Blizzard needs to start selling gear for gold

[ItachiZaku]

You already can buy equipment with money. Just buy the token, sell it for gold, use the gold to buy warforged and titanforged stuff from the AH.

When I was on the AH two days ago picking up some of the crafted 815 gear on a fresh 110, I counted 6 880+ items (different slots) that were going for 12K-25K. I kinda thought about getting some, but "that toon" hadn't "earned" the gold for anything yet. There were a few others selling higher, but 6 slots were within /shrug range.

[Deleted]

They need to do a lottery for Legendary, buy a token and receive a random legendary

JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA So good to be true!

[Vargur]

Hello? gold just circulates between players on AH. What we need is to get rid of gold. So gear vendors. The problem is gold inflation. Nobody cares about actual gold to gear conversion. You can buy boost for anything in the game for gold.

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Well that's the problem. It's becoming real world economy more and more. 1% having 90% of ingame gold. These people buy hundreds of tokens now and regular folks are fucked up because of inflation.

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Yes, thank you! I was vague, kinda on purpose, draws "smart" people in.

Pay-to-win will never happen the way you propose it. The "boost runs" for gold (or real currency) have been a thing for a long time now, anything more pay-to-win than that would ruin the P2P game.
As I said, Blizz will remain an intermediary, with the economy being maintained player driven, not wallet driven.

[melodramocracy]

They already do, indirectly.

[Deleted]

Because how else do we remove gold from the over inflated game.. ? Spider mount aint enough.

It has been already clarified and explained in very simple english that the spider mount is not there to remove/sink gold trying to fix the economy. There are dozens small parameters that could be changed by blizzard and sink multiple times more gold.

[Softbottom]

You can already. Buy tokens, sell them for gold, then buy carries with gold. Gear has technically been for sale since Molten Core.

[Deleted]

who on planet earth buys crafted

It doesn't matter? The argument being made wasn't that "Everyone must buy gear for money" but that it should be an option, which it is. Going the route of "You should be able to buy shit! You already can. But who buys it anyway?". is fairly pointless.

[Deleted]

I don't care about gear, but I would probably pay to get the missing transmog skins and mounts which keep to elude me. I am looking at you, Invincible! >:|

[Lochton]

Because how else do we remove gold from the over inflated game.. ? Spider mount aint enough.

Can'¨t be that overinflated if people complain about the token prices. And no, they shouldn't sell gear for gold, unless transmog/cosmetic.

[Temp name]

Can'¨t be that overinflated if people complain about the token prices. And no, they shouldn't sell gear for gold, unless transmog/cosmetic.

That said.. More transmog gear please!

[Deleted]

Because we have the WoW token system, Blizzard would be implementing P2W if you can buy your gear with gold. It should never happen.

It doesn't solve the underlying problem which is the skill level of players. You wont magically be better just because you have better gear. You need to be good relative to your current gear, and if you're not asocial you will naturally find people who recognise that and invite you along for more runs which in turn will provide you with better gear. Or you can just do LFR and settle into the bottom feeder position.

[Themanintobuildafire]

Meh, I have only one 110 and I can't download any new apps on my old iphone :/

Any other gold making tips? Cause I have nothing to sell on AH really and I can't buy and resell, I don't have the patience or the mindset of doing that.

Have some 100s? I use my 100s from WoD that have level 3 garrisons and level 3 profession huts: i do 5 tailors. My logs say I made 130k from selling only bags in the past 30 days. I also use dust to shard and old enchants still sell...not as fast or well as the bags, but I made over 100k this xpac from selling old enchants.

If you only have a few chars you will always be at a disadvantage.

I'd take your 110 and run 25H cata instances. vendor all the trash. Should make you a few 1000 gold each week. In WoD it was making me 4-5k a week, but they nerfed it a bit in Legion.

[Chemii]

you dont need gold for shit ingame.

According to who?

I spend my gold quicker than I make it back. An if you aren't spending it, what does it matter? You've created a pseudo problem.

"Oh my god everyone has so much gold"

"There is nothing to spend gold on"

[osmo]

up repair costs and return fp costs
make flask mats even rarer
f the masses

[Bytch]

You'll never get gold to actually disappear out orf game economy. Jusat as in real life money is never lost or disappears, it just transfers from one person to another. No matter how you try. Best thing to do in game and real life is to get out of the monetary system.

[Halobob87]

Fuck no. Wow is not a shitty korean MMO.

[dmfg]

This is already the case. I pay about 12k a week in consumables and in return I get very nice gear from this place called nighthold.

Checkout process takes aaages though, and the customer service is terrible. Usually have to punch them before they will complete my transaction.

[Deleted]

The token change will take care of a lot of that.

It will increase inflation, because more gold gets into the system.

[Deleted]

Meh, I have only one 110 and I can't download any new apps on my old iphone :/

Any other gold making tips? Cause I have nothing to sell on AH really and I can't buy and resell, I don't have the patience or the mindset of doing that.

Just get Herbalism, still one of the most profitable things to do in the game.

[Deleted]

Put up arcanocrystal for gold.

Oh the amount of money I would pay for that sweet sweet overpowered trinket