I was in the process of getting Meriones full epic, by making a trinket from the patterns from the Shattered Sun Offensive. I had one red gem, and needed one more. I made the mistake of going to Iron Forge on Verdin. Never mind I am running around on my forth epic land mount a White Talbuk, all epics except for my fishing hat and riding crop. I might as well have been yelling bling bling to all the low levels that hang around IF. Sure enough right after I got the gem I wanted I got three whispers begging for gold. It then occurs to me that perhaps I should have choose a low level alt instead. Four hours had past when I decided to farm herbs………. Off the Auction House. This time I choose to go log on Pogona to do this, the same people that were whispering me for gold were still trolling around IF following any 70 that came by. One of which was an asshole that told me I was wasting my life, a great way to get a gold donation.
Getting gold is far easier now then it was when I first started back in the start of WoW. For that matter I had 100 gold between all my alts prior to the Burning Crusades, now I am sitting on 27,000 gold. One example of how easy it is to get gold is strange dust and soul dust. They used to be worth nothing and tossed out of bags, and at times it was better to vendor the green then it was to de the item for enchanting mats. But for some odd ball reason they now have value. Never mind for what you pay for a stack you could easily slaughter Dead Mines for all you ever need. But I think most people would rather do other things then grind for low level mats. After all I would rather spend 300 g on herbs then grind perhaps 3 hours for what amounts up to 2 – 3 months worth of pots for 6 of my 70′s. Considering I make about 700 g a week which comes off raiding , items I put on AH, and what few dailies I do while waiting in the Looking For Group channel. 300 g is nothing, compared to amount of time I save.
I started Vulpes earlier this year, so I got to experience leveling a character during the first expansion. I made it a point to make Vulpes a gather, after all it takes a lot of mats and gold to level a profession, and it takes very little gold to level gathering professions. At the moment I have all the professions covered, except inscription. I have been debating on having Inscription on Verdin. Granted that means I will no longer be able to power grind professions on my alts like I used to. But during the grind from levels 1 – 58 on Vulpes I made enough gold from minerals, herbs, drops, and green gear I de’ed on Rasbora to pay for an epic land mount, and have ½ the amount I will need for regular flight. I stopped selling a lot of stuff after I hit 58 and started grinding in Hellfire, after all most of the stuff I got could be used. But I could easily make enough gold for epic flight from all the gems that have been prospected.
Gold is outside of Iron Forge, as I so often tell beggars, and it is. Here are my recommendations to perhaps not be rich, but have as much gold as you need and spend the least amount of time doing it:
1. I suggest staying away from Auction House for gear.
2. I recommend getting as big of a bag as you can afford. The more bag space you have the more you can carry, the longer you can go with out having to visit a vendor.
3. Pick up everything you can, it all adds up. It does not matter if its vendor trash (grey quality items), food, cloth, or whatever.
4. Pick your professions carefully. Its nice to have a atleast one gathering trade (Mining, herbalism, or Skinning). You don’t want to start your first character with Engineering and Enchanting (trust me that grind is hell). You also do not want too spend time and gold redoing professions.
5. Your first priority should be class training, mount money, bag money.
6. Don’t spend gold on materials to level a profession, you should gather the materials you need as you grind quest. Save the mats get for leveling professions first, then sell what you can no longer use to level.
A. If you’re a Black Smith, Jewel Crafter, or Engineer you should having Mining as your second profession, and should hit every node you hit along the way. (Jewel Crafting is what paid for 5 of my 7 epic flying mounts).
B. If you’re a leather worker your going to want to take up skinning.
C. Tailoring and Enchanting, in my opinion you really can not do one without the other. 300 – 375 tailoring requires a lot of enchanting dust, and tailoring provides a lot of stuff to be de’ed . By the time your done leveling tailoring and enchanting and with the SSO dailies your going to have a lot of enchanting mats you can put up for sell on the AH, even after having a surplus of enchanting mats.
D. Alchemy and soon Inscription will require herbalism. Herbalism and Alchemy are really easy to level, Its not impossible too have 300 herbalism by level 40. So there is no reason to not have a huge surplus of herbs to sell on AH.
7. If I remember correctly there is no level cap on 300 – 375 Mining, Skinning, or Herbalism, so you can find a mage to port you to shat (offer them 2 gold), and make a death run to Honor Hold or Thrallmar. I’m not sure about Thrallmar, but once you get too Hellfire and die you can grave rez at Honor Hold. Taking 300 – 375 will help you get a leg up on materials in Outlands I had 330 mining, and 345 herbalism by the time I got Vulpes to level 58. Though I recommend getting to Shat before then to set up a hearth point so you can spend less time running around to get places.
Once you hit 70 the gold will flow in, I strongly suggest if you do not have enough gold by now for epic flight that you get exalted with Shattered Sun Offensive and Sky Guard. You should have enough gold if from 1 – 70 you did not waste your gold for regular flight. But both fractions should give you enough gold for epic flight.
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