Well, this has been one in the back of the ol sketchbook for a while… Anyways, if you’ve never come across it before, the Elixir of Giant Growth is a lowbie elixir that gives you 8 str and a little bump to your height. The ingredients aren’t overly painful to get, though as a previous Ally, it proved sometimes difficult on a pvp server. But yeah, fun story, I actually used that line in trade chat to sell them by the caseload to people! It was a crazy hot commodity! It’s sad when you run around getting all these awesome flask recipes and whatnot, and what makes you the most money is a low level item. But I tell you it worked! My marketing with that got me enough gold to buy a mount and then some! (in wowclassic that is, which in my day, a mount was a lotta money!)
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None of the above. I sell some tailoring things and enchants on the AH, but to try and make back what I spend. Mostly I’m losing money trying to level. Got tailoring maxed, and my Mage is now wearing some VERY fancy pants I don’t mind telling you; now I need to finish getting enchanting up.
I started cata at around 8-9k, and now I am squating on 3k, using dailies and some sales to go broke slower.
If you are going down that much, I strongly recommend that you take the time to do some more dailies. I got a tailor/enchanter as well and what I usually do is:
Grind Tol Barad dailies (usually around 300g a day, there are ofc other dailies as well though the tol barad ones give a decent coin and they are pretty quick to do)
Sell tailored stuff free upon request (free with their mats, my mats = AH price on mats +20%, “no crafting fee but tips appreciated” - can often get 10g+ in tip per craft)
Disenchant every item I win from greed, use waste tailoring mats to craft crap gear for DE & then make enchant scrolls that I sell on AH (only cost a silver or so per auction as them scrolls are worthless for vendors so you don’t need to undercut, just up it for what you want to sell it for as many times as needed - just make sure you won’t keep crafting stuff that don’t sell well ^_^)
Try to not shop for more than you earn in a day unless you really need to. If you spend more than a day’s earning, try to regain as much as possible before shopping again to at least maintain status quo - hardest part is always in the start before you get a large enough gold buffer to play with.
in WOTLK, the one thing that got me the most money was selling those epic level bullets! People in the AH were pricing them like 50-60g and I sold them for like 10! lol! I even got angry threats from other people that I was ruining the economy and apparently there was a secret underground bullet selling coalition that set all the AH prices. My new name became the “Walmart of Bullets” cause my prices were so awesome! Then they under cut me, had a price war, and all the hunters on the server lived happily ever after. >)
dailies are good for gold I suppose, but after a while… it just feels like work. I do like how they’ve kind of mixed things up a little where they’re not always the same, but maybe they need a bit more diversity in it to make me happy. but yeah, enchanting is a great way to make a buck!
It’s game gold (funny money) if it’s not being spent it is serving no purpose; unless I was deliberately saving for something, which I’m not. I want to cap my profs so I have the recipes that people want.
All those tips you offered, I am well aware of. Every day I can play (life commitments limits me to weekends) I am going to do dailies while I wait in queue. I don’t spend money on ench mats, I get those from dungeons and when I collect a big enough pile I go make some scrolls and get another few points. All that money was going to volatiles for dreamcloth, so I could earn points and save up enough for the two recipes for me and the gear itself.
My available playtime means I need to choose between a boring day long mat grind or doing something I enjoy (pelting stuff with ice).
I have my azure nether drake and white war talbuk (which looks pretty epic with a pure white draenei) which are the only two mounts I truly want; so it’s not like I’m aiming for a chopper/ sandstone drake.
My point here is not complaining. I don’t care very much about the gold, really. Mostly I was offering up the truth in an amusing way to respond, since debt wasn’t an option.
Rant officially over.
lol Nivella, I’m kind of in the same boat with the playtime. though I did get my pally a fancy new chopper, it was kinda back when mining mats sold for a lot more, so it only took like a week to make the gold before it all got nerfed.
as for gold, sure, having a few pieces is good, but I’ve pretty much ventured away from the need to amass a Scrooge McDuck swimming pool. Heck, the most expensive thing I bought was those 25 primal whatevers for the awesome sword… that I never got… and ended up selling the mats back on the AH for about 1/10th what I paid. Oh well…
anyways, there’s really not a whole lot of money sinks to function in this game. you can buy fancy stuff like mounts or gear, but for the most part you either get enough to scrape by from regular non daily quests and drops.
Then again, that’s from a current perspective. Back in wow classic, you had to earn your coin! getting that epic mount was certainly a status symbol. back when you had to dance on mailboxes all day just to pay for your repair bill from last night’s raid. or beg your friends to loan you 50g for you to respec your tank so that he could go outside and kill something half as strong as a bunny. thems were good times indeed.
Mainly AH, back in the days I made quite a buck selling Swiftness Potions and items at 70% of their value. Dual Spec possible at level 30, not mentioning enough money to buy a mount and still run pretty comfy. Still, AH without auctioneer is not something I’d try :D
After that.. I got pretty bored with AH, especially when glyphs weren’t in such high demand anymore, guess questing isn’t really that bad ;)
ah yes, swiftness potions, I remember those! XD
playing the AH is pretty interesting to do. I’m curious if anyone has made any research studies on the AH to trend prices and saturation. like stocks. maybe an inadvertent effect, but I bet the AH runs fairly similar to the stockmarket… well… without the effects of employment. ha! could you imagine? if they put a limit on how many times a single daily quest could be done by players to simulate employment rates! quick! grab me a disgruntled and bored blizz programmer!!!! XD
Well, in fact they did compare AH to the American Stock Exchange :D I can’t give you the exact dteail, but words like ‘microeconomy’ and ‘simulation’ were used quite a few times ;)
They also did an analysis on the Hakkar fever outbreak (Blood fever?) to see how real life epidemics spread throughout the community. Talk about eggheads :D
very neat!
although… I’m not so sure about doing a study with wowland outbreaks… cause remember when WOTLK had it’s prelaunch event? where people turned into undead and could spread it? yeah… I was doing my zombish duty and giving it to as many people as I could!
I don’t think I’d be running around sharing the love with everyone if I was in an outbreak. Unless it’s like the zombie virus, cause ya know, brains are tasty… >)
http://www.wowhead.com/blog=72637/warcraft-helps-swine-flu-researchers Ha! Got it! :D