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Sources/Sinks in World of Warcraft

todo: generate a chart like this

Money Creation
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    Mobs drop money

    Vendors buy EQ



Money Destruction
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    Vendors sell EQ

    Auction deposits

    Auction taxes
    
    Repairing player EQ




EQ Creation
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    Mob drops

    Disenchanting *

    Production Tradeskills *

    Gathering Tradeskills  (could be viewed as resource nodes being created)

    Buying from Vendor



EQ Destruction
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    Soul-binding (it's removed from the EQ flow of trade.  EXCEPT for the case when it's disenchanted)

    Disenchanting *

    Production Tradeskills *

    Selling to Vendor




[*] Both destroys and creates.  Not immediately clear whether more creation or destruction happens