
Originally Posted by
avikk
Gold loot isn't a solution to RWT, ingame gold purchase is somewhat of a solution but is it a good enough one?
Gold loot was a solution for farming being lackluster.
It's been brought up by a lot of other veterans but here I am restating it. I hope next expansion just isn't about gold loot, mausoleums thing could be the gold drops. This way gold loot items don't devalue over night and its a viable solution to all the gold coming into the economy.
This inflation is more of a bane for merchers(who if I can be honest here have been involved in some illicit activities, I'm nott saying everyone who got hurt is involved in some shady deals but the bulk of RWTers are the ones who are sitting on a bulk of gold and this hurts them the most), who can't keep up with the inflation and how the value of gold is dropping so fast. The issue which most people bring up is how expensive most things are now, and this goes two ways. Everything is expensive so even a low leveled player farming locks is making a decent amount of gold, since locks are expensive but (and now here's the issue) the weapons and vanities that are super rare are going for exorbitant amounts. Some of the LBR vanities are being touted by merchers as having a value of max cash, the endgame weapons are going for such a huge chunk of cash. Now I don't really care for most LBR vanities and their cost, but however I do feel bad when I see the average player running mausoleum can't afford the basic necessities to run mausoleum.
TL;dr
Gold loot awakenings are hurting people, economy will survive. Some items have become so rare they are going for max cash/way too high priced. We don't need more awakenings, we need more gear and better things to farm.
A perfect example to incorporate farming now would be to have cryostar locks or dragon weapons drop from some maps. Preferably nott mausoleum, since we don't need another reason to run mausoleum. Arcane eggs etc are another untapped potentital to make farming fun without it all being about gold loot.
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