Comments on: Say What? How Much for That Raid BoE?

By: Gigi

Gigi — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:27:18 +0000

Uni – you are over on Hit and Expertise, try messing around with your reforging a bit more to get your Hit to 8% (it’s fine if you are a little under or a little over) and your expertise to 16. The put everything else into Mastery. Try not to forge away from it IF you can. You also need to be gemming for straight strength unless the socket bonus outweighs that. Currently you have a blue gem in your breastplate and in my opinion the socket bonus of crit is not as good as getting +30 strength. Crit is something we are actually reforging away from so you would get more benefit from strength then crit. It takes a bit of messing with to get the right balance of stats. I think you are doing great so far and consider finding a guild that you can raid with. I was really anti-raiding until my husband found us a guild that raids and is laid-back. I can honestly say I have enjoyed playing more since then and it takes a ton of stress out of new content as a guild is more likely to have fun even when wiping.

By: uniwolf04

uniwolf04 — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:46:31 +0000

Hi all,

I’m a little behind the curve as I only began Cata content after Christmas. Was wondering if you can take a look at my Armory and give me an idea of where I should spend my Justice Points (no Valor Points yet). Where will my biggest DPS increase come from?

I know I haven’t gemmed or enchanted everything yet. On the to-do list and didn’t want to spend too much on this if I was going to replace it soon.

I’ve just started running normal Dungeons and will start Heroics when comfortable with the content. Alas my miniscule guild does not run together or Raid so I’m pugging.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/dragonblight/uniwolf/simple

Thanks,
Uni

By: Brock

Brock — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:53:59 +0000

If one has the gold, why not? As time passes and you wait around for demand to decrease of to get your own drops WoW passes by as well, all the current crap is going to be useless once another tier drops.

By: Smudger

Smudger — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:41:54 +0000

I was lucky enough to had Angerforge drop the other day. Until the ramp up time gets changed it is a plain crit trinket.

As peeps have mentioned, progress guilds needing gear quickly whacks the prices right out of sync. DMC are up to around 50k for the good ones and 25k minimum on my server a piece which i am going to take advantage of next week Normal BoE craftables are under 10k but raid BoEs are over 25k with most being around 40k.

Valor Boots are still selling at 25k.

Inflation causes alot of these prices, people have more gold than ever so they pay it, if people pay the prices the items will always be listed for that price until the gear is no longer relevant.

Smudger Warcraft Corner

By: Banished

Banished — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:40:24 +0000

If you have enough gold buy all of a specific item and lower the cost across the board.. Greed is what drives everyone…. Prices are insane, but so are people

By: tcdyess

tcdyess — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:38:30 +0000

I have been taking advantage of the huge prices people are willing to pay for herbs. Whiptail has been the best mover by far and I am averaging about 10 stacks a day at 150g each and then selling the volatile life stacks of 50 for around 550g. I have accumulated 35k g in the last 2 weeks alone and am just waiting for something good to be listed in ah, but so far people are charging huge prices for epics that are only marginally better than the 346 rares I have gotten from dungeons and honor. My plan is to continue building gold reserve and wait for more epics to hit the ah at lower prices. Hurry up and wait!!!

By: EGOprime

EGOprime — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:29:28 +0000

I am pretty tight when it comes to gold, and I (too) have a fair amount, and this expansion seems to be saturated with the massive stockpiles players accumulated in Wrath when the AH wasn’t bathed in BoE epic upgrades for 8 months.

Will those prices eventually drop? Of course they will, that is a redundant question. As people get upgrades, as guilds plow through ever more content, the 359 plums currently sparkling on the AH for ridiculous amounts of gold will lose their luster and fade to 5k gold items. Guess what? Unless you’re every fiber the casual player, when they do get down to that 5k gold range, you won’t need them.

So, the question becomes: how much are you willing to fork over for a ready-to-wear upgrade right now? For me, as Khor stated, it depends on the upgrade. I hate spending above 20k on ANYTHING, but you bet your sweaty raid underwear I bought the DMC: Hurricane (+strength) trinket for 25k gold as soon as it got down that far. Worth every gold. I can replace the gold given enough time. I cannot, however, replace the numbers that trinket gives me for the next 6+ months.

I also have my eye on the Corefire Legplates which will also be a tasty upgrade (even over JP legs) since BWD (the raid we’re currently doing) does not have a solid leg upgrade for ret paladins unless you count the tank leggings (for the strength) but the chances of both my tanks not needing those means I’d have a better shot at getting my girlfriend to make me a sandwich during my raid. Those corefire legplates get down to the 20k (maybe even 25k) mark and I’ll be buying those, too. They will be a solid part of my wardrobe for a good 2-3 months; or until we venture in to another raid (we’re casual, so that may be awhile).

As I said, I can replace the gold, and eventually during this expansion, we’ll start stockpiling gold like we did in Wrath when all of our upgrades came via raiding. I want solid numbers now, especially with the state of retribution DPS, and that is worth dropping 50k on two BoE plums to me.

Then again, to each their own, obviously.

By: Frithpooth

Frithpooth — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:00:56 +0000

Hmmm,
I was lucky and had both a world drop agility ring and OS plate legs drop. As i play holy I sold both at the AH, netting +55K G. That allowed me to buy a BoE neck + wave cards ti finish the Tsunami deck with plenty ov G to spare. Without the two drops I would not pay the exessicve prices at the AH seen now.

By: Theorw

Theorw — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:35:54 +0000

Hehe idd the prices are crazy,i saw the trinket said for 45k and it got sold in a few hours!
I myself bought the valor boots for 18 but i was in inguild competition with a ret and i needed gear to top him on dps:P
Now i try to keep myself calm and not buy on absurd prices!

Btw kinda irelevant but with boots and rep epics only i was 1st in dps (for one fight tho)in our 25man in omnitron and i assure you the dpsers in our guild are far better equiped and class than a ret with 350 ilvl,meaning almost full epic and tier.That to argue about retri being broken:P
DONT buy in AH unless its a bargain!

By: Zuli

Zuli — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:20:54 +0000

Many times of the fact is the item expired or seller withdraw it from some reason. Believe me, buy over 10,000g need at least 24 hours for completely delivery. 50k g need few days. Technically, time will longer than item auction expired, unless buyer stock ten thousand gold all the time. Those Price is only dream price once in blue moon. 4-5K is already a limit of reasonableness. Btw, price for buy gold has been droped 20-30% after cata released. It indicate that is less ppl buyer gold now.