Today I got an email from a reader, telling me his story about how he makes gold on his server, and what strategies he uses. I’ll let him explain:
HI TGQ,
I am Alcattle on Kil’Jaeden A-US, been playing since start of the Burning Crusade. I can always make a little gold.
I have 3 85’s all with max professions. I have 15k on main and maybe 15k around the rest. Play a lot of alts, with Recruit a Friend (RAF) and Multiboxing.
I know you hear this a lot but my server is really hard to make big money on with the small amount of time I have. Just got 20k leveling, looks like a lot of good info to go thru. Love all the gold info out there and will be trying to learn more as I get time
Alcattle
Hi Alcattle, its lovely to meet you. I play Alliance too, with a lot of night elfs, 3 humans and 2 gnomies. Don’t really like dwarves so much.
All servers are hard to make money on with a small amount of time. Its only really putting that time in that will give you the instincts to turn guesses into estimates into gold. That’s why I try and share my estimates and feedback on www.thegoldqueen.com. Save you a bit of time!
Just keep going, keep doing your dailies and remember cooldowns, and having a little look at AH when you’re stood there, and you’ll start to see one or two patterns, I hope!
Let me know if you need anything specific
Alyzande
Hilarious image (C) Saate at http://www.saate.net/general/patch-3-3-9-gold-achievement-and-mount-coming/ How did I miss this at April!?
Congratulations, but not to me, to a guild member who obtained Dragonwrath. Guild members were able to buy a BoA pet, Lil’ Tarecgosa. I fed her a pet biscuit and she’s following me around now. I tipped over to 150 companion pets collected and also got a celestial dragon reward from Breanni of Dalaran.
Pet collectors (like me) make a great target for gold gamers who can ask for thousands of gold for the rarest pets. Shame Lil’ Tarecgosa is BoA otherwise I’m sure she would have fetched a small fortune in the auction house. Learn more about selling pets to rich collectors in my Pet Selling miniguide.
About the Author
The Gold Queen is written by Alyzande. With many level 100s, 9 years expertise in making gold, 10 garrisons, 16k achievements, 1505 days played, and over 18m gold earned. The Gold Queen blog teaches you how to make gold playing World of Warcraft using ethical trading, auction house flipping, crafting, reselling snatch lists, and farming gold making.
Battered Hilt was a big seller quest-starter item towards the end of World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King expansion. It started a quest line which gave an epic ilevel 251 weapon as completion reward.
The Undermine Journal lists current prices between 500g and 60,000g per Battered Hilt, I would suggest starting at 30,000g, or lower if you have a slower or less wealthy overall server) and lowering your price gradually over time. You will need to advertise your Battered Hilt in trade channel as it’s not something that most Auction House players routinely search for. Remind your potential buyers that this gives a 10 point achievement The Sword in the Skull.
Battered Hilt drops from trash mobs in the Heroic 5 man Dungeons in Icecrown: Forge of Souls, Pit of Saron, and Halls of Reflection. If you ran these dungeons when they were first released, you might not be too eager to return to those dungeons in a hurry, especially if you ever tanked Halls of Reflection with a half-asleep pick up group of randoms. However, for the braver adventurer, the trash is now easy enough to solo farm. I’d recommend starting with Pit of Saron trash if you are comfortable with interupts and AoE spells, or Forge of Souls if you prefer crowd control and distance pulls.
Vanquished14 says at wowhead.com
“Well, since this is never on the US-Medivh Auction House, I decided I’d try to farm for it. Here’s my farming calculations. It appears there are a total of 48 mobs per Pit of Saron clear able to drop the Battered Hilt (assuming all elite trash mobs can drop it). The drop rate on the hilt is not 100% clear but, if you add up all the drops/kills of mobs listed on Wowhead, it appears the average you get is about a 1/1666 drop rate. This means, on average, you’ll see one Battered Hilt drop every 35 full Pit of Saron trash clears. Going further, each Pit of Saron clear took me about 20 minutes (casual pace). This averages about 12 hours of trash farming before you will see a Battered Hilt drop. Quite a time consuming achievement if you solo farm for it.EDIT: Dropped on Run 11 for me. I also had Ghostly Wristwraps drop on Run 8 and Run 9 and had Seven-Fingered Claws drop on Run 4. Perhaps the drop rates have been increased since the last time Wowhead data was reset.
Good luck farming for Battered Hilt on your server.
About the Author
The Gold Queen is written by Alyzande. With many level 100s, 9 years expertise in making gold, 10 garrisons, 16k achievements, 1505 days played, and over 18m gold earned. The Gold Queen blog teaches you how to make gold playing World of Warcraft using ethical trading, auction house flipping, crafting, reselling snatch lists, and farming gold making.
If you’re a herbalist you might know the Cinderbloom of which I speak.
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Which you can see here on the minimap
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From closer it looks like this
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Dismount at the top of the little hill, near the broken Night Elf building, and look on the ground for the slope that runs down towards the elusive Cinderbloom herb.
Winning the Game
When you’ve played enough computer games, you know that if you sit and sweat over a game, any game, be it WoW, Angry Birds or Donkey Kong, whatever; if you work it like a job will find the weak spot. Just squeeze and *POP* – you win.
And that’s it. Game over. Congratulations, your game’s over now?
No, no no, the real game isn’t obliterating everyone else in the game, it isn’t getting to that Game Over screen. It’s about the tease before the big *POP*.
Play By Your Own Rules
My favourite battleground match was just before The Burning Crusade. We were fabulously overgeared in endgame T2, and we were able to crush and walk over the opposition. Our faction had been broken by the opposite faction for weeks, until we emerged from our raids and queued for Warsong Gulch. Was it satisfying to destroy the other guys in 2 minutes flat? Hell no. First, we scored 2 flags straight after each other. Then we casually walked up to their graveyard, and planted the WSG flag at their feet. We backed up a little, and sat down. They were too scared to take it.
The fun was in the tease, of not quite winning. Of making our own rules, and winning by them.
You know that feeling, because you too play your own game. You play the Auction House game instead of the quest and rep grind game that Blizzard intended.
You love making your own rules, and winning by them.
What is winning?
How much gold do I have? Somewhere between 800k and 1,500k on a good day. It varies, sometimes wildly. Basically, I have enough that I can splurge on every mount that you can buy. My last two cost 200k and 100k each. I have enough that all my alts have as much epic gear, bagspace, and mounts that they could ever want. I have enough gold that I (stupidly?) wasted a travelers tundra mammoth on a level 40 I haven’t played since 2009. Does it really matter how much I have?
Wealth is not counted by number of coins hoarded or amount of full bank tabs, but by competency, experience and knowledge of how to make gold any time you want.
Go out and spent. Spend until you’re scared you can’t get back from the edge.
When Cata hit, I only had 20k. I was a tiny bit scared I wouldn’t make it all back. Love that thrill. Get that thrill.
Post dedicated to Inferi the Mage and Grumnir the Warrior, who knew the art
image: http://www.etsy.com/listing/29901445/tissue-cover-nintendo-nes-controller
About the Author
The Gold Queen is written by Alyzande. With many level 100s, 9 years expertise in making gold, 10 garrisons, 16k achievements, 1505 days played, and over 18m gold earned. The Gold Queen blog teaches you how to make gold playing World of Warcraft using ethical trading, auction house flipping, crafting, reselling snatch lists, and farming gold making.