Cooking, like every other profession has what I like to call 'sweet spots' that make leveling it difficult because materials are no longer farmed on a regular basis.
For Blacksmithing this is thorium bars, for tailoring it's bolts of netherweave (largely due to bag makers buying up the cloth), etc.
When I was going through auctioneer I noticed something peculiar that really surprised me: Burning Crusade fish going for 60 gold a stack. At first I thought it was just some fool dumping his guild bank, but after watching the market for a week I noticed that it was actually pretty active with about six sellers and obviously more than one buyer. Since the food from these fish weren't appearing on the auction house I had to assume that it was for cooking. Having leveled my only cook during BC I never knew this market existed until now!
Spotted fel-tail and Crescent-Tail Skullfish seem to be the real money makers, possibly for the 330 and 335 cooking recipes that these are required for.
Definately add these to your snatch list as they can easily sell at 2-3 gold a piece.
Popular Posts
-
Wow Crusher : How The Pros Do It As you know, our ground-breaking system WOW Crusher system was released 10 days ago to much fanfare.... -
Scott Alan Smith is a Crook! Edit: Screen shots and proof/explanation of the cookie stuffing Scott has used in the past are present a... -
So I've recently started up a new game; Runescape. Now don't be all like Mageshadow, WoW is better than Runescape because I know tha...
-
Mats = 100 gold and Price = 175-300 gold. Last week I came across a strategy guide written by Gevlon for making gold with the Tailoring p... -
Ok so I don't always buy my alts the best gear in the world... I decided to finally sit down and write about the top ten items I see ri... -
Time to take the next step... Running Just My Two Copper has been the greatest experience online I've ever had but it's time I sto...
-
Sunday I created a post outlying why I feel Gevlon’s strategies (his anti qa3 user strategies to be specific) were pretty fail with regards...
-
Markco's Corner Unfortunately I have bit off more than I could chew with my latest attempt to improve JMTC by hiring writers . In the ...
-
Are you prepared for the coming glyph storm? Understanding the Cataclysm Glyph Change Soon glyphs are going to be one time use item... -
Undercutting is an art form in its own right. Some players undercut by 1 copper, others by 10-50% of the original price. Some use the Quick ...
5 comments: on "Sweet Spot for Cooking Gold"
Thayer said... December 6, 2009 at 9:28 AM
The reason the BC fish are going for so much right now is because of all the people who levelled their cooking during Pilgrim's Bounty. Many of them got to 300 and didn't hunt down more turkeys to go any further, or didn't find out where to train their cooking above 300 until recently. Those folks are now looking for a quick way to get those points and move on to Northrend stuff.
Goth said... December 6, 2009 at 9:36 AM
I was surprised that even with the ease of leveling cooking during the last Pilgrim's Bounty event people were still buying low level meats used for cooking. I basically unloaded my bank of all fish and meat I was saving to level cooking and watched it promptly sell off the market.
Anonymous said... December 6, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Also, after the recent Pilgrim's Bounty Holiday where everyone was able to get their characters up to 300 cooking for free, there's probably a larger demand for these fish.
Florentine said... December 6, 2009 at 8:07 PM
I have to agree with the other posters. It seems like the only reason these fish are selling well is because of the recent burst of people at the level they'd sell at. Good to keep in mind for next year(Provided cat. doesn't change everything), but the market for these fish will probably dwindle as time goes on. They're currently averaging 10 gold a stack for fel-tail, which is still good, by no meants typical.
Monkey said... December 7, 2009 at 5:03 AM
Yup. This Market is lvl 70 > 80 types who are finishing off leveling cooking. Probably on an alt who they could not be bothered hunting for turkeys with.
Mind you, it means more people ending up on the Dalaran cooking dailys. As they have not stockpiled chilled meat etc that the dailys need, there is a new Market. I've noticed a trend of buying out all the chilled meat on the day it's required, and reposting it in stack sizes for the quest. People are making a modest profit on each stack sale (50s) but it all adds up. Not a new technique, but a larger Market to support it.
Post a Comment