Thursday, April 7, 2011

Day 1: A New Beginning

Well after a very little bit of research I decided my new home for this challenge would be the Aman'thul server - Alliance side. Why those? Aman'thul because it seems to have a decent population and alliance because the Stormwind auction houses look the most 'commercy' (yep, that was the basis of my faction choice). I like the idea of building an empire from a big stone bank instead of from a wooden shack, it'll go way better with my tuxedo, monocle and top hat.

So with my server choice made I stepped out into the world as a fresh human rogue (humans start right next to SW so this was a no brainer, plus the extra rep will save me money if i decide to buy mounts in the future).

Unfortunately due to RL commitments I could only spend about 40 minutes playing today so I didn't get quite as much done as I'd hoped. Having said that I did manage to train skinning and mining and grab a few nodes/pelts which I then threw onto the AH. This part was fairly dicey as I'd completely forgotten about posting costs but luckily I only had a few things to sell so I posted them all with a whopping 61c to spare.



 As of writing this post I have made 3 sales bringing my grand total up to around 13.5g! It's a tiny sum in the scheme of things but given I started with nothing, over 10g in just over half an hour makes me very happy.

The first brick has been placed and now the empire will grow around it!
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  1. McmokkaApril 7, 2011 at 9:44 PM

    Good to see that you came off well. I'm interested in finding out which path you're taking from now on. Getting even a small capital is really vital if you want to play the AH, so I guess skinning/mining isn't out of the order. But I hope to see more than just "get to lvl 85 ASAP and then go as normal". What really tickled me was the constraint of low lvl toons. If you're lvl 20 max fx, you have to think in terms of playing the AH in a total different way.

    All in all I'm looking forward to this. I hope it can give me inspiration.

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  2. SealskjaerApril 7, 2011 at 9:53 PM

    I definitely won't be taking the "max professions > shuffle to gold cap" approach Mcmokka so you don't have to worry about that.

    In terms of lvling, the only concrete number I have in mind right now is lvl 20 so I can get a mount as running everywhere is already getting painful.

    Other than that I really just want to try a number of different ideas that have been floating around in the blogosphere or in my brain. It should be a fairly enlightening experience and hopefully an interesting one too!

    Anyway, I will start implementing these ideas over the next few days and will of course discuss them in detail in my updates.

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