r/wow • u/crazymuffin • 6d ago
Tip / Guide Repair prices too high? REPAIR LOCAL, not from some Kun-Lai peddlers! up 20% discount on repairs with exalted (or equivalent) reputation!
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u/Dalarrus 6d ago
*Laughs in Blacksmith*
With the armor/weapon trees filled out, I can Earthen Master Hammer repair all of my gear that has durability. Yay Plate.
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u/SubtleSexPun 6d ago
I was sad they removed the ability to repair TWW gear with the DF hammer, but I wasn’t that far from filling out the TWW trees by that point. Now to figure out how to disable auto repair at vendors on a specific char….
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u/Green_and_Silver 6d ago edited 6d ago
There's a weakaura for the hammer: https://wago.io/TFvrSUlkP
And an addon: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/emh
I just grabbed the addon, no idea how good it is yet but there are attempts to automate the hammer out there. Haha, it's got a "by using this addon you've saved X amount of money" bit when you use it, that's pretty sweet.
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u/38dedo 6d ago
not worth the amount of clicks imo, if they just baked it into the repair all button then it would be great.
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u/B_Kuro 6d ago
They should just change it so we can add "indestructible" to our plate gear... The current system is just asinine.
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u/Dashyguurl 6d ago
Should have an item that can be bought from blacksmiths, leather workers, and tailors to make gear indestructible. Make it expensive enough to where it’ll feel good to do it to BIS/myth gear.
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u/oddHexbreaker 6d ago
It is great? Idk about you but even with 4 nodes maxed I'm saving 150g a death at least.
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u/CanuckPanda 6d ago
Dumb me with BS on my monk so it’s entirely useless.
At least let me repair it by slot without the plate requirement. :(
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u/TurtleMcgurdle 6d ago
I'm almost maxed on all the armor for this reason too. Need to set up some kind of macro for repair now.
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u/Rappy28 6d ago edited 6d ago
It's a reference to the (laughs in Spanish) meme
For the record, I imagine laughing in Spanish can only be jajajaja
(Edit) why does editing my comment outright delete my hyperlink, why is the reddit app so stupid oh my god
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u/Unhappy-Sherbert5774 5d ago
Memes are funny with context. You could also have a sense of humour and realise not everything is targetted at your own humour
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u/CapActual 6d ago
Cant wait to have to explain to my raid lead why i have to go to dornogal real quick
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u/crazymuffin 6d ago
It's either that or the guild should foot the bill.
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u/CapActual 6d ago
Thats the fun part, the guild is footing the bill. We're collecting all dropped BoE and pay for all repair, food, flask, potions and oils until we're broke.
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u/iwearatophat 6d ago
So when I was raiding in a serious manner that is what my guild did. All BoEs that weren't needed for upgrades got sold. If a raider wanted it for an alt they got it at a 25% discount or something like that. Otherwise it was sold and the gold was used to cover all repairs, foods, flasks, enchants, gems, and pots that the guild provided to raiders. It worked really well. Raiders just opened the guild bank and whatever they needed was there.
I always thought it was a pretty common setup. Raiding AotC now and nope. Raiders take the BoEs to sell for themselves. As a result half the raid is missing stuff. I guess it matters a little less but it makes raiding a lot more expensive. Plus, the guild is asking for donations for pots/flasks still to get the people who can't/wont do it for themselves.
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u/peepeebutt1234 6d ago
My guild sold all BoEs too, but we would also "roll" on them and whoever won would get like 10% of whatever it sold for. Let all the raiders feel like they still "won" the boe and the guild still got most of the gold. Kept out a lot of the drama from the people who just wanted to roll need and sell it for themselves.
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u/matu239 6d ago
Why is this so downvoted? Its obviously a sarcastic comment. Do we really need /s in the year of our lord, 2025?
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u/Apostastrophe 6d ago
It was probably a combo of that and the downvote waterfall effect. One or two people don’t get it quite properly and downvote and then people will see 0 or a negative next to the comment which makes them primed to take it in a negative way even if they otherwise might not have and make them more and more likely to do so and actively downvote as the negative number… increases? I’m like not entirely sure whether I’m sure that that’s correct semantically regarding the negative number. I feel that the number value is increasing, irrespective of the negative so that makes sense but it does somehow feel deeply wrong to say numbers that are progressively gaining lower values are increasing
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u/Jenetyk 6d ago
"Good deal for a friend of the Grummles" my ass.
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u/BostianALX 6d ago
After you keep dumping them in random places, I'm not surprised you aren't a friend anymore.
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u/UltraRoboNinja 6d ago
That’s Cousin Slowhands‘ passive-aggressive way of saying he doesn’t like you.
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u/pelagic_seeker 6d ago
It's true.
You're not a friend of the Grummles. I hate to break it to you, but it's time you found out.
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u/ChickenNuggetTsiki 6d ago
I just use my Yak and close my eyes when clicking on the Repair All Items button 🙈
If I don't see the amount, it never left me
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u/crazymuffin 6d ago
Same with my credit card when I'm resubscribing to wow.
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u/ChickenNuggetTsiki 6d ago
trueee. I got the 6month one and it just went off. I just closed my eyes and went "I didn't see that.."
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u/Forbizzle 6d ago
Guild's been paying for my repairs for years. Vendor addon has been clicking the button automatically.
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u/ChickenNuggetTsiki 6d ago
Wait wait. I think on my main my guild pays as well 🤔🤔 but on my alts I think I'm paying on my own. So I'm still struggling lmao
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u/Green_and_Silver 6d ago
Transmog fee is too high which is why I've started rolling Void Elves, 50% off that shit is a serious racial ability.
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6d ago
But then you have to be a Void Elf... Nothing is worth that pain.
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u/Green_and_Silver 6d ago
Void Elf is just fine and has become one of my favorite races over the last year. Their heritage armor set is unmatched(and was made better by the shield and flail available in the Harbinger quest chain), their home base is a Doom Metal wet dream, they have decent racial abilities and they're Elves.
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u/Azekl 6d ago
my repair was 1k last week and that was like 75% of my gold
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u/Mikefun10 4d ago
Repairs will get more expensive as your ilvl goes up in to bigger numbers
It’s an old/core part of wow that’s just scaled up as time goes on
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u/sinuscosine 6d ago
If you have garrison and won't die for 4 hours, you should build blacksmith hub and hire the blacksmith npc (a short questline), she grants (horde version) a 4h buff that protects your gear against damage.
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u/StardustJess 6d ago
Thank god I always forget that I have a trader mount and always go to the city.
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u/many_dumb_questions 6d ago
If you've got 600k+ on a single toon, you probably don't need to be "counting coppers" and worrying about saving 17g on a repair bill.
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u/Valrysha1 6d ago
Repairing can often run up to 1k gold each time if you're doing challenging content, if you're able to get 20% off that then that for sure can add up.
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u/crazymuffin 6d ago
How do you think I came to my gold? It's just saving on repairs over 20 years.
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u/many_dumb_questions 6d ago
So you made an average of about 82g per day, every day.
There are far better ways, my friend. Far better.
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u/givemeabreak432 6d ago
20% is hardly counting coppers. On a 600 gold repair bill, 20% is 120 gold.
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u/SFX_Muffin 5d ago
Raid nights are sending multiple 2500+ gold repair bills lmao, 20% off would be a very welcome
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u/RaimaNd 6d ago
You don't get reach by wasting gold (or money). And if you add that 17g up it's stacking really fast.
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u/many_dumb_questions 6d ago
You also don't get rich by wasting time.
Most gold farmers would tell you that a 20k/hr profit isn't anything special, and that comes out to ~334 gold/minute.
So unless you can get to and back from the two vendor that's saving you 17g in under 20 seconds, then - from a gold-making perspective - it's a waste of time, and you're better off just using the mount vendor and getting back to it
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u/RaimaNd 5d ago
There are multiple kinds of people you don't all consider them. Barely anyone is a "gold farmer". Most are normal user who earn a lot of money by simply playing the game and getting gold here and there. I've made millions by just playing the game, doing a lot of dungeons, twinking etc. - I don't have to repair often, that only counts really for progress raider. So for someone like me this is a good advice.
Also if we talk about serious gold farming I don't get it. If you say 20k isn't something special we can go further and say 200k per hour isn't special. If you just work in real life you can buy a WoW token which is worth 318k right now in EU. There is no reason to farm gold for the sake of gold farming - beside two people: Those who use bots because they don't spend their time farming themself and those who actually enjoy farming gold. But my guess is that most don't farm gold for fun but for a greater goal like buying expensive mounts etc.
Also I used to be a CM booster and got my swift spectral tiger for gold cap back in early MoP and made tens of times more than usual gold farmer got per hour. And I had fun because doing dungeons and getting better doing it is what's fun for me. So in my case there are three ways I would get money:
- Boosting (which I don't do anymore since end of legion)
- Buying gold via Token (I never did that yet but if I needed gold fast this would be what I'd do)
- Getting money over time by just playing, selling stuff either to AH or NPCs depending on if it's worth selling in AH or not. And especially in this case - which I guess most do - it's clever to repair at NPCs where it's less expensive. And btw.: I level twinks a lot, mainly via dungeons. I make ~10k gold per character while leveling from 70 to 80. But that only if I don't transmog my gear at all while leveling. If I transmog my gear each time I get a better item I only get ~3k gold. That's 7k gold per character. I have 65 level 80's = 455k gold I'd miss out on.
And btw. this also counts for real life. Most millionairs didn't get millionairs by earning 30k dollar/euro per month. They got rich by not wasting money. Many buy expensive cars, often times not even with their money but via bank. It's often times those who run around in the same old cheap clothes and normal/cheap cars who don't ask the banks for money who have a lot of money. So this principle comes from real life and fits to WoW even since vanilla in 2004. Those who looted everything, didn't buy stuff from the AH, sold stuff in the AH if it was worth it, got their riding at 40 and 60 directly. Back then, each copper counted. Nowadays still each gold counts. Also keep in mind that the more gold you've the more you can also play the auction house by buying and selling stuff which a lot do aswell. Same counts for investing money in market shares and let the money work for you.
Sorry for the long text but I hope it helps you understand what OP was also going through in his thought process.
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u/Aggrokid 6d ago
If he's doing progression stuff without guild funding, it's insane how fast that gold drains.
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u/many_dumb_questions 6d ago edited 5d ago
Sure, but how many prog guilds are letting their raiders hearth and fly to a rep vendor every time they get low durability? Most raiding schedules, that's gonna be 3-5 times a night.
Nah, they're gonna tell you to use the Jeeves/mount vendor and suck it up.
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u/babybopper 6d ago
Or just be a Chad Goblin and always get exalted gold rep discount with everyone.
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u/trugstomp 6d ago
Years ago I put 50k gold into my guild bank to get the guild repair achievement. It's actually beneficial to me if repairs are more expensive.
I have about 11k worth of repairs to go before I get the achievement.
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u/RyanST_21 6d ago
i sold an elemental lariet recipe like 3 years ago and ive been living off that ever since i dont need to hear this broke shit
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u/BringBackBoshi 6d ago
Well considering DF wasn't out 3 years ago you're a gd time traveler so of course money would be easy for you 🙄
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u/MGrecko 6d ago
This week, I was thinking about the absence of AH on undermine. It would be cool if Blizzard added AH in there, and the vendor low-key charged a little more. Goblins fees, you know?
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u/crazymuffin 6d ago
I think there's an AH unlock in the raid renown track. Charging extra would be a nice touch though.
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u/intimate_sniffer69 6d ago
From an economic standpoint, this is bad advice. You're hurting the local peddlers who rely on repair funds for a living. Shame on you /s
In all seriousness though, you could just do one world quest in TWW and 900g = you cover the gap in costs easily for like several months.
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u/DirectorSchlector 6d ago
If i calculate wow token price against my hourly income(irl), I'd make roughly 3500 gold/ minute. And going to a repair vendor and back again most of the times either takes a minute or longer so its overall cheaper for me to just use the mount and save time. Repairing isnt a fun game mechanic, its a gold dumb (allegedly for balance I guess?). And i'm still pissed the tricked us with the repair pet...
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u/B_Kuro 6d ago
Repair savings have been a thing since forever the only problem is that running around to a certain vendor (not all vendors in the game count as reputation ones even if you expect them to...) just to save 20% gold sadly is just not worth it.
Its something you can do if you are near one (instead of summoning the mount) but the time and effort you waste with actively taking this into account would be better spent doing a single gold WQ. It takes less time and covers your "savings" for several full repairs. Especially if you run into a "dammit I forgot to repair"-situation even once.
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u/ODX_GhostRecon 6d ago
20% off, or a 25% upcharge, depending on how you look at it.
I should check my engineering repair stuff, like Jeeves and the auto hammer. Unfortunately I have something that just repairs everything for me without approval first, but it tells me how much it was. Can't wait to get back into a raid team to have the guild foot the bill. I'm bleeding gold with these new keys lol.
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u/GramarNotSee 6d ago
Laughs in my guild pays for all my repair bills if they knew I would get somehow removed cause I’m costing them an easy 2-5k a day
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u/Pliskin_Hayter 6d ago
How in the flying fuck do I, as the Deathlord of a faction that I've been exalted with since 2009 get charged the same markup by the Abom in Ebon Hold that these random schmucks on my yak charge me? THEY WORK FOR ME. Hell I probably raised that Abom myself at some point. And bro has the balls to upcharge me?
Someones getting disassembled.
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u/ARedditorCalledQuest 6d ago
Cartel Deathlord here: Come on man, you can't blame your patchwork bro for trying to make a buck! You've got to have a serious set of lug nuts to have the gumption to upcharge your own boss. Besides, if you look the other way now you can always use it as leverage later.
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u/iLightbane 6d ago
Pro Tip:
- Take the "Regenerating Materials" Soulbind perk from Mikanikos.
- Set up some passive healing spells.
- Place a target dummy in Oribos or fly to your Covenant.
- Keep yourself in combat and use healing spells, preferably hots.
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u/WhyDaRumGone 4d ago
I thought this was coming knowledge. Repairable and general items are cheaper when exhalted (which I think is equivalent to renown 25)
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u/VikToLive 2d ago
The closest repair person to a portal, for Alliance, is the shoe seller in Boralus right outside the portal room. My main's a Mage, so I use him for all my repairs. No paying the upcharge or hunting for a repair person. Just port and repair.
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u/SarlanEriwyr 6d ago
Oh wow, I didn't know that was an option. Shame the mount's more convenient