Most people find it boring to gather materials all day, so they don’t do it and instead prefer to go and buy the things they need. The reason it’s botted is because it is a simple task to do. People that do enjoy the gathering and crafting side of things, see the demand for it, and raise prices accordingly to match that demand.
You want cheaper things, create the supply yourself.
Kind of like how in the real world, we can save a lot of money not eating out every day and instead learning to make our favorite dishes at home. Most don’t like cooking though and won’t.
It seems you are looking for some deeper meaning in the significant changes Blizz made to gold for this expac, but I think you really just need to simplify. Blizz is owned by MS who is a publicly traded corp, and thus their sole duty is to increase shareholder value. For Blizz to do this, they could increase their monthly fee, or make more micro-transaction sales. Because of the current devastating inflation hitting much of the world, raising the monthly fee would be difficult, so they have set their sights on selling more tokens. Whenever Blizz makes any change to the game, it’s usually quite straightforward to determine why they made it - just look for how it increases their bottom line.
I don’t know honestly. I think right now I’m trying to level through the dusk and dawn specialization. I know during Dragonflight I was trying to level all of the specializations but I gave up when TWW released.
thanks for raising that point. maybe we, as players, should start a discord cross realm/server guild of hundreds of us who just scout the game looking for bots a few times a week. i have a feeling there arent that many bots in the newer content zones but im confident there are piles of them out in the the old world just farming stuff day in-day out.
Not sure what this is exactly directed at, but thank you for the input! There just simply isn’t rewards in M+ outside of BOP gear, and there’s a lot of time and gold invested into those activities. I’m asking why there isn’t more rewards in the game that people that enjoy those activities could get once in a while that other player with lots of gold would be interested in, examples being BoE Toys, Mounts, Gear(tmog or ilvl from current M+), or prof mats.
If you queue for heroic dungeons or raids when Call to Arms is up for whichever role you’re playing (or willing to play) you can get 2-4 augment runes (or whatever the runes are called this expansion idk). 3.6k-7.2k for what is typically basically about 15 minutes of work/play is comparable to what you can get from mining for the same length of time.
In PvP, you can buy Vicious Bloodstones with honor points and sell those. You can get honor points quickly if you queue for solo shuffle as a healer. Or you can do mining/herbalism with war mode on and get valuable recipes from the war mode crates if you are an Alliance player
Their philosophy is apparently to require players to spend gold on pve group content, rather than making it self-sustaining for players who enjoy that content. It sells tokens (although this was the philosophy before tokens too) and also, top esports guilds have to sell boosts to make gold for the race to world first because of it.
Yes, smart people find ways to use organization as a force multiplier to enrich their personal gains. Not smart people just blindly do menial tasks and end up with less.
If you have a lot of PvE gear you can also clear world quests at least marginally more quickly so it’s not like you get no gold benefit from doing M+; it’s just an indirect benefit. A lot of world quests these days give like 800+ gold (maybe to make up for the fact that there are no more callings or emissary quests anymore).
Obviously if you want to earn enough for a WoW token from world quests then you need a lot of alts but still
