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Count Duckula · 14-02-2011 3:40pm

Not sure if it's been said, but transmuting Truegold nets you a good 200g a day even if it doesn't proc. On my server the raw mats are selling for about 450g, and Truegold sells for just over 650g. On the odd occasion you get a proc, you can net over 1000g.

TheDoc · 14-02-2011 7:42pm

Drakar wrote: »

In wotlk it became very easy to automate much of the glyph making process (auction mods etc), so margins were very thin. Not sure if that will carry through here once people pick up the patterns.

Yeah I very easily automated my process aswell. I'm not making tens of thousands but its an easy 5k or so a week from very little work in fairness.

I've such a left over pile from the mysertious cards I make, its easy sales imo

TheDoc · 14-02-2011 11:28pm

Bought out Enchant Bracer- Mighty Intellect for 10k

Crafted two, both sold for 6k each.

Also getting some crafts for 500g with users mats.

Will make the profit back fast enough

TheDoc · 18-02-2011 9:00am

Had a very large stockpile of inferno inks from mysterious fortune card crafts.

Got a Volcano deck and Hurricane deck out of it, so going to hold on till Darkmoon in two weeks, hand in, and then sell for hopefully about 30-40k which would be a nice return on essentuially what was sitting in my bags.

With this weeks sales of mysterious fortune cards I'm hoping to get a stockpile of more inferno inks to craft some more cards.

Jewelcrafting has slowed down alot for me, prices are pretty low and worthless. Ore is at an all time low but with so many people shuffling it literally has no value anymore in the Elementium ore shuffle.

Enchanting has gone a bit slow for me aswell with not alot of sales, the Mighty intellect enchant on bracer is going for 6k with about 1 sale every 3 days and the craft netting me 500g with users mats, good few of these sales.

This is why its so important to diversify, to have a number of markets incase one gets **** you can focus on another.

Just so happens this week all my markets took a hit, so I'll be looking to get back on top of mysterious cards tonight to make 100-200 sales to tide me over the weekend.

Darkmoon Faire cant come soon enough so I can turn in the two cards I have to get my liquid gold back higher.

Druid down to 10k liquid
Mage down to 10k liquid but has about 50k in items to sell
Bank alt which is turning glyphs nicely , sits at 500g, I send everything over500 gold to my mage or druid and I guess hes shifting about 2k a week, not bad considerig ive no unique patterns

jeawan · 21-02-2011 10:36am

TheDoc wrote: »

Had a very large stockpile of inferno inks from mysterious fortune card crafts.

Got a Volcano deck and Hurricane deck out of it, so going to hold on till Darkmoon in two weeks, hand in, and then sell for hopefully about 30-40k which would be a nice return on essentuially what was sitting in my bags.

With this weeks sales of mysterious fortune cards I'm hoping to get a stockpile of more inferno inks to craft some more cards.

Jewelcrafting has slowed down alot for me, prices are pretty low and worthless. Ore is at an all time low but with so many people shuffling it literally has no value anymore in the Elementium ore shuffle.

Enchanting has gone a bit slow for me aswell with not alot of sales, the Mighty intellect enchant on bracer is going for 6k with about 1 sale every 3 days and the craft netting me 500g with users mats, good few of these sales.

This is why its so important to diversify, to have a number of markets incase one gets **** you can focus on another.

Just so happens this week all my markets took a hit, so I'll be looking to get back on top of mysterious cards tonight to make 100-200 sales to tide me over the weekend.

Darkmoon Faire cant come soon enough so I can turn in the two cards I have to get my liquid gold back higher.

Druid down to 10k liquid
Mage down to 10k liquid but has about 50k in items to sell
Bank alt which is turning glyphs nicely , sits at 500g, I send everything over500 gold to my mage or druid and I guess hes shifting about 2k a week, not bad considerig ive no unique patterns

Doc do you do anything else in game bar playing the AH ? i find with raiding i have very little time to do much else

TheDoc · 21-02-2011 1:43pm

jeawan wrote: »

Doc do you do anything else in game bar playing the AH ? i find with raiding i have very little time to do much else

I'm part of a very active and productive riading setup. We have cleared 12/12 and working towards heroics.

I also have three other level 85's and working on my fourth along with web design and a **** load of other stuff.

The trick is that when you do it more and more you get more efficent at it, its simple economies of scale, as you do something more often, you get more efficent at it.

So for example. Here is what I do when i log on to do some AH work.

Log Bank
Pickup mail
Repost unsold glyphs

Log Mage
Pickup mail
Go AH
Buy mats for fortune cards and enchants
Back to mail
Mill Herbs
Craft items
Relist to AH

Log Druid
Collect mail
Buy mats
Prospect
Cut gems
Post to AH

The two biggest time sinks are prospecting and milling herbs. I do these while watching TV or doing something else.

Crafting in the quantity I do is also a big time sink so I do other things whilst doing this.

The whole process is roughly about an hour a day max.

More often then not I'll spend a little extra time barking trade or just cancelling and reposting, but its usually while waiting in a dungeon Q etc.

There is always time to do something and time is money

TheDoc · 23-02-2011 8:55am

Darkmoon cant come soon enough, the three trinkets I now have are burning a hole in my bags.

Also found a gold farmer who will provide me with cinderbloom at 30g a pop @ 50 stacks and heartblossom at 40g @ 50 stacks.

Buying about 3 helpings a week ( thats 150 stacks of each)

My mysterious fortune cards just wont stay in stock and the infero inks I'm making are getting turned into cards.

I'd been selling them single for 1-2k gold, but might try hold onto more to make another deck, if I had mroe money I'd pour it into cards, wish I could have been on this band wagon from the start.

Glyph market is dead imo, waste of money. Not making anymore, the gravy train from wotlk has defniitly finished.

My diveristy has definitly gone down for sure.

So from

Alchemy
Enchanting
Inscription
Jewelcrafting

All I'm doing is

20 stacks fo elementium shuffled a day
Mysterious fortune card sales
Infero ink into Darkmoon cards

I got back into Enchanting a little making Enchant chest- mighty stats and Enchant weapon - hurricane, might diverse a bit.

Enchant bracer- mighty intellect has been serious fail. 10k on the pattern, I've sold about 1 scroll for 6k.

Just wasn't a good investment when it really should have. I'm now only person on server selling them, might drop price to 5k to get some movement, but with the mat costs, its nearly 5k just to craft.

TheDoc · 24-02-2011 8:59am

In little news

Mysterious Fortune Cards are having their cratf time changed from 3 seconds to 1 second..

Big news for me!!!

Mage is now sitting at 20k, which I'm happy with. He started off his money making with only 50 mysterious fortune cards

According to the great addon "MySales" I've made over 50k from mysterious fortune sales, scary when you think I've spent 30k, with little to show for it

Going to take a look into tailoring aswell soon enough. My warlock is my tailor and being levelled after my Paladin
Bags seem like a huge profit, one bag in particular has a 200g craft cost and a 900g profit

Got back into the elementium swing and its reaping some return for sure, will take it more seriously to get my character back up to the 20-30k region.

Looking forward to Darkmoon aswell to see how the cards go, at the moment the decks sell

Hurricane - 14k
Volcano - 18k

During the fair, but more importantly after, I'm hoping prices go up. Pug raids havnt kicked off yet so hopnig they still sell.
Also selling individual cards going for between 1-2.5k a piece.

Scroll of mighty intellect has been mighty dissapointing

I'm now the only person on server selling them.

Mat cost is 5k, i sell for6k, not even a massive profit consdiering the constant fluctuation of maelstrom crystals , which are now selling for 2.5k

Nehaxak · 24-02-2011 8:12pm

Dunno how you're making gold on mysterious fortune cards, they only sell for no more than 5g on any of the 4 servers I play on

TheDoc · 25-02-2011 9:16am

Nehaxak wrote: »

Dunno how you're making gold on mysterious fortune cards, they only sell for no more than 5g on any of the 4 servers I play on

They have dropped to 13g on mine cause essentially everyone has coped on, and herb prices have crashed

But its an easy market to control, if I'm ever udnercut, I just bark in trade advertising them, and they sell out pretty quickly, then mine go next, then i keep barking till the prices above me clear out.

I reset the price by driving up sales, about 3 times a week, and can relist at 20g which gets me lots of sales.

There is more tactful ways to deal with undercutting then buying out lower items.

Also the gravy train is geting overloaded. I was one of the first people pushing them in a big way. And when people tried to muscle in, I would get in touch with those people and organise we sold at the same price, and barked each others cards, aboslute...gravy cartel train of justice!

Even at 13g, its still a massive pull in of profit for me.

I make 12 cards from 3 stacks of herbs.

I use cinderbloom and get them from a chinese old farmer. I have been getting them for some time at 40g a stack, so was already making massive profits, and still can.

For every 3 stacks I get 2 inferno inks minimum which sell for €160 gold minimum.

So by my calculations my inferno ink return cover the cost of helps plus some profit, and 12 cards is more pure profit.

I could sell the cards for 5g a pop and still make nice profits.

And in the quantit I sell, I'm pretty much still in pole position on my server, I'm outputting about 800 cards a week in sales.

There is something unusually rewarding knowing you are literally top dog in a market.

-Vega- · 26-02-2011 7:55am

TheDoc wrote: »

Bought out Enchant Bracer- Mighty Intellect for 10k

Crafted two, both sold for 6k each.

Also getting some crafts for 500g with users mats.

Will make the profit back fast enough

Bought 3 of these so far, got one off an uninformed player for 150g, one dropped for me and one was underpriced for 2k off AH. Got very lucky here

Put it back up for 10k and it's gone.

Also wouldn't worry about selling the actual enchant yet, Cata is still early days, a lot of people don't have their final bracer yet.

-Vega- · 26-02-2011 8:01am

TheDoc wrote: »

Going to take a look into tailoring aswell soon enough. My warlock is my tailor and being levelled after my Paladin
Bags seem like a huge profit, one bag in particular has a 200g craft cost and a 900g profit

No secrets here ! Which bag?

Herb?

I've had a serious amount of Embersilk, got the Northend scavaging ability so everytime I do an instance I come out with 60, everytime I do tol barad I come out with more if I do both sets of 6x quests.

I found I made more money by crafting Emberfire pants and Emberfire Cowl ( u buy the patterns in Twilight ) .. They got 2 stacks of 20 to make and 4x Vol fire/air .. so cost to make was about 200g selling for 600 - 700g.

That was the only real profit I made from tailoring so far, the epics have very little markup, again the Maelstrom market is the general reason behind this. Embersilk bags cost more than the cowl/pants to make and only sell for 300g on my server, sometimes 350 depending on stocks. Ghostly spellthread you can make small gold off, but so far the biggest profit is definitely the cowl/pants, 400g plus everytime, just dont flood market.

The Snipe · 28-02-2011 4:38pm

Doesn't make you much but allows you to control the market a bit more, using multiple accounts, (2 ore more) put up the same item at different prices, making your one look a lot more of a bargin (Depending on the item, change the price from a few gold, to a few hundred gold)

TheDoc · 28-02-2011 6:56pm

Mysterious Cards price went up on the two days I was away from wow, now at 20g a pop, from yesterday at like 8pm till now as I look at my AH app, I've moved about 300 cards.

Also using my inferno ink overflow to make some darkmoon cards and sell them individually, netting me about 1k a card.

Inferno inks themselves are down to 40g a piece so ive being buying stacks of ten for 400g and then making cards to sell at profit

Back into the elemtuinium ore shuffle which is back making big money again for me.

Bout 2-3k profit a day

Paladin is moving towards 85 and need to look at what professions I want to use on him, i dont see myself missing out on anything big since i have most of my proffs maxed and earning big bucks.

Enchant chest- mighty stats is making me a fortune aswell. Materials cost is about 50g and sales are about 150g a piece

Omphin · 03-03-2011 7:22pm

http://www.warcraftecon.net/?p=3640

just something i found a good read

TheDoc · 03-03-2011 8:12pm

Omphin wrote: »

http://www.warcraftecon.net/?p=3640

just something i found a good read

Funny enough they do what I'm doing ( albeit im doing what they do ) so I'm think I'm on the right track.

I think I just need to bulk up and get stuck in more quantities.

I usually oeprate of 20 stacks to suffle a day, I think I'll increase that

I've also tippy toed in the glyph market but I think I'll look into profitable glyphs and get cracking.

Any glyph that sells over 20g is a 10g profit for me, so I might aswell get stuck in and look at the various amounts.

Going to get back into the shuffle proeprly, but **** me it takes tiem

-Vega- · 06-03-2011 3:47pm

hey, just levelled up herbalism and alchemy, nearly at 525. Was told it was a big money maker a few days ago and now Im reading that you make more money just picking and selling herbs? Any tips on how to turn a buck ?

TheDoc · 06-03-2011 5:26pm

Darkmoon Fair hit town

I've got two Hurricanes and a Volcano, interested to see how it goes

Shy_Dave! · 10-03-2011 5:12pm

Hope it's correct to ask this here.
I got a random drop off a spider in Tol Barad:
http://www.wowhead.com/item=67141/corefire-legplates

I don't need them and none are on the AH, so I'm wondering what price I should sell them for?
I know it's all relative with the realm pop/item demands etc. but does anyone have a rough estimate?

I'm on Dunemaul btw!

-Vega- · 10-03-2011 6:38pm

16k id put them on at, see if they go ..if they dont move after a week drop it down. rare enuf drop.

TheDoc · 10-03-2011 6:55pm

They go for between 20-25k on my server which is High pop

I'd start at 20k and drop down

Shy_Dave! · 11-03-2011 12:33pm

Thanks for the advice, I've started it on the AH at 40k for the craic, not expecting nearly that much.
Deposit was only(!) 25g so I'll just keep lowering the price in small amount and see how it goes!

-Vega- · 11-03-2011 4:26pm

Ah actually yeah, Im on outland, everything is cheaper. Very competitive.

TheDoc · 16-03-2011 10:15pm

Pretty much broke now

Bought loads of boes for paladin and powerleveld him alchemy from scratch along with a few treats for my mains.

I dont seem to ever be able to rake in big money, I think I'm doing the right things, I just need to step up my volume of trade

-Vega- · 19-03-2011 7:48am

Im making my biggest money from just buying epics and valor boots and selling them. Bought 30k worth of maelstrom crystals for 1k each the last day, sold a few but AH price dropped down to 1,200gold - Ill wait for it to go up again and trickle them bk on.

Magaa · 24-03-2011 7:41pm

How can i update OP?

Berns · 24-03-2011 8:37pm

Should be edit post beside quote etc. Maybe can't do it after a certain period?

-Vega- · 26-03-2011 12:38pm

Well now it's gone belly up, new patch makes Maelstroms available from a vendor for points, justice or valor I cant remember. So maels gone down to as little as 800g each. Valor boots now being sold for 4k so that's done too, I think I'll do some leather working and skinning as I notice from dinging my rogue 85 that there is never a FULL set of 339 pvp gear on AH and all the pieces on our server are selling for 600g each due to rarity.

Made some nice gold buying epics cheap and selling them on booty bay AH to alliance, and bought some scaleslicers on alliance and sold them horde, nice profit after 15% tax

TheDoc · 26-03-2011 2:11pm

Jewelcrafting has caved for me big time, absolutely **** all profits coming in compared to a month before.

Inscription has now taken over as the money maker but not from my mysterious fortune cards anymore. Those have all but deterioated in price.

Now its all about glyphs and darkmoon cards. I'm selling the cards singular making about 2-3k a day ontop of the 2k a day from glyph sales.

Outside of that though, I'm not doing alot in terms of gold making. But I'm up at around 25k on my mage , my druid is back to about 5k so need to get him rockin and rolling again making some money.

IRL_Sinister · 26-03-2011 2:40pm

I've found a pretty sweet niche on my Server. It's small profits but it's in horrendously large quantities. Just made 700G when I logged on 5 mins ago.

Basically, I have a shopping list and on that list is all the Green (Cata) uncut gems. If anything is below 7G50 on the AH I instantly buy it. I then cut the gems, sell them to Vendor (for 9G) and make profit.

I'm making enormous amounts of gold on this at the moment because people keep putting them up at that price thinking it's a good price. It's a pretty good way to start making money at lower gold levels too as it's a guaranteed profit.

Gummy Panda · 26-03-2011 2:52pm

Doesn't work on mine. Jaspers are 20g uncut.

JC has really tanked for me. No money coming in. Seems like everyone is a JC on my server. I need to level up an alt with something profitable.

-Vega- · 26-03-2011 3:24pm

So .. it could be back to gathering professions and farming for gold ? That would suck, have to break out the skinner and miner again, start farming wool from sfk,ewww ..no ways

Gummy Panda · 26-03-2011 3:33pm

-Vega- wrote: »

So .. it could be back to gathering professions and farming for gold ? That would suck, have to break out the skinner and miner again, start farming wool from sfk,ewww ..no ways

Nah. Change tactics. Buy low as possible and do savage undercuts to Market leader. I forced him to buy my gems to keep his price high since he has so much stock.

TheDoc · 26-03-2011 4:20pm

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Nah. Change tactics. Buy low as possible and do savage undercuts to Market leader. I forced him to buy my gems to keep his price high since he has so much stock.

Agreed.

Farming and gathering proffs are for suckers

Scram · 27-03-2011 1:03am

Been saving from buying any gear on AH since December, the prices were pure Bs. Finnaly stuff is is being sold at what its work i.e BOE epics.

Of course its not good if your trying to sell stuff, the only thing ive noticed that sells like made is the Embersilk bags.

-Vega- · 27-03-2011 7:02am

Yeah, I'm a tailor but any cloth I get, instead of selling it or turning into bags for 50g profit, I use it to make emberfire cowl or emberfire pants which sell for 450-600g depending on how many on AH. That takes 2.5 stacks of embersilk (100g) and 4 volatile fire and 4 water, so a nice 250g plus profit on each.

For dreamcloth I was just doing the Enchanted spellthreads but honestly making more money just selling the above so I've been saving the silk for that instead. Not really making much money on enchanting, dropped all the power torrent type enchants and bracer enchants to 200g fee and I keep throwing up loads of Hurricane enchant but that profit is only 50 gold or so. Hopefully now that Maelstroms become more accessible, people will buy the higher end enchants more and I'll try retain my 200g fee, that won't last long either tho.

Magaa · 06-05-2011 9:32am

damit i shouldent have droped herbalism..

I droped it just before you could track multiple things

Gummy Panda · 08-05-2011 8:31pm

Magaa wrote: »

damit i shouldent have droped herbalism..

I droped it just before you could track multiple things

Herb is full of bots though.

Stupid Tauren Druid bots!

Berns · 09-05-2011 4:45am

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Herb is full of bots though.

Stupid Tauren Druid bots!

Levelled one when was playin to get my herbs for flasks

Was annoyin tryin to get it done on rogue when ur about to land and someone swooped in...... when in rome:rolleyes:

TheDoc · 15-05-2011 8:33am

Havnt posted here in a while.

I stockpiled gems for the new patch that launched while back and made a total of 70k profit from 48 hours of sales.

I had roughly over 160 red gems stockpiled and it was well worth it.

I've got back into inscription properly and while its not as massive as wotlk, the actual income is probably as steady if not a little less.

I'm pulling in about 10k a week from Inscription which isnt bad for the new mins it takes to get it all done.

Also tip for new patch, Truegold. Looking at all the new patterns they all require alot of truegold and they are items raiders will craft.

I've stockpiled about 60 bars including buying some out at low prices. Some guy through bars up for 100g each for 12 bars so picked them up.

I imagnie these bars will hike in price to roughly about 1k but thats optimistic, at about 600g I'm in to make a bomb.

Along with the new Glyphs that are being changed that I've already stockpiled, patchday should be nice

settings · 15-05-2011 5:22pm

somethings maybe useful for your low lvl alts

enchanting: large brilliant shards are always in demand for heirlooms enchants. search Ah 50-59 and buy cheap blues to d/e (careful not to buy tbc items-check item lvl). The greens this lvl can d/e into illusion dust/greater eternal essence which generally sell really well too. I had a 55 pala i just logged into buy stuff to d/e. I also got the +15 agi weap enchant in felwood from the timbermaw- very easy to get. If you find the best enchants and sell scrolls/mats you can make alot. For example JCs use them emerald lion rings to level, sell them for about 5-6g on AH and the mats can give up to 160g+ (2x greater eternal essence -80g min on my server, even more with the guild proc talent). Even the illusion dusts cost 15g on a bad day, if they are cheaper you can make the +9 sta wrist enchant with them. The cape enchant ''stealth' i think its called (8 agi +8dodge) also can be used to make alot although you need rep with cenarion. The mats are very easy to get however and I just mail the mats to my mate who makes them for me.

alchemy: also tied to the +15agi, you can transmute essence of earth to water, then water to air (need to /w gm for this recipe since its no longer available to get in the game). An earth costs 2g on my server and airs sell for 100g+. this can be done on lvl 35+ i think.

between essence of airs and shards you can pump out +15 agi scrolls very easy and they always sell well, generally cost me 80g max for mats and sell for 800g+. You can grind airs in silithus if you need more but i generally never grind. Easy money for a low lvl alt.

Fishing: I wanted to level this on my main a month ago and its no secret that in barrens outside WC you get savory fish. You lvl the same speed no matter where you fish so just fish here imo. 10g each on my server (check which is more expensive cooked or raw and take advatage of either-the recipe is easy to get).

herbalism: I never did this but a guildie swears by it. Run scarlet monaestry and farm the herbs there, apparently goldthorn sells for 200g per stack

My GM has 2 accounts, he also uses his GF acc and boosted alts to 65 so he can do 30 (yes thirty) alchemy tranmutes per day!! (not the transmutes i mentioned)

Magaa · 16-05-2011 6:50pm

Back after a 2 month break and mining is horrible money now. gonna drop it

TheDoc · 16-05-2011 7:53pm

Magaa wrote: »

Back after a 2 month break and mining is horrible money now. gonna drop it

yeah man botters got that **** locked down, herbalism too.

I'm loving it in terms of inscription etc and there was ele ore going for 18g a stack at one point on my server so was jumping with joy

The botting has slwoed down on the mining front cause well, people just arnt turning the output as much, but the botting in the herb market is booming!

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