Counting your Coppers

As I suspected, getting money is a huge issue when you can't kill anything! After exploring and doing delivery quests enough to get myself to level 5, I had to sell everything on me to pay for herbalism. I chose it first since it didn't need any other supplies.

A few rounds of herbs sold to the vendors and I had enough copper for fishing and mining - though not enough for a mining pick.

Fishing proved an ample source of vendor trash, but only in the beginning! In the early skill points of fishing, all you catch is debris and tangled lines and sickly fish. Gray and useless, but good-selling items for vendors. When I got high enough level that I started catching usable fish, my income all but disappeared (a usable fish sells to a vendor for only 1 copper, while a gray "sickly fish" sells for 18!)

Fortunately, this got me enough copper to buy my mining pick, so I'm all set for a source of income now. My next plan is to travel about the starting areas, exploring for XP and mining and herbing along the way. I need a bit of a starting capital for auction house fees, and then I should be able to start auctioning my wares and making some monies.

The money situation was interesting, as this is pretty much the first time I've had to do some serious budgeting in WoW (more than just "saving up for my mount"). It was an interesting struggle to overcome. Another way to keep my budget is to not train any offensive spells. Training adds up quick!

I feel that in the future I'm going to be fishing out of a lot of floating debris for stuff to sell.