A player in WoW Classic paid 600,000 gold for the rare mount Ashes of Al’ar in a GDKP raid, which equals about €9,570. How and why, we explain here at MeinMMO.
How is this massive sum generated? In WoW Classic, it is not legally possible to simply buy gold for real money. WoW Tokens, as you know them from WoW, do not exist in Classic.
However, gold is traded on the “black market” and often bought and sold illegally. Prices fluctuate depending on the server – here we are talking about the US server Whitemane. There, you would pay €9,570 for 600,000 gold.
If you were to farm the gold and play 14 hours a day, it would take about 155 days to collect the gold, as a fan calculated on Reddit. That’s a massive amount, but what do you spend the gold on?
What kind of mount is this? With Burning Crusade Classic, the MMORPG WoW Classic enters the next era. In The Burning Crusade, the current addon in WoW Classic, the instance Fortress of the Storms was also added in the Netherstorm of the shattered world.
In this instance, you can obtain the phoenix-like mount Ashes of Al’ar. It is still one of the most sought-after items from World of Warcraft. It drops with a tiny chance of 2% from the boss Kael’thas Sunstrider.
For many players, the phoenix is therefore a kind of holy grail of mounts. Even in normal World of Warcraft, only 31% of players have obtained the bird in the last 14 years, even fewer in WoW Classic (via wowhead.com).
The famous WoW streamer Asmongold farmed for 2 years for the mount and showed true joy when he finally got it. In this video, you can see the mount in the game:
How did the player acquire the mount? The buyer of the mount participated in a so-called GDKP raid and bid the incredible sum of 600,000 gold on the winged mount, thereby acquiring it.
The other participants of the raid can therefore rejoice over a decent sum of gold; the raid was worthwhile for everyone.
GDKP – How does it work?
What is GDKP? In World of Warcraft, there are many ways to distribute loot in instances fairly or less fairly. The principle of DKP, or “Dragon Kill Points”, has established itself in some guilds as it requires little organization.
For each boss kill in which party members are present, they receive a certain amount of points (DKP). They can then bid these points on an item that drops in the raid. This happens either in group chat or via whisper messages to the raid leader. The highest bidder receives the item.
In GDKP, it works the same way, except that bidding is done with gold, not with “Dragon Kill Points”.
What does the team gain from it? The collected gold from the sold items is split among all players at the end, with it being common for raid leaders and tanks to pocket a bit more gold. In some cases, there may even be a fee for the guild bank.
In the specific case of Ashes of Al’ar, each player should have taken home about 25,000 gold, which corresponds to a Euro value of €398.75 on the “black market”.
So it can be said that each of the participants got something from the highly coveted drop, and even if they could not get the bird, they left the Fortress of the Storms with a smile.
What do you think about it? Do you see a problem with the enormous sums? Or is it justified to spend that much gold on a single mount? Do you think the player painstakingly farmed all the gold or did he rather buy it? Feel free to write your thoughts in the comments here at MeinMMO.
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The other participants of the raid can therefore rejoice over a decent sum of gold; the raid was worthwhile for everyone.
GDKP – How does it work?
What is GDKP? In World of Warcraft, there are many ways to distribute loot in instances fairly or less fairly. The principle of DKP, or “Dragon Kill Points”, has established itself in some guilds as it requires little organization.
For each boss kill in which party members are present, they receive a certain amount of points (DKP). They can then bid these points on an item that drops in the raid. This happens either in group chat or via whisper messages to the raid leader. The highest bidder receives the item.
In GDKP, it works the same way, except that bidding is done with gold, not with “Dragon Kill Points”.
What does the team gain from it? The collected gold from the sold items is split among all players at the end, with it being common for raid leaders and tanks to pocket a bit more gold. In some cases, there may even be a fee for the guild bank.
In the specific case of Ashes of Al’ar, each player should have taken home about 25,000 gold, which corresponds to a Euro value of €398.75 on the “black market”.
So it can be said that each of the participants got something from the highly coveted drop, and even if they could not get the bird, they left the Fortress of the Storms with a smile.
What do you think about it? Do you see a problem with the enormous sums? Or is it justified to spend that much gold on a single mount? Do you think the player painstakingly farmed all the gold or did he rather buy it? Feel free to write your thoughts in the comments here at MeinMMO.
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