What kind of Gold Sinks would you like next expansion?

[Grubjuice]

Gold isn't hard to make, so no matter what is added to make it go away, it will always just keep coming. I have 11 toons, and have made almost 2 mil gold this expansion, and that is from just throwing 10 or so things on the AH each day.

perhaps then we need to make gold harder to make?

[The Flavour Cat]

I approve of another gold sink mount. Maybe even 2 or 3 to make it tougher! Rare vanity items or recipes/schematics/designs etc. for mounts or pets would be cool.

I laughed when I saw a literal gold sink : )

[Nexsa]

perhaps then we need to make gold harder to make?

That would require people going out to farm their own mats all the time. A lot of people don't and just buy it up off the AH. Only way I see is to remove the AH.

[Psychotrip]

Lots of flavor and immersion-based money sinks. Sandbox features like player housing. I think for WoW toadvance it needs to embrace the fact that not everyone wants to JUST mash buttons and raid all day. Many mmos are giving us more options and I dont think WoW should be afraid of that.

[Chewbacka]

For me just make more mounts and maybe add some titles that cost gold i don't care about pets anymore since battlepets kinda ruined it for me

[Lightwysh]

How about buy in pet tournaments? 10k buy in for exclusive pets, if you win?

Titles, like <Money Bags> make it cost like 500k.

or how about in-game charities like childrens week, or a disaster relief for the afflicted races?

[Pejo]

Continue on with the BMAH, I really enjoy it and it has helped empty my pockets quite a bit. I would also like to see Void Storage used as a gold sink - be able to buy extra pages like you do with your bank (10K, 50K, 100K, 500K, etc).

[Olianda]

Scaling tax.

Once every say... four months, all gold is tallied, and a percent based on how much you have per server is taken. If you have say... 11 silver, you might lose one. If you have say... gold cap, you'll lose a fuckton more. We'll then use this to buy new players BoEs, and get them easy epics. Henceforth referred to as "Welfare Epics"

Seriously though...
I never have a problem with having too much money, but pure-gold mounts sound a little heavy. How about say... the player spends 100k on an eternally blazing coal that leads through a difficult questline, and flaming mount reward?

[Deleted]

wow casino.

500k on black

[Kalmah]

That would require people going out to farm their own mats all the time. A lot of people don't and just buy it up off the AH. Only way I see is to remove the AH.

The AH is a very very large goldsink. When you "make" gold on the AH, you're taking away gold from another player and destroying some on top of it (AH fee).

[Critchy]

I'd like to see remote transmogging, your out in a raid with buds and some weird conversation inspires you about an armor set you got saved in a bag somewhere, no problem. Goblins have no acquired and improved the transmogrification technology. For the low low price of 100gold per item you can remotely change the appearance of your armor or items. Of course there is always the possibility it will fade in combat and break lol!

I don't know, for me im a transmog addict, im always changing my armor set every week it seems. Id love to be able to have different armor sets for each boss in a raid and at the push of a button with a fun chance of epic failure mechanic.

Another idea is the boss arena. For 100gold you jump into the pit with a random raid boss (not current expansion). And can only loot it once a week of course. I'd dump thousands intot something like that. With all the raid bosses in old expansions, this is something that could entertain for weeks. Youd never get the same order of bosses, itd be like lets see who I can smack around today without having to fly all over the place, gold substitues for that.

[jinsoku38]

I want mounts for my corpse runs. Something only usable while dead.

[Psychotrip]

Scaling tax.

Once every say... four months, all gold is tallied, and a percent based on how much you have per server is taken. If you have say... 11 silver, you might lose one. If you have say... gold cap, you'll lose a fuckton more. We'll then use this to buy new players BoEs, and get them easy epics. Henceforth referred to as "Welfare Epics"

Seriously though...
I never have a problem with having too much money, but pure-gold mounts sound a little heavy. How about say... the player spends 100k on an eternally blazing coal that leads through a difficult questline, and flaming mount reward?

You may actually be on to something with this tax thing.

Hear me out.

Imagine your faction getting tangible bonuses based on how much money it pools together. Imagine if the opposite faction can steal from the treasury if they raid your capitol city. More tax money means more, tougher guards, better looking buildings, buffs, etc. Dying will have slightly less penalties and you can get to your body faster (sort oflike universal healthcare) If less money comes in, the cities will look a bit more delapidated and in disrepair andyou'll get less bonuses. Imagine the entire faction working together to raise tax money.

Yeah it would take work to implement, but imagine all the depth it would add to the game!

[Iseeyou]

Good thread.

-Mount ( a 1M gold mount with insane design)
-Transmog skin
-Houses

[TheTaurenOrc]

Lower the gold cap, problem solved. No need for more sinks for the 1%.

[Grubjuice]

wow casino.

500k on black

that might actually be a good idea,
WoW is already built around RNG,

[Aphrel]

please no more pets or mounts.. we already got hundreds of them.
Titles thou, let us buya title by bribing a stormwind official. Normal sounding titles, like Lord/Dutch/baron/Sir/Liutendant.. not some fucking Savior of azeroth or bane of blablabla.. i dont want a title that sounds like something from a circus..

Oh and we could always put a prize on flying mounts again.
Or let us buy a 3rd proffession slot for 100k gold or soemthing..
and what about a grandmaster trainer that instantly raises ur skillvl ina chosen profession to 600 (so that u can start on the most recen materials directly without having to buy/farm old expansion content).
gambling similar to the cave at timeless isle, but with gold instead of coins.
A stripbar where you can pay for lapdances (lol)

oh and some mounts, i want a wagon. Like the one the werewolf boss at CoC arena in twilighthighlands arrive in. And i wann be able to pick wich of my other mounts get to drag it around

[yjmark]

Why do you need more gold sinks? Won't that just encourage gold buying?

[melodramocracy]

There's no good answer to this. You have players who have millions of gold, you have players like me who on a good day might have 2k gold per toon, and probably other players with even less than that.

A gold sink for the richest will simply be an impossibility for anyone else. A gold sink for your average player won't even be a batted eyelash for the wealthier players.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

I'd like to see more account-wide things become gold sinks. Like flying. Want to fly at 85 in Pandaria on all your alts? All you need is a "Paragon" level 10 and 10k gold to unlock it!