WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-Up: 8.2 Launched, Twink Nerf, Transmog + Giveaway!

Wowhead Geposted 29.06.2019 um 12:58 von Gumdrops

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It's possible to gear an alt in 385 benthic gear, send him to the island, do everything the island has to offer on day one, and gain enough pearls and tokens to get a complete set of benthic gear for another alt.

So people who have lots of alts that need to catch up - the main demographic that would buy the gear - do not need the crafted gear, because they can create a self-sustaining cycle extremely easily. And at little cost, too, because after you've equipped your first alt, all of the pearls spent on tokes for alts instead of upgrading their gear comes from other alts anyway. The main questline also specifically points you towards the token vendor, so you can't expect too many sales to people who just didn't know either. On top of that, each character that does the island, seems to get a benthic token from one of the world quests every day. And the people who don't have a character on a gear level to play in Nazjatar probably can't afford the gear either.

Overall, there's just no "need" for the armor slot items, and I'm pretty sure that there won't be any need when people start playing their alts as some people seem to think. Some people will still buy them, but most people won't.

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How is patch 8.2 treating you so far? What have you focused on first, playing the new content or making gold?Twink Nerfs

The buff affects all party members within 200 yards of you. There seem to be no notifications of who is providing the buff to the group, plus there are no warnings when players with XP on invite others with XP off.

This affects the very popular experience gain method of Freihafen boosting, where a level 110 Demon Hunter with the right gear and legendaries is able to boost someone from level 110 to 120 in just 2 hours.

Buuloki previously explained how leveling with level 110 twinks works in a comment:

The most common thing to do was have a 110 twink for island carries. You'd use legendaries, your artifact, gear it up as much as you can (mythic ABT carries usually) and gem with BFA gems (up until that was hotfixed).

Then, most classes could pretty much solo islands. Recently been running with a 110 twink Warlock, he just slows the entire island, casts dots and runs around himself. The mobs never reach him and just die off. A whole normal is done in maybe 5 minutes? Brewmaster is also really good too, triples my damage at 120.

This is very much a "fun detected" move imo, I really did enjoy running with twinks, islands were still interactive, i still helped out, and gearing a twink would of been fun if this was not implemented.

Perhaps a better fix would of been to readjust scaling at 110 for islands, rather than disable it entirely.

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This won’t happen.

The change only affects groups that manually invite player characters who have XP off. There is no impact on players who find themselves automatically grouped by the matchmaker while doing PvP or Group Finder dungeons.

This change also doesn’t affect anyone who has turned off XP for their own benefit, such as plundering old raids while keeping their level low enough to use their Aggramar’s Stride boots.

/u/abuelo_code agrees

For levelling purposes I'm sure blizzard take in account that your friend 120 can help a lot to his friend 111, but for business purposes is obviously a dead end, of course blizzard don't want a fast levelling method, because that hurt at least one month of subscription. Levelling in BFA for 111 to 120 is around 12 - 14 hours, thats a week or two for casual players ( of course for hardcore is less, like 8 hours ), that week is the half of the month but if you expend half month levelling, is more probably you spend in another month to geared / raid / endgame specially in ppl with limited time. If someone goes from 111 to 120 in two days of hardcore grinding or less, then they will have 3 weeks to gear, raid and endgame, so the casual people just say meh and leave the game because they "won"

Did you have a twink character to sell levelling services? How much were you able to make per run and overall while selling a service? Would you be interested in more opportunities to sell services to players?Transmog Markets/u/gttcwork had some issues with their transmog sales recently on reddit

I spent a day farming ZF and Uld like 3 months ago and I cannot give this stuff away for free lol. I’ve even got a few of the cool drops like the shoveler on there. It’s becoming to be a pain in the butt posting all this and running back and forth from the AH to the mailbox and running the post scan.

/u/Ryika breaks down the issues and outlines the steps to success with transmog in today's economy

Long post inc. I apologize in advance for that, but... I think the transmog market is widely misunderstood, and your post really shows a lot of the problems that many people seem to have.

For starters, just farming for a day, collecting everything that has some value assigned to it that you think is worth selling, isn't going to give you any good results. 98% of the stuff that you get when you try to build a collection of transmog, doesn't actually supply the "transmog market", it supplies the "collectors/completionist market", which is even slower than the actual transmog market. And it's slowing down quicker than the transmog market because the number of true collectionists™ is so low that the demand and supply drift apart quicker than for the actual transmog market.

So if that's most of your catalogue, then of course you're not going to sell anything - and it will become worse over time, because you may sell some of the good stuff every now and then, and as a result, the average "transmog quality" of your inventory goes down further.

So really, what you need to do is to 1.) build a proper stock of GOOD transmog items, and 2.) find a way to get rid of the trash that does not sell.

1.) is easy, but time-consuming. Just farm a lot. Farming for a single day, even if you spend every minute doing it, is NOTHING if your goal is to build a good library for transmog. Yes, this means that "gold per hour" for transmog farms is much lower than you've probably hoped for. The dirty little secret is that, if you compare total time spent during farming, posting, standing at the mailbox with a well-managed inventory, to simply farming herbs and ores and selling them at ~market price, then you're probably not going to arrive at that much extra profit. (The benefit of course is that a lot of the mailbox- and auction-stuff can be done semi-afk, so there's that.)

There's lots of money to be made with transmog, but that mostly comes from reselling while you're also focusing on mounts, pets, etc. FARMING transmog is something that you should only do if you enjoy the gameplay of running through old instances, and then you really need to commit to it, or else you're just going to be disappointed whenever you stand in front of the mailbox.

2.) is more interesting. And more controversial. There is this general rule to always undercut by exactly one copper to not needlessly crash the market, and it is true in most cases, but in my opinion, this really does not apply to the "collectors/completionist market". The simple reality is: If you're sitting on tons of trash, and nobody is buying it for months, then you're not putting your stuff onto "the market" in the first place, you're just paying the auction house to keep that stuff out of your inventory for a while. It's a glorified bank that costs tons of time and generates little money. If your catalogue is trash, then it might even lose you money.

So really, for the transmog that does not look like something that someone would actually wear, you should lower the prices to CREATE a market for all of the crap that you have. The cheaper things are, the more of the people who "sort of want to collect transmog but not really want to commit a ton of gold", will be willing to buy your stuff. So drop the prices, and drop them heavily over time if they continue to not sell. Create operations that take number of expired attempts into account to drop the price further, and set a maximum amount of expires and if still hasn't sold when that number is reached, vendor it without a second though. This increases sell rates on those items significantly, and the max attempts gives you a clear pointer to when to get rid of that crap.

And of course you should probably think hard about the threshold at which you're willing to put an item into the auction house. If the tooltip says 2000g, and the model looks like something you wouldn't give a homeless person to wear, and the sale rate is near 0, then it should probably never enter the auction house. The profit margin, if there even is one, is going to be slim, with deposit fees taken into account, and it's just going to bloat your mailbox.

This does of course require you to do proper warehousing, and to keep "trashmog" and "transmog" separated in your TSM groups. After all, you do not want to dump the good stuff, you want to dump all of the trash that you sort of have to sell with a good amount of profit to make any amount of reasonable gold per hour. It also keeps your sanity in check and the motivation high when the amount of stuff that you have to get out of your mailbox is much smaller compared to the amount of stuff that actually sells.

No TL:DR I'm afraid.

What's the most you've bought or sold transmog for? Do you farm for transmog, if so what's your favourite dungeon?GiveawayThe Sylverian Dreamer

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