I see a few forum posts with people thinking its just a "placeholder" price. Will legion mobs really drop enough for the average person to farm 2 mil gold? The mounts are something like 100k in WoD.Originally Posted by Lyonheart
I see a few forum posts with people thinking its just a "placeholder" price. Will legion mobs really drop enough for the average person to farm 2 mil gold? The mounts are something like 100k in WoD.
I see a few forum posts with people thinking its just a "placeholder" price. Will legion mobs really drop enough for the average person to farm 2 mil gold? The mounts are something like 100k in WoD.
It's crazy. We'll see. I hope it's placeholder ... but I kinda don't. It would be rad to run around on a mount no one has.
Just to be clear, I agree that the Mad Merchant isn't going to serve as a very effective gold sink. But that's because he isn't intended to be one in any meaningful sense. Gold sinks, in an MMO economic sense, are primarily things like repair costs, the Auction House tariff, and a range of useful expensive items that still fall within the price range of many guild banks and gold-rich players. In this case, a handful of very wealthy players may dump a large portion of their gold reserves into this one vendor, but that's ultimately a blip in the grand scheme of the WoW economy.
If we wanted to drain as much gold as possible out of the economy using these items, we'd be pricing them differently. If the Blackfang Widow cost 200k, I'd wager that far more than 10x as many would be sold. Inflation is a concern, but that's a battle that will be waged on many other fronts. This is just a crazy merchant. The point of the items is to be ludicrously expensive, just as the point of something like the Time-Lost Proto Drake is to be ludicrously rare (if you think about it, a multi-day respawn that shares a spawn point with a more common variant and has a zone-wide patrol is pretty insane...). Some of the vendor's details may be tweaked, and there's been very good feedback in the thread on the relative attractiveness of the different items, but the 2mil price tag for the mount is not likely to change.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...5664?page=3#54
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