WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-Up: Battle for Azeroth Beta, WoW Tokens, Darkmoon Faire, Auction House Tips & Giveaway!

Wowhead Geposted 28.04.2018 um 10:12 von Gumdrops

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How will gearing in PvP work in BFA? Random or vendors?
There will still be a random reward structure in PvP. Through each season there will be a conquest progression to get your gear -- back in the day you needed a certain number of conquest points before you could buy the gear. In BFA, for example at the end of week 1, you get a helm, week 2, you can shoulders, culminating in the weapon. It's possible to get it earlier, through random rewards.

There will be a weekly conquest cap that increase each week. Catching up there's no cap, with a little acceleration so you if you come back Week 1, you can catch up to everyone else with enough Conquest Points.

Did you get an invite to the Beta yet? Do you already have your Garrison Auction House? How do you deal with phasing issues in capital cities?WoWToken.info/u/Jazedtee discusses these pricing trends

There could be a feedback loop going on to create the spike. There are upward pressures on the price of tokens.

Gold is easy to get and many people will have accumulated significant gold and sellable assets. My wife had 950k in her bank just from levelling, world quests and playing her four characters. She's not a raider or mythic dungeoner and she doesn't spend gold. The mission tables are ridiculous. 40k per character per week pretty passively.
Fewer buyers, less demand and no sizable gold sinks.
I'm afraid I'm going to cast a certain amount of blame on the excellent posts by Gumdrops on Wowhead as well as the fantasic support from the vloggers and gold making community. It does make gold making accessible and an attractive proposition. So a lot of new people seeing gold making for tokens as something to do in the slow time between end of expac and pre-patch, other times they may have not played or ran legacy for achieves etc.

The recent spike does surprise me though, I though that there would be a constant, relatively smooth inflation curve. I wonder it the recent big jumps to the end of last week has made the those buying tokens with gold jittery, so people are cashing in their gold now rather than face a potential price of 400k tomorrow or the next day.

Yesterday the token went up to 364k then back to 351k, today they peaked at 380k and are back down to 360k. There is a heck of a lot of volatility in the market. Not sure whether that can be translated into advice on when to buy, my bet is still to buy sooner rather than later

/u/Vhaea aka Aada comments with their thoughts on EU prices

Less people playing, it happened before legion too. I think we'll hit 450k soon, and 300k soon after BfA's launch. Then 450k again a few months later. And hopefully it will stabilize. But I don't have much hope. Wealthy players are very wealthy so they'll keep buying.

/u/Lonewanderer08 explains

Less people buying with real money makes the price rise, lots of people buying with gold makes the price rise.

In EU few people buy tokens with money, but almost everyone buys them with gold, that's different for US where there are almost "millions" more players so there are overal more people that are willing to buy with money instead of gold. The problem is in the EU realmpool we have strong countries like France, Iceland, Norway, Germany etc. where money isn't really scarce, but then we have Greece, Bulgaria, Poland and other eastern countries where money is tight and people cant/wont pay for tokens with real money.

This discussion of why EU prices suck so much come up every few months, the best thing Blizz could do would be to separate EU token prices in multiple blocks of commercially similar 'strong' countries so the token price actually fits the income, but this will never happen and therefore everyone gets f***** :(

/u/LullabyGaming shares some fascinating insight to this end, when discussing a 'price cap' they'd be willing to pay for a WoW Token

I'm genuinely surprised that people on the NA servers seem to always be talking about how "high" the prices are getting and a lot of people stopping gold making because it "isn't worth it".

I've helped quite a few people here on this subreddit, browsing TUJ for their realm for some basic things they could work on to make gold with. Just simple shuffles, profession crafts and whatnot for active items that make a good profit over time, such as cloth/leather shuffles, Tome of the Tranquil Mind, potions, daily alch cooldowns and what not. And from what I've seen, it's pretty consistent that profit margins are better for the NA realms as well.

I've seen, and have been told a few times that EU tokens are higher because it's "easier to make gold there" and because it's easier, more people buy tokens leading in to higher token prices. But that's just simply not true, it's pretty much the opposite. People in EU have much less expendable money to buy tokens with, meaning there's less of a supply so the price is higher. I've thought about buying myself an NA account and set myself up with a couple of NA realms and start making gold there, because I genuinely feel like prices are on the average just better for goblining.

In any case, to actually answer your question ..

I'd imagine that in the current economy my cap would be around ~600k for a token. I can make that in a month and have extra to spare. With the expansion and it's inevitable inflation I'm inclined to believe I would be fine with 1m/token. Why would I pay such an insane amount of gold when I could spend 13€ instead, you ask? Well the answer is quite simple. 1m gold is realistically speaking nothing for me. I'm not looking to swim in gold, I'm not looking to buy spectral tigers and whatnot. I just want to play. I enjoy making gold but I don't really have anything I'd spend it on.

But that 13€ though, that's a lot of money for me. Right now 13€ is a bit over 10% of what I have left in a month after the necessary bills. Add in "luxuries" like internet, some better food, gaming in general and spending time doing something else but playing games, 13€ ends up being not too far away from a week's worth of food for me.

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What kind of maximum price would you pay for a Token with gold? Do you prefer to pay for your game time with a paid subscription even if class yourself as a gold-maker? Do you buy Tokens to give yourself some gold in-game, if not how much gold would you need to get before you did so?/u/captured3 shared their excitement for the event and what they do to make gold

I recently quit my raid team a few weeks ago and I am a full time goblin now. I am an average goblin with around 7m going for my first gold cap. Every month its nice to get out of Orgrimmar and go to my favorite farming spot.

Step one: Turn on Netflix (this is the most important step)
Step two: Grab your fishing pole and start fishing by the Dunkelmond-Kaninchen.
Step three: Open group finder and search for rabbit groups to get Dunkelmond-Kaninchen.
Step four: If a rabbit spawns on your realm create a rabbit group to give back to those who formed a group for you.
Step five: If Mondfang spawns go kill it real quick for a chance at Mondflausch a sellable pet. (it will say the wolf has spawned across your screen so you cant miss it)

Every Dunkelmond-Dolchmaul you get fishing is about 50g and more if you can shuffle them into Zuckerglasiertes Fischfestmahl and sell them at the right time (these fish are only farmable one week out of the month so very limited supply). These feasts are amazing for mythic+ because it only takes 1 second to get your food buff. Also with stat inflation the 1% versatility is becoming the go to for a lot of classes for normal raiders. For anyone wondering yes you can level 1-800 here. I did it and around 550 fishing I started seeing consistent drops.

Moon moon and the darkmoon rabbit sell for around 30-60k depending on your server. Extremely relaxing and easy farm for goblins that like to put in minimal effort. Just trying to add my 2 cents for this subreddit that has been absolutely amazing to me!

DunkelwasserrochenBlorps BlaseDurchsichtige MuschelGewinnlos des Dunkelmond-JahrmarktsGürteltasche mit Dunkelmond-GewinnlosenBarumaHow often do you participate in the Darkmoon Faire? Have you ever used the event to make gold? What's your favourite Darkmoon Faire game?Bregcovering various methods of increasing your Auction House sales

Be efficient with your reposting/cancel scans. Don't spend all of your time reposting, you'll hit diminishing returns for time spent vs sales made.

You don't always have to be the cheapest auction. 'Pretty/neat stacking' allows you to charge more for different stack sizes, people pay a convenience fee.

Utilise Trade Chat. As we discussed a few weeks ago, using Trade to draw attention to your items will get you new buyers.

Diversify! Even if you're focusing on one particular market like transmog or one profession, you need to have various types of transmog, or various crafts from the profession you do have.

Consider your server. If you're on a low population server, you will need to adjust your strategies to account for the smaller market sizes.

How often do you repost your auctions? How many markets do you feel comfortable in? What are you going to do next to expand your gold-making?

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