90k on Alliance and 120k on Horde side, playing Horde for MoP. I was worried I didn't have enough, but I play on Kil'jaeden and there is a lot of high rollers there.
I have never had more than ~10k on one character at a time, and I am usually floating between mid hundreds to 5k.
I don't really see much point in getting more, I am pretty comfortable in my poverty :P
How can people have so low gold?
I never farm or nor do I play AH, I lvling alts like crazy and gearing them up. and still ending at 400k!
30k is like spend on 1 weeks progress when I spent more gold than I earn from raid...
If I had to make a guess, I'd say the average player has between 5-30k (5000-30000). I currently have 150k, I've sold off all my Cata stuff in preparation for MoP. Granted I could still make more gold by the time it rolls around, but this means I don't have to log on and repost auctions.
I have about 50k, I would have about 150k but I splashed out with 100k a few months ago. I've never really farmed for gold before, sure I've done a few runs of a certain dungeon for gold (not telling anybody which because the commodity you get is very sensitive to supply reducing price) and I do my truegold transmute some days, but the vast majority of my gold I just got without trying.
Almost every player I've ever been friends with has had >10k, so I'm quite positive the average is exactly that. >10k for sure.
I run with around 400k healthy, mind you we gamble a lot in our guild so its easy to be broke or rich one week after the other
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I don't get how people make money. I played the game normally for a couple months, leveled up 3 out of my 4 85s and raided and did everything and never went past 3k. My guild was going to help me get the 397 daggers for my rogue alt but I couldn't afford the 10k at all and they didn't want to help. I would Prospect ores for gems, and cut them or craft/enchant then sell on AH but even that wasn't making me much. But whatever I am just bad at this game. Hope to god MoP brings AH prices down or I won't be able to afford anything, a lot of enchants nowadays I really have to budget for if I don't have it.
Its about doing small things every day over long periods of time. For example, doing something as simple as farming herbs and taking the Volatile Life you gather with the herbs and xmuting them every day into 15 Air during the cata expansion would have earned you 150,000 gold selling at 18g each.
Sell the herbs you gather during this time as well and easily add another 40,000 - 200,000 gold depending on economies. You could do all of this farming a route (like I did) for around 20 mins a day. (I usually farmed a touch over 2 hours at once each week to get enough).
Run a route farming Ore in Twilight Highlands (around 22-25 mins per round using the routes/gather mate add ons) and you get 4-6 stacks per time. At the peak that was 2k or more per hour on most servers. Spend a couple of hours at off peak times and you could prospect those for gems and at times I was making 10k in 2 hours selling the Infero's as raw gems.
There are many more complicated ways by playing the AH that requires much more time/involvement/effort, but some of these are really passive ways to build tons of gold. The easiest way to earn gold with pretty passive efforts in my opinion is through gathering profs and more specifically herb/mining.
I'm sure it's been discussed over the 10 pages ITT; however, can someone educate me as to HOW exactly to "Play the Auction House?" It seems as tho THAT is what makes gold these days, not the efforts of dailies/farming.
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I've never had more than 5k lol ... For me the average is 3.5k ...
Last edited by javierdsv; 2012-07-11 at 01:41 AM.
It depends how many max level characters you have and the amount of time you spend playing alts. Even though I have ten 85s, I only have about 30k between them as I recently bought some mounts, don't really do dailies any more now that I am max rep and can't be bothered playing the AH.
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Sitting on 660k. There's at least 3 people I know on Area 52 with millions over several accounts.
really depends on what server you are on.
the most ive ever had was 100k doing something no one else did. now everyone knows about and im on average at 5k gold. have 5 85's that i raid with so i often change gems and since they are insanely expensive on my server i never really have gold.
omg give your prices please.
on xavius if i buy mats. it will cost me 12-20k to full gem and enchant my chars each.
Last edited by Saphyron; 2012-07-10 at 04:27 AM.