Multiboxing Gold Tips (Not Dailies)

[Slats]

Just curious how everyone generates gold on a 5 box team. At the moment I'm stockpiling resources to build up tradeskills and while the initial captial to level them up is pretty huge I'm hoping it pays off in the long run (and in Cataclysm).

So at the moment I bust through a Heroic MgT, Kharazan (Attn/Moroes/Maiden/Opera). This lets me make Mongoose or sell Large Prismatics or Void Crystals. Takes very little time since I am much higher level.

So far thats the only thing I'm really using my 5 box for to make gold. I'm doing alot of other crafting and AH markets - but those are all things I can do on a single character irrelevant of being a multiboxer. So I'm curious - are there any great farming spots that really are only accessible to us? Is there oldschool dungeons or raids I could be smashing through that will yield alot of materials or gold?

I'm looking for ways to generate income other than dailies as I find them very tedious and boring and icecrown phasing makes me cry. So please post the things you do.

-Slats

[Zal]

buy cobalt -> make into cobalt helms -> DE helms -> sell dust
Buy northrend herbs -> mill -> use ink on inscriptions
-> sell snow inks (the uncommon green ink thing)
Sell instance runs.
Argent pets on mass farming.
Farm lots of leather from short but massive AoE pulls -> sell leather.

alright i'm out of ideas since i'm already pretty rich, don't farm much.

[heyaz]

Other than dallies, trade skill cooldowns, and some quest rewards like argent tournament stuff, I haven't really found anything gives me an advantage from multiboxing. I think dallies are really the only thing where I can proportionately make money faster than a single toon (probably do them 30-40% quicker than one toon and the rewards are exactly 1:1 for each toon, so overall a minor advantage).

Some of the old raids/instances can give good money for a run, but there are lockouts and to be honest I've never found the gold/hour to be as good as some people claim. Farming is ok, but the gold per hour per toon is rarely any better than playing one character. I think some boxers tend to see a lot of gold and overlook the fact that it has to be split over several toons.

My current strategy is taking advantage of 5x dallies and putting more money into the AH, since I can raise it so much faster. Additionally if you have extra 80s which you aren't gearing up or enchanting, they can be used to fund the characters you do play.

[Powerwar]

Molten Core --> 2 - 3k gold per run. All the blue and green materials sell nice usually. The boe lvl 60 epixx sell for 50 - 100 gold on my server. The lava cores and fiery cores sell at 50 gold each and you get about 10 -15 of each per run. Sulfuron ingot sells for 750 - 900 gold and has 25% drop chance. Remember to kill all the trash. I usually make several really big trash pulls and magma totem them to death.

BWL --> about 2k gold per run. You only need to kill the trash and all the boses until you reach the last boss, you don't need to kill the last boss there if you don't want. Elementium ore sells for 500 - 750 gold on my server. You get about 2 -4 of them per run. The first bwl boss is tricky, all the others can be brute forced easy. Elementium ore drops from trash after the supression room and before Chromagus.

[Slats]

Nice, thats the kind of stuff I'm looking for.

[heyaz]

Molten Core --> 2 - 3k gold per run. All the blue and green materials sell nice usually. The boe lvl 60 epixx sell for 50 - 100 gold on my server. The lava cores and fiery cores sell at 50 gold each and you get about 10 -15 of each per run. Sulfuron ingot sells for 750 - 900 gold and has 25% drop chance. Remember to kill all the trash. I usually make several really big trash pulls and magma totem them to death..

Nice.. I was never able to sell all the junk I got from an MC run. I maybe made 1200g and that was because I got an ingot. No one wants the boe epics on my server, in fact months later I still haven't sold most of them, and it took a good month to get rid of the cores. Overall not bad if your server has the market, but one week lockout sucks.. Wish there was a sustainable (or at least daily) method of making 1000g+ an hour.

[Siaea]

Wish there was a sustainable (or at least daily) method of making 1000g+ an hour.

I know he said not dailies, but in 30-45 mins I get about 1200-1300g from dailies. Boring, but it's fast, guaranteed, and once you get your route down you can do it in your sleep. (Since I do mine at about 5 am, that's a good thing )

[Fishbeak]

Using some great addons (Auctioneer, Quick Auction, Massmail) I make about 500g a day during the week and 1000g a day on weekends while spending about 30 minutes of actual work.

Step 1: Startup Auctioneer and scan AH
Step 2a: For jewelcrafter; buyout all ore > 40% margin
Step 2b: For Enchanter; buyout all items with > 40% margin
Step 2c: For Inscriptor; buyout all herbs with > 40% margin
Step 3a: prospect all ore, the lvl 70 blue gems sell to vendor, everything else goes on the AH (15 per type max)
Step 3b: disenchant all items, everything goes on the AH (15 max),
Step 3c: mill all herbs, create inks. All snowfall ink (up to 10 total) go to AH, with the rest of the inks -> 5 of each of the glyphs (no more than 5 up for sale at any time). Replace glyphs as they sell.

Rinse and repeat

Fishbeak

[gitcho]

@ Siaea

I know he said not dailies, but in 30-45 mins I get about 1200-1300g from dailies

takes me 2 hrs (on 150% flyers) to make 313g per toon x5 doing the dailies - there's no way you're completing this in 30-45 minutes - even with epic flyers. Am i missing something?

RE the OP: I hate playing the AH, but I've made more $$ total from it than doing dailies. Being diligent in selling stuff will make you money over the long haul. It's still hard to get away from the "more money for less work" mindset though ...

[heyaz]

@ Siaea takes me 2 hrs (on 150% flyers) to make 313g per toon x5 doing the dailies - there's no way you're completing this in 30-45 minutes - even with epic flyers. Am i missing something?

RE the OP: I hate playing the AH, but I've made more $$ total from it than doing dailies. Being diligent in selling stuff will make you money over the long haul. It's still hard to get away from the "more money for less work" mindset though ...

Maybe he is, you're getting 1600g he said only 1200-1300g. and has epic flyers