Economy

The auction house charges 5% listing fee (refunded if listing expires unsold) and 5% sale tax. Listings last 6, 12, 24, or 48 hours. Buyers can bid (win pending…

Crafting connects gathering, dungeons, and the auction house in a 4-stage feedback loop: material drops → crafter buys → gear sold → players invest → demand gro…

Gems convert to gold at a deliberately lossy rate (1 gem = ~80 gold buy / sell ~50 gold). The asymmetry exists to discourage real-money pay-to-power. Use gem→go…

Gold enters the economy through 10 sources (dailies, dungeons, gathering, loot, etc.) and exits through 11 sinks (repairs, crafting, taxes, vanity, etc.). Net f…

VvW economies inflate ~2.5% per quarter across all servers. Server population, daily-quest completion rates, and active crafter count drive variance. The Crafti…

The Seasonal Shop rotates every 90 days with new cosmetics, mounts, and limited-time consumables. Honor tokens (earned from PvP and seasonal events) buy items h…