Turn Your Honor Into Gold

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

Currently you can buy the paladin pvp shield for 70 honor, disenchant it and sell the resulting abyss crystals on the auction house for 35-70 gold depending on server prices. You could also take the abyss crystals and create popular armor enchanting scrolls like +10 stats to chest (enchant chest - powerful stats) or weapon enchants like spellpower or berzerking which are selling rather well at the moment.

Shatter is actually a perfectly good way to convert those abyss crystals into valuable items for cataclysm (dust and lesser cosmic essences). When everyone is dumping abyss crystals on the auction house as cataclysm launches you will want to be the one who buys them out for cheap and shatters them. I know that shatter becomes greater cosmic essences by the way, but the leveling enchants use lesser cosmic essences and you can mark up the price on the lessers so that 3 lesser cosmics are more valuable than their bigger versions.



I don't see blizzard correcting this incredibly cheap shield so buy and disenchant away for easy gold with your honor points. You can also buy things like primordial saronite with justice points as well as orbs for crafting high end epics. Of all your options however, disenchanting the pvp shield is going to get you the most gold as quickly as possible for your time. It's a shame there is no equivalent for justice points :*(

PvP gear can be disenchanted (in case you haven't realized this yet) and if you're anything like me you had a full wardrobe of pvp gear dating back to high warlord that you just couldn't throw away. Well it looks like my bank is looking a lot emptier these days on markco and my enchanting scrolls have seen a sudden surge in abyss crystal required enchants. The only thing left in my bank is my high warlord gear, enchanted with librams and looking pretty. Every once in a while I dust that stuff off and go run around in bg's with it and level 80 offset gear. Just can't throw away that stuff, I'm not a big fan of 'hoarding for memories' but since I like to run around with the set and surprise people I'll leave it in the bank. The people I kill with it probably think I'm an npc haha.

The alternative to buying with honor for the purpose of making gold is to buy gems, but on most servers a cardinal ruby, even cut is only going to get you 80-100 gold. So for 200 honor you would get at most 1 gold per 2 honor. At the price of 70 honor for more than 35 gold an abyss crystal you are making more gold by disenchanting the shields.