7 Days in Gold Making: 25/04/13

 High level cloth -> High level essences

 I am still buying all the windwool I can get my hands on and turning it into Ethereal shards. Prices have risen in the past few weeks, no more 10g windwool stacks /sadface now it is closer to 40g.


I craft the 458 bracers and use the ethereal shards to make sha crystals once a day and also make mysterious essence. I always end up with lots of spirit dust when DE'ing the rings from ghost iron ore, having a source of very cheap mysterious essences helps me keep all the scrolls stocked up to 20 or 40.

 Low level cloth -> low level dust

 I was levelling my enchanter and needed 155 Vision dust and there was none of the Action House so off i went to wowhead to figure out what to make. I now buy up any mageweave cloth below 15g a stack and sell the dust between 4 - 5g each and the essences for 25 - 35g.

MySales last 7 days (H)

 

Sales breakdown by profession / market  ( H+A )

JC includes all cut gems and jewellery.

BS is such a big share mainly due to belt buckles.

1% misc section is random items i picked up while pet battling like low level herbs or leather.

Scrolls includes MoP and BoA scrolls.

Levelling Gear is my 77-80 greens and 83-85 greens

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Oh how I miss you Enchanting Rods

I made so much gold from this market, there was always demand because enchanting was a very popular profession to level up. A lot of cloth wearing players seemed to choose enchanting and tailoring as professions.

You might pair your engineering with mining and if you hit a bottleneck you could go out and mine up some more ore. However very few players paired enchanting with Blacksmithing. This meant you had to get the item off the Auction House, ask someone you knew to craft it for you or if you got really desperate try and find someone in trade chat.

The Auction House was the easy place to get Enchanting Rods because it was a little complicated.. First smelting if you did'nt have the bars or ore was much cheaper then sometimes crafting grinding stones then crafting the rod.

I think Arcanite was my best seller because there was an extra step involved, you needed to have/find an Alchemist who had the recipe for Transmute: Arcanite

From Vanilla to Cata people were selling enchanting rods, it was a fantastic market to make gold even if you did’nt have a maxed profession and it was a great way to learn about controlling niche items like arcane crystals. A lot of people focus on the “ new stuff ” where there is the volume however if you know the markets you can get higher margins on the lower volume “ old stuff ” .

Zarazaz from Alterac Mountains expressed it really well here :

“making each enchanted rod is a quest in itself. i enjoy that epic feeling of conquest when i completed each one, and i wouldn't want that to go away. maybe in addition to the pile of mats, I'd like to see some actual quests involved ... that include dungeon runs even!

As an enchanter the rods gave the profession unique flavour. Farming the fishy creatures of Azeroth for their clams and then after a while having a bag full of clam meat and that one pearl you needed really was an epic experience that I’m sad new enchanters won’t enjoy.The cost of rods might have been a barrier to entry for the profession so those that invested into levelling enchanting could reap greater rewards at max level.

This post is for Cold’s Gold Blogging Carnival, make sure to check out his blog for the other entries.

My Week in Wow and the June Gold Chart

June Gold Chart

What has been selling this past week

Wildvine

Levelling via pvp

Cross faction Herbs

This chart tracks changes in liquid gold in June

The first thing to say is I don’t make a profit everyday, some days I will break even or make a loss. This can happen because of a combination of bad sales and buying  a lot of cheap mats. I am in the scrolls market so I mass buy cheap Maelstrom crystals and try to keep the price above 140g. This increases the sales for my main scrolls Landslide, Windwalk and Power torrent.

There was a time in the middle of the month where liquid gold increased steadily. To consistently increase gold through the lull I have diversified, I’ve gone back into markets I used to be in (Wotlk flasks, low level tailoring/LW). I am using wowuction to try and spot the gaps.

I focus on items with a 0.2 – 0.4 sold per day. I then look at TUJ to see if the item is posted consistently I’ve found some things like mongoose where the competition only posted during weekends. I post every day so I am getting those extra sales.

I get a lot of question about how it is really hard to make gold when really it’s not. You just need to set yourself a target and track your progress. Get the MySales Addon and config it so you see your weekly sales. See where your money is coming from. Set yourself a weekly target it might be 1k, 10k whatever you think is actually achievable.

Use TUJ to see what the busy sellers are doing, most likely the first 1-2 will be into 100% glyphs but look at the rest and see what they are selling and what they are posting, get some ideas!

Snapshot of MySales for this past week

Jim mentioned wildvine on his livestream a few weeks back, I got a few gathering herbs in felwood and they sold within an hour, I will price them a bit higher next time!

I have been pvping a lot this past week on my warrior and shaman in the 80-84 bracket, queue times are around three minutes.

I made a shopping list of herbs I needed to powerlevel 3 alchemists and a scribe, I knew that there would be times I would have to farm herbs because of the quanity I needed, I am looking at you goldthorn / strangelkelp. I went ahead and farmed up the gaps using my tauren druid and yesterday moved them all over.

Check out: Making Gold at the end of an expansion: Up 429k in 30 days

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Making Gold at the end of an expansion: Up 429k in 30 days

30 days in gold making 26^th May – 25^th June

77-81 greens and Transmog

Flipping 378 weapons and Weapon scrolls

Wowuction + TUJ

Enchanting rods

Pets

Embersilk bags

BOA enchants

Crafted levelling gear

Focus on making gold during the lull, you will find you have less competition and it is a great time to experiment in different markets. Shift focus away from catering to the raiders, focus on those levelling professions and alts.

I realised I might have been pricing my 77-81 greens too low so I raised prices and now fluctuate them between 300g- 380g. I charge more on fri/sat/sun as most of my sales come over the weekend and drop prices to get a few more sales during the week.

I decided this month to go back to a similar transmog pricing strategy I had a few months ago, which basically meant I doubled the price of every transmog item I sold. It’s still too early to tell what impact this has made, I have had a good week but last weekend was super slow. Need more time to assess what impact reverting to old prices has made on sales numbers/ profits.

I’ve started to dabble in pets, recipes and trade mats. I have had consistent success flipping 378 weapons and resetting landslide / windwalk / power torrent scrolls.

Now that I have a substantial pile of gold I can be very aggressive and get into markets and correct them. I did’nt like that nightmare tears were 170g/ea so I reset the market and now they are selling for around 400g.

So basically I flip anything I can get my hands on! 

After Jim had mentioned wowuction in his livestream a few times, I started looking into it. I have to say I think wowuction is an amazing tool. I like to use it in conjuction with TUJ to get greater insight into what is selling and where I can diversify into.

Enchanting rods

I am selling arcanite and adamantaite for the most, but actually eternium is probably best for profits I can pick up ore for 2-3g/ea and sell rod for 130-170g.

Pets

From engineering pets to vendor pets these are flying off the shelves as with any holiday with a pet reward the midsummer fire festival has increased demand for pets. Pets are a great item for making gold while levelling they are very cheap to buy and always sell with demand spikes around holidays.

Embersilk bags

I have been doing a little bit of shuffling and ended up with 2000 hypnotic dust so I make these bags, I find the price peaks at the weekend so I don’t sell at 300g during week but sell lots at 400-450g on weekends.

BOA enchants

15 agi, cloak stealth, 22 int are my best sellers. I don’t have the +4 stats to chest recipe.

Crafted levelling gear

Jim had mentioned on his livestream selling levelling gear but I think he was focused on actual drops not crafted items. This also came up during The Clockworkriot Litecast episode 5, I have been experimenting with a few crafted tailoring / LW items. Some have been very successful and others not so much. I think the trick is to craft items in slots that are not slots that are mass crafted during levelling these professions. Still experimenting so will post more once I have a better idea of the items that sell regularly. Selling something for 500g which cost you 10g to craft is pretty awesome.

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Five Fast Gold Making Tips : June

1 Invest in bags

Reduces trips to bank/mail when posting items on the Auction House (I really appreciate having big bags when reposting 2,000 transmog items)

2 Don’t sit around in Org / SW doing nothing

You can go do some fishing while waiting for a raid to form, LFR. I love chatting with guildies but you don’t have to stand next to the SW fountain to do this, or in goldshire. Get some mining done, check out some rare spawns in silithus  or try your luck on a dark whelpling ? Do something!

3 Don’t trash your profit margins to be the cheapest item.

You do not always have to be the cheapest auction. Overcut or Price match. If there are 3 items up 2400g / 2300g/ 700g do not post your item at 699g! Post it as 2299g.

4 Every Alchemist needs a Philosopher’s Stone

Sell the Recipe and sell the mats: Iron bars, Black vitriol, Firebloom and Purple lotus.

 5 Take another look at Potion of Illusion

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Milestone: Two Million Gold

If you follow me on twitter @TheOvercut you’ll know I hit two million gold about a week ago. It took me a little while to figure out exactly what to write, an initial draft did just have Transmog written 50 times.

4.3 and being patient

Transmog Transmog Transmog

Engi pets

Flipping crafted items

77-81 Greens

Fortune cookies / Mysterious Fortune Cards

Enchanting Rods

Mysales for the last 7 days

Where could I improve?

What does the future hold?

4.3 and being patient

My patch day was’nt the most exciting I chilled out in consortium IRC and  made glyphs. On my realm  too many people went into a frenzy of undercutting resulting in inferno rubies falling below the pre-patch price. This was a big signal for me to get out, I cancelled all my red gems and stumbled upon some 7g whiptail. On patch day in the mad rush I spent my time restocking glyphs and selling a few transmog items. A week after patch and everyone’s supply was drying up. I stepped in and made a lot of money in Gems/Scrolls/Transmog. I remember on Thrusday morning about a week after patch looting 100k from mail box in overnight sales it was crazy.

It was risky because for all I knew days after the patch we would be swamped in cheap ore and gem/scroll prices would drop sharply. I rolled the dice and decided it did not make sense to sell things for less than the pre-patch price when there was such a huge demand from a massive influx of easily acquired new gear.

Transmog Transmog Transmog

I made most of my money from transmog. I know big shock right lol. Well I got into the market early and I think it is the best market to make gold in. Now I have ventured to other realms EU and US and seen it has been very difficult on realms where there is already heavy competition. My experience I guess is the flipside to this I am the main seller, the big cheese.

I’ve been averaging around 50k/week profit from transmog for the past 6 months. Now considering I post my items for 48hrs and there is no crafting time and just reposting time it is a pretty amazing way of making gold.

I did’nt want this post just to be about how awesome transmog is doing on my realm so I decided to look back at some of my screenshots and sales and see what else I’ve been selling. If you want to read more about my succes with transmog check out Transmog: One Realm One Million Gold Profit .

 

Engi pets

Low mats cost, not every engineer has every recipe. Most of the crafted pets have choke materials that you can control keeping the quanity low and price high . This help to make this a very nice market, I might only sell 1-4 pets a day but when they are selling for like 10-15x mats cost I’m cool with that.

Flipping crafted items

Basically any crafted cataclysm item if it is dumped below mats cost then you should buy it and flip it. Jim has mentioned Savage Cloaks on his livestream many times and some of the tailoring items,  for my realm I don’t tend to see many tailoring items but I see a lot of the LW and BS items. When you see one guy post 15 savage cloaks for really low like 20g grab them. When you 9 Obsidium shields for 19g grab them. When you see low level LW/BS items like light leather pants posted below the DE cost grab them, flip it or disenchant and make your profit.

77-81 Greens

Jim & Gimp talked a lot about this market and I got into it and saw some good results. With a little experimenting I found that certain 81 items moved albeit slower than 77-80 items. Now I am a bit better expereicend with this market I can tell you pretty much any slot item from 77-81 sells. From Rings to fist weapons to items with the Beast suffix it all moves eventually. I have competition in this area and I can see using tuj sometimes a buyer will buy some of my items and some of my competitors because they are looking for a particular suffix or because my competitor does not have an item for that slot available. So a buyer might spend as low as 99g on  a pair of level 80 gloves but will pay 250g for a belt.

I have in the past week raised my prices after reading a post over at phatlewtsgold.net. Instant Gratification 

I saw the level 77 green prices were so high! So I bumped mine up and overall I am getting fewer sales but I am ok with that because I am making more profit per sale With D3 I’ve seen a pretty big drop in the number of these 77-81 items coming onto the Auction house to the point where I have had to increase my buying price.

Fortune cookies / Mysterious Fortune Cards

I never really got into barking MFC’s as there are already 3-4 players that bark them I just let them do the work and I price match. Sometimes though I see MFC very close to the ink cost (whiptail/6 or cinderbloom/5). In these situations I will buy out cheap cards and turn them into Fortune cookies. I find that there is a lot less competition in cookies compared to mysterious fortune cards.

Enchanting Rods

You’ve probably heard a lot of gold makers say get into rods, it is a market that has been around forever and you can make a lot of gold in this market. At this time in the expansion where people are moving away from mains towards their alts the enchanting rod market is amazing.

Mysales for the last 7 days 

Where could I improve?

I might not be the most efficient gold maker. When I say that I mean I don’t have the greatest process, I don’t generally buy things every day. I’m more of a when something is about to run out  I will stock up on mats for a week then do a massive crafting sessions so I have enough finished items to keep me going a couple of weeks. A good recent example is when I crafted 100 Arcanite rods. They’ll all sell over time and I don’t have to craft another bunch in a week’s time. I really want to get more out of TSM so I am in the process of setting up my entire Alliance operation using TSM.

What does the future hold?

I feel like I’ve been on auto-pilot for the past month or so, I am really looking forward to some new ways of making gold in MoP.

I have not really done anything special lately, just the same sort of stuff over and over again. As of writing this I am at 2.1 Million Gold. I post the majority of my items for 48hrs and rarely cancel auctions. I’ve spent the deposit fees so I want to get my money’s worth even if there are like 10 other items below mine.

I will continue levelling my alliance alts, it has fun to do some of the new cataclysm quests. I have tended to level via pvp/lfd mainly on my horde toons. I did this on a few of my ally toons but it can be nice to take a break and do a little questing maybe stumble upon some rare spawns with nice loot.

 

I am also very excited about coming up against some new competition. If you play the Auction House a lot you tend to bump into the same names over and over again. A new Auction house is always interesting, trying to find the gaps and bump into some new people.

Probably the biggest tip I can give you as someone looking to make gold in the world of warcraft is to get involved in the community, get on twitter, reddit, check out blogs/ livestreams / podcasts.

Big thanks to Keelhaul, Jim, Cold and everyone in the community keep being awesome!

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A little knowledge can be dangerous

So let me set the scene. Ore is normally 60-70g/stack. Then we get a deluge of cheap ore at 20g/stack. Combine this with an inexperienced JC (that happened to be a guildie) who wanted to get rich quick.

A guildie advertised in trade and guild chat how he wanted to sell Inferno rubies for 30g each. Now I bought them all because cut infernos are still selling for 100-110g and hey who doesn’t like free gold?

This guy kept talking about his ore adventure and it was fascinating to hear his tale. For example he was vendoring all his uncommon gems because he had read about it somewhere out there on the interwebz but realised that he was not making a lot of gold doing this.

One can expect that following a big amount of cheap ore coming into the market prices may start to come down but watching this player’s adventure was very very interesting. I intervened with the inferno rubies but decided it would be fun to try and get into the mindset of someone new to making gold. So I did not intervene again even when Nightstone were being vendored *wipes tear from eye*

A day passed and this player was still talking about how they were stuck with loads of gems that would not sell. He only has JC/Alchemy and no alts as far as I can tell.

Now when I read in gchat this player had made 9k in two days I was intrigued. I was glad this player managed to make some decent gold however when I asked how much they spent on ore they replied 7k!

So basically he spent 7k on 7000 ore (350 stacks), prospected it all and only made 2k profit? I was just like Wow. With a 7k investment he should have easily been able to make 15k+ back even just doing a basic shuffle and selling raw gems.

The thing is this player panicked. He had so much ore and just wanted to get rid of it. Even though perhaps to me and others he should have calmed down, kept prices a little higher, not vendored gems and basically chilled out and sold his items over a week rather than a couple of days. When you invest nearly all the gold you have into a market you panic it is just normal I guess. If I invested all my gold into something I might panic as well.

So what can we learn from this inexperienced JC? While it can be hugely helpful to look back at  older blog posts and listen to older podcasts please remember to check things still work out and engage your brain. This player was 110% confident you could buy elementium ore and make a profit just from vendoring the uncommon gems.

You might ask why I did not intervene and help this player, well  I think I wanted them to go through the experience and maybe they would learn and develop.

Would you have intervened?

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Mists of Pandaria Preparation : The Alliance Plan

Warrior BS / Alchemy

Shaman Enchanting / Alchemy

Paladin Enchanting / JC     Mining/Herbs

DK Mining / Herbalism     Skin/LW

Mage JC / Inscription

Priest JC / Alchemy

Warlock JC /Alchemy

Hunter Tailoring / Skinning

Monk JC/ Alchemy

Druid Herbalism / Alchemy

Rogue Engineering/ Alchemy

Get them all to level 80 with priority, if time runs out, on getting DK to 85 in time for MoP launch.

Seven Alchemists

Four JC

Two Herbalists

One of every other profession

Currently it looks like this:

Destro Warlock 67

Blood DK 60

Prot Warrior 43

Resto Shaman 42

Resto Druid 29

Prot Paladin 20

So a lot of levelling ahead, I managed to get honoured with a guild last week and bought all the helm/back boa gear. I transmog my BOA gear (it costs a lot because it is based on the vendor value) so that I can I blow up unsuspecting people in BG’s, they think I’m using bad gear because of the looks and then they get two shot!

 Using the mailbox it was very easy to move all BOA gear from my main account horde side to my second account (same battle.net) alliance side. I’ve been posting transmog, recipe’s and pets on alliance side without too much resistance and I am looking forward to locking horns with some different people in different markets in MoP. I’ve already started trying to snap up some cheap materials ready for profession power levelling once my toons dings 75.

It’s not all about stockpiling materials, now is a great time to fill in those missing professions and level those classes you’ve always wanted to play.

Update 15th June

Lock 67
DK 70
War 81
Shaman 58
Druid 29
Paladin 70
Hunter 65
Mage 75 

Levelling going well but 75-80 goes really slow even with full cata gear at 77/78. Gathering mats for another professions weekend to get Alchemy, JC, Scribe all up to 525. Will work on skin/lw on DK when I get to 80.

Prospecting: Iron Ore

Obsidium, Elementium and Pyrite are not the only ore you can prospect for profit.

It took me a week to buy one hundred stacks of iron ore. You can farm lots of Iron ore in Ferales.

Source: wowhead

This is the resulting amount of uncommon gems after the prospecting. It will take some time to sell all these but with lots of people switching from their mains to levelling alts and professions I hope to sell them all over the next two weeks.

Results of Prospecting 2000 Iron Ore:

158 jade

144 lesser moonstone

139 citrine

22 star ruby

18 aquamarine

Using Tuj EU mean data

Jade 12.77

Lesser moonstone 2.96

Citrine 12.12

Star ruby 8.73

Aquamarine 8.58

Cost of Iron ore mean 38.58g/stack x 100 stacks = 3858g

Jade = 2017.66

L.Moon = 426.24

Citrine = 1684.68

Star ruby = 192.06

Aquamarine = 154.44

Total value = 4475.08

Potential profit = 617.08 Not great profit

Using my realm data

Took me a week to buy 100 stacks because I only bought ore that was below 14g/stack.

Cost is 14 x 100 = 1400g

Jade = 2370

L.Moon = 403.2

Citrine = 695

Star Ruby = 129.8

Aquamarine = 113.4

Total value = 3711.4

Potential profit = 2311.4 Nice profit from 1400g investment.

What you might want to look into doing :

Farm iron ore, sell it raw

Farm iron ore, prospect ore, sell gems

Buy iron ore, prospect ore, sell gems

Keep an eye out on the price of iron ore and these gems. Use this Auctionator shopping list to get a snapshot of what is going on in this market on your realm.

*** iron ore_Gems

Iron ore

Jade

Lesser moonstone

Citrine

Star ruby

Aquamarine

If you go to TUJ -> Enhancements -> Jewelcrafting scroll down to the bottom and you will see a Prospecting Value table which can give you a good idea whether this is worth doing on your realm.

Farming Embersilk Cloth and level 77-81 Greens

I was trying to get into the crafted cloth pvp market but I was struggling to get any good volume of Embersilk cloth. Items were selling but it could take me a week to do a full restock because of the shortage of cloth which went up in price from around 70g to 85g a stack.

I remember Faid did a video of farming for cloth on her DK.  Tailoring - WoW GoldRush - Gold Making in 15 Minutes

I took my Frost DK (ilvl 374) over to Deepholm to see how much Embersilk I could get in an hour. While running round and killing stuff I was also picking up items in the 77-81 range. I used a Potion of Treasure Finding so that I could get extra Embersilk cloth from the tiny treasure chests. These are my stats based on my realm prices. Embersilk 4g/ea and 77-80 greens 250g, I don’t put a value on green over level 80 because they might not sell so I price them in as zero gold. If I get lucky and pick up an 81 chest/shoulder/wep then yes it will sell but just to keep math simple I split up the greens I got into good and bad.

Good Greens level 77-80 Value 250g.

Bad Greens level 81 and above Value 0g in below figures.

Level 81 armour other than chest/shoulders can sell like these legplates but these sales are less frequent.

General tips: 

Always be doing damage. When I stop to loot I’ll throw death and decay on another group and a howling blast on another, I am looting and mobs are going down in health. I experimented with reforging everything into mastery but I did not really see any increase in damage so went back to no reforging. I use Glyph of Howling Blast and Glyph of Icy Touch. I am not great at playing a DK I just use howling blast and when they get close use frost strike.

 In one of the runs i did not get a green for fifteen minutes and then I got three in a row!

I did get killed a few times, my dot everything strategy (4-5 groups at a time) might rub some people the wrong way but thankfully the Graveyard is very close and you dont lose the potion when you die.

(Update Image 21st May new record for me 47 chests)

Hour 1

42 chests

145 embersilk

11 good greens 4 bad

1 blue

1 jc recipe inscribed hessonite

30g

42 chest opened gave the following:

145g

231 embersilk

3 good greens 3 bad

17 pyrite

10 air

19 earth

23 water

23 life

6 fire

10 ele ore

1 hour + potion = 5000g/hr

Hour 2

Chests 32

Cloth 167

Greens 7 good 9 bad

90g

32 chest opened gave:

119g

91 embersilk

2 good greens

25 air

20 water

25 ele ore

5 pyrite ore

10 life

7 earth

1 hour + potion = 4300g/hr

Hour 3

35 tiny chests

Cloth 97

Green 10 good 7 bad

27g vendor

35 chests opened:

132g

205 Embersilk

1 good green 3 bad

11 water

1 air

29 pyrite ore

11 fire

17 ele ore

26 v earth

1 hour + potion = 4400g/hr

Hour 4

Chests 34

149 cloth

167 trash gold

Greens 9 good 6 bad

34 chests opened gave:

 118g

195 Cloth

1 good green

26 air

13 water

6 fire

13 pyrium ore

3 ele ore

1 hour + potions = 4500g/hr

Dropped Skinning and Power leveled Tailoring to 425 (think you only need 400 for Northrend  Cloth scavenging to kick in for Cataclysm mobs but I had already bought the mats so went to 425)

Hour 5 with 425 Tailoring

41 chests

412 embersilk

25g vendor loot

11 good greens 6 bad greens

1 blue plate level 82

41 chests opened gave:

150g

Enchant bracer-agility

196 cloth

3 bad greens

11 air

13 earth

7 fire

10 life

17 water

17 pyrite ore

18 ele ore

1 hour + potion = 5600g/ hour

Hour 6 with 425 Tailoring

33 Chests

480 cloth

45g trash

11 good greens 4 bad greens

Blue level 82 ring

33 chests gave:

115g

177 cloth

2 good greens 1 bad green

10 air

10 fire

9 life

4 water

4 pyrite ore

8 ele ore

6 earth

1 hour + potion = 6200g per hour

It really pays to do this on a tailor

Average without Tailoring = 4550g per hour

Average with Tailoring = 5900g per hour

The mats cost of a Potion of Treasure Finding is around 80g on my realm.

I did not include the gold picked up from mobs only the value of vendor trash minus repair costs and the gold that was contained inside the treasure chests.

Check out Selling level 81 Greens

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The Hunt for Illusion Dust

I am working on my stockpile and I want a good amount of enchanting materials.

Take a look at this post by Faid I buy all my Greater Eternals from the vendor

If you disenchant these items you mainly get Greater Eternal Essence(GEE) but will also get some Dream Dust and Large Brilliant Shards. So far I am estimating 0.9 dream dust per disenchant. 

Firstly check your realm! is disenchanting this item profitable? it should be but worth taking a look just in case your realm is weird.

I like to think of this vendor as a source of infinite dream dust. If you can sell every GEE you will be making gold but also have lots of dream dust. Dream dust is averaging around 1g here. I get more than I can sell as dust directly. I craft tailoring item to try and turn this excess dust into items that can be disenchanted into something more useful/profitable. You can also burn through a lot of dream dust crafting enchanted thorium blades, but it is getting increasingly difficult to stock up on cheap thorium and rugged leather.

Star ruby can sometimes be picked up here cheap I’m not sure why but I gobble them up when they fall below 1g.

If a star ruby costs less than 8 Runecloth then I craft Wizardweave turbans. An item that disenchants into Illusion Dust, Greater Eternal Essences and Large Brilliant Shards.

On my realm Runecloth is around 10-12g/stack, 8 Runecloth costs 4g but if I can get the star ruby for 1g it works out cheaper using the turban.

In the mood for farming? Head over to Hellfire Ramparts and get you some Runecloth.

Jim made a really good video One-Pulling Hellfire Ramparts | WoW Gold Making  go check it out now! I also really like this video by FormerRuling Hellfire Ramparts in 1 pull (response)   engineering is useful at last!

Wizardweave turban uses 4 Dream dust compared to the 2 for the robes. I can sell Dream dust at 1g each so 8 Runecloth is still more than the cost of Star Ruby + opportunity cost of the extra dream dust.

4 > 1 + (1+1)

4 > 3

This is something to keep an eye on, if Star Ruby is really high priced, and dream dust is selling for a lot more where you are then go ahead and craft Wizardweave robes.

The point I am trying to get across is think outside the box sometimes and  look at the prices for some items you may not use often. I may only have enough cheap star rubies to craft 20 turbans a week and then may turn round and craft 150 robes. The thing is those turbans have a lower cost per unit than the robes and I want to minimize my cost of crafting, also turbans have a higher disenchant value than robes.

Don’t discount an item for disenchanting just because it takes more materials, it might work out cheaper if you can get those additional materials at a good price.

How is your MoP stockpile coming along?

Level 81 BS Crafted Weapons

Having done 80 to 85 only using lfd and only doing pvp I know the value of these weapons. I don’t want to use up a landslide or power torrent scroll on a green weapon. I will wait till I ding 81 and craft one of these.

They are an easy 200g-250g profit on my realm. There are 6 weapons and I post them using TSM for 24hrs or sometimes 48hrs depending on how much competition there is.

Cold-forged shank

Decapitator’s razor

Fire-etched dagger

Lifeforce Hammer

Obsidium bladespear

Obsidium Executioner (sometimes post 2 of these at a time for fury warriors)

I have all the raw mats so I only craft when I have sold one. I sell between 0 and 2 a day. Being weapons the posting fees are quite high.

Using my ore stockpile the cost of the Fire-etched dagger is around 120g, there is an opportunity cost here, I might have made more shuffling the elementium/obsidium but for me making gold in a non-jc related area i am willing to take less profit ,as this takes less time and has less competition.

Have you tried selling these weapons on your realm?

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