"At gold limit"

[Zarathustra]

Don't quote me, but I think I read somewhere that if you transfer servers, you can only take 5k gold with you. I think Blizzard's rationale for this is that long-time players transferring onto a new server with huge gobs of gold could then literally dominate the server's entire economy. Imagine someone appearing with 100,000 gold on a newish server - they could own the entire auction house and force everyone to pay insane prices for anything.

Hardcore no-life players easily have over 20,000 gold, so a hardcore raiding guild could indeed have a problem transfering all that gold over...I suppose they could buy expensive BoE epics from the AH and then resell them on the new server, right? Might take a loss doing that, especially if moving to a low-pop server, but it's better than nothing.

-Bolty

The limit is 10kg per character at level 70, so really all the limit does is ensure people will grab one extra mule character (who has to be high level) to move that gold over and dominate said economy.

And hey... I've got over 20k and have a life, dammit! :ph34r: