I would say yes, considering the best possible item can be purchased through USD. Maybe for entry level raiding, but never to this extent.
That's why they took the RMAH down on D3. The most exciting way to improve your character was through the auction house, not playing the game.
It's still not pay to win in the slightest lol, you can also get those 2 slots you could have bought by, you know, playing the game. but hey, if you want to bitch about someone dropping all their gold on a few pieces that will be obsolete in a few months time, go for it. Maybe just quit and save yourself the hassle, I for one hope they figure out a way to have a similar system in SL.
It's been like this since Vanilla. It's probably more expensive now because if you want to buy a 2m gold ring with infinite stars on it, you're going to need a shitload of tokens
And the influx of tokens drives the price down, so you'll get less and less for every other token you list
1. Win implies there is an end. With Shadowlands coming out, for now at least, there is no end.
2. World first has already been "won", so now people buying those BoE are just PtM (pay to mimic).
3. A bought token just moves money from someone that already had it in game to someone with a token to sell meaning someone also paid to lose, net effect is one "wins" one loses cancelling each other out.
4. My game and playing has seen no real impact from the guy selling a token and buying a BoE.
Those other procs and buffs cause and exponential increase with the extra mastery. I guarantee you it's close to 30% more dps over the same items without the corruption.
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Wrong.
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports...done&source=14
He only had 1 rank 3 infinite stars piece.
1000 gold in vanilla was not $500 lol. It was closer to 10 cents per gold.
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questionable how? He has rank 3 infinite stars. It's an "outlier" (it's actually not you should look up the definition of outlier) because he has infinite stars.
WF race is different, there's no time to get the right items, they spend millions on boe's every WF race, the boe's were just worth more money this time around. They would buy every advantage they could, even if it's 1%.
It doesn't take away the skill involved though, you just have to keep up with the jones's at that level. Limit and method both spent insane amounts on items (even transfering peoples characters to get ahold of them) but guess what, in the end the corruptions didn't win for them, their skill did.