Naxxramas

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I don't know, 1k sounds reasonable to me.  A lot of people have spent as much on items, many people were happy to spend that much on Quel (yes a raiding item, but its not that hard to find a guild willing to take a warrior along) before the market dried up.  On my server atleast, the price of MC BOE's are drifting close to the 1k mark.  I think 1k was the standard price of a Chromatic Caraprice or Pristine HOTB too.

And I have purchased or farmed a few items in the 1k range, despite spending huge chunks of time raiding, paying the repair bills for raiding, and a pretty solid pvp effort.  If I was to spend most of my time farming gold and crafting items, I'm sure I could afford 1k per slot.
Well are you saying they should have 1/2 the good items?  Call shoulders, legs, gloves, and boots the "Casual slots", and make sure there are craftable items in those slots on par with the best drops.  On the rest of the slots, make sure there is nothing even close?

Or are you saying that there should be craftable/buyable/blue dungeonable items in every slot of 1/2 the power of the raid items?  Cause I think for most classes there are : PHOTB/CC items, ZG crafted items like primal bat and tiger, BOE MC epics, DMF for your neck, AV for rings offhands and weapons, Field duty, Dungeon 2, Hide of the Wild, Devilsaur, DM trinkets/Quel, top end librams and enchants for all of this stuff.....

I don't know.  I _really_ doubt there are a lot of players who have gone through _all_ of this stuff, and still need more casual content.  I find it more likely that there is a large group of players who have just gotten tired of what's out there.  Maybe they have just finished their Dungeon 2 set and are looking at a 2.5k bill for 2 MC BOE's, and have decided that a marginal upgrade isn't worth the time.  I might be wrong.

Already many of the items I described are pushing very close to MC level items.  I know if I could, I'd trade my Earthfury boots for 5 thunders (well maybe not with NXM comin soon).
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I was not saying that they should have items 1/2 the power. I meant they should on the average be in a position to own 1/2 of the good items as raiders do. You put in 6 hours/day, on the average you should own twice as many good rare items as someone who puts in 3. My point is that unless you can put in even those 3-4 hours/day in one shot and at a time when other you know are on, you are SOL.

Those who prefer to solo, are even in worse shape. Unless they like PvP so much that they do not mind getting rolled by the same lvl players with the same or worse skills, they should not even bother with WoW as it will just frustrate them. PVE content at lvl 60 stops *completely* for solo payers, and dramatically drops off for the non-raiders.

As far as 1k... I was just generalizing. 1k is when pretty good items on the AH start. Even then they are not *that* good. Bind on equip weapons for example are never even close. The best ones are around 45 DPS one handed, and there is only a handful of them. They are around 2k. It would take significantly more time to farm for 2k than to raid.... and even after that, the items are not even close.
Believe me, I know the AH pretty well, especially when it comes to warrior items. I've also familiarized myself with all the warrior items from various sites pretty extensively.

As I was saying before.... I believe I pay the same $14.99/month as others do.


-A