The Making of a Miser

posted this on January 26th, 2011.
Categorized as auction house, General, Gold, money.

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So you want to be a millionaire huh? A friend of mine once told me that if you want to become a millionaire you need to do one or more of the following:

  • Do something better than someone else.
  • Do something no one else does.
  • Do something no one else wants to do.

vaultThis simple philosophy can be very risky in a real world application, but in LOTRO can be a very powerful idea that can earn you lot’s of gold and silver. I can see several of you asking, “But Azz, what good is in-game gold anyway?” I do see your point. With the latest strategy from Turbine to “gate” new goodies behind barter items and reputation, I can see that the inherent value of in game currency has been diminished somewhat. However, there are still many uses for our precious hordes of gold.

  • Repairs
  • Older reputation items/mounts
  • Vault Space
  • Housing
  • Auction House Purchases
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The Economics of Furniture

posted this on August 10th, 2010.
Categorized as auction house, crafting, deocration, enconomy, furniture, housing, scholar, Tailor, woodworker.

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After Couillon’s excellent question on the economics of furniture, we decided to push the subject a little more in depth and finally made a post out of it. So here are some useful tips and advices gathered from our personal experience and from various server’s Auction House(AH) for those who are in the business of making furniture.

Woodworker’s Wares

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Making Coin in Middle-Earth

posted this on July 2nd, 2010.
Categorized as auction house, General, Gold, Guide, Guides, money.

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We received a very well written email from Decimma of Gladden explaining his way of making money on the Auction House in LOTRO. I thought it such a good email, I asked if I could post it on our site to share with everyone. Thank you for sharing, Decimma!


Dear Casual Stroll,

I wanted to write in to add to a former interviewee’s suggestions regarding playing the Auction House (AH) and keeping yourself in the “black ink” in Middle Earth.

My main, Decimma (65 RK) is an explorer by trade, and that toon is now up to 137 gold and growing.  I’m not writing in to brag and I realize that there are players out there with much more coin than I, but I’d like to offer up a few strategies that others may find helpful. In fact, if I were really trying to make coin, I am confident I could have double or even triple my current coin as I have been playing for nearly a year and a half now, and I find making virtual coin more of an occasional hobby than an obsession.

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Tips: How to become filthy rich, or at least socially secure (and make best friends with the Auction House)

posted this on September 22nd, 2009.
Categorized as auction house, Gold, Guides, Tip Time, Tips.

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Simple Steps

Our kinmates often ask us how Hobbit became so rich?  (Especially after he bought everyone a new, deluxe kinhouse in the best location in all of Eriador).

To become filthy rich, or at least socially secure, in LOTRO is rather straight-forward, if pedestrian.  There are lots of methods, but simple, guaranteed ones are this:

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Quite the Non-LOTRO Weekend

posted this on March 30th, 2009.
Categorized as auction house, bloging, Classes, crafting, instances, quests, Traits.

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Wow, I sure had a lot going on IRL this weekend - so much so that not only did I not manage to get into LOTRO, but I hardly had time to sit down at the computer and check my e-mail, let alone blog. This is a LOTRO blog so I won't go into details but what I will do is make an update on where I'm at in the game.

I didn't make it to Lothlorien yet. I've been side tracked by my other method of reducing burn out - and that was play more with my kinship members. Last time I logged in it was mostly "hanging out" with them.

I've been camping the AH house as of late as well trying to complete my collection of the new soup recipes for the cooking profession. I got all the level 50+ recipes collected, working on lower levels. Hasn't been any for the Journeyman tier on the AH at all, and I have three or four total from Expert, Artisan, and Master tiers. I'd like to get these as soon as I can so I can update my cooking guide, which is woefully expired. My local version is more up-to-date than the one I linked but still... need those recipes.

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