Tips, tricks and general suggestions are the bread and butter of what I write here. Sometimes they are simple ideas and other times they are the advanced ideas that have a high risk/high reward scenario.
During all of the expansions, one of the most high risk ideas was the swap goods between auction houses. Everyone has stories of late nights, spending time in Tanaris moving goods from the Alliance Auction House to the Horde auction house and vice versa. With the heavy cut that occurred with selling goods between factions, it became very expensive.
With WOD it was announced that all of the auction houses would be combined between factions. This is going to change the landscape for many cartels who made a lot of profit from selling to both auction houses.
Combined auction houses and how they will be implemented is still in limbo. But the big change will be markets that are controlled by one or two cartel groups will have challengers from both sides of the faction line. Some professions that are very volatile (Inscription, Alchemy) will end up being that much more challenging having to fight off indicators and players wanting to collapse markets. But the pluses can easily outweigh the minuses. For buyers it should open up rare items to become more available. With the race to 100 and obtaining much in demand items this will open up more markets.
Learning the basics of Auction House management will become much more important once the Warlords Of Draenorexpansion opens the Dark Portal to traffic.
So what will be the hot product to have when the portal first opens? Raw Materials will be in huge demand from the start. Players wanting to spend gold to run their professions up to the maximum as fast as possible.
It will be interesting just where blue gear falls during the great auction changes coming. Leveling has never been faster. Especially if you have BOA gear purchased from previous characters. Usually with a new expansion you get many new characters being leveled. With the new boosted 90 status that many new players will be taking advantage of it will cut down on the need for players to buy leveling gear.
Much of the changes to how the auction house plays will be depending on the Horde/Alliance balance on a server. A weak faction will become that much more run over financially when the auction houses are connected. Some point during Warlords of Draenor all of the servers that are scheduled will be collected and the landscape of the ratio between Horde/Alliance will be told on each server. A balanced faction level on a server will encourage action from multiple points instead of one faction dominating the others Auction Houses.
A simple change such as combining the Auction Houses, where it may seem insignificant, can make drastic changes in how the next expansion will play out. So be prepared for new competition and new challenges to putting gold in your pocket.
Good Luck and Good Profit Hunting
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