"And worse yet, for absolute beginners, some of the most important elements they need -- say, that glyph -- are absolutely out of reach without strong knowledge of how to play the Auction House."

I disagree. If you don't have 200g to buy a glyph at 85, you aren't even trying. Without doing anything else, that's about 1-2 days worth of daily quests. And if you aren't 85 yet, then missing those glyphs isn't game-breaking when you're just leveling (and I can't imagine anyone not accumulating 200g while leveling from 1 to 85).

As far as gold sinks and inflation goes, I'll throw out some wild ideas:

- Weekly/monthy taxes on accounts above a certain gold threshold. Obviously, the taxes don't go to anything like fixing the roads, so it only serves to slowly erode gold until they fall below the threshold.

- Lower the gold cap drastically, like 100,000g for example. I'm sure this will go over well with lots of currently rich people, tho.

- Repairs, reforges, transmogs and other service costs based as a percentage of wealth.

- Real in-game gambling. They started with fortune cards, but that just shuffles wealth between players (minus AH cut). Guaranteed money drainer, tho I'm sure all we need is more addiction in our addiction.

These ideas aren't prefect. Even now, I can see a lot of ways to bypass them because that's what people do. People see restrictions and work around them.

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