My experiments with raw gold have been met with success!
With Raszageth going down last Wednesday and the completion of my 4 set, some of the pressure to gear has been reduced. That’s given me more time. I’ve still been running a load of Mythic+ and we’ve been making good progress there, but I’ve had time to spare.
I’ve used a lot of that time to work on Alts. I feel I’m very far behind where I want to be in terms of levelling and put a lot of effort into trying a few alt levelling routes I’ve found.
The most effective one seems to be Azure Span. With the XP some have gained just doing the basic setup quests in getting to Valdrakken, most of my alts are around 60.5 – 61.5 (depending if they gathered along the way, professions permitting). I’ve found doing the Azure Span quest line (along with side quests) means they ding 65 around the time they get to Iskaara.
About the same time they run out of rested XP, so I’ve made a big push to get as many as possible to level 65. I’ve done 6 now My idea is that by the time I finish getting a load to 65, the earlier ones will have enough rested XP to get to do the final 5 levels – although what route I will then take, I still don’t know.
What has surprised me is how little gold I’ve seemed to make form levelling. In the past, alt levelling always resulted in a huge gold influx to the extent that I could zoom out of TSM and specifically see the points when I was focused on Alt levelling.
Not so much this time, although some of the gains might have been masked by my repair costs doing Raids and Mythic+. Enchants for upgrades don’t come cheap either.
And that was my thinking for most of the week… repairs were eating up my gains. That was until I started doing some experiments in raw gold.
As you know, we lost the command table in Dragonflight, which to any Altoholic was a goldmine. I used to log in before work each day, set my tables going, and leave until the next day. I was clearing 120 – 150k a week just doing that, and life was good. But I’ve been really missing it in Dragonflight.
As much as I intend to push with professions to make sure everything is maxed for 10.1 and beyond, using professions to make gold on a low pop realm is just not working for me. I’m too far behind on alts and no-one wants engineering on my main. As a result, I’m just making around 20k a week.
I had an idea to look at World Quests. Some of those are pretty simple, reward decent gold and could be repeated 30+ times. I spent a lot of the holidays looking at which could be completed fast. Climbing Quests take far too long, Photography quests can be quick, depending on the location, but the real winner is Dragonriding. You don’t even need to get a gold medal to get 500g a time.
My first big question was, how quick I could do all 4 of them that are up at any time (1 in each zone). So I timed it and found that because alts benefit from account-wide dragonriding, plus all the waygates you unlock, I could do all 4 dragonriding quests in under 10 mins. I even timed it on stream.
The Dragonriding quests refresh every 3.5 days, so at 500g a time, that meant every alt had the chance to make 4k gold a week – plus get a good slice of passive XP from doing so.
So starting on the new year, I did an experiment. I created a rota of all my characters and then proceeded to try and take 10 a day through the drgaonriding quests. Given that taking 10 a time through the quests takes longer than it took to do all my mission tables each day, my goal is to get at least 6 of them done.
There are issues with my rota, and there are going to be days like today where a combination of waking late and needing to do my Great Vault and pick up weeklies on my main, result in none done – but that’s no different to running out of anima on alts when I did the command table in Shadowlands. However, with just 3 days work, my income has nearly tripled this week.
So that’s the plan for Dragonflight. Dragonriding replaces the command table. Even if I average 6 a day, that’s still 80k raw gold a week. And that’s at the beginning of the expansion. Over the course of it, I could do pretty well out of this.
I still have Darkmoon Faire to do on all my characters this month, and that’s a real concern as I don’t know when I’ll have time between raiding and mythic+.
But overall, I’m really happy with my progress this past week. I feel things are finally going in the right direction after a shaky few weeks. Normally it takes me until the x.3 patch to get my shit together, but we’re just 5 weeks in.
I just need to make sure I don’t accidentally sleep in.
