Grinding mobs completely to 60 or questing to 60?
While questing you end up back in town to junk more often to empty bags. If grinding, do you only keep greens? Or do you make frequent trips to junk? Are the coppers gained off of solely grinding higher than the money offered for quest rewards? Has anyone ever compared the 2 ways of leveling as far as income is concerned?
Leveling with skinning and either mining or herbalism.
questing along with killing everything on the routes you take. Most people who grinded SM 30 to 40 didn’t have enough gold for their mount.
Right, but you can level those professions either way you choose to level. The difference would come from either full on mob grind from 1-60 as some players plan to do, or questing from 1-60
Not training every single available skill/rank as you level = more gold.
Do I need to train niche utility skills like Amplify Magic/Dampen Magic while leveling? Nope. Saves a ton of gold right there.
Level to 60 as fast as you can THEN worry about gold. Wasting time mining and herbing and engineering is only going to slow you down, while the 60s farm gold. GG.
Very true. There are skills certain vlasses are not going to use til later on.
I swear i just read this the other day… even the part about only keeping greens…
Right, but people are still going to level by either grinding completely (with maybe some quests) and others that are going to do the majority of the quests. Maybe by following something like Joanna’s guide. Any of these ways to 60 can get you there quickly if you put the time in.
The question is which way produces more money. None of the leveling choices are considered farming gold. But one way is surely more lucrative than the other. Thats what im curious about.
It’s not about leveling the professions, you grind beasts and skin everything you kill. Even if you just vendor the leather, once you’re getting heavy leather it’s 30 silver per stack. You get A LOT of leather this way.
I would clear my bags more while grinding than while questing.
Yes you did. I posted it in another thread about which way was quicker for leveling. That thread didnt go anywhere so i chose to make it its own topic.
Grinding mobs - specifically skinnable creatures and humanoids. A humanoid gray weapon sells for more than many quest completion money amounts, they also drop a lot of cloth. Skinnable creatures, like bears and turtles, drop high selling junk items too. There’s also high level elemental farming, depending on phase, that will net high value elemental drops. And of course, all of these together have a low chance of dropping high value BoEs - kill enough, and you’ll see one for sure.
Ok thought i was really going crazy this time. Lol.
What I do is grind to quests. Then grind the quests. Then grind back to town. I even delete the lowest selling pieces of junk i can when my bags are full. If i find something that sells for more.
That’s just normal questing for me. I loot and vendor everything. Skins too. So my input is a bit skewed there because I’ve always taken skinning. Felt natural as a hunter.
Now if I’m farming gold for a specific purpose such as my mount. I will find mobs that drop good junk. There’s some greys that stack and sell for decent silver. I’ll farm those and greens.
The best spots drop good trash, lots of greens, and are close to town. Grinding to level will almost certainly beat out questing for gold but that depends on the spots, competition, ganks, and your motivation. The higher quests do reward more monies but the greens you get grinding can make that up quickly in enchanting mats or out right selling.
Not to mention those sweet rare world drops that could easily push you ahead of quest gold.
I think your topic would make a great video test. Two people with the same class. One quest to 60. One grind to 60. Then we check time played and end amount of gold at 60.
I never skimped much on skills either. I used to grind the gold before continuing on questing if i didn’t have the gold for skills. Lol.
Doing it in one shot this time. I know what skills i really need. Hehe
This is old school gaming. I can’t wait. The grind is on! Just wish I didn’t remember any of these things.
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grinding animal mobs and skinning + herbalism or mining
theres a youtube video about where to grind mobs for the best stackable drops for the most profit in each level bracket. that’s what i’d suggest. i mean min-maxing gold grinding by just farming the same mobs/in specific level brackets, with nice stackable loot drops.
It really depends on what you are grinding and how often you empty your bags.
Either way get an addon to show vendor price so when bags are full you know what to toss for max gold.
Oh and when turning in quests if the item is not much of an upgrade consider the items you cant use as extra gold. Which is a better reward the +5 stam on those new cloth bracers or that green 2h axe which sells for a few gold?
Oh and leveling herb/mining is almost certainly not a way to make extra gold while leveling. Sure you get a little bit of extra gold, but unless you are taking a good chunk of time to go out of your way to keep the skill leveled you are going to out level it, and that extra time is less time at a higher level making more gold off each item that drops.
Also once you hit 40/60 you can still go spend time farming those nodes but now you have a mount and aggro a lot less so you farm/level much more efficiently.
I knew a Warrior in Vanilla that grinded all the way to 60, so he could go back and do every quest at max level so it converted the xp into extra gold.
But it only converts xp to gold so every grey quest would be 0 xp meaning no gold…
also its a very small amount of gold.
most level 60 quests are around 50s extra each.