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Grinding for gold is the most
basic and most common form of gold farming. Since this is the most
basic form of gold farming it does get a lot of attention from all
sorts of players. However most players never end of grinding out
the amount of gold they should. It’s very easy to farm up to
250g/hour now with the Burning Crusade. The mobs drop a lot more
coin, the items that drop vendor for a higher
price.
On top of this you will be getting greens,
blues and epics that will be selling for an even larger price
then before. You can sell your items for a lot more gold
because the average drop rates coin itself has been
increased. This means there are a lot more players out there
with money to throw around.
Knowing the correct places to
farm and know how to farm are key assets when it comes to playing
World of Warcraft effectively. Many players make minor mistakes
when it comes to farming that it puts them far behind the rest of
the competition.
Downtime is one of the most major
mistakes players make when grinding gold. Downtime is the amount of
time during grinding that you spend NOT killing other mobs. This
includes running to the next mob, sitting for a drink, chatting to
your friends, not chain-casting your next spell (casting the spell
as soon as it's available) all of these things will drop your gold
per hour rate. The most common downtime is sitting down to eat or
drink. Every glass has a favorable “Grinding spec” and if you plan
to farm for gold for a certain amount of time, it's well worth the
money to re-spec to.
Every time you take a
seat to drink or eat, you are knocking anywhere between 15-30
seconds off of your killing time. Let's say you can kill 5 mobs in
a row without having to sit and drink or eat. That means, everytime
you kill 100 mobs you are spending 10 minutes on your butt. That's
a pretty large amount of time, and most classes can't even make it
5 mobs with some of the specs.
For instance, my Mage
was Fire Spec for a while until I realized I was only getting about
3 kills on average in before I had to take a drink. I switched to
frost, which is a premiere grinding spec and it got me up to 8
kills before I sat down. This is a great rate because I nearly cut
my downtime to 2/3rd of the rate it was.
So next time you go
out grinding, remember that downtime is a key penalty to the gold
rate you pull in. You can easily double your gold rate over night
by choosing the right spec for your character.
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