Anyone interested in wealth accumulation within World of Warcraft?

In a game as big as World of Warcraft, where there are so many different aspects and mini-meta-games, that there is a small slice or two for everyone.

Some people love the PvP, some love the endless hours or accomplishing raids, others enjoy collecting achievements, mounts or pets. I for one spend my time making gold.

World of Warcraft has a fascinating economy, that can be manipulated and played with for endless hours at a time.

I have not however, bumped into any other South Africans who have a similar such passion (although there is a very large such global interest).

I'm am 30, 000 gold away from being gold capped (which is 1 million gold minus 1 copper currently).

Woah damn. I've never been good at gold farming. I just suck at it too much and always go off to do other things. Like PvP. How in the world do you make 999,999 gold?

I recently dropped WoW in favor of EVE, but yes, I am one of you.
I love making currency!

My banker is in his own private 1man guild. Mostly because the goldcap on guildbanks is somewhere around 6 billion.
My last tote on the banker was rolling in at 19.4 million.

I've just run out of steam with WoW; It's been 6 years already and was time to move on...

WoW is like single player with co-op for people who play with barbies.

Real gamers play Eve :P

I used to make 20k gold a week pre Cata.

Was gold capped on 3 toons. Back then was 258k gold I think.

I stopped playing wow almost 2 years ago and about a month ago one of my friends gave me a copy of cataclysm with 30 days play time.
So ive started a new toon on a PVP server, its only lvl 5 but ive made 3000 gold in 6 days just playing the AH.
I dont remember it being this easy to make gold in wow....

Back in Wrath I controlled 3 gem markets was making 200 gold per gem back then. I had my raiding toon in sorted and my crafting alts in my own personal guild. was making around 50k per week.

Also played for 6 yrs, think is started back as wildhammer came up. Hit Cata with over 500k, but stopped playing a a couple months ago. Got 6 chars max professioned, and dont know what todo with the account since i have started with eve again. If anyone has some interest pm me.

i enjoy playing Mummy Online, and enjoy online games collecting achievements, mounts or pets. ;)but my brothers like pvp. i think everyone can find the interest in wow. By the way, I like browser games and MMORPG.

I hate making gold. Anyone care to drop me a couple of $$$ :D
EU - Silvermoon

Because I'm on Silvermoon and teasing people is fun :)

http://i.imgur.com/wpiwk.jpg

Bit of an update. I started a thread on a legitimate gold making forum community to see if the wow players in there could be the 1% of the population who own the majority of the wealth (same as the current OccupyWallStreet protests etc).

http://i.imgur.com/ZFct2.jpg

I then started a poll in a different thread to try and get a rough estimate of how much gold is circulating within the forums.

After only a few hours we have 55 votes and a total of 76,950,000 gold. (that's 76.95 million gold).
The forum itself has 3,063 members, of which 690 are considered active by the forum system. So only about 8% of the active members have voted so far and that's already 76 million gold.

Crazy right?

Would it be possible to farm gold with a free account only?

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Originally Posted by CrAzY-LeGs69

Would it be possible to farm gold with a free account only?

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No, because free trial accounts do not have access to the Auction House or the ability to trade / mail items and gold with other players. You would be limited to killing mobs, and selling what ever you got to a vendor, an extremely inefficient method due to the design of the economy. Blizzard doesn't want vendoring items to be even a remote possibility, and would rather have item drops interacting within the economy.

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Originally Posted by Sinshroud

No, because free trial accounts do not have access to the Auction House or the ability to trade / mail items and gold with other players. You would be limited to killing mobs, and selling what ever you got to a vendor, an extremely inefficient method due to the design of the economy. Blizzard doesn't want vendoring items to be even a remote possibility, and would rather have item drops interacting within the economy.

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Also, the max amount of gold you can gather with a free account is 10G.

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Originally Posted by Sinshroud

In a game as big as World of Warcraft, where there are so many different aspects and mini-meta-games, that there is a small slice or two for everyone.

Some people love the PvP, some love the endless hours or accomplishing raids, others enjoy collecting achievements, mounts or pets. I for one spend my time making gold.

World of Warcraft has a fascinating economy, that can be manipulated and played with for endless hours at a time.

I have not however, bumped into any other South Africans who have a similar such passion (although there is a very large such global interest).

I'm am 30, 000 gold away from being gold capped (which is 1 million gold minus 1 copper currently).

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I always save to about 30k gold then spend some of it then save to that again

Hey Sinshroud, I'm on Silvermoon too. Please help a brother out with some $$$

Just cancelled my wow account...not getting time to play anymore with all the other new games. Actually a good feeling to play something else for a change...

Got 78k gold...hehehe hope i get interest when I start playing again :P

FYI - If you buy a WoW Annual Pass, which you can pay monthly, you get Diablo 3 free. And some other tit-bits.

Wondering if any of the SA wow community is able to raid 25man on European servers. If so please post ur ISP, line speed ect here. Just interested to know as I used to raid 25man in Wrath. But I can't in Cata