Professional Farmers

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After all, can't we assume that farmers are the exact reason Blizz not only changed the sell value of these items to something reasonable, but destroyed the value of these items completely?
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I wouldn't assume they did it because of professional farmers. Non-professional ones maybe. I don't know what mechanisms they have to track things. But from one of those BlizzCon panels they revealed that they tracked deaths by mob type, it doesn't take to much watch drop value by mob type either. All it takes is for Blizzard to notice it being heavily farmed on one out of their 100+ servers before they realize they made a mistake and correct it. As for the dramatic decrease in pricing, I don't know if it was a typo that they just corrected, or if they just wanted to make it truly junk in a knee-jerk response. Either way, it really doesn't matter that much.

I think this part of the thread has gone off on a tangent that isn't really relevant. Nerfing a gray item price is nothing really. Nerfing fishing is.