Hey guys, I’m new to WoW and I feel like I’m not doing enough in farming gold to be able to afford the level 40 mount.
FYI, here’s what I’m doing at the moment:
Selling all the grey, white green and even blue items that I don’t need
Selling all the herbs at the auction house (herbalism as profession)
Selling bolt of woolen/linen at the auction house (tailoring as profession)
Regarding to tailoring, I’ve stopped leveling altogether (currently at level 105)
Only learning the spells that I use frequently as well as some new skills that looks interesting
Not buying anything from the vendors or auction house
Getting food/drink from quest and mage
All in all, even when I did all this, I only have 15G in my backpack. I’m only 14 levels away from 40 and I just don’t know If I can make enough gold to purchase the mount or not.
Can you please tell me what I’m doing wrong? Can you also tell me what I can do to increase my efficiency in farming gold?
30-40 is the real stretch. You’ll make more gold there by orders of magnitude.
That said, I deeply recommend selling blues on the AH. Greens if they’re good as well. A belt “of intellect” might be worth more than you’d think, and definitely more than vendor value.
Also avoid buying skill ranks of skills you don’t use regularly.
The best way to have the gold when you get to level 40:
do not skip your starting zone area because getting honored with them means you only pay 90g for your mount instead of 100g.
do not use auctions to sell your mats because the deposit costs and overly saturated AH competition means you may actually be losing your hard earned gold.
farm mats, vendor mats, repeat. this works especially well if you find mobs that drop a STACKABLE vendor junk item worth several silver and decent respawning rates (stranglethorn vale cats and gorillas).
minimize ALL possible expenses. no AH purchases. no nice to haves. even repair cost reduction adds up by farming mobs that aren’t several levels higher than your toon.
train class abilities and utilize character options that maximize speed (like hunter’s aspect of cheetah) and AOE attacks that you can manage per level.
Gold rewards from quests and item vendor value increases drastically into the late 30’s. It’s something along the lines of exponential growth. If you’re level 26 and have 15 g, you’re probably in good shape.
Way better than I’m doing and I’ve been playing on pservers for 5 yrs, keep that up and you’ll afford your mount you’ll see a spike in quest reward silver that’ll make your gold accumulate faster, around lvl 35ish
The biggest pisser right now is the auction house. The doomsayers were right, and layering/overcrowding has killed the economy. The AH on my server is so terribly oversaturated that nobody can turn a profit. I would bet that people are not even paying attention to their deposit costs when they post items for mere pennies over the vendor price. It’s crashed the economy so bad that I’ve macro’d /spit on the AH NPCs when I run by.
I’m not aware of WoW’s leveling curve so I presumed that you will level just as fast in yours 30s.
Also I didn’t really think about the deposits in auction house as some of those fees are recouped when you collect your money?
Having said that, would it be good idea to halt my tailoring leveling? Or should I use those bolts to level my profession?
Honestly, I’ve only picked tailoring because a guide mentioned that it will grant me a “best in slot” gear at level 60 but come to think of it, I should’ve just picked skinning or mining instead.
All this advise and I would love to see what ppl who are 40 right now did to get the gold. My friend hit 40 and he was doing a lot of stuff and still was 60g short
when you say selling all the greys, white, green and blue, do you mean to vendor??
Anything except grey items will have value to SOMEONE, the key is to know what it is and to how many as far as keeping them for AH or vendor. Example, sharp claws. They are only used in rage potions I believe, most people vendor them, so they are always in short supply, aka higher prices, and warriors get addicted to them lol.
Be aware as well, the AH is new, the servers are trashed due to the amount of players and everything is over saturated.
cloth sells better than bolts, by a mile,so if you do not need bolts for points, leave it in cloth form. try to sell in trade prior to posting, but do NOT vendor it.
You might want to do what I’m doing, and make a alt or 2 for bankers, and just mail stacks of materials to them to hold until the AH gets under control. It will happen hopefully before you hit 40, when the prices stabilize, sell then. NOT all at one time, stack or two a day is good.
as for herbs, if you are not an alchemist, you might want to swap to skinning or mining, skinning probably more profitable right now due to how many corpses people leave laying about. You can always swap later. Try sales again, in trade first before AH.
Pick up fishing at the minimum, and first aid. Fish are always needed for leveling cooking, esp higher levels, and some are really quite valuable. Esp once the economy stabilizes.
Rest looks good, just don’t shortchange yourself on skills and end up reducing your abilities vs being able to function well, no you won’t need them all, but know which ones you do need
Oh, on the AH cut, yes you sometimes get part of that deposit back, not always. I don’t remember what the total fee is for selling, it’s fixed, so they either give back some or take more away. You need to be making at least triple vendor price for now, way more later on and on some items, but cloth will be a good seller, so hold out on that…for turn in’s. when it’s crunch time on turn in’s, the price will go thru the darn roof.
