| Agree with AllegraFade, gathering is far more lucrative than any product profession. Mats sell for more than the final products made from them.
Apart from your trades when making money for epic flying mount training, and I have now put several toons through it at 5k g a pop, I found finding the highest level dungeon you could solo (say around Black Rock Depths, depending on class and of course this is a level 70) and farm it. I found BRD good because of the bar hence by clearing to the bar then clearing the whole dungeon whenever the bags were full I went to the bar and vendored it all. I usually took one of my alts with me (I have 2 accounts) on tow, she didn't fight at all, as she was an enchanter and breaking most of the greens and blues (take care on value with blues some are worth more than the shard and will sell) for mats is worth more than vendoring them. Farm it hard and with a little luck on the drops you can average 40-50g an hour in BRD. When doing this make sure you have Auctioneer so you can value things all the time easily.
Lastly in Outland stop questing when you hit about level 68 and certainly do not touch Shadowmoon, Netherstorm and if you can Blades Edge till after you are 70. Use instances and grinding to level those last two levels. Then once you can no longer gain xp all the xp value of the quests is converted to gold so you will make between 10 and 25g per quest.
Ok on leveling, important thing is to do some homework on the areas you go to, then gather up all the quests that can be pretty much done at the same time and get them done in lots, far more time efficient then. Try to stay ahead of the quests ie do them when they are yellow or orange for maximum xp benefits. If at all possible solo a quest, many supposed group quests can be solo'd. Certainly do not get walked through quests by high level toons as you get an xp penalty on kills, unless its a very high quest reward (the quest xp is not penalised by the high level party members. Dont play the toon every day its more efficient (and a little more sane) to let the character build rest xp for a couple of days then burn it all off. You will gain your quest xp and a 200% bonus to kill xp while rested.
If you are a healer or tank class leave these specs till later, while leveling go for the highest dps (pve) spec for your class with the highest survivability. For example level priests as shadow, if you want to be holy respec at 70. Level druids as feral, change it to resto or balance later if you want. Slight exception to this can be the mage though it depends on your play style, I find mages easier to level frost. Its lower dps but more controlling of multiple mobs (ie aoe grinding) and with no armor to speak of and not many hp mages can use a bit of crowd control so frost helps here. Spec to fire/arcane or a combo or what you want later. The warrior is another with this issue, the "tank" ie protection warrior can take a bucket load of damage, but will spend half an hour killing something, no dps, so go fury or arms or a combo for the dps, whatever suits you, then spec to Protection if thats what you want to be at level 70.
Relevent to leveling and this is one I heard about too late for my first two level 70's and is certainly not my idea, dont do the faction quests until you have exhausted all the kill or item rep opportunities for the faction. This way you can reach honored maybe even revered before you do the quests and then use the quests to take a huge chunk out of that last 12k and 21k of rep you need for exalted, it will at the least make getting your heroic keys (revered) relatively painless compared to grinding that last 12k of rep. to hit revered. The quests for the most part will only do enough to get you from neutral to friendly, maybe just to honored, that same part of the rep can be done grinding instances very quickly. Then do the quests.
Cheers, Faen  |