World of Warcraft: Forever Normal ruleset
Normal is the ruleset without forced world PvP. In contested zones you are flagged only if you choose to be, so the open world is a place you level, gather and travel through rather than one you survive.
It is where most of the population goes, and in a game with no realms that matters more than it ever did: the whole Normal population of a faction trades on one auction house, which makes it the deepest market in the game.
What Normal does to the auction house
- Depth. A single seller almost never moves a price, so undercutting wars are shallow and patience is worth more than speed.
- Gathering is cheap in risk, so raw materials are plentiful and their margins thin. Value sits further up the chain, in what is crafted from them.
- Consumables that matter in dungeons and raids sell steadily rather than in spikes, because nobody is buying them to win a fight on the road.
Why one ruleset is one market · How the prices here are measured
The Normal markets, live
Normal Alliance · most listed
| Item | Min buyout | Listed |
|---|---|---|
 Crafted Light Shot | 1c | 89,298 |
 Sharp Arrow | 1c | 61,750 |
| Exploding Shot | 20c | 29,125 |
| Crafted Heavy Shot | 4c | 26,477 |
| Razor Arrow | 5c | 22,621 |
| Rough Arrow | 1c | 22,443 |
| Heavy Shot | 1c | 22,279 |
 Linen Cloth | 26c | 13,405 |
Normal Horde · most listed
| Item | Min buyout | Listed |
|---|---|---|
| Crafted Light Shot | 1c | 46,720 |
| Sharp Arrow | 1c | 33,788 |
| Rough Arrow | 1c | 26,913 |
| Razor Arrow | 5c | 26,912 |
| Crafted Heavy Shot | 5c | 23,447 |
| Feathered Arrow | 25c | 8,243 |
| Linen Cloth | 25c | 7,634 |
 Light Feather | 7c | 6,139 |
Questions
- Is Normal the same as PvE?
- Yes. Normal is what earlier versions of the game called a PvE realm: world PvP happens only between players who have flagged for it. Battlegrounds and duels work the same on every ruleset.
- Can a Normal character trade with a PvP character?
- No. Each ruleset and faction has its own auction house, so a Normal Alliance character and a PvP Alliance character never see the same listings. Prices on the two are measured separately on this site.