Is the economy going to be a sh1tsh0w during the leveling process/when we are all fresh 60? Or is the very high demand for the same mats serverwide
going to make the epic mount grind fairly easy early on?
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Yes. The answer is always yes.
The difference is that the market will change rapidly and if you don’t keep up you could get caught short.
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Should I farm some herbs all phase one and sell them phase 2? Or should I just sell em as I get em
Depends on the herb, depends on the phase. There is no one formula. It will change as the needs of the players change.
If you want to get into end game consumable selling that’s not going to be as profitable later on when everyone is doing it. But you may also be able to sell lower level herbs or pots for potions that people need to level too.
Just stay away from leather. There will be far too much leather in the early days.
Yeah my main plan was to sell herbs normally for phase 1 and 2 and hoard nature resist pots before AQ and sell for profit after release
This is very true. Fire Protection pots will be an amazing gold source PreAQ. After that the market will fall out on them. I would speculate 5-10g / pot during Phase 1, and 75s-1g during Phase 5.
Not sure about “fall out”. But definitely decrease. There will always be new guilds progressing in MC.
Just one word. Plastics.
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Cleavis’ Very Super Basic Guide to Investing in Classic WoW ![:tm:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/tm.png?v=6" ":tm:")
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Do not hold onto Gold early on (phase 1-2); buy Things.
Do not hold onto Things later on (phase 4-6); liquidate your Things back into Gold.
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Well it may be crazy talk, but I think the best time to make gold is when you’re poor.
I’m not going to plan much for cycles. Gathering professions for leveling. Then use those to farm and sell mats at 60, supplemented with AH speculation. Then after I get my epic mount, I’m going to stockpile the mats to power level two crafting professions to max and make the switch. From then on I should be able to make enough gold from my professions and AH speculation to meet my weekly needs without having to farm any more.
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I was expecting something very sarcastic after the first line, but yeah, that’s actually good (also super basic, as advertised).
Directly to the OP though, the best time to make gold in classic is during classic’s lifespan. Early on, you won’t get much gold/listing, but demand will be massive, you can pretty easily sell anything. As the first wave of 60’s gets full swing into raiding, they become the easy sales target as they will have pushed lvling too hard to have gotten too much gathering done. As the more casual players get into raiding demand will die down, but you should still be able to maintain income due to there being more gold in the economy overall (and there will always be lazy people that would rather buy than farm).
This downward trend of demand will eventually bottom out, but because of the aforementioned lazy people, it will never reach zero. However, as gold continues to accumulate, prices will continue to rise (albeit very slowly).
Once all the content is released and the raiders have settled at their personal “peak”, I expect a steady (though slowly dwindling) stream of alts to be made from that time until classic eventually shuts down. This is when low lvl crafting mats become your go to, as people will continue to be lazy and buy the relatively cheap low lvl mats rather than farming. Some people will be extra lazy and buy high end mats as well, but this is where most people try to make their money. Unless you want to spend the time controlling a very large market (which requires lots of your own money upfront), I suggest avoiding high end mats and letting the rabble fight each other for sales.
This is of course a very general guideline. What sells/does not sell can vary greatly from server to server. There are also niche markets which are great if you can be the first (or maybe second) person in them, but are utter garbage once more people than that have entered. Also, very rare items, such as world drop epics, will be best if you hold onto them until the months following the release of phase six. People will have plenty of gold by this time, and populations should still be fairly high.
This ended up way longer than I intended, but this should be a good general game plan that anyone can follow.
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Swiftthistle is always going to sell for a good amount of gold.
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It’s always going to be the best mats grind to oblivion for easy gold so lvling a char first for that is probably better tbh.
For instance fire potion mats will be farmed like crazy day one simply to make MC easier while nature/frost potion mats will be ignored initially.
Devilsaur hide will always be farmed because the devilsaur gear is bis for melee dps classes ,
Cloth will be cheap on AH but crafted cloth gear will sell well.
If you can hit lvl 60 within 4-5 days on a char that has easy mob killing speed you wont have to worry for a few days about the grinding spots being clogged with players. I wouldn’t be surprised to see many lvl 56 or so just farming mats early rather then hitting lvl 60 right away.
Considering the gold sinks are fairly limited, once you have your epic mount and your spec the only gold sink is repairs and AH cuts.
The amount of gold on the server will only go up over time, it will be MUCH easier to farm for an epic mount 2 years from release then it will be immediately after release.
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Which makes unarmored mounts, if they add them, much more impressive.
So yes, early gold would be important then.
Skip professions when leveling, no one will have any gold. Then when you’re sixty.
Log in at 2:00 am when everyone else is asleep. Then just farm Black Lotus and save them. Then sell them later.
Remember to ignore gathering professions completely if you’ll be rolling on a PvE server, as the absolute army of bots (which will be able to run cheaper than ever before without expansion purchasing and are only banned twice yearly after they’ve paid for themselves hundreds of times over) will be doing all the gathering on your server for you. You won’t be able to compete.
As far as PVP servers, hold onto things for a few weeks. It’s not like a new expansion in WoW where you can instantly list a stack of a new herb for 200k gold, it will take weeks for anyone to even break 100g - especially with class trainers and repair bills. The gold just won’t exist in the economy for things to sell for more than a gold a stack, if you’re lucky.
When Vanilla started I was punching myself in the face for quickly selling stacks of cloths and leathers that were worth a fortune a month in. Oh if you’re a skinner, medium leather sold for significantly higher than thicc/rugged due to a flood of skinners in end game zones and Sunken Temple.
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U would for example want to buy pristine black diamonds as early as possible when they are still cheap, it will safe u lots of gold later on.
So it’s really about what items go up in price the most.
And Pserver folks will have the upper hand in this having been through multiple fresh servers.
Oh really? I plan on rolling on a PvE server for my first character. I thought blizzard was really good at catching botters.