World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide电子书

World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide

Table of Contents

World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

Why Subscribe?

Free Access for Packt account holders

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Setting Up Your Gold-Making Empire

Setting goals

Why goals help you keep your head in the game

Setting up your main banking character

Choosing your bank alt

Choosing a character name

Choosing your character's operating city

Stormwind

Orgrimmar

Shrine of Two Moons / Shrine of Seven Stars

Shattrath

Choosing a character class

Whether or not to remain anonymous

Setting up your bank alt

Managing bags on your bank alt

Profession-specific bags

Using banks for storage

Storing items in mailboxes

Dealing with hate mail

Picking your first professions

Optimal profession pairing

Profession priority

Leveling alts

Filling empty profession slots

Leveling professions

Secondary professions

A warning against gold-buying and other Terms of Service infractions

Gold-buying

Botting

Item duplication

Scams

Summary

2. Earning Your First Gold

You need to spend gold to make gold

Reselling vendor pets

Neutral vendors

Pets from in-game events

Faction-specific vendors and pets

Alliance

Horde

Fishing

The Tillers, farming, and Sunsong Ranch

A copper saved is a copper earned

Costs associated with the Auction House

Milking every copper from daily activities

Daily quests

Player versus Player (PvP)

End-game Player versus Environment (PvE)

Raiding

Gold Dragon Killer Points

Dungeons

Leveling

Summary

3. Exploring Your Major Income Sources

Farming

Gathering

Mining routes

Herbalism routes

Skinning

The concept of manufacturing

The shuffle

Pricing

Summary

4. Using Your Professions Effectively

Alchemy

Learning new recipes

Potions

Flasks

Elixirs

Transmutes

Masteries

Blacksmithing

Armor

Item enhancements

Enchanting

Engineering

Inscription

Glyphs

Shoulder enchants

Equipment

Trinkets

Jewelcrafting

Gems

Leatherworking

PvP gear

PvE gear

Item enhancements

Tailoring

PvP gear

PvE gear

Item enhancements

Summary

5. The Tools of the Trade

TradeSkillMaster

Installing the add-on

Starting TradeSkillMaster

Module Options

Auctioning Groups/Options

Add/remove

Overrides

General Settings

Post Settings (Quantity/Duration)

General Price Settings (Undercut/Bid)

Minimum Price Settings (Threshold)

Maximum Price Settings (Fallback)

Advanced Price Settings (Reset Method)

Reset Scan Settings

Management

Shopping Options

Crafting Options

General Settings

Price/Inventory Settings

Queue Settings

Mailing Options

Module Features

Accounting

AuctionDB

Item-Tracker

Crafting Professions

Crafts

Materials

Options

The TSM Auction House tab

The Undermine Journal

The realm page

The item page

The seller page

Summary

6. Understanding and Profiting from Market Behavior

How gold behaves as a currency

Gold sinks

The Black Market Auction House

Repairs as a gold sink

Auction House cuts as a gold sink

Market cycles

Daily cycles

Weekly cycles

Patch cycles

The patch effect on bot programs

Expansion cycles

Holiday seasons

Supply-and-demand

The relationship between raw goods and finished products

Wealth disparity

Game holidays

Summary

7. Expanding and Streamlining Your Empire

Time management

Daily routine

Time investments

Inventory

On-hand inventory

Stockpiles

Economy of scale

Cross-faction trading

Server transfers

Profiting from transfers

Summary

8. The Final Stages of Becoming a World of Warcraft Gold Tycoon

Using multiple accounts

Setting up Altoholic to share information across accounts

Setting up TradeSkillMaster to share ItemTracker data

Obtaining suppliers

Flipping items

Unusual items

Remote Auction House

Buy

Sell

Auctions

Tips

Identifying gold-making opportunities on your own

Other resources at your disposal

Blogs

The Consortium

Gold Capped

Twitter

Summary

Index