Hidden solitary vendors
Xymmie
into the hills in Stonetalon: Veenix. I wish I'd known about him before as
it's a trek to get to an Alliance vendor to sell off grey items, and a
significant (though lesser) trek to get to a Horde vendor. :(
Are there any other out-of-the-way vendors that someone might not be aware
of in Azeroth?
Xymmie
mbg...@gmail.com
In Southern Winterspring past all the elite demons there's a goblin
vendor hanging out in a cave there (I think it's a goblin - might be
an imp).
The most interesting thing about that lil fella (though it's no so
interesting post-TBC) was that he sold a limited supply of Felcloth on
a respawn timer. Back in the day I'd always stop by there and see if
he had any cloth available if I was in the area.
Mike
Mark (newsgroups)
For Alliance (maybe Horde too) there is a goblin vendor somewhere in
the north of the swamps in Wetlands. Can't recall his name or exact
location as I now play Horde. He was my first surprise discovery.
pete...@gmail.com
wrote:
You mean the one in a big windmill in the swamps north of Menethil?
Not to hard to find once you know, but he was a suprise.
There's also one (sometimes?) on the road from Redridge to Darkshire,
and another at the fork where the east-west road across the wetlands
meets the road coming south from the Arathi highlands. But maybe
the roadside vendors aren't of interest.
The one the really suprises me is Bro'kin, who sells stuff on top of
the battlements on the north side of the Ruins of Alterac.
Gnomes are supposed to be smart, but Bro'kin is (1) wayyy off
the beaten path, and (2) surrounded by Crushridge Ogres.
I suspect that his business would have failed long ago if it
weren't for the fact that he sells Recipe:Frost Oil. He's the
only vendor with it, and only has a few each day. Since he
sells it for 25s, and it goes in the AH for 5-10g on my
server, it's worth it to hack your way to him if you're in
the area.
pt
Jason Tinling
>
> > > I've been playing over a year and didn't discover the little goblin tucked
> > > into the hills in Stonetalon: Veenix. I wish I'd known about him before as
> > > it's a trek to get to an Alliance vendor to sell off grey items, and a
> > > significant (though lesser) trek to get to a Horde vendor. :(
>
> > > Are there any other out-of-the-way vendors that someone might not be aware
> > > of in Azeroth?
BS/Repair vendor in NW Barrens, before you get to the Harpies. An
older Orc whose name eludes me.
Moosen
Heh, me too, back in the day. My rogue was a miner, so I would sneak
about Darkwhisper Gorge sometimes for rich thorium veins, and hit up
that gob while I was there. But after a while, some chinese farmer put
a team of lvl 10 chars in there permanently, just to grab up all the
felcloth when it spawned. Bastards. I reported it to the GM's, but
they never did anything.
Catriona R
I found one hidden away in Durnholde Keep when I was levelling my shaman a
couple of months back... considering I've spent a fair amount of time in
that place on several characters beforehand, she's pretty well hidden!
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John Gordon
> some chinese farmer put a team of lvl 10 chars in there permanently,
> just to grab up all the felcloth when it spawned. Bastards. I reported
> it to the GM's, but they never did anything.
What, exactly, did you report? As far as I know, there is no rule
against monopolizing a vendor.
--
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djar...@gmail.com
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 08:24:28 -0500, "Xymmie" <xym...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >I've been playing over a year and didn't discover the little goblin tucked
> >into the hills in Stonetalon: Veenix. I wish I'd known about him before as
> >it's a trek to get to an Alliance vendor to sell off grey items, and a
> >significant (though lesser) trek to get to a Horde vendor. :(
>
> >Are there any other out-of-the-way vendors that someone might not be aware
> >of in Azeroth?
>
> I found one hidden away in Durnholde Keep when I was levelling my shaman a
> couple of months back... considering I've spent a fair amount of time in
> that place on several characters beforehand, she's pretty well hidden!
Yeh, the one at the top of the hill way at the back behind the wall?
She sells some pretty good leather stuff for lvl 25-30 types.
Another lowbie merchant I only found recently was in the western
foothills of Windshear Crag. In the same area, if you do the
'Gerenzo's Mechanical Arm' quest, you will find a merchant at the very
end of that 'building' composed of boardwalks. I tried to kill him
before I realized he wasn't attacking back. :)
I'm always finding new stuff in revisited areas. Less than a month
ago, I found a little quest chain from some NPCs in Sunrock Retreat
that are up on a little hill directly to the south of the main resort.
Sas...@yahoo.ca
Maybe because one of my early char's was an Eng. I found the ones in
STV up behind the at the time elite ogres along the wall selling the
dragon trinket recipe etc. As well there's another one in
hintersprings selling the higher lvl dragon trinket etc. He also sold
unlimited nightcrawlers making it much easier to make the fishing
lures as an eng.
Saskcon
PhilHibbs
crashed 'plane at the Nessingwary camp in Nagrand. Repairs and trash
vends, nice.
Hoofu, 70 tauren shaman, Argent Dawn (EU)
ScratchMonkey
news:695omaF...@mid.individual.net:
> I found one hidden away in Durnholde Keep when I was levelling my
> shaman a couple of months back... considering I've spent a fair amount
> of time in that place on several characters beforehand, she's pretty
> well hidden!
North end of Thoradin's wall on the Hillsbrad side is a Horde vendor with a
limited supply pattern.
Also check the basement of the rogue manor above Tarren Mill for an
engineering vendor.
ScratchMonkey
news:695g8cF...@mid.individual.net:
> Are there any other out-of-the-way vendors that someone might not be
> aware of in Azeroth?
Goblin vendor at Raven Hill Cemetary, upstairs in the building near
Jitters. He has a limited supply alch recipe and is a handy place to clear
bags.
Catriona R
>On May 16, 8:48 am, Catriona R <catrionarNOS...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 08:24:28 -0500, "Xymmie" <xym...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >I've been playing over a year and didn't discover the little goblin tucked
>> >into the hills in Stonetalon: Veenix. I wish I'd known about him before as
>> >it's a trek to get to an Alliance vendor to sell off grey items, and a
>> >significant (though lesser) trek to get to a Horde vendor. :(
>>
>> >Are there any other out-of-the-way vendors that someone might not be aware
>> >of in Azeroth?
>>
>> I found one hidden away in Durnholde Keep when I was levelling my shaman a
>> couple of months back... considering I've spent a fair amount of time in
>> that place on several characters beforehand, she's pretty well hidden!
>
>Yeh, the one at the top of the hill way at the back behind the wall?
>She sells some pretty good leather stuff for lvl 25-30 types.
Yep, of course I never found her when I was hanging out in that place on
various rogues... and unfortunately my elemental shaman hasn't got much
interest in agility leather :-)
>Another lowbie merchant I only found recently was in the western
>foothills of Windshear Crag. In the same area, if you do the
>'Gerenzo's Mechanical Arm' quest, you will find a merchant at the very
>end of that 'building' composed of boardwalks. I tried to kill him
>before I realized he wasn't attacking back. :)
Don't think I ever found the one in the west, I did find the one among the
boardwalks though, surprised me a lot!
>I'm always finding new stuff in revisited areas. Less than a month
>ago, I found a little quest chain from some NPCs in Sunrock Retreat
>that are up on a little hill directly to the south of the main resort.
Same! Had no idea they were there until the patch that added the !'s on the
map, next time I was there with a lowbie I saw the marks and thought "huh?
How do you even get there?", wandered around a bit and discovered the path
:-) That's something I really love about WoW, no matter how many times I do
a zone, I can still find some neat little thing hidden away, be it
questgiver, vendor or whatever.
Moosen
<gor...@panix.com> wrote:
>In <8sar24pf2gkeskfjj...@4ax.com> Moosen <nos...@buhbye.com> writes:
>
>> some chinese farmer put a team of lvl 10 chars in there permanently,
>> just to grab up all the felcloth when it spawned. Bastards. I reported
>> it to the GM's, but they never did anything.
>
>What, exactly, did you report? As far as I know, there is no rule
>against monopolizing a vendor.
I reported a vendor-farmer. At that time, I had no idea such fucked-up
commercial behavior soley for the purpose of farming WoW gold and
selling it entirely against the EULA, was something they would do
nothing about. I was naive. ::shrug::
Xymmie
"Moosen" <nos...@buhbye.com> wrote in message
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What do you mean by "team of lvl 10 characters"? How many were there? (I'm
just curious. When I first started playing, I'd occasionally come across
players that I figured were farmers, but they were usually alone,
occasionally with one other.)
Xymmie
chocolatemalt
ScratchMonkey <scratchmonk...@sewingwitch.com> wrote:
Yep, that's a good one. For lvl 15+ Alliance chars (maybe even lower
levels can sneak by on the road from Westfall) this is a great
money-earner. That Shadow Oil recipe costs 12s but can sell as high as
18g in my experience, having sold it 50 times or more. :) If you don't
have rich alts to send you gold, this is the best way I've found to
jumpstart your bankroll.
Some other nice hidden vendors are the two gnomes in mid-STV, in the
eastern hills right above the main troll temple complex. They sell some
nifty engineering plans, and are *very* convenient for vendoring/repairs
when questing there since Booty Bay and the northern camps are a long
hike.
Moosen
There were two of them. Both level 10's with the standard chinese
farmer names like "Ejuqplllq" and the like. One would take the
dayshift, the other you'd see at night. They couldn't have gotten
there without being escorted, and they never left the cave. They had
obviously been created with the sole purpose of farming that vendor.
Several times I stayed stealthed and just watched- they would log in,
check the vendor, buy up any felcloth and gromsblood that had spawned,
then immediately log out. Every 10-15 minutes (whatever the respawn
time was, not sure), like clockwork. This happened every time I went
there and bothered to stick around for a few minutes to catch them at
it. Several times I whispered them some question, and the time or two
I got an answer, it was in chinese. Case closed.
Jobbles
> There were two of them. Both level 10's with the standard chinese
> farmer names like "Ejuqplllq" and the like. ...
> Several times I whispered them some question, and the time or two
> I got an answer, it was in chinese. Case closed.
I doubt it was in Chinese. We in the U.S. and Euro servers have no contact
whatsoever with the Chinese servers; that was one of the demands of the
Chinese government before they'd allow Blizzard to set up WoW in China.
Most likely it was in Filipino or one of the other Southeast Asian languages
in the area.
One thing to remember: While most of the gold FARMERS are Southeast Asians
(no, not Chinese), the gold SELLERS are largely Russian.
-Jobbles
chocolatemalt
"Jobbles" <jjob...@gmail.com> wrote:
No, they're Chinese overwhelmingly. There have been numerous stories,
filmed documentaries even, about the subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_farming
From the link:
"According to estimates, around 100,000 people in China are employed as
gold farmers, as of December 2005.[1] Chinese gold farmers typically
work twelve hour shifts, and sometimes up to eighteen hour shifts. Wages
depend heavily on location and the size of the gold-farming company. One
gold-farming operation in Chongqing in central China with 23 gold
farmers was reported to pay its employees the equivalent of about 120
U.S. dollars per month, while workers at a larger gold farm in Fuzhou
earn the equivalent of about 250 U.S. dollars per month. The rising
prevalence of gold farming has led to the creation of gold-farm
brokerages.
There are gold farmers or gold farms in other countries as well, such as
the Philippines, Indonesia, and Mexico. However, they do not approach
the scope and scale of the Chinese farm industry."
Here's a NY Times article about it (2.5 years old):
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/09/technology/09gaming.html?ex=1291784400&
en=48a72408592dffe6&ei=5088
China has very low wages (lower even than Mexico, hence the looming
death of the textile industry there) and a well-developed Internet
infrastructure, so it's an ideal place for this sort of outsourcing.
Ashen Shugar
wrote something like...
Though all that doesn't prevent the *owners* of the companies being
Russian.
Ashen Shugar
--
The lions sing and the hills take flight.
The moon by day, and the sun by night.
Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool.
Let the Lord of Chaos rule!
Lancelet
some engeneering pattern. Maybe the trinket that reflect frost damage.
Zil
> There were two of them. Both level 10's with the standard chinese
> farmer names like "Ejuqplllq" and the like. One would take the
> dayshift, the other you'd see at night. They couldn't have gotten
> there without being escorted, and they never left the cave. They had
> obviously been created with the sole purpose of farming that vendor.
> Several times I stayed stealthed and just watched- they would log in,
> check the vendor, buy up any felcloth and gromsblood that had spawned,
> then immediately log out. Every 10-15 minutes (whatever the respawn
> time was, not sure), like clockwork. This happened every time I went
> there and bothered to stick around for a few minutes to catch them at
> it. Several times I whispered them some question, and the time or two
> I got an answer, it was in chinese. Case closed.
Still, annoying as it is to us normal players, camping a vendor isn't against
the EULA, as far as I know. Neither is being Chinese.
Neither is farming, per se - people can camp one area and farm mobs til the
cows come home, and that's perfectly legal, to the best of my knowledge.
It's when botting becomes invovled that it's against the EULA.
--
Zil, Level 70 NE Priest, Aman Shan're, Stormrage Europe
PhilHibbs
> There is a gnome house in the south of Azshara, near the sea. You can buy
> some engeneering pattern. Maybe the trinket that reflect frost damage.
That is (also?) sold by a gnome in a cage among the ogres in Alterac
Mountains.
Xymmie
"Xymmie" <xym...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I found another over the weekend!
There's a Horde vendor that sells leatherworking supplies tucked up right
next to the far north of Thoradin's Wall on the Hillsbrad side. (I was
actually searching for hidden Horde vendors on the Arathi side as Hammerfall
is a ways away.)
Xymmie
lcpltom
In Silverpine, south-west of Sepulcher is a vendor, I think an
enchanting vendor, way off the beaten path. There is a similar
enchanting vendor above Sunrock Retreat, to the east I believe.
Also in Silverpine is a fishing vendor/trainer along the coast near
the north end of the zone. He is far away from any roads, but he is
located within proximity of an area a quest sends you to. All it
takes is wandering towards the shore a bit to notice him.
In western Arathi, there was a horde leatherworking trainer on top of
a hill.
Somewhere in the Barrens, along the western edge, I think near the
middle, was a gnome vendor of some kind.
And as far as hidden quests, in WPL there were a few hidden quests in
the farms overrun by scourge, though I am sure with the addition
of !'s to the minimap these quests aren't so hidden anymore. They can
be hard to get to however, as they are inside of buildings, with
closely packed mobs that can overrun you easily.
A lot of warlocks don't know where the quest giver for Ritual of Doom
is, or that a quest for it even exists. The guy is in Blasted Lands,
in the south, in the demon filled area. I haven't been back to check
to see if these demons are still elites, but it was easy to do at 70
solo. Enter the area, turn right, and follow along the wall, easy to
find the guy. Worthless to do as in over a year of having the spell,
I haven't used it, nor have I ever carried the reagent.
Brian Westley
>On May 19, 9:33 am, Lancelet <lancelet.nos...@merci.invalid> wrote:
>> There is a gnome house in the south of Azshara, near the sea. You can buy
>> some engeneering pattern. Maybe the trinket that reflect frost damage.
>That is (also?) sold by a gnome in a cage among the ogres in Alterac
>Mountains.
The Azshara gnomes have the deep-sea diving helmet schematic, the
gnome in the cage has the ice deflector schematic, and the
goblin in Everlook has the ice reflector schematic.
The gnomes in the hills in STV between the ogres and the large troll
area have the mechanial dragonling schematic, while the gnomes in the
hills near the elf lodge in the Hinterlands have the mithril version.
The gnome by the windmill in Wetlands has the minor recombobulator
schematic, but he's hostile to horde; a recent patch finally added
a vendor in Ratchet that also has it so horde can get it easily.
---
Merlyn LeRoy
Trooper
wes...@visi.com says...
> The gnome by the windmill in Wetlands has the minor recombobulator
> schematic, but he's hostile to horde; a recent patch finally added
> a vendor in Ratchet that also has it so horde can get it easily.
>
He also has some quite nice shoulders for the level that are very cheap
compared to AH prices.
T.
ScratchMonkey
4B9A5E.094...@news.isp.giganews.com:
> Some other nice hidden vendors are the two gnomes in mid-STV, in the
> eastern hills right above the main troll temple complex. They sell some
> nifty engineering plans, and are *very* convenient for vendoring/repairs
> when questing there since Booty Bay and the northern camps are a long
> hike.
There's another pair northeast of the nelf base in the hills in the
Hinterlands.
ScratchMonkey
news:p0SXj.87046$y05....@newsfe22.lga:
> I doubt it was in Chinese. We in the U.S. and Euro servers have no
> contact whatsoever with the Chinese servers; that was one of the
> demands of the Chinese government before they'd allow Blizzard to set
> up WoW in China.
The reverse may not be the case (ie. they have access to US servers) or
they may be using tunnels. (There are services that provide tunnels over
better cables than the main backbones to provide lower latency. I've seen
this being sold to Oz users.)
lcpltom
I was questing with my druid in Desolace last night. I was heading to
the northern coast for some clam meat when I noticed a ! on my
minimap. I had been in the area before, a very long time ago, before
they added the ! and ? to the minimap. So I go to check out this new
quest giver. To my surprise, it was an Argent Dawn quest giver,
giving the lowest level AD quests that I know of. He's fairly well
hidden, I may never have found him without the minimap.
Also, along the shore, is a journal that starts another quest. I had
run right past that journal before and never knew it was there.
Lancelet
15e1e2...@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com:
> Speaking of hidden and solitary NPC's...
>
> I was questing with my druid in Desolace last night. I was heading to
> the northern coast for some clam meat when I noticed a ! on my
> minimap. I had been in the area before, a very long time ago, before
> they added the ! and ? to the minimap. So I go to check out this new
> quest giver. To my surprise, it was an Argent Dawn quest giver,
> giving the lowest level AD quests that I know of. He's fairly well
> hidden, I may never have found him without the minimap.
There is another quest that give Argent Dawn rep.
The NPC is located in Darnassus, and send you to find another Argent Dawn
agent in Blackfathom Deep, who give you a second quest.
The funny part is that this quest is available to Horde, too. I sneaked
in Darnassus with my 70 druid two weeks ago. I needed some AD rep for my
Naxx access. I knew that as a Horde, I could take the second quest from
the AD guy in BFD, but was wondering if I would be able to talk to the
Darnassus one. Well, I could. Since he was affiliated to AD and not to
Darnassus, he was happy to talk to my tauren and give him the quest.
As you know, when a quest is a sequel of another one, once you finish the
first quest, the NPC talk immediatly about the sequel. In that case, the
PNJ did it. He asked me to kill some bad guy and go back to Darnassus. I
accepted. DING ! "This quest is not available to you faction". I was
disappointed, but tried again. This time, I was able to take it.
Strange...
That's only after killing the bad guy, when I was ready to go back to
Darnassus, that I read the quest, who was now saying : "kill the bad guy
and go talk to this tauren in Thundbluff".
So did I, and with the AD rep, I get Thunderbluff rep. I think it explain
why I was able to take the first part (only AD rep) but not the second.
If I was alliance, and finished the quest in Darnassus, I would have get
some Darnassus rep.
Doing this at the level of the quest (level 20~) could be...interesting
:-)
> Also, along the shore, is a journal that starts another quest. I had
> run right past that journal before and never knew it was there.
Yep, and the final quest of this AD guy and the one started by the book
send you to the same island.
lcpltom
not technically hidden, just only there when someone does something.
There is a goblin kodo caravan that you can sometimes find standing
around in northern Desolace. The goblin gives you a quest to escort
his caravan through Desolace. I attempted the quest once, but found I
was much too low a level at the time to complete it. I ended up dead.
Last night I was passing through southern Desolace when I saw the
caravan just standing around, I figured someone must have just
completed the quest. Then I noticed there was an extra NPC with
them. It looked like a repair bot. I ran up and right clicked it to
check what it was selling. Mostly the same stuff you can get from
just about any reagent vendor. But then I saw 6 cooking recipes (all
of limited supply) and some of them looked unfamiliar. So I bought
them all, couldn't have cost me more than 2g. My druid, however, is
not a cook. I mailed all the recipes to my warlock and found that I
did not know 3 of them. While I leveled my warlock, I leveled my
cooking along with him, and upon entering a new zone or town, one of
the things I always did was search for vendors selling cooking
recipes. So I was kind of shocked when I found 3 low level recipes
that I did not know. Of course, I'll probably never cook those items
either.
Spider Pig
news:b92b1fba-bdc8-4bfc...@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
Cool, I know that 'bot sells stuff, didn't realise cooking recipes too!
I'm slowly lvl'ing my feral druid (lvl33) and making sure that her fishing
(140ish), cooking (170) and LW'ing (160) doesn't lag to far behind. I've
been meaning to take a run through Kalimdor to get the Stonetalon and
Desolace flight points.
I think I'll make that run tonight and seek out those goblins!
ScratchMonkey
36d441...@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:
> Last night I was passing through southern Desolace when I saw the
> caravan just standing around, I figured someone must have just
> completed the quest. Then I noticed there was an extra NPC with
> them. It looked like a repair bot. I ran up and right clicked it to
> check what it was selling. Mostly the same stuff you can get from
> just about any reagent vendor. But then I saw 6 cooking recipes (all
> of limited supply) and some of them looked unfamiliar.
It's actually two different vendors, depending on whether you catch the
caravan at its north or south stopping point:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Super-Seller_680
http://www.wowwiki.com/Vendor-Tron_1000
From wiki page:
* The most interesting to the Alliance, is Recipe: Carrion Surprise
which can only be bought from Vendor-Tron 1000, whereas many Horde vendors
have this recipe.
* The most interesting to the Horde, is Recipe: Mystery Stew which can
only be bought from Super-Seller 680, whereas many Alliance vendors have
this recipe.
lcpltom
<ScratchMonkey.blackl...@sewingwitch.com> wrote:
> lcpltom <lcpl...@yahoo.com> wrote in news:b92b1fba-bdc8-4bfc-bb0d-
> 36d44108f...@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:
>
> > Last night I was passing through southern Desolace when I saw the
> > caravan just standing around, I figured someone must have just
> > completed the quest. Then I noticed there was an extra NPC with
> > them. It looked like a repair bot. I ran up and right clicked it to
> > check what it was selling. Mostly the same stuff you can get from
> > just about any reagent vendor. But then I saw 6 cooking recipes (all
> > of limited supply) and some of them looked unfamiliar.
>
> It's actually two different vendors, depending on whether you catch the
> caravan at its north or south stopping point:
>
>
> From wiki page:
>
> * The most interesting to the Alliance, is Recipe: Carrion Surprise
> which can only be bought from Vendor-Tron 1000, whereas many Horde vendors
> have this recipe.
> * The most interesting to the Horde, is Recipe: Mystery Stew which can
> only be bought from Super-Seller 680, whereas many Alliance vendors have
> this recipe.
Then I got lucky in finding him at the south stopping point, and I
remember Mystery Stew was one recipe that I didn't have on my
warlock. I think the other 2 had something to do with wolf and bear
meat.
Brent Stroh
>It's actually two different vendors, depending on whether you catch the
>caravan at its north or south stopping point:
And plan on being very patient - takes a while for the caravan to move from
one place to the other...
I'm in the process of retroactively cooking/fishing on my 63 warlock - I
think I stood in the middle of nowhere in Desolace for about 9 hours
waiting on that caravan. :) Seriously, expect 20-30 min if you want to
hit both ends.
On the bright side, my anal-retentive urge to have all the recipes has been
satisfied. I can't quite bring myself to horribly overpay for Alliance
recipes on the AH just yet, particularly since I'll never use them, but I
can at least say I've gotten everything available. And, running up and
down The Barrens for Dig Rat Stew was enough to convince me that I do need
to finish my dreadsteed quest...
-Brent
ScratchMonkey
news:824g44pu4bqmgbn26...@4ax.com:
> I'm in the process of retroactively cooking/fishing on my 63 warlock -
> I think I stood in the middle of nowhere in Desolace for about 9 hours
> waiting on that caravan. :) Seriously, expect 20-30 min if you want
> to hit both ends.
You could always help lowbies with the escort part. At least it gives you
something to do while waiting, and you get "rep" with the realm's people
for being someone good to group with.
> On the bright side, my anal-retentive urge to have all the recipes has
> been satisfied. I can't quite bring myself to horribly overpay for
> Alliance recipes on the AH just yet, particularly since I'll never use
> them, but I can at least say I've gotten everything available. And,
> running up and down The Barrens for Dig Rat Stew was enough to
> convince me that I do need to finish my dreadsteed quest...
I've made a lot of money selling faction-only recipes across the neutral
AH. There's a bunch available from the Master of Recipes in Stormwind for
2-16s that are otherwise available only through quests, and I typically
sell those for 3g each. Each of the Horde starting towns (Bloodhoof, Razor
Hill, Brill) has a Horde-only recipe that is similarly lucrative. Crunchy
Spider from Bloodmyst and Ghostlands sells well to those who haven't bought
the BC expansion. Ghostlands also has the BC-only Horde-only Bat Bites.
You can also grab the faction-only leatherworking patterns from Hammerfall
and Refuge Point to sell to the other faction. I really like the harness on
my girls. Reminds me of the white almost-an-outfit worn by Milla Jovovich
in The 5th Element.
Brent Stroh
>You could always help lowbies with the escort part. At least it gives you
>something to do while waiting, and you get "rep" with the realm's people
>for being someone good to group with.
Had any come by, I would have. I probably spend more time than is really
good for me helping folks with things I've already done. Instead, it was
just me and my non-dreadsteed, standing around watching a centaur off in
the distance...
>I've made a lot of money selling faction-only recipes across the neutral
>AH. There's a bunch available from the Master of Recipes in Stormwind for
>2-16s that are otherwise available only through quests, and I typically
>sell those for 3g each. Each of the Horde starting towns (Bloodhoof, Razor
>Hill, Brill) has a Horde-only recipe that is similarly lucrative. Crunchy
>Spider from Bloodmyst and Ghostlands sells well to those who haven't bought
>the BC expansion. Ghostlands also has the BC-only Horde-only Bat Bites.
>You can also grab the faction-only leatherworking patterns from Hammerfall
>and Refuge Point to sell to the other faction. I really like the harness on
>my girls. Reminds me of the white almost-an-outfit worn by Milla Jovovich
>in The 5th Element.
Never played Alliance. Assuming the whole 'bank alt run to a capital'
isn't a lot more difficult, knocking out a few levels for startup funds and
finding someone to coordinate at the neutral AH might make this an
interesting experiment. The few times I've visited the goblin AH on
Baelgun, it was pretty sparse - I don't think it would be tough to funnel
goods through it without getting my stuff sniped...
I was amazed at the folks who buy vendor items at the Horde AH, though - I
put up some dragonhawk pets and got a few gold out of each of them. I
suppose there's a point where money < time, but I'm still 500g away from my
fast flier, so I haven't hit that point, yet. :)
-Brent
ScratchMonkey
> Never played Alliance. Assuming the whole 'bank alt run to a capital'
> isn't a lot more difficult,
The run to the capital is easy enough. It's the run to the neutral AH
that's tough. You can get to Booty Bay by swimming down from the Westfall
Lighthouse along the fatigue line. (Stay on the surface to avoid the elite
shark.)
> knocking out a few levels for startup
> funds and finding someone to coordinate at the neutral AH might make
> this an interesting experiment. The few times I've visited the goblin
> AH on Baelgun, it was pretty sparse - I don't think it would be tough
> to funnel goods through it without getting my stuff sniped...
Until recently sniping wasn't an issue, if you were reasonably fast, but
the latest Auctioneer has a feature called Bottom Scanner to make it easier
to spot underpriced valuables. It then pops up a window to confirm the
purchase. (The game ToS requires human interaction to perform the actual
bid/buy.) Avoid listing items for less than their vendor value. See for
example:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=5784277532&postId=
58345270660&sid=1
> I was amazed at the folks who buy vendor items at the Horde AH, though
> - I put up some dragonhawk pets and got a few gold out of each of
> them. I suppose there's a point where money < time, but I'm still
> 500g away from my fast flier, so I haven't hit that point, yet. :)
The dragonhawks (and moths, Alliance side) are good sellers because people
who don't buy the BC expansion can't get to those vendors. Cross-faction
pet sales are even better, so you always see pets on the neutral AH.
Brent Stroh
>Until recently sniping wasn't an issue, if you were reasonably fast, but
>the latest Auctioneer has a feature called Bottom Scanner to make it easier
>to spot underpriced valuables. It then pops up a window to confirm the
>purchase. (The game ToS requires human interaction to perform the actual
>bid/buy.) Avoid listing items for less than their vendor value. See for
>example:
BtmScan and I are good friends - my bank alt and my 225 enchanter have made
me about 1000g in the past couple of weeks with the buy/DE/sell cycle. I
haven't been to Quel'danas in 3 weeks or so because I've got too many
Netherstorm group quests in my log... Figured I'd pay for my mount
somehow...
>The dragonhawks (and moths, Alliance side) are good sellers because people
>who don't buy the BC expansion can't get to those vendors. Cross-faction
>pet sales are even better, so you always see pets on the neutral AH.
Hadn't crossed my mind that non-BC horde would be shopping; now I'm
wondering how big of a percentage of the player base that really is... I
think my daughter wants a rabbit for her hunter, but I'm reluctant to drop
10g on it right now. Not a lot of money in the grand scheme of things, but
I'm flying too slow, dammit... :)
-Brent
Urbin
> ScratchMonkey <ScratchMonk...@sewingwitch.com> wrote:
>
> >It's actually two different vendors, depending on whether you catch the
> >caravan at its north or south stopping point:
yupp, with different recipes, too.
> And plan on being very patient - takes a while for the caravan to move from
> one place to the other...
>
> I'm in the process of retroactively cooking/fishing on my 63 warlock - I
> think I stood in the middle of nowhere in Desolace for about 9 hours
> waiting on that caravan. :) Seriously, expect 20-30 min if you want to
> hit both ends.
AFAIK it stops at the north and south point in a half hour cycle, the trip
taking about 20 minutes and it then standing there for about 10 minutes. So
it should take you max 60 minutes to buy all the recipes in the worst case.
Cheers
Urbin
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