My story is I started playing wow when Lich released and loved it up until mid Mop.
Decided I’d play classic got a warrior to 50 and alt army at lvl 20…only to get bored out of my brains. Pretty much how retail makes me feel playing after a decade break.
Given how much fun I am having playing a boosted rogue (haters gunna hate) I regret not slugging my way through 1-60 x 10 toons, mainly because I missed the gold gathering phase (rather than starting tbc in Naxx gear).
Now I see flying is 5k and I’m like…shizznik, ain’t no way I’m ever going to get to that much gold I’ll be lucky if I can afford consumables and enchants to raid by the time I get there.
Now, this isn’t me crying, it is what it is, there is a new world I’m waiting to explore anyway. Just curious how many others out there are not new to Wow but are feeling financially gimped jumping into TBC after a break.
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I’m broke but I make maybe 200g a day just questing and grinding in outlands. Of course I blew all my money on 18 slot bags recently, lol. I gotta work on saving money for flying.
At level 60 I looked at the price of epic riding and how much gold I had on hand, after having spent almost all of what I had before just getting the last 5 points of blacksmithing because lolThorium, and thought “man I’m never gonna afford that”
by level 61 I was already halfway there
you may not be able to afford it immediately after hitting 70 but you’ll get there eventually
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I made the mistake of giving all the gold I’d collected to my guild master when I quick playing classic over a year ago, not expecting to ever come back…and now I’m back playing, leveling a new toon, though I never make a major effort to amass large amounts of gold so I figure I’ll get flying eventually. if nothing else I can focus on running dungeons for most of outlands leveling and go back and quest at 70 for increased gold rewards.
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Yes! But the epic flying costs 5k which is hard to get to if you dont have a lot of time to invest in playing.
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I hit 70 on Monday, bought my flying mount and went from 80g back up to 936g from just questing. It’s not super hard to get your finances back up once you level cap and can quest for gold.
There’s that too, I have bought leather when I got tired of skinning old leather to get the rogues LW up and getting my warriors professions ready to progress. Hopefully now I can accumulate and who knows, I may have flying …just as WotLK classic emerges lol
Questing from 60 to 70 should give you enough Gold for Flying. In particular if you have a gathering prof to use along the way.
Then at 70 all the quests you don’t finish in the zones give a pile of Gold in lieu of XP. I’m getting around 300G a day at 70 just questing, doing Dungeons and selling things on the AH here and there.
I typically farm up the amount of gold that I need easily enough.
That being said, having engi + BS on my main is really hurting my little stockpile. I’ve been lucky enough with JC recipe drops so far to off most of the material cost for getting BS up, but my poor Engineering has been ignored. And I’d like to have the goggles as soon as they become available.
the first mob i killed in Netherstorm dropped Design: Gleaming gem(the spell crit one), nobody on my server even had this pattern up to this point, i know because it’s one of the main gems i would be using so i’ve looked for it, no gem no pattern of it, so i put it up for 5000g bid and 12000 buyout, it didn’t sell even though it was the only one available at the time, eventually there was 2 more patterns of it but i ended up selling it still for 900g. so moral of the story, get ur rear to netherstorm, it’s an under rated zone.
Honestly you just have to avoid the money pitfalls and spend a night leveling a gathering prof.
- You shouldnt buy AH gear unless its the best thing you can get for your time investment
- Gems/enchants should be reserved for items that you will not be replacing
- Bother a mage for water, those waters off the vendor add up.
- Take the extra 20 mins to farm a crafting reagent rather than buy it off the AH.
- stick to a spec, respeccing can kill your pockets
- dont try to “play the AH” by buying/reselling UNLESS you know what you are doing, which you dont because you wouldnt be broke if you did.
I am frugal as all hell unless its a BIS piece.
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JC patterns should always fetch a pretty penny, as JC tends to be one of the best money making professions.
Sometimes the weekend players will put things like that up for barely more than vendor price, but I doubt they’ll get enough of the JC recipes to actually affect the market.
buying AH gear is the biggest pitfall. luckily for me AH gear is only like a 10 AP upgrade at best these days, so it’s easy to pass up. in vanilla, AH gear was much better in terms of finding big upgrades.
I gather for my own professions generally.
I’m broke because I haven’t played, as I said. I’m well aware of how the AH works.
Thanks for the 101 but as I also said I’m not new to wow, and rogues don’t need mana. 
I got you, that was just a general thought on how to save cash. My friend hit 70 on Friday with 900 gold to his name and has earned now over 8k since getting there from Herbing.
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there are people that will buy the reputation items as well for a pretty penny, this one guy bought my fel armements for 25g each and my mark of sargareas for 1g each, i had 4 fel arms and 39 marks just from doing shadowlabs like 4 times while leveling at 68-69.
I’m not worrying about epic flying because TBC already has plenty of flight paths. I’ll get 5k gold when I eventually get it.
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I boosted a druid in the pre-patch. Played the AH and bought my epic ground mount in 3 days, and I got my epic flying the day I got to level 70. Already am back to 3k.
There are resources you can use to make gold using the AH check the woweconomy subreddit for example, lots of good info / tips.
Leveling JC isn’t that expensive, and it’s netting me a lot of gold at the moment. Resetting markets is very lucrative too.
Wait until all the dailies come, making gold will be easy.