02-02-2005, 05:23 PM
I (barely) got the 90g for my mount at level 40. My most profitable activities were just selling iron and mithril bars at the auction house. At the time a stack of iron went for ~3-4g and mithril for ~7.5g. Prices seem to be lower now unfortunately. I found that making items with blacksmithing was a cash drain; almost always it would be more profitable to just sell the raw ingredients. My favorite spot for iron and mithril was the badlands, especially late at night when there was little competition for resources. My experience may be different from others because I'm on a fairly low-population server and there was very little competition in the badlands.
Another option is to play the AH. My strategy is pretty simple; I keep track of the going rates for a handful of items (metal bars, mostly) and check the AH last thing before I log out for the night. Look for auctions where people have done stupid things like not list a buyout or set their buyout way too high. You can get good deals on items like these. Then re-list them the next day at the proper price. My most successful experience with this tactic happened when I had a day off from work. For some reason a bunch of people had priced their stacks of mithril bars in the 2-3g range. I'm guessing that all the 'normal' 7g+ stacks had sold overnight and a bunch of naive people priced theirs too low (or perhaps one naive person got the ball rolling and a bunch of sheep followed suit).
Another option is to play the AH. My strategy is pretty simple; I keep track of the going rates for a handful of items (metal bars, mostly) and check the AH last thing before I log out for the night. Look for auctions where people have done stupid things like not list a buyout or set their buyout way too high. You can get good deals on items like these. Then re-list them the next day at the proper price. My most successful experience with this tactic happened when I had a day off from work. For some reason a bunch of people had priced their stacks of mithril bars in the 2-3g range. I'm guessing that all the 'normal' 7g+ stacks had sold overnight and a bunch of naive people priced theirs too low (or perhaps one naive person got the ball rolling and a bunch of sheep followed suit).