Guys, i'm a working adult and only have enough time to make it for guild raids the moment when im off frm work.
Not enough time to do some dailies only have time to get some little tips from enchanting and some little AH manipulation, even then, thats the onlce chance i have when the raid is still LFM... With the cost of going to raid is so high, repairs/flask/buff food n etc. What do you guys think bout buying gold? Obviously its not ethical to support the china farmers by giving them more biz but its hard to raid without the bare necessities.. What do you guys think?

do profession based dailies...
those are enuff to cover ur cost...

dont need to.

run heroic dungeons~lah... the loot isn't bad!

join a guild that provides repairs and free flasks. problem solved.

play casual
the more gold you have the more get stress

also if you buy gold you make the Baby Murloc Cry

This post has been edited by KennethNYC: Oct 21 2009, 02:59 PM

good link, i actually didnt realize blizzard made a page about this

do such guilds still exist?
cause farming consumables repairs etc should be on the raider's part not the guild...

Well, its a big WoW world

Mine provides 50g per week in repairs and flasks (as long as we have stock) because we are pretty stable financially. Even so, most raiders provide their own flasks and 50g in repair money really isn't anything but a small subsidy.

Hey, it beats gold rotting in the guild bank

I don't remember flasks or reagants being expensive. Are you wiping lots?

my flask is 40g each =(
if include my personal food and repairs...
it'll go up to 300g per raid lol...

This post has been edited by evofantasy: Oct 21 2009, 09:07 PM

do H instance then you D/E for shards or crystal then put it on ah ;P you'll earn good money since you have enchanting

most prob join as mt or healer free repairs!

If you want to buy gold but don't wanna contribute to those companies that sell gold, and also to this (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/basics/antigold.html). Get a rich (in game) friend to give you an amount, and treat him meals or something

LoTH provides flasks for all its raiders, and free fish feasts before each pull. That's the only way to be sure everyone is fully buffed up.

This has been our policy since.... Karazhan days.

Its quite cheap for the guild bank that makes money by selling all the raid junk we collect.

That's why i never get into raiding... I only do Heroic dungeon.. that's all..

if you are into pve, raiding > heroic dungeons by far

I am so casual that i only go to heroic dungeon like.. once a week.. maybe..

I once had a guild leader and her husband who is so casual not only they did not do any heroics, the only dungeon they ever do is first 4 Northrend Dungeons but that was 6 months ago.

just do some dailys - those are quick, easy and fast cash

argent daily, profession daily will suit fine

Once you manage to unlock the Crusader and Sunreavers dailies (aka you don't have to do the Aspirant dailies anymore) they really go super fast, no more running around to Grizzly Hills or Fjord for the stupid blade, only need to do the Threat from Above and the 3 commanders quest.

Then most of the quests are on the northern island of IC or near the tournament.

Very easy to rake some very quick money and tournament tokens!

best chance earn gold with a short time is AH, try think AH like a RL stock market, buy stuff that you know its very low price(mostly sold by gold seller, they undercut WAY too much), and re-sell it, wait tomorrow at mailbox and collect gold.

other way is buy TBC(58~62lvl) green or vanila green(55~60lvl) DE, enchant the enchantment that can only be use in heirloom item, put it in AH, those sell heaps of profit.

the other way being pug H daily with guild(fast run), /roll green stuff, DE, AH,
submit daily H=bout25g,

whats your other prof anyway?

MSN/IRC for ur WoW? lol

After get to level 80 getting bored with dungeon and raid only.. so only play once a week..maybe...

oh lol

well some people just merely log on WoW to chat. nothing more, and yes, serious.

Money for survival should be easy to get if you:
1) Do 10mans for triumph badges to sell crusader orbs (currently 600g each on Blackrock-US).
- ToC10 takes like 40mins in a pug (1 wipe on faction). Puggable.
- Ony10 takes like 10mins. Puggable.
- VoA10 and 25 takes like 15mins once group is full. Puggable.

2) Do Wintergrasp and Battleground PvP for honor. You can then buy epic gems for 10k honor to sell. Cardinals go for 150g upwards on Blackrock-US.
- Try to find a cross-realm AV vent. Its 10 mins for 1.8k avrg honor.

3) Do Heroics for conq badges which u can use to buy and sell epic gems.

4) Lvl a gathering profession and sell the mats.

5) Do GDKP runs and get a cut of the pot at the end of run. Average gold per person from GDKP runs on Blackrock-US are:
- Nax25: 600g
- Uld25: 800g
- ToC25: 2000g
(TOC25 GDKP is by far the best in terms of returns vs time investment)

These things may break the monotony of daily quests (which u still should do for quick gold)

This post has been edited by Bogardan: Oct 22 2009, 04:21 PM

Thx for all your input guys, realise there is alot of ways to make some fast gold now.

Btw on my realm (Thaurissan) GDKP(gold runs at raids) runs is rather unheard off, on the other hand my friend at taiwan server makes tonnes of gold from each run.

Is gold runs ethical or detrimental for the wow economy? what u guys think?

Yeah do a svr transfer to dreadmaul and join my guild. I provide the flasks and the guild pays for your repairs during H raids. DAILY! lolx. Yes we're not rich but we all contribute enough to cater to the repairs we have daily.

Hey Noyze can I join your guild?

Gold runs are fairer than normal random roll runs. It's legit so relax.

as long as there's no exploitation/macro transfer involved, you should be fine

and yes - no matter how tempted you are, DO NOT buy gold from farmers/gold sellers

you are bound to get smacked

OK, just to share info; on my realm we doing 'Gold-bid' run for all major end-game raids. (e.g; 25-men boss drop loot, people starts bid and the one with highest bid gets the loot/items. start with 500g per items, sometimes goes until 20k..)

I not sure this is violating WoW policy, but it's fair enough for everyone, at the end of raiding,total golds earned from the bid is divided equally among raid members, those who got nothing still got their share.

easy money. 1~2k golds for 3 hours ToC 25-men run, weekly. of course, still can do dailies on so.