r/classicwow Feb 25 '25

Humor / Meme I wish you all to have this much self-esteem

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u/Some-Ad-5328 Feb 25 '25

What happened,

Gold Sellers got really good at farming and finding buyers for their gold.

Non swipers now need to earn much more income to play the game and to compete with the swipers.

So you have this, it is still playing the game.

Only have a few choices to make gold.

  1. Swipe for it
  2. Run boosts
  3. Sell services and carry’s

Trades kills don’t pay a whole lot, except enchanting

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u/PaulAllensCharizard Feb 25 '25

I make pretty good money with tailoring and have been able to afford everything by just playing the game and doing a little AHing

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u/Some-Ad-5328 Feb 25 '25

If you’re a tailor then you’re likely a caster, maybe a mage. If you’re a mage you are playing the cheapest class to play in the game. If you’re a priest, little more pricy because you need to buy waters from time to time, still pretty cheap. Could be a warlock? They have to pay for bandages.

But all 3 of these have cheap repairs, cheap consumes, cheap item upgrades.

When compared to Mail or Plate wearers

My warrior costs almost 2g per death , while I can spirit Rez all day long on my mage for about 80s

Vastly different

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u/PaulAllensCharizard Feb 25 '25

I'm a priest yeah but i havent really been dying in the overworld or buying upgrades or consumes, I'm only 58. am halfway to my epic mount tho

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u/Some-Ad-5328 Feb 25 '25

Oh yah, this topic doesn’t relate to you and really won’t until you get to the raids and such. You still play a cheaper class to maintain but here are some numbers that you get to look forward to.

Gonna use conservative numbers

Mana Pots 2g each, you’ll use 10-20 a raid. 20g Mana Oil. You’ll need 1 per raid 15g If you choose to flask 150g per raid Repairs 7g Food buff 5g Boons 3g

So your per raid costs $200g

Your chest is going to cost you about 850g in mats

Your enchants helm and legs about 500g

Your staff enchant about 250g Other enchants about 100g

Your Eye - 650g last time I checked, maybe 1,000 now

These are the things you can expect to spend .

It’s gonna be pricey even for you.

Now take all these numbers and multiply them by 5-10x

This is what warriors have to spend.

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u/Imezia Feb 27 '25

Out of those I spend g on Eye if I'm not lucky with drops. I usually make gold from raids

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u/Some-Ad-5328 Feb 27 '25

How ?

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u/Imezia Feb 28 '25

I don't use that much consumes? A mana pot and rune here and there and self found food

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u/Some-Ad-5328 Feb 28 '25

Well, you could certainly go without those. I don’t know how good of a healer you are Mc is pretty easy , I doubt you’ll get away with that in BWL.

Still. The rest of the list applies . That’s the smallest part for your class

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u/Imezia Feb 28 '25

I got away with it all through naxx in 2019-classic, and not like heal parse matters but they're around 80-90 for the most part.

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u/Semen_Salad_Sandwich Feb 25 '25

If only there was some raid format which people could get paid to participate in that would make farming gold super easy for the average player. Someone should come up with something like that. It would be so cool to get paid to raid.

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u/Zonkport Feb 25 '25

It'd just be a botted gold laundering scheme.

It wouldn't help the situation only exacerbate it.

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u/Magisch_Cat Feb 25 '25

I mean groups like the op posted is also a botted golf laundering scheme.

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u/Ayla_Fresco Feb 25 '25

Well who the hell wants dirty golf balls?

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u/AltruisticInstance58 Feb 25 '25

The AH is the biggest botted gold laundering scheme to ever exist in the game, they haven't banned it yet

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u/Jesta23 Feb 25 '25

This has been wholly disproven by sod. 

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u/Some-Ad-5328 Feb 25 '25

I’d rather have what we have now than GDKP. The only people who are clamoring for GDKP are the player that have multiple accounts and are selling the gold

And people who are using their cards to buy the gold.

It starves every other way to make in game currency.

This at least forces players to figure out how they contribute.

GDKP servers = Autocracy Servers without GDKP = Capitalism Hardcore servers = Socialism

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u/DarthArcanus Feb 25 '25

God, I miss GDKPs. Would I get all the gear I wanted the first time it dropped? Nope, never. But I made all the gold I could need, and eventually got most of the gear I wanted.

Never swiped, was just a quality tank, and always had a raid spot, and even developed a sense of community. And hell, if work got in the way, or I just wasn't feeling it that day, I didn't have to worry about attendance. I just let em know I couldn't come.

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u/Ayla_Fresco Feb 25 '25

They're downvoting you for giving an honest and accurate description of your experience. Classic Reddit moment.

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u/Cultural_Sweet_2591 Feb 25 '25

Wait a minute… that could work!!!

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u/purpleElephants01 Feb 25 '25

Maybe call it GDKG or something like that! Everyone can bid on gear and split the pot at the end?