Post by lcpltomWell, Blizzard does feature factions you could literally buy your rep
for. Coilfang Armaments and Unidentified Plant Parts, Aldor/Scryer
rep items, cloth for faction rep, and netherwing herbs/ores/skins can
all be sold and purchased on the AH.
People can level crafting professions without even having a gathering
profession just buy buying off of someone else's gathering work.
yeah, I never really agreed with that as well. My main/guild/local G
farmer has tons of gold so I can guy myself into good rep? naw, too
simple. just grind out what you need . Even though it occurs, you
won't hear me chasing after others and flaming them for not playing
"fair", even in an anonymous environment.
Post by lcpltomPeople without gathering professions can get crafted items through the
AH, or by finding a crafter, which usually entails tipping the
crafter.
While the similarities are there, I would have to say its kind of a
different shade of logic. One is a service and the other is a product.
If buying the armor or weapon doesn't net any xp then you are just
partaking in inter-player commerce. If buying that weapon completes a
quest then it's a service. I think I have less trouble with the idea
of paying for products than services. Sure that product might make it
easier for you to complete an instance, but you still have to group up
and run it. Very different than sitting at the entrance while a lvl 70
clears it out for you.
Post by lcpltomI have no problem with selling any kind of service in game so long as
it is for in game gold. I think the whole problem with selling arena
spots isn't in the selling, its in the players obtaining gear they
didn't earn or deserve. Selling the arena spot is fine with me, but I
think the gear should be team linked to discourage selling the spots
to people, letting them get their gear, then booting them out in order
to sell the spot to another player who wants the gear.
I completely agree.
Post by lcpltomBut RFC? That one I don't understand. Until 2.3, RFC dropped very
little useful gear. What would an alliance player want from there?
It was the day that 2.3 was released. I didn't knwo what she was
looking for (priest) because I hadn't had a chance to review the
release notes, but she seemed happy when we ported.
Post by lcpltomBut selling that stuff for real world cash, no, that just opens the
wrong doors. It brings it to the point of the players with the most
real world cash to spend will be the ones who get the best stuff.
Takes a lot of the real game play out of the game.-
I sit on the fence on this one. I agree that the "he with the fatter
wallet shall be uber" is unfair to many in PvP, but beyond that you
don't play against anyone else. Will Illidan care that you bought you
toon to kill him? Probably not. If you raid Kara does that forever
exclude someone else from doing it. not really. Sure you may have
missed out on the meat-n-potatos of the game that make it enjoyable,
but it your money.
I know pvp is a little bit of a different animal in regards to this,
but I don't think anyone who does serious pvp isn't expecting anything
less that a uber geared opponent. If I had a dime for ever toon I had
seen in T-whatever gear in pvp I would be rich.
Anywho, this is just one persons perspective. I don't plan on beaing
anyone over the face with it (unless I have to). :P