Thanks for the tip on the frostbolt. I don’t see myself really getting into the PvP stuff, but once I hit 70-80, I think my guild is going to start calling in favors 
I realized, after the whole thing was over, that I had under utilized my sheeple button and my blink.
I keep meaning to unsummon my flying mount high above a lake some time for that achievement.
Tell me about it – trying to get my dagger skill to 400 took forever. It got to 398 and just sat there - I killed Vyrkul after Vyrkul after Vyrkul, and it finally jumped to 399. Then it stayed stuck there for even longer, even after I swapped the dagger to the main hand to see if it would make any difference. I killed mob after mob questing, and finally at the end of a 2-hour session noticed that the skill had finally made it to 400.
Now I’m starting the whole process over again with a 1H sword; 'cause for some reason I just really want that “4 weapon skills at 400 achievement”.
And can I just say here that I love the Warrior Fury top-tier talent that lets you use a 2H weapon in one hand? The sight of Gnocchi, my little Gnome warrior, waving these massive weapons about just makes me smile every time…
Very simple question: Can someone please help me find the bank in Stormwind?
I know it’s NORTHWEST of the Trade District, but what’s it close to?
I keep winding up in AUCTION and whenever I try to ask for directions, before I can get everything worded, they disappear on me.
Thanks
Quasi
It’s near the mailbox and the inn. Kind of kitty-corner from the Auction House. It’s also near a big fountain, up a wide flight of stairs.
There’s two other options you can try:
Look for guards. When you mouse over them, your cursor will turn into a map (really just a piece of paper with an X on it). When you right-click on a guard, a list of points of interest in the town will come up, and if you select the bank they’ll give you directions as well as mark it on your map.
Secondly, you can choose Banker from the tracking list (it’s on the upper left of your minimap; if nothing is selected, it looks like a magnifying glass). NPCs that will open the bank window for you will show up on the minimap as yellow dots. The downside to this is you need to be in the rough vicinity of the NPCs to see them.
As you run up the main road into Stormwind past the cheese shop, guildmaster, general store and reagent supply, you’ll enter a courtyard with a gypsy cart towards the back of it. The bank is to the left, behind the gypsy cart.
That’s the Auction House.
If you stand in front of the gypsy cart, and face the main gates, you want to go down the street to your right. You’ll see the inn in front of you and a big fountain beside it. The bank is back behind that fountain.
Has anyone, here, made use of the auction house?
I’m a little leery of it, and when I was actually sent there as a suggestion from quest helper to obtain some Jade for a quest (Items of Power), I was kind of dreading it. Fortunately, the Jade was a drop in the Scarlet Monastery, so I didn’t end up having to go.
It won’t bite you.
It can be very difficult to accumulate enough money off of quest rewards and mob drops to pay for all your training, keep your gear repaired, up your tradeskills (if you have one that’s expensive to train (i.e., engineering, enchanting, etc), and buy a mount and the riding skill when you hit 30. There are ALWAYS gold sinks in the game that you basically can’t avoid. The Auction House is really good for earning enough gold to be comfortable and maybe buy some neat stuff (like pets, or trinkets, or high-end recipes for your tradeskills, or special mounts).
The big sellers are herbs, ores (not smelted bars!), and Bind On Equip greens and blues (for sale to enchanters who are looking for stuff to disenchant).
That’s good to know. My mage does herbalism and alchemy. I don’t suppose there’s any market for some of my weirder potions (like swim speed and underwater breathing)?
Probably it exists, but it’s not very big. Only the high-end stuff of ANY crafting skill actually make a profit. It’s the gathering skills that make money.
I don’t even see how you’re supposed to have enough gold to buy a mount at 30 without using the auction house unless you only earn XP by killing money-dropping mobs. Hell, even by level 47 I think I’ve only looted a total of 25 gold off mobs. If you want serious money, the AH is the way to go.
(This is a good chance for me to gloat. Last night I spent two hours mining iron and mithril ore, and wound up collecting 40 iron ore, 20 mithril ore, 11 truesilver ore, 7 silver ore, and 2 gold ore. 10 truesilver ore alone sells on the auction house for 50 gold. All together I earned 250-some gold from two hours of mining last night. :D)
All the time. Yesterday I decided to clear out a lot of old junk out of my characters’ bags and banks, and made a couple hundred gold in the process.
Be sure to check prices! Scroll down the list of items that match your search criteria to make sure that you’re not missing a good deal. I made a lot of people happy yesterday by clearing out stuff at “bargain basement” prices; I just wanted to make room and didn’t want to bother with lots of times where the item doesn’t sell and I have to put it back in the auction house for another go, pay another auction house fee for each item listing, etc.
Falling into a lake won’t work; it has to be a fall that causes 95% or more damage.
It also won’t work to use a parachute or similar item or to use slow fall. Oddly, it will work to use a Paladin’s Bubble or Hand of Protection. On some servers, paladins will sell HoP to people wishing to get the achievement by jumping from a cliff or tower in some city.
There is a growing argument in my mind to not bother with any crafting skills until you’ve got a mount, and to spend your first 30 levels just gathering cloth, leather and minerals and selling half of everything you find on the auction house. By the time you hit 30, you’ll have a better idea of which of your gathering skills you want to sacrifice for a crafting skill. Over 30 levels, selling off stacks of copper, tin, medium leather & wool/silk is going to add up.
I managed to do it jumping off the zeppelin going from Org to UC - the tower is mounted on a hill so I jumped off when nearing the tower, not too far away from the base of the hill. (Jumping off the tower itself is not sufficient, so you had to have the extra distance down to the ground.) I had a tiny sliver of health left but did manage to get the achievement.
Absolutely. In fact, it’s stated a few times throughout this thread, but then, it’s a long thread. 
Unfortunately, while I’m keenly aware that two gathering professions are the best way to make money, I cannot help taking a gathering and a production profession on each character. It’s just satisfying to be able to make stuff, even if it hurts to toss 10 gold worth of materials down the drain just for a few skill points. At least Mining is extremely profitable, so typically I’m able to mine enough for both myself and the auction house. (Of course, it helps being a paladin, as I don’t have to worry about buying my ground mounts aside from the relatively cheap training cost.)
Hmm. Sounds like more annoyance than it’s worth. I guess I could just stand over a graveyard and keep flying higher and higher until I get it, but ehh.
Anyway, I have my Ultimate Triage achievement already, so I’ve already got one of the freak-show tricks. (Ultimate Triage is really really easy for a prot warrior to get, actually - get into a tough fight where you need to use Last Stand, then bandage yourself when the Stand wears off.)
The Auction House is your friend. There is nothing to fear.
I use it to sell off loot that I both cannot use but worth more than dumping on a vendor. I hope you haven’t been vendoring your linen cloth, for example, because while you only get a few copper from the vendor, you can sell a stack of 20 in the auction house for anywhere from 20 to 50 silver. If you have a collecting profession (skinner, miner, or herbalist), the auction house is where you can profit from your skill.
AH is kind of like an in-game eBay, where you can bid on auctions for items or (more normally) purchase at the buyout price set by the seller. When buying items for the first time it’s not a bad idea to take some extra time to make sure you’re not being overcharged, but in the long run gold is easy to get so even paying more than market value for something you need right away won’t hurt.
When selling, you can search the AH for other auctions for the same item to get a feel for the market value. That way, you can give yourself the best shot at making a sale by setting the lowest price (sometimes when someone’s selling something for lower than I want to sell, I buy up their items and sell them for a profit).
Jayjay’s list of things to sell is a good start, though I might add that as a miner, I’ve found selling prices between ores and smelted bars to often be equivalent in value, but I usually check the AH to compare ores and bars to see if more money can be made without smelting first. Add to that list the cloth you pick up (after using it for your bandages and city reputations first, of course).
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