WoW: For the "World First" the professional guild Limit has gone heavily into debt

For the “World First Kill” of N’Zoth in WoW, the professional guild Limit had to spend a lot of gold. Now they are heavily in debt.

The race for the “World First” kill of N’Zoth, the final boss of WoW: Battle for Azeroth, was quite exciting this time. But it was decided not only by the skill of the players, but also by a fat wallet. The cost for the kill of N’Zoth? It amounts to nearly 257 million gold for the winner Complexity-Limit.

Why was this necessary? With Patch 8.3, World of Warcraft introduced the Corruption system. Items can, like back in the day with Titanforging, be randomly upgraded and receive an additional strong bonus. In order for every player to showcase a wide range of strong items and achieve the optimum in as many situations as possible, many items are needed. Since the Corruption effects can also be on so-called “BoE” items, i.e., items that only bind to the character when equipped, these can be purchased through the auction house.

In an interview with PCGamesN, the player Podra from Limit explained:

In the last raid tier, there were two or three items per gear slot that you could get and that were best-in-slot. But now these 2 to 3 items could have over 50 different Corruption modifiers. Therefore, they are harder to find and at the same time worth much more gold.

Multiple realms were looted: To get the optimal items, not only the home realm of Limit was plundered, but other WoW realms were also searched for the perfect BoE items. With character transfers, these items were then brought to the realm of Limit so that the right characters could use them.

Limit has to pay back a lot of debt: By the way, Limit did not have the gold themselves. During raid preparation, they reached a gold level of nearly 100 million but found that it was not enough. Therefore, they had to borrow a lot of gold and now have debts amounting to around 157 million. Preheat from Limit said:

[We] borrowed a lot and will spend the next months paying it all back and hopefully collecting gold for the next expansion.

This is of course also a way to pass the time until the launch of the new expansion Shadowlands.

Gold corresponds to a value of $34,000: For those who cannot use the gold for anything: Gold can roughly be converted into real money, as the WoW token can be purchased for real money and then resold for in-game currency. The current price of a WoW token in America is 150,000 gold with a purchase price of $20. This means that the sum of 257 million gold corresponds to a value of nearly 1,700 WoW tokens – or $34,000!

Limit, by the way, is not the only guild that operates this way. The pros from Method also spend a lot of gold each time. Preheat explained that he knows that “Method and we each spent over 200 million gold.”

Do you think it’s acceptable for guilds to borrow gold for the “World First” race? Or should the professionals have to farm it all themselves in advance?