Wowhead Economy Weekly Wrap-Up 320
24.03.2024 - 18:23
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Hello! Welcome to the 320th edition of the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up!
This week we discuss whether gold making is dead (of course it's not) and the ethics of «baiting». We also have some great tips for Alchemy recipes and various other shuffles in Season of Discovery.
My name is Samadan and I'll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!
Is Gold Making Dead?
A rather despairing title I know, but with all the recent changes to professions and the Auction House many have felt lost and unsure what the ways of gold making are anymore..
Auction is dead. I have almost negative income since that garbage happened, i had 100k per day from flipping old mats and crafted old profession items such as bolts from engi or all kind of transmutes from alche. Guess what now? Everything costs 1g or even negative for crafted items...
Sniping is dead too.
What the point to be a goblin in 2023/2024? Better do some boosting if u need gold, because u cannot sit on ur bruto and farm auction anymore.
Contrary to this belief, the Auction House is very much alive! It's just changed. The region wide commodities market is certainly active with sales happening almost immediately with high demand items. Just look at what happens with Dracothyst transmutes and you can see it in action.
Sniping is a feature that came about in Classic due to the way the auction house works and TSM reading the first and last «pages» of the auction house thereby being able to see items either about to expire or recently put on. It's very much alive still in Classic. In Retail, there are still lucky opportunities to be had, you need to filter to a few items and look for cross realm opportunities.
What you mean to say is «it's too hard to be a goblin nowadays»
The point is the same as it always was: To make gold, build wealth hoards, etc.
There's more stuff than ever to spend gold on. A lot of the techniques for making it are just diminished or eliminated, especially at this point in an expansion (like always) and especially since the regionwide AH only exacerbated that mat price deflation that always occurs around this time anyways.
There's still plenty of ways to be a goblin though, they're just less effortless than they have been in past expansions or even the earlier parts of DF.
I'm +120 million in Dragonflight from AH activities. Being a goblin has always been about keeping up with the times and always finding the gold to be made.
The key here is that there is still gold to be had, especially if you embrace the new changes to professions and how they are intended to work as a customer facing role marketing your wares.
I left in BfA and came back in S2 DF. The biggest and best (imo) difference I’ve seen is that you can actually make a killing