Going broke Quad-boxing, how can I earn more gold?

[Rimmel]

Alright, so I've played off an on for about two years now and right when I was about to quit again (from frustration with the warrior class :P) I started quad boxing 4 mages and using my 5th account, A lvl 64 warrior, to boost them through VC at 10 till Stocks at 19, and now they rest at lvl 28 somewhere outside SM.

Anyways, I started with about 800g on my warrior when I first started my mages, and now I'm pretty much broke. Everything seemed pretty cheap at first, but with training and gear x4 with my high warrior repair bill, Im now broke. Is there a good way for my mages, or simply just my warrior to farm more gold? (no, I don't plan on selling it or anything like that.) Usually I farm leather and veins in Un'goro but lately its been packed by other players so farming gold takes Forever.

So, what do You guys do to earn more gold for your clones? Is there something I don't know?

(and please dont point me to something like Volker ebook or something. everytime I buy an ebook I find it online for free two days later)

[Xar]

Once you hit 70 on your warrior you can easily make a bunch of gold every day with dailies.

I would also say if you're running them through instances you should be able to skip upgrades for the babies and just outfit them with bop items as they drop. Are you saying you blew 800g on just repairs? I would think as you hit SM the gold you get from clearing it out should start floating your repairs. I've never played a warrior past 16 so I'm not sure but could you unequip some armor so they don't take damage and still clear the instance?

[The IT Monkey]

I've never had a problem with gold (except when it comes to mounts), here is how I level though so it may be different then what you are doing.

I level all my toons together and I quest. I generally give the main toon of any group 50g to start. This is for initial training and bags and misc. stuff.

I never buy equipment. I noticed you said "training and gear x 4". Running around with four (or three in your case) toons following you... better gear is just over rated until you hit 70. You will be replacing that gear so quickly it doesn't make sense to buy gear on the AH. An exception would be wands but that is just me, I get them the best wands I can as soon as possible as four wands going will burn down most things and you can save a lot of mana.

Always have at least one enchanter with you so that any BOP items that your group doesn't need or can't use can be sharded for the mats and sold on AH.

Stay away from professions (other than enchanting or gathering professions) as they are money sinks unless you don't purchase mats off the AH and even then those mats are ones that you could be selling instead of using.

I do give the main the starter cash but before long I have made that back up and then some.

1) Don't buy equipment.
2) Do quests.
3) DON'T BUY EQUIPMENT.

I seriously don't know how you went through 800g. If this is where boosting gets you (or just running instance after instance) I am glad I went the questing route.

[Rimmel]

Yeah, I have keyclone on one computer with 4 mages, and use a seperate computer with my warrior to boost them through instances. I think some of the gold went to actually paying others when I didn't feel like using my warriors and just wanted to use my mages and just stand there while some other high level person did the instance for me :P But mostly, the gold went to buying gear and stuff so when one of my mages got aggro (as I'm a fury warrior and can't really hold it) a melee mob wouldn't kill a mage almost instantly and having to take the time to walk them back to the instance.

I think I've done two quests while using my 4 mages :P - I should probably start questing with them soon though. Quest gear doesn't seem like such a bad idea now that I think of it.

[Stabface]

I cannot possibly see how a L28 mage can pull the aggro of any mob in SM off a L64 warrior ?
If you actually want to DPS with them (and if they can even land spells on the mobs) you should be able to just pull, use some shout (thunderclap, battle, whatever) to get on the threat list of everything. Then use some proper assist or focustarget macros to DPS on the same mob and they should never get aggro. For boosting pre-L35 or so, I found it was better to just park them somewhere in XP and pull stuff and kill stuff with the higher level toon as you're generally killing things far beyond their level so they can't hit anyway.

[Xar]

I've pulled aggro easily on a low level healer while using my lock. I would round up mobs with my void walker then use LOS to pull them around a wall so that I could seed up 2-5 of them (depending on level). If the VW did not actually do damage to a mob and the only aggro is that the VW was near it then that mob would literally fly over to the healer as soon as I got a heal lol. So now when running low levels through instances I just have the low levels stand as far as possible, do the kills then heal life taps after.

[Nisch]

I guess that's where these games differ. I 6-box in DAOC and I have more money than I know what to do with. :thumbup:

[zanthor]

See the auction house? If so, you are too close to it. Turn, run.

DO NOT BUY SHIT.

Level, Train, Level some more. The ONLY person who's gear matters is the warriors until the mages catch up. At that point the mages should have reasonable gear from just drops and quest items.

Don't bother repairing on the little ones either. They have no purpose except to sponge xp, they aren't considerable dps if you are using the warrior to powerlevel them, they aren't viable useful members of the group til they are much closer to the level of content you are doing...

[Eteocles]

I checked the AH mostly for tradeskill recipes as I lvl'd Enchanting on both chars; only bought reasonably-priced recipes. I rarely bought gear but if I saw a good TWIN set of capes or chests that would last me awhile(eagle gear mostly) and it was priced fair enough(fuck 5g for a lv18 cape/cloth chest) I'd buy 'em. Up till outland though again, I rarely bought gear off the AH, though since my 70's an LWer I made a few pieces/cloaks for them as they lvl'd cuz they did take hits occasionally and also started helping DPS post-30.

At 57 however all bets're off...if you can find a matching set of good gear on the AH at a reasonable price go for it. That's the lvl Outlands gear starts dropping, yay for Of the Sorc/Invoker/Elder suffixes! If you looted mobs as you lvl'd and SOLD things on the AH as you lvl'd you should be fine moneywise to hopefully buy an epic land mount by 60 too.

I did the above and had about 300ish gold by 60 on BOTH alts; I borrowed the remaining cost for epic mounts from my Rogue who got rich doing SMV quests he hadn't done pre-70 & the alts had Exalted with Stormwind thanks to the Lunar Festival Elders giving good rep(even my 70 isn't Exalted with any Alliance yet and both my alts were Exalted with SW by 52 lol); since the patch gave you a Discount at every rep level instead of just Honored like it used to be, I paid 40g less for Epic Riding in SW than I did at Darnassus, and that's why my alts have horses and I have a cat ;p

That said, I had no more than 20s between BOTH alts after buying that. At lv62.5 and with an AH still full of goodies, I have 400g on both alts again already.(Though I don't remember if I've trained skills since 60 =x) Just loot EVERYTHING you see, sell the greys(some get up to 1-2g on their own), and that's with BOTH alts being Enchanters, selling any greens that won't go on the AH(Boar plate, non-eagle/monkey/elder/etc stuff) for 2+g, DEing anything below 2g and still lvling enchanting. Sell cloth, sell greens(both to vendor and AH depending on the item and it's popularity), and do every quest, even the collection quests past a certain lvl, more grinding, more loot to sell :p

Also once you're high enough or even if you already have a 70, solo Scholomance; tons of Large Brilliant Shards, easy to clear groups, and the Teachers/blue spirits up front drop Enchant Weapon - Lifestealing frequently(I've had 4-5 drop in 2 runs before, they upped the droprate in a post-bc patch), and misc greens aplenty + dark runes if you're a mana user which can come in handy or be sold for crafters/raiders(And raiders value darkrunes highly for being an extra +mana cooldown besides pots)

[Stabface]

Running quests on 4x Shaman from 63-64, I made nearly 1000G from DEing or AHing the quest rewards & all the random junk that dropped. Guessing it was around 5 hours /played.

Just ignore their gear until you get your mages up as high as you can boost them. :)

[Klamor]

i don't have 4 alts to lvl or w/e but i have made TONS(3000g) of money by just selling EVERYTHING. it's a waste of money equipping your alt with stuff that's just gonna be upgraded the next instance. i'm currently only lvl 35 on my mage, i run sm with a 70 pally and i loot everything(yes even grays) and sell it all. vendor grays/BOPs and auction ALL the greens...

i also use auctioneer mod to help me sell stuff. btw - get the "classic" version and not the new one... it's a LOT easier to use and when you go to the "post auctions" tab and put an item up, it will automatically choose the best price to auction the item at

use the "scan" feature on the main tab to update your database with prices of everything(once a day for about a week should do it, and even then update everyday or at least every day that you log on)

[Sanctume]

Those instances drop lots of cloth you can sell.

[Oldin]

I seem to remember a time when farming SM was prime gold making time. Loot all the cloth and sell on AH.

[xtobbenx]

Maybe someone allreayd have told you this as i didnt read throught the whole thread. But when you lvl you alts with a high lvl in SM etc.. Then dont worry about training new skills or geting better gearing on them.. Sell all gear drops from bosses etc. Just consern about you warrior main and keep him up with repairs and gold for that.. at the time youre toons hit the same lvl as your warrior you can start to grab some gearing and get them up to date.. and by that time you will have some much gold saved up as as futur you get up in lvl as more gold will drop for you.

And a nice trick i am useing, which might be helpfull for some others when it comes to this is that atm i got my 70 and 3x shammys which i am power lvling.. so when ever i go SM etc.. i have a free spot. So before i go, i announce in /2 etc that i am boosting at that lvl.. i dont charge any from the last person. But i tell him that his job will ONLY be to loot everything while i gather more mobs.. that way i got 4chrs geting gold from the place. And that is keeping most of my repair on my main going.

[Rimmel]

That's actually an awesome idea! I tried it, and it went smoothly. I found a lvl 36 Priest (My Mages are all lvl 36 as well. I haven't been playing as much as I'd like to) and he was more than happy with the plan of being designated looter and I've been making decent money off of the spare change drops. Of course this means that I will have to level my fourth mage individually, but this isn't such a bad idea because I've decided to create a Paladin and get him to 70 as quick as possible so I can do large pulls and make instances faster for my next batch of clones (Shamans).

It's also a great idea, because I've never actually played a mage past lvl 20, and that's played a major factor in PVP, not knowing exactly what to do.