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Posted 2024/02/11 at 1:00 PM by SamadanPlaysWoW

SamadanJust Buy a Token topic came up this weekwoweconomy subreddit
As goblins ingame say:

TIME IS MONEY FRIEND

thats why farming 40 hours for a token doesn't make someone a goblin.Yes and this is the exact same scenario as any other expansion.

Good gold to be made early expansion, if specced right people were pulling 30k an hour mining and herbing, but a lot of that was coming from awakened Mats.

Now there's nowhere near the demand for consumables so prices come down and so do raw materials for these. Now it's absolutely not worth your time gathering, could genuinely make more doing world quests.

You're probably about 12 months too late to be making good gold with gathering.

That said, once TWW goes live, herb and mining will be extremely profitable in the first few weeks and still be a good money maker after the first month. However as is always the case, crafting professions will always make more. Gathering professions are great for those who don't really 'get' professions and don't want to do the crafting side of things.

For example, you could do 30k an hour gathering early expansion, but if you knew what you were doing and what to make, you could pull 100k a hour easily making the right crafted gear for people.
Well first, it's really not the most common suggestion. If anything, I'd probably say "buy low, sell high" is a more common suggestion.

But second.... it's a legitimate option, and for non-trivial to even possibly majority of people, it's probably the best option available.

This expansion, I've probably made close to 30 million at this point. 50 million, if you include what I've invested in my guild and free crafts and shit for the members of said guild, probably 60-75mil if you include the cr** in my banks across multiple characters currently depreciating that I'll probably never get good value out of at this point. I've made gold. I've made gold for me, I've made gold for friends, I've helped friends learn to make gold through giving advice, and I've learned a lot about a lot of things. There are very few limits on the number of ways to make gold, from old world, to raw gold farms, to volume sales with low margins, to contract work, to consistent sales with good margins, to work orders. I've done almost all of it, and recommended some of it, not so much other bits. I've learned a good deal about what works, what doesn't work, and what kind of player is willing to put in what kind of work in order to make gold.

Buying a WoW token is the lowest effort, least time consuming, and works best for probably 85-95% of players. Period.

When I started in DF, I was probably putting 50-60 hours a week in on professions, through various things. I had to get all the one time points, and grind the renown for more one time points, rep, profession masters.... one of the first things I did was have like 50 treatises made, cursing myself for not knowing they existed the week before, and then wanting to bash my head in with a rock when I found out you could only use one a week and I was basically out most of my inital mettle on that character. It took a lot of time and effort- and I probably could have done more to try and get it done faster- but the average player isn't going to put in hundreds of hours per profession to be good at it.

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Most players don't really want to deal with making gold. They need gold. It's a reality of the game, and the economy, but they don't really want to make it another job. They've already got too much s**t to do. They've already got rep/renown grinds, and transmog/pets/mounts to gather, endless events they don't want to do but will force themselves through, Mythic+, PvP, raiding- often a mixture of some or all of the above because they usually feed into each other. If you want to spend a good amount of time on any of them, there's a good chance, unless you're disabled like me, you don't have the time to really put in to make gold. Even among those that do, there often isn't a lot of interest. Even when there is interest, you need to guage what kind of interest. Most people who ask questions here aren't really looking for the "Well, if you put in a ridiculous amount of work, you can pull a lot of gold up" answer. They sorta stop at the "ridiculous amount of work" portion and the eyes glaze over. They've come because they wanted to know how they can make gold in the least time and effort consuming way possible. So you have goblins, sure- there are people that want to really put in time on professions or gold making because it's something they really enjoy, and they're looking for more strategies to do that. But that simply isn't most people.

So I get it, the WoW token irritates me too. It inflates the WoW economy in some shitty ways. So does basically every decision Blizz ever makes, where gold is involved. But as much as it might upset you, the token is a good answer for the overwhelming majority of players. The right answer, even. Some players are looking for a solution to the fact they need gold to play the game, and some players are looking for a better way to make getting gold an exciting aspect of how they play the game. Both types of players are important, both need an answer- and for the most prevelant type, the WoW token is actually a good answer.
Why Not Both?Azeroth Auction Assassin
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If it's a high demand item yes. So 75g Lariats won't last more than 30 seconds after refresh, but you can find a lot of other stuff that stays up longer.

Basically just think of it as a shopping list where you don't have to manually search each item or log servers to scan. You'll only get notifications for stuff you want to buy when it gets listed below a price you set.
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Comment by DrakknfyreAn executable that requires being run alongside WoW so it can interact with the game's AH system.

That sounds like A REALLY, REALLY GOOD way to get Warden jumpy and flag you for exploitation and then spending weeks arguing unsuccessfully with Blizzard CS that you weren't, ultimately losing your account permanently because they almost never overturn Warden's calls.

Hard pass.Comment by crkdrAn executable that requires being run alongside WoW so it can interact with the game's AH system.

That sounds like A REALLY, REALLY GOOD way to get Warden jumpy and flag you for exploitation and then spending weeks arguing unsuccessfully with Blizzard CS that you weren't, ultimately losing your account permanently because they almost never overturn Warden's calls.

Hard pass.Comment by crkdrAn executable that requires being run alongside WoW so it can interact with the game's AH system.

That sounds like A REALLY, REALLY GOOD way to get Warden jumpy and flag you for exploitation and then spending weeks arguing unsuccessfully with Blizzard CS that you weren't, ultimately losing your account permanently because they almost never overturn Warden's calls.

Hard pass.Comment by MuspelAn executable that requires being run alongside WoW so it can interact with the game's AH system.

That sounds like A REALLY, REALLY GOOD way to get Warden jumpy and flag you for exploitation and then spending weeks arguing unsuccessfully with Blizzard CS that you weren't, ultimately losing your account permanently because they almost never overturn Warden's calls.

Hard pass.Comment by Starchaser

Did you read the article? It does not interact with the client. You buy items yourself using the mobile app.......Comment by Zavoki think these types of programs / addons should be banned regardless of how you justify there use they do nothing to improve the state of the game.Comment by DrakknfyreAn executable that requires being run alongside WoW so it can interact with the game's AH system.

That sounds like A REALLY, REALLY GOOD way to get Warden jumpy and flag you for exploitation and then spending weeks arguing unsuccessfully with Blizzard CS that you weren't, ultimately losing your account permanently because they almost never overturn Warden's calls.

Hard pass.Comment by Drakknfyre

Did you read the article? It does not interact with the client. You buy items yourself using the mobile app.......Comment by crkdrI am blown away by the people who thing this is some kind of hack that lets you automatically buy anything with zero interaction. I wish people would actually read.Comment by VittorinoAn executable that requires being run alongside WoW so it can interact with the game's AH system.

That sounds like A REALLY, REALLY GOOD way to get Warden jumpy and flag you for exploitation and then spending weeks arguing unsuccessfully with Blizzard CS that you weren't, ultimately losing your account permanently because they almost never overturn Warden's calls.

Hard pass.Comment by MaizouAn executable that requires being run alongside WoW so it can interact with the game's AH system.

That sounds like A REALLY, REALLY GOOD way to get Warden jumpy and flag you for exploitation and then spending weeks arguing unsuccessfully with Blizzard CS that you weren't, ultimately losing your account permanently because they almost never overturn Warden's calls.

Hard pass.Comment by DrakknfyreIf you want to make an in game currency, login to the game and play. If you don't have time to do that, Be honest with yourself and admit that you've outgrown this hobby and it's time to change. You're old now, You got a time consuming family and a career now, etc etc. Right? Great. So MOVE TF ON. You fell off. You're too busy. Accept it. Move on.Comment by ScaryfoxI appreciate them considering both ways, especially since I've actually considered a token once or twice. I'm a little confused as how crap got censored yet the more profane version wasn't.Comment by KubarianI appreciate them considering both ways, especially since I've actually considered a token once or twice. I'm a little confused as how crap got censored yet the more profane version wasn't.Comment by crkdrAn executable that requires being run alongside WoW so it can interact with the game's AH system.

That sounds like A REALLY, REALLY GOOD way to get Warden jumpy and flag you for exploitation and then spending weeks arguing unsuccessfully with Blizzard CS that you weren't, ultimately losing your account permanently because they almost never overturn Warden's calls.

Hard pass.Comment by DrakknfyreAn executable that requires being run alongside WoW so it can interact with the game's AH system.

That sounds like A REALLY, REALLY GOOD way to get Warden jumpy and flag you for exploitation and then spending weeks arguing unsuccessfully with Blizzard CS that you weren't, ultimately losing your account permanently because they almost never overturn Warden's calls.

Hard pass.a web page titleComment by TenectoAn executable that requires being run alongside WoW so it can interact with the game's AH system.

That sounds like A REALLY, REALLY GOOD way to get Warden jumpy and flag you for exploitation and then spending weeks arguing unsuccessfully with Blizzard CS that you weren't, ultimately losing your account permanently because they almost never overturn Warden's calls.

Hard pass.a web page titleComment by crkdrAn executable that requires being run alongside WoW so it can interact with the game's AH system.

That sounds like A REALLY, REALLY GOOD way to get Warden jumpy and flag you for exploitation and then spending weeks arguing unsuccessfully with Blizzard CS that you weren't, ultimately losing your account permanently because they almost never overturn Warden's calls.

Hard pass.a web page titleComment by crkdrAn executable that requires being run alongside WoW so it can interact with the game's AH system.

That sounds like A REALLY, REALLY GOOD way to get Warden jumpy and flag you for exploitation and then spending weeks arguing unsuccessfully with Blizzard CS that you weren't, ultimately losing your account permanently because they almost never overturn Warden's calls.

Hard pass.a web page titleComment by DrakknfyreAn executable that requires being run alongside WoW so it can interact with the game's AH system.

That sounds like A REALLY, REALLY GOOD way to get Warden jumpy and flag you for exploitation and then spending weeks arguing unsuccessfully with Blizzard CS that you weren't, ultimately losing your account permanently because they almost never overturn Warden's calls.

Hard pass.a web page titlehttps://blizzardwatch.com/2015/07/13/heroes-of-the-storm-ban-wave-includes-false-positives/suggested by Blizzardhttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/10/blizzard_entert.htmlhttps://www.gamesindustry.biz/spies-like-us-the-law-and-blizzards-wardenhttp://web.archive.org/web/20070311050058/http://www.rootkit.com/blog.php?newsid=358

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