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Couple days ago I went and made the biggest auction house purchase of my whole WoW career. 10k gold for Parrot Cage (Hyacinth Macaw). I’m pretty passionate pet collector so for me it was all worth it but there was a problem now since I was down to around 50 gold. Well obviously I’d have to do dailys a lot for a while to get back up where I don’t have to worry about money. But how much do I need to keep myself up to snuff on raids anyway. I have never really thought about it before and the answer was quite surprising.

The Essentials

1) Flasks & reagents

These are the things no serious raider goes without. Nobody. Flasking up once / hour gives a serious boost to whatever you’re doing. And the price? Well obviously everything depends what server you’re on. On my server the average price for 1 flask is 25-29g. Let’s say 30g tops.

Reagents? They cost so little I don’t even remember how much. Just keep a good stack with you at all times if your spells require them or you haven’t glyphed out of them.

2) Repair costs

This is where it gets trickier and obviously depends what type of armor you’re using. Is it a farm raid or wipetastic progress raid. Last Thursday I had a farm raid. I repaired before leaving Dalaran as I always do and went to Wintergrasp and did Firewatcher, then moved to ToC 25 and cleared it. Then we went to Onyxia 25 and did that. I didn’t die a single time during this and when I came back to Dalaran and went to repair I had lost durability worth ~3 gold. Wow.

Progress raids then? Well I can’t say I have really memorised how much but I’d think around 60 gold for one night is pretty close.

3) Food

First let’s think the health/mana food/water. There’s usually a mage around so 98% of time you won’t be using vendor bought food or water. And what if you were.. only time you’d be eating/drinking it is right before new pull after you’ve done buffing.

Buff food then. I know nowadays people slack with this when you can just take a bite from someone elses Fish Feast. Which by all means is fine but you still should have your own stuff as backup. Just like normal food it might sit there for months before you take a bite off it but it’s good to be prepared.

4) Health and mana potions

Another ‘when do I use this anyway’ category. I don’t know how much they cost in auction house.. not a clue. I’m still using the ones I’ve got as drops while questing or doing instances. Health potions I had not used hardly at all until having a go on hardmode Mimiron. So yee.. 1 boss in current content. Mana potions I’ve used more often but still very rarely. If I end up so low on mana I have to use them it’s probably because it was one of the longer fights, I had to combat res someone and give my Innervate away – probably to the person I ressed. But still the usage of these potions is so low I won’t have to buy or make more of them during this expansion if it stays the same.

5) Gear upgrades

Gems, enchants… armor kits. Once you’ve got your first proper raiding gear all the big money investments are probably gone. I don’t think many get huge number of upgrades in short amount of time. Let’s say 1 new item / week tops if even that. Last time I got something was… 20 days ago. And it was a necklace (without socket) so no additional expences required. So expences on your gear are so sporadic you can’t really count how much gold you need to keep up with them.

6) Luxury items

For me this is Potion of Speed, Potion of Wild Magic, Fish Feast, Runescroll of Fortitude and Drums of Forgotten Kings.

Fish Feast I use all the time because I think it’s nice you can provide stuff for your group with so little effort. And I do like fishing. Mostly anyway.

Potion of Speed and Potion of Wild Magic I have to buy from auction house and they’re both around 25g for 5. How often do I use them is another thing.. not very often. If it’s some hardmode fight they’re nice to have and give you some DPS boost but that doesn’t happen so often. I only have to restock maybe once a month.

Runescroll of Fortitude and Drums of Forgotten Kings are something I can make but what I don’t carry around with me. At least haven’t so far. But I do keep various crafting materials on my banker so should we ever miss a priest or paladin I don’t have to mess around with auction house or go grind mats.

What’s the damage, doctor?

Scheduled raids 3 nights / week, 1 of them is farm raid, 2 are progress/hardmode ones if signups permit. Farm raid is 2 hours because it just doesn’t take longer with current content… other two are 3 hours.

Flasks: 224g
Reagents: whatever
Repairs: 130g
Food: none
Potions: none
Rest: too sporadic to count

Grand total of 354g. With all the money falling from skies just by doing few dailys that amount of gold is nothing. I bought the pet 2 days ago and I’m already at 900g. Only things I’ve really done is some Argent Tournament dailys, skipping lancing ones and the TFA, and a little bit of questing at Borean Tundra.

Also about the flasks or anything for that matter.. if you do have the professions to provide you the only thing what’s really going to cost you is the repairs. I do have a herbalist and alchemist btw but I’m too lazy to grind. Actually I got every single profession covered on some character except jewelcrafting – but I have a miner so I can get the raw materials and have someone else craft for me. So technically I could be self-sufficient if I’d just want to but I’m too lazy for that… doing few dailys once a day or even every couple days feels like a snap when grinding mats is just a drag.

What did I even worry about.