Ding 60!

[Haylianna]

Well I now have my Warrior Priest and 2x Shaman to 60 and my Druid to 49 =) only having one problem that I need to overcome. $$$$$ I dont have any money for skills or mounts lol.

[davedontmind]

I'm finding that cash is a big problem too.

I started my 5 shamans about 10 days ago with a fund of 10g each (I have other toons with gold for emergency use!). By 30 they'd spent all that and got another helping hand of 100g each to allow them to buy mounts and spells.

At 46 they had to have another 100g each in order to buy spells, and have already spent about 37g each of that.

I'm skipping so many quests (due to simply outlevelling them) that I'm making no money at all. I'm sure it's going to cost me even more before they hit 70, and god knows how they're going to afford epic land mounts, never mind the flying variety.

[Haylianna]

Yea atm I can just forget about Epic riders .... I dont have my 50-60 spells on most my characters

[Marious]

Well took me a while to get my mounts on my 65's, I had enough for the priest to get his and the locks just finished the Dreadsteed quest, but I must say that in outland its not bad you can make lots of the gold rather quickly and I would suggest you have them be Skinners and kill lots of animals they tend to make good gold when I did it on my solo shaman. Or try to have your main be herb and skinning both these sell well.

And yeah I know what your talking about my lv 43's are killing me on my gold repository I am down a lot, takes a bit to maintan there spells and everything up to date, I doubt they will have there epic mounts at 60 probably not till there like 65, but oh well no big deal, if I have to wait I will wait but I will have my epic land mount.

[willsquared]

Money is often a large problem of mine aswell. I can't balance the speed at which I'm leveling with my income at all. It's nearly impossible. The best way I've figured is to grind to keep my gathering professions up, and sell the materials I farm on the AH.

I've also adapted my quests around killing beasts/humanoids only. Beasts for the skinning, humanoids for the sheer coin and cloth drops. Also, make sure you have an alt "AH" toon to sell all your 'junk.' This helps a lot in bringing a lot of extra gold. Just mail all your cloth/leather/greens/blues/purps to the AH alt and every night before you get off or every morning when you get on put it all up on the AH. Before long you'll have plenty of money to keep yourself running.

And congrats on 60!

[dodger6988]

:thumbsup: I dinged 60 on my first team on a new server 2 days ago and just getting 50-60 skills cost me almost 800g. I managed to stop at 60 with all five toons skills at 60, lvl 30 mounts and have 1500g leftover. I will wait on epic land mounts for when i start to lvl from 60-70 (gots more teams to finish before RAF ends). That was with 0 gold in the bank and all I got from the Zerg when I rolled on this server was some bags for my toons. I looted everything and sold everything at the AH no matter how trivail it seemed or small amount it was. I had skinning and mining as my professions on my main, but never got mining past 39 since i left the areas with copper so quickly. Selling all that leather made a ton of gold for me. Auctioneer is a great addon that helped me pick prices for all my auctions so i never even had to look anything up or guess. I just went with it's price. As long as you use the AH early and often you will keep up with the gold. Even those lvl 10 greens sell for good gold and I never went without once i got past level 10.

[Fef]

The RAF XP bonus makes a big difference. I think my shamans must have been unable to pay for spells as early as level 8.

The best solution is to level every gathering profession. Yes, it does take time, yes you have to stay in the same zone longer just to farm, yes it hurts you /played time but I think the reusult is well worth it.

I would suggest having both herbalism and mining on the same character, that makes the tracking easier.

By the way, to me enchanting is also a gathering profession. I made an enchanter, let him loot every BOP item, gave him every green item, he disenchanted everything (stock items for a while, DE'ing objects provides some enchantement skill-ups at first), and levelled from the obtained material. Selling the greens seems like an quicker mean of making money, but at higher level, being able to desenchant in instances is priceless.