WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-Up: Hotfixes, Multiboxing, Market Analysis & Community Updates

posted 2017/10/07 at 10:15 AM by Gumdrops

check out the previous articles right here on wowhead.comGumdrops/r/woweconomy subredditDiscord serverTradeSkillMasterdiscussed by Order Hall maintainer /u/JumilithWell that's terribly disappointing so far. I'm still one armor piece off from my main's 950 set and it sounds like I won't be moving my team past the Krokuul level halls.

On the subject of Krokuul Halls, here's my day 23 gold sheet, last posted to Reddit at day 8.

Krokuul Gold Sheet

Noteable is the day 21 anomaly in which four characters posted all four Krokuul gold missions in a single 24 hour period. Mixed with other halls, the nine Hall team generated 62,028g that day.

Current total gold earned: 714,418.
Projected gold for the 7.3 60 day record: ~1,800,000.
Total gold for the 7.2 60 day record: ~690,000

The gold range for a Krokuul mission: 2097g to 2575g, with an average of ~2300. (This assumes 200%)

The Order Resources costs for Krokuul are:
Step into the Abyss (100)(24hrs)
Scaling the Crags (200)(12hrs)
Justice Has Come (400)(6hrs)
Foul Machinations (500)(8hrs)

Blizzard

Class Halls

Players no longer need to complete “The Seat of the Triumvirate” in the Argus storyline to unlock “The Ruins of Oronaar”, which allows further follower and mission progression.
Follower equipment that improves item level is more likely to appear from Argus missions, once “The Ruins of Oronaar” has been completed.
The final tier of Argus missions are now less difficult, reward more Veiled Argunite, and reward more bonus Gold.

Game Director Ion Hazzikostas speaks in more detail on the change in the recent Developer Q&A tooCarefully Hidden MuffinFeasel the Muffin Thief

Blizzard

Items

Carefully Hidden Muffins are now Bind-on-Acquire.

class trialsaccess to a weekly quest that they can complete for a raw gold rewardEvidently the developers agree and have made the quest inaccessible to Class Trial characters./u/Konsticorp poses some questionsFirst, I want to state that, from my experience, multiboxing clearly provides an advantage. This is most evident with gathering (nodes since Legion allow ten hits per), but also presents itself with world quests and, for some, trash farming. However, is this advantage truly unfair? The practice is permitted by Blizzard (multiboxing, not botting, please note the distinction) and can be performed by anyone with a fast enough computer and desire/ability to initially finance it (copies of Legion and monthly subs).

Second, do multiboxers truly ruin the economy? For myself, I don't farm materials (herbs/ores) and simply dump them on the AH. When I am not lazy I farm raw mats to feed the professions I have, such as inscription or jewelcrafting. However, even if I am dumping the materials on the AH, how would that be ruining the economy? Most goblins, I believe, will tell you that profit is not made (in most markets) because their products are rare or unique, profit is made because they are able to undercut their competitors at the right time and at a right frequency. Just because I am able to undercut someone's listing with 200 stacks of starlight rose doesn't mean those stacks will sell if someone undercuts me by a copper.

Finally, can multiboxers be considered goblins? This relates back to the first question and whether you believe there is an advantage to multiboxing and, significantly, if it provides an unfair advantage. I think my practice of multibox farming contributed, roughly, ten percent of my overall wealth. The rest has been buying low and selling high, and undercutting. Does that ten percent from the multiboxing advantage eliminate me from being considered a goblin?/u/monkeyman51 explainsI think it would be fair to claim that it's an unfair advantage if not everyone has the ability to 'exploit' it without breaking the rules. Really the only reasonable counter I can think of is, "But my computer can barely play as it is, I can't run the game twice." But that is an argument off 'fairness' beyond the scope of a video game and it's fake money./u/livingroomnerd countersMultiboxers also spend 5 times as much as a regular player, in perspective the input-output ratio is really similar. The advantages I have as multiboxer is BOE RNG, (unless I don't understand probabilities correctly) I as a player have more chance to get a BOE than a single player.
If I was to funnel all that gold to 1 account, that would be unfair. But since it is spent to play all 5 accounts (enchants, flasks, tokens) basically every toon is paying for his own stuff, just like a normal player would.
Also another advantage is being able to wipe WQ's and rares faster than anyone alone. Which in matter of gold per hour could show up for general drops. (i love farming cloth in Suramar)/u/Hellortha argues that the developers have been quite accommodating with features that help multiboxers tooThey've implemented many things for Multiboxers, such as the interact Keybind, assist macros, click to move.
(Also sharing Hierloom/Mounts/Transmogs/Quests)
Sure normal people can use them, but how many people actually use these aside from Multiboxers? I didn't even know 2/3 of them existed until I started.
If Blizz deems something unacceptable they will deal with it... that's why they removed /Follow from BG's because they understood Multiboxers could be a pain for other players there./u/dragonmase considers other advantages available and concludes "if you can't beat them, join them"As a player who multiboxes, I myself do think multiboxing is inherently unfair. However, it has been confirmed time and again to be allowed by blizz, and one has to make a substantial investment before it pays itself off. Which is why I made the step into multiboxing. You basically x5 your income if you multibox farm, so obviously it is unfair if you compare it to a single farmer.

However, I would draw an analogy to goblins starting another licence for an AH alt. Now this activity is widely accepted by the goblin community. It also gives unfair advantage for non-licence users, who can't park a character at AH 24/7 and play at thee same time. But most people accept it as well, because it requires effort, investment, and also not many people actually do it.

TSM users is another example - TSM is like air to goblins, and no serious goblin can do without one. Learning it and using it gives one a great unfair advantage to normal players using the default auction house, and things like sniping would be impossible.

Where does this get us? The world is never fair, and effort will be rewarded, whether in the real world, or the virtual world. There no point in arguing about unfairness in economics, where as long as it is legal, businesses and individuals who find the most efficient way to conduct their business will always come out ahead out of the other 1000s in the marketplace. After all, the fundamental concept of economics lie in the term "Comparative Advantage", and anyone who does not have the relevant 'advantage' will cry foul and call it being unfair.

My conclusion? I think multiboxing is unfair. But it is also legal. And when you can't beat them, join them, to be efficient with your time/farm ratio.@GumdropsEUTR4XGaming

Contextualize activities in-game, are we at the start of an expansion or is it drawing to a close?
What are players most likely going to be doing in the coming days, weeks?
What should I be preparing for based on the answers to the previous questions?
What can I do myself to profit from these opportunities?
Keep up to date with patch notes. Follow @WarcraftDevs on Twitter for the latest news.

SamadanPlaysWoWspotlight from last weekTradeSkillMaster API Documentation#tradeskillmaster channel on the /r/woweconomy & TSM Discord serverIf you're curious to know more, you can register your interest and sign up to be notified.The Undermine JournalEnigmaticClarity explains why it's not importantAll I sell is pets and mounts on five realms, and in my experience 95% of people who buy pets could care less about breed or level. The vast majority of the market is "gotta catch 'em all!", not pet battle min/maxers. Pet battling is too mundane for most people to care about it in much depth. I used to try to price different breeds and levels differently, but it didn't take long to realize it wasn't worth the time and storage. The number of people who really, really want that rare S/S Darkmoon Rabbit is so small that it isn't worth it to wait for those buyers. I firmly believe that almost everyone ignores breed, and they only look at level as a slight bonus.

The TSM guys decided to ignore the whole breed/level thing in their handling of pets, and that was the right call. Warcraftpets.com is a great pet-centric site, and they, too, mostly ignore breed/spec. They show it in the detailed info on a pet, but it doesn't factor into their comparative pet collecting registry at all.Erorus expanded upon the Top Sellers feature on the site to show rankings based on various stats and values
Here's what the fields mean. All numbers include both item and pet auctions. When I say "this auction house", I mean all the auctions posted on this realm (and connected realms).

This seller has 353 auctions posted right now. When ranked with other sellers in this auction house, they are 18th in highest number of auctions currently posted.
The sum of all the buyouts (plus bids on auctions with no buyout set) for this seller's current auctions is 8,322,667g. When ranked with other sellers in this auction house, they are 4th in highest total asking price.
The sum total of this auction house's market price for all the items & pets (multiplied by auction quantity) currently posted by this seller is 8,259,552g. When ranked with other sellers in this auction house, they are 4th in highest total market price.
The sum total of this region's median market price for all the items & pets (multiplied by auction quantity) currently posted by this seller is 3,672,293g. When ranked with other sellers in this auction house, they are 4th in highest total region price.

Category pagesClick the star next to your favorite realms. Up to 20 will appear in a dropdown when you mouse over realm selection.stop by the official forums on Stormspire and leave a comment/r/woweconomy subredditDiscord serverstreaming live on Twitch@GumdropsEUNote: this giveaway has ended. The winner is Varinn!To enter: leave a comment below (minimum 1-2 sentences) with your most expensive AH purchase.

Prize: 90 days of gametime

Entry period: Now until Friday, October 13th at 11:59 PM Pacific.here

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Comment by LitvanHalf of the shaman t3 set (original naxx set) from the bmah... let's just say I've spent more on that that I'm willing to admit ^^Comment by SoclalolI do not usually buy any expensive from ah, only (cheap)mats, but i sell a lot. I really like to farm or craft things, but i was unlucky with the Minion of Grumpus so this was my most expensive purchase since I had to buy it. (if I remember correctly :D )Comment by NathurielIf i remember correctly my most expensive purchase was jeweled onyx panther for 180k or soComment by gamer74123Vial of the SandsComment by VedneyMost expensive for me was a Glyph of Dark Absolution for about 9k.Comment by AlphageekMost expensive was probably a Darkmoon Rabbit for about 100k gold during Draenor. All of that sweet, sweet garrison income opened up my wallet finally.Comment by SyonikThe most costly things I have bought off the AH would probably be leveling kits to level professions. A while ago I had a lot of gold, and then I leveled all my toons to max level, and decided that the quickest way to get their proffs up would be to buy things off the AH to follow the zygor guides I had for leveling proffs. Now I am down to around 650k. I had 1 of every toon at max level on alliance, then I had 2 max level toons on horde. I tried to find someone to trade me the money on alliance that I would need on horde, but they wouldn't do that, so I didn't get the horde proffs maxed.Comment by Curli187only things i usually buy are enchants and gems. the most expensive day i think was when i decided to get the riddler's mmind worm nad had to buy all these potions at exorbitant prices.Comment by alphaprotocol2The most expensive i bought from the AH is and was WoW token for sure :)Comment by MaldivhI never use AH to sell things even though I have three alts that farm ore and herbs, nothing else lol! But after a long life as a farmed I wanted to have Engineering and Jewelcrafting at top so, I bought a WoW token (at that time the token was 25k, LMAO) and bought all the required mats to boost both professions to max xD

Then again, I never use AH to sell things so I wasted all my mats and IRL money to make myself a couple of gems, LOL. I know it's not supposed to be a funny story but, in context, I bought 25k of mats~ Have a great day!Comment by KurosakiThe most expensive I can think of, since I don't buy much these days, it would be spending 4-5k on a belt pattern back in TBC. Apparently, it belonged to a guildie who was an a bit of an a**hat, since he'd whine if I got loot and he didn't on runs for alts and socials (I'd stopped raiding actively by then).Comment by ThmarBack in MoP, I managed to kill any Horde player around the black market and asked some Horde friends to kill Alliance ones for me, in order to buy the Reins of the Vitreous Stone Drake. I got it for something like 58k. It was a long but pleasant day for an outdoor pvp lover like me. I feel it was the most expansive purchase I ever made because of the time and efforts (and gold), but in fact, I also bought the Tabard of the Lightbringer in WoD for 100k. I just had enough gold to afford this kind of stuff without thinking twice and it was fitting pretty well with my transmog at that time. Well, in the end it wasn't worth it, 'cause I don't use that transmog anymore, but you know, it's still in the collection tab !Comment by aegnorwynnIt was probably some potions I bought :D I was getting ready for the guild raid and just realized how much I spent. Aaaand unfortunately I don't have much money. :/Comment by MerkynKananI bought the Vial of the Sands for 115k as my most expensive AH purchase.Comment by DarkAviatorMost expensive, hmm ... mount from legendary axe quest, soultrader pet and spectral tiger cub pet.
Sure, nowadays you pay more for a stack of flasks or pots, but when I bought these, 50k were not that fast to come by.Comment by arnulfoasmwowtoken 150kk :DComment by feryadiJust before my subsciption ends, i bought like 40k worth of chaos crystal and 18k for the dust and made enchants with all of them. Then put it to the bank so my mate could sell them and buy himself a token.Comment by Jaylow7Most expensive single item I've ever bought was WoW tokens for about 50k each during Draenor when I couldn't afford the RL money price to stay subbed.
Outside of tokens, probably the 40k I spent on a crafted belt for my paladin tank during Mists

Most expensive AH visit was probably when I recently dropped close to 175k total to powerlevel the professions on a toon I hadn't played since BC that is now my main on that server.Comment by AlarastarThe most I ever spent one one item was 19k. You know what it was? Some stupid AH part for the WoD garrison. Though since I still regularly use it when I want the AH, I suppose it was probably worth it. Second highest wasn't AH, but it was 15k for an Alani kill. Also worth it.

Oh. if you count tokens, the most I spent on one was 165k. Didn't think of that.Comment by CysgodiOutside of tokens, the most expensive thing I've bought in recent memory was a crafted legendary for 50k (which I flipped for double that).

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