Epic flying......

[Naysayer]

it's a myth that boxers make more gold than soloers, because boxers have 5x (or whatever number you box) the expenses.

[HPAVC]

it's a myth that boxers make more gold than soloers, because boxers have 5x (or whatever number you box) the expenses.

Likely they save a lot more money, I cannot see anything in the AH that I would buy for a new character. Where the majority of solo players buy an upgrade just for a few levels.

Once you can machine heroics, or even normals its pretty much over for the AH on the gear side of things. Materials, motorcycles, orbs, well those are a different story I guess on personal preference / play style.

[Khatovar]

it's a myth that boxers make more gold than soloers, because boxers have 5x (or whatever number you box) the expenses.

For 5x I really only find this true while leveling. Once you get a couple of dungeons on your farm list, I make far more than I can possibly spend. As a solo player, I would have to play the luck game on drops, as a team of my own, every green/blue/purple, every lockbox, all the cloth, all the garbage, all the ore/herb nodes, all the leather is 100% mine to do with as I see fit.

Sure, it hurts for a bit seeing repairs running me a couple hundred gold {all plate and chain, ow} but I'm still throwing a couple thousand gold per toon in the bank every few days, so it doesn't hurt that much.

[zipzip]

it's a myth that boxers make more gold than soloers, because boxers have 5x (or whatever number you box) the expenses.

This is just flat out wrong. Think about it.

To say that boxers don't make more is to say that each individual toon pays out as much in expenses as they make.

Does a solo player make money while doing quests/dailies? Obviously yes. If one toon makes (X) amount of gold, then 5 toons (or however many) make 5*(X) gold.

[thinus]

This is just flat out wrong. Think about it.

To say that boxers don't make more is to say that each individual toon pays out as much in expenses as they make.

Does a solo player make money while doing quests/dailies? Obviously yes. If one toon makes (X) amount of gold, then 5 toons (or however many) make 5*(X) gold.

Yes, but your gold per head is the same. Sure you can make gold on 5 characters and spend it all on 1 character if your only purpose multi-boxing is to help out your (solo) main.

What Khatovar said about everything that drops in the instance being yours is probably a more relevant statement. Anything that involves grouping is an advantage for multi-boxers, instances, group quests, etc. No need to wait to form a group or get people to the instance or replace people. Get in, get out. Everywhere else your gold / head earned is probably similar to a solo.

[HPAVC]

I just don't believe this per head thing, I know solo people that make nice gold without a doubt, but on average I would have to say that most single box people have horrid time saving money and they earn gold in dailies and that's about it. They also miss out on a lot of loot comparitively. These are people that need to buy gold because they couldn't afford cold weather flying or a raid slot.

There has to be something in machining instances, looting caster cloth on your shaman without a qq'fest, not running an instance and getting nothing but some quail and cloth, having purchasing power to buy mats when you need it, etc.

i just leveled a team, when they hit 58 some of them had just silly gear on cloak for dead mines quest and what not. I just went into hellfire and grinded quests and did the instances. Did I loot upgrades, likely I dunno. Most of the time I just click sellfish and move on. What drops is what drops, the time spent being able to loot elites is just more. The solo player just isn't doing that. Sure they can knock out gathering quests and get raid slots.