i'm a lazy bum/moocher/talented money borrower CURE ME Follow

Maybe you should give me some Gold!..lol
It's just a simple fact of the game that some skills cost more than others. Fortunately, the game itself provides the opportunity to gather the goods you need as your questing and building your characters lvl. I'm a miner, so I always have my "Find Ore" indicator on, and no matter how far outta the way it is, or how many bad guys are around, I force myself to take the time to get it. Now it's just a habit that helps me lvl as I do it! I'm also a Jeweler (BC), which is really expensive to build up lvl. So to counter the cost, I've asked mu guildies for any Mots thier not using. I guess you could call that mooching, but, I "GIVE" half of everything I make back to the guild, who dishes it out to those who need it. Most see that I made it, and in return, wanna give back a little......hence more Mots. But hey, if your friends have thousands, perhaps you should ask them how they've become so rich. Thier obviously doing something right!

Cappies Guide to money(mostly stolen from the tradeskills section)

Step one, Drop talioring and eng. They both use too much money, It is clear that you WANT two production skills, but unless you want to be a mouch you will have to drop them. You do not need to drop both, but at least one tradeskill MUST go. I almost want to bark at your freinds who helpd you go down the Moneysink road. tailoring and a gathering skill(like skinning or picking flowers) is a good combo, but the bottom line is blowing crap up is expensive(and it only gets worse TBC style) even if you are a miner eng is a costly trade. If you are not a money maker, it is NOT the trade for you(no matter HOW cool it is, and heck i have 3 toons with it, so i am down with the trade).

Step Two, Gather, Gather and more Gathering be it quest related items(like the AD stuff, Bone chips, the plant stuf........)or trade mats, one key to money is Gathering, and selling. All that cloth you are useing to level tailoring...STOP IT sell that on the AH. all the skinns/flowers you pick after droping ENG... Sell IT

Step Thee, Fish. This is one of the eazyest ways in the game to make money(it is less popular now a days with TBC, But on most servers it is still BIG cash(most noteably stonescale eels and deviate fish, if you cannot get to the outlands)

Step Four, Stop going to the AH to buy stuff. it is clear you do this if you are leveling eng and are not a miner, This needs to stop (if you do not want to be a mooch). There is nothing in the AH You HAVE to have. Sure there is stuff you like, but unless you want your freinds to buy it, you do not need it.


Need money? Farm like the loosers who give you stuff(somebody who give you items because your avatar is a woman is just lame; Heck taking items/gold from them is kind of lame too) making money is eazy, it just takes a little will power, that means not equpting a BoE, but selling it. That means asking for magic bread from a mage rather than buying food(this is begging but the far more tolorable kind, as you can trade a healthstone for any bread you beg for). The only costs you realy have in this game are spells(includes Grimores), and item repair, the rest is luxuray. Sure a fast mount is nice, but still just a luxury.

Trying to be helpful here and not mean -- I'd focus on getting back in school and actually learning once there. If you're that good a moocher, you might have a glorious future in the world if high finance. What you need to look out for is becoming the other kind of RL moocher, the kind that sits on a curb with a cardboard sign hoping motorists will slow long enough to shell out a buck or two.

Drop tailoring and engineering and pick up two gathering skills.

Gathering Skills: Skinning, Herbalism, Mining
Additional Skill: Fishing

The usual way is to pick Skinning + Either Mining or Herbalism
Add fishing for additional gold from money fish (Firefin Snapper, Oily Blackmouth, Deviate Fish, Stonescale Eels)


Not long at all. Herbalism levels faster than mining, but mining makes more gold. Stick around the newby areas and gather as much as you can. Move on to the next areas when the nodes or skinning critters go gray.

You should be able to supply your own gold if you drop the money losers and go for gathering skills.



Pairing a money loser (tailoring) with a money maker (herbalism) is just going to allow you to break even. DROP TAILORING! Sure, you can make nifty stuff at higher levels, but until then you waste mats you could be selling. Tailoring is a loser on two counts:

1) You could be selling cloth, or using it for First Aid, and a 'lock without First Aid is a very poor lock indeed.

2) In order to level tailoring, tailors need to make large amounts of items that have to be sold at the AH at a loss (compared to the price that cloth by itself would bring).


Edited, Apr 18th 2007 4:54am by ohmikeghod

Well, since enchanting changes, the OP would have to level enchangint to DE, just not a good idea.

Mikes sugestion is the best,Although it my be difficult to get a 2 tradeskiller to move to no production crafts. And if the OP has a high Talioring,They could be selling Mooncloth(i know i know, market bottomed out on that one kind of , but sill cash to be made).

Hmm imo i would keep tailoring (depends on skill lvl ofc.)
You can make good money on making the dreamweave sets, easy farmable, and when u get burning crusade u can make alot of money on cloth 'transmutes' (spellcloth,shadowcloth etc.). Currently i make 150-200g every 4th day, and im buying the mats!
On top of that u can make nice items for yourself or others, and make some gold there too.

As for gathering skill i would prob take mining, it makes the most gold on my server.
(There are some upcoming changes to alchemy, which might make herbalism more attractive though)

But i would definetely throw engineering away, fun proffession, but nothing but a money drain.

Edited, Apr 20th 2007 10:35pm by Magicol

You're complaining because you "usually" have "only" 20-30 gold?!

Seriously, what the hell are you complaining about? Between the cost of spell training for my character, spell training for my character's demons, repair costs, the alchemy training bills, travel costs, and the expense of buying new equipment from the Auction House so I can have a few decent things and a better chance of survivability, I'm regularly almost flat-out broke.

You should be lending other people money...