by TrollvinkOriginal author: Crunge75
Table of content.
1. Introduction.
2. Class, skills and other recommendations.
3. Rivern Frostwind.
4. The Quests.
5. Your income.
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1. Introduction
Well a short introduction I suppose is at hand. These are notes I put together while leveling a Paladin on an original account (no Burning Crusade and/or Wrath of the Lich King installed). My goal was to see if I could raise the amount of gold needed for 1-300 riding skill before level 61. In addition I wanted to do it in shorter time then it took my first character to raise 5000 gold.
The idea is to do the reputation grind for the Wintersaber Trainers, which gives a nice mount in the end. While doing this, you should skin every slain beast, mine every node or pick every bush you come across. Of course, this guide does not guarantee 6310 gold, but I’m sure you can come close to that 😉
I was intrigued by this because my first horde character, a druid, obtained his first 300 riding skill around 3 months ago. It took him around the same amount of time, to raise the gold from doing dailies, farming motes, etc.). I also wanted a 70 from both sides ready for the next expansion when it came out.
I’m proud to say in just two months and 15 days my Paladin has made 6310 gold while being level 60. Perhaps the most intriguing (I suppose to new players as well as those that do not have 70’s) is that all you need is a 58 plus character, two/three hours per day, patience, and discipline.
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2. Class, skills and other recommendations.
The class can be any; it doesn’t matter as long as you enjoy the class. For skills, however, I highly recommend you get [Skinning] and [Mining] or [Herbalism], because thats where the bulk of the money comes from. You need to level these 300, to be on the safe side.
While not needed, I do recommend on having an alt character that has [Enchanting]. Which is capable of disenchanting items varying from level 51 to 58. This is not a must, because you can also sell the items you loot on the Auction House. So first, check what sells more.
Also a 100% mount does help, this makes the process alot faster. My paladin, at the time of beginning and ending of this grind, only had the 60% mount.
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3. Rivern Frostwind.
You’ll get to know him pretty well in the upcoming days, because he is the reason behind the grind to the gold. The mount he sells is unique, and even though the reputation grind has been made easier, this guide is still worth following.
As the tooltip states here: [Reins of the Winterspring Frostsaber], the mount itself is a very fast mount but only requires 75 riding skill!
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4. The quest.
[Frostsaber Provisions] is the first quest Rivern gives you, and the only one we will use in this guide. For this quest you need to get:
- 5x Shardtooth Meat. Drops from the various bears, but you’ll mostly likely kill Elder Shardtooth bears, because they are near the chimera’s you need to kill, too.
- 5x. Chillwind Meat. Drops from various chimera’s, but you will most likely kill Chillwind Ravager’s.
This quest gives 250 reputation points.
You can find Elder Shardtooth bears and Chillwind Ravager’s in the blue marked area.
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5. Your income.
If you don’t have a bank character, make one now. A bank character is a character you make and is standing in a major city. All he does is picking up all the loot you send to him/her and that bank account sells it. This saves you the travel to the major city every time you want to sell stuff, at the auction house. This is the reason it’s a must for this guide.
So you know that the idea is to skin every mob, mine every node and collect every bush you come across. With a bank character ready, simply visit the mailbox in Everlook once in a while and send it. The greens, blue’s or even epic’s you get, will sell nice, otherwise the materials you get from disenchanting them, will.
While long and tedious, it was refreshing to earn enough gold needed for 125, 225, and 300 mount training before 70. In turn I think it will make 61-70 more enjoyable this time around because you do not have to worry about the price of the mounts you get later on.
As a last note I want to point out that most of this guide is made by Crunge75 and that Trollvink has added some addition stuff, like the map, some links and sections.
I hope you enjoy this little guide.
~Trollvink.
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very good ,thanks forvery good ,thanks for shareing
Okay, give me a call if youOkay, give me a call if you want to update it; if not, I’ll try to update it.
Thank youTrollvink,
Thanks for your reply and I am sorry if my ‘disappointed’ remark was inappropriate. I was referring to my anticipation of the length of the guide, not the ultimate quality, and I do know that you were not the original author. I will consider the possibility of doing an expansion of the guide based on my way-too-many hours spent in the snows of Winterspring. I have downloaded the guide to writing guides and will give it some thought.
Tuladin
Well, first, I’d like to sayWell, first, I’d like to say that I’m not the author, but merely an updater of this guide – I didn’t write this. But, I will update this information in a while, since I’m currently working on an other guide.
Thanks for good write up, you’re right, one could make alot more gold from this. I’d say you should consider writing a guide – I [i]could[/i] pass this guide onto you 🙂 But don’t feel forced.
~Trollvink
Wintersabers, Oh BoyWhen I saw the topic of this guide, I said great, went and got some coffee and settled down for a long read. Boy, was I disappointed.
Don’t get me wrong. What you have to say is OK as far as it goes, but you have left out so many of the gold earning possibilities of this quest/grind that I had to jump in.
Let me say that I have put nine alts through this and, this past weekend, my lowest level alt, a shaman, hit 58 just as she was completing the everyday, do-it-once-and-forget-it, Winterspring quests. So I started her on the Wintersaber grind.
First, let me say that you are limiting the gold opportunities by not taking on the Winterfall Intrusion and Rampaging Giants quests when they become available at 1500/3000 neutral and at honored, respectively. The Winterfall furbolgs and Frostmaul giants (objects of those quests) drop considerably more greens, and the occasional rare and epic, than the bears and chimeras. They also drop lots of silver and vendor trash. When I was doing circuits of all three quests, I was clearing 7-10 gold a trip in mob loot and never needed to buy food or drink. This isn’t counting the ores, herbs, rune cloth, and leather I was gathering and using or auctioning with a bank alt. BTW, I think dedicated bank alts are silly (especially the names). I rotate banking duties among all of my characters whenever I need to rest them, my current banker is a level 64 mage (tailor/enchanter).
Second, by including the Winterfall Village on the quest circuit, you can be exalted with the Timbermaw from mob kill rep and bead turn-ins long before you get your frostsaber mount. The Timbermaw have some nice leatherworking, enchanting and blacksmithing recipes, particularly the LW recipe for warbear woolies. These have a 100% chance to disenchant to a large brilliant shard. The shardtooth bears you will be killing and skinning skin out warbear leather at about a 20% rate. With rugged leather, warbear leather and some rune thread, I have enough mats for a leatherworker (one of my alts) to create a pair of warbear woolies every two circuits which an enchanter (another alt) can DE to an LBS.
Third, in the Winterfall Village, there is a chest that spawns in one of four locations which often has ores, bars, gems and greens as well as potions and food. The chest re-spawn timer seems to be about 20 minutes.
Fourth, get the Mau’ri token quest so you can collect E’ko from all of the mobs you will be killing. You can turn in the E’ko to the troll quest giver in Everlook for juju buffs which you can use or vendor for 45 silver per turn-in of three. (If you don’t believe me, talk to the troll lady, she’ll explain.)
Last, Grizzle Snowpaw, in Winterfall Village, and a named giant, in Frostwhisper Gorge (whose name escapes me at the moment), are rare spawns with guaranteed green drops (sometimes two). I have met (and killed) them so many times they’re like old friends (well, maybe not friends).
If you are thinking of devoting your time to this quest line, at least consider the possibilities of expanding your horizons and try the other quests as they become available. The giants are level 59-60 elites and could cause problems for some classes and specs before level 62. However, my level 58 enhance spec shaman was able to solo them without much difficulty during the Mau’ri quest for crystals. However, by the time you hit honored with the Wintersaber trainers and get the giant quest, you will be several levels above 58.
Nice revamp Trollvink. It’sNice revamp Trollvink. It’s much better now 🙂
Selling greens to vendor ? I dont realy wanna be a critic since in a way you are right 1 char is enough to make that amount of gold, but seeing you say you sell all green items to a vendor, specially thinking of northrend once made me cringe.
“I was selling all greens anyways to vendors i wasnt spending time on posting auctions.” 😕 :O :jawdrop:
why not DE em and sell the mats gives way better gold outcome than vendoring the items it self. another thing i think u misunderstood in his guide, hes not posting the greensto sell, but the dusts and shards from DE them.
Also even if u dont sell your mats you have abundant of em for high end enchanting at level 80, i hope im just misunderstanding your comment there, since i truly think if u vendored all your greens you have cheated yourself out of approx 10k gold or more depending on the server you play on, and its economy ofc.
Very good info there trollwink
P.S. since ive done this mount Q line before the rep nerf and the first quest took 30 times and the second one took over 800 times to do for the mount. }:)
I strongly recommend you to get a 100% mount while your doing it if gold isnt the only motivation since gold rolls in anyways doing it from all the cloth/mines/herbs/skin/DE/rep items and ofc grey items you vendor, buying a 100% wond be a such a burden to be honest.
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It is yours for the taking,It is yours for the taking, dear Trollvink!
Hai, it seems that theHai, it seems that the author didn’t do much. I would like to take over this guide, if you want.
EDIT: This post is meant for Jame
About the farmingYou dont need all of those chars to farm money. My hunter got his mounts at the required lvl :lvl 40 the 60% lvl 60 the 100% lvl 70 60% flyin lvl 77 epic flyin+col feather to have flyin in northrend (it took me soem time to reach lvl maximum lvl) the proffs u sould get are ofc min/skinn but the min/herb work even better. I was selling all greens anyways to vendors i wasnt spending time on posting auctions. And as you see it worked quite well , but u have to know the tatics so ill look if there are guides with those tactics if not ill post them.
Very insightful post.Very insightful post. This info should be added to the guide 😉
If the author doesn’t express the wish to update the guide within the next 15 days, I’ll gladly let someone take over the guide to update it.
The guide could also use a facelift anyway.
Mining/Skin or Herb/Skin are fine>> could this same thing be done with herb and skining ?
Probably. I’ve raised an Herbalist/Skinning Hunter and a Mining/Skinning Warrior; both had the money for their epic ground mounts long before they went to Outland, and will likely have more than enough for a basic bird by the time they reach 70. At the time you posted your question, Herbalism wasn’t as good a moneymaker as Mining, because Herbs weren’t in high demand. Ores and bars were used by Blacksmiths and Jewelcrafters, while Herbs were only used by Alchemists. Patch 3.0.2 (November 2008) changed all that by introducing Inscription; now I’d say the two are on fairly equal footing.
In my opinion, all three gathering professions are good earners, but they really kick in once you reach skill 250-300; at that level, you can mine Thorium and Truesilver Ores, pick Sungrass and Plaguebloom, or skin Rugged Leather. I think there are two main reasons these items sell for so much:
1) Around level 40, people get the urge to try a new profession, particularly those that allow you to craft your own armor (Tailoring for casters, Smithing for warriors and paladins, Leatherworking for druids, hunters, and rogues.) This means fewer Miners and Herbalists, and lower supply means higher prices.
2) The most valuable items are found in areas intended for levels 50-60. At that point, most characters are eager to hit level 58 and run straight off to Outland. Once there, they kind of forget about the Old World and its treasures.
(edit 12/12/08 17:24 PST – typos)
This guide looks interestingThis guide looks interesting so far, crunge75. I hope you keep working on it, it badly needs a map showing where to find the mobs you need to kill, an estimate on how long it takes approximately per run, and how many runs will be needed in total, better text formating would also be good.
supcould this same thing be done with herb and skining ?
heyOMG hey, im on Bronze Dragongflight aswell but im an Ally not Horde like you 😛
Ahiru wrote:people are[quote=Ahiru]people are always trying to beat everyones prices[/quote]
Same for almost anything you try to post at the AH, it’s called ‘undercutting’ >_>
And skinning is a great profession to start with, combined with mining cuz having two gathering professions equals lots of cash for early levels. Why choose skinning and not herbalism? Because the Detect herbs ability interferes with the Find Minerals one 😛
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Greens come and go but epics stay soulbound 😉
*Haylie, EU Bronze Dragonflight*
Skinning…IMO Skinning is a bad profession to depend on money wise. The bottom drops out of the market more times than I’d care to remember for two reasons. 1, people are always trying to beat everyones prices and 2, Leather is easy to get as a skinner.