mount money

[schlange]

I have a team of 1 pally and 4 shamen and they are all now lv 35. I am grinding in SM Library and starting to think about mount money. Thus far I have about 40g on each of my chars. I have tried the quests and found it tedious compared to instance grinding thus far.

Also I have DE all the greens and blues to train the enchanter, but now money is going to be needed soon. What is teh best way to make enough mount money between levles 35 and 41?

[Diamndzngunz]

Do you have a 70 to get some daily quests in? Thats gold right there.

[Gande]

I dont find getting the gold as hard as not using them. so if you dont use gold on professions or buying items/potions/ect from ah. you shouldnt have any problems getting gold for your mounts.

i would farm SM. A full cath run are good xp and 10-20 gold plus i remember selling the blue boe item that dropped in sm for 10-15 gold each on ah.

On my server disenchant, mining, herb and skinning are a nice way for some really easy gold.

[Tehtsuo]

I second that. I have herbalism and skinning on my main, and no professions on the others. All I do is instance runs, and I send every piece of cloth, every leather, every green, and especially every blue that drops to my auction alt. My alt is holding over 400g and I havn't even hit 30 yet. I haven't bought an item off the auctionhouse yet for levelling my toons, that's the secret I think. Don't spend gold on something when you can get comparable gear in an instance, and will be discarding soon anyways.

[kllrwlf]

Basic rule to having gold is to sell everything you're not going to use, and buy nothing from the AH. :)

[glo]

I didn't start looting until the mid 50s so I actually had to take gold from an existing character for their level 40 mounts. I had 1000-1200g on each of them when they hit 70 and another 1500 on my auction alt from sending all their greens and such. I also have a couple bank characters full of motes, enchanting mats, mined materials and quest items(for the next group). I worked on no professions with the exception of mining on one character, which definitely paid for itself and the little time it slowed me.

This is based on boosting to 45 with a high level character grinding instances and 46-70 questing. I bought nothing from the auction hall except for quest items.

The short story is if you loot you should have your mount money at 40, you definitely have your money for your epic and flyer from questing.

[Ripper]

What are your professions? I started on a server by myself, and have 4000-5000 gold by myself from mining, herbalism, skinning, and questing. I did instances as filler xp between quests. Well, if I have lots of rested xp, I do instances cause that seems to be the fastest way to burn off that rest xp :)

If you strictly run instances, you won't make much money until you get to Strat and higher.

[Atorifan]

I'm seeing mount money being tight, luckily the mains I have, had enough to cover the first round. I'm levelling almost one of each profession, and soon will take out one tailor for one engineer. If I am going to farm instances, why would I deny myself the profession only drops along the way? That doesn't make much sense. Not all of them will return money (professions) But levelling gives so many greens to de along the way covering levelling the enchanter. Still, it's going to be money lean. But SFK gave 2 blue drops for over 60g. And those will be my rare rainmakers. When I get done with a particular item level, like wool cloth, the remainder goes to the auction house. Good luck.

[Eteocles]

I was able to afford most of my mount money on the chars' own at 40 for both the druids and the shamen, and my druids have 200-300g each at 55, with any luck after I spend a lv or two in outland I can afford their epics too by 61 hopefully(I don't wanna spend any longer than I have to travelforming everywhere any longer, it's a pain in the ass and slower lol)

Basic rule is to know your suffixes: Cloth/Leather of the Eagle stuff sells great, Leather/Mail Monkey/falcon gear sells great, mail/plate Eagle and Bear stuff sells great; cloth will ALWAYS sell well(mageweave's up to 4g/stack on mag US alliance atm lol) so once you have first aid sell the rest(or tailor if you have one) and as said above, if you have a 70, do those daily quests! It's free gold yo.(Though I haven't done any in weeks, I've lived off the 1300g my Rogue got from spending a weekend cleaning up all his SMV quests that were never finished at 70 lol, I got a Darkrune to use the Shartuul event though and that'll bring me at least 60 to 100g once done)

Never depend on a profession to profit. My rule of thumb. Anything that uses mats is lost profit for the mats, and if people provide the mats you're hoping for a tip to help out, and with how expensive parts for most things get you'll be lucky to sell anything for much profit. Just farm high-sale greys, cloth, gathering professions, and hope a rare drop will grace you along the way ;p

[sanix]

take mining and herbalism on your main.

profit.

[Aloratnm]

take mining and herbalism on your main.

profit.Do you find having two professions that involve tracking are better or worse?

[Eteocles]

That partially depends on how well you know vein/herb spawns from personal playing experience; I could personally show you where every god-forsaken vein on Azeroth spawns cuz at least half my hundreds of chars have been miners lol; however I don't have many herbalists so I dunno any of those, therefore if I had herb tracking and kept an eye on known vein spots I could do both

[Stabface]

Buying and reselling on the AH has always been the #1 way to make gold. It requires some knowledge of the market and a bit of up front capital, but otherwise it's easy.

To start out I recommend dealing with the commodities - high volume items such as cloth, potions, etc. These things have a natural variance in the price from day to day and the key is just buying low and selling high. Many items get flooded on the AH during the weekend and the price drops, then during the week there's a scarcity of them and the price goes up. On my server, I can buy bags full of some items on the weekend, and resell for 2-3x the price during the week. Other items go the other way, hard to find & costly on the weekend, more supply and lower prices on weekdays... just buy low sell high for mad profits.


You have 200g... make a dedicated auction house alt, take 100g and send it to him along with some bags. Take 10 minutes a day to scan through the various enchanting materials and cloth, make a note of the price variances and quantity. My rule of thumb is 10% on quantity... so whenever prices are the highest, take 10% of the quantity that is selling and buy it when prices are low. Then resell for the higher price.

For example, lets say on your server Silk Cloth buyouts vary from 50s-75s a stack on the weekend with 150 stacks up, and 75s-1g during the week with 80 stacks up. So you want to buy about 8 stacks @50s for each day that you think you can resell for 1g -- probably Monday-Thursday, so 32 stacks. Profit will be about 15g, the number seems low but trust me this is a fantastic return rate. And you can scale this up a couple of orders of magnitude. I don't even try very hard anymore, but I can pull 300-500g of pure profit a day


Pro tip: always try list things up for 1c less than a whole number, 99s99c is just .01% less than 1g but will easily get you more sales, this is what all the big retailers do and it works!

[sanix]

Do you find having two professions that involve tracking are better or worse?It's very easy to switch the tracking from ores to herbs and vice versa. Plus, they usually dont spawn in the same areas (ok some herbs spawn in the mountains but who cares if you miss a few of them).
After some time you'll know when to track herbs and when to track ores.
If you dont want both, take mining :D thorium still sell very very well, sometimes better than BC ores.

[sanix]

Also take enchanting on one of your character, you'll make a shitload of money at 70 with enchanting / tailoring

[Lokked]

I wasn't able to afford lvl 40 mounts until around 49, so don't feel bad.

Then again, I DE'd everything except for blues, and I haven't visited the AH regarding those or anything yet. Just got all my money from instance money drops and quests.

Lokked