Negative gold!

[kadaan]

Looks like the "Total gold acquired" statistic is using a signed 32-bit integer to store the data, and I rolled over into negative :D

[Meathead]

you have earned to much lol so they - to make you look bad :P

[Smoooth]

What the hell did you sell for nearly 12k gold on the ah?

[kadaan]

What the hell did you sell for nearly 12k gold on the ah?

Think that was a Surge Needle Ring. 12,500g before the AH took their cut ;).

[Moorea]

care to share some gold making tips ?

[Lowcorn]

anyone else notice "most gold ever owned 107k" >.> holy hell

[Niley]

anyone else notice "most gold ever owned 107k" >.> holy hell

are you 5 boxing? 100k gold isnt hard. Im about to have 3 teams doing dailies and that's 4500 gold a day easy, plus another few k weekly from drops/dragons eyes. We have a person in the guild that basically controls alliance market, he's 200k short of 1 mil(obviously in his gb, as max on one toon is 214,748<-- dont do dailies with that much, you wont get gold D= )

[kadaan]

- Boxing dailies (~12g * 25 * 5 = 1500g/day)
- Argent Pets (40 seals per pet, ~1.5-2k per pet, 5*5=25 seals/day = ~900-1200g/day average)
- 2 tailors 1 JC, ~90g per cloth and gem = 4+2+2 = 8*90g/4days = ~180g/day
- Heroics. 1 abyss (~125g), 4-6 dream shards (15*5=~75g), 8g/essence and 3.5g/dust gets me about 50g from green de's, frostweave is about 10g/stack, coins/vendor trash, 10 badges = scarlet ruby = ~70g... I think the average heroic run nets close to 500g.

Those are things any boxer can do to get a ton of cash. I also play the AH with buy low/sell high and luck out from time to time. When the announcement came out about titanium ore being prospectable for epic gems in 3.2, I managed to immediately snag almost 50 stacks worth at 2-3g per ore. I've sold about 10 stacks at 10g per ore already :).

[Ualaa]

When you don't have a whole lot of gold, gathering skills will raise some for you. They're in the game to make you a base amount of gold.

Once you have some gold, production skills will make you a lot more gold per hour then gathering skills. The whole process is called Arbitrage, where you turn one thing into another for a profit.

You need to price out a few things. Take a ring you can make as a Jewelcrafter, or an enchant you can do as an Enchanter. Any skill works. Figure out the average price that it sells at, by watching trade or the auction house for a time. Also know what you need, in terms of ingredients, to produce this item. Figure out the average price of these items too.

When the mats are listed cheap, by them in bulk. Also, if you see someone listing whatever mat in bulk, contact them in the game. Offer to buy the mats you need from them, COD, at a fixed price. Meet them in between their AH price and 95% of their price. For example, if I sell something on the AH for 100g, the AH takes 5g and I keep 95. If I sell to you for 97.50, you're paying 2.50g less then if I listed on the AH and I'm getting 2.50g more as well. Down the road, you can make spam advertising macro's, asking people to mail stacks of whatever to you at xx price, COD.

So now you have mats coming in, at fixed prices. And you have items which you can sell for a profit. Doesn't matter if its Glyphs, Enchants on a Vellum, Titansteel Armor or Weapons, Leg Enchants etc.

Over time, get a high level of each production skill, on your best PVE team, trying to cover every skill between the five toons. You can farm heroics with these, and get all the drop patterns more easily. The more recipes you have, the better position you are in, to take advantage of arbitrage.

[pinotnoir]

I am always amazed at how much time people put into making gold. For myself I just earn enough to buy whatever I want then stop doing daily quest. Gold has never been important to me unless I wanted to buy something. It's pretty impressive that people can make those amounts of gold. If these people put that amount of time and effort into earning real money I think they would be very successful. I would love to hear about someone who can grind gold and grind real money with some type of business or something. For me doing daily quest on multiple teams feels too much like work. Grats on the gold that is an amazing feat.