Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

Please direct me and shut me up if this has already been asked, but how in the hell do you guys make enough gold for mounts and etc. I'm level 18 priest at the moment with 1g. Please spare me all of the "This is vanilla". Is there a legitimate way to earn gold sufficiently on this server? It seems the AH has items that the vendor will buy for more currency at times.
Thanks,
Semick

I struggled with making gold too when I first started here. One way I have found to make gold, especially before your professions are maxed, is to get Auctioneer and Auctionator. Start building up Auctioneers database (by doing scans) as early as possible. Once I started using this to make gold from the AH, it was easy to afford my mount. Even at low levels you can re-sell BOE greens you find for 3x+ what the vendor price is.

I don't play, yet, I'm waiting on the PvE realm. What I remember from Vanilla though is sell everything, literally everything. Waste nothing. Vendor only the most absolute trash. There is a buyer for everything whether it be linen cloth, white armour, greens, even fishing up Rumsey people will buy it for RP etc. One thing I used to do, was to buy certain crafting recipes/plans that can only be bought, limited supply, from one person in the whole world and selling them on the AH for a massive markup. If Nost is true to vanilla, then the cooking recipe for Loch Frenzy delight is one such example. You could buy a few and lazy people, who cannot be bothered to trek to Loch Modan WILL pay 5, 10, maybe even 15g for it if there's not a lot of competition on the AH. If memory serves, there's a Gnome windmill north east of Menethil that has a few limited supply greens and crafting plans, and there's also a very highly sought after engineering (drangonkin I think) plan in Azshara in the Gnome house in the hills above the coast, but that might be above your level.

You could browse the AH and see what sells well as a gathered material like copper ore, tin ore or herbs. You could (if you haven't already invested a lot in profs) gather some mats to sell then unlearn the profession and take up one you'd rather use for your class like tailoring/ench.

Also, what warcraftselblatt said. For example, behind Durnholde is a lady who sells three limited supply leather bracers (Bear Bracers and some others), you could buy 1-2 with your 1g and sell them on the AH for 3-5g each to make a decent profit within hours I imagine.

If you see a BoE blue, like something leather in your level range, probably from Wailing Caverns, for a low amount, and it's the only one, buy it and resell it for 5 times the price. There is someone, somewhere who will want it and be happy to be pay it. Just don't mark it up too high so as to be unreasonable. Little and often I say, make a few g's to 15g per item, depending, none of this relisting a BoE blue lvl 16 staff for 1000g etc., .

Most of my money comes from getting hard-to-find items and plans and selling them all. Or playing the AH. Not really relevant to you, but someone listed a Swift Lovebird mount from the Valentine's event. Obviously it cannot be obtained in September and people will either have to wait until February to grind for it, or buy the AH one. He'd listed it for 25K buyout, and on my server they sell for 100k. I bought it to quickly double my cash. Like a fool I relisted it for 60K and the buyer probably then relisted it for 100K. I should have asked for more, but there were no others on at the time for me to compare the prices with. I buy all cheap Runed Orbs and Forzen Orbs and, even though they're ridiculously easy to get, they still sell for a lot. Practice and you can play the buying and selling game .

It also depends on Nosts unique community. If it's level 60 heavy, then when they reroll alts they probably would be more than happy to spend their hard earned gold on easily farmable items like spider's silk, silk cloth and so forth, than farm it themselves. If Nost is top-lvl heavy, capitalise on it . If it has a lot of new levellers, then you'll have a lot of competition. Don't be disheartened if your auctions expire 2-3 times, someone will eventually buy almost anything and you'll almost always make a profit.

gaminggeek2015 wrote:I don't play, yet, I'm waiting on the PvE realm. What I remember from Vanilla

While that is a nice big wall of text you made, these starting sentences effectively invalidate the rest of your "tips".

Contrary to what people may think they know, vanilla WoW is not hard and it isn't hard making gold either. While leveling I would highly recommend you DO NOT buy all your spells, and only the ones you'll think you'll use. Get addons that tell you how much something vendors for and when finishing quest and you don't need any of the rewards, pick the one that sells the most.

Don't get disheartened when you don't have enough money to buy a mount at 40 or the epic one at 60, you will eventually get enough gold to buy them. Through and through though one of the msot effective methods of making gold is farming. Farming, farming, farming, farming, I cannot stress this enough. The people who "claim" that gold is hard to get, are also the ones that sit in Ironforge or Orgimmar for hours not farming anything.

Alternatively if you really care about gold, play a Hunter or Mage as they are the best farming classes in game. A priest on the other hand, well...you better take up some gathering professions rather than kill things.

i love g0ld...

Bioness wrote:While that is a nice big wall of text you made, these starting sentences effectively invalidate the rest of your "tips".

Although as I said, I've not played yet, so I may be a little off the mark, I still think that If these servers are as Blizz-like as I've heard, then my tips are very valid and useful, as those are easier ways to make gold from Vanilla experience, which these servers emulate.