AOE Loot collection seems light in old instancesFollow

I farm Kara weekly for the Fiery Warhorse and pull the entire set of Attumen trash at once (ret paladin). I don't remember the specifics, but I had so much loot drop yesterday that I had to loot twice. I know there were 3 or 4 greens there, a few greys, a bop epic, 16 useless Soul Essences and almost a full stack of Netherweave, but can't remember how much gold was dropped. They nerfed the gold dropped by bosses in old content, I wonder if that had an impact on trash too. I still manage to completely fill my bags doing a run of Molten Core too, so maybe you just hit some bad luck. Or there's something affecting 5mans - I don't run old 5man content, just raids, so maybe that's why there seems to be a difference.

They said they adjusted loot for all dungeons, including 5mans, because they thought people were making too much money from them. Now, granted, someone making 500g+ from a couple BC heroics is a bit over the top but hopefully they didn't nerf it TOO much...

I will agree we need more *viable* solo money making methods other than just questing.

Doing Max-level LFD dungeons is out, you barely make enough to cover repairs.

Farming Max-level stuff? You have LOTS of competition on the AH usually, and now with CRZ, you're gonna have more competition for the nodes too.

Crafting Max-level stuff? lol. Usually when I try that, it just won't sell, or whatever I could make that WOULD sell is too complicated to really mess around with (that Truegold mess, etc).

Crafting Less-than-max level stuff? hahaha yeah right, sure.

So it used to be that soloing instances and daily questing were the only two things that made you any decent money... daily questing gets old after awhile. One can only run Molten Front so many times before they get downright tired of the place. It was nice being able to do 3-4 BC/Wrath heroics and get 500-600 gold. But of course, some players had to abuse it and do nothing but that day in and day out and make Thousands of gold so they nerf it down to where it isn't worth it anymore unless you want a piece of transmog armor (and even then you have to do it 50+ times before the damn thing will drop).

So we're down to what.... dailies as our only source of solo income?

Well, there's still transmog armor and achievements.

Apparently, Blizz thinks that those are the only reasons you should be running Wrath/BC content once MoP goes live. That and to run lowbies through dungeons.

They don't want you making decent money off of it, yet they don't mind that you spam easy-as-pie dailies over and over again.

I don't know about you, but I am absolutely sick and tired of my activities being nerfed/changed/etc because of stupid botters exploiting the system.

Why not get rid of the damn botters sooner, those people that do the same activity 24/7? There can't be much of any reasonable explanation why someone does the same thing over and over again for 12-16 hours a day, 6+ days a week.

And this whole CRZ bullsh*t is not something I'm happy with either. "Ooo, we get to see PEOPLE in the world now!" ... people that...

1). Are mining OUR ore and OUR herbs and selling the mats or the finished products on THEIR servers that WE can't touch,
2). Are killing OUR quest mobs,
3). Are killing OUR quest NPCs,
4). Cannot be invited to our guilds or PUGs without RealID/Battletag on friendlist.

So... what good is seeing them in the game world when they bring all of the negatives of a high population realm and none of the positives?

Netting 3g and change for killing Ragnaros in MC is a good example of overdoing it.

I am not impressed with where Blizz is taking us.

5-8 hours a day is a little different than 12-16+.

And she did it 3-4 times a week, not 6+.

But I suppose there's a *small* chance that Mr. 16-hour a day, 6 days a week miner/herbalist/dungeon runner/whatever could be an actual human being, I suppose.

Edit: I even said "I know it looks funny..." meaning that 5-8 hours 3-4 times a week is stretching the limits of what a normal person could do when it comes to some insanely boring/repetitive bot-like activity.

Edited, Sep 14th 2012 11:56pm by Lyrailis

It's a silly change. It only dissuades people from playing the old content except for "the experience" which, admittedly, is largely why I do it (the other reason being transmogrification). Unfortunately, 4g from a boss doesn't even cover the repair bill.

And I don't suppose they'll finally let us enter raids without first creating a raid group either? Which means I have to beg random strangers (all two of them) in Zangarmarsh and Tanaris to join my group for a moment while I enter the dungeon. Every. Single. Time. Massive pain in the ***.

Hopefully they'll realize that they overdid it and change it back to something more sensible.

When adjusting dungeon/raid drops, only the actual worth of the drops should be taken into consideration. Everything that is generated via the AH is highly dependable on server economy plus it has nothing to do with generating new gold (and hence gold inflation).

In my opinion this change is total BS. While a certain adjustment was absolutely necessary, especially for bosses like Malygos, Onyxia and such, this is just way too much.

First they say they want us to revisit old content, then they nerf the gold value of said old content through the ground.
They say options are good and then, instead of adjusting one option of making gold, they remove it.

Stupid.

Edited, Sep 16th 2012 4:10pm by TherealLogros