Of course after I post my first blog entry about reaching gold cap, I find out the cap has been increased as of patch 4.0.1. I read the news over at Warcraft Econ. Apparently after the patch, reports started coming in that people were able to hold more than the previous maximum of 214,748g 36s 48c.
So what does this mean? Well, gold cap is still achievable, but it's potentially going to take 4x longer. It's very possible in the expansion we will see an increase in daily profit, which would reduce this time, but it will depend on your server's AH activity. Lets say I can make 20k/week consistently (I think that's generous?). If I started with 20k gold, it will take me 48 weeks to reach cap, or just shy of 1 year. I'm not sure if I like the increase to the cap or not. One part of me likes to see all the 9's lined up, but I also liked the obscure set of numbers the previous cap was set at. Roughly at 63k as of this post. With the old cap I was 29% of the way there. Now I'm only 6%!
I'm going to keep my original goal to reach 214,748g 36s 48c as an initial goal. Once I reach this point, I'll look at how I have done and make a decision on what my next goal will be. It's very possible it won't be 1 million. Maybe 500k? Capping is now a marathon (if it wasen't already before). I think a good approach is taking it one step at a time.
What do you think? If you're trying for cap, will you be using the old cap or the new one?
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