Gold farms vs Solo Mage / Warlock summon bots

My team: 1 MC/BWL geared Shaman, 1 AQ40 2h Warrior (Spinal Reaper). 3 arms warriors in dungeon pre-bis with Treants Bane.

On my server prices of righteous orbs sit between 8g-13g
Arcanite Crystals 30-35g
Large Brilliant Shards 3g

Seems raw farm-able materials are low, but all the juicy consumables are expensive. Edgemasters go for 7k currently.

I enjoy multiboxing my shaman/warriors 5 man team. But need to find a reliable gold sync.

• DM:E seems to be varyable between 100-150g an hour, depending if you kill all the extra mobs for felcloth
• Strat Live, no point with the current farmer bots
• BRD runs? Get lucky on Librams and Edgemasters?
• E'ko farming was ok when prices surged to 7-8g, but have now fallen to 3g.

How is everyone else dealing with massive inflation and handling the economy to gear out up and coming teams with buyable BiS and the best enchants?

The new economy appears to be 1 Mage selling ports/water/DM:T instances or solo boosting ZG for 300g+ HR.

"Summon bots"?

"Summon bots"?

Dealing with inflation? = make loads of gold the first few months, while prices are high. When prices starts to go down = retire from "farming" gold (as gold per hour turns to garbage, comparatively) and enjoy the game instead. Then do the same again at the start of the next expansion.

seeing a similar trend on Fairbanks Horde. Orbs are 9g, Arcane Crystals ~45g, LBS ~3g. Frostmaul E'kos still in the ~6g+.

I run Holy Priest, Druid Tank, Ele Shaman, Mage, Lock.
My Holy Priest is my main raiding toon. BWL geared and starting AQ40. The rest of the team is pre-raid bis + some mc gear and zg gear.
I have not been able to grind up another team.
My team is terrible at open world pvp, but meh, I try.
I have already farmed everything I need. I have all my mats, pots, consumes for AQ40 for the next few months and maybe some for Naxx.


Farming E'kos have been more of a challenge lately. Seems to be about 4 10boxers on my server farming it.

DME is still my favorite farm. It's chill, easy, get some herbs, some LBS, felcloth for my mooncloth alts, demonic runes for my main raiding priest, and maybe an arcane crystal to boot.

Been thinking about adding 3 more accounts and cap out the battle.net instead of running another 5man team. Not sure. Getting kinda bored. Need a new challenge.

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I'm debating on just boosting up and filling my account slots with as many level 35s as possible, run DM:E and monetize off the Arcanite transmute and mooncloth transmute.

Seems relatively "passive" enough even for the days I don't want to farm and could flip cooldowns to auction house.

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Originally Posted by onsit

I'm debating on just boosting up and filling my account slots with as many level 35s as possible, run DM:E and monetize off the Arcanite transmute and mooncloth transmute.

Seems relatively "passive" enough even for the days I don't want to farm and could flip cooldowns to auction house.

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It only takes about 5 cd's to break even from leveling tailor to 250. I pay for all my raid consumes purely on mooncloth cds.

Leatherworking will probably make you more off salt CDs than transmutes for the rest of classic. I'd rather have an army of alchemists going into BC, though.

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Originally Posted by strokes

It only takes about 5 cd's to break even from leveling tailor to 250. I pay for all my raid consumes purely on mooncloth cds.

Leatherworking will probably make you more off salt CDs than transmutes for the rest of classic. I'd rather have an army of alchemists going into BC, though.

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Roughly how much gold per alt is it right now to level to the appropriate/minimum amount needed for Tailoring vs Alchemy vs Leatherworking? I realize it will vary somewhat server to server so just looking for rough relative gold/cost values.

No idea about leatherworking - AQ borked leather prices so it would be expensive now (200+). Refined deeprock salts go for 15g on my server.

Tailoring is prolly ~100g to get to 250 for a 20g cd on my server
Alchemy is sameish but arcanite CDs are worth like 5g... and you have to go through the trouble of 'selling' them. The heart of fire > elemental fire xmute is nice, but you have to grind incendesaur scales, too.

As of right now, I would say tailoring is the only surefire way to make your gold back quick. I would say level alchemy if you expect to be heavily invested into TBC coming out. Having multiple tailors / xmute alchemists in BC will be VERY valuable for the first month of TBC.

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Originally Posted by strokes

I'd rather have an army of alchemists going into BC, though.

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Well, the drums are kinda juicy though. When i was raiding in quite a good progressive guild original TBC we were actually forced to drop our professions and get leatherworking for a brutallus drum rotation :D i dont remember which drum patterns were introduced in what phase of TBC, but if you plan to actually play the toons in dungeons/raids staying with leatherworking aint the worst idea.

Oh. Yea. I completely forgot that LW will be meta. You'll definitely want at least 1 on every team for drums; 5 might be a bit of overkill.

Depends on your goals then. If its purely to make gold on an alt -> tailor/alch. If you want to preemptively start grinding profs now, salt CDs will help mitigate the cost of LW.