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On Fri, 27 May 2005 08:31:21 +0200, "Christian Stauffer"
<wildcard666@bluewin.ch> scribed into the ether:
>"Matt Frisch" <matuse73@yahoo.spam.me.not.com> wrote:
>
>> Long Story: I saved every copper from level 1, I never used the wind rider
>> when I could walk instead, I never bought anything in the AH, I sold a lot
>> in the AH, I looted everything I possibly could...the works...
>
>I always used the windrider (I hope you're aware that if you spend the time
>you saved by using the windrider in killing stuff, you'll actually gain
>money?),
Not when you kill stuff on the way, which I did, prodigiously for skins and
such.
> I bought stuff in the AH until I was broke, I bought all the
>spells.
I also skipped a number of the more useless abilities, like Track Hidden.
>I stopped spending cash in the AH at 36, and I bought only 2 new spells every
>2 levels. I had 82g the moment I hit 40. Question is: What did you do wrong?
Nothing. There was no economy for me to do "right" in. My instance
performing went Wailing Caverns, and then skip several weeks, and then
Zul'Farrak/Uldaman.
It was also bad at 60. I was #5 to get there on the server, which put me
farming the 8 or so named rare spawns in east plaguelands for over 2 weeks
before I had any competition. Going there twice a day, I scored many, many,
many...MANY greens, and a couple of those blue katana-ish 2H swords. That
in itself wasn't so bad, but so little of what dropped was actually useful
to me, and so I ended up muleing it out to a storage character until the
rest of the server caught up to be able to wear anything that I had gotten.
How long did it take before I was able to sell the last of it off? 2 and a
half months. That's how long it took for more than about 20 people to break
level 50. This is the woe of being Horde on a low pop server (although it
has since gone to medium pop). The first time the Horde set foot in BRD,
there were more alliance 60s than there were Horde 45-60s.
>> Level 40, I got my mount, 3 or 4 of the dozen-ish important level 40 hunter
>> abilities, and a half quiver of the improved arrow type, and I had 8 copper
>> left over.
>
>You saved every copper and had only 8c after buying all the 40s stuff?
>That's a nice one
)
You misread...I didn't get all the 40s stuff. Level 40 is a *huge* level
for Hunters. In addition to the mount (which is the same for everyone, so
certainly not a hunter thing), there is also:
1) Upgraded pet taunt
2) Upgrade to Hunter's Mark
3) Aspect of the Pack (group runspeed increase, nice for instances)
4) Upgrade to Freeze Trap
5) Upgrade to Raptor Strike
6) Upgrade to Distracting Shot (for me, this one was very low priority)
7) New ranged ability: Volley
8) Mail Armor
9) New Tracking: Giants
and 10) Upgraded DPS ammunition
I was barely able to afford any of that after the mount, and was only able
to get 8/16 of the new stacks of ammo. Fortunately, dropped monetary income
increases substantially post-40, and I was able to round out all of those
purchases before I hit 41.
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