This is zons guest post :)
Remote AH
You can use the Auction House remotely to check if your auctions have sold, and browse other auctions. If you want to buy or post items via Remote AH, you need to buy a subscription. It's good if you're at school or away from your computer. Just login at the WoW Armory, and select Auction House below the Search box.
Recipe Runs
I sometimes do a recipe run for some money. Basically I use the AddOn RecipeRadar, and buy all buyable recipes from every vendor, and then auction them. RecipeRadar shows all vendors who sell recipes, so it's easy, but time consuming having to fly from place to place. But it pays pretty well, since all the recipes are like 1g each, and you can sell them for 6g+.
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/recipe-radar.aspx
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Stockpiling inks for 4.0
In the patch 4.0 the cataclysm patch the glyph system will change, instead of when you change a glyph the one you had before is gone. The new system will be so that when you get a glyphs you "learn" it and you will be able to switch freely with that glyph. What this means is when 4.0 hit everyone is gone head for the auction house and buy out all the glyphs they do not have to learn all of them so they can switch between them when they need to.
So what can you do to make gold from this?
If you have a inscribe you can start learning all the minor and major glyphs from the book of glyph mastery and from the daily experiments. Even the glyphs that might not sell that well today will when 4.0 comes out.
You can also start stockpiling tons and tons of different inks being ready to craft tons of glyphs when 4.0 comes out. As it looks like right now there is no vendor to trade ink of the sea to the other inks so if you need to trade them in for another ink type you should do it before 4.0 hits otherwise your stuck with loads of ink of the sea but none of the other inks.
If you don't have a inscribe?
Then you can also stockpile both ink and northrend herbs, because there is always gone be people that haven't stockpiled or haven't stockpiled enough those people are going to head to the auction house to buy out herbs and inks to craft the glyphs they need/want to sell.
So basically everyone makes gold out of this change?
Yes I would say in the beginning everyone will but I would also say that this change will change the glyph market and how it works today. Because once the initial rush have settled and everyone got all the glyphs then there will be no reason to buy any more glyphs then to glyph up alts. The gold making community is split over this change is it a good thing or a bad thing? I think that it's a good thing but it might have some bad effects on the market and it might cause the glyph price to rise to make up for that glyphs will not sell in such a extent.
Though this is just theory crafting no one really knows what's going to happen and it's hard to predict.
edit: I checked the beta instead of trading ink of the sea you trade darkfallow ink and there is also another new ink called inferno ink. The trainer are not yet updated.
So what can you do to make gold from this?
If you have a inscribe you can start learning all the minor and major glyphs from the book of glyph mastery and from the daily experiments. Even the glyphs that might not sell that well today will when 4.0 comes out.
You can also start stockpiling tons and tons of different inks being ready to craft tons of glyphs when 4.0 comes out. As it looks like right now there is no vendor to trade ink of the sea to the other inks so if you need to trade them in for another ink type you should do it before 4.0 hits otherwise your stuck with loads of ink of the sea but none of the other inks.
If you don't have a inscribe?
Then you can also stockpile both ink and northrend herbs, because there is always gone be people that haven't stockpiled or haven't stockpiled enough those people are going to head to the auction house to buy out herbs and inks to craft the glyphs they need/want to sell.
So basically everyone makes gold out of this change?
Yes I would say in the beginning everyone will but I would also say that this change will change the glyph market and how it works today. Because once the initial rush have settled and everyone got all the glyphs then there will be no reason to buy any more glyphs then to glyph up alts. The gold making community is split over this change is it a good thing or a bad thing? I think that it's a good thing but it might have some bad effects on the market and it might cause the glyph price to rise to make up for that glyphs will not sell in such a extent.
Though this is just theory crafting no one really knows what's going to happen and it's hard to predict.
edit: I checked the beta instead of trading ink of the sea you trade darkfallow ink and there is also another new ink called inferno ink. The trainer are not yet updated.
Monday, August 30, 2010
From 1k gold to 2k gold
When you are at 1k gold you are at a delicate point, you don't have that much gold to spend and you have to think about every investment so you don't lose all your gold. You don't have enough money to spend on levelling a profession so I would say the smartest way to get to 2000 gold is by flipping and using the professions you already have.
Infinite dust
Only invest in safe stuff items that always sell for example I would try investing in infinite dust. Buy when it's low for example on my server I buy when it's at 1,5 gold each and sell when it's up to 1,7-2 gold each. This might not sound like a lot of profit but if you think about it if you buy 100g infinite dust (5 stacks) you would make 20-50g in profit. This is a sure sell because people always need infinite dust and even if you are not the one that has infinite dust up for the cheapest right at that time, people will buy up until they come to your items. I have found that most times there is no need to undercut on infinite dust it handles it self and if you just have some patients your auctions will sell. Best way to post infinite dust is in 1,5 and 20.
Borean leather to arctic fur
You can also buy borean leather and heavy borean leather and turn them into Arctic fur. If you do not have leather working yourself ask someone in your guild or a nice person in trade, I am sure you will find someone. You turn 60 borean leather (3 stacks) into 10 heavy borean leather and then you can trade them in to this guy http://www.wowhead.com/npc=32515 You get 1 arctic fur for 10 heavy borean leather. Arctic fur is also one of those items that always sell and is an sure deal that they sooner or later will sell.
Snatcher
Another thing I did when I started with auctioneering was when I saw someone in trade announcing that they wanted to buy an item for example icethorn, I would whisper them asking, How much they would pay for that icethorn? and if they would continue needing that item in the future. Often I would get the answer yes they would need that item in the future and they regularly bought them. So then I would add that person to my friends list and go to the auction house add icethorn on my snatch list for the a a bit less then the person wanted to buy it for. Now I waited until that item showed up on my snatch list, when it did I would buy them all out and whisper this person saying I got some items for you and go trade with them. It might not give you so much profit but if you have several people you sell items to you can make a decent profit.
This way was a good and safe way to make profit for me in the beginning, I didn't want to do resale because I wanted the money fast I wanted to be sure I would get my money. If you are not sure if the person still wants the item whisper him/her and ask before you buy out the items also a good thing to ask is how many they need so you don't buy to many of the item.
These are the three ways I used when I just started auctioneering and I wanted to be sure to progress with my gold making without any delay or lose of gold. All of these way are a guaranteed profit almost instantly depending on how high population you server has. But even on a low population server this will work you just need to have a bit more patients.
That's all for me missbanks at bronzebeard horde eu hope you have enjoyed my post for justmytwocopper.org blog carnival, please check out the rest of my blog :)
Infinite dust
Only invest in safe stuff items that always sell for example I would try investing in infinite dust. Buy when it's low for example on my server I buy when it's at 1,5 gold each and sell when it's up to 1,7-2 gold each. This might not sound like a lot of profit but if you think about it if you buy 100g infinite dust (5 stacks) you would make 20-50g in profit. This is a sure sell because people always need infinite dust and even if you are not the one that has infinite dust up for the cheapest right at that time, people will buy up until they come to your items. I have found that most times there is no need to undercut on infinite dust it handles it self and if you just have some patients your auctions will sell. Best way to post infinite dust is in 1,5 and 20.
Borean leather to arctic fur
You can also buy borean leather and heavy borean leather and turn them into Arctic fur. If you do not have leather working yourself ask someone in your guild or a nice person in trade, I am sure you will find someone. You turn 60 borean leather (3 stacks) into 10 heavy borean leather and then you can trade them in to this guy http://www.wowhead.com/npc=32515 You get 1 arctic fur for 10 heavy borean leather. Arctic fur is also one of those items that always sell and is an sure deal that they sooner or later will sell.
Snatcher
Another thing I did when I started with auctioneering was when I saw someone in trade announcing that they wanted to buy an item for example icethorn, I would whisper them asking, How much they would pay for that icethorn? and if they would continue needing that item in the future. Often I would get the answer yes they would need that item in the future and they regularly bought them. So then I would add that person to my friends list and go to the auction house add icethorn on my snatch list for the a a bit less then the person wanted to buy it for. Now I waited until that item showed up on my snatch list, when it did I would buy them all out and whisper this person saying I got some items for you and go trade with them. It might not give you so much profit but if you have several people you sell items to you can make a decent profit.
This way was a good and safe way to make profit for me in the beginning, I didn't want to do resale because I wanted the money fast I wanted to be sure I would get my money. If you are not sure if the person still wants the item whisper him/her and ask before you buy out the items also a good thing to ask is how many they need so you don't buy to many of the item.
These are the three ways I used when I just started auctioneering and I wanted to be sure to progress with my gold making without any delay or lose of gold. All of these way are a guaranteed profit almost instantly depending on how high population you server has. But even on a low population server this will work you just need to have a bit more patients.
That's all for me missbanks at bronzebeard horde eu hope you have enjoyed my post for justmytwocopper.org blog carnival, please check out the rest of my blog :)
Missbanks addon pack
Wanted to link my addon pack that i put together it has most of the important crafting and auctioneering addons.
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/packs/11538/default.aspx
To download this pack you need curse client 4 if you don't want to install it just check the addons i have listed an download it manually
Addons i have listed and what they do
Auctioneer= basic addon for scanning the auction house and post items. There are several others like this one but i like this one the best because of it's built in search features like resale and snatch list.
Gatherer= addon that saves the herbs/ores you and guildes gather and puts a icon on the minimap on the coordinates where the item was picked. Useful if you farm a lot and you can't remember where the items spawn.
Ackis recipe list= Shows you which recipes you miss and how to get them / where to get them. Really good if you want the chef title or any other achievement where you need a lot of recipes. Or if you just want a recipe so you can craft that item.
altoholic= Keeps track of all your characters on you account all they have in the bags on the what they can craft and so on. Necessary for ktq and some other addons.
Postal= a mail addon is a must if you deal with tons of addon, you don't have time to sit and click on each mail you. This is why you get postal, postal opens the mail with just one push of a button.
Quick auctions 3= a good addon for automatic posting and cancelling, really good if you want to undercut people on the items you sell.
lilsparky's workshop= creates a new window for you proffesions and makes it easy queuing up items and seeing what items you need to buy to craft what items. Needs altoholic to work properly
mailopener= Refreshes your mail box and together with postal you can go to the mail box and go afk and when you come back all your mails are opened or you bags are full :) really nice to use
Panda= addon i use for prospecting and milling. it uses a macro to easily prospect or mill with one push of a button
kevtool queue= addon to queue up items you want to craft for example /ktq queue 5 glyphs and it will queue up so all the glyphs. it uses altoholic to see how many you got so if you got 3 of a glyph on another char it will craft 2 more so you have a 5 of a total. Needs altoholic and sparkys workshop to work.
Elephant= a chat addon that saves all the talk so you can see what people are whispering you or what people are saying in trade without being disturbed by the spam of auctioneer.
Kev skilletitemstats= shows a little window next to the item to show how many you got of that item.
That's all the addons i have in my pack if you think i have forgot any good addons please leave a comment on this post and i will add that addon
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/packs/11538/default.aspx
To download this pack you need curse client 4 if you don't want to install it just check the addons i have listed an download it manually
Addons i have listed and what they do
Auctioneer= basic addon for scanning the auction house and post items. There are several others like this one but i like this one the best because of it's built in search features like resale and snatch list.
Gatherer= addon that saves the herbs/ores you and guildes gather and puts a icon on the minimap on the coordinates where the item was picked. Useful if you farm a lot and you can't remember where the items spawn.
Ackis recipe list= Shows you which recipes you miss and how to get them / where to get them. Really good if you want the chef title or any other achievement where you need a lot of recipes. Or if you just want a recipe so you can craft that item.
altoholic= Keeps track of all your characters on you account all they have in the bags on the what they can craft and so on. Necessary for ktq and some other addons.
Postal= a mail addon is a must if you deal with tons of addon, you don't have time to sit and click on each mail you. This is why you get postal, postal opens the mail with just one push of a button.
Quick auctions 3= a good addon for automatic posting and cancelling, really good if you want to undercut people on the items you sell.
lilsparky's workshop= creates a new window for you proffesions and makes it easy queuing up items and seeing what items you need to buy to craft what items. Needs altoholic to work properly
mailopener= Refreshes your mail box and together with postal you can go to the mail box and go afk and when you come back all your mails are opened or you bags are full :) really nice to use
Panda= addon i use for prospecting and milling. it uses a macro to easily prospect or mill with one push of a button
kevtool queue= addon to queue up items you want to craft for example /ktq queue 5 glyphs and it will queue up so all the glyphs. it uses altoholic to see how many you got so if you got 3 of a glyph on another char it will craft 2 more so you have a 5 of a total. Needs altoholic and sparkys workshop to work.
Elephant= a chat addon that saves all the talk so you can see what people are whispering you or what people are saying in trade without being disturbed by the spam of auctioneer.
Kev skilletitemstats= shows a little window next to the item to show how many you got of that item.
That's all the addons i have in my pack if you think i have forgot any good addons please leave a comment on this post and i will add that addon
Annother good item to stockpile for cata
You can read this post on justmytwocopper.org
The last week after getting my warrior to 80, and starting on the Shadowmourne quest, I've been thinking. Everyone loves orange stuff, and Shadowmourne is as orange as you can get it. I guess there will be people who would like to get their hands on a legendary axe, even after cata hits. Atm Primordial Saronite is going for 430-500 on my server, and they are still dropping in price. You need 30 Primordial Saronite for the axe. It doesn't drop that much in ICC and the other way to get it would be by trading frost emblems and after cata hits live realms, there wont be anyone farming these emblems anymore. My point is: its gonna be really hard for people to get Primordial Saronite for their legendary axes. Could Primordial Saronite be something to invest some gold into for the distant future? Will the supply be so low that it increases the value even though not that many people want it anymore?
Cheers
Spiff"
Haha I appreciate the spell check Spiff. You bring up a very interesting point. No one is going to want to farm the primordial saronite and if there is ANY kind of demand for people grouping up and wanting to start the chain for this weapon then I could see the price rising to 2k gold+ per saronite. That demand will most likely come from guilds trying to earn guild experience which will be awarded for each new legendary a guild creates. This will make all your primordial saronite in cataclysm worth far more than it is today.
It's an interesting idea for sure, just look at the price of mats for vanilla legendaries like blessed blade of the wind seeker and there isn't even guild experience to act as an incentive yet. I plan on buying out all the primordial saronite on my server the last few weeks of the expansion.
I have also seen in the beta that there are guild achievements for getting all legendary why should not shadowmourne be a part of this achievement. Because none will farm primordial saronite but still new guild or guilds that haven't gotten the shadowmourne are going to be willing to pay big amounts as a guild to get that legendary.
This could be a good stockpiling item but i recommend waiting a bit and see if this item is in the legendary achievement or not.
The last week after getting my warrior to 80, and starting on the Shadowmourne quest, I've been thinking. Everyone loves orange stuff, and Shadowmourne is as orange as you can get it. I guess there will be people who would like to get their hands on a legendary axe, even after cata hits. Atm Primordial Saronite is going for 430-500 on my server, and they are still dropping in price. You need 30 Primordial Saronite for the axe. It doesn't drop that much in ICC and the other way to get it would be by trading frost emblems and after cata hits live realms, there wont be anyone farming these emblems anymore. My point is: its gonna be really hard for people to get Primordial Saronite for their legendary axes. Could Primordial Saronite be something to invest some gold into for the distant future? Will the supply be so low that it increases the value even though not that many people want it anymore?
Cheers
Spiff"
Haha I appreciate the spell check Spiff. You bring up a very interesting point. No one is going to want to farm the primordial saronite and if there is ANY kind of demand for people grouping up and wanting to start the chain for this weapon then I could see the price rising to 2k gold+ per saronite. That demand will most likely come from guilds trying to earn guild experience which will be awarded for each new legendary a guild creates. This will make all your primordial saronite in cataclysm worth far more than it is today.
It's an interesting idea for sure, just look at the price of mats for vanilla legendaries like blessed blade of the wind seeker and there isn't even guild experience to act as an incentive yet. I plan on buying out all the primordial saronite on my server the last few weeks of the expansion.
I have also seen in the beta that there are guild achievements for getting all legendary why should not shadowmourne be a part of this achievement. Because none will farm primordial saronite but still new guild or guilds that haven't gotten the shadowmourne are going to be willing to pay big amounts as a guild to get that legendary.
This could be a good stockpiling item but i recommend waiting a bit and see if this item is in the legendary achievement or not.
Making extra gold with runescrolls
You can read this post on justmytwocopper.org
Well I thought about using my snowfall inks I get from milling and not just sell them to pay for the herbs,
so eventually I started using the snowfall inks for Runescrolls of Fortitude, which sell for 35g for a Stack of 5 on my server.
So when I buy Icethorn of the ah for about eight to ten gold a stack, I double my money before I crafted any Glyphs.
When I started the idea on the weekend, I sold 5 stacks in the first 20 minutes. During the Week they sell okay.
Just wanted to leave my advice here, since I used a lot of your advices as well.
Sincerly,
Dantol"
Dantol is spot on but he should also look into selling his runescrolls in stacks of 1, 2, 5 and 20. Many players choose to sell their snowfall inks for 5-10 gold a piece but that is far less gold than they are truly worth. Pricing of snowfall ink directly effects how much profit you can make on your glyph business as well as how low you can set your glyph threshold. Let's say you can sell a 5 stack of runescrolls for 35 gold, that means that your glyphs are practically free and pure profit! You could even set your glyphs to a 1 gold threshold and make a profit, though I wouldn't recommend that because it would be a waste of time posting them. Interesting concept huh? We discussed this to death on multiple episodes of Call to Auction, if you haven't looked into that podcast and are serious about making gold... well you should start now!
Maybe i should try this usually i only sell my snowfall ink and don't think that much more about it but this seems like a good way to make a bigger profit and push down the minimum sell price of your glyphs. I recommend trying this tip and seeing if it works for you :)
Well I thought about using my snowfall inks I get from milling and not just sell them to pay for the herbs,
so eventually I started using the snowfall inks for Runescrolls of Fortitude, which sell for 35g for a Stack of 5 on my server.
So when I buy Icethorn of the ah for about eight to ten gold a stack, I double my money before I crafted any Glyphs.
When I started the idea on the weekend, I sold 5 stacks in the first 20 minutes. During the Week they sell okay.
Just wanted to leave my advice here, since I used a lot of your advices as well.
Sincerly,
Dantol"
Dantol is spot on but he should also look into selling his runescrolls in stacks of 1, 2, 5 and 20. Many players choose to sell their snowfall inks for 5-10 gold a piece but that is far less gold than they are truly worth. Pricing of snowfall ink directly effects how much profit you can make on your glyph business as well as how low you can set your glyph threshold. Let's say you can sell a 5 stack of runescrolls for 35 gold, that means that your glyphs are practically free and pure profit! You could even set your glyphs to a 1 gold threshold and make a profit, though I wouldn't recommend that because it would be a waste of time posting them. Interesting concept huh? We discussed this to death on multiple episodes of Call to Auction, if you haven't looked into that podcast and are serious about making gold... well you should start now!
Maybe i should try this usually i only sell my snowfall ink and don't think that much more about it but this seems like a good way to make a bigger profit and push down the minimum sell price of your glyphs. I recommend trying this tip and seeing if it works for you :)
Starting to post a bit again
I am gone start posting a bit again, not as much and only when i got time,
Want to start saying that my alliance side have been going well and thanks to a friend that helped me transfer some stuff to the horde side i made about 50% profit of the items i bought. I bought recipes promodial saronite and pets, stuff that auctioneer cross faction recommended. I sent them to my friend and my friend posted them for 1c each. The fastest way to buy these up is to normally scan the auction house (only about 100 auction up on neutral ah) Then go into search tab and vendor. Because my friend post all the auctions for 1c all the items will show up as a good item to vendor. Then you just quickly buy them up before anyone else snatches them from you.
I bought 2 promdial saronite for 450g and i sold them in the same day for 580g each on horde side. Thats a good amount of quick earned money. The pets and recipes sell a bit slower but when they sell they give you even more profit.
You might think why post the auctions for 1c then people might snatch it why not post it for the actual price of the item? Well this is because the neutral auction house takes 15% of the amount you put it up for in "taxes". So the more you put the items up for the more it's gone cost you.
So if you have a good friend or a guildy that you trust i recommend you trying this, if you don't have any gold on horde side/alliance side you can always create a level one and borrow some money for a friend (like 5gold) and transfer some items from the other side to that character. The 5 gold will be enough to post pets and recipes for short duration. This way you can transfer gold to another side without having to pay the 15% tax and you can now start to auctioneer on both side and do some cross faction selling.
I hope this guide helped you a bit and if you have any problems you can find me at missbankstheah@gmail.com or on missbanks on bronzebeard horde
Want to start saying that my alliance side have been going well and thanks to a friend that helped me transfer some stuff to the horde side i made about 50% profit of the items i bought. I bought recipes promodial saronite and pets, stuff that auctioneer cross faction recommended. I sent them to my friend and my friend posted them for 1c each. The fastest way to buy these up is to normally scan the auction house (only about 100 auction up on neutral ah) Then go into search tab and vendor. Because my friend post all the auctions for 1c all the items will show up as a good item to vendor. Then you just quickly buy them up before anyone else snatches them from you.
I bought 2 promdial saronite for 450g and i sold them in the same day for 580g each on horde side. Thats a good amount of quick earned money. The pets and recipes sell a bit slower but when they sell they give you even more profit.
You might think why post the auctions for 1c then people might snatch it why not post it for the actual price of the item? Well this is because the neutral auction house takes 15% of the amount you put it up for in "taxes". So the more you put the items up for the more it's gone cost you.
So if you have a good friend or a guildy that you trust i recommend you trying this, if you don't have any gold on horde side/alliance side you can always create a level one and borrow some money for a friend (like 5gold) and transfer some items from the other side to that character. The 5 gold will be enough to post pets and recipes for short duration. This way you can transfer gold to another side without having to pay the 15% tax and you can now start to auctioneer on both side and do some cross faction selling.
I hope this guide helped you a bit and if you have any problems you can find me at missbankstheah@gmail.com or on missbanks on bronzebeard horde
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Guest post
Guest post by flamedeath
Gatherer is a brilliant addon for mining herbalism and more proffesions.It's mostly good for remembering where the nodes herbs lockboxes and many more are..What it does is
remember where you or a guild member with the same addon herbed,mined,lockpicked maybe even skinned before you dont have to actuly take the item you could just click it instead.The database keeps a record of what you have taken,how far away it is,what region,who picked it up and co-ordinates.It also shows where they are on the map.And many more features.In my opinion I think this addon's great I got from 1-450 herbalism in less then a day and will soon begin mining hope the addon helps :)..Flamesdeath
Gatherer is a brilliant addon for mining herbalism and more proffesions.It's mostly good for remembering where the nodes herbs lockboxes and many more are..What it does is
remember where you or a guild member with the same addon herbed,mined,lockpicked maybe even skinned before you dont have to actuly take the item you could just click it instead.The database keeps a record of what you have taken,how far away it is,what region,who picked it up and co-ordinates.It also shows where they are on the map.And many more features.In my opinion I think this addon's great I got from 1-450 herbalism in less then a day and will soon begin mining hope the addon helps :)..Flamesdeath
Monday, August 23, 2010
Taking a break
taking a break from posting and auctioneering cause i don't have that much time to spend playing wow. I will keep auctioneering on the server so you will still see me online but i wont be online as much. If you want help with anything i will still be able to help you just give me a whisper. To check my old posts go to the-ah.blogspot.com and check the archives at the bottom of the page
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Orb of deception
I've never seen. I usually wouldnt tell anyone this tip but I wouldn't mind
a free gold guide :P
The particular item being sold is Orb of Deception
This can fetch up to 3,000g
This is a rare world drop, except the rare spawns in the Dire Maul arena
have a fair chance to drop it. What I do is I take one of my 80s that I dont
play. In this case, my mage. I log off in the arena and everytime I hop on
WoW to do my banking etc, I'll take a peek on him. Even when the rare does
not drop the Orb of Deception, he drops 2 boe blues which can often fetch a
fair price on the AH
- Scy"
As an addendum to Scy's email, I'd like to make the point that these items are incredibly easy to flip for 150-300% market value. The reason I'm saying this is that you don't necessarily have to farm Orbs of Deception in order to profit off them. In fact, these items are constantly being put up for cheap because there is so little competition, meaning that posters are posting "blind" so to speak without a concept of market value.
Nice post Scy, I'm sort of shocked I've never discussed this before on the blog... anyways thanks for a good tip and no sorry no free gold guide. I only give out about 1-3 freebies per month to people who don't ask for it in the first place. The best time to look for the rare spawn is as soon as a server comes on line and then every half hour afterwards for the next four hours or so.
a free gold guide :P
The particular item being sold is Orb of Deception
This can fetch up to 3,000g
This is a rare world drop, except the rare spawns in the Dire Maul arena
have a fair chance to drop it. What I do is I take one of my 80s that I dont
play. In this case, my mage. I log off in the arena and everytime I hop on
WoW to do my banking etc, I'll take a peek on him. Even when the rare does
not drop the Orb of Deception, he drops 2 boe blues which can often fetch a
fair price on the AH
- Scy"
As an addendum to Scy's email, I'd like to make the point that these items are incredibly easy to flip for 150-300% market value. The reason I'm saying this is that you don't necessarily have to farm Orbs of Deception in order to profit off them. In fact, these items are constantly being put up for cheap because there is so little competition, meaning that posters are posting "blind" so to speak without a concept of market value.
Nice post Scy, I'm sort of shocked I've never discussed this before on the blog... anyways thanks for a good tip and no sorry no free gold guide. I only give out about 1-3 freebies per month to people who don't ask for it in the first place. The best time to look for the rare spawn is as soon as a server comes on line and then every half hour afterwards for the next four hours or so.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Interview with a gold seller and a boter
Found a interview with a boter and a gold seller and it's good so i wanted to link it too you guys http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d2rfj/iama_wow_bot_runner_i_have_over_100_bots_running/
The winner
The winner is number 16 falroxan contact me so i know what character to trade/send the money too :)
roll
Will give everyone a number :)
1 Epäkuollut
2 Magiikzz!
3 Killabank!
4Feraketh
5 Garlicsoap
6 dairygirl
7Fénrir
8Flamesdeath
9Thanzi
10 Anon
11 Xuk
12Blarus
13 Plutonium
14 edthalan
15 Thaln
16 Falroxan
17 rosieanna
okey posting this then the poste after will be a screen of the roll and the winning number :)
1 Epäkuollut
2 Magiikzz!
3 Killabank!
4Feraketh
5 Garlicsoap
6 dairygirl
7Fénrir
8Flamesdeath
9Thanzi
10 Anon
11 Xuk
12Blarus
13 Plutonium
14 edthalan
15 Thaln
16 Falroxan
17 rosieanna
okey posting this then the poste after will be a screen of the roll and the winning number :)
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Re posting
I will post all the comments here because people are habing trouble finding the right post
Anon said...
How about you pay your editor first :P
August 17, 2010 3:05 PM
Missbanks said...
xD i will got the cash for both xD
August 17, 2010 3:08 PM
Anonymous said...
Epäkuollut
August 17, 2010 3:30 PM
bobbyg_2009 said...
Magiikzz!
August 17, 2010 3:32 PM
Anonymous said...
Killabank!
August 17, 2010 4:04 PM
Feraketh said...
This is the winning comment.
August 17, 2010 5:42 PM
Garlicsoap said...
this Blog sucks.. but i can take the money
August 17, 2010 5:44 PM
Missbanks said...
hey :(
August 17, 2010 5:45 PM
Anonymous said...
haaay missbanks! dairygirl here :)
August 17, 2010 5:53 PM
bobbyg_2009 said...
@Garlicsoap, I think that You are very rude to just put down your name for the compotition just for the money, Even if you do not like the site you should not have said it in that way. This blog does not suck and as you can see missbanks puts alot into running it, if i were missbanks i would not let you enter for saying such a horrible thing!
August 17, 2010 5:55 PM
Anonymous said...
Hai, Fénrir here lol
August 17, 2010 6:03 PM
Garlicsoap said...
Making more Comments doubles your chances to win right?
August 17, 2010 6:13 PM
Garlicsoap said...
Then this must trible it
August 17, 2010 6:14 PM
Flamesdeath said...
GOOOOO FH WOOP YEH...PS garlicsoap wants to ninja gold for his shadows edge!! >:O ;P
>Flamesdeath Bronzebeard<
August 17, 2010 6:17 PM
Flamesdeath said...
and hey ljoee :P
August 17, 2010 6:33 PM
Thanzi said...
Informative blog i think. Keep it up :)
August 17, 2010 6:57 PM
Garlicsoap said...
Btw.. i allready have shadow's edge..and the souls.. i need 25man PP now
PS. im so going to win this
August 17, 2010 7:02 PM
Anon said...
I can delete all the posts and take the winnings for myself! Haha
August 17, 2010 7:09 PM
Missbanks said...
XD
August 17, 2010 7:29 PM
Anonymous said...
Xuk is the name :)
August 17, 2010 7:37 PM
Blarus said...
GIF ZE GOLD
>BLARUS<
August 18, 2010 5:52 PM
Plutonium said...
Gold is always nice...
Maybe a bit late, but Plutonium loves gold!
August 19, 2010 4:01 PM
Missbanks said...
this is edthalan. edthalan likes sharp things. I suggest you run from edthalan.
Edit posted on wrong post now moved
August 19, 2010 4:35 PM
Anon said...
How about you pay your editor first :P
August 17, 2010 3:05 PM
Missbanks said...
xD i will got the cash for both xD
August 17, 2010 3:08 PM
Anonymous said...
Epäkuollut
August 17, 2010 3:30 PM
bobbyg_2009 said...
Magiikzz!
August 17, 2010 3:32 PM
Anonymous said...
Killabank!
August 17, 2010 4:04 PM
Feraketh said...
This is the winning comment.
August 17, 2010 5:42 PM
Garlicsoap said...
this Blog sucks.. but i can take the money
August 17, 2010 5:44 PM
Missbanks said...
hey :(
August 17, 2010 5:45 PM
Anonymous said...
haaay missbanks! dairygirl here :)
August 17, 2010 5:53 PM
bobbyg_2009 said...
@Garlicsoap, I think that You are very rude to just put down your name for the compotition just for the money, Even if you do not like the site you should not have said it in that way. This blog does not suck and as you can see missbanks puts alot into running it, if i were missbanks i would not let you enter for saying such a horrible thing!
August 17, 2010 5:55 PM
Anonymous said...
Hai, Fénrir here lol
August 17, 2010 6:03 PM
Garlicsoap said...
Making more Comments doubles your chances to win right?
August 17, 2010 6:13 PM
Garlicsoap said...
Then this must trible it
August 17, 2010 6:14 PM
Flamesdeath said...
GOOOOO FH WOOP YEH...PS garlicsoap wants to ninja gold for his shadows edge!! >:O ;P
>Flamesdeath Bronzebeard<
August 17, 2010 6:17 PM
Flamesdeath said...
and hey ljoee :P
August 17, 2010 6:33 PM
Thanzi said...
Informative blog i think. Keep it up :)
August 17, 2010 6:57 PM
Garlicsoap said...
Btw.. i allready have shadow's edge..and the souls.. i need 25man PP now
PS. im so going to win this
August 17, 2010 7:02 PM
Anon said...
I can delete all the posts and take the winnings for myself! Haha
August 17, 2010 7:09 PM
Missbanks said...
XD
August 17, 2010 7:29 PM
Anonymous said...
Xuk is the name :)
August 17, 2010 7:37 PM
Blarus said...
GIF ZE GOLD
>BLARUS<
August 18, 2010 5:52 PM
Plutonium said...
Gold is always nice...
Maybe a bit late, but Plutonium loves gold!
August 19, 2010 4:01 PM
Missbanks said...
this is edthalan. edthalan likes sharp things. I suggest you run from edthalan.
Edit posted on wrong post now moved
August 19, 2010 4:35 PM
how to "un-stuck"
Many readers here send me messages, tweets, make posts on the forums or find some other way to get in touch with me because they are stuck at a certain amount of gold. It could be any amount really, I swear I've heard everything from 5 gold, 1,000 gold, 20,000 gold, 140,000 gold, etc. They all say the same thing even though they are at completely different levels of success.
How can someone who is at 140,000 gold join in saying the same complaint as a person struggling to break 5 gold, namely "I can't get higher than my current amount"? Let's look at the factors involved which could cause someone to conclude that they are "stuck" at a certain level of gold.
Living Within Your Means
Living within your current means is an important part of the game. Just like everyone's gold intake is different, so too is the amount of money they can spend without losing gold. There are definitely a few ways you can curb the excessive spending and start living within your means:
* Don't upgrade gear you know you will replace soon.
* Ask guildies to make you gear, enchant items or cut gems.
* If you must upgrade something that will not last a long time, ie outland/northrend leveling pieces with gem slots, buy uncommon gems instead of rare or epic ones.
* Go pick up vendor items instead of buying them on the auction house, even if it may take some time to go get them.
* Avoid using the same gear for multiple purposes and having to constantly switch gems and/or enchants.
* Pick two specs and stay with them. If you do not have dual specs be sure to make that your first priority if you are wasting money on respecing.
* Avoid spamming potions and eating feasts when it is just not necessary (ie when learning a pve fight for the first time or when you out gear instances).
Doing Everything You Can to Make Gold
The issue of living within your means is but one reason why a player might make the comment that they are "stuck." Another reason could be that they are not doing everything they can to make gold. There are several simple things you should do while leveling, questing and instancing.
* Loot everything and sell what you can on the auction house instead of to the vendors. If you are a tank try to still loot mobs that are yours without running ahead. Figure out the loot order of the mobs and know when you can run to the next pack since none of the current mobs on you will drop loot.
* Find a way to add dailies into your gaming experience. This could be to get rep with a certain faction or succeed at some sort of achievement. My brother got lore seeker and made probably 25,000 gold from item drops and questing income.
* When posting on the auction house, don't just use whatever value the game puts in for you or even auctioneer. Manually set the price after shift clicking on the item and pressing enter to search the current values.
* Don't just post for the lowest value, if you know the market then post what the item is worth and allow demand to take out the undercutters.
* Use all of your professions to make gold, in fact you can simply search under the profession's name and find dozens of tips on this blog for each I'm sure.
If you address these two areas, living within your means and making efforts to get the gold you should be getting from your normal play experience then you should be well on your way to slowly increasing your current income.
How can someone who is at 140,000 gold join in saying the same complaint as a person struggling to break 5 gold, namely "I can't get higher than my current amount"? Let's look at the factors involved which could cause someone to conclude that they are "stuck" at a certain level of gold.
Living Within Your Means
Living within your current means is an important part of the game. Just like everyone's gold intake is different, so too is the amount of money they can spend without losing gold. There are definitely a few ways you can curb the excessive spending and start living within your means:
* Don't upgrade gear you know you will replace soon.
* Ask guildies to make you gear, enchant items or cut gems.
* If you must upgrade something that will not last a long time, ie outland/northrend leveling pieces with gem slots, buy uncommon gems instead of rare or epic ones.
* Go pick up vendor items instead of buying them on the auction house, even if it may take some time to go get them.
* Avoid using the same gear for multiple purposes and having to constantly switch gems and/or enchants.
* Pick two specs and stay with them. If you do not have dual specs be sure to make that your first priority if you are wasting money on respecing.
* Avoid spamming potions and eating feasts when it is just not necessary (ie when learning a pve fight for the first time or when you out gear instances).
Doing Everything You Can to Make Gold
The issue of living within your means is but one reason why a player might make the comment that they are "stuck." Another reason could be that they are not doing everything they can to make gold. There are several simple things you should do while leveling, questing and instancing.
* Loot everything and sell what you can on the auction house instead of to the vendors. If you are a tank try to still loot mobs that are yours without running ahead. Figure out the loot order of the mobs and know when you can run to the next pack since none of the current mobs on you will drop loot.
* Find a way to add dailies into your gaming experience. This could be to get rep with a certain faction or succeed at some sort of achievement. My brother got lore seeker and made probably 25,000 gold from item drops and questing income.
* When posting on the auction house, don't just use whatever value the game puts in for you or even auctioneer. Manually set the price after shift clicking on the item and pressing enter to search the current values.
* Don't just post for the lowest value, if you know the market then post what the item is worth and allow demand to take out the undercutters.
* Use all of your professions to make gold, in fact you can simply search under the profession's name and find dozens of tips on this blog for each I'm sure.
If you address these two areas, living within your means and making efforts to get the gold you should be getting from your normal play experience then you should be well on your way to slowly increasing your current income.
Great posts by marcko
A good post from marcko on some tips how to start making gold
Players frequently email me and ask me what professions they should take on their characters. Often they are their first two professions and they have leveled a gathering one perhaps but that's it. They have big dreams of playing the auction house and making lots of gold so the first thing they assume they should do is level a crafting profession to max level. What happens next is their enthusiasm eventually wanes because they don't like the vast amount of gold they're losing while skilling up in comparison to how easily they made gold leveling their gathering profession. Soon they give up and go back to gathering to make their gold.
Are you one of these people? Want to know the best way to start playing the auction house for the first time?
I. Farming and Posting
* Step 0: Get auctioneer and scan every 12 hours if possible.
* Step 1: Go kill boars or crawlers.
* Step 2: Look at the auction house for the items you picked up.
* Step 3: Ask yourself, what is someone willing to pay for this item? Would I buy a piece of boar meat for 1 gold if I needed to skill up my cooking?
* Step 4: Analyze the values on the auction house and ignore ridiculously priced items while buying up really cheap ones. Use auctioneer to see how the values match up against market value using the PCT column.
* Step 5: Relist your items but do not flood the market. Estimate how many you think you'll sell in one day or however long you list your items for.
* Step 6: Using trial and error, see how many sell and when depending on day of the week and amount posted as well as competition present. It's a learning experience even at this level.
II. Vendors and Market Management
* Step 1: Buy vendor items such as enchanting mats or pets.
* Step 2: Analyze the auction house. Post one to two of each pet but no more.
* Step 3: Manage your inventory based on how many pets you can sell in a week. Do you only sell two snakes per week? Buy two to three each week to keep your stock up.
* Step 4: Cancel pets when you get on the auction house that are below the lowest value as long as you're still making a profit. Buy out pets below or darn close to vendor value.
* Step 5: Experiment with posting more expensive than normal when there is no competition.
III. Craftables
* Step 1: Figure out if you can get the mats for an item cheap through trade or the auction house by looking every day. Learn when the cheapest deals appear when demand becomes bigger than the supply of the materials in question. Stay completely stocked, buy out all items below the price you're willing to pay for it.
* Step 2: Figure out what range you'd like to sell your items at. Undercut down to your range and buy out people below your range.
* Step 3: Craft and sell. Keep as many on stock as possible of high selling items.
* Step 4: Let some undercutters exist if your market has steady demand. You don't have to be the lowest price to sell in a 48 hour period on most items.
Players frequently email me and ask me what professions they should take on their characters. Often they are their first two professions and they have leveled a gathering one perhaps but that's it. They have big dreams of playing the auction house and making lots of gold so the first thing they assume they should do is level a crafting profession to max level. What happens next is their enthusiasm eventually wanes because they don't like the vast amount of gold they're losing while skilling up in comparison to how easily they made gold leveling their gathering profession. Soon they give up and go back to gathering to make their gold.
Are you one of these people? Want to know the best way to start playing the auction house for the first time?
I. Farming and Posting
* Step 0: Get auctioneer and scan every 12 hours if possible.
* Step 1: Go kill boars or crawlers.
* Step 2: Look at the auction house for the items you picked up.
* Step 3: Ask yourself, what is someone willing to pay for this item? Would I buy a piece of boar meat for 1 gold if I needed to skill up my cooking?
* Step 4: Analyze the values on the auction house and ignore ridiculously priced items while buying up really cheap ones. Use auctioneer to see how the values match up against market value using the PCT column.
* Step 5: Relist your items but do not flood the market. Estimate how many you think you'll sell in one day or however long you list your items for.
* Step 6: Using trial and error, see how many sell and when depending on day of the week and amount posted as well as competition present. It's a learning experience even at this level.
II. Vendors and Market Management
* Step 1: Buy vendor items such as enchanting mats or pets.
* Step 2: Analyze the auction house. Post one to two of each pet but no more.
* Step 3: Manage your inventory based on how many pets you can sell in a week. Do you only sell two snakes per week? Buy two to three each week to keep your stock up.
* Step 4: Cancel pets when you get on the auction house that are below the lowest value as long as you're still making a profit. Buy out pets below or darn close to vendor value.
* Step 5: Experiment with posting more expensive than normal when there is no competition.
III. Craftables
* Step 1: Figure out if you can get the mats for an item cheap through trade or the auction house by looking every day. Learn when the cheapest deals appear when demand becomes bigger than the supply of the materials in question. Stay completely stocked, buy out all items below the price you're willing to pay for it.
* Step 2: Figure out what range you'd like to sell your items at. Undercut down to your range and buy out people below your range.
* Step 3: Craft and sell. Keep as many on stock as possible of high selling items.
* Step 4: Let some undercutters exist if your market has steady demand. You don't have to be the lowest price to sell in a 48 hour period on most items.
Reduction of posts
I will probably only post on weekends or if i have some time on weekdays, because i have started school again so wont have as much time as before.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Contest
The winner will be announced at Thursday evening, so you still have time to leave a comment on the post. Nice to see that we have got 20 comments :)
Markco's stockpile for cataclysm
Markco posted a great post about stockpiling in ctaclysm on justmytwocopper
Check Out 20kLeveling.com!
20K Leveling Gold Guide: Prepare for Cataclysm! [New Lite Print Version]
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Top 10 Items to Stockpile in order to prepare for the Cataclysm Expansion
Share
Ok so I don't always buy my alts the best gear in the world...
I decided to finally sit down and write about the top ten items I see rising in price during the upcoming Cataclysm Expansion that you can start stockpiling immediately. In the comments section feel free to naysay any of my top ten or suggest your own additions you deem better than my own list.
Item #1: Saronite Ore
I spoke about stockpiling saronite ore for cataclysm already on Ferraro’s blog, but let me reiterate the main reason to start stocking up on saronite: Transmute Titanium. Alchemists (and there will be a lot of new goblin alchemists) are going to be chomping at the bit for fast, sure fire skill ups getting those last few skill ups before they can use the new cataclysm materials. Transmute titanium is the answer to all their leveling issues.
Economic Analysis: Saronite ore can be purchased for near vendor price currently which means that there is very little risk behind buying the ore and crafting it into bars while preparing for the expansion. Low risk, Medium reward.
Item #2: Pets
With the changes to Azeroth scheduled to be released when cataclysm goes live, it is possible that several vendor pets and rare drops could disappear forever. Two examples of the pets I’m referring to would be the black tabby cat or ancona chicken. Since these items will sell even if a vendor is added to stormwind and orgrimmar (there are plenty of vendor items that sell for 200-400% markup!) there is almost no risk involved in stockpiling pets for cataclysm. With all those new characters I’m sure there will be a quite a few achievement hunters among them.
Economic Analysis: Since pets will sell regardless of who sells them you will get at least some money back in the worst case scenario and have priceless pets in the best case scenario since the playerbase will no longer have a source to get more of them. Medium risk, High reward.
Item #3: Netherweave Bags
Netherweave bags ALWAYS sell. I have no doubt in my mind that the market for these will explode when the first goblins and worgens step foot inside the auction house.
Economic Analysis: 99.99999% chance of profit stockpiling these beauties. Low risk, High reward.
Item #4: Infinite Dust
This item falls into the category of leveling materials that what will be required to reach the skill ups necessary for cataclysm level enchanting. I expect that they will rise in price over the course of the expansion to sit around the 4.5 gold mark per dust. With inflation it could get even higher and since you can occasionally find dust as cheap as 50 silver this is an easy investment with very little risk involved.
Economic Analysis: The price cannot possibly get lower on infinite dust as it is going to be required to level up efficiently prior to cataclysm skill ups in the expansion. Low risk, High reward.
Item #5: Lesser Cosmic Essences
Greater Cosmic Essences sell for about 20 gold each and their lesser cousins for approximately 9 gold each today. I expect these to go up to around 30 gold for greaters and 15 gold for lesser. Pure speculation based entirely on guesswork, it could turn out that infinite dust is all you need to level through the wotlk skill ups in cataclysm in which case saving these would be pointless.
Economic Analysis: Chances are the lessers will still be very valuable in cataclysm but be accepting of the fact that you may take a loss with this investment! High risk, Medium reward.
Item #6: Cobalt Bars
Cobalt is going to be essential for engineering and blacksmithing leveling (jewelcrafters will most likely prospect the cheaper saronite ore unless of course no one entering saronite zones in cataclysm because they stay in starter wotlk zones changes that). Having a healthy stockpile will probably net you decent returns in Cataclysm and if you asked me to guess… oh you are asking me? Ok well in my humble and experienced opinion cobalt bars will sit around 50 gold per stack in the expansion.
Economic Analysis: Medium risk, High reward.
Item #7: Alchemy Leveling Kits
Ok so this really is a collection of items but the idea is that you gather all the materials needed to powerlevel someone from 1 to 450 alchemy and you sell it. The only problem is that leveling requirements and recipes could change drastically in cataclysm. There’s no guarantee that your stockpile will even work! However, the rewards for doing this are massive, in saving someone the time to gather the materials themselves they will often be willing to pay THOUSANDS of gold more than the items are worth as a whole. I’ve sold alchemy and blacksmithing kits for 4k profit and come cataclysm I wouldn’t be surprised to see kits worth 2.5k going for 7-8k gold easily.
Economic Analysis: High risk, High reward.
Item #8: Enchanting Scrolls for BOA Gear
Low level characters wearing their fancy smancy BOA gear have no reason NOT to enchant it. Although many people have boa gear already, there is still the chance that they decide to create a character on a new realm or a class which does not have the BOA gear already. In either scenario they will need enchants and lots of them! Popular ones will be speed to boots, enchant chest health, enchant chest mana, firey, crusader and spell power to weapon. There’s still plenty of time before cataclysm to get a healthy supply of these into your guild bank and ready for the wave of new levelers eager to enhance their characters.
Economic Analysis: Low risk, High reward.
Item #9: Borean Leather
This is an item I’ve not seen anyone talk about when preparing for cataclysm. That’s a good thing too for people wise enough to start stockpiling it today as I predict prices for borean leather will reach the 35-55 gold mark per stack during the expansion. Right now it goes for about 20 gold a stack so that’s a pretty nice profit margin if I’m right! No matter what the price should remain as high as it is today so you will at worst break even or at best double your money.
Economic Analysis: Low risk, High reward.
Item #10: Crystallized Water and Earth
These are super cheap right now (buy in eternal form, not crystallized since it’s cheaper) and are needed by engineers to level engineering into the cataclysm skill up range. Again, this is an item I’ve not seen anyone suggest stockpiling and I expect it to be quite valuable come cataclysm, maybe even 1-3 gold per crystallized element. Considering the fact that these go for less than 50 silver that’s quite a lot of profit! The only downside is that if these don’t sell you will pretty much be stuck with them as they won’t be necessary for any other leveling professions when cataclysm hits.
Check Out 20kLeveling.com!
20K Leveling Gold Guide: Prepare for Cataclysm! [New Lite Print Version]
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Top 10 Items to Stockpile in order to prepare for the Cataclysm Expansion
Share
Ok so I don't always buy my alts the best gear in the world...
I decided to finally sit down and write about the top ten items I see rising in price during the upcoming Cataclysm Expansion that you can start stockpiling immediately. In the comments section feel free to naysay any of my top ten or suggest your own additions you deem better than my own list.
Item #1: Saronite Ore
I spoke about stockpiling saronite ore for cataclysm already on Ferraro’s blog, but let me reiterate the main reason to start stocking up on saronite: Transmute Titanium. Alchemists (and there will be a lot of new goblin alchemists) are going to be chomping at the bit for fast, sure fire skill ups getting those last few skill ups before they can use the new cataclysm materials. Transmute titanium is the answer to all their leveling issues.
Economic Analysis: Saronite ore can be purchased for near vendor price currently which means that there is very little risk behind buying the ore and crafting it into bars while preparing for the expansion. Low risk, Medium reward.
Item #2: Pets
With the changes to Azeroth scheduled to be released when cataclysm goes live, it is possible that several vendor pets and rare drops could disappear forever. Two examples of the pets I’m referring to would be the black tabby cat or ancona chicken. Since these items will sell even if a vendor is added to stormwind and orgrimmar (there are plenty of vendor items that sell for 200-400% markup!) there is almost no risk involved in stockpiling pets for cataclysm. With all those new characters I’m sure there will be a quite a few achievement hunters among them.
Economic Analysis: Since pets will sell regardless of who sells them you will get at least some money back in the worst case scenario and have priceless pets in the best case scenario since the playerbase will no longer have a source to get more of them. Medium risk, High reward.
Item #3: Netherweave Bags
Netherweave bags ALWAYS sell. I have no doubt in my mind that the market for these will explode when the first goblins and worgens step foot inside the auction house.
Economic Analysis: 99.99999% chance of profit stockpiling these beauties. Low risk, High reward.
Item #4: Infinite Dust
This item falls into the category of leveling materials that what will be required to reach the skill ups necessary for cataclysm level enchanting. I expect that they will rise in price over the course of the expansion to sit around the 4.5 gold mark per dust. With inflation it could get even higher and since you can occasionally find dust as cheap as 50 silver this is an easy investment with very little risk involved.
Economic Analysis: The price cannot possibly get lower on infinite dust as it is going to be required to level up efficiently prior to cataclysm skill ups in the expansion. Low risk, High reward.
Item #5: Lesser Cosmic Essences
Greater Cosmic Essences sell for about 20 gold each and their lesser cousins for approximately 9 gold each today. I expect these to go up to around 30 gold for greaters and 15 gold for lesser. Pure speculation based entirely on guesswork, it could turn out that infinite dust is all you need to level through the wotlk skill ups in cataclysm in which case saving these would be pointless.
Economic Analysis: Chances are the lessers will still be very valuable in cataclysm but be accepting of the fact that you may take a loss with this investment! High risk, Medium reward.
Item #6: Cobalt Bars
Cobalt is going to be essential for engineering and blacksmithing leveling (jewelcrafters will most likely prospect the cheaper saronite ore unless of course no one entering saronite zones in cataclysm because they stay in starter wotlk zones changes that). Having a healthy stockpile will probably net you decent returns in Cataclysm and if you asked me to guess… oh you are asking me? Ok well in my humble and experienced opinion cobalt bars will sit around 50 gold per stack in the expansion.
Economic Analysis: Medium risk, High reward.
Item #7: Alchemy Leveling Kits
Ok so this really is a collection of items but the idea is that you gather all the materials needed to powerlevel someone from 1 to 450 alchemy and you sell it. The only problem is that leveling requirements and recipes could change drastically in cataclysm. There’s no guarantee that your stockpile will even work! However, the rewards for doing this are massive, in saving someone the time to gather the materials themselves they will often be willing to pay THOUSANDS of gold more than the items are worth as a whole. I’ve sold alchemy and blacksmithing kits for 4k profit and come cataclysm I wouldn’t be surprised to see kits worth 2.5k going for 7-8k gold easily.
Economic Analysis: High risk, High reward.
Item #8: Enchanting Scrolls for BOA Gear
Low level characters wearing their fancy smancy BOA gear have no reason NOT to enchant it. Although many people have boa gear already, there is still the chance that they decide to create a character on a new realm or a class which does not have the BOA gear already. In either scenario they will need enchants and lots of them! Popular ones will be speed to boots, enchant chest health, enchant chest mana, firey, crusader and spell power to weapon. There’s still plenty of time before cataclysm to get a healthy supply of these into your guild bank and ready for the wave of new levelers eager to enhance their characters.
Economic Analysis: Low risk, High reward.
Item #9: Borean Leather
This is an item I’ve not seen anyone talk about when preparing for cataclysm. That’s a good thing too for people wise enough to start stockpiling it today as I predict prices for borean leather will reach the 35-55 gold mark per stack during the expansion. Right now it goes for about 20 gold a stack so that’s a pretty nice profit margin if I’m right! No matter what the price should remain as high as it is today so you will at worst break even or at best double your money.
Economic Analysis: Low risk, High reward.
Item #10: Crystallized Water and Earth
These are super cheap right now (buy in eternal form, not crystallized since it’s cheaper) and are needed by engineers to level engineering into the cataclysm skill up range. Again, this is an item I’ve not seen anyone suggest stockpiling and I expect it to be quite valuable come cataclysm, maybe even 1-3 gold per crystallized element. Considering the fact that these go for less than 50 silver that’s quite a lot of profit! The only downside is that if these don’t sell you will pretty much be stuck with them as they won’t be necessary for any other leveling professions when cataclysm hits.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
flickr account
Created a new flickr account to easier upload the pictures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53157643@N08/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53157643@N08/
Making gold converting borean leather
Leatherworking has always been a very profitable and stable way to make gold in world of warcraft, especially during wrath of the lich king. Here's how to make gold with the leatherworking staple: Borean Leather.
The simplest way to make gold with borean leather as a leatherworker is to take 60 borean leather and turn it into 10 heavy borean leather, then trade those in at Dalaran for an arctic fur. The easiest way to determine if a stack of borean leather is worth buying for this purpose is to multiply the stack by three and see if the value is cheaper than an arctic fur. Usually the arctic fur is worth about 115-140% of the value of the 60 borean leather.
Heavy Borean Leather can be turned into many things, all of which can be very profitable and only the mammoth mining bag requires faction rep to craft. The drums of the wild, drums of forgotten kings, pack of endless pockets, nerubian leg armor, jormungar leg armor and heavy borean armor armor are all profitable items to craft with Heavy Borean Leather.
Arctic Fur, if you choose not to sell it raw, can be crafted into three epic leg armors which sell for a little more than what you'd get just selling the arctic furs straight back to the auction house after trading in your Heavy Borean Leather. The epic leg armor kits are Icescale, Earthen and Frosthide leg armor.
Markco's video
Markco have made a new advertisement video 5 stages to gold cap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USoprONkORo&playnext=1&videos=H221AlNUotE&feature=sub
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USoprONkORo&playnext=1&videos=H221AlNUotE&feature=sub
Comment contest
I am now gone try a comment contest, if you want to be a part of it leave a comment which has your character name on bronzebeard. I am gone /roll in world of warcraft so if there are 10 comments i will do a /roll 1-10 and the number it comes on i will give 4000gold good luck everyone.
Monday, August 16, 2010
WoW prospector
The wow prospector i talked about a while ago has updated and now gets the data from your server by it self so you don't have to fill it in. http://www.wowprospector.com/
Now you can just click on the ore and it tells you if you make any money on it on your server!
Now you can just click on the ore and it tells you if you make any money on it on your server!
Glyph experiment
I am gone try a glyph experiment on my crafting alt choyoda i am gone post all my glyphs for 7g as a glyph wall and see how it works and if i still will be able to make money will be fun to see how people react :)
3 ways to be the best in the market
There are generally 3 ways to be the best in the market.
way 1 : have the most gold in the market this mean buying everyone that undercuts you up so only your auctions are up. This is a risky way and is not profitable because when you buy your competitions items,they still make profit. This is something i use sometimes when i know that the person has limited stocks and i am in a market which sells all the time
way 2: Having the most time, you are the person sitting near the auction house all day canceling and undercutting all the time. This way takes way to much time for the profit you make according to my opinion. You can make more money doing something else instead of sitting and undercutting. But if you have that much time and you are willing to spend it undercutting go for it you are gone make a good amount of gold
Way 3: This is the way that works the best in the long run, getting cheaper mats so you can create the item for cheaper and give the lowest price but still making profit. This way you don't have to buy anyone up or undercut someone if you are so low that other people don't think it's worth getting into your market slowly but surely your competition will disappear.
Ways to make your mats cheaper, you can get farmers working for you the best way to get this is to ask in trade WTB [the item] and maybe a couple gold cheaper then the auction house. Don't put any number to show how many you want and be prepared with tons of gold. When you get someone that wants to sell to you the best way is to say you want to buy it all. This way they will remember you because you gave them tons of gold, after you have traded you can whisper them a macro saying, i will need thoose items in the future so if you have any more cod them for [price] or if i am online we can trade thank you [your name]
This way the farmer will remember you and he/she will think of you next time he/she gets some of the items you want. You can also send a letter to them with some cut gems or something saying thanks for sending to me, that way the person will also remember you.
The other way is to make mats for your items for example if you make your own vellums for your enchanter you will decrease the price of the scroll, the same with gems for a jewel crafter or bars for a blacksmithing. The more professions you have the more gold will you make on each individual profession, because there are many ways to link them together to make more gold :)
So my tip for today is go check my previous posts of professions you have and check if theres any way to make gold with the other professions you have. If your having any troubles or questions i will be happy to answer them whisper me or leave a comment on the post :)
way 1 : have the most gold in the market this mean buying everyone that undercuts you up so only your auctions are up. This is a risky way and is not profitable because when you buy your competitions items,they still make profit. This is something i use sometimes when i know that the person has limited stocks and i am in a market which sells all the time
way 2: Having the most time, you are the person sitting near the auction house all day canceling and undercutting all the time. This way takes way to much time for the profit you make according to my opinion. You can make more money doing something else instead of sitting and undercutting. But if you have that much time and you are willing to spend it undercutting go for it you are gone make a good amount of gold
Way 3: This is the way that works the best in the long run, getting cheaper mats so you can create the item for cheaper and give the lowest price but still making profit. This way you don't have to buy anyone up or undercut someone if you are so low that other people don't think it's worth getting into your market slowly but surely your competition will disappear.
Ways to make your mats cheaper, you can get farmers working for you the best way to get this is to ask in trade WTB [the item] and maybe a couple gold cheaper then the auction house. Don't put any number to show how many you want and be prepared with tons of gold. When you get someone that wants to sell to you the best way is to say you want to buy it all. This way they will remember you because you gave them tons of gold, after you have traded you can whisper them a macro saying, i will need thoose items in the future so if you have any more cod them for [price] or if i am online we can trade thank you [your name]
This way the farmer will remember you and he/she will think of you next time he/she gets some of the items you want. You can also send a letter to them with some cut gems or something saying thanks for sending to me, that way the person will also remember you.
The other way is to make mats for your items for example if you make your own vellums for your enchanter you will decrease the price of the scroll, the same with gems for a jewel crafter or bars for a blacksmithing. The more professions you have the more gold will you make on each individual profession, because there are many ways to link them together to make more gold :)
So my tip for today is go check my previous posts of professions you have and check if theres any way to make gold with the other professions you have. If your having any troubles or questions i will be happy to answer them whisper me or leave a comment on the post :)
Blacksmithing and enchanting
I am gone start leveling up blacksmithing and enchanting because they are almost the proffesions left that i really need. I need the disenchantment for doing the saronite shuffle and i need the blacksmith for eternal belt buckles and war axes. I am gone write how much gold it will cost me to level each proffesion i will start with blacksmithing then enchanting.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Ipod touch dead...
Now my ipod touch is dead and i need to remove th authenticator from my account but to do that i need my authenticator to log in... anyways have sent a email to blizzard support so i am just waiting.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Idea for a video
I have an idea for a video, many people have asked i have no starting money and i want to make gold how can i do it? To answer this question i have decided to start a lvl 1 and run i to orgrimmar i will send over 10g that's it from that gold i am gone try to make as much money as i can. I will record a bit every time i am online on him showing how much gold i have made and what i have invested in. But it will take some time so you will probably not see the full video until a couple of weeks.
Old world pets
Yesterday i sold a http://www.wowhead.com/item=8491#dropped-by They seem to have a okey drop chance and for selling for 900g it could be something to look into as a farming project. Lots of old world pets have been going for higher i think that is because people are scared that the pets will be removed in cataclysm. So give it a try farming the old pets, even the alliance vendor pets sell for a lot these days if you can manage to get it over.
Hitting 1 million
http://www.wowconfidential.com/gold-progress-update/new-goal-to-hit-a-million-gold/
The guy that writes wowconfidential have decided that after hitting the gold cap he wants to put up a new goal of 1 million gold in liquid form thats sick.
The guy that writes wowconfidential have decided that after hitting the gold cap he wants to put up a new goal of 1 million gold in liquid form thats sick.
I will be away
This week end i will be away so i won't write any posts. I will try to get all my pics up today and get some gold making posts up.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)