WoW: Farming Gold in Outlands at my level?

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1. roseyjoey says:

   September 2, 2008 at 12:24 am

   Questing won’t bring in the gold like it might at level 70, but without professions it’s practically impossible save for mote farming, a higher level activity.

   At your level, you’re pretty much in Hellfire Peninsula until you get to about level 62. If you have mining, your only ore will be Fel Iron Ore 99.9% of the time. The remaining 0.1% are the others that will most likely tell you you have to have a certain level to mine them. Since Enchanting is a ‘borderline’ profession, meaning it counts as both a collection and production profession (disenchanting), it’s difficult to gauge progress there.

   One suggestion I have is if you aren’t past level 225 in Enchanting and want to make some serious gold (with my knowledge), drop it and go for skinning. It will take about a day to level skinning from level 1 to the required 305 for a low level Hellboar, but that’s just a suggestion. You can weigh this alongside the gold already spent to level where you currently are in Enchanting. The positive aspect of skinning is that it requires no item tracking whatsoever, but it does require a skinning knife, something I learned through slight trial and error (You get to your first skin then have to go back to get the knife. With as many times that probably has happened they should make Remy ‘Two Times’ laugh at you next to the knife vendor in Goldshire.).

   If you decide to skin, the hellboars will bring Knothide Leather Scraps and Knothide Leather to start in Outlands. You can check Auction House pricing on stacks of 20 of these, or find a high level leatherworker to make the scraps into leathers. Future leathers (to my partial knowledge here) are heavy Knothide Leather and Fel Hide.

   Alongside Fel Iron Ore, you will receive Eternium Ore. Think of it as the ‘Swiftthistle’ of mining (in herbalism, you have a chance of receiving that item when you farm lower level flowers, a high-gold item as well in stacks of 20). With Eternium, farm enough of it and you can combine it with Fel Iron Bars to make Felsteel at a certain level. The profession trainer for master mining in Hellfire Peninsula is in the blacksmith shop in Honor Hold, by the way. The Felsteel recipe is:

   3 bars Fel Iron Bar (6 ores)
   2 bars Eternium Bar (4 ores)

   With farming for gold, you always want to check Auction House pricing on the wares you collect. This is made much easier with mods like Auctioneer, available at popular sites such as Curse Gaming:

   As an enchanter you would also do well to download, if you haven’t beaten me to the punch already, Enchantrix or other Enchanting mods.

   Future ores for mining and smelting in the Outlands for you are Adamantite Ore and Khorium Ore, but one thing is for sure before you go smelting every ore you get from now on: check to see if ores are selling better over bars. Since it takes 2 ores to make a bar for all Outland ores, if an ore is mathematically more than half of a bar in auction house price, sell as a ore. Check Auction House (AH) times as well, such as 48 hour, 24 hour, 12 hour, etc. on your competition. Another smelting option for you in the future is the Hardened Adamantite Bar, which requires 10 Adamantite Bars, or 20 ores total (a stack of adamantite ore will make a Hardened Adamantite bar). But you need one major piece of advice before you smelt one to sell, since their pricing doesn’t sway much from ten times the price of an Adamantite Bar (at least on my server):

   When checking Auction House pricing: if you see several auctions for the same item where the starting bid prices do not fluctuate at all with their respective sellers, there is a chance that item is not very high on the popularity list at that time. That could result in having to list that item multiple times, costing gold depending on how long you deem necessary to list it. With this in mind, understand that the best times to list auctions are to capitalize server density: weekends, nights. Got offpeak cellphone minute time coming up? Probably a good time to jump on WoW and set up an auction.

   In addition to ores are motes. For mining, you will gain motes of earth and motes of fire. You can combine ten of them apiece to make Primal Earth and Primal Fire. These are hot sellers (the Primal Earth won’t be as hot because of it’s widespread availability). These are found in ores as well as elementals. Earth elementals obviously provide the chance to gain motes of earth, and fire elementals motes of fire. There are other motes that are available without profession at higher levels, to mildly answer one of your first questions. There are:

   Motes of mana: southeast Netherstorm (in the town)
   Motes of life: Zangarmarsh, Terokkar Forest
   Motes of water: water elementals; Nagrand and other places
   Motes of air: air elementals; Nagrand and other places
   Motes of shadow: voids that surround Oshu’gun in Nagrand

   More advice for you:

   *Nagrand is the best place to farm for ores when you get your level high enough (65-66). Check all sides of mountains and hills, the Halaani Basin in the middle of Nagrand, and dropoff cliffs. Just don’t drop off. You can actually google to find the best places for farming as well. Just type in words like ‘WoW farming Nagrand’ then click on ‘Images’ and you will find all sorts of directions where to go to farm ore.

   *One thing you will find to your disliking in Outlands that’s true in real life: Survival of the Fittest. In this case, Survival of the Flyers. You see an ore, get to it ASAP or you might get beat out to it by Speedy McFarmingfanatic. If you get it first, you can gloat by watching them pout. They do this by dropping down with their epic mount in your sight to let you see their disliking of you taking THEIR ore.

   HOW TO FIGHT FOR ORE: should a member of the opposing faction be taking YOUR ore, get to it and take as much as possible before it goes away. Rich Adamantite deposits will bring more ore, but for which faction? It will be yours if you constantly right-click the ore mid-process to jump in ahead of them, and don’t get back up immediately if you don’t have auto-loot on (a major time saver, auto-loot). Let them guess when you’re going to jump back to mining, as two people cannot mine at the same ore at the same time.

   *Your first flying mount will be like your level 40 mount and will increase speed by only 60%, so when you get Riding 150, make full use of the 100% speed increase. Make sure you have the ‘Carrot on a Stick’ trinket as well (quest item if I remember correctly). There is also a ‘Riding Crop’ trinket that allows for a 10% speed increase. Can’t remember though if that’s for level 70 or 60. There are other ways of increasing mount speed, like in seom spells cast by higher level players; however, they do not stack against the increases you might attain, meaning they only increase the original percentage speed. In addition, a fast mount for level 60 at the cost of zero gold can be found at Alterac Valley, provided you have 50 marks of honor to get it.

   *Think twice if you have the room in the bank before you make primals other than Earth and Fire because with mining you can ‘shatter’ those primals back down to ten motes; others you cannot and must rely on others wthin their respective professions to do that for you; however, should you farm enough of them and store them in the bank as I have, you will come away with so many of them that you can devote several of the motes to primals. In addition, there is a transmute recipe for alchemy combines the primals of earth, air, water, fire, and mana into ‘Primal Might’. Check auction house pricing on this as well as it’s breakdown is a total of fifty motes; therefore it will command a larger sum of money. A stack of twenty of these will no doubt take time to build up to because an alchemist’s downtime after transmuting one item (usually two days on their Philosopher’s Stone, the required ingredient for transmuting) but will no doubt carry an intensely large sum of gold.

   The next few involve questing:

   *Don’t forget to farm for reputation. Human players receive categorically more reputation than the other players [of the Alliance].

   *Know any higher level friends who would take you through some higher level instances? Don’t forget about Darkmoon Faire cards. I received one at level 50-ish in the Western Plaguelands. These cards range from 3-4g to around 800g apiece.

   *’Vendor Trash’ are the loads and loads of green items you will receive when questing in Outlands and running instances. This is where Enchanting will become very profitable for you, since the chances of selling these at the AH will not be as desireable as the ability to disenchant them. To boot, with a very high level Enchanting, you can go through instance and inform your group that if noone needs a particular blue item, you can “DE” it (disenchant it) and the group can roll for the shard. If in a group setting, they will see what the item is disenchanted in the chat window.
2. Fuzzy Nuts says:

   September 2, 2008 at 3:14 pm

   unless you want to try and work the auction house by buying things that are underpriced and reselling them (boring and you may have no luck) then your best bet is to just quest in hellfire and not worry about it. its not like everybody is gonna have a epic mount when they hit 60. you will be suprised how fast gold comes in outland. once you hit lvl 64, go to nagrand and then you can farm motes. turn 10 motes into a primal and sell at AH, just dont bother with earth motes, primal earths arent worth much. best spot is around oshu’gun in southern nagrand for shadow motes and netherweave. the lake around halaa is a better place to start though (lower level mobs) for water motes. when your lvl 70 you will miss the days when you could farm motes and get xp at the same time.
3. Patrick K says:

   September 4, 2008 at 12:10 pm

   sell ore and enchanting mats