Post Your Gold Making tips here + a few of my guides

Magaa · 16-02-2010 2:50pm #1

Firstly mining,

http://www.wowhead.com/?zone=3711 - Sholzar basin.

This place is great for mining because of its circle map layout,
SholazarBasin+mining.jpg

Many people fly around mining here but if you come here at off peak times you could get stacks and stacks of titanium ore if your lucky,

Another great quick money maker is if you are into PvP, you can buy epic uncut gems in Org at the PvP vendor and get a JC to cut them into what ever is selling for most,

more to come just looking at the layout

Magaa · 16-02-2010 2:50pm

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TechnoPool · 16-02-2010 3:05pm

the time it takes to farm 10k honor, you can make more from doing daily's than the price you could get for an epic gem.

Magaa · 16-02-2010 3:15pm

TechnoPool wrote: »

the time it takes to farm 10k honor, you can make more from doing daily's than the price you could get for an epic gem.

yep.

Overheal · 16-02-2010 3:19pm

BUT, if you already have 10k honor....

What kinda gold am I looking at here? What other mats would I need?

TechnoPool · 16-02-2010 3:21pm

200-250 per rub cut, depends on the realm

Magaa · 16-02-2010 3:23pm

Overheal wrote: »

BUT, if you already have 10k honor....

What kinda gold am I looking at here? What other mats would I need?

depends on your realm price Bold Cardinal Ruby (20 str) sell for about 300 gold on my realm

all you need is a Cardinal Ruby and an JC

Overheal · 16-02-2010 3:25pm

Nah. I wouldn't do it for that. I'd prefer to keep my honor for something I can use myself. For a second there I though you were talking at least 4 digits.

Columc · 16-02-2010 3:25pm

Also doing the odd Wintergrasp here and there would give a nice increase in HP to spend on gems.

My money tips are im a mine/JC so just go around the basin getting nodes and selling the gems. never seem to be low on money.

But with the amounts of close porximity daily quests you will never be without gold

TechnoPool · 16-02-2010 3:33pm

there's plenty of ways to make easy money.

FOR EXAMPLE:

i did this a week or two ago. Bronze was selling for around 28g a stack, but copper was only 8g and tin was 12g so 20g to make 2 stacks of bronze, which netted me around 34g profit per. Sold around 60 stacks of bronze doing this then i got bored.

Nehaxak · 16-02-2010 4:01pm

Herbalism/Alchemy

Frost Lotus sell for at least 60g, sometimes 75g+ and I can pick up roughly 10 per hour farming herbs. Wintergrasp is handy as you'll sometimes get straight up Frost Lotus spawns.

If you're specialised Elixir Master on your Alchemist then 10 x Frost lotus (plus the other herbs that usually sell for crap on their own) = at least 20 x Flasks of whatever, selling for at least 30g each and sometimes a lot more, depending on your server. If elixir mastery procs you can get a shed load of flasks more than you bargained for. Bit of a gamble as to if it's worth making flasks at all to sell or just sell the herbs on their own, just keep an eye on the AH before you make your choice.

Eternal Life (which drops from the herbing) selling for around 15 to 30g per eternal and you'll end up with roughly 15 to 20 eternals per hour of farming.

Anyway, with all the herbs/eternals and/or flasks you'll be looking to at least 1,000g per hour of just flying around picking herbs. If you gamble on making flasks and get a few lucky elixir mastery procs, that amount of gold can easily double but at least you'll end up with roughly the same amount of gold if you don't get any procs.

Mining is a bit hit and miss at times as ore/bar prices flucuate too much due to the amount of people constantly undercutting each other all the time. With flasks at least, you need to have gone through a bit of a process to get elixir mastery (can be solo'd easily though if you know what you're doing) and hence not as many gold farmers or whatever go to the trouble, they just usually sell raw mats and ore/bars are the easiest thing to sell for little effort.

One thing I will say about ores is that Mithril Ore is both the easiest to farm and sells for the highest price when converted to bars for the smallest effort required. Most servers will probably sell stacks of Mithril Bars for 100g at least. Takes about 10 minutes to get about 40 Mithril ore just doing a quick run around the Badlands, which is by far the best place to farm for it, small area, circular, straight run around, easy stuff.
You'll also find fools selling stacks of Mithril Ore for like 20 or 30g, just buy it, convert to bars and put back up on the AH for 100g+

Just don't ever flood the AH with stuff, take your time, don't put too much up at the same time.

Most big guilds will buy full 20 stacks of Flasks on raidnights, Monday, Wednesday and Friday seem the best days to sell full stacks of Flasks, usually sell within the hour of you putting them up. Saves all the hassle of splitting stacks to sell on their own.

That's how I make my gold anyway, that and cutting the most wanted gems with JC from prospecting whatever ore I'm arsed to mine.

2 Espressi · 16-02-2010 4:18pm

TechnoPool wrote: »

i did this a week or two ago. Bronze was selling for around 28g a stack, but copper was only 8g and tin was 12g so 20g to make 2 stacks of bronze, which netted me around 34g profit per. Sold around 60 stacks of bronze doing this then i got bored.

I love it when that happens, managed to level a lot of my mining that way.

We talking endgame, or levelling here?

What I've found while levelling (which I seem to do a lot of...)

Loot everything.

Install crapaway/selljunk for vendoring greys automatically.

Only vendor greys. Auction everything else.

Gathering profs>>Crafting professions. It's cheaper to buy an item than it is to level your skill to the point where you can make it. And the best levelling gear is usually in dungeons anyways, so why buy it in the first place?

Consider cloth prices before levelling First Aid, bandages rarely sell as well as the raw mats. Same goes for Cooking.

Hit Refresh before posting items to get the most current price.

Post auctions on Friday, as prices are higher over the weekend.

The AH is for selling, not shopping. Avoid neutral/goblin auction houses

Create a bank alt. Every mail you send them has 12 storage slots, and mail can be returned for free. So it's cheaper than bank slots.

Greed on everything in instances. Nobody likes a ninja, but why pass up the chance for profit?

Only buy what you really need. Things like enchants, gems, scopes are usually pointless, as you'll replace gear before you get any value out of them. Only buy those spells/talents from your class trainer that are relevant for your spec.

Shougeki · 16-02-2010 4:19pm

Dont forget RE Gems from honor. 30 Stone Keeper Shards are 2k honor....

... I had almost 2000 before i realised this...

Blowfish · 16-02-2010 7:30pm

I'd agree with most of your stuff 2 Espressi, but there's a couple of things I'd do differently myself

2 Espressi wrote:

Gathering profs>>Crafting professions. It's cheaper to buy an item than it is to level your skill to the point where you can make it. And the best levelling gear is usually in dungeons anyways, so why buy it in the first place?

When levelling this is true, but at max level crafting professions are far better at letting you control markets than gathering ones. Having a mix of both accross your various chars works best.

2 Espressi wrote: »

Post auctions on Friday, as prices are higher over the weekend.

That depends on the goods, some prices go up and some go way down. The important thing though is to spend a few weeks monitoring the AH and paying attention to trends like this.

2 Espressi wrote:

The AH is for selling, not shopping.

If you mean avoid impulse buying I'd agree, but actual 'trading' is the only true way to make bucketloads of gold. Finding one or more markets and controlling them can take time to set up, but once done provides more cash than anything else.

2 Espressi wrote:

Create a bank alt. Every mail you send them has 12 storage slots, and mail can be returned for free. So it's cheaper than bank slots.

Definitely, levelling without one is headwrecking as your bags/bank will just be crammed all of the time. Best part is, there doesn't actually seem to be a limit to the amount of mails you can have in your mailbox. Even if it says your mailbox is full (usually the case on my bank alt), you can still send stuff and it'll sit there until you clear the mailbox out again, then reappear just after.

Nehexak wrote:

Most big guilds will buy full 20 stacks of Flasks on raidnights, Monday, Wednesday and Friday seem the best days to sell full stacks of Flasks, usually sell within the hour of you putting them up. Saves all the hassle of splitting stacks to sell on their own.

You'd be better off getting something like Auctioneer which will do the splitting/batch posting for you, it'll save you a ridiculous amount of time.

Magaa · 16-02-2010 7:49pm

hey aleast my thread hasent turned into a flame fest directed at me

Magill · 16-02-2010 8:53pm

Easiest way to make gold in this game (At least for me) is alchemy. I've got transmute spec on 3 characters (2 of which are lvl 70's). I transmute blue gems (Mats cost about 25g on my server for the transmute) and in a typical week i get roughly... 25-30 gems, they sell for about 200-240g each (30stam). Netting me roughly 5k a week. I've been doing this for about... 3 or 4 months now.. so yeah.... im not short of gold

2 Espressi · 17-02-2010 11:02am

wrote:

If you mean avoid impulse buying I'd agree, but actual 'trading' is the only true way to make bucketloads of gold. Finding one or more markets and controlling them can take time to set up, but once done provides more cash than anything else.

I don't think I'd be doing that while levelling, though I'm looking forward to trying it out at 80. Should be pretty doable with a small pop realm like Sunstrider though. Same for the crafting profs. There's a load of functionality in Auctioneer I haven't explored yet, but it's on the To Do list...

I wonder could you set up an alt to play the AH, or use your bank alt, to buy in bulk and resell a little higher, just enough to covers fees and a small profit? I know Bliz were against this in te past, but they've softened their stance of late.

Shougeki · 17-02-2010 11:24am

Magill wrote: »

Easiest way to make gold in this game (At least for me) is alchemy. I've got transmute spec on 3 characters (2 of which are lvl 70's). I transmute blue gems (Mats cost about 25g on my server for the transmute) and in a typical week i get roughly... 25-30 gems, they sell for about 200-240g each (30stam). Netting me roughly 5k a week. I've been doing this for about... 3 or 4 months now.. so yeah.... im not short of gold

Hmm I have been making Ametrines / Dreadstones with my alt. Must look at the blue gems again.

Do you get them cut before you post them up (i think cuts on our server are about 10G)

Magill · 17-02-2010 11:45am

I think it really depends on the server, the mats for the blue gem is the cheapest on mine and sell for nearly as much as ruby's. It helps that one of my chars has JC so i dont have to pay for cuts. Even still, selling them uncut is still a great way to make gold. A stack of 10 sell for about 1600 uncut.

Uttik · 17-02-2010 12:35pm

Shougeki wrote: »

Hmm I have been making Ametrines / Dreadstones with my alt. Must look at the blue gems again.

Do you get them cut before you post them up (i think cuts on our server are about 10G)

I can cut all the GEMs or do any ench as i said in Guild chat a million times

Shougeki · 19-02-2010 10:37am

Uttik

In another thread (cant remember which one) you said you could make a couple of K easily.

Mind telling us how. I just spent 9k on a BOE chest and need to get gold back :P

TechnoPool · 19-02-2010 11:51am

Shougeki wrote: »

Uttik

In another thread (cant remember which one) you said you could make a couple of K easily.

Mind telling us how. I just spent 9k on a BOE chest and need to get gold back :P

whisper me in game im over on your place now, Allakhazam !

Shougeki · 19-02-2010 12:28pm

Unfortunately at work until 7pm or so. Boooo.

Uttik · 19-02-2010 12:59pm

Shougeki wrote: »

Uttik

In another thread (cant remember which one) you said you could make a couple of K easily.

Mind telling us how. I just spent 9k on a BOE chest and need to get gold back :P

Just dropped 4k on This ring

As for making money, Its real easy to be honest.

But if i tell you lot, it will make it harder for me

Shougeki · 19-02-2010 1:22pm

Ah go on tell me.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 19-02-2010 2:26pm

I am up to 92K now

Took a break for about 3 months... came back and made about 9-10K in a few days...

Shougeki · 19-02-2010 2:35pm

How? Im on a different server (I believe) so wont be impacting you....

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 19-02-2010 3:04pm

Shougeki wrote: »

How? Im on a different server (I believe) so wont be impacting you....

Same server or not, it doesn't matter to me one bit.

There's no secret behind making gold. Some are just good at it and some are not.

As a poster above said, gems are a great way to make gold, but I have other professions which help me a lot.

Blacksmithing - Maxed out - Not a big money maker at all.

Mining - Maxed out - I used to grind ores, but now I am not too interested in that.

Herbing - Maxed out - Grind for herbs, make pots or just sell straight up.

Inscription - I made a lot on the nobels decks. About 5K+ a deck, then you have many other cards to sell too.

Jewelcrafting - Maxed out - Excellent money maker, do the daily every day, only buy the recipes you need or sell well. Do NOT buy all recipes. Prospecting ore can also prove worthwile, sometimes

Enchanting - 380 - Only leveled this for disenchanting the random boe's I got. Great money maker. You can make items with black smithing or jewelcrafting then disenchant them.

Sell everything, loot all corpses, play the ah a little, do your dailies. There are plenty of things worth a lot of gold in wow, you just have to find a way to get those items.

Shougeki · 19-02-2010 3:06pm

Speaking of dailies, what dailies do people bother doing?

Overheal · 19-02-2010 3:36pm

Which profs do you reccomend on the first run out Xavier? Poor Cheesebread is still just a Miner/Skinner.

Anti · 19-02-2010 3:45pm

Shougeki wrote: »

Speaking of dailies, what dailies do people bother doing?

None at all. I used to be able to make loads with my tailor/JC and Herb/alchemist on the same realm. Now im ****ed with my hunter and DK as neither of them have money making profs. Will probably move over my priest and lock soon before im flat out broke

And i need to buy the 2 person mount for 12k by the 1st of march. Really would be easier to just buy gold since its at what 3e per 1000 or something crazy, but then i dont fancy risking a CC or my account.

Shougeki · 19-02-2010 3:51pm

Anti wrote: »

And i need to buy the 2 person mount for 12k by the 1st of march.

Why 1st March?

Send a free invite a friend to yourself, sign up, and use that account for the gold (and then mail to your main char)

Overheal · 19-02-2010 4:26pm

Shougeki wrote: »

Why 1st March?

Send a free invite a friend to yourself, sign up, and use that account for the gold (and then mail to your main char)

trials cant accept mail afaik.

Anti · 19-02-2010 4:38pm

Shougeki wrote: »

Why 1st March?

QUOTE]

Super sekkrit plan !

Magaa · 20-02-2010 11:12am

Overheal wrote: »

Which profs do you reccomend on the first run out Xavier? Poor Cheesebread is still just a Miner/Skinner.

i would drop skinning and raise JC

Magaa · 20-02-2010 11:15am

for the love of god buy every frozen orb you can for less than 10g you will make loads next patch

Quote from: Zarhym (Source)
I'm sure some of you noticed this in the 3.3.3 PTR patch notes:

* Frozo the Renowned has moved into the Dalaran Magus Commerce Exchange and will be trading your Frozen Orbs for various other trade goods.

For those curious, here are the items for which you can trade your Frozen Orbs to Frozo. These each cost 1 Frozen Orb unless noted otherwise in parentheses:

* Crusader Orb (6)
* Runed Orb (4)
* Eternal Fire
* Eternal Earth
* Eternal Water
* Eternal Air
* Eternal Life
* Eternal Shadow
* Frost Lotus
* Pattern: Frosty Flying Carpet [Tailors Only] (6)

frozen orb prices are gona go waay up

Robby91 · 20-02-2010 3:12pm

Oh, that's neat (gonna have to get that carpet pattern for my Warlock

)

That should keep all those other pesky Engineers away from my gas clouds in Sholazar, hopefully

Having a resource that few others are able to use (and even fewer actually use) now becomes that bit nicer.

TheDoc · 20-02-2010 5:16pm

i bought six stacks of frozen orbs last night.

Today the price on AH went from 4g to 30 g each

So needless to say, I'm making hefty profit ...... win

Magaa · 20-02-2010 9:49pm

TheDoc wrote: »

i bought six stacks of frozen orbs last night.

Today the price on AH went from 4g to 30 g each

So needless to say, I'm making hefty profit ...... win

dont sell them yet wait for the new patch

Berns · 21-02-2010 6:32am

They were 30 already on Terenas

Lotus is about 50. Think I got about 60 in bank toon.

Magaa · 28-02-2010 7:21pm

thread must not fail

ive noticed that if you mine in wintergrasp you can get lots of titanium ore easy

(come one people post your little tips

)

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 01-03-2010 6:43am

Overheal wrote: »

Which profs do you reccomend on the first run out Xavier? Poor Cheesebread is still just a Miner/Skinner.

Sorry I didn't get back to you.

If it's only gold you are after and you don't mind grinding, then collecting profs are best, such as herbing and mining, they are very easy to level compared to other professions. Herbing and mining conbined never let me down for making lots of gold.

If the professions are needed for your characters advancement, then you need to take that into consideration. Although, if you make enough gold then you can just change your professions after. I have found myself dropping blacksmithing to grind gold, then picking it back up again after I made my gold mining/herbing. Not too keen on that though

It is also heavily based on your server. Check what the prices are on the items you can sell.

The best way I find to make a profit is to minimise your expences. Never buy from ah and always grind the mats you need yourself (if you can manage).

Shougeki · 01-03-2010 11:04am

RopeDrink wrote: »

do your dailies and stop being lazy.

Which dailies do you do? I generally just do the dungeon, fishing and cooking as i dunno which dailies make good cash.

Drakar · 01-03-2010 12:47pm

Never buy from ah and always grind the mats you need yourself (if you can manage).

Be careful about this. Quite often you'll find that it's much more time efficient for you to just buy some stuff instead of gathering yourself.

In WoW (and life I guess!), the resource you're trading is your time. So you always want to be focusing on activities that generate the most trading value for your time. Of course you might enjoy levelling blacksmithing and making your own gear, and thats fine (as here the reward you're getting [enjoyment] is greater than the time investment), but if you're in it just to get the money so you can go off and do stuff you might enjoy more (eg raiding etc), then always aim for activities that give you the most gold per hour for example.

This often depends on your character class, abilities etc. For some people they'd be best out farming mobs, some might be best gaming the AH, or using professions. Just be conscious of the times you're doing something you're not really enjoying and make sure you're getting the best gold value out of that time.

An example might be, sometimes you see people saying "I'm not paying 10g for eternal life, thats like twice what they usually are on AH, I'll go farm one and save 10g pewpew". However, instead of spending 10 mins farming (between flying etc), most players could easilly have made this in some other way which is more efficient for them and just pay the 10g on the AH. Whats worse is you often see players making the same decision for the same item when it's at the regular auction price (5g).

Blowfish · 01-03-2010 1:06pm

Agreed, I never quite understood why people grind for a small amount of a specific mat when it's generally quicker just to make money in other ways to pay for those mats.

Even in your example above, you could spend the 10 minutes to do 3 dailies (40G), spend the 10g and end up 30g better off than grinding.

Basically grinding for something doesn't mean that it's 'free' as you've to invest time to do it. If you spent the same time elsewhere, you'll quite often end up with a much better return.

As far as buying from the AH in general, one of the most common ways of 'playing' the AH is simply to find a product which has reasonably high demand that you also have a decent supply of. Then you either wait until there's a low supply on the AH, or create the low supply artificially by buying out the cheaper stuff to drive the price up, then relist and move on to the next product.

This is hard enough to do with max level AH gear/mats as you'll have those aiming for gold cap who can destroy you while doing this if you aren't careful, but it's not all that difficult to find your own 'niche' to do it on with levelling gear/mats.

GEGSTER24 · 02-03-2010 9:17pm

to be honest playing ah is best im on ally side what ive been doing is logging lvl1 horde looking for that boe from icc woodys neck in there ah,they sell there for 5k so i /w the seller to put it on booty bay ah for 5.5...sorted sell on ally ah 10-12k i sell about 5-6necks a week not bad.Hope this helps

Shougeki · 03-03-2010 11:37am

I havent even seeen one of these on my server AH yet.

Nehaxak · 03-03-2010 12:01pm

Yeah I used to do that cross faction buying/selling a lot a long time ago when I was running two accounts. It's risky at times but it's great if you can pull it off.

Magaa · 02-04-2010 10:09am

http://www.wowconfidential.com/

great detalied website on making gold

TheDoc · 18-05-2010 6:22pm

Me and a friend started a gold quest, to make as much gold as possible before cataclysm.

We are hoping to make 100k split between two of us.

We both put in 10k gold into a guild bank ( newly created)

We take 5k each on our bank chars and use this to buy matts for our products to sell.

We are dealing in just about everything split between us, my main focus is

Gems
Gem flipping
Titanium powder
titanium shuffle
saronite shuffle
Specialist bags
Armour + weapon vellums
Runescrolls
haste pots
Raid flasks

Week one, which was really, getting our feet settled, we made 6k profit. How we are working it is that every copper over 5k on our bank alt, we deposit. So although we made 6k profit first week, we probably took in about 12k liquid gold in total.

Week two we pulled in 9k profit.

Week three we hit 13k

Our goal is to push it further, cause we are still getting our bearings, stocking ivnentory and lowering costs.

So in three weeks.

27k / 2

( i think might be rough figures, but its profit)

Ideally we want to make 15k income profit a week, 7500g a piece each week.

We are really taking over markets, and its been great fun considering ive been feeling a lul towards the end of the expansion. I'm sopending so much time crafting and on the ah and love it.

I'll keep you posted, but we are making a literal bomb here

magicianz · 19-05-2010 7:12am

If you dont use your emblems of triumph, buy crusaders orbs and use them with cheapest titansteel bars and saronite bars you can to craft some saronite swordbreakers! I sell every pair i make for minimum 1300g gold. Since the crusader orbs are free, each pair cost me around 700g to craft so good enough bit of profit from the craft. Coupled with gem flipping cardinals and crafting them on my 2 alchemists, buying any for under 100g and crafting bold cardinals which i sell at up to 170g when the market spikes! Made about 12k profit in the last 7-10 days from this, coupled with selling whatever enchanting mats i had. Im ecstatic with the 14k i have cause the most ive had before now was 6k when i was getting my epic flying xD and some of that was borrowed

Just love that feeling being able to search the ah, find the most expensive thing and say yeah......i can buy that! :P and ive always been the worst at making gold in my group of wow friends.....now im the richest on the server we are on now :P

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