tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post3292753236880789730..comments2024-03-25T08:23:34.118-05:00Comments on The Art of Solo-ing WoW, life and other games: Making 5000 Gold for the Epic Flying Mount - Part 1Darth Solohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01110818057322485070noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-33677746257618446772009-05-16T17:23:00.000-05:002009-05-16T17:23:00.000-05:00That's ridiculous. I hate it when people knowingly...That's ridiculous. I hate it when people knowingly (or unknowingly) make prices crash by posting in an idiotic manner. In your case I would say just wait a while and watch the AH. Eventually prices should go back to realistic values.Darth Solohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01110818057322485070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-44592444607923642002009-05-16T16:59:00.000-05:002009-05-16T16:59:00.000-05:00We're having a problem on my realm where someone w...We're having a problem on my realm where someone with a significant amount of gold went and bought out all of the mats in the auction house on both sides and has been posting them back for say 1g a stack for goldclover. I went to post a full bag of herbs the other day and found 5 pages of herbs at less than 5g a stack. All had the same guy's name attached. No big deal. I went to my full mining bag. 10g a stack for saronite. My miner isnt high enough to go where the titanium is yet so I didn't look at that but titanium bars are going for 5g each. I looked back the next day thinking it would have all been bought out and the prices would be higher but I was wrong. In some cases the prices are lower now. Northrend herbs, with the exception of frost lotus, are selling for less than low level herbs now. How am I ever going to get my epic flyer when it costs more for repairs than I'll make in an auction?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-15675687948043273862009-05-14T08:36:00.000-05:002009-05-14T08:36:00.000-05:00I've had a steady income for a while by doing two ...I've had a steady income for a while by doing two things:<br /><br />1. Buying Eternal Earth, Water, and Shadow when they're cheap, buying some saronite and making Belt Buckles. If you can do this at a profit, do so, because they will always sell.<br /><br />2. Buying Netherweave under a certain price. 1 stack of netherweave cloth = 1 netherweave bag. People will always take the 10g price of this over the 40g increase, and it only takes about 15 mins of crafting time to make a bunch. <br /><br />Fishing and Cooking have also become very, very good moneymakers.Figworthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-3238216515732076052009-05-14T08:29:00.000-05:002009-05-14T08:29:00.000-05:001) Heavy borean is pretty dang useless. You can ...1) Heavy borean is pretty dang useless. You can make the 78 blues with it, which never sell, but the epic leg armors dont' require it (not the armor kits themselves, the leg armors). One of them is 2 chitin, 2 arctic fur, 1 frozen orb. I have a few stacks of HBL and i'm not even sure what to do with it. Maybe make the blues and DE for shard. (PS - reason the shard prices will always be low is b/c the blues are so easy to make). <br /><br />2) Ditto rugged leather comment. Also farming strat is surprisingly profitable for DEing the greens. <br /><br />3) Almost everyone does the herb/skin combo. I'm not saying dont do it, but on our server you can't even give away the skins, or at most you get a gold for heavy leather. Herb/mine is great, and if you have a DK try to get the gatherer enchant on gloves, but *i think* you have to be 70 to use it. Anyway its really simple for me, when there are not alot of hills, i put on herb track, where there are alot of hills, i put on mine track. <br /><br />4) Making money always involves doing something that 99% of people aren't doing, filling some sort of niche. There are very few perpetual machines (ie go to AH, buy something, make something, sell it), maybe you can get lucky and get the mats cheap, but you have to be patient. <br /><br />5) JC is insanely expensive or timing consuming, take your pick. At 150 i've invested 200-300 gold. Every skill up is 5-10 gold. At that level you are better off running around and collecting as much ore as you can stomach. You need silver/gold, some bars of common stuff like copper, and ore itself for prospecting. ANyway yeah JC takes forever, best to do it if you are rich already. And i seriously would not expect a profit if you powerlevel it.Rob Dejournetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11451389128538898818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-31459384499752735792009-05-14T06:54:00.000-05:002009-05-14T06:54:00.000-05:00@Anonymous Yes indeed, if you are looking for alte...@Anonymous Yes indeed, if you are looking for alternative farming strategies, rugged leather is a good bet. There aren't many people going back to those areas and a high level character will farm very quickly. One of the best spots for rugged leather is the Yeti cave in Winterspring.<br /><br />@BethanyAnne That is correct. I used the import feature once but since I farm a lot, I've discovered 99% of all nodes anyway. I do recommend that feature for new players, though.<br /><br />@Anonymous Oh I've been using an Outland mount since I first got it. It's a generic gryphon. I'm not a big mount person. I always disagreed with a buddy who was in love with the Netherdrakes. I thought they were too big and a bit impractical due to this reason.<br /><br />@Tikkibaer Well there you are. Gatherer is not the only option. The fishing node thing is neat. How does it do with memory efficiency?Darth Solohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01110818057322485070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-11656513872494124832009-05-14T05:12:00.000-05:002009-05-14T05:12:00.000-05:00Alternative to gatherer is GatherMate which also h...Alternative to gatherer is GatherMate which also has data that can be imported, but from wowdb<br /><br />http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gathermate.aspx<br />http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gathermate_data.aspx<br /><br />the data file gets updates more often and gathermate can also show fishing nodes.<br /><br />Using both at the moment, using gatherer for herbing and mining and gathermate for fishing and finding Everfrost ShardTikkibaernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-90856818431429331542009-05-14T02:53:00.000-05:002009-05-14T02:53:00.000-05:00One tip I would like to add is that the epic flyer...One tip I would like to add is that the epic flyer in Outlands is only 200g. Which helps cusion the initial 5K blow, plus I like the outlands mount for farming because it is smaller and makes hitting nodes much easier than the larger wowlk mounts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-42418994936535105222009-05-14T02:12:00.000-05:002009-05-14T02:12:00.000-05:00Heya Darth,
One point I would add is that you can...Heya Darth,<br /> One point I would add is that you can import all of wowhead's data into gatherer. Gives you a great database to start with. The page is at:<br />http://www.wowinterface.com/page-gatherer.html<br /><br />Cheers,<br />BethanyBethanyAnnenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-38957549184961854692009-05-13T23:09:00.000-05:002009-05-13T23:09:00.000-05:00I just got my epic flying mount after playing the ...I just got my epic flying mount after playing the AH with my accumulated leatherworking mats plus grinding leather and questing. Thinking of dropping LW for herbalism. I think finishing Borean Tundra quests netted me more money faster than grinding, though. Finally - I noticed that lower level types of leather like rugged etc are going for far more than Borean, and those are faster to farm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-85160748621417845912009-05-13T20:16:00.000-05:002009-05-13T20:16:00.000-05:00Thank you guys! Hope to see you back here often. U...Thank you guys! Hope to see you back here often. Unfortunately I never have enough time to post as much as I would like to.Darth Solohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01110818057322485070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-26202203510908071282009-05-13T20:11:00.000-05:002009-05-13T20:11:00.000-05:00I second the comment by King Harbromm. I came here...I second the comment by King Harbromm. I came here from WoW Insider. I'm a huge solo player of WoW and I had no idea I wasn't the only one! :P Anyway, you're on my Google Reader now. Thanks for the great post!Manymnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-89903926535611443162009-05-13T18:51:00.000-05:002009-05-13T18:51:00.000-05:00Off topic here, but I just wanted to say this is m...Off topic here, but I just wanted to say this is my first read of your blog & I love it! I can't wait to hear more. I'll certainly be keeping tabs on this place & seeing the new stuff when it comes out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-74219353537465296142009-05-08T05:28:00.000-05:002009-05-08T05:28:00.000-05:00One of my guildies has noticed a screamer of a pro...One of my guildies has noticed a screamer of a profit maker atmo. For the Borean leather prices on our server has droped quite low now, just over the vendor price by about a gold. Painful.<br />He's found that for the same 20 stack if he makes some pants he can vendor them for 5 times the amount of the original mats. AH prices for the pants are sadly low. So all the sellers are losing money here, where as he is making a profit compared to them. I've been looking into this, hence why i'll keep my alchemy proff. Although herbs sell quite well, some dont, those ones in particular are good for making buffs when mixed with the higer selling herbs. Now all i have to do is make sure i make a profit from selling the potion instead of the mats. In general though the mats sell for more.Joehttp://www.joegamer.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-9082410922601471852009-05-07T22:03:00.000-05:002009-05-07T22:03:00.000-05:00Funny that you mention the leg armor. I just had t...Funny that you mention the leg armor. I just had the same realization recently. I would go to Storm Peaks and farm leather with my Death Knight. But in the end I'm not sure it's worth the effort when you can just watch the AH for undercutters and buy Heavy Borean Leather directly, at low prices. On the other hand, I would still go farming with the Death Knight, just for the heck of it, he's so much fun.Darth Solohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01110818057322485070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-45113318772803298592009-05-07T12:33:00.000-05:002009-05-07T12:33:00.000-05:00Mining / Herb is definitely the most profitable, n...Mining / Herb is definitely the most profitable, no question about that. I guess if you have a good database in Gatherer the simplicity point is moot.<br /><br />As for gathering professions at 80, I'm seriously thinking of dropping skinning. I used to spend about an hour a day farming leather from the gorillas in Sholazar until I figured out I could turn a 30g/item profit (for Icescale Leg Armor) by buying the mats in the AH. I could create 5 times as many products as I was able to grind for in that hour in just a few minutes. I've been thinking that powerleveling jewelcrafting might be a viable alternative that would allow me to use that 2nd profession spot to make some additional gold. I will have to check up on how much it would cost to powerlevel and how quickly I can make that gold back.TBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-62311617079368172882009-05-06T19:33:00.000-05:002009-05-06T19:33:00.000-05:00@TB true dat. However, I feel that mining/herbalis...@TB true dat. However, I feel that mining/herbalism is a bit more profitable than replacing one of them with skinning. That's why I endure the constant swapping of tracking forms. In the end, it's not that bad, once you've built up a nice Gatherer database. You can see potential nodes on the minimap/map and when you're close to them you can activate the other form of tracking.Darth Solohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01110818057322485070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-28915280330647569992009-05-05T11:46:00.000-05:002009-05-05T11:46:00.000-05:00Having either mining/skinning or herb/skinning eli...Having either mining/skinning or herb/skinning eliminates the need for swiching. Also, you have to go out of your way less as you will be gathering leather from mobs you have to kill for quests anyway. I was the poor guy with skinning/LW when I leveled up and looking back I definitly would have done 2 gathering professions, I just didn't know any better and by the time I figured it out I had so much time and money invested in LW I didn't want to throw it all away. I just recently started making money from LW selling armor kits and heavy borean leather but I'm sure it will be a long time before I ever truly break even.TBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-47245490244495998502009-05-03T18:54:00.000-05:002009-05-03T18:54:00.000-05:00I use Gatherer (http://www.gathereraddon.com/) and...I use Gatherer (http://www.gathereraddon.com/) and it memorizes all nodes, whether herbs or ore. There isn't really any way of actively tracking both nodes at the same time, unless Blizzard wants to implement that. So I track nodes the hard way: by switching periodically between herbs/ore. The method is detailed in one of my previous posts:<br />http://wowalone.blogspot.com/2009/02/importance-of-2-gathering-professions_3199.html<br /><br />and basically consists of a macro like so:<br />/castsequence find herbs, find minerals<br /><br />which I have assigned to a hotkey. Pressing the hotkey toggles between the two tracking types. It might sound a bummer but I got used to it and now it's second nature to press that key.Darth Solohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01110818057322485070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529183485378908367.post-74097702178703605682009-05-03T11:52:00.000-05:002009-05-03T11:52:00.000-05:00hey Darth,
When you do mining/herbalism, is there...hey Darth,<br /><br />When you do mining/herbalism, is there an add-on that you use that makes both appear in the mini-map? If not, how do you easily find both?<br /><br />Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com