Summary
- World of Warcraft's Love is in the Air event has added a new achievement called "Support Your Local Artisans" that requires players to donate 70,000 gold to the Artisan's Consortium.
- Players must donate 10,000 gold each day for seven days during the event period, with donations made to Galvus Ironhammer or Torgando Featherhoof.
- Despite the high cost and commitment required, the achievement offers no significant rewards, making it a questionable investment for players.
World of Warcraft just added a new gold sink achievement to its Love is in the Air event that seemingly gives very little payoff. While World of Warcraft is no stranger to gold sinks, this new achievement is oddly bereft of any rewards to make earning it worthwhile.
Love is in the Air is the World of Warcraft event that acts as the in-game equivalent to Valentine’s Day. While it is not uncommon for the game to add new things to the event, this year, it gave Love is in the Air a full makeover, featuring new World of Warcraft event quests, rewards, and achievements players can experience from now through February 19.
However, one of these achievements has players baffled due to its pointlessly high cost. Support Your Local Artisans is a new achievement fans can get by donating a total of 70,000 gold to the Artisan’s Consortium in support of the Gala of Gifts, which players can do in increments of 10,000 gold a day at Galvus Ironhammer near Stormwind, or Torgando Featherhoof near Orgrimmar. That said, beyond the accomplishment itself, the achievement doesn’t seem to give any major rewards.
New Valentine’s Day Gold Sink Achievement in WoW
- Support Your Local Artisans requires players to donate 70,000 gold to the Artisan’s Consortium during Love is in the Air.
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Players must donate 10,000 gold a day for seven days during the two-week period of the Valentine's Day event.
- Gold is donated to Galvus Ironhammer or Torgando Featherhoof outside Stormwind and Orgrimmar respectively.
- The achievement has no significant rewards associated with it, unlike other Love is in the Air achievements in WoW.
To be fair, players are reportedly receiving a Bundle of Love Tokens through the mail in exchange for their 10,000 gold donations, each of which contains 10 of the event currency. It remains to be seen if this is a one-time gift, or if they will receive it every time they make this donation. Either way, 10 Love Tokens for 10,000 gold is hardly a good exchange rate, so it is far from a proper incentive or reward, especially when they can get a new Dragonriding drake customization for 50,000 gold during WoW's Lunar Festival, taking place concurrently with Love is in the Air.
Previous gold sinks in World of Warcraft have always provided valuable rewards in exchange. The Reins of the Grand Expedition Yak mount for 120,000 gold provides a mobile transmog station, and the limited-time Mighty Caravan Brutosaur costs a steep 5,000,000 gold but includes a mobile auction house. With this new achievement seemingly providing no substantial rewards, players may be better off saving their gold for the gold sink cosmetics World of Warcraft added last month, as they will vanish indefinitely at the end of August.
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World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is the ninth expansion pack for the iconic massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.
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