The professional guild Limit has farmed a ton of gold in World of Warcraft in no time at all. However, this gold is not even for themselves, but for creditors to whom they must repay the money.
How much gold has Limit farmed? The guild Limit has farmed about 257 million gold in WoW over a period of seven weeks, as revealed by @maximumwow in a tweet. This amounts to almost 37 million gold per week or just over 5 million gold per day.
Finished off our pre raid loans of 257 mil today. Easy 7 week speed run =-]
— max (@maximumwow) April 1, 2020
The daily amount alone is more than most players probably see all at once in their entire WoW career.
How the guild got the gold so quickly has not been disclosed. However, it is quite possible that several players paid to be carried through the new raid Ny’alotha or high-level Mythic+ keys.
Why did they have to farm the gold? However, the gold that Limit farmed was not kept. Just before the first kill of N’zoth in mythic mode on February 6, 2020, the guild took out a large gold loan.
In total, Limit spent 257 million gold for the first kill. And the debts must also be repaid by the guild.
This is actually not uncommon. Professional guilds often borrow large sums of gold to gain an advantage in the World First race and to claim the kills before all other guilds. In the first kill of Jaina, the competitor Method borrowed over 100 million gold.
Why is that so much? A large part of the debt is due to the corrupted items introduced with Patch 8.3. These “corrupted items” have a new special property: Corruption.
Corruption has a negative effect on your character, but it also provides extremely strong bonuses. Depending on the level of corruption, it can greatly increase a character’s damage.
Since corruption can also be found on Bind-on-Equip (BoE) items, the guild purchased the strongest corruptions across multiple realms and then transferred them to their home realm via character transfer.
Thus, 257 million quickly added up – seemingly worth it. As a “casual,” one would probably not want to take on this kind of work.
