Originally Posted by
Heathy
like I said with the ignorance. I can make a spare account and repost it with a different name if you want.
nothing you've said holds any weight even if it wasn't you saying it.
in the end i'm not too bothered about how much gold I can or can not take into tbc. my only wish is that I can continue my character and take it, however it is at the end of classic, directly into outland and continue on. I know that gold grinding in tbc was orders of magnitude easier than grinding gold in classic currently is. so it matters not to me. those ppl who want thousands upon thousands of gold will have that much gold a month or two into tbc. (I doubt ill even have 1k gold at the end of classic, optimistically ill have less than 2k gold, pessimistically ill have less than 500g)
but ppl will end up with a lot of gold anyway because the flying mount gold sink is about 6k gold. so when, on average, everyone needs 6k gold, you automatically have an average amount of gold that ppl are trying to get to. its going to be higher by default because the gold sinks are larger by default. how much gold you personally bring with you is irrelevant when everyone needs upward of 6 k gold just to unlock flying. this is 6 times more gold than you needed for your epic mount in classic. the average amount of gold will be higher regardless. 6 times higher to be exact. based entirely around the gold sinks.
there will also be other ways of making gold, farming old mats to boost professions for example, there is always a market for items that are just used to level up professions. so you can sell a lot of ore to jewel crafters from classic, during tbc.. a lot of the gold you end up with only has 1 use, to be injected into your alts, when you have your epic flying skill, you're raiding weekly, you have your consumables, the only thing left is to spend gold on your alts and unlock flying on them. if you want to play multiple alts and get epic flying on all of them, then its going to cost a lot of gold. 5-6k per alt.
if you wanted 2 alts with your main, and get epic flying on all 3 characters you'd be looking at needing nearly 15k gold. and this just scales linearly with every alt you wish to play and unlock flying on. but at a certain point this is the only thing you can, put significant amounts of gold into. or you can just let it accumulate indefinitely and save it for wrath and the gold sinks there. there is a limit to how much gold you can inject directly into one character and have that equal some measurable progress or power gain. you cannot sink infinite amounts of gold into a single character, there isn't that much sink or power creep, the game doesn't have any creep, it has hard defined limits. it has a limit. in other words, there is a hard limit on how much gold you can use to increase your characters power in a permanent way at any particular moment in time. at some point you won't be able to inject any more gold into that character to further its progress in any meaningful way. at this point you either save it continually, or you throw it at your alts.
what is interesting though is that when you have your epic flying skill on your main, even if you don't play alts that much you will feel inclined to save your gold until you can afford another epic flying skill for an alt, so even when you've sunk 5k into flying, your only goal concerning gold then will be to grow your pile back to 5k again. so you can, if you wanted to, buy flying again for an alt. but also just so you have the gold back that you just threw into a void. with the lack of any significant gold sinks past that 5k skill, your gold will only accumulate, with you losing 100s maybe here and there for mats or enchants but nothing that is fundamental and costs more than the flying skill does. nothing that is required for progress, you don't even need flying to progress through raids because you can be summoned to the instance.
enchanting your gear never cost that much, i'm pretty sure in TBC, is where they added GREED FOR DE. so even if you can't disenchant it was the expansion where you could get enchanting mats just by having an enchanter in the group.
consumables don't cost that much, if you have a character with fishing and cooking then it takes minutes to farm a stack of food buffs. and costs nothing at all.