Powerlevel With WoW Gold Without Going Broke
Make Lots of World of Warcraft Gold by Sticking to a Budget
© John Wu
Jul 6, 2009
The real life recession has caused people to greatly increase their savings rate. The same thing should be done while in Azeroth and Outland as well. It does not take much gear to kill mobs. Quest gear that is ten levels old is almost always good enough as long as one's talent specialization is reasonable for DPS.
Other than repairs on gear, gold should never be spent.
As a player powerlevels to level 70 on their way to level 80, the gold that is saved is needed for the epic flying mount and for the cold weather flying skill. The cost of these two items is over 6000 gold. Players who have previously played World of Warcraft sat at level 70 for over a year making gold during the Burning Crusade expansion to pay for mounts.
Unfortunately, new players whose first expansion is Wrath of the Lich King don't have that advantage. The level 70 cash daily quests that used to exist in Isle of Quel'Danas give experience rather than money.
Quest Gear is Good Enough
There is no need to ever replace quest gear with gear from the auction house. As long as a character spends talent points on DPS, gear that is a few levels beneath the current level is more than adequate at killing non-elite mobs.
For many characters, it is not unusual to arrive in Outland with a piece of gear that was acquired before level 30. There's nothing wrong with that at all. The goal is to level as quickly as possible, not to look good with enchanted blue gear at level 52.
As soon as a character arrives in Hellfire Peninsula, it will be helpful to complete the first few Hellfire quests as quickly as possible so that the gear can be upgraded to Outland quality. Mobs in Outland hit harder, so replacing old world gear with Outland quest gear needs to be done as quickly as possible.
Don't Enchant the Quest Gear
Enchanting is very useful while levelling a toon. But it's not useful to enchant levelling gear that will be thrown away within a day. Enchanting is useful to disenchant BOE green gear that is worth more as enchanting mats than as gear.
However, with BOE blue gear, carefully examine the stats to see if they're worth more to a twink as gear than as enchanting mats. In many cases, the blue stuff should be sold in the auction house rather than disenchanted.
Use an Auction Toon
A common mistake many players make is to send their character to the auction house when their bags fill up. The round trip travel time to a capital city plus auction time could be much better spent levelling instead. Of course, the problem with full bags still has to be dealt with.
Send all items in the bags to an auction toon. The auction toon should be parked in a capital city at the mailbox closest to the bank and auction house. He will vendor all of the gray and white gear, and auction or disenchant anything green.
To save a lot of time in auctioning, an auctioning add-on such as Auctioneer should be used to automatically price and post auctions quickly. Cash will accumulate quickly as long as the temptation to buy gear is suppressed. Remember to save the money, because they will be needed to buy that expensive epic flyer at level 70.
The grind for WoW gold never ends. By employing strategies that save gold, it will lead to good savings habits at level 80 when cash dailies open up. The large price tag for mounts should be more than enough reason to never browse the auction house listings while levelling.
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