Setting up a new home on Wildhammer
While pondering the whole “challenge of twinks in guilds” situation of the guild I am temporary GM for on Zul’jin, I selected a PvP server to set up my secondary home on.
Wildhammer was my choice, mainly because it was close to Zul’jin and I didn’t have to scroll to select it, and I had no preference of PvP server initially.
I’ve set up three (female) characters now, which mirrors my setup on Zul’jin, although the races and classes are different:
- Undead Warrior
- Troll Priest
- Undead Shaman
Currently, the warrior is level 9, the priest is level 6 and the shaman is and will remain at level 1.
The Shaman’s job is simply to run between the mailbox and the Auction House, making it so that I don’t have to make special trips into cities to auction items that I pick up along the way. “Diseased” is my Undead Shaman who I will mail things to and who will mail cash back to my player characters.
Guilds
The priest has already been recruited into a guild, along with some 50 other newbies running around in Durotar at the same time.
The warrior has had a guild invite extended but there was no conversation before the invite came about so I declined on principle (I always ask if someone would like an invite when I do recruiting). Besides, the guild’s name had the player’s name as part of it, and that rubbed me the wrong way.
There are a hundred guilds to choose from and while I played my warrior I saw a constant stream of “looking for member” requests for parties… seeking “tanks”. My warrior will be a decent tank so I don’t expect to have problems finding quality parties or a guild by extension.
Professions
Since I have no cash on this new server, I’m working on building my finances. UndeadWarrior has taken up Herbalism and collects everything she runs across since herbs are so plentiful in the Tirfisal Glades(sp??). TrollPriest just took up Mining but couldn’t afford the 83c for a mining pick so I left her alone for a bit and set up AuctionRunner.
Building Finances
It sucks to be a low level char who is so poor they can’t afford a silver coin to train a new skill at level 6 or 8. And the mobs at low levels don’t tend to drop very much cash… and many monsters don’t drop anything other than a few pennies so a player isn’t even left with anything they can sell for a few extra bucks! Nevermind buying equipment to replace the grey shaggy stuff you’re picking up along the way and wearing, not selling.
As soon as UndeadWarrior advanced through the Deathknell quests and got to Brill, I looked up what info my WowEcon.Com addon offered about the recipe for Crispy Bat Wing that’s available from the Trade Supplies vendor there. The vendor stocks a limitless amount of them for 25c each, and I know on Zul’jin I could reliably resell that recipe through the Auction House for 80s - 320x the original buying price! Turns out that Wildhammer’s a good place to sell this recipe as well, for the same price!
After putting two recipes up for Auction with my UndeadWarrior when he visited the Undercity and having them both sell, I went back to Brill to continue on quests and bought 5 recipes which were mailed to AuctionRunner with a little cash to cover any deposit.
I haven’t yet found a recipe that is lucrative like that for TrollPriest, even though I’ve progressed from the Valley of Trials into both Sen’jin Village and Razor Hill already. There’s a recipe in Razor Hill which you can purchase for 1s85c and resell for 40s or so which is respectable, but not as lucrative as that Crispy Bat Wing recipe.
That’s all for now :)
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Undead Shaman? Think you got your wires crossed, last time I checked that wasn’t a possible combination. :)
I always found money for low levels difficult once you’re ‘established’ and have higher needs. :) I usually mail 1-5gp and call it a day, but if you’re on a NEW server, you’re playing Iron-man WoW again.
In the time it would take me to ‘play the AH’ with recipes that people are to lazy to ‘find’ (can’t really wrap my head around people who do that…) I would have already gained 2-3 levels and gotten the money another way (quests, or drops). One good way I found to do with new characters was to ‘farm the newbie areas’ in otherwords once you finish with your newbie area (valley of trials for trolls/orcs for example) head to the zeppelin and hit the undead newbie area (Deathknell) and complete all the quests there. You’ll breeze through them and you’ll also pick up 1000+ faction while you’re at it! now you’re level 6-7 and those quick quests gave you a bunch of money as well. I found running to the Mulgore and do the tauren newbie quests too long of a walk and almost not worth it, only thing I felt I gained was getting the flightpaths unlocked. In the low-mid areas in Durotar/Tirisfal are a lot of humanoids, this means lots of linen, which is ALWAYS a big seller in the AH. I threw 3-4 stacks of the stuff on the AH, camped out in the city, came back the next day to find I had a gold and a big bar of double-xp coming my way! :)
Getting 2 of mining/skinning/herbalism at the start is a good way to get some cash right off the bat once you get a stack of something, then once you decide on which major profession you will get then you’re already ahead. Raising professions later on is way easier than at the beginning, but raising collection skills is more difficult and boring unless you’re doing other things at the same time (like leveling/questing). Had a friend get to 300 in engineering in a week once he dropped skinning, he was also level 50 and had 300 mining. At this point he didn’t need the money and bought the bars he needed from AH to help support the wee-ones and power himself to a point where he could mine the stuff in the areas he was already in.
I’m a big fan of PVP, but on a PVP server, I find that unless you travel in groups beyond your starting zones the odds of getting ganked is HUGE and that puts a damper on my playing time. If I’m playing in a BG, I expect to be ‘hit’ at all times, and I’ve gotten good at being the first to strike and usually come out ahead in 1 on 1 battles… again, usually not alone and good team mechanics can easily defeat an ennemy of greater numbers.
- Stone Guard Rizzo, levle 55 Troll Hunter from Alexstrazsa. 290 Leatherworker/300 Skinning/300 Cooking/300 First Aid.
Comment by Rizzo — April 26, 2006 @ 5:09 am