To start, I just want to say I never played vanilla or tbc when they were current, and never played on private servers. When classic came out I fell in love and put alot of hours into the game… Though I haven’t raided much due to personal anxieties about being a noob around players who played vanilla or are Private Servers Paul’s. I’m still trying to get over that.
Writing this because Im starting to feel quite overwhelmed a lot of the talk about prep, and with just the prep I’m personally doing. I’m reading that people should be bringing in 10k today be “ready”. Meanwhile… I’m setting at what I consider alot, 1.3k. How is 10k possible… I barely make 100-200g a day solo farming enough as it is…How much do you really need to get started? How much prepping should I be doing? Am I even doing enough? Should I bother doing so much??
Right now I’m leveling my hunter to 60. I have a 60 pally and mage, both prebis geared.I’ve leveled mining/skinning/herbing/alch/engineering/tailoring to 300 across the 3 toons currently. I intend to level JC/LW on a shaman… and might make another paladin as a draenai. I solo farm on my mage making around 100-200g a day when I’m on… I don’t boost for gold.
Edit: at work, will be replying shortly 
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No prep is needed.
You are already more than prepared. I think having the gold for epic flying is a nice treat (5k), but not necessary by any stretch.
Have a bit of gold for your new alts or upcoming professions, but honestly, you can do that while levelling anyway.
Just have fun out there!
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No you don’t need to do any preparation. If you leveled through Classic, you understand the game play. You will be fine. Don’t worry about raiding either. Just have fun.
*** I personally am going to stay in Classic Forever. A couple changes that were made in TBC don’t suit me. The appearance of PVP Arenas effectively turned pvp play into the same min/max frenzy that ruined raiding. A shame really.
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please share where you make all that gold. I am leveling a warlock, rogue, paladin. Im strongly leaning on my warlock being my “Alt main”. Rogue for dungeon farming herbs and paladin for prot tanking shinanigans.
Also if you are farming 100-200 gold a day you should have more than 1.3k gold reserves. If you are going to main mage you should have more for the tailoring pre bis set.
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I definitely support Classic forever and i think that should exist and perhaps sometime in the future i will go back to it. Though I feel the same way as you but for TBC. I plan to keep my toons in Burning Crusade forever as wrath to me changed various things that i didnt like in the game.
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Overall TBC is designed to equalize people, and you will find almost all your gear is replaced relatively quickly as you move to the outlands, and with some reasonable running of dungeons and heroics you should be able to position yourself for entry level raiding without problems. While those in T3 will have some advantages as some will almost be raid ready, they will also get stuck with much higher repair bills.
From a gold perspective, the costs of TBC really aren’t that high at the beginning. Most people are targeting epic flying, but even its not a huge reach for most people as you will find you get far more questing in the outlands and will probably make a good portion of the gold you need just doing that. Now if you spend your money boosting expensive professions like jewelcrafting, blacksmithing or enchanting, it will certainly sap a lot of funds, but you can get by with a slow mount.
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leveling 60-70 will only net you 1.4k gold
so yeah, you’ll probably want to grind out that 5k gold to get the flying mount ready.
that 60% flying mount is actual garbage, you 100% want to skip right past it.
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No preparation needed. Don’t gather any materials for leveling professions. Don’t farm gold.
The fact I am preparing and want less competition does not in any way influence my answer, I swear.
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Personally, I say:
- Be sure to have your epic mount already that way you’ll get epic riding skill for free.
- I would say go in with a minimum of 300-500g so you can do your training and stuff for a few levels.
But like everyone else says, no real prep work needed tbh. People are overthinking this. Just treat it like you would any new expansion release…
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Just sweaty people being sweaty. The only prep you need to do is whatever you personally feel you want to do. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Zero.
But the people saving for epic flying? Well, they’re dumb. Very dumb. It’ll be quite easy to make gold in TBC. They should be investing now in things they can flip on the AH for even greater profit. If you aren’t spending gold right now, most of your gold is going to be eating up by inflation. Buy consumes that are still good at level 70 for cheap. There are many of them. Major Mana potions for example. Mongoose Elixir, which is going to get super pricey once tbc goes live. And many more.
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Faced any sweaty premades in WSG lately?
I’ve done the math after real hard fought games, with Sappers, Grenades, LIP/FAP spam, and your looking at 100s of gold in consumes across the teams usage, min/max comps, and of course the right specs.
If your just doing world or AV that’s a different matter.
For your play style you’re all set. Have a set of bags and a few gold ready to mail to your new shaman. If you want you can farm ore/gems to make jewel crafting easier to level.
Don’t compare your sense of fun to others’ progression and just enjoy yourself
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Prep is NOT needed. It’s HELPFUL but not needed.
All you’re doing by prepping for TBC is front-loading the work. It makes you more effecient when the time comes but patience will get you there just as well. If you have 1.3k then you’re not going to be able to buy your epic flying the moment you hit 70. But so what? If you don’t care about maximizing flying speed asap then it doesn’t matter. You’ll earn the gold and get it eventually.
Likewise, crafted gear and such will be really expensive early on. And many classes require it for their pre-bis. But if you’re patient and can wait a few weeks / month, you’ll be fine.
Look at something like the bloodvine set. It was BIS for mages and locks at the time. The day ZG came out i sold 8 bloodvine herbs for 1200g total (150g each) to some rich guy who bought it just cause he could. The next day i sold each herb i farmed for 75g. After 4 days they were 60g. After a week they were 40. After two weeks they were 25g each.
Prices come down over time. The richer you are, the earlier you can afford to buy it, that’s the main reason for prep. Tons of people want to get their crafted BIS gear within a week or two. But if you’re patient you can get it for much cheaper as time goes on.
For the record, that bloodvine set. I was farming the herbs myself that were needed to make it. I even had the pattern to craft it. But i didn’t bother crafting myself a set until the price came down to 25g each. I sold them while they were high then used them when it came back down.
Patience can be just as valuable.
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Like others have said, literally no prep is needed.
I understand tbc very well, I played it back then and I’ve been playing it since on other servers and I’m going into tbc with the boost so I’ll be 58 with nothing.
You are very clearly not a bleeding edge type of player, and you don’t have to be. So just play the game man! Level up, find out what dungeons you need to do to get good gear. Join a guild that’s casual if you want to raid and go from there!
Me personally, I’m just doing pvp so I REALLY don’t have to prep for anything. Jsut show up and get your honor gear then your arena gear and just try to get better as a player
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No real prep is needed for TBC. When I played TBC originally. I had characters I had never raided on and only had 20-30g on them and they did just fine.
I had a mage on another server from my main, I switched to that server and my mage when a new guild my wife was in invited me to join. That mage had quest blues and about 36g. I was able to fully enjoy TBC without any problems, got my flying mount at 70 and was able to quest and level without much difficulty.
Epic flying is actually more like 6,000 gold because you still need to buy normal flying before you can buy epic flying.
True, but for a standard TBC experience it can, if the player chooses, be skipped. There is nothing in the game a epic mount gains them that they could not do with the standard flying mount.
The Epic flying is useful and makes farming and gathering a lot easier to by sure. But if we focus on what is necessary to enjoy TBC, Epic flying goes under the “Optional, nice to have” category.
I agree I was just correcting that guy’s information.