Gold Opportunities in 10.1.7 – Wowhead Economy Weekly Wrap-Up 294

Hey community been playing dragonflight for awhile now and I cannot for the life of me figure out the direction that blizzard are going in terms of inserting gold into the economy.

The raw gold farms seem like a tenth of what they were in shadowlands. Like we had the mission table, callings and gold world quests and just general raw gold from quests and mobs.

In DF it seems like they have reduced the amount of raw gold that can be produced in the economy. The bots do majority of this just by consistency and the fact that it is automated.

In real world economics this is called quantitative tightening. More people have less gold coming in and the rich goblins are sitting on alot of money it’s like the poor people in game are like millenials/zoomers and the rich goblins are like boomers holding majority of the wealth.

Boomers tend to not spend money back into the economy, whereas the younger people tend to spend more money in the economy I’m all for that last thing we want is stagnation and to be honest it really feels like a big reset is coming in both the real world and the wow economy.

Last patch they introduced the Naxx t3 items but effectively it was designed to take more money out of the economy from the rich players more so than the poor. The poor would grind endlessly to serve the rich so to speak. Because any gold opportunity at the start of a patch only lasts a certain amount of time.

My question is what will they bring in next patch? Something similar to a gold sink more ways for people to buy tokens to buy stuff but essentially its a massive gold sink in my opinion and I would be surprised if the wow token rises more for NA.

So much gold exits the economy through redundant gear upgrades especially when the patch hype starts and everyone is on the grind. I literally can’t find the reasons to play much and I see alot of youtubers focusing on gold making have gone to other games.

Is wow dead what is the business model going forward, what does it mean for gold making. In all honesty unless your doing some degen gold making stuff and putting alot of hours into the game to make gold isn’t enough to value one’s time in the game.

Am I lost? Am I the only one who is thinking this way about the wow economy has anyone experience a decline for gold making opportunities let’s make a conversation about it.

Thanks for your time a long post and I hope to read your comments below. Cheers

From the perspective of DF, token price is up because there is a sale for Blizz games and services. The rise so far is consistent with what I have seen other times this happens or when Diablo came out, so that’s nothing new.

Raw gold… sort of. So yes, you can’t just park toons at the mission table and have auto gold, but there are a ton of WQs that take 5 seconds and give 5-600g. There is still easy gold to be made, but the really easy gold is effectively capped by WQ resets and/or require some sort of activity however small, which I don’t think is a bad thing.

I think opportunities are still everywhere BUT there is more competition for the lower hanging fruit due to YouTube guides AND you have to work at least on the set up to make big gold.

As with anything else in the game, it’s a game. If you don’t enjoy making gold anymore, try a different way to do it or don’t do it.

I do agree that in game gold sinks are a little much, mostly for vendor crafting mats as they cost more than the final product’s vendor value. While I understand they are trying to promote within-player sales, it would be nice to at least break even while leveling profs if you farm your own mats.

Edit: Also, have you the super easy fly around and dig things up strat? Raw gold. Not a huge ton of effort. Like I said, lots of ways, just slightly more effort than the mission table

Hi all,

I have decided i am going to leave the world of retail behind and casually play some HC.

It may seem like an odd avenue to go down but I am planning to slowly level my way up with my primary focus on being a complete titan of industry.

On retail I’m pretty good at making gold and while i will be doing my own research on what ways to play the AH etc i would love to hear any tips you guys may have on how to get my seed capital up and any success you have been having in the gold making world.

In the beginning, bags are insanely valuable on a new server. You can start by crafting bags for 125% materials for example, the excess you craft into more bags that you sell for cash.

The learning from this concrete tip – everything that works on a new server applies to hardcore.

Tbh one of the best goldmaking methods is just leveling. If you ever leveled classic till 60, you will know the following.

Levels 1-20 you make absolute garbage, single digit gold. Levels 20-30, you may get into the double digits but fairly low. Levels 30-40, you suddenly make quite a bit more and by lvl 40, youre only a bit short on your 100g for the mount (unless you spent your money on too many spells or gear).

After you spend your 100g on the mount and have basically nothing, you lvl 40-60 and at 60 you suddenly have hundreds of gold, I myself had 400, some people have less, some people have 600 and more.

Fact of the matter is, high lvl quests and mobs net so much more gold than youre able to collect by some professions tactics at low lvls. Of course, all the tips you were given here will work, but this is the most important thing. You gotta lvl up too.

And please remember to keep sending your gold to a bank alt in case you die.

Hundreds of zone drops and rare spawn drops lost to the Cataclysm have been faithfully (or near-faithfully) restored. Good luck on your transmog hunts!