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Post by
MrSCH
I'm starting a Druid with 0 gold. I'm going to loot nothing except quest mobs, and take no professions and run no dungeons.
I was wondering what your guesses are going to be on total gold amassed this way? I'll get to Nr as quick as possible where I will go BT>HF>GH>SP, then Mt H>Vash>Deep>Uld>TH.
So a lot of questing. All rewards to vendor if I don't need them.
Post by
Cambo
I haven't a clue.
But I imagine that sometimes you may not have enough gold to pay for abilities/spells.
Post by
Orranis
I haven't a clue.
But I imagine that sometimes you may not have enough gold to pay for abilities/spells.
Not really. Quest rewards were the vast majority of my revenue when I leveled, and probably still are.
Post by
Interest
I would probably say you'd make a net amount of 3000 gold or something assuming you buy normal flight training ONLY (and all the relevant flight training to allow flight in zones as you level up).
Post by
Squishalot
I'd agree with Interest. As long you're efficient about levelling (i.e. doing yellow quests primarily, and not greens that give you low exp but same cash reward) you'll probably end up with around 3000g or thereabouts.
Did you want to level him up in our Randomness guild, given that you'll be starting out with nothing anyway?
Edit: I think the most frustrating thing for you will be to level without getting the right gear from quests. Everywhere you go, you'll have mismatched gear that's either outdated or not itemised correctly.
Post by
Adamsm
He'll easily have more then 3000g since he plans on doing all the of the quests in the Cata zones. I think I had about 11k by the end of Twilight Highland, without maxing out the reps....though, I did run dungeons so may have messed up the curve lol.
Post by
Squishalot
Depends what the ratio of quests to kills are. With a tank class, it's easy to get distracted by mobslaughtering, which will increase the gold per exp gained.
Edit: Oh wait, loot nothing except quest mobs. Yeech. Make that "decrease" the gold per exp gained.
Post by
atomicwolf22
Well you don't use BoA gear so your going to have to repair every now and then.
Are you going to be in a guild? As that effects Exp rewarded which plays a big part in the Cata Leveling as if you have to Guild Perk to + Exp you should be 85 by the time you finish Deepholm I would think with Vash. and Hyjal both being done.
Also that a pretty big jump from GH to SP. Are you sure you can get from 68 to 80 with just those 4 zones and not have to use SB or DB? (SP requires 77 for quest) And you also losing out on some nice quest Exp and some nice rewards by not doing dungeons.
Post by
apocalypsa
If you buy only normal flying and quest all the way to 85, not buying anything on ah and not having any professions... 8k+. With mining/herb, easily over 10k, might hit 15 if your economy is good.
Questing really is a good source of income after outland.
Post by
MrSCH
Right, I've definately not been clear enough here! Allow me to explain some things.
1. Got cloth heirlooms, just not using any gold (opposite faction).
2. Wish I could level in the Wowhead guild, but I'm EU.
3.I think the most frustrating thing for you will be to level without getting the right gear from quests. Everywhere you go, you'll have mismatched gear that's either outdated or not itemised correctly. I'll only be selling quest items if I can't use them. I've found quest items to be itemised well enough for leveling.
Also that a pretty big jump from GH to SP Yeah, definitely. Every time I've quested through NR I've done DB and dinged in GH. this time no DB, so I'll ding in SP instead. I go to NR at 70, not 68.
Post by
lankybrit
I also think you'll net about 10 - 11K, probably 6 of which will come from Cata Questing.
Cheers.
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Post by
Porcell
If you do every quest in Hyjal (based off the info in on Wowhead), just the gold award alone will be about 780g. There are 38 quests that give item rewards, so that's probably another 380g or so on top of that.
If I were to guess, I'd say going from 1-85 by just wasting, with limited mob looting, no instances, and vendoring gear; I'm going to say 12k.
Unfortunately I can't access money statistics just from armory, or else I'll look up some of my guys and get an idea. I have a hunter who's leveled mostly by questing and is level 70 right now, so that would be a good indicator. From level 58 to level 68 I did all the quests in HFP, more than half of the quests in Nagrand, and ran 8 instances. You level pretty fast, so from 1-70 is probably only a 1000g or so, probably another 4000g through WotLK, and maybe like 6000g through Cata?
Post by
atomicwolf22
If you weren't using heirlooms, I'd say you'd make even more. It'll also depend on the amount of rested xp you plan on having.
Why would you make more money without Heirlooms? When using Heirlooms 1) doesn't require you to upgrade the gear as it scales. and 2) Has no repair cost.
I would think that you would have more money with useing the Heirlooms instead of not using them.
Also you said Cloth Heirlooms so is that just Chest + Shoulders. Or do you have Helm and Cloak also?
The Chest and Shoulders would stop after Northren is finished but the Helm and Shoulders would scale all threw the Cata Levels.
Post by
MrSCH
It's chest, shoulders, trinkets and staff.
I think he meant that having that reduced xp means more questing, which means more gold.
Post by
Foolnumber88
Assuming that you arent selling any stuff on the AH as you quest, I am thinking probably around 7-8k.
That being said, you'd be surprise how quickly you amass gold from questing when you only spend it on necessities like class talents/riding training.
Post by
MrSCH
I'll be sending anything that sells on the AH to a bank alt.
I really didn't explain this well did I :D
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Post by
craftyard
Even before cataclysm it was possible to level up this way and still have money for food, abilities and mounts. Even flying mounts when you hit outland. I did it myself on my very first character :3
I (stupidly) didn't bother getting any professions and I had just enough gold every two levels to learn new abilities and buy a mount at level 20, 40 and 60.
The key was not spending anything at the AH. All my equipment came purely from questing, dungeons, and random loot.
And now that cataclysm's out, each quest rewards far much gold than pre-cata.
tl;dr, I'm sure you'd have no trouble at all leveling from scratch without any professions.
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