Post by Shangrilaa on Jun 11, 2011 13:43:31 GMT -6
Over the last week, I've managed to bring in over 72,000 gold through the AH, even with having an internet connection that's more unstable than Wallstreet. As "I'm broke and can't afford repairs" is a common statement (and since I'm at work and very bored), I've decided to post this to help some of our cash deficit guildies with a bit of a guide on how I make epic levels of cash. 72k in a week qualifies (kinda, since the week isn't over yet).
As a side note, I farm with my druid. Reason? Epic levels of awesomeness. Flight Form is instant cast (I have it bound to my "e" key). I can land, farm, and take off without losing flight form. As such, each farm saves me 3-4 seconds of casting time, and I can kite mobs away from nodes, fly up (lose agro), fly back to the node, farm, and take off before the kited mob returns. More time savings.
Sections:
Addons
Whiptale
Darkmoon Cards
Auction House
"Real world" numbers
Section 1: Addons
1. Gatherer
wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gatherer.aspx
Gatherer is an addon for herbalists, miners and treasure hunters in World of Warcraft. It's main purpose is to track the closest plants, deposits and treasure locations on your minimap.
The addon does not track like a tracking ability does, rather it "remembers" where you have found various items in the past. It does this whenever you gather (perform herbalism, mining or opening) on an item, and records the specific map location in its history. From then on, whenever the item comes into range of being one of the closest 1-25 (configurable) items to your present location, it will pop up on you minimap.
When you view your World Map, you will also see the item locations marked on the particular map you are viewing there.
For more information, please visit us at www.gathereraddon.com/
Why I use it: Gatherer will save each node I farm, and will broadcast the location of that node to anyone else within the guild who also has this addon. As such, it's easy to build a database of all the best farming locations. This is also one of two (possible) necessities for the addon Routes.
2. Gathermate2
wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gathermate2.aspx
This version of GatherMate is a continuation of the existing GatherMate. We are revamping the internals to track nodes in the world and instances. GatherMate2 will have a conversion tool to convert older GatherMate1 data over to the new GatherMate2. There will also be a new GatherMate_Data specicially to support this new version. The API to GatherMate will be different and we felt a need to fork a new version so older clients dont get messed up.
Why I use it: Same as Gatherer. Between the two, I broadcast all the nodes I find to the widest audience possible. Gatherer alone is enough. This is a bit extra.
3. Routes
wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/routes.aspx
Routes allow you to draw lines on the worldmap linking nodes together into an efficient farming route from existing databases. The route will be shown (by default) on the minimap and zone map as well.
Use /routes to begin.
Why I use it: Routes will take all the farming data stored within Gatherer and Gathermate2, and build the shortest possible route between all nodes, then draw that route on both the minimap and the zone map. This makes certain that I follow the most efficient path for farming possible.
4. Sexymap
wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/sexymap.aspx
Make your minimap ubersexah!
SexyMap is a minimap awesomification mod, supporting:
Minimap moving, and movement of things like the quest tracker and durability frame.
Customization of zone text
Hiding of all buttons attached to the minimap (can be set to be always hidden, or to show on minimap hover)
Sexy minimap border options, extremely configurable, with several slammin' presets.
Ping notification
Mousewheel minimap zoom, and auto zoom-out.
A HUD overlay for resource gathering, target tracking, and more.
Why I use it: The HUD is an invaluable feature for farming. It will remove the minimap, and put a radar around your character that covers the minimap. It'll show the Route and all nodes, but not much else. This means that I can fly my druid around, watching the center of my screen and see everything around me for farming. It took a about an hour for me to get used to it, and now I won't farm without it.
Section 2: Whiptail
I like to farm Whiptail as the route in Uldum is quite short and very easy to memorize. As Whiptails are found only along the water, it's easy to follow the rivers and hit each node.
I've also done a few experiments a while ago with the numbers. Farming Whiptail, I can generally farm around 300 an hour. When I head to Twilight Highlands (for Twilight Jasmine), I find I get about 200 Twilight Jasmine and about 100 Cinderblossom. While it seems like the numbers add up, here's the kicker: Whiptail and Twilight Jasmine have a 50% chance to give a Burning Ember, the rest of the Cata herbs give a 25% chance. As such you'll double the Burning Embers received with Whiptail and Twilight Jasmine, and I seem to farm more Whiptail per hour than anything else.
Section 3: Darkmoon Cards
Ah yes, 359 trinkets. There's 5 Darkmoon trinkets available. The flow to get these is:
1. Farm a buttload of herbs
2. Mill a buttload of herbs
3. Create your inks (2x Burning Embers = 1 Inferno Ink, 10 Inferno Ink + 30 Volatile Life = 1 card).
4. Sell the Blackfallow Ink to the ink trader. 10 Blackfallow Ink = 1 Inferno Ink
5. Make cards. When you have all 8 cards, use them to create the deck.
6. When the Darkmoon Faire is on, trade your completed decks for the trinket itself. Humans (such as Shang) gets 420 rep per deck turned in.
Section 4: The Auction House
Selling my extra "stuff" in the AH pays for all my cashflow needs. Repairs, transmutes, and everything in between is covered. To make using the AH easier, I use the addon Auctionator.
wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/auctionator.aspx
Auctionator makes the auction house easier to use, by presenting auction house listings clearly and succinctly, and by eliminating the tedium involved in posting and managing auctions.
Auctionator is designed for casual everyday auction house users.
To find out more about Auctionator head over to auctionator-addon.com or, better yet, just download it and try it out!
Why I use it: it makes it VERY easy to buy and sell large volumes of auctions. You can buy at the cheapest possible price, and price your salable auctions for the best value.
Earthquake Deck: www.wowwiki.com/Earthquake_Deck
Tanking deck, sells for 3k - 4k on the AH
Hurricane Deck: www.wowwiki.com/Darkmoon_Card:_Hurricane
Melee/ranged DPS decks. 7k - 10k on the AH
Volcano Deck: www.wowwiki.com/Darkmoon_Card:_Volcano
Caster DPS deck. 7k - 9k on the AH
Tsunami Deck: www.wowwiki.com/Darkmoon_Card:_Tsunami
Healer deck. 12k - 18k on the AH.
As you can see, it doesn't take many decks before worries about money become non-existent. As well, it's much easier to be generous when you have lots. I've given away three decks in this last week (2x Earthquake for tanks, 1x Tsunami for heals).
Now if I can only get my Veil of the Sands recipe to drop for Taulmaril....
Section 5: Real world numbers
On Wednesday, I managed to farm 2078 whiptail in 6 hours. This included a LOT of DCs (5-6 an hour). What that 6 hours got me was:
127 Inferno inks (which became 12 cards)
430+ Blackfallow inks (which became 43 Inferno inks, and another 5 cards)
680+ Volatile Life
17 cards for 6 hours work, and I completed 3 decks - 2 Tsunami and 1 Volcano. Gave away 1 Tsunami, sold the other for 13k and the Volcano deck for a hair under 8k.
I hope this has been of interest and of use to some of our guildies. I have to admit that the amount I made this week surprised me... a lot. I expected to do alright, around 20k - 30k. 72k? Wow! And that's with taking several days off a week to enjoy watching a few marathons - Mythbusters, Southpark, and Dr. Who. With dedicated effort, that amount could be increased by 50%, perhaps even doubled.
Bwa ha ha!
As a side note, I farm with my druid. Reason? Epic levels of awesomeness. Flight Form is instant cast (I have it bound to my "e" key). I can land, farm, and take off without losing flight form. As such, each farm saves me 3-4 seconds of casting time, and I can kite mobs away from nodes, fly up (lose agro), fly back to the node, farm, and take off before the kited mob returns. More time savings.
Sections:
Addons
Whiptale
Darkmoon Cards
Auction House
"Real world" numbers
Section 1: Addons
1. Gatherer
wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gatherer.aspx
Gatherer is an addon for herbalists, miners and treasure hunters in World of Warcraft. It's main purpose is to track the closest plants, deposits and treasure locations on your minimap.
The addon does not track like a tracking ability does, rather it "remembers" where you have found various items in the past. It does this whenever you gather (perform herbalism, mining or opening) on an item, and records the specific map location in its history. From then on, whenever the item comes into range of being one of the closest 1-25 (configurable) items to your present location, it will pop up on you minimap.
When you view your World Map, you will also see the item locations marked on the particular map you are viewing there.
For more information, please visit us at www.gathereraddon.com/
Why I use it: Gatherer will save each node I farm, and will broadcast the location of that node to anyone else within the guild who also has this addon. As such, it's easy to build a database of all the best farming locations. This is also one of two (possible) necessities for the addon Routes.
2. Gathermate2
wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/gathermate2.aspx
This version of GatherMate is a continuation of the existing GatherMate. We are revamping the internals to track nodes in the world and instances. GatherMate2 will have a conversion tool to convert older GatherMate1 data over to the new GatherMate2. There will also be a new GatherMate_Data specicially to support this new version. The API to GatherMate will be different and we felt a need to fork a new version so older clients dont get messed up.
Why I use it: Same as Gatherer. Between the two, I broadcast all the nodes I find to the widest audience possible. Gatherer alone is enough. This is a bit extra.
3. Routes
wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/routes.aspx
Routes allow you to draw lines on the worldmap linking nodes together into an efficient farming route from existing databases. The route will be shown (by default) on the minimap and zone map as well.
Use /routes to begin.
Why I use it: Routes will take all the farming data stored within Gatherer and Gathermate2, and build the shortest possible route between all nodes, then draw that route on both the minimap and the zone map. This makes certain that I follow the most efficient path for farming possible.
4. Sexymap
wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/sexymap.aspx
Make your minimap ubersexah!
SexyMap is a minimap awesomification mod, supporting:
Minimap moving, and movement of things like the quest tracker and durability frame.
Customization of zone text
Hiding of all buttons attached to the minimap (can be set to be always hidden, or to show on minimap hover)
Sexy minimap border options, extremely configurable, with several slammin' presets.
Ping notification
Mousewheel minimap zoom, and auto zoom-out.
A HUD overlay for resource gathering, target tracking, and more.
Why I use it: The HUD is an invaluable feature for farming. It will remove the minimap, and put a radar around your character that covers the minimap. It'll show the Route and all nodes, but not much else. This means that I can fly my druid around, watching the center of my screen and see everything around me for farming. It took a about an hour for me to get used to it, and now I won't farm without it.
Section 2: Whiptail
I like to farm Whiptail as the route in Uldum is quite short and very easy to memorize. As Whiptails are found only along the water, it's easy to follow the rivers and hit each node.
I've also done a few experiments a while ago with the numbers. Farming Whiptail, I can generally farm around 300 an hour. When I head to Twilight Highlands (for Twilight Jasmine), I find I get about 200 Twilight Jasmine and about 100 Cinderblossom. While it seems like the numbers add up, here's the kicker: Whiptail and Twilight Jasmine have a 50% chance to give a Burning Ember, the rest of the Cata herbs give a 25% chance. As such you'll double the Burning Embers received with Whiptail and Twilight Jasmine, and I seem to farm more Whiptail per hour than anything else.
Section 3: Darkmoon Cards
Ah yes, 359 trinkets. There's 5 Darkmoon trinkets available. The flow to get these is:
1. Farm a buttload of herbs
2. Mill a buttload of herbs
3. Create your inks (2x Burning Embers = 1 Inferno Ink, 10 Inferno Ink + 30 Volatile Life = 1 card).
4. Sell the Blackfallow Ink to the ink trader. 10 Blackfallow Ink = 1 Inferno Ink
5. Make cards. When you have all 8 cards, use them to create the deck.
6. When the Darkmoon Faire is on, trade your completed decks for the trinket itself. Humans (such as Shang) gets 420 rep per deck turned in.
Section 4: The Auction House
Selling my extra "stuff" in the AH pays for all my cashflow needs. Repairs, transmutes, and everything in between is covered. To make using the AH easier, I use the addon Auctionator.
wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/auctionator.aspx
Auctionator makes the auction house easier to use, by presenting auction house listings clearly and succinctly, and by eliminating the tedium involved in posting and managing auctions.
Auctionator is designed for casual everyday auction house users.
To find out more about Auctionator head over to auctionator-addon.com or, better yet, just download it and try it out!
Why I use it: it makes it VERY easy to buy and sell large volumes of auctions. You can buy at the cheapest possible price, and price your salable auctions for the best value.
Earthquake Deck: www.wowwiki.com/Earthquake_Deck
Tanking deck, sells for 3k - 4k on the AH
Hurricane Deck: www.wowwiki.com/Darkmoon_Card:_Hurricane
Melee/ranged DPS decks. 7k - 10k on the AH
Volcano Deck: www.wowwiki.com/Darkmoon_Card:_Volcano
Caster DPS deck. 7k - 9k on the AH
Tsunami Deck: www.wowwiki.com/Darkmoon_Card:_Tsunami
Healer deck. 12k - 18k on the AH.
As you can see, it doesn't take many decks before worries about money become non-existent. As well, it's much easier to be generous when you have lots. I've given away three decks in this last week (2x Earthquake for tanks, 1x Tsunami for heals).
Now if I can only get my Veil of the Sands recipe to drop for Taulmaril....
Section 5: Real world numbers
On Wednesday, I managed to farm 2078 whiptail in 6 hours. This included a LOT of DCs (5-6 an hour). What that 6 hours got me was:
127 Inferno inks (which became 12 cards)
430+ Blackfallow inks (which became 43 Inferno inks, and another 5 cards)
680+ Volatile Life
17 cards for 6 hours work, and I completed 3 decks - 2 Tsunami and 1 Volcano. Gave away 1 Tsunami, sold the other for 13k and the Volcano deck for a hair under 8k.
I hope this has been of interest and of use to some of our guildies. I have to admit that the amount I made this week surprised me... a lot. I expected to do alright, around 20k - 30k. 72k? Wow! And that's with taking several days off a week to enjoy watching a few marathons - Mythbusters, Southpark, and Dr. Who. With dedicated effort, that amount could be increased by 50%, perhaps even doubled.
Bwa ha ha!
