http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/11 ... -warcraft/
I think a lot of people are terribly confused on this. This is some kind of vanity pet. It has basically no value, and while money itself has no inherent value, it is backed by nations. Here, if you attempt to use a vanity pet as a currency, you're literally basing its value on faith. If I traded some stuff for 10 of those pets, there's really no guaranteed that I'll have a market that will value these at $100.
It's not even like Diablo 2's Stone of Jordans, because Stone of Jordans are fairly useful on their own (probably best ring for non physical damage classes), and they're also used for high level transmutes, and later for triggering Uber Diablo. If you traded a Zod for 100 Stone of Jordans and then the market for SoJs totally collapsed, at least you can use your 100 SoJs for something useful. There's a reason why people didn't trade in Nagelrings, and even if capacity is infinite, you really wouldn't feel too good about trading a Zod for 1000 Nagelrings since if the market collapses on that, you have a lot of useless rings on your hands. Most of the items in D2 that have a fixed value in SoJ tend to be stuff that have a high inherent value for anyone: Skulder's Ire, Arkaine's Valor, Tal Rasha's Armor, and so on.
I think a lot of people are terribly confused on this. This is some kind of vanity pet. It has basically no value, and while money itself has no inherent value, it is backed by nations. Here, if you attempt to use a vanity pet as a currency, you're literally basing its value on faith. If I traded some stuff for 10 of those pets, there's really no guaranteed that I'll have a market that will value these at $100.
It's not even like Diablo 2's Stone of Jordans, because Stone of Jordans are fairly useful on their own (probably best ring for non physical damage classes), and they're also used for high level transmutes, and later for triggering Uber Diablo. If you traded a Zod for 100 Stone of Jordans and then the market for SoJs totally collapsed, at least you can use your 100 SoJs for something useful. There's a reason why people didn't trade in Nagelrings, and even if capacity is infinite, you really wouldn't feel too good about trading a Zod for 1000 Nagelrings since if the market collapses on that, you have a lot of useless rings on your hands. Most of the items in D2 that have a fixed value in SoJ tend to be stuff that have a high inherent value for anyone: Skulder's Ire, Arkaine's Valor, Tal Rasha's Armor, and so on.
