My pockets are full

DeadRabbit here...

although my heart doesn't beat
and my skin is cold
and the stink of the grave is on me

I still can send out a little love:

Thank you Auctioneer
Thank you Daxe Fifth Avenue
Thank you Og's Ledger

I was a poor little Forsaken and now I have some serious chedder.

I'd /bow but some change my fall out of my pockets.

Pssst...buddy....I got your limited supply right here.

Chester here folks. Heart of gold squirrel at your service. I'm not just a furry rodent hiding the nuts for myself and myself only. I'm a giver. I'm thinking about a few nuts rolling YOUR way.

So DeadRabbit gave you a tip on Deviate fish farming. She's a good girl. (I worry about her fishing though....the fish yank on the line and sometimes her arms go with it. She laughs it off. But she's not the one sent after the arms. Oy, the undead! They are sweethearts but a little casual with the "loosely attached" body parts. Bit loosely attached in the head sometimes....you know what I mean? Okay but I digress....Back to the topic at hand). Consider this "tip #2 for some nice cheddar in the wallet and change in the pocket." I present to you the joy of "limited supply" recipes and items.

Limited supply are items or recipes sold by vendors in small quantities. If those items are bought then the vendor is "out" of the item until it respawns. What's this mean for the enterprising young player? Well you can provide a service for those too busy (or lazy, or disinterested, or...shhhh....stupid) to wait for a respawn. Buy up those limited supply recipes and items and sell 'em on the AH.

Okay now, don't go *nuts* over this (hehehe...humour me, I'm a squirrel, nut jokes make me laugh). Don't glut the market with these recipes and items: you'll kinda defeat the purpose of limited supply and ultimately decrease their AH value.

Who sells these items? Well, in any major city, just go around to the vendors and pick up the stuff that has a number listed in its display. But you are probably going to make the best money on vendors who sell these items and are not in a major city. Plus it means some exploring and adventuring for you if you go looking for them. DeadRabbit, at level 11, went to Duskwood to buy the goblin jumper cable recipe from Kzixx. (How'd she get there...only dying once...at level 11? She's working on a map for ya). Bought the recipe for 20s or so....sold about 3 for 1g 50s or so.

Best site for finding out where to find those recipes is Kaliope's Crafter's Tome. Ooooh aaaah, this is a site that makes a acorn-hoarding squirrel's heart beat faster....all that information gathered together in one place. Check it out. Plus if you look up a recipe, in the notes section, she'll tell you if it is a limited supply item.

Gotta another nugget for ya. This gal complicates the matter: selling "faction specific" items on the neutral Auction House. She says she makes a good profit but so far anything I've posted on the neutral AH just sits there....for a long time....whistling in the emptiness.....wishing it had friends.

One last thing from your dutch uncle here, I'm not suggesting you camp these vendors, kids. Don't let the cobwebs grow on ya. Azeroth is for the stout of heart...for those with some spunk. Make yourself some cash, buy some good gear and then get out there.

Go kick some butt for Chester. Ok?

You can do better than spamming trade chat

Pox Arcanum, aka the Grand Experiment or the Anti-Pug, had a few starting rules:

1. we all leveled a new alt on a server we didn't have other alts on.
2. we leveled as a group.

How has this worked out in practice? We divided ourselves up into smaller groups: Purple Poxers, Green Poxed, Black Pox, and YELLOW POXLESS (no bias, girl scout's honor). Five poxers grouped together to take on instances/quests. If the rest of your group has dinged oh let's say 12...ya can't go out and merrily level yourself to 15 on your own. Gotta stay right at or below 12.

So new server, no cash and no leveling/xp farming? Whaddya do when you log on as your lonesome and not part of your group? You find a way to make some money and to level up your professions (hmmm...I guess technically you could also goof around, spam trade chat, make up Chuck Norris jokes, or dance on a mailbox...but that ain't DeadRabbits style).

We want to get some change in our pockets and some cheddar in our wallets!

This has meant that a number of Poxers have become quite proficient on flipping items on the AH, fishing for cash, leveling their profession and creating items that will sell, etc. I figured I'd pass along some of the ways I've come up with getting a pretty good chunk o' change as a level 12 with no backer.

Let's start with fishing!! Thoreau said, "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." You can say "ha! and double ha!!" to Thoreau...you know what you are after. Fishing that will bring you some solid cash. I have a suggestion for a low-level World of Warcarft alt: fish for Deviate Fish.

First, make your way to Ratchet (easy-peasy if you are Horde, a bit harder if you are low-level Alliance but you can do it). From Ratchet, make your way to the Forgotten Pools (don't bother with the two other pools that the Deviate Fish hang out in....there be mean, nasty turtles in those pools that don't play nice). Here' s a map with the route I took from Ratchet to the Forgotten Pools. (DeadRabbit wrote the directions...her handwriting is plain awful...but when you are decomposing, handwriting is the least of your concerns).

Oh sure, pre-level 12, I had to do some ducking and weaving. There's lions and raptors and centaurs...but they can be avoided. The Forgotten Pool has NO turtles acting like piranhas. And usually there are "pools of deviate fish" which yield a higher rate of deviate fish than just fishing open water.

Why all this trouble to get a particular fish? The detailed explanation is here. But let's cut to the chase, I've been selling stacks of 20 Deviate fish for about five gold. Boo-ya!!

For more complete information on the sport of drowning worms in WoW, check out El's Extreme Anglin'

Till then, I'll be zenning out with the fishies.