Auction House Fun Part 1

One thing I've had a lot of fun with is the Auction House. A lot of people that have played WoW before in this class all seem to have specific goals - a few want to get to 80, a few want to explore the entire world - I want to make a ton of gold with the Auction House. I originally set the goal of 1,000 gold for when I sat down to write this article a few weeks ago with about 150 in the bank, as of now I have 1100 gold, and have given around 150 to classmates for new skills and mounts. I think something like 2500 is a reasonable goal by the end of the quarter.

I've been trying to approach it with a more scientific, critical eye, bent towards making a profit and making as much as possible. At level five I picked up two gathering professions - Skinning and Herbalism, and from then fastidiously skinned as much as I could and ran out of my way to grab a few more Peaceblooom. Friends were giving me a hard time at the beginning - why do you keep running away? You're always the last person to arrive someplace. What are you doing? That's stupid, it's a waste of time - They've gone strangely quiet now.

The beginning trick is to not fall prey to the 'well gee if I get and I'll be able to make LOADS of money, right? Wrong. Unless you're incredibly hardcore, and love griding more than classwork or going outside, you'll never catch up to the 14 year olds and the foreign stationed military people. They have lots of free time. The absolute WORST combination of this fallacy is tailoring and enchanting, because at least with the average gather and production combo there's cloth piles to fall back on; not so much if the person is disenchanting everything they make to level their enchanting. The exception to this rule are engineers, engineers will never make money; and they know that. They just want to make robot butlers and motorcycles, because it's fun.

The golden combination is skinning and either herbalism or mining. Both herbalism and mining is ill advised because they require a 'tracker' of sorts; while the tracker is running everything that falls under the category of it - be it mining or herbalism - shows up as little yellow dots on the mini map. Only one tracker can be activated at a time though, which is why the skinning / herbalism or mining combination is recommended. Hunters will have a hard time with that however, since the tracker takes the place of their normal tracking abilities. While it is very doable to constantly switch between the options, it gets tedious.

These are just beginning steps. I'll have more soon.