Gold Making Secrets

April 11, 2008 at 8:28 am · Filed under General

Gold is a one of the most important aspects of playing a mmorpg. Without gold you really cannot get much of anything accomplished. You need gold for your mounts, training, gear upgrades from the auction house, enchantments, etc. The list is seemingly never ending. This article is intended for hand farming, not so much botting, but I suppose you could apply a bot to farm these items for you. I will also be breaking this article down into several parts to make it easier to follow, and since some of it will cover economic manipulation rather than farming. Nothing here is illegal or against Blizzards T.O.S. agreement, so do not worry about that.

Part 1. TAKING OVER YOUR SERVER’S ECONOMY.

First off, every account needs a bank character. Start a level one and get it to a capital city and plant that sucker near the mailbox. You next step is to buy a guild charter and get ten signatures for it. Once you get that done, turn it in and boot everyone from the guild besides your bank character. This allows you to have a guild bank of your own for storage and savings purposes.  if you do not have the gold to purchase a guild bank tab, use the bank characters bank slots for the time being. All items from your main or leveling characters get mailed to this character to place on the auction house.

The auction house is your best friend in this game, learn the patterns of item values for your server, this is important. Values of items can and do change throughout the week. Most of the time prices go up on the weekend and items become more scarce because there are more people playing, and therefore buying items from the AH. This changes as the weekend goes on though and sellers start competing for sales. Prices will normally drop 10-20% for normally farmed items from Friday night to Sunday night. Keep this in mind. The reason for this is that there a lot of AH savvy players out there that are going to be doing the same thing you are here.

Your goal here is not to post your items in the mid to high priced range, You are looking for fast turn around of gold, and need to undercut everyone else selling by a copper or two at most. Do not use the bidding option, only the buy out one. An example is rugged leather, which on my server sells for around 8 gold a stack, post BC. If I get on and see that that the lowest stack of 20 is selling for 7 g 90s, I post my stacks at 7g 89s 99c. This makes mine the first to be seen by potential customers searching for these goods. And lets face it, we all buy the items we need for the cheapest possible price we can get them for.

When listing your auctions, use the short term listing for consumable goods like leather, herbs, potions, gems, etc. these items are constantly being used and bought and don’t usually last on the ah for very long, especially when you are undercutting everyone else. The reason for using the short-term posting is to save yourself money if someone else undercuts you. When this happens, cancel you auctions, and re-post them on the AH, undercutting your competition once again. You lose the initial deposit you paid, but save yourself money by using the short term posting option, which is cheaper. And do not worry about upsetting other players in this fashion, your main’s name is not on the auction, only your bank character’s. Keep in mind this is business, and I am sorry to say, business is a cut-throat world.

The following is a list of simple rules to keep in mind while playing and farming.

1.    Never vendor greens items unless they are soulbound and you are not an enchanter. These items need to be posted on the auction house, or disenchanted for the mats they become, which then get sold. Items with stat combinations of agility & stamina, intel and stamina, strength and stam, strength and intel, and agility and intel are the main types of stat combinations sought after by the various classes (this does not include +’s to heals, damage, crit rating, attack power, etc.). These items need to be posted and sold on the auction house, the rest I suggest disenchanting for mats, and then posting them. Keep this in mind as well, there is no posting charge for enchanting mats when you drop them on the auction house. They still take a cut, but you can cancel and repost these auctions as many times as needed to get them to sell. Nice huh?  BEFRIEND AN ENCHANTER, THIS WAY YOU GET CHEAP OR FREE DISENCHANTING SERVICES, AND HAVE ENCHANTS AT YOUR DISPOSAL FOR YOURSELF.

2.    If you are a skinner, do not sell your leather scraps, ever. If you are not a leatherworker, befriend one and get them to turn these scraps into normal leather, or the higher end heavy versions. I often times seek out low level characters that I see are skinners and offer to purchase all of their leather scraps off of them because I know most just vendor these. Offer them slightly more than a vendor would, then turn them into normal leather, post them on the auction house and make a profit. May not seem like much of a profit, but keep in mind, if you do this over a one month time period you will see results that will shock you.

3.    High level ores. I love adamantite ore. LOVE IT!!!! And I am not even a miner, jewel crafter, blacksmith or engineer. I made over 6k gold in an 8 day time period from it though and here is how I did it. I would purchase all the ore I could afford from the auction house and from  players that I knew were miners. Buying in bulk is your best bet here, so keep that in mind. I would then find a 375 jc, or a 380 (gotta love those draenei jc’s), and get them to prospect all of the ore for me. What we are looking for here are blue gems, lots and lots of blue gems. I usually try to get 12-18 stacks prospected at a time, and turn a 2-500 gold profit per venture. You will get a lot of green gems, and adamantite powder (the powder vendors for 4.5g a stack, and my servers the AH value is 7-9 gold per stack), all of which do have value. Save the green gems for now. You can either post them uncut or get a jc to cut them for you, this depends on your server’s economy and whether or not it is profitable to do so. The blue gems you always get cut, never post uncut gems on the auction house, you are losing tons of gold this way. Check the auction house and see what cuts are selling for the most gold, based on the gems that you got from your prospecting. These are the cuts you now need to look out. Find a jewel crafter, and once again befriend them. Work out a deal to get your cuts, and try to do it in bulk, this saves you money on the tips you give these crafters. This method alone, like I stated above can make you thousands of gold a week from a small investment.

4.    Primal nethers. Do not buy them from the auction house. Buy them from people in the trade channel for 30-35 gold a piece, then re-post them on the auction house for 50-70 depending on the ah market at time. You may have to buy these and sit on them for a couple of days while you wait for the AH market value of them to go up, but it is worth the wait for the profit you make. The same holds true for nether vortexes and hearts of darkness.  These two items are a lot more expensive to buy even out of trade channel, but worth the effort to seek them out.

5.    Cleft armor kits. You know these, the 30 stam 10 agility ones that leatherworkers make. The mats are simple, and if you are watching the auction house, you can usually buy them for around 25-35 gold total. These kits sell for 50-70 gold each. Do the math, not a bad profit for a 3-5 gold tip to get a leatherworker to do the crafting for you. This is one of those deals where you may need to buy items in bulk or at great prices and hold them until you have enough of the other mats to make several at the same time. Once again, buy in bulk and get them crafted in bulk for a discount, saving gold on tips means more gold in your pocket.

6.    Total market domination. Pick an item, any item really so long as it is used by a crafting profession and is much needed to level that profession. For this example, we will use runecloth. Not bolts of runecloth, just normal stacks of the cloth. Wait until you notice the market value for this has dropped. For my server this means that is it selling for less than 2 gold a stack. Buy up everything on the auction house until the only ones left are posted at 3.5-3.9 gold a stack. Re-post all the stacks you purchased for just under the lowest ones left. Now the key to this is to use two or three characters on your account to post them, either alts or multiple banking characters.  Doing this lessens the chance that someone will try to report you for something stupid since the names are all different. Once you get the hang of doing this with one item type, and get a feel for how many stacks will sell in a given amount of time, you can move on and add a second, third, fourth, etc item. There is no limit to the number of different items you can do this with. At any given time on any given day, I am using this method on at least 5-7 different item types on my server. The most I have ever taken over is 19 different items, which made me approx. 1700 gold in profits in a 24 hour time period. Just check your auctions through out the day for re-posting purposes, and to buy out the newly posted auctions that show up way under your set prices.

Stay tuned for the next parts of this guide coming soon.

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Botting With Safety And Security In Mind

April 8, 2008 at 7:16 pm · Filed under General

Lets face it, the biggest worry or fear of any player that chooses to bot his levels or gold is getting caught. Getting caught means a suspension at the least and more often than not, a perma ban for that account. This is not something any of us want to have to deal with when botting, but by following the information in this article, you can increase your odds at not getting caught by the infamous gm bot hunters.

First off, lets discuss leveling your toons using bots. My preferred bot of choice would have to be Glider. Hands down this program blows out the competition as far as I am concerned. I have never gotten an account banned or even warned using this program, but have had a friend using a custom program get 7 accounts hammered and banned. The biggest problem with botting in general is being seen and reported by other players in the game. The gm’s do not become involved most of the time until they receive a ticket from a player who has observed your toon in action. So here are some general rules to follow when leveling using bots:

Never afk bot. Be around your computer or computers while botting, this allows you to respond to whispers and such. It also allows you to get your bot out of jams that it may encounter from time to time in the game. Players become wary of a toon that ignores whispers and stays in an area killing the same mobs over and over again. Glider has an alarm to warn you of people talking to or around your toon, use this to keep yourself from getting reported and banned.

Never use the /afk or /dnd tags available for player use. These are flags for players and gms alike that something is fishy with your toon. Think about it, before you started botting how often were you really out there with an afk or dnd tag over your head while questing or farming? Not very often I would venture to say. So why do people do this while botting?

Avoid higher traffic areas. Plain and simple this is stupid. If you know that a certain area has high traffic for reasons such as quests, travel to and from areas, etc, stay out of that area. The less your toon is exposed to other players the better off you are. People can’t report what they do not see.

Make your own profiles. Too many people are using the same profiles over and over again. This is not a good idea. It is sad to see three or four bots all using the same profile at the same time, not only does it cut down on your exp per hour, but seeing 4 people in the same area following he same path exposes you to risks that are not worth it. Make your own. Each server has it’s own hotspots and peak hours for various places. Do some research and utilize the information you put together. Grind in spots that are out of the way and not being used by anyone else. Learn and experiment with your bot so that you are able to make a nice and simple profile of your own. Also, it is my experience that a larger profile with more waypoints is less likely to get you noticed then a small one. Once again common sense will tell you that a profile that covers a larger area makes it less likely that a person questing in that area is notice you. Also over time you will improve your profile creation skills to the extent that you will be able to make them look more natural, avoiding walls, fences, trees and other items that block your toons movement. Seeing a toon run into a wall and not move around it is a sure fire sign that someone is botting, and using a crappy profile to boot.

Gear. The biggest flaw I see in most bots is that they are wearing gear that is often times 20-30 levels under their current level. No real player does this. Take the time to try and update your toons gear by using the auction house. The gold spent is well worth it for several reasons. One it makes your toon look current for its level. Two it makes it more survivable while gliding. The less you die the more exp and loot you get per hour on average. My favorite way of helping my toons out is to buy them the clefthoof armor kits, its amazing to see an extra 300 health on a level 12 toon, and most times those pants can last you 10-15 levels. The gold spent on the kit is well worth in my opinion, since my toons do not die. I use these kits on all classes, which may sound strange, but the extra health like I just said keeps them alive longer, and on those occasions where you pull three mobs at once, makes it so that you are not using your ghost waypoints very often if at all. Nuff said on that topic.

Prolonged botting. Do not be foolish to think it is worth it to bot your toon for 24 hours straight. Sure you get exp this way, but, it also marks you as a bot, I mean come on log onto another toon, bot that one for awhile. Bot a character for no more than 4-6 hours at a time and then move on. Get it some rest at an inn, etc. someone in the same spot for 8-10 hours straight is a flag especially to many players who like to police the realms and seek out botters to report.

Guild up. Some people say this is dangerous, and to an extent I agree. I am not saying join a guild that is super active and talkative. That is bad exposure and runs you the risk of getting reported by your fellow guildies. Play it safe, make your own guild and boot everyone else from it. The small price involved in this is well worth it. The reasoning behind this is simple, most people have the incorrect perception that all botters are chinese gold farmers, the annoying people that spam trade and whisper you constantly trying to sell their gold to you. People are blind to the fact that normal people bot too for fun and ease in leveling their toons. A guild name over your head helps to hide you from what you are doing, it alleviates a small amount risk from your botting.

Keep your mouth shut. Do not tell every tom dick and harry what you are doing. Common sense should tell you this, but most people still have a need to tell people what they are doing. I am not saying that you cannot tell a real life friend that you play with what you are doing, in fact this can be helpful to you as he can help you monitor your toon, and often times you can party bot toons up together. People get jealous of other people very easily, and on that emotion alone will report you for your activities. They do not like knowing that we have found a much easier way to level and get our gold for epic flyers than they are using, and this upsets them. Do not trust the average person on the game to keep your secrets, the risk is not worth the bragging rights.

If this is not your main you are botting, do your toon a favor and buy it good bags. Sixteen or eighteen slot bags are a godsend for botting, because you do not have to go and vendor goods nearly as often.

Professions. It is my experience that most people that are botting, are making a farming character. One to help support their main and his activities. If this is the case, pick the professions that are solid moneymakers. To me this means skinning for sure, and either mining or herb gathering. These are cheap to level and can bring in huge profits for you throughout your progression through the levels.

I hope that the information contained in this article helps keep your toon safe, and unbanned. Even though most of the tips are common sense, they are things that need to be thought about when botting to avoid potential problems that could result in the loss of your much loved account. Keep your eyes out for future articles forthcoming on gold farming, gold selling, spots that are currently not watched as much as others, and how to avoid getting scammed when buying or selling gold. Good luck and safe botting guys.

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