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Tips: How to become filthy rich, or at least socially secure (and make best friends with the Auction House)
Hobbit and Redhead posted this on September 22nd, 2009.
Tagged as Auction House, Gold, Guides, Tips.
Categorized as Guides, Tip Time.
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I’ll make Merric read this. He has a serious money problem.
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How rich is “rich, wealthy, independent and socially secure”??? I’m doing OK financially ingame, but I still sell stuff on AH and want more moolah!!
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Nice post.
The approach you describe is pretty much the one I used on my first character in the game — I was an explorer and the sale of ores and wood along with hides and scholar stuff kept me financially afloat through the game.
I am now leveling an alt and I decided that I didn’t want to level any of the professions either crafting or gathering. Even the gathering professions need a lot of grinding to level up. I am trying to pay my bills without any profession and without any gathering effort. Being pigheaded I have refused to subsidise the alt from my main. Hides have been the mainstay for me. You pick up lots just doing normal questing and stacks of hides sell for a pretty penny on the AH. I was able to buy my horse the moment I hit level 35 with ready cash. I do benefit from the fact that low level crafting materials command a premium on a mature server.
One tenet of my financial policy that you haven’t mentioned is to be miserly on repairs. There is no point paying for something to be fully repaired if it is going to be replaced in a few levels.
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You also forgot the second rule after selling stuff on the AH…
Don’t buy stuff that you can make or that you can gather the resources and ask a friend to make. Kinmates that are master X profession are a great resource. Make their lives easy and give them all the materials they need so all they have to do is hit MAKE.
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Making money in this game is a breeze. Honestly, as long as you spend enough time in the game, you will make money. My hunter has a /played of almost 7 months now (meaning I have that much time logged in to that character), and I have over 300 gold without ever trying to manipulate the AH market, mostly because I play so much that I have nothing left to spend money on.
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Explorer at low levels is certainly a good craft profession, but Tinker is an even better choice. True, you can’t collect and sell wood, but then wood really doesn’t sell well (or at least not on Gilrain) — there isn’t much demand for wood, and *no* demand for it at Supreme tier.
And in exchange, you get the ability to make jewellery, which *always* sells well, at all levels (some ppl make good money just shifting glittering platinum jewellery). For fast money making, nothing beats critted Supreme jewellery, and if you’ve got a lot of time, you can make almost as much money with critted hope tokens.
Tinkers also get the benefit of cooking, assuming you’ve got an alt to farm for you, or you can afford the start-up costs entailed in making only bought food recipes (Lembas cost more than double what it it costs to make Blackberry pies, for example).
I say this as someone who recently retrained from SM Woodworker/Forester to SM Jeweller/Prospector, and even allowing for the large amounts of gold i spent buying resources to retrain faster, has made in 2 weeks more than double what i made in 3 months as an SM Woodworker, *after* equipping myself and the lovely wife in full Glowing Aureate jewellery.
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