Originally Posted by
Celestraza
You clearly don't play Classic then nor have a clue how they handle raids.
Even top 1000 guilds on Classic have prerty hard requirements regarding consumables. Each raider is required to spend like 300-1000g per AQ40 raid. This is not just a flask (250g on my realm) but also regular consumables are super expensive but required like mana pots, resist pots, elixirs, sappers etc...
Just check some Viscidus kills. People bring like 20+ engineers with sappers (sapper is 15g each) and nature resist pots (also 15g) to that one besides regular consumables like flask, elixirs, juju's and food. Each Viscidus wipe costs a raider like 50g+ on consumables not counting flask. Viscidus is a huge money drain.
Same goes for Twins (consumes for warlock tanks and healers mainly) and C'thun (lot's of resist pots and flask for melee).
My guild unfortunately does not have 20+ engineers like most hardcore guilds so we still have to figure out how to handle Visc since we can't cheese the blobs.