I wasn’t around in Vanilla, so I don’t know how it was before, but I would like to know if people were able to become very wealthy by selling reagents and non-soulbound gear in the auction house. I know that in today’s retail WoW, simply selling a stack of 200 BfA or will make you about 10,000g, did players in Vanilla make money from selling reagents as well? If so, what should I sell? (Obviously not 10,000g but rather just a relative amount of gold.)
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Herbing, alchemy or herb, disenchant
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Other than the obvious profession mats, there’s no way to tell until your server’s economy develops.
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As a general rule, selling materials is more profitable than production. If it’s your first time playing vanilla I highly recommend 2 gathering professions for your first character while you level. Any will do just don’t pick herb and mining together. Pick 1 or the other. The volatile economy of a new server makes it hard to predict which will make you rich in the beginning. Don’t worry about getting rich. Just focus on affording mounts and training. There’s plenty of time to get rich at end game.
Check out Frostadamus on YouTube. He has the best videos on gold making and professions for all levels of players.
If everyone takes skinning + herb/mining at the start and the markets are flooded with raw mats then the guy who leveled a crafting profession and has some cool recipes will be in hot demand.
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You don’t get the valuable recipes until endgame. So the person who gathered while leveling and banked the mats or sold them for gold will be able to power level crafting professions before he starts running instances and grinding rep for recipes.
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Plssss… do not be a Hammersmith.
I remember crafted items like quivers, tinker items and such sold well. AND bags i forgot about bags!!!
The best way to make money is clearly to do (lists something that I am not doing so I can make more with less competition)
Leveling a crafting profession will cost you money, takes a good amount time and is far more challenging in vanilla. Getting to 300 is not cheap or easy. At level 60 after developing a healthy amount of gold a crafting profession can potentially be leveled in a day.
Making money with crafting takes the right recipes that usually are not easy to get. It’s time consuming and not conducive to leveling.
All mats will make you money on AH. Yeah, you won’t be rich but it’s steady income. Players will always be buying mats.
Not all were difficult. Some pre-mc gear recipes were fairly simple really.
Herb with alchemy or skinning (can drop skinning once u get ur epic mount).
Mining with Blacksmith-Armor/Axesmith- or skinning (can drop skinning once u get ur epic mount).
Skinning With Leatherworking.
Tailor with Enchanting or skinning (can drop skinning once u get ur epic mount).
Enchanting with w/e you want.
You pick… They r all good Choices.
Engineering for PvP 100%
Herbing and alchemy worked very well for me.
Do Not Buy Gear just level with what you get from quests. If you are PVP minded level engineer with mining if not pick two gathering prof and sell all mats until you get your mount then level a prof.
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It was hard. I couldn’t afford level 60 mount until they added XP to Gold conversion of quest rewards (BTW, Are we getting that feature? Or it was added later?)
Didn’t we had like blue gear for each 10 levels from beeing just friendly (Or honored) with pvp factions ? I think you could reach friendly very fast
I remember “saving up” so I could buy a sweet lvl 15 white sword from a vendor…
Ignorance is bliss…until you realize that you just wasted all your money.
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BGs are not going to be in game at the start so don’t think we can get the faction gear right away. But that is a great idea for alts.
Yes, getting rep with wsg, ab, av(at level 50) unlocked gear to buy at different levels but you still had to pay a fair amount of gold for them.
This is the best attempt Iv’e seen at trying to get auction house secrets. Bravo!
P.S. - You no take my secrets!