To be the best in the world, the guild Method had to spend a lot of gold in World of Warcraft. A player explains where the debt of 100 million gold comes from.
The players of the WoW guild Method achieved their ‘World First Kill’ of Jaina Proudmoore have proven that they are the best guild in the world. However, to achieve this, a lot of planning was necessary, as well as some favors. As Josh from Method explained, the guild has incurred a debt of around 100,000,000 gold coins.
So much gold for materials: The reason for this high debt is that the players of Method had to tackle insane tasks with their alternate characters. Josh explains that he completed ten normal “mythic” dungeons and five “Mythic+” dungeons on five characters each – totaling 75 dungeons within two days.
After that, he learned engineering with all five characters and crafted a helmet with item level 400. Then the helmet was scrapped, and all characters learned jewel crafting to equip the 400 ring. Then he repeated the process and learned alchemy to equip the 400 trinket.
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All of this was done on nearly 100 characters, which according to Josh consumed the resources of “three servers” because the home server did not have enough materials. Multiple guild transfers with full guild banks were necessary to assist, resulting in total costs of nearly 100 million gold that Method now owes many players.
Why the effort? The reason for all this effort are Blizzard’s “Personal Loot” rules. Characters can only give loot to other players if they already have an equivalent or better item. Therefore, if Method wants to give loot to their main characters during their “Split Runs,” all the alternate characters ideally need to have equivalent items.
This way, it becomes possible to funnel the right items to the main characters, so that everyone starts the raid with optimal equipment.
The time and gold expenditure for this endeavor is enormous. But in the end, it was rewarded with the First Kill of Jaina – it was worth it.
What do you think of these preparations? Just crazy? Or is one expected to be ready for such things if they want to play at the top?
Maybe the debts are also the reason why this player uninstalled WoW immediately after the kill…
