Plebs outraged at 50% tax. Take this as a preparation for real life, real life lesson, you will get taxed monthly guys. I prepared and am well, bought all the mats from the AH in advance to preserve value, will sell later after AH people bump up prices.
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The removed character cannot be deleted from the guild list. When can this issue be resolved
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While I understand the reason behind the gold squish, in the future could you please leave exempt accounts with under 5K total gold across each faction's toons? I was halfway to fast flying and now I just don't feel like playing...
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yes bro you're right i'm new in the server like 3 months now i finaly got my 50k gold and i got robbed for half :/
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The Gold Squish is "healthy" only for those who have the time to pile up gigantic amounts of gold and can rule the economy by hoarding items in the AH and monopolyzing prices.
In real economies, this kind of artificial interventions do work because prices adjust themselves by demand. Sadly, stuff like Cold Weather Flying have fixed prices (and extremely high ones). This means that your way to "fix" inflation just hits those who, like me, struggle with gold
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yeah. That's the reason why in real life we have tax brackets. You can't halve the money of some broken *** player like me that barely had 1,000 gold just like you do to someone with over 100k gold that already has everything gold can buy in the game
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50K after 3 months? god damn mate, that's pretty impressive.
Few years ago i experienced my first gold squish...i learned my lesson.. dont stack gold, stack mats.
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I think this is reasonable request. I think that people with 5K shouldnt get gold squished. Whales dont complain about gold squish (coz we know how to protect ourselfs), only new players complain about it... which is completely understandable. You (admins) would avoid this every year complains... just saying :)
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I take the 100k as an insult. Look the reason for high AH prices is cuz I wanted to have 1000 imbued netherweave and for that i need 3000 regular ones and thats 15000 cloth. So I bought all cloth under 20 a stack for two weeks.
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Hm, "new people will be able to buy items, which is higly cost now" but why? If pair of boots ICC level cost 10k gold, means saronite ore, titanium ore, eternal cost on AH a lot right? So it means new player can farm saronite ore and sell for 10g each and buy pair of boots for 10k gold? if saronite ore price will be 4g, they will just craft them self, since mark up for crafted item +10% - 15%, which is not a lot, but people who are lazy and wants RIGHT now willing to spend extra not to craft them selfs. So, everything will be pricly, which is not a problem and even will help more to new players, because they need to farm 500 saronites ore to afford fast flying for example, since prices for mats are high. Or I am missing something? Why would it help new commers?
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Of course you are missing something. The drop rate is x3 on Icecrown so you get x3 gold if u kill stuff, do RDF, etc. Newcomers that don't have the infrastructure setup yet (Professions, etc) earn most of their gold via drop. So if you see a stack of saronite ore for 60 before squish and for 30 after squish, it benefits you because u get 30 sooner than 60 via drop
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yes.. its was a dirty maneuver
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Well, according to my Excel sheet, I’ll take Lichbloom and Saronite Ore as examples.
On 2025-07-08, the average weekly price of Lichbloom was 33.15g, and Saronite Ore was 4.36g.
Moving on — on 2025-08-11, Lichbloom was 33.41g and Saronite Ore 4.41g (weekly average).
On 2025-10-02, Lichbloom was 32.82g and Saronite Ore 4.33g.
On 2026-01-05, Lichbloom was 41.42g and Saronite Ore 4.61g.
We can see some changes, especially with Lichbloom (for example, Titanium as well).
Right now, Lichbloom costs around 31–33g, and Saronite Ore is 3.80–4.10g.
So we have −50% gold, but prices only went down by about 0–10%.
So again, how does that help newcomers?
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primordial saronite for example did cost 700g in auction, now is for 250g. Not all mats can be following the same discount of course, that's just not how that works
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Some auctions are still on the 48H timer. You need to do analysis of more mats not just the ones you can mine or gather. Frozen Orb for example is the one I was buying heavily before the squish, average at 90-100g per one. Right after the squish the new postings are at 49 gold. Also note that newcommers are not automatically level 80, they are also low levels.
Linen cloth which I was buying anywhere from 2-5g for a stack of 20 is now at dirt cheap 20-50 silver for a stack of 20.
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