mount money

[Aloratnm]

take mining and herbalism on your main.

profit.

Do you find having two professions that involve tracking are better or worse?

[Eteocles]

That partially depends on how well you know vein/herb spawns from personal playing experience; I could personally show you where every god-forsaken vein on Azeroth spawns cuz at least half my hundreds of chars have been miners lol; however I don't have many herbalists so I dunno any of those, therefore if I had herb tracking and kept an eye on known vein spots I could do both

[Stabface]

Buying and reselling on the AH has always been the #1 way to make gold. It requires some knowledge of the market and a bit of up front capital, but otherwise it's easy.

To start out I recommend dealing with the commodities - high volume items such as cloth, potions, etc. These things have a natural variance in the price from day to day and the key is just buying low and selling high. Many items get flooded on the AH during the weekend and the price drops, then during the week there's a scarcity of them and the price goes up. On my server, I can buy bags full of some items on the weekend, and resell for 2-3x the price during the week. Other items go the other way, hard to find & costly on the weekend, more supply and lower prices on weekdays... just buy low sell high for mad profits.


You have 200g... make a dedicated auction house alt, take 100g and send it to him along with some bags. Take 10 minutes a day to scan through the various enchanting materials and cloth, make a note of the price variances and quantity. My rule of thumb is 10% on quantity... so whenever prices are the highest, take 10% of the quantity that is selling and buy it when prices are low. Then resell for the higher price.

For example, lets say on your server Silk Cloth buyouts vary from 50s-75s a stack on the weekend with 150 stacks up, and 75s-1g during the week with 80 stacks up. So you want to buy about 8 stacks @50s for each day that you think you can resell for 1g -- probably Monday-Thursday, so 32 stacks. Profit will be about 15g, the number seems low but trust me this is a fantastic return rate. And you can scale this up a couple of orders of magnitude. I don't even try very hard anymore, but I can pull 300-500g of pure profit a day


Pro tip: always try list things up for 1c less than a whole number, 99s99c is just .01% less than 1g but will easily get you more sales, this is what all the big retailers do and it works!

[sanix]

Do you find having two professions that involve tracking are better or worse?

It's very easy to switch the tracking from ores to herbs and vice versa. Plus, they usually dont spawn in the same areas (ok some herbs spawn in the mountains but who cares if you miss a few of them).
After some time you'll know when to track herbs and when to track ores.
If you dont want both, take mining thorium still sell very very well, sometimes better than BC ores.

[sanix]

Also take enchanting on one of your character, you'll make a shitload of money at 70 with enchanting / tailoring

[Lokked]

I wasn't able to afford lvl 40 mounts until around 49, so don't feel bad.

Then again, I DE'd everything except for blues, and I haven't visited the AH regarding those or anything yet. Just got all my money from instance money drops and quests.

Lokked