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Casinos & Games

Every city runs a full slate of casino games: Dice, Blackjack, the Wheel of Fate, the Fight Pit, Roulette, Slots, Plinko, and a dedicated Poker room. Each game exists as its own table per city, and every table but Poker can be bought outright by a player, who then banks the house edge on every bet anyone else places there instead of paying it out. Prices and betting limits climb steeply from city to city, so an Ashenvale casino is a modest first investment while a Dark Citadel table is a fortune-sized commitment with fortune-sized stakes to match.

Ashenvale

Buyable at Rank 2 for a baseline 50,000 gold (before the server-wide inflation multiplier described on the Crafting Materials page). An unowned table here caps bets at 50,000 gold; an owned casino must keep its table limit at or above 5,000 gold, though that floor is only the ABSOLUTE minimum. The real minimum also rises with the owner's own total wealth, capped in this city at 50,000 gold, so a wealthy owner's true floor can sit far above the 5,000 gold shown here.

  • Ashenvale Dice Hall: Costs 50,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Ashenvale Blackjack Parlour: Costs 63,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Ashenvale Wheel Hall: Costs 38,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Ashenvale Fight Pit: Costs 75,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Ashenvale Roulette Hall: Costs 50,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Ashenvale Slot Den: Costs 43,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Ashenvale Plinko Hall: Costs 55,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Ashenvale Poker Room: A house-run Texas Hold'em cash table. Not purchasable by players.

Shadowmere

Buyable at Rank 4 for a baseline 250,000 gold (before the server-wide inflation multiplier described on the Crafting Materials page). An unowned table here caps bets at 250,000 gold; an owned casino must keep its table limit at or above 10,000 gold, though that floor is only the ABSOLUTE minimum. The real minimum also rises with the owner's own total wealth, capped in this city at 100,000 gold, so a wealthy owner's true floor can sit far above the 10,000 gold shown here.

  • Shadowmere Dice Hall: Costs 250,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Shadowmere Blackjack Parlour: Costs 313,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Shadowmere Wheel Hall: Costs 188,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Shadowmere Fight Pit: Costs 375,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Shadowmere Roulette Hall: Costs 250,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Shadowmere Slot Den: Costs 213,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Shadowmere Plinko Hall: Costs 275,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Shadowmere Poker Room: A house-run Texas Hold'em cash table. Not purchasable by players.

Duskholm

Buyable at Rank 6 for a baseline 1,000,000 gold (before the server-wide inflation multiplier described on the Crafting Materials page). An unowned table here caps bets at 1,000,000 gold; an owned casino must keep its table limit at or above 20,000 gold, though that floor is only the ABSOLUTE minimum. The real minimum also rises with the owner's own total wealth, capped in this city at 150,000 gold, so a wealthy owner's true floor can sit far above the 20,000 gold shown here.

  • Duskholm Dice Hall: Costs 1,000,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Duskholm Blackjack Parlour: Costs 1,250,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Duskholm Wheel Hall: Costs 750,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Duskholm Fight Pit: Costs 1,500,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Duskholm Roulette Hall: Costs 1,000,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Duskholm Slot Den: Costs 850,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Duskholm Plinko Hall: Costs 1,100,000 gold to buy outright.
  • Duskholm Poker Room: A house-run Texas Hold'em cash table. Not purchasable by players.

The Dark Citadel

Buyable at Rank 8 for a baseline 5,000,000 gold (before the server-wide inflation multiplier described on the Crafting Materials page). An unowned table here caps bets at 5,000,000 gold; an owned casino must keep its table limit at or above 40,000 gold, though that floor is only the ABSOLUTE minimum. The real minimum also rises with the owner's own total wealth, capped in this city at 200,000 gold, so a wealthy owner's true floor can sit far above the 40,000 gold shown here.

  • The Dark Citadel Dice Hall: Costs 5,000,000 gold to buy outright.
  • The Dark Citadel Blackjack Parlour: Costs 6,250,000 gold to buy outright.
  • The Dark Citadel Wheel Hall: Costs 3,750,000 gold to buy outright.
  • The Dark Citadel Fight Pit: Costs 7,500,000 gold to buy outright.
  • The Dark Citadel Roulette Hall: Costs 5,000,000 gold to buy outright.
  • The Dark Citadel Slot Den: Costs 4,250,000 gold to buy outright.
  • The Dark Citadel Plinko Hall: Costs 5,500,000 gold to buy outright.
  • The Dark Citadel Poker Room: A house-run Texas Hold'em cash table. Not purchasable by players.

The house fee when you buy a casino

Buying a casino keeps 10% of its price as a non-refundable house fee. Only the rest goes into the casino's bank. At the base Ashenvale price of 50,000 gold, 45,000 gold goes into the bank and 5,000 gold is kept (the real price is scaled by inflation). Without the fee a buyer could withdraw the whole price at once and own the casino for free.

Game rules and payouts

Blackjack pays a natural 3 to 2, and the dealer stands on 17.

The Wheel of Fate pays these multipliers on your bet, with these chances per spin:

  • Nothing: 10% of spins.
  • 0.1x: 12% of spins.
  • 0.2x: 15% of spins.
  • 0.5x: 22% of spins.
  • 1x: 23% of spins.
  • 2x: 17% of spins.
  • 20x: 1% of spins.

Roulette pays winnings on top of your returned stake. The wheel has a single zero, which loses every outside bet (red, black, even, odd, high and low).

Roulette payouts.

BetPays
A single number35 to 1
Two numbers (split)17 to 1
Three numbers (street)11 to 1
Four numbers (corner)8 to 1
Six numbers (line)5 to 1
A column2 to 1
A dozen2 to 1
Red1 to 1
Black1 to 1
Even1 to 1
Odd1 to 1
High (19 to 36)1 to 1
Low (1 to 18)1 to 1

Slots has three reels and one line. Three matching symbols pay the big prize, and two matching symbols on the first two reels pay a smaller one. The symbols are not equally common on the reel strip, so the rare ones pay the most.

Slots payouts, as multiples of your bet.

SymbolOn the reel stripThree in a rowPair on reels 1 and 2
Coin9 of 312x1x
Cup7 of 314x2x
Dagger6 of 318x3x
Eye4 of 3120x5x
Crown3 of 3180x8x
Skull2 of 31950x12x

Plinko drops through 10 or 12 rows, picked by the owner. The 10-row board pays 43x at the edges down to 0.2x in the middle, and the 12-row board pays 140x at the edges down to 0.2x in the middle. You can drop up to 100 balls at once.