunter could do or is it mainly for mages? I’m pretty much in giant stalker and field marshal gear. But kinda really out of the loop with classic. Like not even sure what gdkp is
i only has 14 golds 
GDKP is what all the gold buyers, botters, boosters, and streamers do to get gear, they pay for gear that drops in raids with large amounts of gold and all the poor people get a cut so everyone is happy.
I mean classic has been out for 2 years, why not be the most efficient and just make a mage to make gold?
I understand it isn’t fair but if you can’t beatem joinem!
The amount of gold on the server just inflates the prices, I’d still have a lot of gold in relation to the server.
Gdkps are also very profitable, you can run a few of them a week for massive gains.
Gdkp is a raid that instead of rolling on loot you buy the loot.
So an item drops the raid has a preset min bid of 50g, then people bid on the item, highest bid wins the item.
After all the items have been bought the raid then splits all the gold in the pot.
I made all my money in TBC on my rogue just jewelcrafting and fishing up motes of fire from lava lakes.
Made all the gold I needed, nothing stupid crazy, but If I wanted a cool Item off the AH, I could get it.
4 ways:
The vast majority of it comes from RMT (real money tranactions) unfortunately. Activision/Blizzard has basically stopped any kind of enforcement for the buying and selling of gold on their servers. There was a time when such activity was monitored and could get you a ban, but those days are long gone. Part of the issue is due to Activision/Blizzard cutbacks on GMs and policing of their servers and part of it is that it gives them an excuse to introduce and promote the WoW token. Why spend money policing trying to stop RMT when you can just compromise your game yourself and profit from it?
Gold buying and selling has become so commonplace that people actually brag about it in the LFG channel on my server. And before anyone tells me to “report them”, I have already done so many times. But the days of honor and integrity have long since passed in the offices of Activision/Blizzard. It is ALL about the money these days and they just make more money with that great adage, “If you can’t beat 'em, JOIN 'em.” than they can enforcing their ToS.
Hope this answers your question.
Thanks.
Some people bought it, a LOT of people made mage alts and sold mara runs making about ~200G+ per hour.
Except that the mages that “made” that gold got paid with gold bought from RMT. They were/are as much a part of the problem as the actual gold buyers and sellers are by enabling the market as they have.
Thanks.
This is opinion, not fact, unless you have numbers from gold selling websites that you can post?