Comments on: Fishing, lowbie money, and profession talk.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:29:13 +0000

Fishing is huge. As far as enchanting, well its a crafting profession. ANY crafting profession is essentially a gold sink until level 80. You will not find/produce enough materials to cover the cost of leveling enchanting unless you level slowly. I’m not saying you can’t make money on it (its hard. you can, but its hard), or that its not useful (it is, very), but enchanting is a tough nut to grind.

Anyway I would actually recommend herb/skin, for the reason that they will not slow you down as you level. I hate having to spend extra hours in a zone circling around aimlessly. Mining is great money but herb is faster leveling and honestly just as profitable. Anything but peacebloom sells for about 15-20g a stack. At around 70 I would dump skinning and level up alchemy. Alchemy is absolutely huge right now, and a serious money maker. At max level you can make epic gems cheaply, with a guaranteed 100g profit every single day just by doing an xmute.

Fishing is also huge, you can get your epic flyer just by fishing if you want.

I think the main thing for newbies is to vendor every grey, firstly buy netherweave bags, 4 for you, 4 for your banker (a level 1 alt that has 4 bags and sits in your capital city). Mail every white item to your banker, and sell it. If it doesn’t sell after a few times just vendor it.

Lastly from 70 to 80 you’ll make 2000-3000g just in quests and vendor trash. So you are pretty much guaranteed to have cold wather flying by 77, which is the intent of course. And your first priority at 80 should absolutely be epic flying.

By: Kohaku

Kohaku — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:47:06 +0000

You forgot about the Small Eggs. This is a semi-holiday thing but Small egg, 150% drop rate from lvl 5-7 Dragonhawks in BE land. Might be able to sell them for 2-4g each egg during Chrismas :3

Kohaku

By: Periluna

Periluna — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:45:27 +0000

I love fishing.. I was capped for fishing on my main way before I would get to the next level so I could increase the profession. My two favorite places to fish were Dustwallow March and Tanaris. Why you may ask? Pools. They both have lots of them. Oily blackmouth, Firefin snapper, stonescale eel. But then after you fish those, if you are lucky they will respawn to the floating wreakage pools. Fishing up those trucks..usually some silver.. and leather and cloth, but you can find greens , recipes (I found several blues ones , those were fun finds!)
Tanaris is especially fun.. fish some pools , go beat up on some wastewonders , or south sea pirates, then go see what pools respawn. The open waters have the Summer bass, winterfin and the big mouth clams too. I look forward to leveling to both those areas. My bank account is much higher when its time to leave.

Periluna

By: Dàchéng

Dàchéng — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:52:57 +0000

One excellent tip I got from warcraftecon that really made a difference to me while levelling was to sell complete sets of pages from the Green Hills of Stranglethorn. This made me tons of gold at a time when 100g was a fortune. These sets are bought by level-capped achievement collectors who are trying to complete the achievement “Hemet Nessingwary: The Collected Quests”, but who didn’t level up in Stranglethorn Vale, or who skipped the page-gathering quest when they were in their 30s.

Interestingly enough, advertising these pages for 30g a set draws a lot of ire from players who think it overpriced. People can actually be quite rude! Many comment cuttingly that players at levels 30-40 can’t possibly afford these prices and that I’m ripping them off and will never sell a single set. I always thank these players for their advice, and never explain to them what my real target market is (even though mention of the achievement should already have told them).

I still sell about one set for every three advertisements I make, even though most of the dedicated achievement collectors have long since completed it.