2.4 Thoughts

[Concillian]

The economy issue is an interesting one. On the one hand, the increase in number of daily quests (both in terms of quantity and the increased cap) will introduce a lot of extra money into the economy. On the other hand, supply of some items has also increased (primal fire, primal mana and fel lotus are three examples I can think of immediately). Obviously prices set by Blizzard are fixed, so things like talent respecs and flying mount purchases suddenly seem much more affordable.

There are a great many other items for which supply has increased.

I can speak for my personal behavior, but the addition of a daily quest for gatherers that gives SSO rep, I've been doing a LOT more mining and herbing than I usually do... a LOT. I'm apparently not alone, because despite how much more money some people have, and attitudes of raiders more willing to buy their mats, the prices of most of the herbs I sell on the AH has (generally) decreased. In some cases (mostly herbs available throughout outlands like dreaming glory and felweed) the decrease is very signficant.

The most interesting item I see in the AH is the Nether Vortex. At any point this can be an indicator of the value of badges, because from what I've seen this is the best "gold per badge" BoE item. In the past week the prices haven't stablized really (on Terenas anyway). I've seen from 300g -400g ish on the low end and 1500g on the high end per.

Currently raiding guilds who have a surplus of these are siphoning them off to the AH to make some cash. However, when the supply of these from guilds who no longer need them dry up, what will happen to the price of these? Will they stabilize because some people will trade badges for gold by buying these and selling them on the AH? Or will supply dry up and these will become more expensive?