So Ok, … it’s time for some gold.

My favorite gold guide product, here, does these “1k gold in 30 days” speed runs. That’s 1k on a brand new server with no friends, no guilds, no 80s, from scratch. I haven’t participated in any of his runs, but some of the people have turned in some grim numbers.

So I’m going to do it here, just me.New server (Emerald Dream,) new toons, etc. I’ll document everything here and hope that I’m not just writing to myself. If so, I’ll still enjoy it, if not, then maybe someone will get some use out of it.

I’ll be documenting everything and by 10/4/10 I will have well over 1k gold in pocket, not just in the stats column of the achievement pane. What will slow this a bit is that I will likely be spending some of that on gear for a couple of toons and bags for them and my banker.

So here goes:

9/4/10 – Begin

I actually did the start or the run this morning, but lagged in posting until now.

What I’m using

I rolled two characters in the Blood Elf area, one for the bank alt and a Rogue to do the gathering to generate some starting cash. While you can level a character to 5 or 6 and run straight to the Auction House, sell everything, and start with a couple of silvers, I’d rather gather some things and start with a few gold.I picked a Rogue because they kill things fast.

So the level 1 toon hits the AH and at level 6 the Rogue leaves the hatching area and picks up mining and skinning. Currently low level ores seem to sell for a lot more than herbs, so that’s why the mining. Since there are a bazillion skinnable critters in this game, well, skinning is a natural choice.(Don’t forget to buy your knife and pick!)

Posting Stuff

3 hours later the rogue is 10 (I’m slow, sue me. )and I’ve sent to follow to the banker for posting (and 18 silver for the posting fees.)

• 54 copper ore – posting all, at 37s per ore,
• 50 rough stone – all, at 1s 99c each
• 38 small eggs – all at 49s each
• 1 fine scimitar – 5s 39c
• 4 lynx meat – not posted
• 1 shadowgem – 1g
• 4 spring water – not posted
• 1 malachite – 61s
• 1 Tiger’s eye – 69s
• 13 leather scraps – all at 4s each
• 19 light leather.  – all, at 13s each

All that was posted about 10:30 am or so, now it’s 5 and let’s see what sold, if anything:

Ok, I have 6 gold now.The gems, leather, leather scraps, and fine scimitar all sold. Bought four little bags, two for the rogue and two for the banker.

Addons

• Auctioneer
• Auctionator
• OneBag3 - Makes all your bags into one bag.
• BulkMailInbox – Displays all your mail (up to 50 items) in one window. There are much newer addons, I just haven’t added them.

Buying More Stuff

I have a number of shopping lists in Auctionator already set up and now I’m looking for bargains. Stuff that I can grab and resell for, hopefully, a nice profit. I haven’t scanned the AH yet, so I have no scan data to use, but prioces are looking high for various things. The bad news is that it might be hard to find some stuff, the good news is that it might sell for a nice price.

Of course, it is a Saturday on Labor Day weekend. I expect a few players might be buying stuff.

• Made a 12 hour bid on a few pieces of Kingsblood, said pieces looking way underpriced.
• 2hour bids on a couple pieces of linen cloth and mageweave cloth
• bought 1 stack silk for 1g total
• bought 11 knothide leather scrap pieces for 29s total
• 1 piece crawler meat for 36 copper
• 2 hour bid for 1 earthroot for 1sp

Reselling stuff

• Crawler meat for 50sp
• Knothide leather scraps for 55s each, 6g total
• Silk cloth, 2g 70s for the stack

Checked a few minutes later and the small eggs sold for 18 gold total, for about 24 gold earned so far.

• buy “pattern: dark leather tunic” for 10sp, post at 1g
• Alch supplies vendor has cheap herbs, so I bought them. Herbs are, at them moment, very highly priced, so this is good.
  • posted 1 liferoot at 65s
  • posted 3 silverleaf at 8s each
  • posted 1 wild steelboom at 1g, 25s
• bought 3 copper rods at 1sp each from the enchanting supplies vendor, posted 1 at 7g 80s
• bought “design: the jade eye” from enchanting supplies vendor, 23s, posted at 3g, 30s
• bought “design: heavy golden necklace of battle” from same, 14s, posted at 13g 85s
• bought “design” amulet of the moon” from same, 17s, posted for 8g, 50s
• What the heck, bought “design: opal necklace of impact” for 75 sp, posted at 9g, 90s
• bought “Aquadynamic fishie attractor” for 2sp, posted for 98s
• bought 1 netherweave bag to send to rogue.

Ok, that’s enough for today. I’ll check things in the morning.

By the way, if you’re an herbalist, the pre-outland herbs seem to be in pretty short supply these days.

If you’re into the gold gathering thing then check out the gold guide that we’ve posted. It should help your cash flow.