Dominate Your Server: More Gold Per Hour

[Proe24]

Writer: Lawbringer
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Guides From: Gavin Garrett: Dominate Your Server
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Are You Calculating Your Gold per Hour?

We’ve mentioned a time or two (or twenty) that farming is not the way to make massive amounts of gold in WoW. There is simply no way to make the kind of gold you need to buy all the things you are going to want in this expansion and roll in truly dominating style if you are out hitting mines and picking flowers. The only way to generate true wealth in world of warcraft is by working the auction house. And there is a very good way to track just how well you are doing in the achievements panel. Once you know exactly how much gold you are earning every day, you can easily convert that number into an even more useful benchmark for measuring your gold-making domination.


Now don’t tell us that making gold and tracking it is too complicated. That’s hogwash. You guys are figuring your poison hit cap down to the last point. You study up on defense rating,expertise points and as of yesterday, spell penetration. You won’t even have to spreadsheet this one. All you have to do is divide.


In order to really show you what we mean here We’re going to introduce you to the idea of a benchmark for gold per hour. But that starts with gold earned per day which you can see in your statistics tab of your achievements panel. What you want to shoot for is 500 gold per day - EVERY DAY. That’s a good round number that would garner you an epic flying mount in less than two weeks, or a Tundra Mammoth in a bit more than a month.


Here’s what this looks like on Moneybaggins (Fenris, Horde side). These are totals starting from the day after WotLK was installed. I know it’s depressing. We spent way too much time leveling the first two weeks, and missed a lot of auction time, which is why the total looks so low. But that’s ok, you can still see that we’re operating above the benchmark for Gold per day. A pretty good clip above the benchmark, and that’s even without really concentrating on working the AH all the time.

You see it right, that’s 73,888 gold since the middle of November. It will be pretty dissapointing if that’s not 100,000 before Valentines day. One hundred grand every 90 days is pretty much what I’m shooting for. That would be almost half a million gold in a year.


In Contrast, if you have a pretty clear farming spot that you can run without competition it’s not that hard even for a total rookie to farm enough mats to make 100 gold an hour in Sholazar Basin. Let’s call 100 gold an hour the benchmark for farming. It’s sort of the understood minimum for good farming spots. Of course, there is so much traffic with all the other farmers in Sholazar that you’ll probably have to give up some sleep to run here at 3am to get a clean run at it for more than an hour. I was doing some fishing on the coast after a raid the other night at 2am server time and three people ran through me - and I was almost outside of the zone!


Compare that to the 500 gold per day benchmark for working the AH exclusively. In order to hit the same level of earning you would have to spend 5 hours farming alone. Past that you would still have some administrative duties to do putting all that stuff you farmed up for auction. If you are not a total dunce and use AADV and LilSparky’s to help you with that you still need to scan, check for profitable crafted items, manage your mailbox and a half dozen other things that have nothing to do with farming. Let’s call that 30 minutes.


Some of you may be thinking something like this: “If I can match the benchmark per day of 500 gold and just farm it (which sounds easy) then why is that worse than 500 a day working the AH?” The answer is gold per hour. You see, I don’t spend 7 hours making 701g 41s 85c a day. I spend about 2 hours in an entire WEEK making that much gold. When you divide your gold per week by the number of hours you spent, that’s when you get your gold per hour spent working on making gold.


In this case it’s:

(Gold per Day*7)/Time Spent per Week = 2,681g 42s per hour

701*7 = 4,907 gold per week

110 minutes = 1.83 hours

4,907/1.83 = 2,681 gold per hour spent

You can see that I keep close track of how much time I spend. So while you were out farming, my toon Sherpaman did the entire Lunar Festival achievement run, a full clear of Naxx 10, some Naxx 25, Vault and OS both 10 and 25 man versions, and leveled a druid from 73 to 76 and STILL made 5,000 gold - and never picked a single flower, or mined a single node.

Get in your achievement panel right this second and look at your gold earned per day and then plug it into the formula above to find your gold per hour played. If it’s not over 1,000 then you are not doing something right. It’s like going into a 25 man Naxx raid and doing 800 dps - lame. And it doesn’t matter what level your toon is. The screenshot above is from a level 2 toon. All you have to do is apply the principles we’ve been talking about for the last two years and you can hit 1,000 gold per day in your sleep.

Do we still farm some mats? Sure, the guild needs a lot of flasks and crafted items. So we all go out and dominate a zone for about half an hour and make a couple dozen things. Go ahead and farm a little while you are out working on stuff, or if you get bored. But use those mats in your professions, use professions to make gold, and make the majority of your gold at the AH.

The view from the top of the gold heap is nice - so get out of the farming runs and join us at the pinnacle of gold-making prowess and Dominate!

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[Jankem]

Yeah, so where is the guide to working the AH? Thanks for the rudimentary math lesson on calculating a modified R/D/T formula though. Honestly, some people never take into account how much time they're wasting. In my Business of Gold Conning, I talked about setting a gold per hour margin that you set as goal.

Good post though. +REP.

[Proe24]

Yeah, so where is the guide to working the AH? Thanks for the rudimentary math lesson on calculating a modified R/D/T formula though. Honestly, some people never take into account how much time they're wasting. In my Business of Gold Conning, I talked about setting a gold per hour margin that you set as goal.

Good post though. +REP.

Haha, yeah, but to answer your question, I will post an AH Guide soon, maybe tonight, but don't know yet

[Dendra]

I agree, needs an actual guide, not just a math lesson

[mlg clutch]

ya a guide would be nicer
but still yer contributin to the community and that's all we can ask for right

[Benny Lava]

Another thing, I have started working the AH on my banker toon, and he was made a little after WotLK and has made 45k from the AH (690g per day) but I currently have 10k on some toons and have spent about 10k on gear/epic flying on my alt. The remaining 25k has been reinvested into the AH.

So that isn't an exact measure of how much you are making

[snowscar]

think there is an addon called accountant, that just does this

[smeata]

think there is an addon called accountant, that just does this

yeah what he said

[BaboonX]

.. I wasted all my time to hear this.. It doesn't tell me how to work the AH -_- just math. lol

[Annsta]

You should tell how to earn those amounts :P

[kirbay]

Wow, Nice ad copy and paste. How is this useful?

[Kauppaneuvos]

Wow, you can make auctions and get money :O +8 rep!

[Priapus]

I found your article about ghouls more useful - make this just as good mate, and you'll own millions of reps together with your glods :P

[asdfowkw]

nvm saw wrong

[NeeK]

okey this was real bullshit.... no guide at all and he said 1 year ago "i might post it tonight" 1 YEAR!

he said it 20hrs ago..