Some tips to make moneyFollow

Your mileage may wary, and I have a number of things in my favor (having an epic flyer and being a Karazhan-level-geared feral druid). But I thought I'd toss out some ideas you guys might not have done yet.

1. Disenchanting items off the AH using enchantrix and/or common sense. I only list this because I know Mike will come in and say this is the best way. Also, to cover all my bases, fishing too.

2. Trees in Skettis. As an herbalist, Skettis is awesome. While doing my daily's, I do a complete round of the area, looking for the four Talonsworn Protectors (giant Ancient enemies). They are 71-72 elites, and thus easy to take down. When you herbalize them, they drop 3-5 motes of life, and 2-10 herbs (the only time I got 2 was when I got 2 black lotuses; the 10 was all felweed). Killing all 4, assuming a normal distribution and my server's market, nets you around 30-40 gold in herbs. Takes around 15 minutes if no one is farming them. However, they are usually farmed, and people can ninja-herbalize them, so be careful.

3. Running Stratholme. This is probably just for druids, and maybe for rogues. Stealthing through Stratholme, starting at the normal entrance and ending at the back entrance, allows you to take out 3 enemies. The run itself takes less than 10 minutes (I average around 7 or 8), and will get you three large brilliant shards. Then run back and do it again. The drawback is that it can only be done 5 times an hour; so that's 15 shards per hour. If you go further into UD, and kill the three ziggurat bosses on your last run, that's three more shards, though; and by then, 10 more minutes have passed so you can probably start it all over again. This method, by my server's conditions, nets me around 150-200 gold per hour, including runecloth drops, random trash, and dust/essences from random greens. Problems: you probably need stealth to do this quickly, and you need to learn how mobs in Stratholme move (all ghouls have True Sight), and occassionally an Eye of Naxxramas will call an entire group on you, which shouldn't be a death sentence, but will mess up your timing, and leave you with nasty diseases.

4. Halaa disenchanting. Every time the Alliance (or Horde, depending on side) control Halaa, check in with the vendor there. He sells, as a limited quantity, throwing stars for around 2 gold. These can be disenchanted, and usually yield 1-2 Greather Planar Essences. These essences go for 7-8 gold each on my server, so for 1 minute of work, you could potentially make over 15 gold. Worth checking it out; he gets resupplied every hour or so, it seems.


That's all for now, hope this helps some people out there. Have fun, and happy hunting. Or disenchanting and fishing.

Not just stratholme, but BRD too.

Here is a link to a 12 minute BRD for rogues.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5770825031548062709&q=12+minute+BRD&total=319&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Edit: at 12.5 minutes, the instance can be run indefinitely, since it works out to exactly 5 runs per 60 min.
Edited, Jan 28th 2008 5:03pm by baveux

Edited, Jan 28th 2008 5:05pm by baveux

All are good methods, but how do you take down a 72 elite solo? Maybe with 2 people...Just like to know.

If the trees can be trapped, set a freezing trap and wait 15 seconds. Send in your pet, hit mend pet, and DPS the carp out of them until you pull aggro. Tree hits trap, back off the full range, wait until pet is full health, rinse and repeat. Intimidation after the first trap if your pet doesn't grab aggro right away, and FD after the second trap.

After the second trap, I usually go full bore on the thing. Pop all the CDs and let 'er rip. That's how I've taken elites down throughout all my lvls, although I've never personally tried killing the trees.

I was scared to death once because I had seen something coming at me, what looked like it wanted to kill me.

I was flying around doing my skettis bombing run, so I was pretty high up(just at the point where the mobs weren't visible on the ground). So I am flying to my next destination, and all of a sudden this huge(and I mean huge) laughing skull apears out of nowhere in front of me, and I freak. I'm like WTF is that, so I fly in the other direction, not wanting to aggro whatever the hell this very large thing is I've never seen in all my 70 levels of WoW.

So I fly up in the air, only to start laughing at myself when I realized, that the big laughing skull that was chasing me was actually the Fear marker that mobs get over their heads, and since the elemental is so large the skull is that much larger and what appeared to me at the time to be floating through the tree tops looking to kill me.

Sorry for the necromancy, but would it be worth it to prospect (bought) adamantite ore and then resell what you get at AH? I've heard of some people doing this, but never really heard if they actually got something from it (but why would they do it if there wasn't anything in it?)

EDIT: And would it be worth it to drop tailoring for? I've only got 350 pts in tailoring and 375 in mining, so I've got the support proff to powerlevel it, and there's really nothing for me to be gained from tailoring since my gear is better than the tailored stuff.

Edited, Feb 12th 2008 5:51pm by krqllebqlle

If you are paying the bid game on the AH, only use one toon. I did it wrong last night. I overbid myself on the same ores sheesh!

Edited, Feb 13th 2008 3:31pm by alcattle