My Current Gold-Making Roster Of Characters

With Connected Realms (possibly) coming my way the idea of adding 11 more characters is becoming a real possibility. With that in mind I thought I'd take some time today to go over my current gold-making roster of characters.

I'll be breaking the info into three main sections: professions, cooldowns and general gold-making activities. In doing so I hope to expose a bit more information about my own personal gold-making techniques. Read on for more.

An Introduction

For today's post I will be focusing on my my current 11 level 90 characters on my main server. My characters are spread across both factions with the majority (8 out of the 11) residing on the Alliance.

(While I'll be focusing a bit more on faction with I discuss gold-making activities, faction does play a somewhat of a role in choosing professions.)

Professions

Below is a chart listing the professions for all 11 of my characters.

I've also broken the professions into rough categories based on their general function (creation, consumables, misc, and gathering) the reasoning being that each category of profession makes gold in slightly different ways.

Character Professions

Creation

Consumable

Misc

Gathering

BS

Tail

LW

JC

Ench

Alch

Insc

Eng

Herb

Mine

Skin

Fact

Hunter

X

X

A

Shaman

X

X

A

Warrior

X

X

A

Mage

X

X

A

Druid

X

X

A

Priest

X

X

A

Warlock

X

X

A

Death Knight

X

X

A

Rogue

X

X

H

Paladin

X

X

H

Monk

X

X

H

From the chart above you can see that, while I have all of the professions covered, it is interesting thing to note is which professions I have multiples of.

• Professions I have only 1 copy of:
• Inscription
• Jewelcrafting
• Blacksmithing
• Skinning
• Professions I have 2 copies of (due to profession benefit):
• Tailoring
• Leatherworking
• Engineering
• Professions I have 2 copies of (due to faction need):
• Mining
• Herbalism
• Professions I have 4 copies of:
• Alchemy
• Enchanting

24 Hour Profession Cooldowns
	Creation			Consumable			Misc
	BS	Tail	LW	JC	Alch	Insc	Eng	Fact
Hunter							X	A
Shaman			X					A
Warrior	X			X				A
Mage		X			X			A
Druid					X			A
Priest			X					A
Warlock					X	X		A
Death Knight								A
Rogue							X	H
Paladin		X						H
Monk					X			H
Cooldowns	1	2	2	1	4	1	2
	Total Cooldowns: 13

As you can see from above I have 13 possible profession cooldowns I can perform on a daily basis.

Even if each one only took 2 minutes (loggging in, gathering materials, doing the cooldown, logging out, etc.) it would take me nearly 30 mins to do them all.

In addition, the some professions (like Tailoring, Blacksmithing, and Leatherworking) teach you a random pattern that you can then make and sell as well which also takes time.

I do tend to do all of my cooldowns each day I play and I've gotten fairly efficient at "getting in and getting out" with characters who only do cooldowns. I also try to make sure they have the materials they need each day.

Just as a fun side note the following is the total materials I use on a daily basis to complete all of my profession cooldowns:

• Bolts of Windwool Cloth x 20 (or 100 Windwool Cloth)
• Tailoring: Celestial Cloth x 2
• Exotic Leather x 40
• Leatherworking: Magnificence of Leather x 2
• Serpent's Eye x 3
• Jewelcrafting: Serpent's Heart
• Trillium Bar x 25
• Blacksmithing: Balanced Trillium Ingot
• Alchemy: Living Steel x 4
• Ghost Iron Bar x 20
• Engineering: Jard's Peculiar Energy Source x 2
• Ink of Dreams x3
• Inscription: Scroll of Wisdom

General Gold-Making Activities

General Gold-Making Activities
	Profession Cooldowns	Prof Item Sales	Item Flipping	Misc Item Sales	Faction
Hunter	X	X		X	A
Shaman	X	X			A
Warrior	X	X			A
Mage	X	X			A
Druid	X				A
Priest	X		X		A
Warlock	X				A
Death Knight				X	A
Rogue	X	X	X	X	H
Paladin	X	X			H
Monk	X				H

From this chart you can see that I a quite a fan of profession cooldowns. I also sell many of the items created by those professions (mainly Malevolent PVP gear).

I also called out the factions a bit more here because you can see that, due to having only 3 characters on the Horde side, my rogue performs almost all of the auctioning herself whereas on the Alliance I can spread it out a bit.

Also of note is that all of my item flipping (mostly 82-84 MoP items) are handled by just two characters. In the past I have had up to 4 characters flipping items, each with their own markets, but as the markets have slowed I've moved out of them.

As far as the "Misc Item Sales" those mostly consis of characters clearing out guild banks or selling odd items like pets, etc.

Conclusion

So there's small glimpse into how I have my characters set up for gold-making and what they do on a regular basis to make gold.

While the above set up works for me (at least right now) it isn't the "end-all be-all" of how to set up gold-making.

Each gold-maker's set up is unique and every one does things just a bit differently. We each find our own way to get things accomplished.

There's also a chance that if/when my realm is connected and I have access to 11 new alts some of the above may change which would be fine as I'm always looking for way to increase efficiency and ease-of-use in my gold-making.

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