Well I am really broke right now, about 40g net. I need to have enough money for 3 lv 40 mounts. Anyone got advise on what to farm or where to grind out the cash?
Well I am really broke right now, about 40g net. I need to have enough money for 3 lv 40 mounts. Anyone got advise on what to farm or where to grind out the cash?
Stop buying shit in the AH, period ;) No, you don't need that shield, no you don't need that robe, no, you don't need those mats/cloth/etc... ;p
Best advice I can give is to mine or skin and sell those; Herbalism works too but it takes a bit more patience and annoyance gathering than mining does(though endgame it can pay off a little better due to constant potion/elixir/flask use by raiders); loot EVERYTHING you kill. Every silver adds up. If you have to, stop and farm cloth to sell en masse, go "solo" deadmines for linen/wool, stockades for mostly wool/some silk, wool and silk fetch surprisingly high prices sometimes; since you're 5boxing you could proooobably "solo" deadmines with little issue and if yer careful stocks wouldn't be much trouble
I 100% solo'd DM on my warr at 37 and pala at 34 respectively; adding 4 more to the mix should make up for being 30 if you can watch aggro and heal yourself, and Stockades I could solo 1 mob at a time on my Rogue AT level, though I had to run out of instance once one died so I didn't have to waste "ohshit" buttons like Vanish
DE all the greens you get that you dont use and sell off the mats on the AH
Any extra leather you skin sell it off on the AH
Herbs do the same
Ore or bars do the same
Shit man, you're a captain planet 5x shaman team too? That makes 3 of us!!!
Anywho, I had to sell off a lot of DE mats from instances and ALL the cloth I got to get my mounts, and I didn't get them until lvl 43. For my epic mounts, I finally broke down and got a 1000g loan at lvl 64 from a friend to pay for them. Paid him back at lvl 66.
Also, if you find any Eagle Cloth or Monkey Leather in DM, depending on your server's economy you can get 3-6g for those for twinks and people who simply have money to burn on their alts. I sell tons of 'em for 5g all the time, Defias set especially.
Go do dailies on your main.
But seriously, I gave each of my toons 20g and a full set of bags when I rolled them. I have never bought or sold anything off the AH with them (I do this through a mule) and through questing, silver drops and training, I am at a net loss of about 24g, at lvl37.
If you aren't lucky enough to have a lvl70 main, you may want to take up instance farming. On my very first toon, a (single) warrior (in February '05) I could solo WC at level 40, and make about 10g/hour + AH the greens and cloth. Prior to TBC, farming 10-15g/hour was no easy feat, hence I have not done it since and stuck to dailies which can easily net 150+g/hour
I have to say, I saw "Eagle Cloth" and "Monkey Leather" and though, what the hell is Monkey Leather? Which monkeys do you skin for that?Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Eteocles',index.php?page=Thread&postID=59036#post 59036
Took me a few minutes to realize that you meant Leather items with "of the Monkey". LOL
You're going to get a lot of gold when you start farming SM Lib+Arm+Cath. You still have 10 levels to go, and SM is where you really start to see an increase in obtaining gold (from my experiences).
My 3x shaman group has 240g at level 31 and it has been incredibly easy, so I'm a little baffled on why you're so po'.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'iPooper',index.php?page=Thread&postID=59029#post5 9029
There is absolutely no reason for your team to be broke. My new priest/mage/mage group is currently at level 12 and has 18g. Stringy Wolf Meat/Tangy Clam Meat sells for 2g a stack on my server and you can best believe that group kills every damn cursed demon and wolf on the way to wherever they're going.
Yes it's time consuming but since I've made making money a priority (as everybody should imo) I don't think about how much time it takes.
I don't spend money on anything other than repairs, catching a flight, or putting stuff up on AH. Of course, my shaman group has to buy water but I consider that a "repair".
Everything that drops I pick up and sell. I leave nothing behind. I'd mow the grass and cut down trees if I knew I could make money from it. (It couldn't be any more boring than leveling up fishing)
I don't level my professions other than the gathering ones and I don't go out of my way to level enchanting either. I d/e everthing that doesn't/won't sell at AH.
I refrained from saying how much gold my Shamen had because I tri-boxed too Yamio...I sorta think the gold will be split a little more with a 5boxer than it would be with a triboxer(cuz I too had 200+g at 40 and my other alts are relatively rich lol) so we sorta have an advantage in that department; that said, AH selling and never ever ever ever ever ever buying from it is a good start lol
only use what you find. only have collection professions . do not lvl profeeions until 60 or 70. Never buy auction house items. make sure you have lots of bag space to collect grays and cloth for sellling
I agree Eteo! This is a new server for me and I wish I had a high level alt here to slide some dough to my crew, but knowing how easy it is to make cash I'd like to think that if I had a 5 man, my goal upon reaching level 40 would be to have no less than 450g in my pocket. If I worked AH hard I could probably turn 40g into 400g in 4 or 5 days.
To the OP who made this thread, just to be clear, the rules we all more or less follow is:
1) DON'T SPEND NUTTIN
2) DON'T ASK FOR NUTTIN
3) DON'T WANT NUTTIN
4) SELL EVERYTHING YOU RUN ACROSS
5) WAIT FOR QUEST REWARDS FOR UPGRADES
I took my shaman group on a 5 man to RFK and someone lawl'd that my guys at level 28 were still wearing cloaks with 5 defense. You know, the same grey POS cloaks that drop in the starting areas. I had to look myself and found he was right! I lawl'd with him.
And I kept wearing them until a quest reward in Tarren Mill.
A level 70 main is definitely the way to go. My Hunters dailies generally net between 300-400g depending on items and pretty much all of that finds its way to my Shaman team. They're level 16 and carrying about 1200g on them right now. They should easily have enough for their epic land mounts at 60 and their normal flyers at 70. It's the 5x5200g for the epics that will out-do my Hunters ability to farm for them.
For my five-box group I decided I was going to send them bags when they start, and then nothing else from any of my higher level characters. After all, I was doing this as an interesting challenge and also I keep boring guildmates in my support for the profitability of gathering professions.
I chose one profession per characters.. Mining, Skinning, Herbalism, Enchanting, and Alchemy. Cloth was used to level first aid, spares sold. All the ore and stone I mined was sold, as was all the skins. Herbs were used by the Alchemist to level, with potions and spare herbs sold. All Greens were DE'ed (I know some sell for more than the DE value but I'm lazy), as were all BoP blue, the mats used to level Enchanting and spares sold. Any BoE blues were sold for crazy amounts.
At 40 I bought my mounts, and my first guild tab to make storing cloth for any character a lot easier. At level 51 I now have about 900g between all the characters. I've bought a few Alchemy/Enchanting recipes from the AH when they've offered cheaper overall levelling, or were things I actually wanted to use on my party. I did end up rerunning a few lower-level instances for more wool for First Aid but that's all the farming I've done.
Now I've bored you with how I made money I'm going to tell you one of the best ways I've found of making money: Get yourself an Enchanter and try the Enchantrix mod out. It's part of the Auctioneer suite and what you do is scan the AH and buy out/bid for things which'll likely DE into mats worth more than the item costs, then you sell the mats. You may be limited at the moment by what you can disenchant at your level of skill but there's still good money to be made there- in face it seemed the lower-level things were a more regular source of profit than the high-ticket items.. even though if I sold a few large radiants in a day it did go a long way towards making it a good day.
There is randomness involved, some items will DE into relatively worthless mats, but in general you'll be making money. The face that mats don't cost anything to list on the AH also means you don't end up with massive charges if something doesn't sell for a while.
It's also very, very tedious though which is why I gave it up on my main character despite it being nicely profitable. I do recommend using your nifty multibox-friendly multi-monitor setup to let you watch bad TV/web cartoons whilst doing it too, sanity needs preserving somehow.
Absolutely.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Eteocles',index.php?page=Thread&postID=59031#post 59031
Do. Not. Buy. Anything. Ever.
My (latest) main leveled on mining and tailoring. I leveled cooking and first aid too so the only thing I had to sell were my ores. The items I created from tailoring and the green drops I got were DEed by a bank alt at first but once they got too high level for him (he had 50 skill), they just got vended because I couldn't be arsed with the auction house.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Eteocles',index.php?page=Thread&postID=59031#post 59031
By 40 I had 450g.
Note that this was a new server for me. I had no high level alts to help me.
It's amazing how easy it is to make money just by not spending it.