Re-activating your WoW account, or interested in "Trying Before You Buy"?Life In The Slow Lane
I've officially set up a second family of toons in World of Warcraft.
It's a small family to start, with a Warlock that has recently hit level 15 and a Paladin that is resting in the inn at level 6.
The family has a couple of members who have no leveling goals of their own as well, and they've moved into the cities where they can be of most use to the rest of the family.
Still Lovin' The Original Family
This is not to say, of course, that I've planned to stop giving love to my Original family on Zul'jin!
I am quite satisfied with the level of play I'm afforded on Zul'jin - I am member of a great raiding guild whose schedule meets my own very well for raiding times, I have great friends I play with every day and chat with on Ventrilo, and I have no financial worries for any of my toons.
But, life on World of Warcraft isn't all about raiding and Heroics and all that stuff, and while it's neat to be well-funded and have a comfy couple of homes (social and raiding), sometimes it's nice to pretend life in-game is simpler now and then.
Plus, it's going to be a lot of fun to test out my Auction House strategies on a realm that has a completely different player environment present on it at this time.
How I Chose A Realm
Since Zul'jin is a "Day One" server, it's got a healthy population of players, and a very healthy raiding population from the beginning of Naxxramas clear through to the Heroic "hard mode" achievements being accomplished in Ulduar.
The Auction House is full of wares no matter what time of day or day of week, and wild profits can easily be made by even the most lowly of characters doing the simplest of things.
There are a lot of professions powerlevelers on Zul'jin, because a lot of people already have a level 80 they can farm dailies or cash with in order to purchase the lower-level items their alts need for advancing professions.
I'm curious - if a "day one" server is like Zul'jin in terms of economy, then... what is a newer server like?
Using Websites To Find That Server
There's no way to tell from Blizzard's in-game listing of realms which ones are new and which ones are old.
One can take an educated guess during peak periods by assuming that the newer servers will be less full than the older servers, but that's all it is - a guess.
So, I went to a website that I've made great use of over the years, for a variety of reasons including looking up the leveling history of my own toon and of players interested in joining the guild I GM'd for 8 months or so before BC came out: WarcraftRealms.com.
On the Warcraft Realms site you can look up a whole bunch of interesting information, but I was only interested in one thing: Finding out what server was the newest realm available for US-server players, and I found the information I needed without any problem.
Hello, Nesingwary!
Nesingwary server is the one that showed up as the newest server around, and that's the one I set up shop on.
I'll write again soon to tell you about my new characters in their new home!
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After leveling an alt to 33 on a different server (for partly the same reasons as you, partly not) I decided that a new server is hell and I'm moving to play with some friends. I'm quite patient but I want to do all the instances I've missed, and the amount of noobishness drove me nuts. I want to be on a server where most level 20s are alts and know that the tank pulls and the healer heals...
Sounds fun and interesting so far. Yeah there is more to the game than raiding for enjoyment. Though that just happen to be what most players focus on. Yet its always good to have fun doing simpler things. I know I usually enjoy doing that myself.
It is nice to be able to find out the new servers though so that was interesting that you found those as well.
Hmm Nesingwary. Good to know thats the newest server. Never know when info will be of value.
Its sometime good to relax, even if Life in the Slow Lane. always remembering just why it is we play... for fun. Whatever it is thats fun for the person.
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I have recently began a toon on another server. Usually I only do this when my server is down but now I actually have a lvl 37 on a PVE server. It's been fun starting over again and seeing the changes in the game.
Do you find it daunting at all to start other toons?
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Well, I finally hit level 80. It was both thrilling and disappointing... mostly because when it was time to turn in that final quest that I knew would result in the long sought-after "DING," absolutely NONE of my guildmates were on. I thought about waiting to turn the quest in until our GM was online, but decided that handing in that final quest couldn't wait. But at least by yelling "Hooray for me! DING lvl 80!" I got me a few whispers of "gratz!"
Anyway, enough about me. So you've started a lock, eh? Awesome! One of my auction secrets as a lower-level lock was to go herbalism/alchemy (which seemed a lockish thing to do). Fairly quickly, you can farm bruiseweed and briarthorn, and make Strong Trolls Blood Elixirs. As a potion, it's fairly worthless, but it IS a quest item, and the only place to get it quickly is AH. I found that there was a never-ending supply of low-level Alts with deep pockets, who would gladly pay several gold each for those elixirs in order to complete their quests. It was a good way for a low-level lock to earn decent gold. And sometimes if there was too much competition and the price was driven down to silver, I'd buy up all the elixirs in AH, and repost them for 2-3 gold each. Made a nice profit that way. I remember once there was a guy who posted 20 elixirs for 5 gold (crazy cheap), which I bought, and then sold them for 3 gold each. (Never sell those quest items in bulk because people only need one.)
I think another thing about AH is deciding how much of a hurry you're in. I think I lose a lot of gold because I always undercut everybody on anything I'm selling. If someone has a +30 STAM item for 10g, I'll sell my +31 STAM item for 9g, just to be sure I get the sale. And often it comes too fast... within minutes. But I've got 9g for something I picked up off some random mob, so I don't complain. So do you always beat the competion? Do you aim for the middle, hoping the cheap items sell quickly or expire? Any particular strategies?
Thanks,
Mort
I don't have a list on me... but a lot of the 'festivals' have common/cheap items which suddenly go for a fortune once that particular festival "comes to town". Perhaps a good idea would be to map those out on a calendar and be prepared to take advantage.
i have toons all over the place, but i only play a bit and left them collecting dusts.
i think i'm so spoiled, having high level toons and gold, it's hard for me to start from nothing.
Gratz on 80, Mort! I think I thought that but didn't put it into a note. :)
I've actually done this exact same thing. I moved over to the alliance side, switched servers and picked a toon I hadn't played before. (druid) I got him all the way to 69 before I decided to go back to my old server. Through the process though, i made a guild bank (and a guild) and earned quite a few thousand gold. It was definitely a breath of fresh air to start from scratch without a deep-pocket-main to buy new gear every 5 levels. Plus, it was good to play the "dark side" and see how their game and quests were set up. And for the age old question?... I still prefer horde.