WOD: Saddle Up Your Horses

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 1:53 PM

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I like to concentrate on the here and now when it comes to making gold in World of Warcraft.  But some things really cannot be held back from what is seen in patch notes from the beta of Warlords of Draenor.

In the latest patch notes there was hidden among all the talent changes and different calculations a little addendum when it came to mounts.

Tailors since Burning Crusade had the ability to make flying carpets.  For mount collectors, this was tempting because you could fly around everyone pretending you were Aladdin (Or Jasmine if that's your schtick).    But anyone who didn't have a tailor on the payroll was out of luck to ride the carpet lightning.

Til now that is,  because if things hold up with the PTR,  flying carpets remove the tailoring requirements to use.   Now understand this is still the a possibility.  Things can always change in an update.  But this is the important part of looking at all of the builds from the PTR and taking advantage of the changes.

The materials are relatively easy to purchase farm (Netherweave,  Frostweave,  Ore to prospect for the Monarch Topaz stones needed).  Multiple runs through soloable raids can net a lot of the materials needed quickly.  Just another good reason why you should be soloing old raid content on your off times.

It never is too early to start saving items for the next expansion.  With the changes in how professions are leveled (boosted points,  using current expansion materials for leveling) there will be a definite shift in just how much old world materials will be in demand.  Any new areas of sales will be a welcome companion to your wallet.

Keep your eye on the prize and a hand on your wallet.

Good Luck and Good Profit Hunting


Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice.


Light At The End of The AH Tunnel
Grinding Gold Through The AH
WOD:  The Next Step To Beta
Warlords of Draenor Beta: You Have Been Chosen
Patience At Ganking:  All Respect to An Alliance Hunter
Midsummer Festival - Combine those tasks
Gold Making Is An Artform
What I did on My WowCation
Old Vs New:  The Great Debate
Soap Box Derby
Discipline:  The Most Hated Word in Gold Making
Crashing The Market
Pet Battling For Profits

Light At The End of The AH Tunnel

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:59 PM

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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

Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice.


Grinding Gold Through The AH
WOD:  The Next Step To Beta
Warlords of Draenor Beta: You Have Been Chosen
Patience At Ganking:  All Respect to An Alliance Hunter
Midsummer Festival - Combine those tasks
Gold Making Is An Artform
What I did on My WowCation
Old Vs New:  The Great Debate
Soap Box Derby
Discipline:  The Most Hated Word in Gold Making
Crashing The Market
Pet Battling For Profits

Grinding Gold Through The AH

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 1:31 PM

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Mommar here.

On some servers it was a barren wasteland as players ran to get the first few hits on their new gaming drug. 

Others who weren't as fortunate to get beta invites tolled around the old world waiting for their new chance to get into the hallowed portal and take a wack at new content.

Everytime a new beta expansion is announced, there is a great shakeup with the Auction House.  It is the unofficial announcement that an expansion is slowly coming to an end.   Players start to drop out of their normal routines,  sales begin to dry up (as if they haven't already done this) and grinding out gold becomes a little bit more difficult.

There are still some great opportunities to sell items on the AH for profit.  But it takes a process of being selected not just on what you buy,  but also what is crafted and sold.  PVP gear is pretty much a dead business on many servers.    High Ticket crafted raiding gear is stumbling along at deep discounted prices.  

So keep this in mind as you start to gear your mind towards the next two months of living la vida beta.  Look at your long term investments (raw materials from the different expansions) and the changes that are occurring as you look to square your books at the end of the expansion.

A couple of things were announced over the weekend that could affect how guilds are bought and sold.  Good money was on the table to buy/sell level 25 guilds.  With Warlords of Draenor there will no longer be guild leveling,  and many of the advantages of level 25 guilds will be already built into a guild.  So don't be surprised if you see guilds being sold in an attempt to profit on these changes.

Keep your head above water and look for those deals as players start to once again empty out their inventory.  Especially players who want to take a long hiatus from the game till the next expansion.  When purchasing a players 'guild inventory' keep in mind what you can sell now,  what can be sold later.  Before when buying a guild you also calculated the benefits of the level perks the guild has.  No longer is this really a consideration in buying the guild.  It ends up being a straight inventory swap for gold.   So don't be fooled by 'well you get all of these perks'.  

Information is power and now is the time to flex those muscles you have learned over the past year.

Good Luck and Good Profit Hunting

Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbear @ gmail. Dot com or find me on twitter at "@JMTCMommar" You can find me hanging out on the Shandris Server, chat me up, and I will buy you a glass of juice.


WOD:  The Next Step To Beta
Warlords of Draenor Beta: You Have Been Chosen
Patience At Ganking:  All Respect to An Alliance Hunter
Midsummer Festival - Combine those tasks
Gold Making Is An Artform
What I did on My WowCation
Old Vs New:  The Great Debate
Soap Box Derby
Discipline:  The Most Hated Word in Gold Making
Crashing The Market
Pet Battling For Profits
Prime Time Professions
Retrain Your Gold Instincts:  Trigger Words
It's Patchy McPatch Day
Timeless Coins They Are A Changing
I'll Buy That For A Gold Piece
The Value of Garrosh BOA's
It's Monday Already?

Reducing Costs to Increase Profits

Posted by Aleithia at 8:00 AM

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Often times, the key to increasing profits on the Auction House is not increasing the sale price of an item, but decreasing the cost of the materials. About a month ago, I wrote about ways to manufacture Maelstrom Crystals. The post was rooted in finding ways to reduce the cost of Maelstroms so that I could make more profit (either by undercutting competition below their cost and selling more product or just increased margins). Commenter Larns gave the suggestion of simply disenchanting the Avengers of Hyjal (Firelands Faction) reputation cloak. That option never crossed my mind since rep-based gear is often not disenchantable, so I never bothered to check it. Whoops.

Using this method, depending on your reputation and guild perks, you can actually reduce the cost of crystals to as low as 146 gold. Because I'm not exalted, my actual cost/crystal is a little higher, but it's still been great for increasing profits. Between selling the crystals (and Heavenly Shards from shattering) on the Auction House and the enchants that come from the crystals/shards, it's been an absolute gold mine.

So how do we translate this to different markets? Simply put, time spent reducing material costs will increase your overall profit margin. Here are some common ways of reducing costs:

• Always keep your farming and disenchanting toons in a guild with Bountiful Bags (Level 23). This is a free 20% additional yield for mining, herbing, skinning and disenchanting. That's the equivalent of a 16.6% reduction in material costs. (Example: You mine 10 pyrite ore normally and value them at 5 gold each [50g total]. With Bountiful Bags, you'd actually mine 12. If the cost of 10 was 50 gold, then we divide the 50 by the new total count of ore [12] for a price/unit of 4.17. The original 5 gold/unit times .166 equals the savings of .83/unit [5 - 4.17].)
• When purchasing vendor supplies, try to use a toon with exalted reputation (20% discount). Level 24 guilds get Bartering, which adds another 10% (for a total of 30%) to the discount. While this seems small, considering how much it saves over time with repeated vendor supply purchases like vellums, jeweler's settings and more, it can really add up. (Consider: Jeweler's Settings go for 1g 50s. At a 30% discount, they cost 1g 5s. That's a savings of 45s. Now imagine you're doing the shuffle and turning low-value gems [Alicite, Jasper and possibly Hessonite/Nightstone depending on your volume] into rings/amulets for disenchanting. For every 1,000 rings/amulets you make, you're saving 1050 gold.)
• Build relationships with farmers on your server. You can often get reduced rates on goods by bypassing the auction house. Advertise in chat for bulk purchases, then start negotiating with the sellers for repeated business. This has the added bonus of driving up prices for your competition over time if they rely solely on the Auction House for their materials.
• Offer to buy out competition or disenchanted players. If you're frequently in an undercutting war with a competitor, offer to buy out all their stock at the lowest price they'll post, then sell it for a nice markup. You can also advertise in trade chat for people who are tired of toiling in the market and then try to buy out their stock. 
• You might also check for people who are quitting the game. Offer to buy all their accumulated junk/materials before they go. Tell them the value of the items will only go down while they are away so it's better to have gold, or that they can give away the gold to their friends in-game before leaving.

What other ways have you found to reduce costs?