document updated 19 years ago, on Jul 29, 2005
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