Old world boss gold drops reduced in 3.0.8

by Elizabeth Harper Jan 21st 2009 at 9:45AM

Enjoy soloing Onyxia for a quick 180 gold every five days? With patch 3.0.8, those good old days are no more, as boss gold drops (at least back in the old world) seem to have been significantly reduced. Onyxia's 180 gold is now 50 gold and forum posters are noticing similar reductions in other old world raids from Ahn'Qiraj to Zul'Gurub. Is this the end of old world raiding for good? Well, it may not be as profitiable, but I'm willing to go on record saying that slaughtering Onyxia is still plenty of fun. Plus it's the only way to complete that awesome tier 2 set you need to be super stylish while idling in Dalaran.

[Thanks, Rhaziel!]

Tags: ahnqiraj, boss, bosses, gold, old-world-raiding, onyxia, patch, patch-3.0.8, patches, raid, raiding, raids, wow-patch-3.0.8, zulgurub

Reader Comments (Page 3 of 3)

TheKarmaPolice Jan 21st 2009 11:50AM

Heeey that's my thread!

Yeah it kinda sucks, it was a fun way to get some quick gold, and it makes me sad that they nerfed it with no explanation or even a measly note in the patch notes

Syntaxattacks Jan 21st 2009 12:01PM

Wait, wait...

Were any 60's really going to run these raids instead of leveling? And seriously, how hard is gold to come by while leveling? Unless you dump it all into the AH there's no need for that much gold.

Rich Jan 21st 2009 12:34PM

So much for my supplemental income.

I think they nerfed it since not everyone could do it, so no one gets to do it.

Blah.

OMGWTFPWND Jan 21st 2009 2:07PM

Who cares? Do you really have time to solo Ony? Besides Naxx and Eye and everything? You can make same gold by farming elements in Wintergrasp. OR dailies.

Here is a tip. Buy some cheap shit on AH in stacks and sell it 1 by 1. Make profit. You don't have to even leave "portal" area. No FP required.

And to those who crying (ahh, I had a second account and was making gold on it). Get a life. Get a pet, or girlfriend. Or boyfriend. Or all above at the same time.

mcclary Jan 21st 2009 2:17PM

Why are you so angry? :(

Punkenjoy Jan 21st 2009 3:13PM

last week i runed, Vault 10/25 man, Sartharion 10/25 man, Naxx 10/25 man and malygos 10/25 man

And the only thing i need from heroic it's maybe emblem for BoA item. I already have both trinket, and all the caster stuff.

so what i done last monday, i farmed trash mobs in MC to get the spellpower enchant to put it on the BoA staff i bought

i didn't drop so maybe this week !

(Btw, with drop from Mc, i done 500g in that run :) )

Draenors Jan 21st 2009 2:18PM

I'm not really against this. I don't mind that people have a reason to go back to the old bosses, but it shouldn't be to solo them for gold. Besides, only a few classes (DK and Druid?) could actually do it.

mezpin Jan 26th 2009 6:51PM

They probably found that no one was gathering groups of 40 level 60s together, so the only ones benefiting from the gold were higher level toons.

Rich Jan 21st 2009 2:48PM

We did it because its different... The reward to effort ratio was far in favor of doing it. 150g for 15 min of work on Onyxia once a week, why wouldn't you do it?

Heck, I make 50g with a 9 min run through Strat with my Pally.

Are there other ways to make money? There sure is and I do all of them bank alt buying low/selling high, dailies, gathering, crafting and finishing up quests.

Onyxia and the old world raids were just a daily done "weekly" that supplements the other stuff and frankly is more interesting than the dailies.

Xigageshi Jan 21st 2009 2:57PM

heh I just discovered this last night when I four playered her with my regular mid 70's friends.

sure 180 woulda been better, but hey isn't it easy enough to make the money?

we went just to kill her, having never gotten a chance to do it way back in the day. I thought going back to legacy stuff was silly until we were done with current raid content, but i'm looking forward to clearing the other raids now. I guess I got the bug, its so much fun!

and incidentally, she does so LITTLE damage! I was shocked, I practically tanked her with my 80 mage haha

it was a blast!

Brannon Jan 21st 2009 3:46PM

It's very clear why they did this - Death Knights (and others, but primarily DKs) farming the old world raids for large amounts of additional income. This wasn't instead of dailies, they did the dailies, too. So you had a disparity of potentially several thousand gold every week, and it wasn't as if it required unusual skill, just decent gear and perseverance.

They raised the gold rewarded back in the day to help cover repairs for raids that didn't want to feel compelled to grind gold as much, and now that the vast majority of raiders have moved on to new content, there was no reason to keep the gold on those bosses inflated.

Klakfeee Jan 21st 2009 5:07PM

With such a long cooldown and how easy it is to get gold in WRATH this is just pointless.

Soloing stuff was like a fun optional weekly quest you could do.
Instead of killing more ice guys at hodirs, go own ony for some gold.

Blizzards policy on fun: its not cool.

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