I’ve come to several realisations
Playing on a low pop realm means that unless you are into commodities you really can’t easily play the post expansion boom when it comes to goldmaking. Doomcow does engineering, which is always difficult to level and with my commitments to raiding, I’ve not had the time to spend all day trying to level it.
I also made a point of doing very little investigation into the new expansion ahead of release other than a general overview of professions.
This has all made me realise that, at least for now, I’m not that type of profession goldmaker. I’m a raw gold person. In BFA it was through running old raids on lots of characters. In Shadowlands, it was the Command table.
And I may have found a way to do raw gold in Dragonflight.
I’m going to do a bit of an experiment for the next couple of weeks, but I’ve discovered Dragonflying WQs give around 500g for a few minutes work. What happens if I do this on multiple alts every week? What about rock climbing and photography quests? And how do these also help with alt leveling?
In theory, there are 4x Dragonflying quests a week, twice a week. That’s 4k gold per alt. And say I only manage to do an average 20 alts across the week, that’s still 80k gold.
I plan to do some experiments in the next week to see how feasible this is. I don’t have to do every character each day, so I could split all 30 alts across the week. Next week is a bit scuffed to do a full test as Xmas causes some disruption and I really want to see what’s the reality if I utilize the hour I block out before work each day for the Command table. But I can still experiment with the various different types of content and see what’s quick and what’s not.
Income was a little better this week… but it’s still terrible. Just 25k profit, but then I did no professions and it was all raw gold from raiding and questing.
I had hoped the time I’d saved from no longer needing to grind gear would allow me more time to level alts, but whilst I have my first alt half way to 70, it seems the time I’ve saved has been eaten up by Mythic+. We’re held back by the fact that some people have low gear and we’re effectively boosting them but I’m happy with my tanking and I hope that with new gear from raids and higher keys, I can continue to be ahead of the content.
As I said, I’ve really not made much progress on alts as a result. I’ve also largely been ignoring All The Things currently. As a new expansion hits it takes a few weeks for percentages to settle down. I seem about the same as where I was before Dragonflight, which when you think a whole expansion’s worth of content just got added, is probably pretty good.
I’ve added nearly 2000 new things since Dragonflight launched so I’m definitely making progress, even if the percentages will be scuffed for a little while.
And most importantly, I’m still enjoying the expansion. It’s nice to be actively raiding with my main (even if he is doing DPS). Mythic+ is giving me a chance to shine.
So I’m not bored yet and my idea that I’d be into a much more casual weekly cycle with my main giving me more time for my alts has yet to materialise. But given that my aim is to get all 32 leveled to 70 by end of March means I really do need to start getting a move on, even if I’m just chipping away at it slowly through some of my experiments with WQs and raw gold.
