Gold Sinks in Wrath of the Lich King
Oct 12, 2008 Patches, Vendors, Videos, Wrath of the Lich King
To keep inflation down, gold sinks in the WoW economy are a must. Usually, these are just vanity items that suck some of the pure gold out of the market. Thanks to Warcraft Econ, we now know of quite a few from the current build of Wrath’s beta server. Below is a video highlighting some of them. I’m really looking forward to having my own vendors attached to my mammoth!
October 13th, 2008 at 5:51 am
i wonder if the mammoth is going to get to be standard fare, sort of like the flying mount in BC.
20,000 seems like a lot now, i wonder if their intent is for most people to get one. if so, where are they going with gold? i understand how the lessening value of 1 gold is not a problem in and of itself, but personally i like dealing with numbers not in the tens of thousands.
perhaps they have plans to institute a currency past gold? copper… silver… gold… something new. or maybe blizzard doesn’t have a problem with rising numbers like that.
October 13th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Donny,
It’ll be a similar situation when the Burning Crusade was released. When we discovered that the basic flying mount was going to cost 1,000g and the epic flying mount 5,000g, our jaws dropped. No one could fathom that much gold at the time. But, it turned out gold was much easier to earn in TBC, so it wasn’t as expensive as we originally assumed. I’m guessing the value of one gold will drop 5-10x with the release of Wrath. Meaning 100g right now might be the equivalent of 500-1,000g in Wrath.
October 13th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I don’t know if the 20k mammoth will be a standard thing like regular flying mount training, but more of the 5k epic mount training. It does seem like a lot of gold right now, but I believe Blizzard has said there will be more dailys added as well. Along with profession buffs and the estimated 5k you will be making while leveling, breaking 5 digit gold figures won’t be too hard. They have also stated they are staying with the gold currency, at least for now.
October 24th, 2008 at 3:32 am
I wonder what this mammoth does to deserve that price tag? I stopped playing in July but will be back once wotlk comes out. I will buy one of those mammoths if it makes travel alot faster!
November 10th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Taco,
The best thing it does is you can repair and buy reagents which is good enough.