The 2nd part of the pre-patch for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is live. This comes with a massive nerf to your gold earnings – the “fat times” are over for now.
In World of Warcraft, the 2nd part of the pre-patch for the new expansion “Dragonflight” is now live. While everyone is busy trying out the new class “Evoker” and clicking through the countless customizations of the Dracthyr, friends of easy gold farming are shedding some tears. Blizzard has massively nerfed the simplest, yet fairly solid gold income.
What has changed? With the 2nd phase of the pre-patch, Blizzard has massively nerfed the gold earnings from gold missions at your covenant’s mission table. “Massively” means in this case a reduction of over 90%.
Missions that previously granted 300 to 400 gold now reward a pitiful 20 to 30 gold. Such a low profit makes starting the mission hardly worth it.
Two images from the site wowhead show the “before and after” comparison:
How much could one earn? It mainly depends on how many characters someone had at level 60 and how much time one wanted to invest. If one logged in only once per day, there was between 1,000 and 1,500 gold, while logging in twice daily could even yield 2,000 to 2,500 gold – for each 30-60 seconds of effort that was largely automated by an addon.
With multiple characters, the profit was correspondingly greater and could simply be multiplied. For example, if someone had 5 characters at level 60 and sent out all gold missions twice daily, they earned between 10,000 and 12,500 gold in one day – enough to finance the WoW subscription through the WoW token.
Why is Blizzard doing this? A nerf of gold income sources from “passive systems”, like the adventure tables, is normal – Blizzard has been doing this since Warlords of Draenor. Back then, the garrison was first weakened and later also the missions on the ship in Battle for Azeroth. The fact that the adventure missions from Shadowlands have now been affected has a simple reason:
For no one should it be the most efficient way to earn gold in old content. If old content is too lucrative due to gold income, few players would turn to the new content. Furthermore, it would be extremely annoying to have to travel back to Shadowlands every day to restart the “table missions” repeatedly.
Thus, Blizzard keeps players a little away from themselves – even though many now have to find a new gold source.
How do you earn your gold from now on? Traditionally by farming resources? Or are you an auction house mogul?
