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[Guide] How to make gold with every profession!
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Post by
Wildhorn
Here is the main list of crafted items that will sell well and allow you to make gold.
This is not an absolute list and I didnt post stuff that cost alot to craft. Also, on your server, some other items might sell good too (like on RP servers, some armor sell well because they look cool, even if stats are trash)
I am not responsible of server economy crash after people read this!
Some terms I use:
Social: For people who love to say "Hey, look at me!"
PvP: For World and BG PvP
Exploration: People who love to get to special place or take spectacular screenshots (yes there is a market for that)
Twinks: For PvP, but only working for "low" levels.
Alchemy
:
-
Arcanite Bar
(no transmute cooldown) for many crafts and some quests.
-
Earthsiege Diamond
&
Skyflare Diamond
(no transmute coodown)
-
Titanium
(no transmute cooldown)
-
Epic Gems
(Gem price - Mats cost = Transmute fee!)
-
Swiftness Potion
for PvP
-
Elixir of Giant Growth
for Social
-
Elixir of Water Breathing
for Exploration
-
Swim Speed Potion
for Exploration
-
Free Action Potion
for PvP
-
Lesser Invisibility Potion
&
Invisiblity Potion
for Exploration and PvP
-
Great Rage Potion
for PvP
-
Catseye Elixir
&
Elixir of the Searching Eye
for PvP
-
Oil of Immolation
for PvP
-
Restorative Potion
for Twinks.
-
Elixir of Dream Vision
for Exploration
-
Living Action Potion
for PvP
-
Purification Potion
for Twinks
-
Ethereal Oil
for Social
-
Lesser Flask of Toughness
for PvP
-
Pygmy Oil
for Social and Flask crafting
-
Elixir of Water Walking
for Social and PvP
- Wotlk Flasks:
Atack Power
,
Mana
,
Hitpoints
,
Spellpower
-
Elixir of Shadow Power
for
Warlock Quest
-
Strong Troll's Blood Elixir
for
Horde Quest
-
Minor Mana Potion
+
Elixir of Minor Fortitude
for
Alliance Quest
-
Frost Oil
for
Both Side Quest
-
Elixir of Fortitude
for
Alliance Quest
====================
Blacksmithing
:
-
Enchanting Rods
for Enchanters
-
Iron Buckle
for Leatherworkers
-
Inlaid Mithril Cylinder
for Engineers
-
Tank 70 Set
for PvE
-
Tank 74-78 Set
+
Shield 73
for PvE
-
Ornate Set
for PvP
-
Savage Set
for PvP
-
Chest Warding
&
Shield Warding
for PvP and PvE
-
Weapon Chain
for PvP
-
Shield Spike
for AoE farming
-
Mithril Spurs
for Twinks
-
Weightstones
&
Sharpeningstone
for Twinks
-
Iron Counterweight
for Twinks
-
Eternal Belt Buckle
-
Heavy Grinding Stone
for
Darkmoon Faire
-
Dense grinding Stone
for
Darkmoon Faire
-
Green Iron Bracers
for
Darkmoon Faire
====================
Enchanting
:
-
Spell Power
&
Mana
oils for Twinks
-
Get a Jewelcrafter to craft
this
&
that
and disenchant them if material cost is lower than
Dream Shard
. There are some other items from other professions with cheap material that grant a 100% Dream Shard. Some greens items got their amount of dust and essence increased. I wont track them all, but you should look for them. Compare material cost - disenchanted material price = profit you will make.
(Since LFD, shard price is way too low to be profitable)
- Enchant
Vellums
and
sell them
. The big sellers for twinks are:
--
Crusader
--
Fiery
--
Spellpower
--
Mongoose
--
Major Spellpower
--
Exceptional Spellpower
--
Staff Spellpower
--
Minor Speed
--
Boar's Speed
--
Cat's Swiftness
--
Tuskarr's Vitality
====================
Engineering
:
-
Zapthrottle Mote Extractor
coupled with mining is awesome
-
Scopes
-
Projectiles
-
CTR
for Social
-
Tonk
for Social
-
Fireworks
&
Rockets
for Social
-
Flares
for Social
-
Pets
for Social
-
Spyglass
for Exploration
-
Ice
&
Flame
Deflector for PvP
-
VAM
for Twinks
- Ez-Thro
1
&
2
for PvP
-
Deadly Blunderbuff
for
Horde Quest
-
Advanced Target Dummy
for
Both Side Quest
-
Gyrochronatom
for
Both Side Quest
-
Mythril Casing
for
Both Side Quest
-
Overcharged Capacitor
for
Alliance Quest
-
Bronze Tube
for
Alliance Quest
&
Alliance Rogue Quest
-
Copper Modulator
for
Darkmoon Faire
-
Green Firework
for
Darkmoon Faire
-
Mechanical Repair Kit
for
Darkmoon Faire
-
Thorium Widget
for
Darkmoon Faire
-
Whirring Bronze Gizmo
for
Darmoon Faire
====================
Herbalism
:
- No real trick here.
Lichbloom
is usually the herb that sell for the highest.
====================
Inscription
:
-
Milling
because some people do not like to push a button over and over for 10-15 minutes they will pay to get their milling done.
-
Vellums
for Enchanters
-
Snowfall Ink
&
Ink of the Sea
if you dont want to bother with Glyph Industry
-
Wolf Book
for Social
-
Runescroll of Fortitude
-
Glyph Industry Guide
Note: It is called a
scribe
! Not an inscriptionist, not a glypher, not an inscriptionalist (yeah i saw it once), it is a scribe!
====================
Jewelcrafting
:
-
Prospecting
because some people do not like to push a button over and over for 10-15 minutes they will pay to get their prospecting done.
-
Heavy Silver Ring
for Twinks
-
Aquamarine Signet
for Twinks
-
Malachite Pendant
for Twinks (only available neck before PvP one)
-
Ornate Tigerseye Necklace
for Twinks (only available neck before PvP one)
-
Lens
for Social
- About what gems to craft, it is server dependent. You will have to browse AH yourself to figure out which one sell good on your server. Warning: Some gems are listed with a high price, but never sell.
But here is a list of the most common gem type people will use (so buy):
Red:
- Runed (Spell Power)
- Bold (Strenght)
- Bright (Attack Power)
- Precise (Expertise Rating)
Blue:
- Solid (Stamina)
- Stormy (Spell Penetration)
Yellow:
- Mystic (Resilience)
- Rigid (Hit Rating)
- Thick (Defense Rating)
Purple:
- Balanced (Attack Power/Stamina)
- Glowing (Spell Power/Stamina)
- Mysterious (Spell Power/Spell Penetration)
- Sovereign (Strenght/Stamina)
Green:
- Enduring (Defense/Stamina)
- Steady (Resilience/Stamina)
- Tense (Hit Rating/Spell Penetration)
- Vivid (Hit Rating/Stamina)
Orange:
- Accurate (Hit Rating/Expertise Rating)
- Champion's (Strenght/Defense Rating)
- Durable (Spell Power/Resilience)
- Resolute (Expertise Rating/Defense Rating)
For Meta, most common are:
-
Chaotic Skyflare Diamond
>
Relentless Earthsiege Diamond
>
Austere Earthsiege Diamond
====================
Leatherworking
:
-
Armor Kits
-
Leg Armor
-
King
&
Wild
Drums
-
Eviscerator's Set
for PvP
-
Overcaster Set
for PvP
-
Stormhide Set
for PvP
-
Swiftarrow Set
for PvP
-
Stylin' Hats
for Social
-
Heavy Leather Ball
for Social
-
Riding Crop
for Twinks
-
Hillman's Cloak
for
Alliance Quest
-
Rugged Armor Kit
for
Darkmoon Faire
====================
Mining
:
-
Titanstell Smelt
(
Titansteel Bar
Price - Mats cost = Smelt fee!)
- Buy
Earth
and
Fire
Primals to
Earth Shatter
&
Fire Shatter
and resell the motes (if motes sell for more than primals, which most of time they do).
- Check AH price of ore and bars. If bars sell for more than ore, buy ore and smelt them into bars to resell.
-
Thorium Ore
usually sell for very high. Best place to farm is usually
Silithus
-
Mithril Ore
is the new Thorium Ore since they added a tons of Thorium vein in Ungoro. Best place to farm is usually
Tanaris
.
====================
Skinning
:
- Try to find a spot where you know people are questing and the quests require alot of animal killing.
Sholazar Basin
is usually the best zone.
- In
Icecrown
if you do not have started the Argent Vanguard quest chain, there are tons of Nerubians that will grant you alot of
Nerubian Chitin
- In
Borean Tundra
the rhino will give you some leather, but also alot of meat which sell good in AH.
- For lower level:
--
Knothide Leather
-> Anywhere in Outland, but Nagrand is the best
--
Rugged Leather
-> Any Dinosaur in Un'goro Crater
--
Thick Leather
->
Turtles
--
Heavy Leather
->
Yeti and Hippogryph
--
Medium Leather
->
Yeti
--
Light Leather
-> Anywhere in Barrens... you can even enjoy the chat >.>
====================
Tailoring
:
-
Ebonweave
,
Monnshround
and
Spellweave
-
Azure
,
Shining
,
Brillant
and
Sapphire
Spellthread
-
Frostsavage Set
for PvP
-
Bolt of Frostweave
&
Bolt of Imbued Frostweave
usually sell for more than raw
cloth
.
-
Bag
. Wont sell for much, but they sell very fast. So even with 1-2g profit, if you sell 100, it is 100-200g profit.
-
Bolt of Woolen Cloth
for
Alliance Quest
====================
General Tips:
- Greedy Goblin
Essentials
. You can either read them and become a rich goblin or not read them and be a poor M&S
- Do not list your stuff in AH one by one. Put them in stack of 2, 5, 10 or 20. This way most undercutter wont see that you undercut them, but people who buy the stuff will see that your stuff is cheaper.
- Do not undercut by 1 copper/silver. Undercutting by 5-10% make your stuff sell faster because people see a "huge" drop in the price and they think they make a deal.
- Buy gathered material the week-end. M&S farm them weekend, so it increase the supply, so decrease price.
- Sell social items week-end too, because it is at that time they play too.
- Sell consumable/useful crafted items during weekday, tuesday and wednesday are the best. That's the raiders play time.
Post by
GenXCub
Inscription:
Should you mention the darkmoon cards? It's kinda iffy these days since they're not the best trinkets anymore.
JC/BS/Enchant:
Now that high level green armor now create 5-7 infinite dusts instead of 2-5 infinite dusts,
Horned Cobalt Helm is 8 cobalt bar/ore, and will create 5-7 infinite dusts. If cobalt is 1.25g per, then it's a 10g investment to get 5-7 infinite dusts (20-28g @ 4g per dust, many servers still sell higher than 4g)
Same for the Shadowmight Ring and Stoneguard Band in Jewelcrafting. Eternal Earths and Shadows can get pretty cheap. I often see shadows creep below the 5g mark, and earth is 5-6g. For a 10-11g investment, turn them into 5-7 infinite dusts.
Abyssal Shatter has lowered the Cosmic Essence market, so I use those on Vellum enchants.
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Post by
Wildhorn
@GenXCub: I didnt mention cards because they do not sell for as high as before but Primal price didnt really drop, so in the long run, you will either lose money or at best make a way too small profit to make it worth the risk.
For the rest, I didnt know about those change (wowhead still show 2-5 dust). So I wont post until I can confirm it.
@Opakh: This is what I meant by smelt ore into bar.
Post by
GenXCub
For the rest, I didnt know about those change (wowhead still show 2-5 dust). So I wont post until I can confirm it.
There are blue posts about it at this point, so I'm not sure how long it will take to update here on wowhead.
All of the green items of ilvl 158 and above have been giving me 5-7 dusts (and the same 1 or 2 GCE's).
mmo-champion's post is on their 2nd page.
Post by
Wildhorn
Can you link the blue post? (I keep myself updated, but never saw it, neither on mmo) I saw a blue post about DE/Shat to give more mats, but never saw any numbers.
Post by
GenXCub
Can you link the blue post? (I keep myself updated, but never saw it, neither on mmo) I saw a blue post about DE/Shat to give more mats, but never saw any numbers.
That was the post I was referring to. After DEing about 100 greens this past weekend, They were all 5-7 dusts as long as they were over ilvl 158 (what used to be the 2-5 dust cutoff), so anecdotal, I suppose... but hey, it's me.
I make the bulk of my money from finding things to disenchant, like the horned helm, JC rings, and stuff. The lower JC rings still just do 1-2 infinite dusts and 1-2 LCE's. Those are unchanged.
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Post by
Wildhorn
What do you mean more in detail?
Post by
dumac
liked reading the essentials part, the author is clearly a jerk and he also admit he is, but he have some good points in his blog. It is good to read to get into a gold selling mode, but i cannot agree with the attitude completly:)
liked the gathered up parts with all sell good stuff, nice guide.
Post by
Wildhorn
You do not agree with the attitude because you are a social (a politically-correct). He is anti-social.
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Wildhorn
Yeah except you cant actively farm frost lotus. They come with other herbs or rare spawn over normal herbs spawn point in WG.
Just like Titanium.
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Wildhorn
It is just in your head :P
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Post by
Morbanth
No, it's just in your head. Random random is random, but humans have a tendency to see patterns in everything. That's why for any kind of serious look at drop rates or whatnot you need to look at a website like Wowhead that collects so many observations it removes any element of luck from the equation.
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Morbanth you seem to be a new poster but I already love you
/pet
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