Depends on the tier and character. Usually my first few purchases are things the character will need (armor upgrades, healing potions, etc.). For Wizards, I try to save money for copying spells into a spellbook, as that gets expensive quick. For Clerics, after armor purchases, I tend to hold off so I have more to spend on expensive spell components that are consumed, such as the gem-encrusted bowl for Heroes' Feast.
My favorite use of gold was on my highest level character. I had around 40k gold saved up in Tier 3 and little to spend it on (crossbow Fighter). He is a goblin with the Pirate background, so I took a look at the various ships available. Purchased myself a Galley for 30k and paid the crew costs to man the ship with skilled workers for a day. Very next module I ran ended up being somewhat nautical themed, so we took my new galley out for a spin. It almost got sunk by another ship (whose crew we had been tasked with hunting down and killing), but we won the fight.
Not too long after, I ended up running through Tomb of Horrors and had more gold than I knew what to do with. So I bought more galleys. Now he controls a full fleet of them and still has thousands of gold leftover.
I've not seen anyone do it yet, but you can purchase Barding for your mount/companion(/familiar?) at 4x the cost of the regular armor. That could get pretty expensive, so it makes a decent gold sink.
Depends on the tier and character. Usually my first few purchases are things the character will need (armor upgrades, healing potions, etc.). For Wizards, I try to save money for copying spells into a spellbook, as that gets expensive quick. For Clerics, after armor purchases, I tend to hold off so I have more to spend on expensive spell components that are consumed, such as the gem-encrusted bowl for Heroes' Feast.
My favorite use of gold was on my highest level character. I had around 40k gold saved up in Tier 3 and little to spend it on (crossbow Fighter). He is a goblin with the Pirate background, so I took a look at the various ships available. Purchased myself a Galley for 30k and paid the crew costs to man the ship with skilled workers for a day. Very next module I ran ended up being somewhat nautical themed, so we took my new galley out for a spin. It almost got sunk by another ship (whose crew we had been tasked with hunting down and killing), but we won the fight.
Not too long after, I ended up running through Tomb of Horrors and had more gold than I knew what to do with. So I bought more galleys. Now he controls a full fleet of them and still has thousands of gold leftover.
I've not seen anyone do it yet, but you can purchase Barding for your mount/companion(/familiar?) at 4x the cost of the regular armor. That could get pretty expensive, so it makes a decent gold sink.
It appears this will change significantly under the new AL rules ...
Spells, spell components. Them spell components get really expensive at high levels.