Multiboxing Gold Tips (Not Dailies)

[Slats]

Just curious how everyone generates gold on a 5 box team. At the moment I'm stockpiling resources to build up tradeskills and while the initial captial to level them up is pretty huge I'm hoping it pays off in the long run (and in Cataclysm).

So at the moment I bust through a Heroic MgT, Kharazan (Attn/Moroes/Maiden/Opera). This lets me make Mongoose or sell Large Prismatics or Void Crystals. Takes very little time since I am much higher level.

So far thats the only thing I'm really using my 5 box for to make gold. I'm doing alot of other crafting and AH markets - but those are all things I can do on a single character irrelevant of being a multiboxer. So I'm curious - are there any great farming spots that really are only accessible to us? Is there oldschool dungeons or raids I could be smashing through that will yield alot of materials or gold?

I'm looking for ways to generate income other than dailies as I find them very tedious and boring and icecrown phasing makes me cry. So please post the things you do. :)

-Slats

[Zal]

buy cobalt -> make into cobalt helms -> DE helms -> sell dust
Buy northrend herbs -> mill -> use ink on inscriptions
-> sell snow inks (the uncommon green ink thing)
Sell instance runs.
Argent pets on mass farming.
Farm lots of leather from short but massive AoE pulls -> sell leather.

alright i'm out of ideas since i'm already pretty rich, don't farm much.

[heyaz]

Other than dallies, trade skill cooldowns, and some quest rewards like argent tournament stuff, I haven't really found anything gives me an advantage from multiboxing. I think dallies are really the only thing where I can proportionately make money faster than a single toon (probably do them 30-40% quicker than one toon and the rewards are exactly 1:1 for each toon, so overall a minor advantage).

Some of the old raids/instances can give good money for a run, but there are lockouts and to be honest I've never found the gold/hour to be as good as some people claim. Farming is ok, but the gold per hour per toon is rarely any better than playing one character. I think some boxers tend to see a lot of gold and overlook the fact that it has to be split over several toons.

My current strategy is taking advantage of 5x dallies and putting more money into the AH, since I can raise it so much faster. Additionally if you have extra 80s which you aren't gearing up or enchanting, they can be used to fund the characters you do play.

[Powerwar]

Molten Core --> 2 - 3k gold per run. All the blue and green materials sell nice usually. The boe lvl 60 epixx sell for 50 - 100 gold on my server. The lava cores and fiery cores sell at 50 gold each and you get about 10 -15 of each per run. Sulfuron ingot sells for 750 - 900 gold and has 25% drop chance. Remember to kill all the trash. I usually make several really big trash pulls and magma totem them to death.

BWL --> about 2k gold per run. You only need to kill the trash and all the boses until you reach the last boss, you don't need to kill the last boss there if you don't want. Elementium ore sells for 500 - 750 gold on my server. You get about 2 -4 of them per run. The first bwl boss is tricky, all the others can be brute forced easy. Elementium ore drops from trash after the supression room and before Chromagus.

[Slats]

Nice, thats the kind of stuff I'm looking for. :)

[heyaz]

Molten Core --> 2 - 3k gold per run. All the blue and green materials sell nice usually. The boe lvl 60 epixx sell for 50 - 100 gold on my server. The lava cores and fiery cores sell at 50 gold each and you get about 10 -15 of each per run. Sulfuron ingot sells for 750 - 900 gold and has 25% drop chance. Remember to kill all the trash. I usually make several really big trash pulls and magma totem them to death..

Nice.. I was never able to sell all the junk I got from an MC run. I maybe made 1200g and that was because I got an ingot. No one wants the boe epics on my server, in fact months later I still haven't sold most of them, and it took a good month to get rid of the cores. Overall not bad if your server has the market, but one week lockout sucks.. Wish there was a sustainable (or at least daily) method of making 1000g+ an hour.

[Siaea]

Wish there was a sustainable (or at least daily) method of making 1000g+ an hour.

I know he said not dailies, but in 30-45 mins I get about 1200-1300g from dailies. Boring, but it's fast, guaranteed, and once you get your route down you can do it in your sleep. (Since I do mine at about 5 am, that's a good thing :) )

[Fishbeak]

Using some great addons (Auctioneer, Quick Auction, Massmail) I make about 500g a day during the week and 1000g a day on weekends while spending about 30 minutes of actual work.

Step 1: Startup Auctioneer and scan AH
Step 2a: For jewelcrafter; buyout all ore > 40% margin
Step 2b: For Enchanter; buyout all items with > 40% margin
Step 2c: For Inscriptor; buyout all herbs with > 40% margin
Step 3a: prospect all ore, the lvl 70 blue gems sell to vendor, everything else goes on the AH (15 per type max)
Step 3b: disenchant all items, everything goes on the AH (15 max),
Step 3c: mill all herbs, create inks. All snowfall ink (up to 10 total) go to AH, with the rest of the inks -> 5 of each of the glyphs (no more than 5 up for sale at any time). Replace glyphs as they sell.

Rinse and repeat

Fishbeak

[gitcho]

@ Siaea
I know he said not dailies, but in 30-45 mins I get about 1200-1300g from dailies takes me 2 hrs (on 150% flyers) to make 313g per toon x5 doing the dailies - there's no way you're completing this in 30-45 minutes - even with epic flyers. Am i missing something?

RE the OP: I hate playing the AH, but I've made more $$ total from it than doing dailies. Being diligent in selling stuff will make you money over the long haul. It's still hard to get away from the "more money for less work" mindset though ...

[heyaz]

@ Siaea takes me 2 hrs (on 150% flyers) to make 313g per toon x5 doing the dailies - there's no way you're completing this in 30-45 minutes - even with epic flyers. Am i missing something?

RE the OP: I hate playing the AH, but I've made more $$ total from it than doing dailies. Being diligent in selling stuff will make you money over the long haul. It's still hard to get away from the "more money for less work" mindset though ...

Maybe he is, you're getting 1600g he said only 1200-1300g. and has epic flyers

[Ualaa]

My daily route with epic flyers is just under an hour, five toons and an average of 1150 gold a day. I'm only actually doing 15 dailies each, modified from the daily guide posted on this site by "Chilkoot of Medihv" although I forgot the dual-boxing username.

I'm basically doing (alliance) Assault by Ground and Blood of the Chosen, Slaves to Saronite, Neutralizing the Plague, That's Abominable and The Solution Solution, Leave Our Mark and Vile Like Fire and Shoot'em Up, From their Corpse's, Rise! and No Fly Zone, Not a Bug, Retest Now, No Rest for the Wicked, and then Drag and Drop.

[Malekyth]

A full set of Icecrown + Tournament dailies also takes me about two hours, on epic flyers. I've given up trying to figure out how others get it done in 30-40 minutes. It's a two hour job for me, that's all I know.

[Siaea]

@ Siaea takes me 2 hrs (on 150% flyers) to make 313g per toon x5 doing the dailies - there's no way you're completing this in 30-45 minutes - even with epic flyers. Am i missing something?

Here's my route, and it goes pretty fast.

Hearth set at the Ebon Hold hub (Shadow Hold? Don't remember name). Get Vile Like Fire, Shoot 'em Up, and Leave Our Mark. Make a macro:

/assist (your main)
/use Ebon Blade Banner

You only have to kill 3 of the Vrykul and plant the banner 3 times...you get credit for 15. Go do Shoot 'em Up, by placing all five toons on a turret and spamming 3. You'll get 15 in a couple of minutes. Go to the middle of the buildings, park your clones, and fly around with your main burning 8 buildings. Fly down to the little hub on the cliff, get the 3 there. I usually go land on a tower and the 10 gryphons will fly to me usually, and you can get the transform and kill ones done just standing there. Only my main gets the Intelligence Gathering one, and only when there's a lot of chests in one area do I do that one (usually takes a day or two to complete that one). Fly back to the cliff hub and turn in, hearth, turn in, and fly to the ship.

Get the 2 from the guys walking around (this is the Horde version, BTW)...Slaves to Saronite and I think the kill 20 Vrykul one. From the death knight in the command room, get Neutralizing the Plague, Drag and Drop, and No Rest for the Wicked.

Fly down and do Neutralizing (takes about 4 mins), fly to the little Horde camp and get the escort (you also get credit for Vrykul kills), go free the slaves, fly back down and turn in, fly up and do Drag n Drop, go due north and kill Alumeth the Ascended, back to ship, turn in, hearth.

Trade any greens picked up to my 'chanter, trade back, trade all but about 5g each to my main, vendor trash, repeat tomorrow :)

My main, who I leveled last because I was PvEing with my DK/Shammies group still has the econo flyer, so it's doable, just find a good route and find the super easy boxable ones. For quick extra gold, fly to Grizzly Hills and do the 3 or 4 Venture Bay ones.

[aaarn]

The best money maker I have found, is running reg ToC x 4 per day. With the new option to skip the pagentry, i can knock out 4 in under an hour easily. Disenchant 5xEpics per run = 20 abyss crystals after 4 runs. They sell for ~50g/each on my server so thats around 1k before auction cut. Not bad for less than an hours work.

[Svpernova09]

..You only have to kill 3 of the Vrykul and plant the banner 3 times...you get credit for 15.


...


omfg


I've been killing 15 for months....


>.<

[Siaea]

...


omfg


I've been killing 15 for months....


>.<

LoL

I tried that with a lot of the plant/burn/use quests and that's one of the few that work like that.

[heyaz]

LoL

I tried that with a lot of the plant/burn/use quests and that's one of the few that work like that.

if only it worked on the saronite mine slave quest... that is the most irritating quest in icecrown by far

[Fef]

Probably not the most efficient in terms of gold/hour (for this, head to Azerothian Trade Union), but I had a lot of fun 5-boxing Vanilla WoW instances and raids for achievements. About a week of (very) casual gaming made me more than 7000g, by selling everything at Auctioneer defined "market price".

[Niley]

7 alchs, soon to be 10
5 tailors, soon to be 6
5 JCs
I cant stand dailies anymore, after doing 25 every day on 2 teams for few months.
Also once you hit gold cap, there isnt too many things you can buy...

[gitcho]

Also once you hit gold cap, there isnt too many things you can buy uhhh ... you actually hit the gold cap ?!?!?

[Siaea]

uhhh ... you actually hit the gold cap ?!?!?

Isn't that like 232k or something? Jebus.

[Eloxy]

...


omfg


I've been killing 15 for months....


>.<


since i hit 80 O M G F haha

[Diwa]

Isn't that like 232k or something? Jebus.

214748 Gold 36 Silver and 46 Copper.

I don't think it's an issue for multiboxers since we have more than 1 character. I think Guild bank doesn't have any cap as I read in WoW forums they have 500k gold stored.


OT: I know alchemy transmutes is a real moneymaker

[gitcho]

The best money maker I have found, is running reg ToC x 4 per day. With the new option to skip the pagentry, i can knock out 4 in under an hour easily. Disenchant 5xEpics per run = 20 abyss crystals after 4 runs. They sell for ~50g/each on my server so thats around 1k before auction cut. Not bad for less than an hours work.Sorry - quick question (doest deserve its own thread) - how do you skip the pageantry? I don't see that option on ToC normal .. (sorry for the off-topic) ... agree btw, have been selling abyss crystals from there for ~40-50g per on my server ...

[Schwarz]

complete ToC one time then the next time you get the option to skip the pagentry.

I make around 1k gold doing dailies in icecrown every day. If i do all the quests it is around 1 and half hours to 2 hours. Sometimes I just do a short version of them and it takes like 40mins.

When I am doing dailes I leave a lot of corpses unlooted. I am there to make gold and make it fast no need to loot eveything.

Just recently I got alchemy to 450 * 4 so I will become an epic gem factory. I have been thinking about making a team of death knights and leveling alchemy * 5 on them.

Once you get epic flying and crafted gear all made i don't think there is really that much need for gold.

[heyaz]

Once you get epic flying and crafted gear all made i don't think there is really that much need for gold.

I would disagree - epic gems and enchants will run you a lot especially if you get a lot of upgrades. I just spent about 3000g just enchanting/gemming my weapon and shield. Other pieces cost anywhere from 1000-3000g to gem/enchant for the whole group.

Not to mention some of the level 245 (or whatever) boe and crafted pieces you can buy for 7-10k, stuff for my tank for example. I could see dropping 50-100k on that kind of stuff, especially if you want to try out other specs.

[Schwarz]

Gems I could see costing alot. But If you are running a 5 box team with out a enchanter to de all the crap you come across you should make one. I haven't been boxing as long as I was in BC but my enchanter still has a bunch of high level bc enchanting mats. Running ToC is a really fast way to rack up alot of upgrades if you are just starting out and a lot of abysses crystals.

[Zugdud]

5x JC + 4x Alch is pretty much ~2k passive gold generation a day, it only takes about 20 minutes to run the JC daily (buy 5 dragon eyes), make 5 icy prisms, transmute 5 gems, list all of the above and restock source mats on AH

[Ogloo]

Edit, i now know gold cap...
whats gold cap?

[Niley]

I would disagree - epic gems and enchants will run you a lot especially if you get a lot of upgrades. I just spent about 3000g just enchanting/gemming my weapon and shield. Other pieces cost anywhere from 1000-3000g to gem/enchant for the whole group.

Not to mention some of the level 245 (or whatever) boe and crafted pieces you can buy for 7-10k, stuff for my tank for example. I could see dropping 50-100k on that kind of stuff, especially if you want to try out other specs.

not if professions from your other slaves cover it, i havent bought one gem or mats for any enchant, Im lucky enough to get some crusader orbs from guild bank if i need them, but they're cheap anyway(600g a piece).
Also from my prof my daily inc is about ~3k ish(7-9x200g, 5x100g, 5x 400g every 4 days), for few months it was that plus +/- 4k from dailies(2 teams).
I also run few ToC and disenchant stuff from there, thats 5 abyss for 10-12 mins of work(40-45g a piece).
A dedicated boxer can make around 10k a day easy, and keep that up for months(it gets boring after few months)

[heyaz]

not if professions from your other slaves cover it, i havent bought one gem or mats for any enchant, Im lucky enough to get some crusader orbs from guild bank if i need them, but they're cheap anyway(600g a piece).
Also from my prof my daily inc is about ~3k ish(7-9x200g, 5x100g, 5x 400g every 4 days), for few months it was that plus +/- 4k from dailies(2 teams).
I also run few ToC and disenchant stuff from there, thats 5 abyss for 10-12 mins of work(40-45g a piece).
A dedicated boxer can make around 10k a day easy, and keep that up for months(it gets boring after few months)

Wait, so epic gems and enchanting mats spawn from nothing if you have professions? And crusader orbs appear in your bank? You missed my point - which was that I disagree that once you have epic flyers and crafted gear you no longer need currency. And by currency I mean anything- gold, time, mats you transwhatever from a profession cooldown, or crusader orbs you found for free.

[heyaz]

Gems I could see costing alot. But If you are running a 5 box team with out a enchanter to de all the crap you come across you should make one. I haven't been boxing as long as I was in BC but my enchanter still has a bunch of high level bc enchanting mats. Running ToC is a really fast way to rack up alot of upgrades if you are just starting out and a lot of abysses crystals.

You run out of crap to disenchant when you mostly pvp :)

[Noids]

Another money maker I have found is just running 80 instances for badges and doing daily BGs/WG for honour. Converting these excess badges and honour into epic gems, cutting them and AHing them keeps me going without having to dailies etc. A run of 5 WG quests with a win gives close to 20k honour for 5 toons which equates to 10 epic gems. I normally grab rubies and cut them, put them on AH for 180-200g.

For intance runs I find the 5 boss instances the best, which I can now do in 30-35minutes, netting 5x5=25 badges or another 2.5 combination gems which I again cut and AH for 180-200g. These gems in raw form tend to go for a lot less on AH, but if you cut them well, they can sell for as much as the pure colour gems. This cash comes on top of the DE gear etc, BoEs that drop throughout the run of course.

This may not be as fast money as a set of dailies, but you can do it for a good portion of the day without getting as bored and it is generally repeatable. If I do it on the weekends I can make an extra 20% on my gems also.

On a side note I agree, you can never have too much gold. When all 5(10) of your toons have full craftable ToC gear, epic flyers, vendor mounts, Dal rings etc. then maybe you won't need much and your existing capital is enough to generate an income to sustain consumables, Even at this stage however, you can buy the ToC BoE recipes for all of your professions and blow another 50k. I am nowhere near achieving this currently and I think by the time I do, there will be a whole new batch of gold sinks available.

Cheers

[Lyonheart]

I have an alt addiction. I have made a few noob teams.. keep them in BoA gear and best blues/greens i can find ( even though they out level them in a few days ) I never have enough money hehe! And i make tons of it.

[Altsoba]

I'm usually too lazy but I always seem to have stuff to sell at the AH. I'm not much of a speculator and I just sell stuff through auctioneer recommended price most of the time not even looking.
Yesterday, I sold two stacks of TANGY CLAM MEAT at 174 gold each.... Good for me I don't watch posted prices as I'd have surely changed it.
I don't know what kind of magic worked here, there's maybe some legendary item being crafted with clams, and from now on I'll only speak in the presence of my lawyer xD.

[Otlecs]

I don't do dailies. Except the JC one, which is 100g for 5 minutes "work".

My money is made through the oft-used route of buying items on the AH, disenchanting them and selling the resultant materials, and from instances.

Heroics are just for the badges for me now, so I DE absolutely everything that drops.

I don't make anywhere near as much as I would from grinding out dailies, but I bank about 5k profit per week that way, and that's after all my out-of-pocket expenses including gems, etc, for any new gear I pick up.

That's good enough for me to have a healthy bank balance.

If I get especially bored at weekends then I bang out a few regular quests. There are plenty around that I haven't done (two whole Northrend zones are still completely untouched in fact!) and that really is amazingly easy cash.

Oh, and I do a "fun run" to MC and ZG every week too. The MC materials in particular are a real cash cow.

[Niley]

Wait, so epic gems and enchanting mats spawn from nothing if you have professions? And crusader orbs appear in your bank? You missed my point - which was that I disagree that once you have epic flyers and crafted gear you no longer need currency. And by currency I mean anything- gold, time, mats you transwhatever from a profession cooldown, or crusader orbs you found for free.

Pretty much, other than rubies gem cost me under 25g, rubies are 60, that includes gem+eternal for transmute. Enchanting mats are all provided by ToC and random daily heroic.
I can get free orbs from my guild, but the one whole piece that i got made from them i paid for. I didnt miss your point in past few weeks I havent spend more than 200 a day on my whole team(and they have all best enchants and all epic gems), I dont even buy water since I have a mage outside my main team to do that.

[suprafro]

Personally, I never farm anything or do any dailies...i'm fully funded by my teams tradeskill cooldowns. I buy all source mats from the AH, use my cooldowns, and resell stuff. We are talking 10-20 minutes a day worth of work for thousands of free gold a day. Basically you can count alchemy as giving you a button to push to simply generate 100-400g a day (epic gem xmute) depending on your luck with procs, and jewelcrafting as giving you a daily quest worth 200g (sell dragon's eyes). The best investment you will ever make is skilling up alchemy on any and all alts whom you never plan to have professions with, it will pay for itself in a weeks time!

[Meshuggenah]

When I powerlevel lowbies in SM and such, selling all the low level mats is a small fortune every time.
(although I make ~650g per day in ~25 minutes with dailies, usually more than I spend)

Which daily's are you doing to manage that?

[suicidesspyder]

I decided since i was running chars thru bc instances to get them 70 hey d/e all the stuff u get. I think i came out with 200+ large prismatics and about 20-30 stacks of arcane dust which imo sells for alot no matter what server. When i decided to turn them all in i made around 5k gold ontop of other loot and coin loot. I mean yea sounds tedious but hey in getting my druids to 70 mage to 62 and priest so far to 63 ive made around 10-15k gold plus i have enough runecloth and netherweave to lvl my mages tailoring without thinking about do i need more cloth.

[Gadzooks]

Which daily's are you doing to manage that?

Any variation of what I call the "Icecrown Run" will do it - hit the harbor for the two there, then get the 3 at Shadow Vaults, then get on the flying ship and get the rest. Some of them pay 22g, it adds up quickly - and if you add in Argent Tourney dailies, you can make that much in an hour, easily. The only one that's a pain is the one that you have to keep adding the potion to, I keep screwing that one up.

I spent some time last night getting all of my team past the aspirant trials, so they're running the same dailies for the AT now. I was very relieved you can group the Aspirant's Challenge one, that unlocks your first city. One player jousts, the rest DPS. Simple.

[Volch0k]

Farming TOC Normal is just insane for gold these days. I run it x5 in about 52-58 minutes, while watching TV (This makes it actually 'farmable') - Because it's gonna get boring as shit (just like the daily's feel like a fucking hassle even tho its alot of 'free' gold.)

An abyss goes for avarage 40-45g, Cosmics 13-14, and Dust for 4-5.5g.

I can practicly farm this how mutch i want, aslong as i shatter some of it, and put out bout Alliance/Horde AH.
This is easily done with having a stockpile on opposite faction bankalt, so you don't have to transfer each day.
I usually have 100+ abyss/cosmic on my Alliance bank, so i only have to transfer each 4/5 day

Right now i have around 60k, and prolly around 20-30k in materials.

I don't even bother doing daily's, simply because doing TOC normal with TV > Daily's. (Not to say the gold is better, unless you rush the daily route - Wich again means no TV!)

[Greythan]

What's the jewelcrafting daily for 100g I'm missing? I do whatever Tim's daily is for the jewelcrafting tokens. (I'm a newly dinged 450 JC'er so a newb.)

[Volch0k]

What's the jewelcrafting daily for 100g I'm missing? I do whatever Tim's daily is for the jewelcrafting tokens. (I'm a newly dinged 450 JC'er so a newb.)

I guess he is buying Dragon's eye on each alt, cuz having 4x each recipe would kinda be a waste...
Been thinking of leveling 4x JC myself, but seeing as it's insane expensive to level it on my server (low lvl mats very expensive) I've been holding out.

[Greythan]

So you buy a dragon's eye. Is it sellable for 100g or something? (I'm clueless.)

[heyaz]

Pretty much, other than rubies gem cost me under 25g, rubies are 60, that includes gem+eternal for transmute. Enchanting mats are all provided by ToC and random daily heroic.
I can get free orbs from my guild, but the one whole piece that i got made from them i paid for. I didnt miss your point in past few weeks I havent spend more than 200 a day on my whole team(and they have all best enchants and all epic gems), I dont even buy water since I have a mage outside my main team to do that.

you haven't spent gold because you farmed the rest or transmuted stuff... exactly what I just said in the last post. You're arguing my point for me. :rolleyes:

[Niley]

you haven't spent gold because you farmed the rest or transmuted stuff... exactly what I just said in the last post. You're arguing my point for me. :rolleyes:

I would advise you to re read it all. You said you spent 3k on enchants and crap, i said if you have professions, you wouldn't pay a penny for those. Thats was whole point You buy mats for 50g, transmute and make 220g, i wouldn't call that farming.
While you cant live on zero gold, 100g a day per 5 is plenty(if youre active, doing bgs/heroics etc).
Just need to set up Your professions correctly.

[BobGnarly]

So you buy a dragon's eye. Is it sellable for 100g or something? (I'm clueless.)

Yes, that's what he meant (do the daily, buy a dragon's eye, sell on AH). Whether or not it'll yield 100g is, of course, dependent on your server economy, but i'd say it's a little low if anything.

The problem with any of these "level 10 of XXX professions and repeat YYY every day" is you can flood the AH on all but the most in demand items. If I tried to sell 5x dragon's eyes per day, I'd either have to lower my prices a lot, or I'd have a lot that didn't sell. This is why I believe that it's important to diversify your approach. Not surprisingly, just like in real life. :)

[Ualaa]

If you have a guild bank with say 2 or 3 tabs...
That can serve as your warehouse.

There are a ton of items which sell very well on weekdays (raid flasks for example), but are generally flooding the market on weekends. Buy them in bulk on the weekend and just stick them into the warehouse. During the week, make sure you have several listed by early evening each day, average price on raid days will be quite a bit higher then average price on weekends.

You can extend the same principle to other items, not just flasks.

[Meshuggenah]

Any variation of what I call the "Icecrown Run" will do it - hit the harbor for the two there, then get the 3 at Shadow Vaults, then get on the flying ship and get the rest. Some of them pay 22g, it adds up quickly - and if you add in Argent Tourney dailies, you can make that much in an hour, easily. The only one that's a pain is the one that you have to keep adding the potion to, I keep screwing that one up.

I spent some time last night getting all of my team past the aspirant trials, so they're running the same dailies for the AT now. I was very relieved you can group the Aspirant's Challenge one, that unlocks your first city. One player jousts, the rest DPS. Simple.

Yeah, the amount is about what I'd expect from daily run, it was just the 30 minute part that I was interested in. Between monitoring my AH stuff, daily triumph farming, raids, arena.. I really don't have the time (or the energy) to farm daily's for hours every day. I guess I just need to figure out a quick circuit that can be completed in 20-30 minutes. 500G / day would fund most of my spending.

[Toonarmy]

The problem with any of these "level 10 of XXX professions and repeat YYY every day" is you can flood the AH on all but the most in demand items. If I tried to sell 5x dragon's eyes per day, I'd either have to lower my prices a lot, or I'd have a lot that didn't sell. This is why I believe that it's important to diversify your approach. Not surprisingly, just like in real life. :)

Bob you sound like my old econ prof from grad school ... "The market price is found where the short run industry supply curve intersects the market demand curve"

I think you're right though. A nice mix of alch / JC / DE / dailies produces a comfortable income for minimal time invested :)

I have this horrible feeling that when the next xpac comes out we all better have 6 figure bank accounts cause inflation is gonna be through the roof (again).

[Gadzooks]

Yeah, the amount is about what I'd expect from daily run, it was just the 30 minute part that I was interested in. Between monitoring my AH stuff, daily triumph farming, raids, arena.. I really don't have the time (or the energy) to farm daily's for hours every day. I guess I just need to figure out a quick circuit that can be completed in 20-30 minutes. 500G / day would fund most of my spending.

I hear you - I just hit Exalted with Ebon Blade on my Pally, and I'm sick to the teeth of Icecrown dailies, but they're the only game in town. I'm going to work on Wyrmcrest to practice working 5 drakes at once, just to break up the monotony.

[Seldum]

If you have trouble selling stuff on one side fx. alliance, make an horde alt and try the horde AH instead. You would be surprised how the prices differ on the two sides.

[Mamut]

Yes, that's what he meant (do the daily, buy a dragon's eye, sell on AH). Whether or not it'll yield 100g is, of course, dependent on your server economy, but i'd say it's a little low if anything.

The problem with any of these "level 10 of XXX professions and repeat YYY every day" is you can flood the AH on all but the most in demand items. If I tried to sell 5x dragon's eyes per day, I'd either have to lower my prices a lot, or I'd have a lot that didn't sell. This is why I believe that it's important to diversify your approach. Not surprisingly, just like in real life. :)

Guess it really depends on the server. I do the JC daily on 8 guys a day, 3 of them i turn into nightmare tears and 5 i sell as plain ol' dragon's eye. Nets me around 900-1000 a day during the week and closer to 1350 on weekends.

Never fails to sell and keeps me spending on alts and silly stuff

[Jubber]

Killing doomwalker in SMV nets you some good gold too. 500g for a 4-7min fight.

[Greythan]

Hrm, any other relatively easy NPC's that yield gold/drops like Doomwalker?

[Ualaa]

One of the wow gold guides I found on the net suggested having as many trade skills near max as possible between your alts.

With a team, we can basically have just about all the trade skills we care about online at once.

The general principle is purchasing materials, at a cost but in relative bulk, is more profit per hour then farming the materials and making much more per piece but less per hour.

Take a look at each of your professions. See what the common materials necessary for recipes are. Get a feel for average prices for these mats.

Then turn around and look at the average price for what you can produce.
A lot of things won't be profitable, but some will and others will be marginal.

Decide on what price you can buy mats, which would allow you to list items at a profit.
Anytime you see these mats at or below your target price, just buy them and produce whatever.
In general the mats are worth more then having 10x something in the bank.

Use Appraiser to list no more then 1-2 of a crafted item at once.
You can restock your mule periodically, and just Batch Post with them.
And know they won't list more then what you have set.

When a resource gatherer lists something on the AH, they lose the list fee if the item doesn't sell.
And, not everything sells the first or second time.
In addition, they lose 5% of the sale price, even for something like enchanting mats.
Selling directly to a buyer cuts out the 5% loss and the listing fees.

You can send an in-game mail to any seller who bulk lists your mats.
Offer to buy from them for "x" price, which is low enough to be profitable for you.
Some will take a sure thing bulk sale, as much as they can farm, over the randomness of the AH.

You can also create a few macro's, where you advertise something like:
/trade Buying stacks of <material> for <price>, CoD to <toon>.
If you want, advertise different mats by different toons, so the resources go to the right toon.

In effect, you are setting up the equivalent of a production line.

[Seldum]

Theres also another strategy which I tried with Light Leather.

Buying up all stacks on the marked, and slowly sell it off at a average price.

I don't remember the excact prices, but lets say the average and fair price was 10g.

When someone underbid me, I purchased it immediately. I ended up with alot of light leather in my bank lol, but I earned a lot of gc on it aswell.

Also, look out for seriously underpriced epic, rare blues, twink gear etc. You can really make a good profit there.

To be able to control a marked you need to a. have some start gc. b. be active on the ah and c. pick a product which is used alot.

What I expirenced was, that sometimes I diden't sell alot of light leather, but then suddently all my 30+ stacks got bought within a couple of hours earning me a good profit. I also placed a couple of stack on AH for 50% overpriced, so if someone bough all the average priced leather I still had some expensive to offer.

Got tired of the drill though and spend my time lvl my toons instead :D

[Slats]

Yeah I've become totally addicted to the Auction House, the WoW Economy and all that jazz. I am slowly putting every profession on all my characters so I can cover everything come Cataclysm and be very diverse in my markets on the AH so that if something is failing another market props it up for awhile.

All of that can be done on single toons though so to contribute to my own thread that shouldn't talk about DAILIES (bad bad posters!) here are a few things I've taken that have worked well:

*Run ToC normal where you skip the RP (need to clear it once with RP). Thanks to Abyssal Shatter you earn alot of Abyss Shards, Greater Cosmic and Infinite Dust this way. Pretty boring and can be annoying though - this will be alot more fun once we have the 3 new Icecrown 5 man content instead of stupid mounted combat.

*Honor/Badges --> Epic Gems. Spend all your honor on red/orange/blue gems and all your badges on green/yellow/purple gems. This is because some of the colors are 20 badges and some are 10, where as every gem is 10k honor. :) You can do Wintergrasp and all its quests once a week and also turn in Stone Keeprs Shards (x30) for 2k honor.

Nothing like sending your JC 37 epic gems and then listed them all up on the AH and collecting 6k out of the mailbox. :)