Money Making?Follow

Ok, I'm tired of this already. I always hear how people can make 100 or 200g an HOUR! How do you do that?!? This may be my first character (currently 60) but I catch on quick, so atm I'd look like any normal player making a decent living, well-geared from quests and instances, and who doesn't have much problems...but that much gold an hour or two? How do you do that? And more importantly, how am I supposed to do that when I can only fit in 4-5 WoW hours a day..what if I have other quests, what if I run out of mobs....how the heck do you make that much money?

To make that much gold you need to do several things, and one of them is not necessarily questing.

First do you have The Burning Crusade x-pac? If you are 60 and do not have BC then your gold making skills will be limited slightly.

To make massive amounts of gold quickly you can read online at any of the forums for ideas and ways. Quickest and easiest way is to have at least one gathering profession so that you can mine materials for everyone else's use. I have no problem spending 2 gold per stack of 20 copper ore to lvl my mining/blacksmithing skill on a new alt, so put that into perspective. Many toons will run past that copper ore as they no longer need it, but for a total of 5 minutes of game time gathering you can make 2 - 3 gold. Same goes for skinning or herbalism. Enchanting is a bit different, but a huge money maker for anyone.

For enchanting, you are going to focus on selling materials more than the enchants. It is more difficult now that you have to have x lvl to disenchant certain level items. However, as I have a full stable of characters from level 70 all the way through the 20's, I can easily create green or blue items, mail them to my enchanter, disenchant and sell off the materials. Huge money making opportunity while you are leveling the skills of your alts.

The second way to make money is watch the AH, compare pricing and undercut current items or identify items that are selling under their value. Buy these and sell later for a mark up. You can at times make an easy 10 - 50 gold doing this once you have money in the bank. There are several add ons that you can use to help with this as well.

Third, get to the outlands... I have less time to play on a daily basis then your 4 - 5 hours, but make about 100 - 150 gold per 2 - 3 hour session, from grinding rep and questing. Outland drops are higher in gold, daily quests give money, and basic farming. Very easy to make money in the outlands. Took me only 4 days of 5 hours each to get enough for my first epic mount.

Lastly, have fun making gold... I do not to "purchased" instance runs normally unless I am killing time waiting for a raid or my normal group. I have done them though. Pre-BC you would see shouts for 3 - 5 gold VC runs, which are a waste of time in my book. It is still 15 - 30 minutes for really no gold. In BC, I have done runs through Hellfire for anywhere from 50 - 100 gold. If you get another 70 to help, and split the gold, you will be averaging 25 - 50 gold each for 30 minutes.

Thx a lot for all those opinions guys, they really help. I'll definately be referring to them. And btw, I do have BC, but when I hit 60 I decided to catch up on some skills (herb and lockpicking.)

And Ceeb, what boss does Fiery drop off of? I did BRD a couple times around that lvl, and nothing unusual dropped. Just the normal, boss or chest drops. And what lvl is the boss, so I can decide when I might be able to solo it? thx

Rogues usually make the most cash via stealth runs for loot including chests(mech chest), to bosses in lower lvl dungeons and DE loot. I on my warlock though have made and average of 200-300g and hr. How do i do this you might ask? No profession gathering just maybe bandaging. I am affliction spec so i can easily kill about 20-30 mobs in a row then running back to loot before they dissapear. THey hit me for about 250 and my siphon life heals me for 211 then add my FSW set and im basically unstoppable. Anyways i usually get around 100(10-12g for 10) rep marks, maybe 5 armaments/tomes(15-18g), about 200-250 netherweave which i just make into reg netherweave bandages and vendor for 3g a stack of reg ones and then vendor ALL greens and greys sometimes youo get weapon greens and they can vendor for like 7g a pop it adds up dramatically in the end just ver very boring.

That in total is about 218g average in netherweave, rep items and not including coin from the mob and greys or greens. But you need to be geared properly i myself am full affliction and have about 900 shadowdmg. But mining and herbalism make heaps too but i don't think as much.

wow, this DE thing makes me want to go enchanting, I mean all I have to do is sneek around instances, get the boss drops, and DE...but no, I've already got herb and mining so far, and I just made my 30 shammy an enchanter.

ok, so what I've got now is: grind to get cloth, greens, and DE stuff..going into instances and trying to get world drops (like fiery) that can drop off bosses, etc. yea, and once I get to 70 or something, I should also grind rep items. I think that sums it all up, right? and there's also mining/herb which should make good money.

another thing is, I guess I shouldn't spend my money on items? I already did that for 2 items and the next day I found better ones in Hellfire Ramparts. luckily I didn't equip them yet, so all I had to do was resell..guess that was a tip to not buy armor/weps off the AH. I'm probably going to get better stuff from quests and instances right?

ok, thx a whole lot for those tips guys, takin those into consideration. sometimes I like to stop lvling for a bit and raise my skills, and sometimes I run through instances..now I know what to do with the crappy stuff that won't sell on the AH ^^ so thx again guys

1.) Get to 70.
2.) Do Daily Quests.
3.) Pick up everything (grays included) and get a mod that sells all grays to the vendor for you.

Easy.

Edited, Aug 14th 2007 11:00am by Shaolinz

Well. You can solo SM. Most of the bosses blue drops have a 100% d/e rate of Small Radiant Shards used in Fiery enchants. They sell for around 6-10g each on my server.

Enchanting a waste of money you say? It might be the single best profession for a rogue.

Contestants are:

Blacksmithing - The only thing in blacksmithing worth getting for a rogue is the T3 one hand mace Dragonstrike. But there are a few cons:

1) Getting to 375 blacksmithing in the first place is costly as hell.
2) To make the T3 mace you need to make T1 and T2 first which is ALSO very costly.
3) In order to finally get the T3 mace, you NEED a guild that runs either SSC or The Eye and be lucky with Nether Vortex rolls and/or spend dkp on it. Lots of professions needs these vortexes too.

Alternatively, you can buy the vortexes off of the AH if your servers PvE progression is relatively healthy (meaning people farming SSC and eye reguarly). If you got 5000-10.000g to burn, then go for it.

4) The T3 mace is good for PvP, but it's only slightly better than the S2 arena mace anyway (one might argue that S2 is better because of the resilience)
Furthermore, using combat maces in PvE is selling yourself short.

5) The highlight about Dragonstrike was the haste proc. In patch 2.2 (which is supposed to air in 2 days), is nerfing haste rating for rogues.

In conclusion: Dragonstrike is VERY expensive and VERY hard to get, and it "sucks" for PvE and the S2 mace (which is far easier to get) is just as good anyway.

Don't pick blacksmithing

Engineering: Good for the Deathblow goggles (which is T5 equilevant in quality) but is only worth taking for this particular item (and then ofc for bombs).

Engineering (a.k.a "Gogglecrafting") is a good prof. as well.

Enchanting - Enchanting is a very very nice profession for rogues. It allows us to take advantage of stealth to run the oldworld lvl 60 instances for shards. Some people swear to this as the best consistent moneymaker in the game. Yes, doing shardruns CAN net you around 150-200g pr hour if you know what you are doing.

Furthermore, enchanting allows you to enchant your own rings which as a unique and irreplaceable benefit. It's worth taking enchanting just because of this.

Add to that, enchanters will always have their banks full of highlevel mats from DE'ing questrewards and instance BoP's that no one needed.

I'm a rogue enchanter myself, and I got around 600 arcane dust, 120 greater planar essences and 60 large prismatic shards in the bank - and I didnt even farm for it!

So let's do a quick profession review listing the benefits for rogues:

1) Blacksmithing
- Gives you a nice (but replaceable) PvP mace.

2) Engineering
- Gives you a sweet headpiece only replaceable by T5 and above.
- Also gives you grenades and other useless toys.

3) Enchanting
- Gives you the benefit of enchanting your rings with extra stats
- Enables you to do shardruns in the lvl 60 instances for tons of money.
- Gives you "free" enchanting mats


If are poor go: Mining and engineering (self-supplying combo)
If you got a moderate amount of cash: Mining and Enchanting
If you are fairly rich: Engineering and Enchanting (arguably the best combo for rogues)

Now, tell me again; how exactly was enchanting worthless?