All that glitters is gold. « She Rolls Horde

Well, I put some serious time into questing this weekend, and for one shining moment I saw 750 gold, at which point my best friend Saint signed on and bought his Green Windrider. Needless to say, I am back down to 250. I keep telling myself I will save up, hardcore, for my epic… but Saint comes first. He’s a Priest, my best friend and the totally platonic love of my life. What am I supposed to say to that? “No, I’m not going to help you; go get your own gold!” Of course not.

Alas, I’ll save up that 5000g sooner or later. I even have a vague plan worked out to do it. I really need to be better about diligently doing the dailies. Vaten, my other best friend (also, boyfriend and pet Warlock), and I did the starter quests for Ogri’la yesterday, which opened up a few dailies. If I can do those and the daily BG, that’s a little chunk of gold every day. I need to power level skinning so I can use that while I’m farming Apexis Shards. It wouldn’t hurt to circle a couple zones for mining nodes, either, and farm up some ore. If I do that, work on some primals here and there, farm some netherweave… Surely, one day, I’ll see that 5000 mark.

How did you fund your epic? Or how are you planning to?

Tigersoul Says:

February 18, 2008 at 6:32 pm

Mine was funded almost entirely as you are suggesting doing it here. Ogri’la dailies and BG dailies – along with the Skettis Dailies as often as possible. LOTS of traveling as well from BEM to Skettis. The Ogri’la dailies are pretty good and really most of the time on Dragonmaw the Alliance doesn’t gank you while you are doing the quests up there – a couple of Horde guilds though… grr… But you don’t have to worry about that!

I am a skinner so I farmed Thick Clefthoof leather like mad and sold it for lots – I also robbed my Enchanter Alt of all his mats and sold them for tons – makes me wish I had Enchanting on my 70 main because that is lucrative! Good luck and you’ll get it soon enough I’m sure!

Pike Says:

February 18, 2008 at 6:34 pm

I’ve got no more near enough money for an epic flyer at this point, but for some reason I’m not really in any rush to get it. I’ll get it someday, eventually; it’s not a big deal for me right now though!

If I really wanted to I could go farm motes for an hour or two each day, that’s one of the benefits of getting up really early is you can beat most of the Elemental Plateau rush. If I did that it’d easily net me 100+ gold a day. But, eh… like I said, no rush.

Also, your boyfriend’s a warlock too? ;o I’d say “it must be a guy thing” but I know a lot of female warlocks too. XD

thcgirl77 Says:

February 19, 2008 at 7:39 am

i had about 5000g when i first set foot in outland when i got The Burning Crusade. Money was never a problem to me because i used to pick up the items from the instances pre-BC and sold the greys, made a lot of money. alsoi enchanted a lot. i made a lot of gold from doing all the quests in outland, bought myself an epic mount and gave 3000g to my bf to buy a mount for himself too.

sherollshorde Says:

February 20, 2008 at 2:57 pm

@Tigersoul: I’ll be sure to snark at any Horde I see knocking the Alliance around up there. Seriously, if we could all just mind our own business in the daily areas… I guess that would be asking too much, though.

@Pike: I’m not in a huge rush; I just love the look of the nether drakes, and I hate how slow the normal fliers are. Convenient though they can be… something faster would be awesome. And yep, my boyfriend’s a warlock. He delights in being evil. If I didn’t know him better, I’d be slightly concerned.

@thcgirl77: Wow. That is some serious gold you’ve got going there. You definitely had a huge advantage with that one; I started playing WoW a month and a half before The Burning Crusade, and my first (and currently only) 70 is a Blood Elf, so… I came in with nothing. More power to you, though!

Stevesy Says:

February 29, 2008 at 6:08 pm

I have about 7 days /played at 70 and I’ve never made it past 2000 gold. I always get bored with farming and go back to PvP. I’ll buy enchants, a zillion respecs (my personal weakness), random upgrades, gems, etc. Raising 5000 gold is just not something I have the stomach for.

It doesn’t wind up hurting me too much because I spend all of my play time in Orgrimmar or the Battlegrounds. Where are you planning on flying with your fast mount? I can’t even use mine in the BGs.