Being on a fairly new server and making money?Follow

Is it a good thing or bad, could someone break down the implications of being on a new server since I am on one, I see obviously things aren't going to see for the true value as they would on more established servers.

My question is if there are any, how do I take advantage of this being a new server as far as the Auction House is concerned? Any tips? I just reached Master Alchemist and I am an Artisan Herbalist.

I almost found this by accident, but recipies/schematics/patterns/etc sell very well.

I brought a bunch over with a transferred toon from an older server (where they were dirt cheap), and they sold on the newer server like hotcakes.

Thanks for the words of wisdom as I am still fairly new to WoW. I am however, making a decent amount of money just enough to pay for the things I need and take flights whereever I need to go, but not enough that I have much left over after that so I guess you can say Im living paycheck to paycheck.

I've been selling my herbs from being a herbalist, and potions from being an alchemist, as well as greens I find along the way, recipes. I am learning to "day trade" as well on the auction house considering I invest personally in real life.

However, on the game I am having trouble finding where the market is headed and what's in demand, perhaps I need to spend more time listening to what's going on in the trade channel while I am in town?

I started on Duskwood when it was brand new. Prices sucked big-time (whn selling) or were great (when buying). I levelled fishing rapidly, but found that Stonescale Eels generally got returned. It was only after the server was three months old that prices started approaching "normal". Initially, I made more gold from mining and skinning than I did from fishing. Also, sekk prices horde-side were much worse than those of Alliance - mainly due to the smaller Horde population.

Even soloing, you don't get a whole lot of greens in low-level instances. Certainly not enought to use that as a sustainable income-generating venture. I wiped out everything in shadowfang keep, and ended up with less than 2G in mats after DEing everything. Maybe on the next run, I'll get 2.5G. Not worth my while. If you are a skinner, I'll reccomend Wailing Caverns. If you solo it, you'll end up with a few greens, but your bags will be full of sellable leather (which will net you more than DEing the greens).

On the other hand, yesterday I made 41G by fishing the pools in Tanaris... At L40, you'll want to avoid Land's End Beach (and possibly the pirate compound), but 15-20G from the northern fishing pools seems quite doable.

I have a pretty decent level in fishing, which I enjoy now (hated it at first but the patience has grown on me) but I have yet to sell any of it. I dunno if it's because my server is new but I am not sure which fish to sell, I still have stonescale eel sitting in the bank.

And I plan on literally spending like several days of doing nothing but gathering herbs, maybe a few quest here and there, but I enjoy doing things like the auction house, gathering herbs and selling them, than I do worry about my level. Of course I am concerned about my Armor specs which I am still a novice on.

Can any of you suggest armor and weapon from head to toe for a lvl 40 lock or a place to compare armor and weapons on here?

EDit: found it nevermind!

Edited, Dec 21st 2006 4:02pm by dreighen

At level 20 or better, you can go to Booty Bay and buy the book that trains you.

I am on echo isle server which is fairly new. I also have artsian herbalism and expert alchmey. In my server, elixr of greater defense, elixir of agility and elixir of fortitude sell well. Depending on the market, I could get about 65-75 silver for 1 elixir. So when I usually log on, I go to my established route for herb gathering(for wild steelbloom and goldthorn). Then I go to the AH to check out the market. If there are no elixir for sale, I usually put about 2-3 elixir on sale at a slightly higher price(75-85s). I dont want get a rep as a greedy profiteer. If the price is below 50s, I usually put them into the bank and I would check the market when I come back from grinding/questing. I am lvl 39 warrior and I have over 200g to my name. Most of it came from selling potions and elixir. Good luck.

I tried this on a new server when mine was constantly down through maintenance.

First thing is to get a base of cash: get mining/skinning skills.
This will supply the large body of players that thought they were picking a 'useful' profession to see them through levelling (okay, low-level crafted items can be sold, but at a lower price than the raw materials generally). I then invested a full set of runecloth bags made for me - more slots = more stuff harvested.

This netted me a few gold per hour for about a week.

I then started 'investing' that gold in items. Look through the auctions, see what's in demand and what's always in short supply at the time. Wool was selling for double the price of silk, so I farmed wool-dropping humanoids.
The few lvl60's on this server had a very small market to sell the high-level stuff to also. I was picking up golden pearls for 2g apiece, Big Iron Fishing rods for 1g50, felcloth for 75s apiece. This was being sold in 20 bundles, and no-one wanted (or could afford) to outlay the gold for such a big stack. I bought them, and resold at 3g for stacks of 2 (cheap, when mooncloth was selling at about 18G a piece).

This was on horde side btw, usually the smaller of a server's economy.

My lil' shammy (35) now has 250G, a bank full of gold pearls, felcloth, and various other delights worth a lot more on a mature server.

So, generally speaking, while the majority of your player base is still struggling to get to 60, the lower (and easier to get) materials will be in greater demand, and the higher stuff will be selling for way below it's 'mature' value. Balance the two, and you'll never worry about gold again.