My brother and I were discussing which method would be best for the brand new servers of Classic wow, we are at a roadblock and I want to hear what other classic players are going to do.
Option 1- Questing and possibly instances till 60, no professions, and selective abilities from 1-60, decreasing costs/increasing quest income. Then at 60 doing professions for either profit or endgame.
Or
Option 2- Pick up two professions Skinning/Mining/Herbalism for mats and sell them on AH while leveling creating an income while you level.
After some testing and discussion, we are trying to figure out which method is best or if there is a better method, with riding costing 1000g and low amounts of gold due to new servers, I figure getting to 60 should be the ultimate goal, spending time while leveling to selling materials while there is low gold flow seems like a waste. What would be the most effective way to level while making the most money on a fresh server?
Skinning is an okay bonus to your income. Vendor the low level leather for some extra cash as you level. You said it yourself that a new server won’t have enough gold on it to make the AH worth the time.
Option 1 will be the best method until the server economy has developed. Mara farming has some pretty good gold per hour rates, and so does DM, but I don’t remember if DM will be live during phase 1.
Buy skill ranks that you use often. Dont purchase skills/talents you arent going to ever use.
Dont buy crap off the AH. This will be a huge gold sink and it may help you feel more powerful but when you’re spending 10g to get an upgrade you’re going to replace in 2-4 levels questing in the zone its a huge hit. Especially because gold generation rates were a lot lower in classic. We’re used to doing hundreds of thousands in transactions at the moment and in vanilla it took most of a month farming to get enough gold to earn your epic mount unless you got really really lucky with an epic drop from your area…
If you really must skip training your skills make sure you train them eventually. It really won’t take that much extra time at 60 to farm the gold you spent on your skills. Having all of your skills and learning to use them is invaluable.
Also gathering profs won’t make anything beyond vendor on a fresh server. Skinning may be worth it but herb/mining definitely aren’t.
The absolute “most” efficient way to make money currently lies in endgame content and having the ability to move fast enough to get there. Figure out your farming circuit. Its a bit soulless, but if you feel unlucky at rare item farming , its the most stable option.
Skinning is a passive way to supplement your income while questing as you can farm the mobs you are killing for quests.
My personal preference is mining and herbalism since all crafting professions end up needing a ton of mats to level.
Herbalism is also relatively lucrative, helps double down on your resource farm with mining later on if you are going to actively sell for profit.
Its more the advanced option. And keep in mind this is just to SAVE for your mounts @ 40, and then later on. After you get the 1st mount you can farm a few levels and buy all the skills you missed. Getting the epic right when u hit 60 isnt gonna be feasible for most so saving 200-300 gold between 40-60 isnt too hard to do.
When i first hit 60 on my hunter I had ground mount, and about 500g towards epic mount because of tradeskills/leveling
EXP being granted by nodes really happened later on. In classic there was no bonuses to play other than the profession itself. I think farming herbs and other gathering giving XP was mid-game. Cata? Let me look it up and ill update this with a link…
References for it are linked to 2011ish and I believe that was around the time Cata came out…
Lock is tailor /goblin engi
Rogue is mining / gnomish engi
Both will be skinning while leveling, rogue having (dis) enchanting as well (lock will have tailor the whole way).
Plan is hit 60 asap… Then go back for professions. Do math on whether pickpocket farming brd for gold then buying mats or mining myself to power level both engineering professions is faster. Once both professions are leveled, and both characters are pre raid geared… I can see about selling the engi spec specific items to people of the other spec, or just farm ore/crystals for mounts, or farm the lock epic mount mats then sell runs, or (if pick pocketing is making me better gold) just ditch mining for alchemy (which I’m planning on by content bucket 2 regardless so I can summon madness boss and get a rentakis trinket)
Dont need to apologize. Its been 12 years since the end of vanilla. I dont expect people to have the same memory and ability to recall every aspect of the game from back then.
I certainly dont and will not claim to, HOWEVER, I do remember quite a bit. Except cata and MOP. I was living in the middle of the mountains and had no internet service for the better part of 4… 5 years?
I had forgotten that as well. However I did have a fancy addon sometime before BC launched that tracked where nodes should spawn and I remember doing circuits around winterspring for thorium and whatever herbs it had.
But who knows if any of those classic addons will resurface or get redesigned again. Easier to just pick herbalism or mining and then add skinning to the mix if you have no interest in crafting.
Herb is better than mining because it’s easier to keep it at level without going out of your way. Mining hits a huge slow down at the end of tin. Tin to iron is extremely slow and can easily result in you out leveling it if you don’t go out of your way to level it.
Most efficient leveling is about gearing fast and efficiently.
Kinda like finishing the quests with that are your BiS or close to it that may last a long time like the ring from shadow fang keep horde quest or the crescent staff from wailing cavern horde quest. Dead Mines chest piece if your lucky be sure to do dungeons when you have their quests.
Right stats for right gear.
Well for making gold on a fresh server might be best to get to max level first skinning and tailoring are similar sell bags if you want might be easy gold if you can get good ones.
Mounts/speed boost make gathering more efficient, but yeah grinding for gold is probably better at higher levels if you want to grind it to sell to npcs.
Roll a class that is low maintenance as your first 60, use it to farm if not your main.
Such as: Druid and hunter are extremely forgiving as well as warlock. Druid and warlock both get “free mounts”. Paladins do too, but they’re faction locked and tend to have higher gear needs.