Quests, grinding, auction house... quests, grinding, auction house... hour after hour is what World of Warcraft has been to Cassius and I. We decided to find a way to stir things while maximizing our gold profit. But how? The answer was simple, adding a little thing which in the words of David Sarnoff "...brings out the best in products and the worst in people," - competition.
A while back Cassius thought up the idea of having a competition between us to see who could make the most amount of gold in an hour. We were free to do whatever we wanted to maximize our profit, the only problem was we hadn't even made our first gold piece. So, the idea was put aside for the time being. Today we found ourselves falling into the same old routine when Cassius brought up the old idea.
"Now that we have our first few gold pieces we should compete to see who can earn the most gold per hour," Cassius suggested.
"Sure," I replied.
That's how it began, our games for the gold. To start we realized we needed serious guidelines to keep the games legit. There would be a time limit of one hour which would have to be supervised by the other player to make sure no cheating would take place. Another thing we did was set reasonable prices on items we would sell at the auction house, even if we both knew we could possibly earn more at the auction. This helped keep earnings fair and calculatable. The initial gold, silver, and copper would be recorded so we could compare the ending amount of earnings.
With these ground rules we were off; Cassius went first with a concise strategy. He ground (past tense of 'grind' - sounds weird) in the area where the beasts dropped the fastest selling and most profitable item we know of at the moment, linen cloth. This area was Thorn Hill (coordinates 59,26) located near the Crossroads in the Barrens. This was a good spot for our level 15 hunter. He first looked up which beasts dropped linen cloth close to 100% of the time (the Razormane Mystic) and proceeded to the village. Using the hot-key for auto loot (holding shift and right clicking the monster) and pounding the beasts with all the spells in our book while our pet soaked up damage helped make things efficient. Speed in killing and looting was key. Cassius did very well, he managed to get 3 1/2 stacks of linen along with a a plethora of magic items and other junk. His total profit made was a whopping 2 gold, 8 silver, and 23 copper in one hour.
I was up next. For my strategy I initially planned to grind in an area with some Kolkar villages near the Stagnant Oasis. This strategy was risky because there are many other animals inhabiting the area which will attack aggressively so you can get easily bombarded. However, Cassius told me that Kolkars had a high linen cloth drop rate. I made my way over to the Kolkar area and killed a few stragglers which didn't drop any linen cloth. High drop rate - yeah right I thought to myself. A few minutes later I started getting in trouble as I went deeper and deeper into the Kolkar area trying to find any Kolkars that would drop linen cloth.
I eventually ended up in the Oasis and there I found a few promising looking Kolkar victims. My pet and I were in the process of fighting a Kolkar Hunter when a Hyena nonchalantly joins the fight. So now my pet (who is always front line defense) has three men on him (the Hyena, Kolkar, and the Kolkar's guard dog). In an attempt to save his life I shoot the hyena who then attacks me. Our character is a skilled in long range attack, but unfortunately has relatively poor hand to hand combat skills. So, I was quickly killed by the Hyena.
I find my body and resurrect, in the process losing about 6 minutes, which is equal to a lifetime during this competition. I plan my next move, recuperate, heal, and attack! However I forgot about one thing, my pet which I neglected to resurrect but didn't notice until later. I began to carry out my strategy by eating to regain full strength and proceeded back into the Oasis. I am attacked once again by a Hyena and try to send in my pet, but like I mentioned before I forgot to bring him back! Another death at the hands of this mottled, ugly beast. My sorrowful story continues as this happens one more time when I resurrect and attempt to leave the Stagnant Oasis land. After three deaths I finally manage to escape.
Trying not to waste any more time in vain I make my way back to Razormane Village where I hope to have some good luck. I kill as many animals as I can on the way and spend what I have left of my hour in the Razormane Village. My total profit came out to 1 gold 58 silver 68 copper. Even though Cassius beat me, I still did pretty well considering what I had gone through. Revenge will be mine...
-Anaiya
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