7 Rules to NEVER Go Broke Leveling 1-30 in WoW Forever

Summary

The video follows Hubert Huntsman, a new hunter created to help the account progress toward the gold cap. The plan is to level him from 1 to around 30 while earning money through quests, gathering, and dungeons. The narrator chose Herbalism to avoid duplicating professions already held by the account’s other characters.

Seven rules for earning gold while leveling

1. Check auction prices before vendoring loot. Use an auction-value addon such as TradeSkillMaster to compare an item’s auction price with its vendor price. At this early stage, many items sell for nearly the same amount to vendors, so vendoring them can save auction fees, bag space, and waiting for mail. Auction items with a substantial markup.

2. Collect extra meat from beasts. Some quest-related meats drop whether or not you have the quest, and other players buy them for quests or Cooking. Examples mentioned include:

   • Wild boar meat: around 30 copper at auction, compared with 3 copper from a vendor.
   • Tender wolf meat: around 60 copper to 1 silver at auction, compared with 1 copper from a vendor.
   • Tough condor meat: around 8–10 silver at auction, compared with 78 copper from a vendor.

Higher-level boar drops, such as ribs and liver, can also sell for about 1 silver.

1. Treat crafting professions as a personal utility for now. Many low-level crafted goods barely cover their material costs. Check the crafting journal for recipes with good vendor prices, and consider vendoring excess materials or products unless they have a worthwhile auction markup.

2. Keep gathering skills caught up with your character. Leveling can outpace Herbalism, Mining, or Skinning, leaving you unable to gather in higher-level areas. Set aside 15–30 minutes now and then to train the profession; the materials can also provide silver for spells and other expenses.

3. Make dungeons part of your leveling plan. Dungeons offer substantial experience and valuable quest rewards, with roughly four to six quests commonly available per dungeon. The narrator recommends using the Dungeon Journal to track them and completing each dungeon’s quests in one visit. Bind-on-equip blue items can also sell well: observed prices ranged from about 30 silver to 3 gold. A weapon from the city of Dalaran dungeon sold for 1.9 gold.

4. Be selective about which class skills you buy. Training every spell as soon as it becomes available adds up quickly. Prioritize spells that are important to your damage or playstyle, and return to the trainer for the rest when you have more gold.

5. Buy larger bags rather than leveling with four-slot bags. Affordable 8- or 10-slot bags can pay for themselves by letting you carry more vendor trash, quest items, and valuable drops. If needed, gather the cloth and ask a tailor to make the bags.

The narrator reached level 32 with 26 gold after 45 hours of play, averaging roughly 57 silver per hour. Most of the money came from vendor sales and quest rewards, supplemented by dungeon Bind-on-equip items and auctioned meat. The video closes with the next goal: trying more dedicated farming at around level 30.

Featured characters and sources

• Characters: Hubert Huntsman (hunter), Marcus Markap, and Selena Salesmore (also rendered with variant spellings in the subtitles).
• Tools and sources mentioned: TradeSkillMaster, Dungeon Journal, the Forever Release LAN party, and Blizzard (in reference to dungeon loot).