February 14th 2011 05:01 am
How to Farm Gold and Get Shafted
A lot of friends assume that when it comes to WoW Gold farming, the best guys to seek advice from would be the masters themselves: The lowly, hardworking paid-cents-by-the-day Chinese farmers.
So I did a little experiment and parsed through the known Chinese selling sites for the best WoW Gold-making tips. Even I didn’t expect what a disappointment that would be.
It seems Gold farmers offer the worst WoW Gold farming tips, a laughable irony that had me in stitches. Here’s a typical example in a sea of misinformed and poorly written “10 Basic WoW Gold Farming tips” by a certain Ruibo Chen from YOURWOWGOLD.com:
1. Its really easy and should be done right from the start of the game. Grab the 2 primary professions, mining and skinning. While you’re out leveling yourself you can easily skin the animals. You’re bound to eventually enter a mine which will have many minerals. Be sure to mine those ores. You can easily sell off the extra items to merchants or players.
Correct in the professions, wrong in everything else. A few types of humanoids, like the Yeti, can be skinned while critters cannot so it’s misleading to categorize all skinnable sources as animals. But the greatest travesty here is the advice to sell fat stacks of ore to vendors. That’s a surefire way to the poorhouse.
2. Make sure you grab quests every chance you get. You can easily gain additional exp, gold, items and faction while you’re leveling. You may even complete some of your quests with out even knowing because they normally require you to kill off mobs or require you to travel/speak to other NPCs. The quests of World of Warcraft are more player friendly than other MMORPGs.
So wordy for something so obvious. Would have been better for him to mention that daily repeatable quests at the end-game can haul in the Gold.
3. Don’t spend any money buying World of Warcraft items, equipments and other accessories early in the game. Low level characters from 1-40 are not gear dependent. Along with that fact, you’ll get a nice load of items from just completing quests.
Considering I’m not really into low-level twinking, I’d agree with this advice. But these are supposed to be WoW Gold farming tips. Not saving tips. A better bullet point for this would be to farm BOE greens and blues and sell them via the auction house to twinks and low-level battlegrounds fanatics.
4. While you’re out leveling, there are certain monsters that has better drops than others. An example would be humanoids. They tend to drop more gold and items than any other creatures in the World of Azeroth.
Cloth is the only proven higher drop among humanoids, but unless you’re aiming to be the king of band-aids, you should probably adopt a more appropriate rule: Run level-appropriate dungeons when farming for sellable drops.
5. This is the advice I give to friends. When setting up your character, be sure first to read about the characters plus, and minuses; then set up for the strong and weak points. Take in consideration how the character supports himself and how the character can keep going and keep on track to level without losses.
Bullshit. What the heck are these “strong and weak points.” With the notable exception of druids who have been known to use their flight form for ninja node gathering, all the classes and races are fairly even in the WoW Gold farming department.
6. Don’t spend money on items at the auction during the first 10 levels of your character. Almost everything you will need will drop to you from the quests. Keep your activities balance in the amount time of questing and making products. Then, as you gain money from making and questing you will see your pocket grow.
Mr. Obvious strikes again. You can’t blow a lot of Gold because there’s virtually nothing to buy at the auction house for the first ten levels. After that it’s one big blah we already know about as well.
7. The usual, your character does by the skills he has, whether it is mining, leather, or tailoring. You make and sell your products. This is how you gain, the more you practice your trade, the more gold you have in your pocket, when you sell the items. The higher the level your character is the higher the prices in the prices of your products.
Incomprehensible gibberish. What I do know is that crafting need not be profitable at the highest levels only. Sure it gains the biggest Gold at max-level, but while climbing the skills ladder a lot of professions like Jewelcrafting can be lucrative as well.
8. Resale, this happened during the holidays. I know of a character that went out and bought snowballs and after collecting many, was selling them at a higher price to others. Later, bragging about the profit. Take advantage of this.
This one seems to be the only one that has a semblance of use in it, but even then it has less promise than the author makes out. Given the nature of holiday events as all-inclusive extravaganzas, chances are your profit margins will dwindle to coppers when the eventuality of humongous supply kicks in.
9. Once you level some you can charge others to guide them through lower quests that you can whiz threw. There are many ways to make money, for example you can protect and kill for lower characters.
The most important information has been left out—tanks and, to some extent, healers are the best for-hire candidates. DPS classes and specs are rarely paid to join a group in-game.
10. In the group playing, be sure to express your wants and needs, to keep the character going. Drink and food on hand before; so your character can keep going till the quest is completed.
Don’t be caught dead without consumables, especially when farming. (A trip to town can cost you valuable farming time). And in dungeon PUGs, ask mages for food and water.
So why do Gold farmers create such awful guides? Obviously, they want you to fail so they can have all the coin to themselves. Sneaky bastards.
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