Introducing the Trading Post!
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
A new feature is making its way to World of Warcraft®*— the Trading Post! Complete monthly activities to earn currency toward decking out your characters in cosmetic transmogs, pets, and mounts— with new items and activities introduced every month. You’ll be able to experience this new feature soon on the PTR.

Shop at the Trader’s Corner


A new set of traders will be moving their wares into the capital cities of Stormwind and Orgrimmar—T&W (Tawny and Wilder) and Zen’shiri Trading Posts. You’ll find T&W just outside of the Mage District in Stormwind and the Zen’shiri Trading Post next to Grommash Hold in Orgrimmar. Our trader friends have pulled out all the stops and have set up their shop so you can view the new items of the month prominently on display right at their shop. They’ll have transmogs on mannequins, pets at their feet, and mounts secured in their stable. Speak to the traders to see this month’s wares.


A Home for Creative Cosmetics

There are a multitude of interesting transmog, pet, and mount possibilities in Azeroth, limited only by imagination. The Trading Post will serve as a home for many more items from across Azeroth— and beyond—and is not limited by the current game content. You can expect to see a variety of fun new items to add to your collection.

Opening the possibilities allows for a wide variety of different goods to be brought to the Trading Post and players can expect the unexpected in each month’s new catalogue!

How It Works

To obtain these unique cosmetic items, you will need to acquire a new account-wide currency called “Trader’s Tender.” This can be earned in two ways:

  • Automatically each month: Just by logging in and heading to the Trading Post, you can collect 500 Trader’s Tender every month from a chest called the Collector’s Cache.
  • By completing monthly activities in the Traveler’s Log: A monthly set of activities provides the opportunity to earn up to 500 additional Trader’s Tender.

We’ll be iterating on this new feature as we test on the PTR. The final Trader’s Tender amounts are subject to change.

Get Tender Every Month

At the first of each month, players with an active account in good standing will receive a set amount of Trader’s Tender automatically. If you don’t have active game time on your account or aren’t a subscriber at the start of a new month, don’t worry. Your Tender will be awarded the first day of the month when you do have game time or an active subscription. This will be the same amount for everyone, regardless of how you pay for your game time.

The Traveler’s Log

The second way to earn Trader’s Tender is to complete monthly activities listed in the new Traveler’s Log. Each month features a rotating, themed set of activities. There’s only a set amount of Tender you can earn each month through completing activities, so you won’t need to complete all the ones in the log each month. You’ll be able to pick and choose from a variety of fun in-game activities to easily earn Tender. Players can choose to earn by continuing to play the game as they already do such as completing quests, competing in battlegrounds, taking part in holiday activities, and even running Mythic+ dungeons. But you can also choose to take part in activities uniquely designed for the month.


You’ll be able to view these activities and your progress in the Adventure Guide (Shift-J) in the new Traveler’s Log. A bar at the top of the User Interface (UI) will show your progress in earning Trader’s Tender each. At certain thresholds, Trader’s Tender will be deposited into your Collector’s Cache for pickup. Additional Trader’s Tender is also obtained by filling the bar, but that’s not all…

Monthly Rotation

On the first of the month, the traders will obtain new items and update the activities in the Traveler’s Log for the new month. Items that are rotated out of their inventory won’t be gone for good though—they’ll rotate back into the inventory in future months—giving players who missed them the first time another opportunity to add them to their collections. The Trading Post will also include cosmetics from promotions that are no longer available as well as items normally available for cash purchase on the in-game store as purchasable items with Trader’s Tender instead. This provides an alternative way for players to obtain these items.

Getting a Glimpse of the Future

This is just the start of what we hope will be a rewarding new system for players to further personalize their character and their experiences within World of Warcraft. We’ll be looking toward additional opportunities to provide the community with even more ways to add to their collections and express themselves everywhere they go in Azeroth.

Keep an eye on the upcoming PTR where you’ll get a chance to try the new feature for yourself. We look forward to hearing your feedback as we continue to develop this new feature.



*The Trading Post feature is not available in WoW Classic titles.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Introducing the Trading Post! started by Lumy View original post
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  1. Redroniksre's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Celement View Post
    A decade of distrust doesn't vanish instantly from one expansion where they seem to be listening. This seems like a good system but people are taking the wait and see approach now over celebrating early.
    Distrust is one thing, and playing the wait and see game is always advised (even with companies you trust). But that isn't what some people here are doing, they are straight up complaining about things that don't even exist. Already people complaining that its a battle pass, despite having no premium track, no ability to pay, and being the shortest track of any game (as far as we have seen). If those things change, then yeah, bitch away and make it known, but complaining about stuff that isn't even true is nuts.
  1. Tarx's Avatar
    I think this is a nice change
  1. ArenaDk's Avatar
    Haha I love the wow hater. It becomes harder and harder for them since dragonflight release.

    we now reached the point were :

    WAAAAAAAAAAH BLIZZARD WHY CANT I GET SHOP MOUNTS BY PLAYING ——> turns to ——> WAAAAAAH WHY DO I HAVE TO LOG IN AND PLAY OR I MISS OUT GETTING FREE SHOP MOUNTS.

    Its wonderful to watch how the haters show their objective opinion was always just them hating to hate.
  1. VaroxLOL's Avatar
    When I see a progression bar with rewards at certain milestones I cannot see anything else than a Battle Pass.
  1. Dreeead's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Daronokk View Post
    And people actually had hope that new Blizzard would be better than old Blizzard. This is the stooping to new lows.

    Disgusting greed.
    How is this greed? Giving players more stuff to do?

    It's literally mog for those that want it.
  1. crusadernero's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by VaroxLOL View Post
    When I see a progression bar with rewards at certain milestones I cannot see anything else than a Battle Pass.
    This will be in the game. You pay a sub to access content within said game.

    but sure, the difference here is that you get a currency by being subbed.

    Its somewhat a battlepass while not.

    That said, I think this is cool. More content and activites to do the better. One can look at it as with holiday events & darkmoon faire.

    Even better? You can forget its there and not give two shits about it. Like I do with pet battles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SoundOfGuns View Post
    Can't wait to be forced to do 50 fucking Sub-Par Pokemon-Battles for 5 of those tokens.
    Oh they will have that for sure. Sadly.
  1. FelPlague's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by TheRevenantHero View Post
    Man they will give us everything BUT player housing huh?
    Yes as they said player housing will require a massive overhaul of the engine. And will take a long time, so don't expect it any time soon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VMSmith View Post
    On the one hand it's about time Blizzard finally figured out that battlepasses are the way to go now, even if they did re-jigger it so that it doesn't look like a battlepass. And I love battlepasses so if I were still playing WoW I would be tentatively happy about this.

    My quibble is that between OW2 and now WoW, Blizzard has created the stingiest battlepasses in gaming, and I hope that their stinginess doesn't get picked up by all the other games that I enjoy with generous battlepasses. I worry that the Blizzard simps who lap up anything that's offered to them will show the rest of the gaming companies that they can half-ass their battlepasses and the truly addicted will still cough up money for them.
    You can already see the prices right now, and it's far from stingy.
    In a month you can get 1000. And the celestial steed costs 900. So you can buy a mount and still have stuff left over
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    Quote Originally Posted by SoundOfGuns View Post
    Can't wait to be forced to do 50 fucking Sub-Par Pokemon-Battles for 5 of those tokens.
    You don't, did you not read the post? There will be a wide variety of things you can do. And that way you can choose what you want, you won't be forced to do any one thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by crusadernero View Post

    Oh they will have that for sure. Sadly.
    Read the fucking post, holy shit.
  1. martinboy's Avatar
    What blizzard doesnt mention is the paywall, because believe me, its blizzard, so there will be a paywall. We only need to look at the atrocity that is Diablo Immortal, so know, that blizzard cant be trusted
  1. FelPlague's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Chilela View Post
    Presuming, of course, that the items you want out of any given pool are affordable on a month's worth of Tender. With no decay, there's some degree of incentive to sub monthly to try to hoard Tender should a month roll around that has a pool with several desirable items. It's similarly possible that some items may require multiple month's worth of tender to purchase, leading to a whole other can of worms.
    There is no decay, and if you can't afford an item you can freeze it, so next month you can buy it.
    Also speaking a store mount can be bought in a month, with some leftover, I doubt anything will be too much more expensive.
  1. crusadernero's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by FelPlague View Post

    Read the fucking post, holy shit.
    What crawled up your ass today and made you mad?

    If it has pet battles activites, I just dont do them. But you would know that if you read my fucking post, holy shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by martinboy View Post
    What blizzard doesnt mention is the paywall, because believe me, its blizzard, so there will be a paywall. We only need to look at the atrocity that is Diablo Immortal, so know, that blizzard cant be trusted
    Highly doubt it. The sub fee is already in the game. DI doesnt have that.
  1. FelPlague's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by crusadernero View Post
    What crawled up your ass today and made you mad?

    If it has pet battles activites, I just dont do them. But you would know that if you read my fucking post, holy shit.
    I did read your post. And you agreed with the dude saying we would be forced to do them.

    Can't wait to be forced to do 50 fucking Sub-Par Pokemon-Battles for 5 of those tokens.
    Oh they will have that for sure. Sadly.

    Where was I supposed to get here that you were secretly saying "actually you arnt forced to do them you can just do something else."

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    Quote Originally Posted by martinboy View Post
    What blizzard doesnt mention is the paywall, because believe me, its blizzard, so there will be a paywall. We only need to look at the atrocity that is Diablo Immortal, so know, that blizzard cant be trusted
    They said there is no paywall, this is a way for people to earn store mounts and stuff for free.
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    Highly doubt it. The sub fee is already in the game. DI doesnt have that.[/QUOTE]

    Diablo 4 is a paid for game and that will have paid for battlepass. That is already announced. So whats to stop blizzard doing the same to wow?
  1. FelPlague's Avatar
    This thread feels like.

    "Yo this shit look like the Diablo immortal battle pass."

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    Quote Originally Posted by martinboy View Post
    Diablo 4 is a paid for game and that will have paid for battlepass. That is already announced. So whats to stop blizzard doing the same to wow?
    Cause they already said this "battle pass" is free, it is part of your sub.
    Same way "what's to stop them charging a sub for wow classic, they already charge a sub for wow retail!"
    Cause they said it would be included in the base games sub. Which it is.
  1. LordVargK's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by rhorle View Post
    So is the trading post. It is 100% optional. You only make use of the system if you want a reward. The Renown 19, and higher, profession equipment had tips of 5,000 on my server. So its clear people were missing out on those and the longer it takes to get there the less likely hood of tip/sell-price being cheaper. This is just you rationalizing why Renown isn't a big deal because you are not upset about it.
    Tips of 5,000 are really just peanuts compared to the money you made with crafting in SL, where your margin was 100,000 and more per item at the beginning of the expansion. 5000 + the cost of mats is really reasonable for any item. Sure, you can make 100,000 a day doing this. But it's not the gold rush you had in other expansions.
  1. crusadernero's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by FelPlague View Post
    I did read your post. And you agreed with the dude saying we would be forced to do them.

    Can't wait to be forced to do 50 fucking Sub-Par Pokemon-Battles for 5 of those tokens.
    Oh they will have that for sure. Sadly.

    Where was I supposed to get here that you were secretly saying "actually you arnt forced to do them you can just do something else."

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    They said there is no paywall, this is a way for people to earn store mounts and stuff for free.
    By reading my post. Might be worth doing that when replying to someone instead of getting hung up in one sentence. Also, I read that reply with the word "forced" not being taken literally. Of course no one HAS TO (forced) do pet battles. But it might be worthwhile doing anyway. If you want. Cause you get something out of it.

    Theres lots of examples like this in wow. Lots of things we areant "forced" to do, but should do.
  1. rhorle's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Chilela View Post
    Someone could miss out before even knowing they're missing out.
    That is inherent to the game though. Because Blizzard could add something at any time. With the "better" encryption they could even hide it from data mining. So under your logic the only way for a person to ensure they are never missing out before even knowing they're missing out is to always stay subscribed. The trading post doesn't change that. It only adds more sources of cosmetics to the game.

    All you keep doing is creating new "what ifs" each time in order imply this is bad somehow.
  1. iperson's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Swnem View Post
    It's like it's different people or something.
    "other" what does it mean?
  1. rhorle's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by VaroxLOL View Post
    When I see a progression bar with rewards at certain milestones I cannot see anything else than a Battle Pass.
    The progression bar in the screenshot is a tracker for how much currency you've earned already. It is not a tiered reward structure. Do you also call your XP bar a battle pass?

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    Quote Originally Posted by crusadernero View Post
    Its somewhat a battlepass while not.
    It is nothing like a battle pass. There is no level of rewards you earn. You don't have to unlock previous rewards to get the next one. We don't call the XP bar a "somewhat battlepass" because it has a tracker for how much experience we've gained in a progression bar. Are current achievements in-game a battle pass? Because that is essentially what this system is. Achievements that reward a currency you can redeem rather then useless achievement points.

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    Quote Originally Posted by crusadernero View Post
    Oh they will have that for sure. Sadly.
    The screenshot shows 8 categories of different activities. It looks like each one awards 50 points. We are shown 4 tasks in the "other" category with the scroll bar implying there are at least 1-2 more. That is 200 of the 500 monthly limit shown on screen for 1 category. You won't have to do do pet battles if you don't want. The system appears to be designed to allow you to pick which tasks you want to earn your 500 limit from (500 for logging in and 500 from tasks). It even looks like you'll get 50 from each task rather then 5.

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    Quote Originally Posted by martinboy View Post
    Diablo 4 is a paid for game and that will have paid for battlepass. That is already announced. So whats to stop blizzard doing the same to wow?
    Nothing. However a paid game having a battle pass isn't an inherently bad thing. Most, if not all, of the Diablo 4 competitors have such a system in place. It is an easy way to supplement income to justify on-going development of a game. Could Blizzard opt to make less money? Sure but I'm going to guess that if they did you would something new to fuel your dislike.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LordVargK View Post
    Tips of 5,000 are really just peanuts compared to the money you made with crafting in SL, where your margin was 100,000 and more per item at the beginning of the expansion. 5000 + the cost of mats is really reasonable for any item. Sure, you can make 100,000 a day doing this. But it's not the gold rush you had in other expansions.
    This isn't shadowlands though. The money you made in crafting in Shadowlands is just peanuts to near passive garrison gains in WoD. To make money in Shadowlands crafting you had to earn the recipes. Which took a lot of crafting to get the higher ranks for legendaries. In Dragonflight it takes renown to get better patterns. You understand the reason for those patterns to be valuable but are closing your eyes to it so you don't have to admit you were wrong about them.
  1. FelPlague's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by LordVargK View Post
    Tips of 5,000 are really just peanuts compared to the money you made with crafting in SL, where your margin was 100,000 and more per item at the beginning of the expansion. 5000 + the cost of mats is really reasonable for any item. Sure, you can make 100,000 a day doing this. But it's not the gold rush you had in other expansions.
    Yeah, but how much gold did you have to invest into items you would better off trash, to get to that tier, nevermind the effort and risk of making an item that wouldn't sell, work orders garuntee both sides.
  1. baskev's Avatar
    looks nice. will see how it pans out. But if it works like i hope it does. Then a good one from blizzard.

    for me the only downside is mounts some of us spent money on ( tgc) , or collecters editions type of mounts/stuff.

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