Shodokan
09-06-2010, 05:48 AM
Posted this elsewhere first, figured i would post here for those that enjoyed my guides. I'm not going to deal with trolls or being flamed or whatever, just posting it and logging out.
Introduction
I'm a Multi-Boxer whom specializes in making gold. I am an ******* and in this "guide" you may be demeaned in some manner but you can deal with it. Before you say "how do we know these work" I've been playing again since february and normally do not play over 2-3 hours per day... I've made over 1.5 million gold in that time period and am currently gold capped on three toons.
KEEP IN MIND THAT ECONOMIC AWARENESS IS KING NO MATTER HOW YOU AIM TO MAKE MONEY. ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT I WILL BE REFERENCING ALL PROFESSIONS ASSUMING YOU HAVE THEM ALL.
This guide is not going to teach you how to multi-box, what team to run or anything like that... it is SIMPLY to show you the power multi-boxing brings to make money(if that is your ultimate goal like it is mine. If you want programs to multi-box you can use any of the following
ISBoxer
Keyclone
Hotkeynet
Octopus
********
I recommend them in that order.
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Mob Farming Strategies
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Instances
Old world instances are great cash... many people single box places such as stratholme, ramparts and sethekk halls. The difference is that multi-boxers can do instances that may take a single boxer longer to clear in much less time (sethekk halls for example) to ultimately yield higher profits.
Sethekk halls
You can cap out your instances per hour with ease including looting (unlike single boxing). Each run gives you tons of vendor trash, tons of cloth, decent amount of silver, some blues/green to disenchant/vendor depending on the material prices on your server. As well as about 3 stacks of adamantite ore.
This yields between 500 and 1000 gold per hour depending on server and drops.
Stratholme
Unlike single boxing you can solo this place and kill at a much much faster rate than single boxing. I myself run with 5 paladins and you can kill a pack of mobs in two buttons.... this being said you can instance cap doing both dead and undead (entire left side from service entrance)
The amount of gold you get from this varies depending on drops. Crusader enchant sells very well (the righteous orbs that drop in living area used for this) as well as the abundant amount of runecloth, greens to DE/vendor and vendor trash.
If runecloth is above 7 gold per stack this is a GREAT place to farm especially for the speed at which you can run it.
HOBBS has great videos on the amount of money he made with this place as a single boxer.
Tempest Keep: Botanica
Exactly like sethekk halls but the mobs are a bit higher level and there are many more of them to kill, unlike sethekk halls there are no mining nodes in which you can abuse. More silver to be had and not all mobs are able to drop cloth but still a very good place. There are many chinese botters whom use this place to bot in order to get the "got my mind on my money" achievements.
Violet Hold
This was my mainstay for a while... the amount of skins you get and cloth makes this place a gold mine. If you always have wintergrasp you can make tons of shards as well. Tons of greens and vendor trash that can be great. Some blues that sell for higher than the price of dream shards as well. This place can be cleared in about 10-12 minuets meaning you can meet the instance cap as well just like in some of the old world instances. This place drops scales, leather, coin, greens, blues, arctic fur at an increased drop chance and a few bosses that are skinnable as well for extra cash.
Each mob here is worth about 2 gold in materials or more. If you have a tailor in the group the amount of cloth is increased by quite a bit as well.
Random heroics
Make sure NOT to have any of the "new" places opened... you don't want to go in them as they are a waste of time. The 10 frost badges aren't worth losing the convenience.
You can do between 3 and 5 instances per hour... with professions this can end up being close to 2000 gold an hour or more.
The complete guide to the random heroics method is here:
Multi-Boxer's Guide To Making Gold Through Heroics - Go For Broke (http://www.hackshardgaming.net/forums/showthread.php?p=108#post108)
The garfrost method
Theres a way to get to garfrost without aggroing anything... I'm not going to describe it in full but basically jump off like normal, don't go up the stupid ramp, run right across the the edge of the quarry... then make sure not to be seen by anything. You can pull the stupid drake + rider if you need to (the first one) the second one can ALWAYS be skipped. This takes 2 mins to do each run, using the looking for dungeon system you can leave instance, reset, and re-que and it will by-pass the "instance limit" per hour.
Gives upwards to 30 badges per hour, some random gold, and up to 30 abyss crystals, also gives 4 stonekeeper shards per kill.
Done on normal mode... usually brought me in 2-3k per hour depending on prices of gems (what i used my badges on), or you can use the same strategies covered in the heroics guide for professions in order to use your badges to maxamize profit (i was just super lazy and this is MINDLESS)
You can carry someone and leave one of your toons out if you want to gear a friend... takes about 7 hours total to get them fully geared in t9 + off pieces from badges.
Raids
Old school raids or even ICC can bring in quite a bit of extra cash for a multi-boxer. My current mainstay is to sit in ICC 25 man and farm some of the trash with my 4 shaman/paladin team and get me some BOES. But every raid has it's purpose.
Zul'gurub
The trash is reset-able and like farming for the rep items and such as a single person (they sell for random amounts on the ah, i'm normally able to sell them for around 15g per). No real secret here it's the same as the single boxing method... go in kill the trolls and get the crap you turn in for rep.
Karazhan
Another trash reset zone
Areas to kill: room up the first set of stairs stairs, tables in front of moroes, 2nd level starting from top of stairs to front of opera stage.
Tons of coin, cloth, and tons of vendor trash....greens etc... TONS of mobs that are really easy to kill as well as a boxing group. If you have not seen the vids of the rogue soloing most of this trash than go watch it...it's on warcraftmovies and youtube.
Tempest Keep: The Eye
You know about the bots in black temple right? They only go there because they don't have the killing power for this place due to the trash not being quite as easy but still... super easy.
EVERY mob in here will give you vendor trash, 1 gold or more, a good amount of cloth and high percent drops for greens.
Trash is reset-able.
BOTH TEMPEST KEEP AND KARA ARE GREAT PLACES FOR PURE COIN
Molten core
All the items for things like thunder fury, also hand of ragnaros... decent coin as well. Can yield about 500 gold per reset or whatever. If you don't know why this place is good... look up some of the "resell in cataclysm" guides.
Blackwing lair
This is soloable... this is mainly for elementium ore. Can yield A LOT of gold if you are lucky. Good thing to do once a week.
A trick i forgot to post...unlimited elementium ore.
Step 1: Clear up to the room that has the 10 ish blackwing technicians (not the boss guy with like 1% chance but the other goblin dudes)
Step 2: CC one of the goblins so it will not get pulled... grab the rest and kill them FAST
Step 3: Loot and then run out of the instance,if the CC'd mob follows you no biggie just DO NOT KILL IT
Step 4: Leave the instance
Step 5: Wait 10 mins and go back inside (trash soft reset)
Step 6: Go back to the room with the mobs we are killing and then repeat the process.
This means you get 50+ chances per hour at the ore, instead of like... 10. (these mobs have 10% chance per to drop the ore)
I got lucky and got 8 ore in one hour like this (they sell for 1200g per ore on my server)
Mag
Great gold from the boss himself once a week.. an extra 500 gold or so for 25 mins of work.
This takes some getting use to though.
The battle for mount hyjal
Another trash place... more decent drops... not as good as TK though in my opinion. It's a nice change of pace. Do the trash up to for the first boss, bring them back to the npcs for a bit more DPS if you need to.
Icecrown Citadel 25 man
This is my bread and butter. "The Damned" are soloable easily on any multi-box team in t9 gear. This means that you can kill about 5-10 mobs before having to reset in the same amount of time as someone who is killing the three and bringing them back to the NPC's. So every 5 mins you can kill about 10 mobs and then reset. You can get upwards to 200 mobs per hour if you are good, and since many BOES have an upwards to 5% chance to drop you can assume you will get one or two... some times more. My best set was 3x wodins, 2x harbringer's band, 1x ring of rotting sinew in a single hour (at 5k, 6k and 3k worth per that netted me 30k total).
I HIGHLY suggest running as a paladin + 4 shaman for this, or bring a healer friend and you can clear a bit more of the trash if you really wanna try :) (i run with a healer shaman + 4 ret paladins and a dk and can do like 12-13 mobs before resetting in about 5 mins)
Introduction
I'm a Multi-Boxer whom specializes in making gold. I am an ******* and in this "guide" you may be demeaned in some manner but you can deal with it. Before you say "how do we know these work" I've been playing again since february and normally do not play over 2-3 hours per day... I've made over 1.5 million gold in that time period and am currently gold capped on three toons.
KEEP IN MIND THAT ECONOMIC AWARENESS IS KING NO MATTER HOW YOU AIM TO MAKE MONEY. ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT I WILL BE REFERENCING ALL PROFESSIONS ASSUMING YOU HAVE THEM ALL.
This guide is not going to teach you how to multi-box, what team to run or anything like that... it is SIMPLY to show you the power multi-boxing brings to make money(if that is your ultimate goal like it is mine. If you want programs to multi-box you can use any of the following
ISBoxer
Keyclone
Hotkeynet
Octopus
********
I recommend them in that order.
__________________________________________________ ______________________
Mob Farming Strategies
__________________________________________________ _______________________
Instances
Old world instances are great cash... many people single box places such as stratholme, ramparts and sethekk halls. The difference is that multi-boxers can do instances that may take a single boxer longer to clear in much less time (sethekk halls for example) to ultimately yield higher profits.
Sethekk halls
You can cap out your instances per hour with ease including looting (unlike single boxing). Each run gives you tons of vendor trash, tons of cloth, decent amount of silver, some blues/green to disenchant/vendor depending on the material prices on your server. As well as about 3 stacks of adamantite ore.
This yields between 500 and 1000 gold per hour depending on server and drops.
Stratholme
Unlike single boxing you can solo this place and kill at a much much faster rate than single boxing. I myself run with 5 paladins and you can kill a pack of mobs in two buttons.... this being said you can instance cap doing both dead and undead (entire left side from service entrance)
The amount of gold you get from this varies depending on drops. Crusader enchant sells very well (the righteous orbs that drop in living area used for this) as well as the abundant amount of runecloth, greens to DE/vendor and vendor trash.
If runecloth is above 7 gold per stack this is a GREAT place to farm especially for the speed at which you can run it.
HOBBS has great videos on the amount of money he made with this place as a single boxer.
Tempest Keep: Botanica
Exactly like sethekk halls but the mobs are a bit higher level and there are many more of them to kill, unlike sethekk halls there are no mining nodes in which you can abuse. More silver to be had and not all mobs are able to drop cloth but still a very good place. There are many chinese botters whom use this place to bot in order to get the "got my mind on my money" achievements.
Violet Hold
This was my mainstay for a while... the amount of skins you get and cloth makes this place a gold mine. If you always have wintergrasp you can make tons of shards as well. Tons of greens and vendor trash that can be great. Some blues that sell for higher than the price of dream shards as well. This place can be cleared in about 10-12 minuets meaning you can meet the instance cap as well just like in some of the old world instances. This place drops scales, leather, coin, greens, blues, arctic fur at an increased drop chance and a few bosses that are skinnable as well for extra cash.
Each mob here is worth about 2 gold in materials or more. If you have a tailor in the group the amount of cloth is increased by quite a bit as well.
Random heroics
Make sure NOT to have any of the "new" places opened... you don't want to go in them as they are a waste of time. The 10 frost badges aren't worth losing the convenience.
You can do between 3 and 5 instances per hour... with professions this can end up being close to 2000 gold an hour or more.
The complete guide to the random heroics method is here:
Multi-Boxer's Guide To Making Gold Through Heroics - Go For Broke (http://www.hackshardgaming.net/forums/showthread.php?p=108#post108)
The garfrost method
Theres a way to get to garfrost without aggroing anything... I'm not going to describe it in full but basically jump off like normal, don't go up the stupid ramp, run right across the the edge of the quarry... then make sure not to be seen by anything. You can pull the stupid drake + rider if you need to (the first one) the second one can ALWAYS be skipped. This takes 2 mins to do each run, using the looking for dungeon system you can leave instance, reset, and re-que and it will by-pass the "instance limit" per hour.
Gives upwards to 30 badges per hour, some random gold, and up to 30 abyss crystals, also gives 4 stonekeeper shards per kill.
Done on normal mode... usually brought me in 2-3k per hour depending on prices of gems (what i used my badges on), or you can use the same strategies covered in the heroics guide for professions in order to use your badges to maxamize profit (i was just super lazy and this is MINDLESS)
You can carry someone and leave one of your toons out if you want to gear a friend... takes about 7 hours total to get them fully geared in t9 + off pieces from badges.
Raids
Old school raids or even ICC can bring in quite a bit of extra cash for a multi-boxer. My current mainstay is to sit in ICC 25 man and farm some of the trash with my 4 shaman/paladin team and get me some BOES. But every raid has it's purpose.
Zul'gurub
The trash is reset-able and like farming for the rep items and such as a single person (they sell for random amounts on the ah, i'm normally able to sell them for around 15g per). No real secret here it's the same as the single boxing method... go in kill the trolls and get the crap you turn in for rep.
Karazhan
Another trash reset zone
Areas to kill: room up the first set of stairs stairs, tables in front of moroes, 2nd level starting from top of stairs to front of opera stage.
Tons of coin, cloth, and tons of vendor trash....greens etc... TONS of mobs that are really easy to kill as well as a boxing group. If you have not seen the vids of the rogue soloing most of this trash than go watch it...it's on warcraftmovies and youtube.
Tempest Keep: The Eye
You know about the bots in black temple right? They only go there because they don't have the killing power for this place due to the trash not being quite as easy but still... super easy.
EVERY mob in here will give you vendor trash, 1 gold or more, a good amount of cloth and high percent drops for greens.
Trash is reset-able.
BOTH TEMPEST KEEP AND KARA ARE GREAT PLACES FOR PURE COIN
Molten core
All the items for things like thunder fury, also hand of ragnaros... decent coin as well. Can yield about 500 gold per reset or whatever. If you don't know why this place is good... look up some of the "resell in cataclysm" guides.
Blackwing lair
This is soloable... this is mainly for elementium ore. Can yield A LOT of gold if you are lucky. Good thing to do once a week.
A trick i forgot to post...unlimited elementium ore.
Step 1: Clear up to the room that has the 10 ish blackwing technicians (not the boss guy with like 1% chance but the other goblin dudes)
Step 2: CC one of the goblins so it will not get pulled... grab the rest and kill them FAST
Step 3: Loot and then run out of the instance,if the CC'd mob follows you no biggie just DO NOT KILL IT
Step 4: Leave the instance
Step 5: Wait 10 mins and go back inside (trash soft reset)
Step 6: Go back to the room with the mobs we are killing and then repeat the process.
This means you get 50+ chances per hour at the ore, instead of like... 10. (these mobs have 10% chance per to drop the ore)
I got lucky and got 8 ore in one hour like this (they sell for 1200g per ore on my server)
Mag
Great gold from the boss himself once a week.. an extra 500 gold or so for 25 mins of work.
This takes some getting use to though.
The battle for mount hyjal
Another trash place... more decent drops... not as good as TK though in my opinion. It's a nice change of pace. Do the trash up to for the first boss, bring them back to the npcs for a bit more DPS if you need to.
Icecrown Citadel 25 man
This is my bread and butter. "The Damned" are soloable easily on any multi-box team in t9 gear. This means that you can kill about 5-10 mobs before having to reset in the same amount of time as someone who is killing the three and bringing them back to the NPC's. So every 5 mins you can kill about 10 mobs and then reset. You can get upwards to 200 mobs per hour if you are good, and since many BOES have an upwards to 5% chance to drop you can assume you will get one or two... some times more. My best set was 3x wodins, 2x harbringer's band, 1x ring of rotting sinew in a single hour (at 5k, 6k and 3k worth per that netted me 30k total).
I HIGHLY suggest running as a paladin + 4 shaman for this, or bring a healer friend and you can clear a bit more of the trash if you really wanna try :) (i run with a healer shaman + 4 ret paladins and a dk and can do like 12-13 mobs before resetting in about 5 mins)