The Gossip ColumnThe Iron Grenade Money Printer Halts at Dawn as Engineers Weep Over Vendor Nerfs
Blizzard's stealth vendor price adjustment slashes the Iron Grenade sell price to 1 silver 25 copper, turning the realm's easiest passive gold shuffle into an instant net loss.
The Great Ironforge Money Printer has run completely out of ink.
For days, goblin-minded engineers have been quietly printing silver by the wagonload. The recipe was almost insultingly simple: combine one Iron Bar, a pinch of Heavy Blasting Powder, and a scrap of Silk Cloth for five silver in materials, and vend the resulting trio of Iron Grenades straight back to NPC shopkeepers for fifteen silver. It was not honest work, but it certainly paid the mount fees.
That golden goose caught an unceremonious wrench to the skull alongside Blizzard's November 10 Hotfixes. In a silent tuning sweep, developers slashed the vendor sell price of Iron Grenades down to a pathetic one silver and twenty-five copper each. Crafting three now yields three silver and seventy-five copper—handing crafters an immediate one-silver-twenty-five-copper loss per click.
Overheard at Tinker Town, Ironforge
A soot-covered gnome stood beside a towering stockpile of five thousand unused Iron Bars, staring blankly at a vendor receipt:
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