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?

Patch 5.2: Know They Economy

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 12:38 PM

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Mommar here.

As myself and many players are prepping for Patch 5.2 and the explosion of changes,   I wanted to talk to you about some of the basics.

I believe it is just as important to not just point at what to buy,  what to sell or resell but also important to know what drives every economy.   The players and expectations of buyers and sellers behind the scenes.

As an expansion matures the goals of the players change along with the days and expectations.  Whether the economy is slow in some sorts or more robust.  Playing to the strengths and weaknesses of the server becomes just as important as what to stock for the next patch.

With the new patch there will be lots of opportunities in each discipline.   The key to being on top is to know what others will want.  If you have a large collection of tanks and DPS specs that have Leatherworking requirements,  placing your emphasis on crafting and knowledge of Leatherworking becomes an asset.  If you have many plate wearers that are looking for materials,  then your knowledge and technique becomes your driving force for sales.

But also look at bucking the trends.  There are many different items available just simply because they are abandoned by others.   Many engineers bemuse sales and what isn't seen as big ticket items but the sales of Ghost Iron Dragonling to leveling players still go strong.

Look to see what is selling,  and what is also preparing to be sold.  Keeping your eyes open both in instances and in town can give you just where an economy is going.   Sales are not a guesswork for a server but a complete view of how the entity lives.

Keep your head above the flow and know your server.

Good Luck and Good Hunting


Want to get in contact with me? . Email me at Dragonbearjoe @ 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. 

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Patch 5.2: Jewelcrafters
Patch 5.2: Thanks Uncle Blizzard for the Valor
Something Stinks In The Air
Get a Grip On Your Pricing
Patch 5.2:  Prepping for the rush
How Do You Effect The Market?
He's So Great He's A Fivefather
Patch 5.2:   Farming For Rep.. With A Farm?
Archealogy:   Digging up stuff for gold
Phoning It In....
Daily Quota Buying
Who Are You Feeding Sales Too?
Taking Advantage of 5.2 PVP Gear Changes
Patch 5.2 Prep:   Will players be returning?
Sales Triage
Lost In The Guild Traffic
Finally the end of Cataclysm
Preparing For the Future:   Alts 101
Anonymous Gold Goblin 

Previews of upcoming events

Posted by J.E. Douglas at 10:12 AM

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The longer that Mists of Panderia is in Beta,   the longer that speculation on what will be needed to amass gold when the expansion starts will continue.   Personally I've held back most of my lists simply because they change depending on how the beta turns out and the market flows.  

Do I have a master list of items to save?  I do,  and some of them are going to be oddball unless you look at the philosophy I use for my gold making.   And even with any list,  you need to pick and choose based on your professions available,  the gold available in your account,  and just how brave you are.

Just a few that are currently on my list.

Netherweave Cloth

If you can get this for 5g per stack your guaranteed money.  Netherweave bags will explode,  cloth stacks will explode.  Look for this to be easily 2 to 3 times your gold invested without breaking a sweat.

Inscription Inks.

With the changes in glyphs,  including some disappearing and new ones introduced with MOP,  you will be in the money to get cheap inks.  Also included in this will also be the herbs to craft these inks.  Middle tier inks such as Jadefire Ink will end up being in high demand for the new player as well as the established characters.

Leathers 

I'm looking heavily at leathers found in the Burning Crusade expansion.   Many players will be leveling through content and barely touch areas in the Burning Crusade,  and other than the farmers and investors these leathers such as Knothide Leather will be valuable if purchased at the right price.   I'm looking at between 10-15g per stack as a safety zone for investment.

Herbs.

This is going to be an interesting investment area.  You have two customers (alchemists and Inscriptionist),  and they will be wanting to get as many as they can.  Those that planned ahead will be prepared,  while you have others who are just getting started or leveling new toons that are plodding their way through buying/picking their own inventory.  Investments that are inexpensive (Staying away from the low end herbs) will get a nice return on investment.

Is all of this standard fair?   Mostly yes,  I'll be adding more as time goes.  Elementals are going to be a big time investment area simply for lack of supply and large demand for leveling.    My engineer is already banking on big profits not just for my Mechano-hog sales.   Even buying pets from the alliance side and moving them over to horde side for sales can rake in a nice goblin gold fortune.

Keep watching,  each profession will get it's own entry,  and it's own logic for investment.   

Good luck and Good Hunting

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

Past Entries


Gold to burn
I'm gonna tell you a secret
Life with no AH
Yakity Yak
The Auction House Blues
O Brother Where Art thy professions
Come Back Players... Come Back
Measuring the AH of a "Wow Killer"
Gold: It makes a player better
Get thee to an Engineer
Darkmoon Faire Returns....  Much rejoicing
Prepping for MOP:   Dinner Improbable
Random Dungeons:  A Concert of Errors
Patterns
Save the children.. Save Azeroth

Grey,  the new purple

Have you posted epics today?

Netherweave Cloth: It's math time

  

21 out of 25 Cataclysm Guild Perks Crucial to Making Gold

Posted by Markco at 8:00 AM

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Why Should You Join a Large Guild in Cataclysm?



Short answer: Guild Perks. Long answer...

Fast Track

Experience gained from killing monsters and completing quests increased by 5%.

5% is quite an increase on experience gained, making it all that much easier to level an additional two professions. Since this is the first guild perk there really is no excuse to avoid getting a guild for this alone.

Mount Up

Increases speed while mounted by 5%. Not active in Battlegrounds or Arenas.

The first of several reasons to get into a guild as a gatherer. With the ability to buy 310% speed for your farmers you now can have 315% making it that much easier to fly around azeroth getting the good stuff.

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