Monday, February 27, 2012

Gold making w/ a second account... Not Neutral AH

So, the current set of circumstances is one we all face w/ the cycle of the game and players and guild and raid group and raiding member of those groups etc...

I was running 4 85s in DS 10, and LFR every week, and when it came time to reset on Tues and lead a raid for my current "Main", I was not enjoying it... I made a massive change, and started pouring my energy into a new venture, I even managed to drag some of my fellow raider into it and get a few more guildees on the lvl 19 twink game... Unlike max level pvp, once you have a toon twinked and geared, you are done... for the most part, there is no season, no next level tier, conquest caping or anything else, only an occasion massive shift in the game like heirlooms, and well the remaking of the world.. Cataclysm happened....

ANYWAY... the golf making point of this post is a discovery of how to make a bit of gold in a fairly passive way....

At first I placed a toon on target and and would log and farm "Foreman Thistlenettle" then log out and go on about my business... log in log out and such was a distraction to other efforts... well, in the end this is what I did...

The second account has a level 40 warrior.. I rode/ran/swam up the coast from STV to Westfall, down into "The Deadmines" the undead area specifically just outside the portal to the instance... down there you can find "Foreman Thistlenettle" and he has 2 rare drops that are BOE... "Formans Gloves" for my rogue and some chainmail pants...

I went AFK to see a ghost and started thinking about how to live and be afk, You will not auto log when you are attacked... Pally w/ ret aura would work well too, but in my case, I just put a shield spike on that little prot warrior... I get credit for the kill, go afk for 10 minutes and come back to a corpse on the ground for looting... its on my second monitor, and game sound is on, so I can hear him getting attacked and deal with it, or just wait and let the shield spike kill the mobs attacking me...

I can go afk and not auto log, the mobs attack, clear my auto afk status and then die... at level 40 the toon has enough helth to live and the spike just kills them... I do it while raiding, I do it while PVPing or fishing or w/e I am doing on another toon on my main account...

Anyway, long story short, it took me 3 days to get my first pair of gloves.  They are BIS for a 19 leather melee DPS Enh/Shammy, Rogue and Feral... and they are about a 1% drop rate from a mob w/ an 8 minute respawn timer... according to data and comments on Wowhead.  Well, I had finally parked the 2nd account warrior in there, and I had also set them up w/ a shield spike for the automation, minimal time, so I left the warrior there, ran/flew and 85 in to trade the contents of the bags... I managed to collect 3 more pairs of those gloves... I have seen many players go down there to farm, but, they see me, and no foreman... what would your conclusion to be... I am going to try to sell the gloves for 10K... we will have to see...  There are other locations this could be use full..

The only ones that comes to mind are the??? black tabby cat?? that is up in silverpine forest I believe...
Also there have been post on a rare spawn in Blackrock Mtn. forget his name or location... but the idea tickles my brain w/ posibilities...

What would be some other locations? and what do you need besides a second account...
  1. A static spawn point for a mob that drops something rare and valuable...
  2. A Prot Pally would be best w/ a shield spike and ret aura, but a warrior works well too w/ just the shield spike, mostly because in Deadmines I can keep my back close to the wall, and not have to worry about strays walking up behind me..
  3. Be leveled well past the level of the mob(s) that may agro you... You have to be able to survive the dmg, and you have to be able to spirit regen the health back
  4. Of course you have to have a market and buyers... and you could crash your own market.. if the item is more and more valuable, people will notice and try to get in, or they will pay less and less, and then you have to lower your prices... if it is rare, remember to never post more than one at a time and keep the appearance of rare w/ allowing the market to have none available...
  5. Your patience will win you more gold...
Also w/ twinking another market has become... well something... I and my friends are twinking... one found something I did not know about.. 8 agi and 8 dodge rating to cloak... now thats pretty sexy considering what i thought were the best options, 5 resistance to all, 3 agility or increased stealth... it certainly KILLS 3 agility to cloak and the others... YMMV... I knew about 15 agi to gloves and was going to grind keepers of time rep, but found it in guild... Got to looking around and found that... 15 Spellpower to gloves (healing power), the cloak chant and 15 agi to gloves are all rare drops in AQ... so off I went.. first time to ever cross to the other side of that portal.. I knew there were 2, and luckily went to ruins and solo that place in short order knowing nothing about nothing inside... lost, map referance, fall death, and still cleared easily... on to the temple.. that is another story... I ended up getting a friend to help me out... then it went pretty smooth... In the end, some greens for DE, and some other nearly useless stuff.. and no chant paterns, but knowlege of the place and which is which and what I can and can not do... first off kill "Vem" first not the princess.. I died to fall damage many times for that mistake.. I was on my well geared hunter and it did not seem to matter if I went BM or survival, tank pet or cat... though survival in BM was a little higher.. mehh... Just Glyph MD... make your pet tank...

I did all this AQ stuff while my warrior was "passivly" farming "Foreman Thistlenetle"...

What mobs can you think of that have a static spawn location and a drops that would be rare and valuable?

Its easy and quick enough to make a pally and level em up to a level needed... unless I had to go all the way to level 77-79... Hmmm... interesting idea there... make a twink 79 Pally, and load em up w/ the Cata greens/blues and que some BGs from that spawn location... ahh, ideas.. they just come to me sometimes.. and sometimes, I even follow through with them...

2 comments:

  1. Nobody should ever feel the need to purchase a second account/have dual monitors. That's when you know people have taken the game too far.

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  2. Honestly, I totally agree with you, some times I take for granted my situation is not shared... See the following post for update...

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