Im not a gold maker, and I guess will never be, but I still like to read the weekly articles here, to optimize the little i do.
So I finally got around to setting up that spreadsheet. Turns out that basically everything on Mal'ganis(US) is unprofitable to make. Yawn.
I would like to know when bugs in TSM4 will be addressed? Namely the sending items to alts. Everyday I go to send mats to certain alts with profs and TSM won't send, I have to manually send items. Also the MASSIVE FPS drop when taking things out of GV or breaking items up.
Have found it truly difficult to make any serious gold from the old fashioned methods. Meanwhile the cost of doing basically any sort of carry is significantly more expensive than they were in Legion so my Alts now just languish. Fortunately (and sadly) there are no legendary quests for super sweet xmogs requiring excellent gear and skill for me to feel the need to gear up alts. Still it is a wonder that with so many people mentioning how hard it is to turn any real profit crafting or farming, how can the cost of carry groups continue to go up. I always figured the majority of people buying carries where people gearing farm alts like myself. Guess there are a lot of people still buying tokens.
Yep, most boost buyers are token buyers.
However much less than in Legion, due to token only giving half the gold it used to.
I can tell you my guild was easily raking 200-400k per boost night in Legion per boosting member, sometimes running double hc raid clear, but in BFA it dropped to sub 100k per evening, sometimes as low as 15k per booster for hc clear.
Boosting m+ is also not so hot, the competition among sellers is fierce, on top of it buyers try to constantly lowball you ("I only have x gold can I pay less? Can I give you a pet instead of gold?"), make annoying demands (have fun boosting Tol Dagor on Sanguine week because buyer has a trinket from there, or making group with 3 cloths + buyer + tank for interrupt heavy dungeon like Motherlode \/ Shrine because armor sharing) or threaten to report you (even though boosting for gold is 100% legal).
Now that next reset dungeons get upscaled 30% I sincerely won't be bothered boosting harder dungeons for the same price. The only reason I've done it now was nothing better to do waiting for the new raid to open, and there was no other way to earn gold. Even sky golems sell for sub 50k, BS crafted weapons dropped below 2k and agi \/ spell daggers are closing to 1k each, etc. Now new raid is coming and pots, augment runes and all the other consumables are going up in price, it's seriously worse than legion because in legion at least we had table missions to pay for all the obnoxious consumable expenses.
WTB prolonged power pot with sanguicell or something, atm potting on progress feels like flushing gold down the toilet, but there's no other way around it.
Turns out that basically everything on Mal'ganis(US) is unprofitable to make. Welcome to BFA. This aspect frustrates me to no end. Every "easy method" to make gold I knew from the past is dead while expenses as as high as in legion when gold rained from the sky. I miss the times when having a profession like jewelcrafting, alchemy or enchanting and regularly posting crafts on reset day was enough to stay afloat. Sadly these days are over.
The core sets of 6-7 toons at cap were all used as "alt armies" at one point - be it WoD Garrison, be it Legion OH. On my core mid-pop realm, I am already building up the BfA followers, funneling quite a bit of expulsoms into +10% mission chance from BS, +10% per troop from LW equipment pieces. These get sent for rep missions for now, but I expect more to come - I don't think people really took in the renewed leveling range and extra unlockable slot\/trait on them that recently landed. Expulsom raid gear is completely ridiculous, not worth the effort, so this future goldmaking potential, while a gamble, may pay off.
I made a decision, still have like 2 months on my acc, will check on new raid, than unsub. Will return when new raid or interesting thing comes up, so this is not perma, but I see no reason to waste money or gold on a mostly boring grindfest with no gold income. I love wow and I want to see it shining but Activi$ion wants only $$ not happy gamers. They have super bad influence on Blizzard, draggin it down to the most hated club (EA\/Activison) level. Sad thing.
My alts are still doing mission table for gold and battle-scarred runes.
It is pretty clear actvision want's to dry up all golds from players, and direct them to buy wow token for real $$.
The only thing they have forget: dead economy = dead game.
When players don't have easy \/ moderate easy way to earn lots of gold they will not spend any. The reason for that is simple: they have no gold.
- always having the best flask \/ food so they can be "top dog"
"I'm unsubing" rants leaking to economy discussions.
Buying flasks\/food\/any other utility is easily achievable with next to no effort (just DE\/scrap things you get and sell it - should be enough). Buying carries isn't considered a part of standard package - you're sorta supposed to do that yourself. Neither is ultra rare stuff. You either farm it or you pay a pretty pile.
And lack of meaningful content would kill game way faster than "dead" economy (they only way it'd become dead is if they'd close any form of player trade). It's bad, but it's not dead.