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TGIF – Stratholme Farming
I like making gold. I hate making gold with Transmog items.
People are lured to the sweet, sweet coin that comes with transmog items. I don’t think there’s any other aspect of WoW where you can earn hundreds, or thousands, of gold just by running through low level content with high level characters. It doesn’t take long to do, there’s minimal risk or effort involved, and theoretically you can make a small fortune doing it.
The problem is that you probably won’t make a cent for weeks, if not months. You are a slave to not only server economy, but personal vanity. People are not going to buy that iLevel 50 pair of pants unless it goes with an outfit they’re trying to put together. Yes, you need to hope that the dude who can’t match his socks IRL will feel that those boots go with his Night Elf’s shoulderpads, and he’ll shell out a thousand pieces of gold to make that bold fashion statement!
It’s not just about transmog items though. There’s cloth drops and other instance items that people need for one reason or another. You won’t make thousands of gold, but you could make a couple hundred.
Check out yet another video from Manthieus, this time discussing running the oft-neglected, but always a favorite, Stratholme.
TGIF – Warlords of Draenor Alpha Herbalism
As I stated before, one of the worst times to try and make gold is at the end of an expansion. However, one of the best times to make gold is at the beginning of the expansion. People will be rushing to level up their professions, so folks with gathering professions will be out in full force looking to take advantage of the lazy crafters who will buy up anything on the AH that will level up their profession of choice.
I am actually prepared for this. During one of my frequent bouts of insanity, I leveled a Blood Death Knight up to 60, gave him the Mining and Herbalism professions, then boosted him to 90 which maxed out both professions at 600. Once Warlords of Draenor goes live, my Blood DK will head out into the world looking for stones to dig and flowers to pick, and since he’s a Blood DK he’ll be unkillable. That’s money right there, money I’m hoping to line my pockets with.
As luck would have it, WTBGold has started doing some research into the various professions in WoD. He’s hit the alpha and started poking around, noting various changes and so on. He’s just getting his feet wet, but if this Herbalism Guide is any indication then this will be the channel to watch going forward.
Rokk Talk 