Warlocks/Paladins please take not that your Mount won't even be available until PHASE 2.
Savory Deviate Delights of course!
Savory Deviate Delights of course!
Good luck finding/buying the recipe! That thing was fucking RARE in vanilla.
As a Priest on 60 I need to fish until I have safe off-gear :p
Warlocks and Paladins aside (you lucky bunch), how do you plan on getting your epic mount?
Personally, I'll probably just be farming Tyr's Hand like a zombie. :eek:
The regular epic mount is actually superior to the Lock Mount as the latter is a spell cast.
My Undead Warlock back in vanilla preferred his black pvp wolf over the Dreadsteed..
I have always wanted to be good at flipping items on the AH and make easy money that way, but I've never had the endurance to keep it up long term. That is one of the things I look forward to being better at in Classic.
Hopefully all the knowledge learned from playing private servers for years will bear fruit in knowing what items that will be expensive later on during classic and which materials to buy in bulk early and save for later.
On top of that I plan to level a mage on a second account when I reach 60 with my Paladin to use as a gold farming alt.
Dancing on mailboxes. :lol:
Most likely just running instances over and over, pickpocketing, the usual.
I have never had patience with flipping AH. I usually want to spend as little time at the AH as possible, it bores me to death.
I'll most likely just be afk-farmin Mara until DM is out and then I'll afk-farm that.
I was thinking about rushing a hunter and farming mara, but now I wonder if the "slow-responding pet" thing kills that farm for a hunter without good gear. Specifically pulling the pet out of the cloud on Princess-- if the sluggish pet makes that unreliable, I feel like the kite method AND suiciding after every run might slow it down too much (not bothering with the weird group setup workaround every time).
My other plan was pickpocket with a rogue, but we don't know if that will work. RFD was for sure worthless on the beta, but I'm hoping BRD will be good.
Talking about the first month here-- once people have gold there are lots of ways to get it, but I'm wanting to stack a bit of currency early.
I was thinking about rushing a hunter and farming mara, but now I wonder if the "slow-responding pet" thing kills that farm for a hunter without good gear. Specifically pulling the pet out of the cloud on Princess-- if the sluggish pet makes that unreliable, I feel like the kite method AND suiciding after every run might slow it down too much (not bothering with the weird group setup workaround every time).
My other plan was pickpocket with a rogue, but we don't know if that will work. RFD was for sure worthless on the beta, but I'm hoping BRD will be good.
Talking about the first month here-- once people have gold there are lots of ways to get it, but I'm wanting to stack a bit of currency early.
Poor pet control will affect every aspect of playing hunter at a high level. While leveling a character to farm gold seems like a good idea, it often isnt worth the effort. Consider the time spent leveling that toon and contrast that against the time you could have been grinding gold (sub-optimally) on your main or finding a different avenue to earn some gold. If you do plan on grinding an alt for the sole purpose of generating gold, consider making a few level 35 alts and maxing their proffs and simply selling their profession cooldowns. Its a FAR shorter time investment and provides a source of passive income that really adds up over the course of your time.
^^sure, but I think there are a few other considerations.
1. talking early gold here, so there aren't other avenues I'm aware of-- first couple weeks, gold mostly comes from mobs quests and vendors. A 35 alt CAN be an exception to this because people want for example early arcanite xmutes and will pay a premium, but... for just the xmute maybe 20g first week 10g for 2 or 3 weeks after, it's not much and it's not quick. Especially because you need to get the herbs + buy training and the xmute recipe so there's time and gold involved beyond leveling to 35. Like you said, it's a long term thing.
2. I really enjoy having a hunter to play. If it isn't bugged. Doesn't need to be a main, pvp is fun without serious gear and can possibly get some T1 + the bow without too much trouble, DM loot either way in phase 2 and AV xbow phase 3. So to me the leveling time isn't wasted, it's a thing of "if i'll do it eventually anyway, there are advantages to doing it first."
3. DM tribute in phase 2 is a lot of gold per hour, if it's possible (if it's NOT possible there's going to be controversy, because it was possible in vanilla). It's also more reliable on a pvp server than open world farm. So, like with lvl 35 crafting cooldown alts, over (a long) time it does pay for itself even if you don't value having the character. Can also be nice to have a variety of farm options ofc.
having said all that, right now I'm planning on not leveling a hunter for several reasons. One of them is the bugs, pet delay sounds horrible and apparently it's been unfixed on retail for a long time, I don't think they can fix the feign death delay either with current spell batching. I'd agree with your advice though-- consider exactly what benefit you get from leveling any gold-making alt, and maybe reconsider if you don't want to play it beyond gold-making. For example, you can always park the lvl 35 craft cd alt at 39 for the battlegrounds if you don't mind missing engi :)
1. I would agree that leveling alts is long term. But those level 35 alts will begin generating revenue quicker than your level 60 alt will. They will continue to provide value throughout the entire duration of vanilla.
2. this is less of a gold alt for you then and more of an alt. That is very different.
3. Lets say you level that hunter in 6 days played. You are already at a 144 hour deficit. It will take a very, very long time for that character to pay off. Hundreds of hours before you break even on your time investment, even if DM farming is possible.
I'm also planning on avoiding hunter for the time being for those same issues.
3. Lets say you level that hunter in 6 days played. You are already at a 144 hour deficit. It will take a very, very long time for that character to pay off. Hundreds of hours before you break even on your time investment, even if DM farming is possible.
the time it takes to pay off depends on the difference between the gold per hour of the main and the alt. Quick napkin math says well under 100 hours best case scenario, which surprises me.
3. Lets say you level that hunter in 6 days played. You are already at a 144 hour deficit. It will take a very, very long time for that character to pay off. Hundreds of hours before you break even on your time investment, even if DM farming is possible.
the time it takes to pay off depends on the difference between the gold per hour of the main and the alt. Quick napkin math says well under 100 hours best case scenario, which surprises me.
Hahaha. I'd like to see that math. Break it down for me.
What is your main, and what do you think your average gph(gold per hour) farming will be on your main?