WOW gold advice/strategy & World Of Warcraft character leving guides
Have gold for your Epic Mount &
Grinding Skills Easily Hit
70 in
10 days
"I FINALLY Have Gold For My Epic
Flying Mount"
I've heard that out of several of my real life friends the past couple weeks as I Finally decided to divulge a
few farming strategies I have been using in World of Warcraft for the past couple of years
(and some new ones with the Burning Crusades out). Why would I give up such a secrets
freely?
Why not? Isn't the game flooded with enough spam gold selling vendors as it is?
I'm writing this for the CASUAL GAMER who is tired of being behind EVERYONE that
has the time to spend almost 24/7 with online games. (or the few people who
ALREADY know strategies like these).
Gold farming stores use these same techniques
and then turn around and sell it to you FOR PROFIT!!!
I can only hope by sharing some of these tips and tricks that I STOP getting in
game emails about buying WOW gold since there wont be as much of a need!!!
(doubtful I know) I am also the owner of
http://extreme-gamerz.org &
http://gamegate2k.com which has provided
helpful gaming information for the past eight years and will continue to
bring quality information to our gamers attention. NOW FOR THE GOOD
STUFF:
I'll start off by saying how
Simple and Obvious some of these strategies
sound. If it happens in our current economy it may be possible in a micro
environment such as World of Warcrafts.
1) The Auction House
*Bid low sell high. Pretty basic, yep? and
you haven't tried it because its too daunting... What if it wasn't?!
There are several techniques I use to increase my gold currency
with the auction house.
Low Bidding
The first is simply to go to the auction house and search, but don't enter
anything in. Sort by time left and specifically pick out the good buys.
Again, kind of daunting. But this can be simplified.
This will quickly point out auctions that have an
existing bid on them (What looked like a good deal for someone else is probably a great investment for you!).
Another thing to make sure you have is the WOWEcon
mod (link above - There is a paid version but you really don't need to buy it for the
purposes we're explaining here). Double check with WOW Econ's price to check
how great of a bargain you're looking at when you browse through the auction
house quickly. If it looks promising do quick individual search on that
item to make sure if you're still new to WOW's general market prices.
Player Note:
Tip: I particularly like going on the auction house when there will be minimal to
NO competition to prevent constant bid wars.
Log on late (3-5am server time)
or BETTER YET log on at 12pm on Tue. (right after server maintenance)
Most people walk away from WOW during server downtime and don't get back on till late the next day. In addition you should be bidding on things
Monday night around 3am (particularly on great deals that are at "Long" status or shorter. You are
guaranteed the item!
Occasionally you find a great item that has an outrageous buyout and a rather
LOW BID (which everyone seems to be bidding on). You also notice its time left at auction is "very long".
Don't bid on it YET. That will just put the price higher then it needs to be
since YOU will be getting it in the end. What do you do? Take note of the
time and set an alarm! You can mathematically determine a close estimate of
when the auction will be over if you check back often enough. I
generally check every 30 minutes if I can when its in the "Long" phase.
Finally, try and only bid between the middle and end phase of "Short".
AH Time
Time
Alarm
Very Long
24h - 8h
8h
Long
8h - 2h
2h
Medium
2h - 30m
30m
Short
30m - 0
End
While I will never like the spam of emails I get in game, I am very passive
about online sites that sell it. Especially
BroGames.Com since they restrain
from using spam as a tactic of selling their gold.
For that purpose (since
you need money to make money in this step, I would suggest buying
there since its cheep and you should only have to do this once anyways. The
amount you get is really determined on how quickly you want to gain on your
investment. I would suggest between 100-200g. Especially if you're new to
the game and dont have a higher leveled alternate character to use some of the
later tactics.
ANYTHING more then that is overkill (for those that really know what they're doing more can be helpful, but that would negate the point of this article!).
Player Note:
Blizzard has banned60,000 accounts for participating in the purchase of
gold and suspended 200,000 more. They FILTER
and FLAG accounts that receive and send large amounts of gold.
A quality guide such as this one will use completely legit methods of EFFICIENT gold farming by
pointing out the BEST in game locations and commerce (auction house)
opportunities.
Its ultimately cheaper then buying gold in the first place
and involves little work.
My final tip for the auction house is my favorite. Have you ever
noticed that some items
DON'T COST A
DEPOSIT!?!?! Invest, Invest, Invest. Watch the market
with these items. DO NOT buy any for the first three days at least if you
haven't had prior experience with the item.
Look to see what the high/low price is on your server. A great example of
an item like this are Nexus Crystals. And before the Burning Crusades came
out I used to buy and resell Twilight Texts (drops in Silithus) - but that one
is useless now and a deposit has been implemented on it since the expansion.
While you're keeping an inventory on certain items keep these three things in
mind: A. Try and find items with low to zero deposit fees that are "turn in"
items for repeatable reputation quests (we're talking level 70 stuff). B. If you're new to the game, make your investments things that you could
potentially use! Not all is lost if you make a mistake then. C. access the items potential in months to come. For example.
If you find out a new boss in an instance everyone on the server is just
beginning to fight, find out what resistances are needed to defeat that boss.
Then make sure you buy items
early on at low prices
with that resistance and resell them
in a week when even MORE people are discovering they
NEED
those items!
TATACTIC:
Look for the good bargains and then turn around and resell them. Even
better yet, keep them for a week or two. (this is where having a little extra
gold might help some). Continue to watch the item and when there are no
good deals left and the market is over inflated, toss your goods up and underbid
by ONLY 1 silver!
Player Note:
While you might feel
inclined to put them all up, if you know you'll be around in an hour or
two, try to pace yourself. This mostly applies to items that have a
deposit, but if your item doesn't, then it really wont matter much since
you can cancel without penalty. Someone might be doing the same
thing and then your out of luck for that whole day. If someone does
put up a whole bunch just under yours you NOW
have a chance to put up another few sets of the same item.
2) The Grind
Requirements:
This next method can only be used if you're 70 and have at least a normal flying mount (which you should have gotten using step 1
while you were leveling).
What's nice is you can also continue to bid on things (ideally with a low
level alt that you can send things to). Head out to Nagrand in the
Outlands. If you have coordinates you can go to 68,22 but here is a quick
image which will show you where I'm talking about too. The elementals that
spawn here drop the following:
Mote
of Air, Mote of Fire, and Mote of earth. For the effort the elementals that
drop the Motes of Earth are a waste of time. I have found the motes of air sell for a few gold more then the fire, but not by too much
and are the biggest gold makers. Drop rate was around 1 in 2 or 3. Sometimes a mob would drop 2! And occasionally drop a random green weapon which would vendor for an extra 10 gold or so.
If you think this was helpful at all, its just the tip of the iceberg!
There are so many other strategies just like these.
Check out one of many class specific methods to quickly farm mobs and earn the most gold possible per hour.
Since the World of Warcraft Burning Crusades
expansion came out there have been countless guides circulating. I've read
several of them and really only found one or two that benefited me in a way MORE
then to some of the strategies that I mentioned here. I
highlyrecommend reading
Luke Browns Gold Making Guide featured below.
This
guide is very Cheap, 100%Risk Free guide you can purchase
called
Luke Browns Gold Making GuideTake a look at his site
HERE.
Read through it and give it a try. STOP paying for gold! These are the
same sorts of things people are doing that sell the gold themselves!
3) Complete EVERY Quest!
More importantly (if you're not 70 already), grind on the ones from 60 and up. ALL of them! The time spent generally rewards you with: A. Gold for completing the quest (and a larger amount if you're already 70) B. An item which can usually be vendored for around 5 gold or more. If
you really want to SPEED through the quests and earn gold on average about 8x
quicker, then check out the guide (depending on
your faction) featured below.
How easy would it be to have a
waypoint system telling you where to go next!
It exists as an extra mod available with
these guides!
Know WHERE to be, WHAT to grind on,
find quests you would have MISSED, and MORE
Get your character to level 70 in as little as
8 DAYS!
Players note: When lvling from 60 to 70 and you run all the quests, you can expect to make close to
3500 gold with smart use of the auction house from item drops.
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I hope I shared something useful for you today to enhance your gaming
experience. Happy hunting =)
Mote
of Air, Mote of Fire, and Mote of earth. For the effort the elementals that
drop the Motes of Earth are a waste of time. I have found the motes of air sell for a few gold more then the fire, but not by too much
and are the biggest gold makers. Drop rate was around 1 in 2 or 3. Sometimes a mob would drop 2! And occasionally drop a random green weapon which would vendor for an extra 10 gold or so.
