Wowhead Economy Weekly Wrap-Up 136 | Shadowlands Vendor Flips & The Real Price of the Longboi

Live Geposted 02.08.2020 um 13:11 von perculia

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Retail Price

Shadowlands Price

Tidespray Linen Pants

Silkweave Pantaloons

Shimmerscale Striker

Coarse Leather Cestus

Crafted Dreadful Gladiator's Felweave Trousers

Battlebound Hauberk

Warhide Jerkin

Warhide Bindings

Draenic Philosophers Stone

Megawatt Filament

Relics of the PastCrafted Malevolent Gladiator's Felweave TrousersBolt of Wind Wool ClothOptional ReagentsCraftman's PouchAlchemst's PouchThe Real Price of the Longboiu/Whiskers the effects of burnout

When I started my journey, as I'm sure not so few people did, it was out of a sense of panicked desperation. I play the game I would say somewhat casually. I enjoy most things in the game, among them collecting mounts (289 and climbing!) When I first heard the mount was being taken away I was filled with anxiety at it's quick to come exclusivity. I had always imagined I would buy it in shadowlands. At first I ignored it, convinced I wouldn't make that much gold. But I was inspired by my peers to make an attempt and so I did.

...

I poured all my time into it for close to a month before burnout started to set in.

In retrospect, I could have been more efficient but I try not to beat myself up since I was, and am new to this. I put in as much research as I could. My sources like many others consisted of WTBgold, KrakenLatte, and Studen on the YouTube side, and then anywhere from wowhead to wowproffessions to figure out farming routes. And of course, this subreddit.

It felt like every time I started to give up, a video would come out or I would read a post saying 'You can do it! It's not too late!' and they were right, I could. It wasn't too late. But the Longboi was taking its toll on me and that brings me to the realization I had.

5,000,000 gold is an enormous amount of gold. Don't ever let anyone say it isn't. And to your average player, or even somewhat adept gold farmer the cost of the Longboi isn't just 5 million gold.

The cost is hours, days, months of stress. Messed up sleep schedules and not sleeping well when you do. Days upon days of hard work, research, real genuine effort. We see people who make 5 million in a month, a week, and we think 'how is that anywhere near achievable?' But it is, you can get there. We can all get there.

To anyone who has earned their Longboi, whether through months of grinding raw gold, or a month on the AH, Congratulations! You earned it, and I and many others know you worked for where you are now.

My only hope is that even if one person out there is struggling with similar or even worse feelings they can read this and maybe it will help them. Either way I just needed to clear the air for myself. Thanks for reading if you did, and remember:

Time is money, friends.

I just started playing again this month after taking a year off, and I originally wanted to try and grind my way to the Longboi. This week I decided it just wasn't worth it. The amount of time I'd have to spend doing stuff I don't find super fun just wasn't worth it in order to hit the 5 mill in time.

I realized I'm fine with just waiting til Shadowlands to try and really get into the swing of making gold and saving up for one from the black market.

I switched my goals from the daunting <snip> 5 mill to just making enough for WoW tokens every month, and I've gotta say it felt like a giant burden was lifted off my shoulders. This is a game, and it's supposed to be fun.

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If you are on a very low population realm you should probably try to limit your purchases as these connections keep going up. Prices are likely to fall on most items when it stabilizes after the fact. https://t.co/UtFbjiKbRQ

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For those of you that have surpassed gold cap, at what point did you notice that your gold really started to boom and how did you adjust to keep that momentum?

u/Vahdis

For me it was probably when I finally went and learned TSM and made myself some groups for my pets. The amount of time saved really motivated me to put more effort into it and be more efficient.

From there I realized it was mostly about using your time wisely and focusing on what works and looking at what doesn't work. And more importantly it helped me stay interested and added an extra layer of being able to customize and make my own groups and operations.

The biggest thing to goldmaking is staying interested, it's easy to make gold but it's hard to not get burnt out and make it feel like a grind.

u/MrTyki

The more gold you get, the more time you realize you are wasting time doing certain things; you really start to refine the strategy that fits your time and best bang for your buck so-to speak. This experience also goes a long way in learning your markets for servers that you wish to make gold on.

You also start investing more gold at once which makes your gold grow faster obv, rich get richer so to speak.

At 55m Gold I can invest 5-6m gold at once and turn it into 10m+ with arbitrage. It's like with anything when you only have 100k to invest you turn into 300k thats GREAT! but obviously slower as far as total gold is concerned.

The Key points that I want to make:

No-one gets rich over night, if you talk to a goblin with a lot of gold then that means they have put in their time and effort into perfecting whatever strategy's they choose.
Invest your gold into the market, not your own pockets; AKA Buying mounts and pets for your collection. This is hard at first considering this is a game and people obviously play to have fun and collect.. etc; but over time once you build your "Empire" up you can start to be more frivolous.

I don't want to get into writing a book; TL;DR: As you get more gold and refine your strats you have more gold to invest which = Faster growth

u/acathode

Around the time I hit the first goldcap - back in late WOTLK it was around 215k, it was a lot of money and a real milestone, and made you feel filthy rich since goblins and AH-playing wasn't as common as it is these days (there were a few blogs and some podcasts about it)

Then again in Cata when I hit the new 1 million goldcap, that was when I really realized the goal of buying a spectral tiger was actually within reach (which was why I learnt to play the AH in the first place). It didn't really make me adjust, rather the opposite - I was clearly doing something that was working, and more money just meant you had more money to invest - which in turn made bigger profits, keeping the "momentum" that way.

If you know you can buy raw mats, craft them, and resell them with a 10% profit, that mean if you invest 100k, that's a 10k profit, but if you got enough to do a 500k investment, that's a 50k profit... Obviously this doesn't scale completely linearly, depending on how quickly your AH moves and also on competition and things like you need to post 5x as much product - but it certainly still scales, the more money you have, the more money you can make. Thus you "keep" the momentum simply by scaling your operations, when your bank account get bigger.

Obviously, you also learn the ins and outs of the AH, TSM, and how your market works as you go along, and by the time you've earned your first million you should realize that what you're doing in one market can be done in a lot of other markets - thus most start diversifying. With more gold in the bank, you can afford having your fingers in more pies...

Another pretty important thing you pick up along the way is the importance of reading patchnotes, and realizing how changes and additions to the game will affect prices.

A BFA example would be when they added the daily warfront quests, that made it possible to turn in crafted stuff for Azerite - meaning the whole server suddenly wanted for example 15 of some crappy crafted uncommon gem of a certain color. If you kept on top of changes like that, you could've earned a ton of gold at the time. Another legendary event was Glyphmas, when blizzard made some major changes to how glyphs worked, meaning every character on the server suddenly wanted 1 of each glyph for their class...

I made 1 million gold during in 2-3 days just on glyphs - just because I knew the patch was coming and had stocked up... and this was the very patch that raised the cap to 1 million.