A useful piece of advice I got: periodically scan AH for useful upgrades that are priced just over the vendor cost. You can upgrade your gear and your grinding speed significantly and pay for the marginal cost of "renting" the item. 10 silver over vendor cost is nothing if it's a good upgrade for a couple levels (and you can even possibly auction lesser gear you would have equipped).
Stressing minimal use of flight paths isn't great advice, honestly. It's good for levels 1 through maybe 15 or so, but after that, quests are sending you all over the world. Your time is valuable; spend the 7 silver for the flight and save yourself a half hour or more of walking. Use that half hour to grind more valuable stuff at your destination.
I remember back in Vanilla, I had mining and herbalism with my rogue. Every other day or so I would park myself in Orgrimmar after I posted my herbs and bars on the AH to advertise that I was opening lock boxes. About 2-3 hours later, I was at +10g (sometimes more) for the day. Great guide!
I remember leveling my first character. I had been doing a good job of not buying anything from the AH. And I was determined not to buy anything, because I was saving as much as I could to get my mount. I was even resisting the urge to upgrade my spells, to get my mount. But my sword was dreadfully outdated for my zone level. I felt weak. And I was going through a long dry spell with weapon drops. Finally I broke down and bought a blue sword off the AH. IT FELT SO GOOD! I FELT POWERFUL AGAIN!!! . . . and then only one day later a weapon dropped that was an upgrade to my new blue auction house sword, and I felt that sudden buyers remorse. I had wasted that gold for nothing. If I had only waited one more day. That’s how I learned to stay away from the Auction House while leveling. Unless you’re there to sell stuff yourself.
Vendoring wands earns you so much easy gold even sub level 20. And it allows you to level enchanting and tailoring for end game usefulness. Craft greens with tailoring. Disenchant them, craft highest wand you can, vendor/ AH said Wands. Extremely easy and lucrative Also, skinning and herbalism is amazingly lucrative as well since skins are guaranteed and dont rely on random nodes and vendor for decent amount that adds up
Love that you mentioned the ocd/completionist issue with skipping ability rank buying :) I always have that issue myself and it's nice to know it's not just me!
This video is miles ahead of any other video you did. Not to insult your other videos, more of a compliment to this one. First of all, the video is very informative, and second of all, the new format really, REALLY improves alot. The info is also more concise, and in general appliable to most classes. Great job Melderon!
+1 Allow me to officially say that Defcamp/Melderon along with your Deftalk is my favorite podcast for our mutual beloved WoW Classic (with Tipsout/Esfand/Nixxiom on a close 2nd). They way you talk and explain things is such a joy to listen to. Hyped as I am, did not play on any private server after all I understand that some are going half nuts for it but can be hard to listen to for hours. Maybe it's becuase of my age that somewhat fit into "your league" as well but anyway, great content and can't wait for next one. Even some oldschool WoW nerd since open beta learned a new thing from this video or I am getting "old" and forgot =) Keep up the good work and send my kind regards to your brother. I subscribed to your channel and as I've said before, thinking on sponsoring you. Becuase you don't ask (or beg/expect as some do) for it but since I want to. Don't worry on my end I have a fulltime work. Have a good one! Yours respectfully /vXCozmoz
easiest way to get a mount at lvl 40 if you are having problems is take skinning and grind a few levels at like 36-40 and you will have plenty of gold while leveling fast too, may be a bit boring but atleast its an easy way while watching like a series on netflix or something on a second monitor. Probably the best place to farm is at swamp of sorrows, kill all mobs but concentrate on the tigers, 1 kill is like 5-12 silver (usually about 10 silver). You can sell the leather on ah too but i'd just recommend to vendor everything and maybe sell like the good greens on ah.
Leather usually sold pretty well on my server. I used to farm the gorillas in the field in STV right outside booty bay for thick/heavy leather. The pigs and basilisks in the blasted lands were good for rugged leather as well...if they are selling well and it is worth your time of course. Just watch out for that big dragon flying around the blasted lands :)
I usually vendor all leather until I am acquiring Thick Leather. Hides will sell, but leather itself is usually flooding the market until you get to thick leather.. so it's more lucrative to forego the AH fees and vendor all the low level leathers
Helpful and have alt grinds as well as my main. Created 2 alts and every day gives gold and 1/2 money made to banker charrie. This was really helpful presentation. Thank you!
Just go around lvl 30+ to Badlands...set your hs to Kargath and move to the earth elementals, farm them untill you have your bags full, you can sell some of the loot in AH for bs plus all the green you will get, hs when bags are full and sell the grey and the stones, then move back again and repeat, you will gain lvls and gold...untill you reach 37-40 you have the gold for mount.
Came back to this video in frustration. I watched this video several times many months ago and thought - heck, having enough gold at lvl 40 won't be an issue. I'm now a level 22 priest in Classic. I haven't purchased a single item - no water, no food, no AH nothing (except quest items). I've sold bags, wands and leathers. I made all my bags myself, or got them from quests. The only thing I have spent money on is spells, learning professions (cooking, fishing, tailoring, skinning) and thread. Still I find myself at 67 silver after learning all of the ESSENTIAL skills at level 22. I really hope quest rewards will amp up their rewards, otherwise I'm screwed at 40.
Yeah here's a story, I grinded Tyrs Hand and Heartglen, breaking my teath&gear on those elite mobs. After about a month I got my mount, yeey! But then I had a bright idea of maybe wanting to obtain a different racial mount, was playing an Orc Fem, but wanted an undead horse so of I went, farming runecloth for reputation! And gold while I was at it. Only to have the patch hit 3 days after I obtained that mount that made riding skill universal so you didn't have to buy different racial riding skill for varying mounts.. there went 600g down the drain. I'll never forget that.
@-Genes- Yeah it was more like a status symbol oh having another races epic mount, and from all the options.. the undead skeletal horse with a knightly armour and the appearance of WC3's Arthas Mount, now how could an 18-year-old me say no to that, right?
tyrs hand is were my full guild grinded for 1 hour after every raid so every one had repair bills for next nights raid. we were all split in to the best farming 5mans by are guild boss. and if the horde came pissing off a team the team or teams nere them helped fend off the horde. so we had tyrs hand to just are full guild for 1 hour a night the horde would have to wait till we were done with are hour grind. if ye 5man team is lucky the is a epic bow that drops there. then we get the finder to ah it then are 5man was ok to leave early then the full hour grind.
Patches dont come out of no where. That info was available the whole time you were grinding. That's like what happened in wrath. All those people that went mental over buying the heirloom flying training for lvl 68 alts for 10k gold each only to have flying made account wide and much cheaper.
@@The500k Kargoz and I work together regularly. No secrets here. I even give him credit within the first minute. But, thanks for noticing and commenting LOL. His work was an inspiration for this
Screw this guide. You want mounts? Here's how: Herbalism and alch. Extra speed? Go druid, shaman, or hunter. Download gatherer. Don't shift click a node. Click it, if no level, move your toon, click it again, you get five tries before it despawns. This will ensure you are able to loot any node you come to. Level normally but go to westfall and darkshire as ally, and silverpine and hillsbrad as horde. Loot every mageroyal and briarthorn you can find. Save all the swiftthistle if you are on a new server until you are 35+, or post it immediately as market offers highest prices if not. Level to 35. Head to alterac mountain. Grind the ogres NE of the elite area for cloth and the nodes for wild steelbloom, goldthorn, and wintersbite. You can head toward dalaran if fadeleaf is selling to rogues. All are needed for leveling alch and people are braindead about these nodes so they pay a lot. 10g/stack is not uncommon on a leveled server. As much as three on a brand new one. After you hit 60, do circles around winterspring, blasted lands, eastern plaguelands, and felwood for herbs. Run lbrs for the greater fire protection potion recipe and the others for the flask recipes. Farm the fire elementals in arathi, silithus, and felwood for elemental fire and the burning charms (arathi) to sell to low level warriors. Farm elemental earth and stockpile it until AQ drops. Make tons of greater nature protection and frost protection portions. You will always be rich now. Yw.
Guys thank you so much for the content, I am now an Acolyte unfortunately that's all I can be at this time but appreciate you guys so freaking much, thank you for the amazing content! See you in Classic! hahaha
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One option that may or may not work in classic is dust farming. Some green items, especially ones commonly crafted by players, barely sell for vendor cost on the AH. Since AH charges a posting fee, anything that doesn't sell or that sells near vendor cost actually loses you money. However, as far as I remember, the dust and essences from disenchanted gear did not have a posting fee and you could just keep putting it up until someone bought it. In many cases the dust made more money than the items would have.
Great video. I found almost all of this to apply to BC as well. (I'm jeffrags on Patreon.) I will almost certainly play Shaman in Classic. Enhancement for leveling and then a respec to Resto, though I may just start out with Resto and have done with it. I want to do one thing in Classic more than anything else: use Far Sight for screenshots. Using Far Sight, I can see literally anywhere in the open world.
If you play a rogue, and lets be honest.. YOU WILL. A good tip is everytime you see someone fighting a mob, pick pocket it. I remember during this in westfall, and by the time I left I literally made like.. 4Gold over the course. Which immediately 2 of it got spent on all my abilities and professions, but hey, moneys money!
@@DefcampMelderonTV Right? Rogues have serious money-making potential, from pick-pocket + professions to professional chest opening, the options are plentiful.
The addons you mentioned on slide #6 that you couldn't remember are probably Auctioneer and Gatherer. They were around in 2006 when I started playing and there are still versions around that work on 1.12 private servers, they will probably still work in WoW Classic. They used to download from www.auctioneeraddon.com and www.gathereraddon.com. Auctioneer lets you scan the AH and collect price and sales data, so if you do it daily for a week or so you can get a pretty accurate read on what an item actually sells for and what demand is. Gatherer stores the location of resource nodes you have gathered and projects them on your minimap, making it easier to plan farming routes.
in addition to all the above, and selling almost everything you get from levelling - send a portion of anything you make to your alt enchanter or another bank alt. Made 2g, send the alt half or more, your call. If you don't have then money on your main you're less likely to spend it!
I farmed fadeleaf like crazy, used AH alot, bought and reselled. Had my epic mount long before anyone else of my friends. I borrowed 2 of my friends to buy epic mounts, and then they quit and i didnt get anything back MFers ! :D Good vid mate
What I remember from classic is that cloth sold in stacks yielded way more money than bandages. Those rarely even sold. Cloth is not only bought by people with first aid. Tailors, leatherworkers, engineers all need cloth too. Depending on the economy, cloth sold in stacks sells usually faster and for more than bandages. Talking about the AH here obviously.
It’s odd how this is one of the videos that gets me most excited for classic WoW. Actually being dedicated and time disciplined to get rewarded with things other people don’t have... just like in real life... now WoW is a bit more RNG... unless you are a PvPer.
As I remember being an enchanter in Vanilla WOW, you had level limitations for Desenchanting items.... I remember holding onto items to Desenchant at a later time when my enchanting level moved up,... also, along with enchanting, engineering has level limitations when trying to max out your profession. Unobtainable training until you reach a certain level....
Great video! If I didn't have principles against Patreon (I canceled for the few creators I did support), I'd totally do it. This is why I sub and donate on Twitch
I'm kind of curious what other people think about this. So I think engineering is going to be the most popular profession in classic by far. Meaning mining will also be extremely popular. I was originally leaning towards going skin/mine. But I'm wondering if the ah will be flooded by ore and other mining reagents. Do you think it would be better to choose herbalism over mining to avoid falling into an oversaturated market?
Thanks for the video I’m new to your channel and I’m very impressed by your work. Although I have seen and tried a lot of these methods, I still have trouble keeping and making up the money I use when I get my skills every 2 levels. Any suggestions? I’m playing a Warlock so I know its not that big of a deal but I still want to be efficient. Loved the video, keep it up :)
With the bad gear on the ah like agi cloth, try and sell for slightly lower than the disenchantment value. If you have a couple hawkeyed enchanters on the server they'll sell.
the 10s for weapon skill, even if you buy them all, isn't going to cost you more than 1g. At that point, you're just getting in your own way to save a few pennies. Not the best use of your time. Instead, consider how fast you can and will make 1g at level 40. 1g is never going to make or break your ability to buy a mount. Especially for something as impactful as being able to use your weapon upgrades on demand.
I found getting the gold for my mount was easy especially as I was warrior. All you have to do is buy repairs and flight paths only and sell all your junk. Had 150g by level 40 without having to farm once. Didn't buy food either used the incredibly powerful spirit and stam well fed buff from the bobbing apples and waited on regen
I used to farm fire elementals wich had elemental fire that sold for 2g each, they have something like 10-15% drop chance and you can forget about the time consuming comparing ah buying items below vendor price and disenchanting
Idk. As rogue I just pick pocket Centaurs in Desolace and got my mount in about 2 days of farming (actually 1 day but you have to wait until you get your money from ah)
How do you think professions will differ on a fresh server compared to a long lasting server? I know herbalism does really well on current private servers but at the start of a server there will be very little gold in the economy so you will not be able to sell materials for a high price.
In my, admittedly ancient, experience if you are even remotely competitive in leveling on a new server then you should expect to vendor all gathered mats as there is very little gold in the population and you are gathering stuff ahead of the level curve of people who might want it if their skill level was high enough to use it. There are professions that can take advantage of rock bottom prices for gathered mats, for example engineers have several recipes that vendor for a profit if the mats are cheap. However camping the AH will really slow down your leveling so I'm not sure that it's a good use of time. Imo this video was tailored towards an existing, developed, server and isn't too useful for a brand new server. It doesn't seem to consider the opportunity cost of gathering trash mats to vendor compared to leveling faster and using that extra time to grind wealth more rapidly at a higher level.
I have gathered pretty nicely now and the more money comes the more I level (Coz higher level mobs and quests etc...) I also take advantage of auction house like selling wool is pretty good. Also really good sellers I have gotten in lower levels is those random blueprints. I have gotten like at least over gold from them. It might look at first that this is insane but once you get your wanted professions like I did skinning and herbalism you get from those that extra gold which is good. Others like fishing which is pretty nice in vanilla are good. I like to think that if you going alt that you could level other professions for that dude so you have more characters then and all have different professions (This is especially later pretty good situation). Just trade with other dude and back and forth etc for exaple you want to enchant something then you would post it to that account you have enchantment profession. And overall just don't spend on stupid stuff if you don't need it should be good to go. I have one dude sitting at level 19 now and I have around 6 gold and it will grow exponentially trust me. Btw when it comes to bags (at least in my experience) I got a pretty good amount them from drops and I have rarely had a situation where I wouldn't have space. So going to ah once you have rolled bunch of quests will do fine. So even buying bags I don't see value in that as they are surprisingly often dropping and they do cost a big amount. Good guide though.
Other IMPORTANT stats that I remember being popular on armor were +resist stats. In BC, if it had +resistance, the rest of the stats did not seem to be that important, the resistance gear always sold quickly. And, I have to ask--are you SURE about the enchanting? In BC, you had to have a certain lvl of skill to be able to DE items with various lvling. So, you had to level Enchanting from lvl 1 to like, 20 in order to DE items for lvl 20-25 (rough estimate). It was frustrating as hell, thus why I remember it.
If I had a worry, it is that the info on professions won't hold the weight in Classic that did would have had in vanilla. Only a small minority of people knew what they were doing back then. You had shamans paying out the ass for arcanite so they could make that axe. Now? Not so stupid. Going into "Classic, EVERYBODY is thinking herbing and mining.
This is the second guide Ive seen talk about making bandages instead of just selling the cloth. Who in the history of wow has ever vendored cloth? Lol. You can always auction it if you somehow dont need as much as you can get between bandaging, tailoring, and cloth turn ins.
If I'm ever a long way off at like 35 I'll spend my time till 40 grinding elemental earth in the badlands doesn't take long to get 100g providing your server doesn't have 60's farming them all the time.
@-Genes- well there's plenty of mobs around level 37 and loads of spawns around the zone, will be camped if you are on a private server likely yes, I'm guessing in classic with correct population should be fine.
I watch all these gold making/farming videos hoping they dont expose my spot. Over time I have updated my farming to something that fits my playstyle so that I can level up while farming and making 200+ gold by the time your 40. So one of my earlier gold making things was to have a mage and level tailoring. I would sit at cross roads and sell bags with free water and food. I would deliver the goods myself for those who werent at the xroads. You can make decent gold doing that but its not amazing and it takes downtime. Another tip: Vendor greys, keep white items because more than likely they are used for something and will sell on the AH.
Well this is interesting BUT Classic starts with 1.13.. something that did not exist before, everything will be probably changed... I'm waiting for beta :) BLIZZCON STARTING! I really doubt they would leave that "alt enchanter" part working. That actually contest enchanters with high skill to offer their diss service.
As a mage, I never (and won't) charge for water or portals, but I'd always advertise for tips. Whatever anyone can afford. Coppers add up too! For portals, everyone should tip/pay at least the reagent cost to do it. "Time is money friend"
I never charge for portals, lockpicking, water/food or summoning. I enjoy helping people, that's honestly the true classic spirit! Help your fellow man out!
If I dont get a tip I dont. But I really dont recall too often I didn't get above cost of a reagent. That's just when I was advertising. Normallu I'm too busy and just keep an eye in chat to see if someone is buying one.
Mineing/herbalism and then mail that stuff to an alchemist/engineer, that's what I do for cash and pvp. You are already running around mineing so why not profession dance switching find minerals with find plants. Lots of plants spawn in decent proximity to mineral nodes. Also the earlier you get upgraded bags the faster those bags pay for themself in extraspace. If you wait till 60 to go from 6 slots to max level bags you just missed tons of extra gold in trash items or even gatherables that could have been used to make cash.
This is my feeling toward dungeons. Just did my first deadmines run with a friend last night who has never played WoW before. I forgot to tell him to visit a vendor before heading to the dungeon. Bags filled up half way :(
if you play the game and never use much money or only if you really need to then you will have enough when you can learn it. but crazy if you think how fast it go now.
A lot of the advice here is very good common sense that I guess new players don't know about, but the biggest money maker besides not wasting it on dumb shit, is to know how to play the AH, that will make you the most money than anything else, aaand Fishing, I've made tons of money fishing, I never had to skip on buying spells or my mount at 40 on vanilla servers, just fish a little in tanaris before you log out and sell other shit you get/craft while you play.
Farmer Johnston will give you gold if you show him your weiner. You can find him just South of Goldshire. Hunters can make good coin by letting people grind on their pets. You can charge double if the pet has fur. Only downside is you have to spend time in dark alleys.
I just randomly asked someone in Classic: "Could u imagine a world without Poolnoodles?" we talked like 2 hrs... and he gifted me 170g cuz he was quitting Classic... that's my Story xD
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A useful piece of advice I got: periodically scan AH for useful upgrades that are priced just over the vendor cost.
You can upgrade your gear and your grinding speed significantly and pay for the marginal cost of "renting" the item. 10 silver over vendor cost is nothing if it's a good upgrade for a couple levels (and you can even possibly auction lesser gear you would have equipped).
Good point.
That’s very smart
Stressing minimal use of flight paths isn't great advice, honestly. It's good for levels 1 through maybe 15 or so, but after that, quests are sending you all over the world. Your time is valuable; spend the 7 silver for the flight and save yourself a half hour or more of walking. Use that half hour to grind more valuable stuff at your destination.
I remember back in Vanilla, I had mining and herbalism with my rogue. Every other day or so I would park myself in Orgrimmar after I posted my herbs and bars on the AH to advertise that I was opening lock boxes. About 2-3 hours later, I was at +10g (sometimes more) for the day. Great guide!
I remember leveling my first character. I had been doing a good job of not buying anything from the AH. And I was determined not to buy anything, because I was saving as much as I could to get my mount. I was even resisting the urge to upgrade my spells, to get my mount.
But my sword was dreadfully outdated for my zone level. I felt weak. And I was going through a long dry spell with weapon drops.
Finally I broke down and bought a blue sword off the AH.
IT FELT SO GOOD! I FELT POWERFUL AGAIN!!!
. . . and then only one day later a weapon dropped that was an upgrade to my new blue auction house sword, and I felt that sudden buyers remorse. I had wasted that gold for nothing. If I had only waited one more day.
That’s how I learned to stay away from the Auction House while leveling. Unless you’re there to sell stuff yourself.
amazing video from start to finish 11/10
Vendoring wands earns you so much easy gold even sub level 20. And it allows you to level enchanting and tailoring for end game usefulness. Craft greens with tailoring. Disenchant them, craft highest wand you can, vendor/ AH said Wands. Extremely easy and lucrative
Also, skinning and herbalism is amazingly lucrative as well since skins are guaranteed and dont rely on random nodes and vendor for decent amount that adds up
Wands, early game, are insanely lucrative on the AH. Makes casters, especially Priests, lives so much easier.
Love that you mentioned the ocd/completionist issue with skipping ability rank buying :) I always have that issue myself and it's nice to know it's not just me!
This video is miles ahead of any other video you did.
Not to insult your other videos, more of a compliment to this one.
First of all, the video is very informative, and second of all, the new format really, REALLY improves alot.
The info is also more concise, and in general appliable to most classes.
Great job Melderon!
Thank you very much! I'm glad I did what I set out to do!
Having played vanilla on populated private servers for more than a year now I can agree in all points.
Really good guide!
+1
Allow me to officially say that Defcamp/Melderon along with your Deftalk is my favorite podcast for our mutual beloved WoW Classic (with Tipsout/Esfand/Nixxiom on a close 2nd). They way you talk and explain things is such a joy to listen to. Hyped as I am, did not play on any private server after all I understand that some are going half nuts for it but can be hard to listen to for hours. Maybe it's becuase of my age that somewhat fit into "your league" as well but anyway, great content and can't wait for next one.
Even some oldschool WoW nerd since open beta learned a new thing from this video or I am getting "old" and forgot =)
Keep up the good work and send my kind regards to your brother. I subscribed to your channel and as I've said before, thinking on sponsoring you. Becuase you don't ask (or beg/expect as some do) for it but since I want to. Don't worry on my end I have a fulltime work.
Have a good one! Yours respectfully /vXCozmoz
Thank you so much for your kind words
easiest way to get a mount at lvl 40 if you are having problems is take skinning and grind a few levels at like 36-40 and you will have plenty of gold while leveling fast too, may be a bit boring but atleast its an easy way while watching like a series on netflix or something on a second monitor. Probably the best place to farm is at swamp of sorrows, kill all mobs but concentrate on the tigers, 1 kill is like 5-12 silver (usually about 10 silver). You can sell the leather on ah too but i'd just recommend to vendor everything and maybe sell like the good greens on ah.
Leather usually sold pretty well on my server. I used to farm the gorillas in the field in STV right outside booty bay for thick/heavy leather. The pigs and basilisks in the blasted lands were good for rugged leather as well...if they are selling well and it is worth your time of course. Just watch out for that big dragon flying around the blasted lands :)
I usually vendor all leather until I am acquiring Thick Leather. Hides will sell, but leather itself is usually flooding the market until you get to thick leather.. so it's more lucrative to forego the AH fees and vendor all the low level leathers
Helpful and have alt grinds as well as my main. Created 2 alts and every day gives gold and 1/2 money made to banker charrie. This was really helpful presentation. Thank you!
You're like the Dave Ramsey of classic WoW. Love it! Great vid. Keep it up.
Wow! Huge compliment! Thanks
Just go around lvl 30+ to Badlands...set your hs to Kargath and move to the earth elementals, farm them untill you have your bags full, you can sell some of the loot in AH for bs plus all the green you will get, hs when bags are full and sell the grey and the stones, then move back again and repeat, you will gain lvls and gold...untill you reach 37-40 you have the gold for mount.
Came back to this video in frustration. I watched this video several times many months ago and thought - heck, having enough gold at lvl 40 won't be an issue. I'm now a level 22 priest in Classic. I haven't purchased a single item - no water, no food, no AH nothing (except quest items). I've sold bags, wands and leathers. I made all my bags myself, or got them from quests. The only thing I have spent money on is spells, learning professions (cooking, fishing, tailoring, skinning) and thread. Still I find myself at 67 silver after learning all of the ESSENTIAL skills at level 22. I really hope quest rewards will amp up their rewards, otherwise I'm screwed at 40.
30-40 quest rewards and gear drop sell quality ramps up significantly
Yeah here's a story, I grinded Tyrs Hand and Heartglen, breaking my teath&gear on those elite mobs. After about a month I got my mount, yeey! But then I had a bright idea of maybe wanting to obtain a different racial mount, was playing an Orc Fem, but wanted an undead horse so of I went, farming runecloth for reputation! And gold while I was at it. Only to have the patch hit 3 days after I obtained that mount that made riding skill universal so you didn't have to buy different racial riding skill for varying mounts.. there went 600g down the drain. I'll never forget that.
@-Genes- I did say Orc fem, as in Orc Female, they look more like a human in stature, no broad shoulders.
@-Genes- Yeah it was more like a status symbol oh having another races epic mount, and from all the options.. the undead skeletal horse with a knightly armour and the appearance of WC3's Arthas Mount, now how could an 18-year-old me say no to that, right?
tyrs hand is were my full guild grinded for 1 hour after every raid so every one had repair bills for next nights raid. we were all split in to the best farming 5mans by are guild boss. and if the horde came pissing off a team the team or teams nere them helped fend off the horde. so we had tyrs hand to just are full guild for 1 hour a night the horde would have to wait till we were done with are hour grind. if ye 5man team is lucky the is a epic bow that drops there. then we get the finder to ah it then are 5man was ok to leave early then the full hour grind.
Patches dont come out of no where. That info was available the whole time you were grinding. That's like what happened in wrath. All those people that went mental over buying the heirloom flying training for lvl 68 alts for 10k gold each only to have flying made account wide and much cheaper.
I've noticed a nice quality jump in your videos! Great guide.
Thanks, man. Glad you think so. Been learning a lot
Looks like a bit of inspiration from Kargoz's videos, but I'm not an ass to call them copying or anything😂, this is useful content, not complaining 😎
@@The500k Kargoz and I work together regularly. No secrets here. I even give him credit within the first minute. But, thanks for noticing and commenting LOL. His work was an inspiration for this
Thank you for the video I will be watching this a lot during Classic. I can feel it
Screw this guide. You want mounts? Here's how:
Herbalism and alch. Extra speed? Go druid, shaman, or hunter.
Download gatherer.
Don't shift click a node. Click it, if no level, move your toon, click it again, you get five tries before it despawns. This will ensure you are able to loot any node you come to.
Level normally but go to westfall and darkshire as ally, and silverpine and hillsbrad as horde.
Loot every mageroyal and briarthorn you can find. Save all the swiftthistle if you are on a new server until you are 35+, or post it immediately as market offers highest prices if not.
Level to 35. Head to alterac mountain. Grind the ogres NE of the elite area for cloth and the nodes for wild steelbloom, goldthorn, and wintersbite. You can head toward dalaran if fadeleaf is selling to rogues. All are needed for leveling alch and people are braindead about these nodes so they pay a lot. 10g/stack is not uncommon on a leveled server. As much as three on a brand new one.
After you hit 60, do circles around winterspring, blasted lands, eastern plaguelands, and felwood for herbs.
Run lbrs for the greater fire protection potion recipe and the others for the flask recipes.
Farm the fire elementals in arathi, silithus, and felwood for elemental fire and the burning charms (arathi) to sell to low level warriors. Farm elemental earth and stockpile it until AQ drops. Make tons of greater nature protection and frost protection portions.
You will always be rich now. Yw.
back when everything and anything was worth vendoring or putting on the AH.
Guys thank you so much for the content, I am now an Acolyte unfortunately that's all I can be at this time but appreciate you guys so freaking much, thank you for the amazing content! See you in Classic! hahaha
Hey brother, did you join discord! Any donation is appreciated, my man. You're the best
@@DefcampMelderonTV I havent joined the discord yet my man but guys inspired me to make a video haha and just wanted to drop a comment for myself and all those like me that love hearing good Classic news and that all of our dreams for Classic are coming together. Thanks again guys see you next vid:) and thank you for taking the time to respond to your fans!
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Lmao guys its the worst quality video ever, I've never made a video before in my life so please don't think you inspired awful content creators haha I just wanted to share my story! Thank you for asking :)
It doesn't make sense to forego training axes on an undead warrior...you ARE going to get the whirlwind axe.
Yep and that's before lvl 40. Pushing that huge 4s investment back to lvl 30 is giving you nothing.
Something I get at low levels is oily blackmouth in darkshore from fishing, it's not a huge amount of gold but it's good for low levels
Also get an addon that determines vendor prices, so you can maximize the money you get from unneeded quest rewards.
One option that may or may not work in classic is dust farming. Some green items, especially ones commonly crafted by players, barely sell for vendor cost on the AH. Since AH charges a posting fee, anything that doesn't sell or that sells near vendor cost actually loses you money. However, as far as I remember, the dust and essences from disenchanted gear did not have a posting fee and you could just keep putting it up until someone bought it. In many cases the dust made more money than the items would have.
Great video. I found almost all of this to apply to BC as well. (I'm jeffrags on Patreon.)
I will almost certainly play Shaman in Classic. Enhancement for leveling and then a respec to Resto, though I may just start out with Resto and have done with it.
I want to do one thing in Classic more than anything else: use Far Sight for screenshots. Using Far Sight, I can see literally anywhere in the open world.
Watching these videos is making the wait for classic feel a lot longer.
If you play a rogue, and lets be honest.. YOU WILL. A good tip is everytime you see someone fighting a mob, pick pocket it. I remember during this in westfall, and by the time I left I literally made like.. 4Gold over the course. Which immediately 2 of it got spent on all my abilities and professions, but hey, moneys money!
Pick-pocketing is definitely leet
@@DefcampMelderonTV Right? Rogues have serious money-making potential, from pick-pocket + professions to professional chest opening, the options are plentiful.
The addons you mentioned on slide #6 that you couldn't remember are probably Auctioneer and Gatherer. They were around in 2006 when I started playing and there are still versions around that work on 1.12 private servers, they will probably still work in WoW Classic. They used to download from www.auctioneeraddon.com and www.gathereraddon.com. Auctioneer lets you scan the AH and collect price and sales data, so if you do it daily for a week or so you can get a pretty accurate read on what an item actually sells for and what demand is. Gatherer stores the location of resource nodes you have gathered and projects them on your minimap, making it easier to plan farming routes.
in addition to all the above, and selling almost everything you get from levelling - send a portion of anything you make to your alt enchanter or another bank alt. Made 2g, send the alt half or more, your call. If you don't have then money on your main you're less likely to spend it!
Great idea!
I farmed fadeleaf like crazy, used AH alot, bought and reselled. Had my epic mount long before anyone else of my friends. I borrowed 2 of my friends to buy epic mounts, and then they quit and i didnt get anything back MFers ! :D Good vid mate
What I remember from classic is that cloth sold in stacks yielded way more money than bandages. Those rarely even sold. Cloth is not only bought by people with first aid.
Tailors, leatherworkers, engineers all need cloth too. Depending on the economy, cloth sold in stacks sells usually faster and for more than bandages. Talking about the AH here obviously.
It’s odd how this is one of the videos that gets me most excited for classic WoW. Actually being dedicated and time disciplined to get rewarded with things other people don’t have... just like in real life... now WoW is a bit more RNG... unless you are a PvPer.
As I remember being an enchanter in Vanilla WOW, you had level limitations for Desenchanting items.... I remember holding onto items to Desenchant at a later time when my enchanting level moved up,... also, along with enchanting, engineering has level limitations when trying to max out your profession. Unobtainable training until you reach a certain level....
Only since tbc, in vanilla any lvl 5 can DE any piece of gear
Crusader enchant was HUGE money maker back in pre-BC
Good and detailed guide! Enjoyed it.
Great video! If I didn't have principles against Patreon (I canceled for the few creators I did support), I'd totally do it. This is why I sub and donate on Twitch
The 'grind while moving' advice is underrated.
Great production quality.
I'm kind of curious what other people think about this. So I think engineering is going to be the most popular profession in classic by far. Meaning mining will also be extremely popular. I was originally leaning towards going skin/mine. But I'm wondering if the ah will be flooded by ore and other mining reagents. Do you think it would be better to choose herbalism over mining to avoid falling into an oversaturated market?
Thanks for the video I’m new to your channel and I’m very impressed by your work. Although I have seen and tried a lot of these methods, I still have trouble keeping and making up the money I use when I get my skills every 2 levels. Any suggestions? I’m playing a Warlock so I know its not that big of a deal but I still want to be efficient. Loved the video, keep it up :)
Hmm, I'd suggest grinding for leather and not sounding gold on skills you may not need. Thanks for watching and I'm glad you enjoy the content!
With the bad gear on the ah like agi cloth, try and sell for slightly lower than the disenchantment value. If you have a couple hawkeyed enchanters on the server they'll sell.
the 10s for weapon skill, even if you buy them all, isn't going to cost you more than 1g. At that point, you're just getting in your own way to save a few pennies. Not the best use of your time. Instead, consider how fast you can and will make 1g at level 40.
1g is never going to make or break your ability to buy a mount. Especially for something as impactful as being able to use your weapon upgrades on demand.
Really like your stuff man. Subbed!
I found getting the gold for my mount was easy especially as I was warrior.
All you have to do is buy repairs and flight paths only and sell all your junk. Had 150g by level 40 without having to farm once.
Didn't buy food either used the incredibly powerful spirit and stam well fed buff from the bobbing apples and waited on regen
I used to farm fire elementals wich had elemental fire that sold for 2g each, they have something like 10-15% drop chance and you can forget about the time consuming comparing ah buying items below vendor price and disenchanting
Save paradox.... it’s important for people to buy things on the ah ;) really thorough guide :)
Great content my man! Subbed
Thank you, sir
Great video, GREAT format!
Idk. As rogue I just pick pocket Centaurs in Desolace and got my mount in about 2 days of farming (actually 1 day but you have to wait until you get your money from ah)
How do you think professions will differ on a fresh server compared to a long lasting server? I know herbalism does really well on current private servers but at the start of a server there will be very little gold in the economy so you will not be able to sell materials for a high price.
In my, admittedly ancient, experience if you are even remotely competitive in leveling on a new server then you should expect to vendor all gathered mats as there is very little gold in the population and you are gathering stuff ahead of the level curve of people who might want it if their skill level was high enough to use it.
There are professions that can take advantage of rock bottom prices for gathered mats, for example engineers have several recipes that vendor for a profit if the mats are cheap. However camping the AH will really slow down your leveling so I'm not sure that it's a good use of time.
Imo this video was tailored towards an existing, developed, server and isn't too useful for a brand new server. It doesn't seem to consider the opportunity cost of gathering trash mats to vendor compared to leveling faster and using that extra time to grind wealth more rapidly at a higher level.
Great tips! Very appreciated
The cost of weapon training is trivial. But I agree with most of the other points. It's a good mindset to not train until you need to.
I have gathered pretty nicely now and the more money comes the more I level (Coz higher level mobs and quests etc...) I also take advantage of auction house like selling wool is pretty good. Also really good sellers I have gotten in lower levels is those random blueprints. I have gotten like at least over gold from them.
It might look at first that this is insane but once you get your wanted professions like I did skinning and herbalism you get from those that extra gold which is good. Others like fishing which is pretty nice in vanilla are good. I like to think that if you going alt that you could level other professions for that dude so you have more characters then and all have different professions (This is especially later pretty good situation). Just trade with other dude and back and forth etc for exaple you want to enchant something then you would post it to that account you have enchantment profession.
And overall just don't spend on stupid stuff if you don't need it should be good to go.
I have one dude sitting at level 19 now and I have around 6 gold and it will grow exponentially trust me.
Btw when it comes to bags (at least in my experience) I got a pretty good amount them from drops and I have rarely had a situation where I wouldn't have space. So going to ah once you have rolled bunch of quests will do fine. So even buying bags I don't see value in that as they are surprisingly often dropping and they do cost a big amount.
Good guide though.
the hustle is real!
Great job guys - very nice
Class specific professions : Tanking service Warrior :D
absurd
Other IMPORTANT stats that I remember being popular on armor were +resist stats. In BC, if it had +resistance, the rest of the stats did not seem to be that important, the resistance gear always sold quickly.
And, I have to ask--are you SURE about the enchanting? In BC, you had to have a certain lvl of skill to be able to DE items with various lvling. So, you had to level Enchanting from lvl 1 to like, 20 in order to DE items for lvl 20-25 (rough estimate). It was frustrating as hell, thus why I remember it.
Been buying ambush for my rogue but I have been using a sword for my main hand since level 10. Lol!
Hey, do you have any tabs for the intro music? I'd really like to learn it and can't figure it out
I the link to the artist is in the description. His name is Victor araujo. Perhaps he knows
Good stuff, as usual.
With a shaman you can get away with training just Lightning Shield, Rockbiter and 1 level of Earthbind, maybe some shock spell :P
Searing totem, ghost wolf and healing spells are 100% necessary though.
If I had a worry, it is that the info on professions won't hold the weight in Classic that did would have had in vanilla. Only a small minority of people knew what they were doing back then. You had shamans paying out the ass for arcanite so they could make that axe. Now? Not so stupid. Going into "Classic, EVERYBODY is thinking herbing and mining.
4:48 absolute rap god
This is the second guide Ive seen talk about making bandages instead of just selling the cloth. Who in the history of wow has ever vendored cloth? Lol. You can always auction it if you somehow dont need as much as you can get between bandaging, tailoring, and cloth turn ins.
If I'm ever a long way off at like 35 I'll spend my time till 40 grinding elemental earth in the badlands doesn't take long to get 100g providing your server doesn't have 60's farming them all the time.
This also requires you playing on a server that as aq40 progressed
@-Genes- well there's plenty of mobs around level 37 and loads of spawns around the zone, will be camped if you are on a private server likely yes, I'm guessing in classic with correct population should be fine.
They range from 37 to about 42 I believe as well
I watch all these gold making/farming videos hoping they dont expose my spot. Over time I have updated my farming to something that fits my playstyle so that I can level up while farming and making 200+ gold by the time your 40. So one of my earlier gold making things was to have a mage and level tailoring. I would sit at cross roads and sell bags with free water and food. I would deliver the goods myself for those who werent at the xroads. You can make decent gold doing that but its not amazing and it takes downtime.
Another tip: Vendor greys, keep white items because more than likely they are used for something and will sell on the AH.
great vid man.
Can you please share the PowerPoint?
Sure. Give me a little bit and I'll get it up
Its up, check the pinned comment
cheers m8 subbed gl
Re-upload? Nevermind you explained in the second sentence 😂
set a low level toon at the the neutral auction house
Well this is interesting BUT Classic starts with 1.13.. something that did not exist before, everything will be probably changed... I'm waiting for beta :) BLIZZCON STARTING! I really doubt they would leave that "alt enchanter" part working. That actually contest enchanters with high skill to offer their diss service.
Get a second screen and a netflix sub and start farming. EZ PZ
Subscribed and notifications on boi!!
1. roll a mage.
2. grab tailoring and enchanting
3. farm humanoid mobs that are not quest related
4. roll in gold laughing.
11:35 Warriors are dependent on that next weapon
Get it via a dungeon or a quest. Leveled warriors a lot. Totally doable
I've never met a person who would charge for lockpicking or water. Maybe for lvl 55, but definitely not the lower ranks.
I've come across them actually. Never done it myself. But, I always tip
As a mage, I never (and won't) charge for water or portals, but I'd always advertise for tips. Whatever anyone can afford. Coppers add up too! For portals, everyone should tip/pay at least the reagent cost to do it. "Time is money friend"
J M, I get the water, but why won't you charge for portals? As you said, reagents cost money.
I never charge for portals, lockpicking, water/food or summoning. I enjoy helping people, that's honestly the true classic spirit! Help your fellow man out!
If I dont get a tip I dont. But I really dont recall too often I didn't get above cost of a reagent. That's just when I was advertising. Normallu I'm too busy and just keep an eye in chat to see if someone is buying one.
Mineing/herbalism and then mail that stuff to an alchemist/engineer, that's what I do for cash and pvp. You are already running around mineing so why not profession dance switching find minerals with find plants. Lots of plants spawn in decent proximity to mineral nodes. Also the earlier you get upgraded bags the faster those bags pay for themself in extraspace. If you wait till 60 to go from 6 slots to max level bags you just missed tons of extra gold in trash items or even gatherables that could have been used to make cash.
This is my feeling toward dungeons. Just did my first deadmines run with a friend last night who has never played WoW before. I forgot to tell him to visit a vendor before heading to the dungeon. Bags filled up half way :(
lol is your intro from runescape?
ZeemanAlert Z, it’s barrens music :)
if you play the game and never use much money or only if you really need to then you will have enough when you can learn it. but crazy if you think how fast it go now.
A lot of the advice here is very good common sense that I guess new players don't know about, but the biggest money maker besides not wasting it on dumb shit, is to know how to play the AH, that will make you the most money than anything else, aaand Fishing, I've made tons of money fishing, I never had to skip on buying spells or my mount at 40 on vanilla servers, just fish a little in tanaris before you log out and sell other shit you get/craft while you play.
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Thanks for the highlight man!
thanks for commenting!
why not use what you need to level fast. then farm at high level?
Because then you won't have a mount at 40
@@DefcampMelderonTV and?
@@AtruePawn You won't be able to parade around with a mount at level 40.
spot isnt giving anywhere near 7g an hour without skinning on classic wow
2 words :
Bank Character
mhm good guide for a noob like me. But is it only me or seems the vendor camping a bit scumy ?
dont buy bank space... use the mail system for a bank
Farmer Johnston will give you gold if you show him your weiner. You can find him just South of Goldshire. Hunters can make good coin by letting people grind on their pets. You can charge double if the pet has fur. Only downside is you have to spend time in dark alleys.
Great vid 5/7
Can you make lvl 40 mount guide for Paladin and Warlock pls
I'm currently lvl 30 and still need to amass like 84 gold 😥.. I hope I'll get there.
take skinning and skin all the mobs you kill, with that i had like 150-175g at lvl 40 while buying gear from ah while leveling
Not 6, - I meant 16g, and now I have 20. Since it costs about 100g, so 100-16=84.
@@The500k dont buy gear from ah or train useless spells
I make a 100g a day at lvl 30 it's easy to make gold in this game
What!? You mean gold isnt just handed to me and i cant make 20k in a single day!?
Vanilla was broken! Lol
yea right ... nobody can abstain himself from consuming money ...
switch your mic bro, sound is not that great
Fellow nerds I suggest when taking a break that you go for a walk etc AND shower.
Also, deodorant won’t kill you.
Lol take breaks...
D.e. the blues ;-b
Roll warlock
I just randomly asked someone in Classic: "Could u imagine a world without Poolnoodles?" we talked like 2 hrs... and he gifted me 170g cuz he was quitting Classic... that's my Story xD