Molten Core: A Hidden Treasure

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I've told you folks that farming Molten Core is a gold mine and I'm going to go ahead and remind you once more. Why? Because I recently made ~10,000g for an hours worth of work.

It all started off with me being bored, thus I did what anyone would do, go back and do achievements ( I was on my alt ) so I decided to do Molten Core and pray for a Sulfuron Ingot drop. I flew to Molten Core, went inside and ran straight for the bosses. First boss kill what drops? Enchant Formula: Spellpower, a formula worth anywhere around 2-4,000g. I carry on and don't get another decent drop until I'm at the 3th or 4th boss, which happens to drop Recipe: Major Rejuvenation Potion - another rare recipe worth roughly 2,500g. I then continue on to Golemagg who proceeds to drop a Sulfuron Ingot which I will later turn in for the Sulfuron Hammer Plans which sell anywhere in the 3-4,000g range.


I ended up selling the Enchant Formula for 3,500g, the Major Rejuvination Potion for 2,250g and the Sulfuron Hammer plans for 3,500g. 9,250g made in under an hour farming Molten Core. Do keep in mind this doesn't account for gold drops, rares, enchanting mats and anything else gained.


Below is a list of every rare pattern you can obtain from Molten Core:

• Schematic: Biznicks 247x128 Accurascope ( BOP )
• Schematic: Core Marksman Rifle ( BOP )
• Plans: Elemental Sharpening Stone ( BOP )
• Pattern: Core Armor Kit ( BOP )
• Schematic: Force Reactive Disk ( BOP )
• Pattern: Bottomless Bag ( BOE )
• Pattern: Core Felcloth Bag ( BOE )
• Recipe: Major Rejuvenation Potion ( BOE )
• Enchant Weapon: Healing Power ( BOE )
• Enchant Weapon: Spell Power ( BOE ) 

As you can see there is a nice chunk of BOE recipes that can be sold at the AH. There are some BOP recipes in there, but the things you craft are BOE meaning you could the crafted item at the AH.  On top of all this you also have the Sulfuron Ingot which is used to craft the Legendary Sulfuron Hammer. You can either sell the ingot on it's own as the Sulfuron Hammer needs 8 to be crafted, or you can go to Blackrock Depths and turn in the Ingot for the Plans of the Sulfuron Hammer. I find that the recipe itself sell much better than seling the ingot raw. Beware, you can only turn the ingot in once per character, you can easily counter this by creating a Death Knight once all your alts have turned in an Ingot.

But wait there's more! If you farm a mob named Molten Destroyers you also have the chance to make several thousands of gold! They drop an item named Blood of the Mountain which is used to craft the Sulfuron Hammer, these things go for insane prices at auction houses.

All in all if you're bored and are looking for a way to make gold why not go farm Molten Core for a chance to make 10,000g in under an hour? It's a nice change from camping that auction house! :)

AHSpy: Latest in AH Comparison!

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

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What is AHSpy?

AHSpy is an Auction House data comparison website, and recently they have added data for all US
and EU realms, thats right up to data AH comparison for the EU! They have also added localization
for French, Spanish and German. Taking data straight from Battle.net so all the data is up to date and
correct. 

Highlight Good Deals and Visual Patterns

The charts on AHSpy are rather colorful yet simplistic, and therefore easy to use. You can use them to
discover and check for good deals, but also to find patterns in the market and hopefully a great item to
make profit from! When you’re considering buying an item for investment from the Auction House this site gives you all the data needed to make sure that it is worth it.

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Wow Gold and Leveling Tips (Part 3)

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

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Author: Leo.

Buy from the auction house:

Many people will tell you differently, but in my opinion, once you get to level 12 or so, and you have about 120 gold in the bank, it is time to buy some green items to make you stronger and level quicker. Buy items that give you a decent upgrade for little gold. So pay 2-5 gold per piece to replace a gray item, or sometimes you don’t have an item at all. Paying 20+ gold for green / blues is really not worth it for items that you are going to replace in 5 level s (3 days) anyways.

Guild rewards & random dungeon finder:

An overlooked way of earning a lot of gold, is to make a guild with 2 other friends. If you do a random dungeon, your guild gets 300 gold per run for this in the bank.  You can get this reward up to 7 times a week. For three people, this could earn you 700 gold per week, each. This gold goes straight into the guild bank, so you have to take it out of there (discuss this before you do so) If you are level 15 – 45, this is a very decent amount, and in any case you would / should do random dungeons.

The random dungeons help you level up quickly, and give you nice stuff to sell on the auction house and vendors as well. Running out of bag space? Buy bigger bags, 16 - 22 slots when you can.

Other tips:

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A2A-Episode 10 Is Up....Finally!

Posted by Adam Paul at 7:47 AM

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Hey everyone,

It's been quite a while since the last episode so we on Addicted To Azeroth wanted to announce that we have put up another episode!  You can find it on iTunes right now--so go go go! (There is also a stream right here on this article)

In this much overdue episode we talk subscriptions, heroic raids and yes--even gold making!  Plus we answer all the questions that you have had in the last few weeks we've been away!

Have questions for the show?  Send them to addictedtoazeroth@gmail.com

Thank you from all of us at the A2A Podcast,

Adam Doll
Rich Fisher
Chris Imme
Jaime Macclay

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Wow Gold and Leveling Tips (Part 2)

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

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Author: Leo.

Professions:

If you are wondering how to get those 6 gold for those bags, you probably choose the wrong profession. If you are leveling up, and want some gold, choose 2 out of these: herbalism, mining, skinning. Use them and these will give you instant profit. You sell the herbs / ore’s / bars / leather on the auction house for decent amounts of gold. Keep the skill up to your level, so you won’t get to a situation where you can’t pick that flower, or mine that node because your level is too low. Unless you have gold to back you up, don’t level up with a crafting profession, because it will eat up all your mats. Rather get to your target level (85), get 5000 extra gold, and then change the gathering professions for crafting professions. If you start from beginning with a crafting profession you will find yourself without gold, and stuck not being able to level that profession up somewhere in the middle. (This is only true for 97% of us)

There is also cooking, fishing and archeology. I always found these not really necessary, but these are nice to level up as you go, and will give you some gold, at least for daily quest rewards.

Use the auction house to sell:

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Markco Will Return for Diablo III

Posted by Markco at 6:00 PM

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I wasn't planning on ever joining the MMO scene again, especially not through a Blizzard game. All that changed this week when Diablo 3 announced two separate auction houses; one for gold and one for real money.

That's right, it will be possible to trade gold, items and even characters for real money to other players. What's more, you'll be able to cash out; transferring the money from a Blizzard account to your personal Bank account.

I. Am. So. Excited.

For this reason alone I will be returning to the blogging scene. I plan to dominate the game through youtube, twitter, podcasts, forums, and yes even a blog.

Right now I'm purchasing the domain Diablo Gold Secrets but you may need to visit through the wordpress version until it is finalized. If you're interested in witnessing the return of Markco to Blizzard's newest economy then please take a look at the site! It's going to be one hell (pun intended) of a ride.

My first post focuses on misconceptions that players have about this new auction house, like the idea that they will all Make Money Playing Diablo 3.

Wow Gold and Leveling Tips (Part 1)

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

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Author: Leo.

Did you ever wonder what you would do differently if you would have to start wow all from scratch? This could happen to you when you open a new account, a new server, a new region, or maybe you just want to give a newbie some advice. Of course my advice will include some tips on how to earn a decent amount of gold on the way as well.

Leveling is not as lengthy as it used to be, but it is still very long. Up till level 12 or so everything is great fun, but between level 13 and level 85, questing becomes boring as hell. Luckily these days you can easily use the dungeon finder to find a random group, and do some battlegrounds in between your quests. The road till 85 is still long, but it will give you a wide variety of content to enjoy.

Get started.

Up till level 5 you are in your starting zone, just follow the quests, vendor most items, don’t worry about anything yet, usually this takes about an hour only. At level 5 you walk to the nearest city, buy a mining pick / skinning knive and start the real game. 

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Diversify Wow Gold (Part 2)

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

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Author: Aleithia

Last time we looked at diversifying our investments for short-term churn and 2-3 week investments.
Now it’s on to the longer term investments, including the next expansion!

Patch-Time Stock

Prices tend to decline over the life-cycle of a patch. They are strong in the beginning as people gear
up and need new enchants. There are fewer sellers as casuals go back to more time playing than gold-
making, coupled with more people buying: Auctioneer Win! I like to start stocking up on these items
when it feels like we’re 6-8 weeks away from a patch. This might include some of those same items in
our short-term churn category, but they might also include finished goods.

As we were nearing the end of 4.1, I stocked up on already cut Inferno Rubies from my competitors who were selling too low. The bump in price with 4.2 allowed me to turn a profit with almost no work. Nearly all base-line materials were affected when 4.2 came out. As they say on Battlestar Galactica: “All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.”

This category is a little more risky. You might hit it big (Infernos), or you might miss big (Volatile Fire/Earth anyone?). This is not quite throw-away money, but it’s certainly not anything I’m counting
on getting back completely. Don’t invest too much here if you can’t sustain the earlier investment
categories. Don’t cripple your business investing here.

Long-Term Speculation

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Diversify Wow Gold (Part 1)

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

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Author: Aleithia

I recently wrote an article about investing in research here at JMTC. Another form of investment is
physical product. I treat my physical investments a lot like I do my real-life retirement account: diversify, dividing it up among low-, middle- and high-risk stocks. Similarly, we need to diversify our in-game investments. Your levels of investment might differ depending on your situation, so here are some areas

I look at:

Short-Term Churn

These are very short-term investments. It’s ore for prospecting, herbs for milling, mats for crafting on a regular basis. These are the items you will burn through quickly and turn a nice profit on. This group sees the most ups and downs in cost as the market ebbs and flows.

2-3 Week Investments

Some of my favorite investments are items that need a buyer and seller willing to do a deal. Bind-on-
Equip epics are the best example of this. There is some risk involved with this, especially as a patch
winds down, but also some good return. The middle months of a patch are the best time to try this,
when supply has driven price down a bit (lowering risk), but more people are getting into the content
(increasing demand).

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Retro Disenchanting, Milling, and Prospecting

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

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Hey guys. This post is going to be a collection of links and helpful information which you can use to make gold with all levels of your disenchanting, milling, and prospecting characters. Yeah, I know Markco the gold guru hasn't posted in a while but like most of what I've written to you over the years, this post is eternal; it's always going to work because this is how WoW works. More specifically, this is how the economies in Azeroth work.

Buying and Timing

Ever see an average price for an item and look at your server only to find that the item is well below that value? Look again at a later point in time. Sites like The Undermine Journal will give you extremely accurate information for the pricing of items on your server. However, you can't just look at the average value (even with Auctioneer's PCT and disenchanting/milling/prospecting scans). What you need to do is look at when players actually buy these items. A desperate player pays far more than the "average price." Ever power level a profession under a time restraint? I'm sure you ended up paying too much for at least some of your profession leveling fodder.v

Let's look at greater planar essences and times you could bid/buy them out (like just before reset). You should also be looking into buying the items which disenchant into greater planar essences as those tend to be a far better deal rather than trying to flip them (see the linked post). These essences always sell well on weekends for people leveling their professions. However, there is lots of competition and the price tends to fall more than it rises. Instead of selling at this time you should be looking to buy (like on saronite saturdays). Later on in the week, as less players are on, supply will decrease and you can look to make some serious gold selling to people trying to power level their enchanting during non-peak times. I've told you how to take advantage of similar items just by bidding and selling normal, but there's nothing wrong with buying during peak times instead of waiting for bids if you have the capital to do so.

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Frostweave Farming in Cataclysm Patch 4.2

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

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Author: Leo.

The Frostweave farming season has started!

Bags always sell well. We all want them, we all need them, and we always want bigger ones. No surprise that frostweave bags are one of the easy to sell items on the auction house. With easy I mean that you won’t be undercut and are stuck with them for a while. Post them, they sell. Not much competition if you just undercut by a few gold only. They sell like hot cakes.

After Cataclysm came out, the drop rate of frostweave cloth was lowered immensely, you know, to the they-just-don't-drop-anymore kind of rate, and the price of this frostweave cloth has sky rocketed.

In my opinion, with vendors, bank access and mailboxes everywhere, no-one really needs the bigger overpriced bags. But paying 100-200g for a 20 slot bag is definitely worth your gold. At the moment they sell for 200g on my server. The thing is that they stay just under the price of 22 slot embersilk bags.

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Cheap Greater Planar Essences

Posted by The Lost Meeple at 8:00 AM

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I'll go ahead and get straight to the point, while poking around wowhead trying to find an item that is cheap to craft I found a number of items that can be bought from the AH and disenchanted to sell for a profit.

Any of the below item will disenchant into greater Planar Essences but before you go and craft any of them do a simple search at your auction house and you should find 10-15 of any item listed for cheap. Why? People are levelign their profressions and list the items they use to level for cheap because they're trying to get back any gold they possibly can.

• Adamantite Cleaver
• Adamantite Dagger 
• Adamantite Maul 
• Adamantite Rapier 
• Adamantite Rifle 
• Fel Iron Breastplate 
• Felscale Breastplate
• Mercurial Stone 
• Netherweave Boots 
• Netherweave Pants
• Netherweave Robe 
• Netherweave Tunic 
• Scaled Draenic Boots 
• Scaled Draenic Vest 
• Thick Draenic Vest 
• Wild Draenish Vest  

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Dominate Your Market with Barriers to Entry

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

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Author: Laura.

Hi JMTC readers,

If, like me, you hate having to go through the continual cancel repost cycle in order to get decent
sales then hopefully this post will give you some ideas on how to you can erase the need to babysit
your auctions but still log on to a mailbox full of gold.

What I am going to be discussing in this post is how you can create barriers to entry in order prevent
potential competitors from entering your market. Barriers to entry are literally as they sound,
obstacles which prevent competitors from entering the market, if competitors are deterred from
entering the market then not only can you leave your auctions be as you rack up the sales, but it’s
likely that the amount of sales you make will rocket as well as your market will have no choice but to
buy your goods!

Barrier to entry = more money + more time away from the AH!

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Finally Defeat Your Wow Competition

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

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What They Don't Know Will Hurt Them...

Hey everyone, it's Markco again. Here today to tell you that what your competition doesn't know will hurt them... and possibly help you. That is, of course, if you have your hands on what I'm about to share with you...

Dominate Your Competition!

A new, informative chapter has been added to the Cataclysm Gold Guide. Chapter 16 is the long awaited strategy walk through for beating your competition. This impressive addition to 20k Leveling looks at using database tools to manage your sales, predict trends, combat opponent auctioneers and much more. You'll know instantly when your competition is posting, has posted and will be posting their auctions.

This kind of edge is worth it's weight in gold.

This addition to 20k Leveling will arm you with the statistical information you need to dominate any would be competitors who might have read gold tips from various websites or forums on the net. When people go running to the auction house with new tips that they blindly follow from these sites, you'll be able to predict trends and take advantage of their aggressiveness. What's more, this guide is BIGGER than any guides published by small time bloggers (it's an impressive 10 pages in word at 11 size font). Think about that... and it's just an update to the massive 325 page guide.

Finally you can buy items and know that their price is going to rise in a few days, regardless of how rare the item is. What's more, you'll be able to predict cross profession prices and really take advantage of the data available around the internet these days. Doesn't matter what server you play on, there are untapped markets waiting to be exploited and they will be easily accessible to you once you read this chapter.


Have Competition? This Makes You Unstoppable.

Featured examples and walkthroughs will help you build up the analytic skills required (don't worry, we're not talking rocket science here) to dominate your competition. With the help of these tutorials, your server's economy will not be able to stop you from earning thousands every day on the auction house.

In addition to publishing this incredible chapter, the Cataclysm Gold Guide is going on sale for the rest of July as a "Christmas in July Special." You'll be able to pick up the entire guide, as well as all future updates for a single payment of $27.

Don't hesitate or else this deal is going to pass you by and your competition is going to continue to dominate you on the auction house.

Enchanted Lantern Gold Tip

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

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Hey JMTC!

Kynalla here, and today I am proud to present you with my new video displaying an enchanting gold tip that I have been using for a little while now. This is the Enchanted Lantern.

The Enchanted Lantern has been in the game since Cataclysm launched, and while many of us primarily use Enchanting to disenchant items as our main means of making gold, this is an excellent addition to our arsenal of techniques. While there are people who create these lanterns, many are not aware of the gold making capability of selling this pet. I personally love making the Enchanted Lantern, as it is very very simple to create, and also profitable.

Enchanted Lantern Materials:

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Bracer Enchant Goldmine

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

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Author: Ashley.

Right now the high end bracer enchants are selling like crazy for massive profit
margins (on my server at least) I put this down to lots of people getting the new BOE
valor point bracers, so I thought I’d share my little tip for all of you out there.

I am going to concentrate on Enchant Bracer – Mighty Intellect since I managed to
pick it up for 1k early on in Cata. However the same principle will no doubt apply for
the strength and agility ones as well

Requirements

• A max level enchanter, alchemist (preferably transmute spec) and jewelcrafter.
• Preferably the bountiful bags guild perk (for extra enchanting materials).
• A high level bracer enchant, such as Enchant Bracer – Mighty Intellect.

My process for the Mighty Intellect Enchant:

• Shuffle obsidium ore into jewellery for disenchanting. Make sure to make carnelian spikes with those carnelians, you’ll be needing the GCEs.
• Buy Maelstroms when they’re cheap. Monitor your market. I was able to pick up 30 at 70G each the other day. They are going cheap because lots of people are running ZA/ZG for the valor points.
• Transmute volatile life into volatile water every day. I also farm volatile water in twilight highlands sometimes and even buy from the AH if it’s cheap enough.
• Create scrolls and list.

The Math

Considering the following assumptions:

• Volatile Life: 2G
• Obsidium Ore: 30G per stack
• Maelstroms: 100G per one

I used an obsidium shuffle spreadsheet to work out that it takes on average,
approximately 36 obsidium ore to get the required hypnotic dust and GCEs for the
mighty intellect enchant. For arguments sake I’m just going to say lets assume you
need 2 stacks of obsidium to get the materials to make one scroll. Therefore the cost
to make one scroll is: 30*2 + 100*2 + 2*15 = 290G.

This means you can make 1 scroll per day at a cost of 290G. On my server I am
currently selling them for 1350G each! That’s an increase of almost 500% and I am
selling 3 or 4 a day! Now imagine you farm the volatile water, or get the maelstroms
and ore even cheaper. The profit margin is huge.

No brainer to me.
 

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Obtaining Cheap Infinite Dust

Posted by The Lost Meeple at 8:00 AM

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I recently leveled enchanting on an alt character and reached a point where Infinite Dust was simply too expensive to buy from the AH ( especially when you need 30 or so stacks ). I then thought to myself, what are some cheap ways to obtain some cheap infinite dust? My first thought was shuffling eternals, which turned out to be a great way to obtain some very cheap dust & essences, but that was not enough. I need more enchanting materials and there were no more eternals listed at the AH so, I started doing some research on what items you can craft and then disenchant to yield wrath enchanting materials.

Below is a list of the items that are worth crafting to obtain cheap infinite dust, I found one of the second best methods apart from the eternal shuffle is buying borean leather and crafting any of the named items in the Leatherworking section. I found Leather to be as cheap as 15g/stack and it was plentiful, check what your server has for cheap and proceed to craft X item then DE it for the dust.

 Blacksmithing
8 Cobalt Bars, 4-7 Infinite Dust
Horned Cobalt Helm

8 Cobalt Bars, 2 Crystallized Water, 4-7 Infinite Dust
Reinforced Cobalt Shoulders
Reinforced Cobalt Helm
Reinforced Cobalt Legplates
Reinforced Cobalt Chestpiece

Jewelcrafting

2 Eternals, 4-7 Infinite Dust
Shadowmight Ring
Stoneguard Band

1 Gem, 2 Crystallized Earth, 2-3 Infinite Dust
Bloodstone Band
Crystal Chalcedony Amulet
Crystal Citrine Necklace
Sun Rock Ring

Leatherworking
8 Borean Leather, 2-3 Infinite Dust
Arctic Boots
Frostscale Belt
Iceborne Gloves
Nerubian Legguards

Tailoring
15 Frostweave Cloth, 1 Eternium Thread, 2-3 Infinite Dust
Frostwoven Shoulders
Frostwoven Wristwraps
Frostwoven Gloves
Frostwoven Belt

In the end, this is a great way to make leveling enchanting cheap, or simply make some gold with a little flavor. Don't know what to do with all the Infinite dust and essence you've gotten? Why not craft some Major Agility scrolls and list then at the Auction House?

New Niche Market: BiS Agility Cloak Enchant

Posted by The Lost Meeple at 8:00 AM

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I simply love niche markets and this has to be one of the best finds that I've discovered in a long time. Many people are currently busy with cataclysm enchants and don't go back to wrath enchants to see if they're still selling well. I'm always looking for markets that people simply don't know about and I've found a great enchant that is still BiS for 2-3 classes.

Enchant Cloak - Major Agility
Infinite Dust (8)
Greater Cosmic Essence (2)
Dream Shard (2)

The enchant caters to feral druids, rogues, enhancement shammies, and possibly hunters ( I've had a couple buy them ). As of right now this is the highest yielding agility cloak enchant in the game, there are other enchants that fit the roles of these classes such as +50 crit to cloak, but many of them value agility over crit.

As you can see above, the great thing about this enchant is that it utilizes Wrath of the Lich King Materials. Wait, what? How's that a great thing? Infinite dust is hella expensive! By using Wrath materials, the enchant provides you with the niche market that you need! On top of this, not many people care to go back to "old" and "outdated" enchants, even further allowing you to price gouge this item!

If you're having trouble obtaining Wrath of The Lich King enchanting materials check back tomorrow for a post on ways you can obtain Infinite Dust and Greater Cosmic Essence for cheap, which also includes the "Eternal Shuffle"

Monopoly Tactics

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

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Written By: Leo

Hi there,
I enjoy your blog very much, and there is a lot to learn. I started seriously getting interested in gold making, during WTLK, when I was scraping to pay my repair bills and elixirs for raiding. I was actually running dailies for these.

Since then I've gotten:

• 6 x Artisan Riding (http://www.wowhead.com/spell=34091),
• 4 x Master Riding (http://www.wowhead.com/spell=90265),
• 1 x Mechano-Hog (http://www.wowhead.com/item=41508),
• 2 x Mekgineer's Chopper (http://www.wowhead.com/item=44413),
• 1 x Vial of the Sands (http://www.wowhead.com/spell=93328)
• and a bunch of other odds and ends.

I keep a minimum of 100.000 gold between my alts (one server), and at the moment I have 128.000 (cash). I don't raid anymore (no time ), so I am not interested in buying the latest piece of gear. Eventually I want to give every one in my guild a chopper so we can do battlegrounds in style.

Most of my gold I made with alchemy and jewelcrafting.

These days I have little time, and prefer to spend a short time every day to make some gold, like 30 minutes, and a bit more time to level a lower level alts. The dungeons queues for my end game DPS-es are just too long, tanking and healing is just not my favorite. Lower level dungeons are fun and short and to the point, even for tanking and healing.

My daily routine?

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Saving Gold In Azeroth Tip #7

Posted by The Lost Meeple at 8:00 AM

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Do you really need that?
Always ask yourself this question when buying an item. Do you really need that item? Will that item affect your gameplay in a positive manner so much so that you're willing to spend "time" ( gold ) on said item?

You need to put things into priorities, needs and wants. "Needs" are items that you simply need to enhance your gameplay such as the difference between a 150% flying mount and a 280% mount. You're questing faster, you're gathering faster, you're spending gold to do things faster resulting in a net gain of time which can be converted into endless possibilities.

On the other hand you have things labeled as "wants" such as that shiny new piece of gear that is simply a 6 ilvl upgrade, yet will cost you 5,000g. Or that shiny new enchants that is simply a +15 haste extra but will put a 2,500g dent in your wallet. Things in this category are small improvements, while they will affect how fast you do things, the time gained is minimal and typically not worth it, especially if you're saving gold.

There are of course exceptions to the named set of rules. When you find a bargain on an item, the rules don't apply. Did you find a rare mount listed at 30k when it's real value is at 100k and you've "wanted" it for a while? Buy it! It's a bargain and you will probably never find that mount that cheap ever again! When dealing with absurdly low prices, regardless of what category the item falls into, go ahead and buy it if you have the gold.

Before you go out and buy a big ticket item such as a BOE, an enchant, a mount, ask yourself; Do I really need this? Or can it simply wait? If you wait and decide not to buy X item at this moment you might find it down the road even cheaper. If there is one thing I've learned in playing World of Warcraft for four long years is that patience is virtue.