Twice I've been approached by gold sellers and have promptly reported them to gm's, but I started thinking about just how many people buy wow gold. A quick inquiry among my friends revealed that several of them had atleast bought gold once in their wow career.
Check out this thread from mmo-champion that I found on the subject of Blizzard and gold farmers.
I found the whole discussion rivetting and would like to continue it here.
There are tons of factors involved with gold sellers, and this forum post did an excellent job of covering all of them. For one, due to the large money sinks in WOTLK players are looking to buy gold to avoid having to spend in game time gathering it. To counter this, blizzard made it much easier to farm gold, yet players are obviously still opting to buy gold since the gold selling industry is estimated around one billion US dollars.
Has anyone here ever purchased gold? Did you regret it, like it, or even get banned from it?
Will gold sellers increase the price of gold as soon as players start to get bored with farming and want their gold for money instead of time?
Do you see gold sellers eventually being run out by Blizzard? Is this even feasible?
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Suggestion Box Friday is your chance to become the blogwriter and get in on the discussions. Feel free to comment about everything related to making gold in wow.
Monthy Recap
I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone for being a part of this growing wow economic community. This blog has seen yet another month of record numbers in terms of visitors/subcribers/comments/emails/etc. I'm very thankful for every single contribution you all have made to help make this the best collection of FREE, helpful gold guides on the web. Literally thousands of people have benefitted from these strategies and tips, and I'm sure the beneficiaries of this blog are greatful for your help. Keep up the great comments and emails!
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Your Comments
Regarding Farming Meats in Borean Tundra:
Knife said...
I've never tried farming the rhinos for arctic fur, but the mammoths (W, NW and N of DELTA camp) are amazing to farm.Mammoth meat sells for 40g/stack on my server. Meals go for 50-ish and mega's go for 120. You can AOE pull TONS of mammoths in this area (the babies have an even higher meat drop rate imo). They hit like children and drop like flies.I spent two days farming there as a rogue, roughly 3hrs total just to test it out. I got: 4 greens, 3 arctic fur, 6ish stacks of meat and a ton of trash, worth well over 100g (not sure exact amount). Discounting the greens, that's 100g (trash)+ 3 fur (30g*3= 90)+ 6 meat (240g uncooked, 300g cooked, 360g megas) = roughly 500g / 3hrs. Not the best farming spot for money, but if it's furs/meat you're after then it's not bad at all.
To Knife: WOW... I had no idea the baby mammoths even dropped meat! That's an awesome tip, thanks for your comment.
Regarding PTR 3.1 Economic Predictions:
Speeder said...
Check this out fellows:Now i knew why i wanted top stockpile pristine black diamonds"
In 3.1 there will be a new FOF :Insane in the Membrane
Raise your reputation with the areas listed below (Title Reward: The Insane)
Honored with Bloodsail Buccaneers
Exalted with Booty Bay
Exalted with Everlook
Exalted with Gadgetzan
Exalted with Ratchet
Exalted with Darkmoon Faire
Exalted with Ravenholdt
Exalted with Shen'dralar
To Speeder: Exalted with Darkmoon Faire??? I nearly feinted. You are absolutely correct about the diamonds... if you see them on the auction house it would be very wise to buy them.
Hisaac said...
Markco, similar to what you mentioned prior to patch 3.08 about the probable increase in frozen orb and dream shard prices, i'm going to venture a "wild" guess and say the price of icy dragonscales is about to shoot up.Currently, they sell for near vendor prices, but post patch 3.1, they will be required in all 8 of the new epic LW patterns (40 scales apiece!). Considering they are used in about 8 recipes currently (none of which have much use), the demand will skyrocket post-patch...i foresee some serious profit potential here...
To Hisaac: Excellent find! Thank you for sharing this. I know I'm going to start buying these out right away myself.
Regarding the 1.5k Gold Trinket:
Bill said...
They also drop a BoP jewelcrafting design. I wasn't sure if grinding these would be worth my time, since the design didn't drop, but now that I know that at a minimum the loot is decent gold, I think I'll head back.Of course saying that, the recipe will probably drop on the first kill. :)
To Bill: Thanks for pointing out the BoP Jewelcrafting design and in a previous comment you advised mages to spell steal the +25% crit and bonus damage from the mobs nearby. Nice find.
Markco's Gold Guide
My guide is hitting internet store shelves very soon! I am in the process of final editing and plan to release the guide no later than monday of next week. I want to thank those of you who have emailed me with words of encouragement as it's helped me survive the long hours between working full time, maintaining Just My Two Copper, and writting my gold guide. I can't wait to make a lot of players wealthy beyond their wildest dreams, and the secret to the guide is... no two players will use the same strategy!
I will be going live on Just My Two Copper by Monday morning, though ads for the guide may appear on several websites beforehand.
So far Markco's Gold Guide has received 100% positive feedback from testers of all character levels and I'd like to thank the select few I've asked to beta test for doing such a great job.
3.1 Discussion
Will Lower Level Crafting Professions become profitable?
What will black diamonds do to the economy?
Will epic gems cause blue gems to drop in price? Is it time to start mass selling them?
Apparently some nice set bonuses are going to be added to the blue craftable gear, probably to make it atleast comparable to the savage set for pvp. I look forward to this change as it means that new players for season 6 will most likely feel that the craftable gear is worth getting as a starter set.
MMO-Champion released this information recently:
"The following sets have been created to give set bonuses to crafted armor sets:
Eviscerator's Battlegear
Ornate Saronite Battlegear
Overcaster
Battlegear
Savage Saronite Battlegear
Stormhide Battlegear
Swiftarrow Battlefear
Frostsavage Battlegear
All these sets will give you:
4 Pieces - +75 Stamina
6 Pieces - +50 Resilience"
I had a whole list of posts for this week but the amount of email I've received regarding farming spots, crafting ideas, and the like has been so great that I want to post them instead of what I had originally planned. Thank you all for your suggestions and ideas, keep sending them my way and I'll do my best to get through them all.
I've tried this spot once on my hunter but never seriously gave it a real 1-2 hour farming shot like I think it deserves. Here is the email I received regarding rhinos in Borean Tundra:
"Hello,
My Charcter name is Jimmyboot on sargeras i use to be a big time farmer. [...] in Borean Tundra just south of the AMBER LEDGE there is the Rhinos. You can AOE pull 14 at a time as a Level 80 Shadow priest and skin them and get about 6 arctic furs a hour or more and this doesnt include the Rhino meat and the Leather you get it is a great spot. Email me back and tell me what you think thanks.
Thanks,
Renze the Shadow Priest and Jimmyboot the Druid"
Have you guys tried the rhinos? How much do rhino meat and rhino dogs go for on your server? Enough to make this spot good?
Let us know, leave a comment :)
Well the PTR has started and public patch notes are already available! As you may have guessed this means that Just My Two Copper will be bringing you the news on what effect these changing game mechanics will have on the wow economy.
NOTE: Everything is subject to change on the PTR, there is an inherit risk of blizzard changing their minds at any moment if you act on the patch notes!
Here are my highlights of the patch notes released by World of Raids.
- Increased the health granted by the Flask of Stoneblood.
- Most of the recipes in the 1-300 skill range of blacksmithing have had their stats updated to be more useful.
- Added a new recipe for the Titansteel Spellblade.
- Titanium Plating now reduces the duration of disarm effects by 50% as well as increasing your block value.
- Added a recipe for enchanting staves with spell power.
- Several recipes in the 250-300 skill range have been rebalanced.
- Added a new recipe to cut black diamonds.
- Shadowskin Gloves and Dusky Boots no longer require Shadowcat Hide to create, but instead require an equal quantity of Shadow Silk. Shadowcat Hides can no longer be obtained from skinning.
- There are TONS of new glyphs, I'm assuming that all will require northrend inscription which means that you will most likely get a unique glyph on patch day to sell for maximum price.
Analysis: Blizzard is trying to 'balance' old world items/enhancements and this could do wonders for these markets. The fact that they are improving the stats on craftable lowbie gear could mean best in slot items for pvp twinking (*cross your fingers*). The change to titanium plating means that pvp melee are going to start getting other weapon enchants to replace their titanium weapon chains... expect the value of titanium weapon chains to drop slighty and for titanium plating to rise greatly.
Oh, in other news: GET RID OF YOUR SHADOWCAT HIDES NOW.
I also predict that dragon's eyes are going to be used for epic gems in patch 3.1 (Part of the Black Diamond Recipe?). This is entirely speculation but if you have the gold and want to risk Blizzard NOT implementing some new uncut gem for epics then you will want to start stockpiling dragon's eyes now before they become worth literally a thousand+ gold cut.
Panagiotis Karanatsis emailed me with an awesome suggestion for making gold as a blacksmith:
Thank you for the emails everyone, especially you, Panagiotis, for this great tip. I will try to make posts for all of them as soon as possible."Hi Markco it's me again, i would like you tell you a way to make money by blacksmith.
It's a pretty good money 'cause you make proffit up to 70g per sell!Well , in my realm Saronite Ores sell for 20g per stack(1g per ore or 3.3g per bar) and titanium ore sell for 5.5g(bars up to 13).
So if you are a miner or a blacksmither , you can buy Saronite ores and titanium ores to craft Titanium Weapon Chain!
These are selling high up to 65-80g per! This is a 73g proffit maximum per sell! If you are not a Blacksmither and/or a Miner you can always buy materials from Auction house and tell friends or guildies to smelt and craft them for you!
I am doing this for a week now and i have made more than 6.000 gold!
I sell from 5 to 15 per day!
Good luck and have a nice night! I'm gonna have some sleep now, share it with people!"
In the comments section be sure to post if you have used this strategy before!
A prominent member of the wow economic community, Gevlon from the Greedygoblin.blogspot.com, has agreed to sit down with Just My Two Copper and discuss his blog:
JMTC: Hello Gevlon, thanks for agreeing to meet with us.
Gevlon: Thanks for the opportunity to talk about my blog, and let me congratulate you to yours.
JMTC: Thanks, coming from you that means a lot! Ok well first off, I've had multiple readers ask me in email or in comments how they are supposed to make gold on 'high population' servers. I've tried my best to assure them that making gold on these kinds of servers is entirely possible. What advice do you have for these players?
Gevlon: High population servers have many businessmen, covering lot of fields, but not all.
There are materials that are not produced/buy-and-sold by anyone. Find them and use them. You can also pick a market and try to take it by force. You can win since a richer competitor can easily say "this field does not worth my time to fight, I let that noob have it"
JMTC: What is/was your favorite way to make gold, even if the method is no longer possible?
Gevlon: Selling glyphs. While I did it, it generated 12-14K/week with 2-3 hours/week work + 1-2 hours AFK work (while appraiser listed the items)
JMTC: Could you inform my readers of the kinds of posts you make on your blog? How helpful is your information to players trying to make gold in wow?
Gevlon: I have mostly two kind of posts. At first direct WoW moneymaking advices like "buy eternal fire and sell it as 10 crystallized". Secondly I post "philosophy" posts about the "way of the goblin", the ruthless and efficient businessman who lives by Cpt Sparrow's idea: "Take what you can, give nothing back!"
JMTC: Are you preparing for dual specs with lots of glyphs? If so, how much money do you think you will make on patch day?
Gevlon: After 150K G I stopped trading with my main, so I no longer care about glyphs. My current moneymaking campaign on a new alt does not involve glyphs. BTW I don't think much (like 5-10K) money could be made on patch day. I use to call it "small egg effect". Everyone and their mother-in-law will be selling glyphs that day (don't forget that glyphs can be produced in great quantities by a single click). However the following weeks can increase the income of glyphmakers.
JMTC: I agree with you on the 10k gold number. When I made 20k the first weekend of inscription I was also able to get max level so fast that I was the only person posting every glyph. This time around things will definately be different. I saw on your site that you've been pulling in 20k gold a week for a solid string of several weeks, what was the most gold you ever made in one week? What did you do to get that much gold?
Gevlon: The top was 155K, when I stopped trading with my main. I do nothing big with that money. I made that money for the blog, as a proof that trading can be done, to encourage others to start. Of course slowly the money will go away as I have enchants, gems, BOE stuff to buy and no income. I guess somewhere around lvl 110 I'll have to start trading again :-)
JMTC: Thanks for agreeing to this interview Gevlon, I hope my readers check out your site and learn from your excellent advise.
Gevlon: Thank you for the opportunity and I hope the people who check it out won't be disappointed.
Be sure to check out The Greedy Goblin and write what you think in the comments section.
Bane emailed me with this interesting idea:
"Just some new grinding spot if desperate for gold:
Nascent Val'kyr in Storm Peaks have a 100% chance to drop Dissolved Soul Essence which vendors for 65s 3c each, thats a total of 13g 60s per stack.
Also these are the only recognized mobs on wowhead.com to drop the Tears of Bitter Anguish BoE trinket which usually sells for aaround 1.5k+ gold on my server.
Credit to other ppl. have fun
Bane."
Interesting, anyone try this out?
I don't know what happened over christmas but a ton of new wow blogs have been popping up in 2009 (including yours truly). I stumbled across this place recently:
Tips4WowGold
Although there are very few posts on the site, I really enjoyed the 'find a lazy friend' article.
The idea is simple, find someone who hates the auction house and get them to farm for you. I know you might think it's crazy but I've seen numerous players that would rather run in circles picking weeds than press alt+contr+shift+batch post and go afk.
Finding that special someone or someones is ideal for anyone who wants to create a market monopoly. When I was disenchanting cobalt chest peices I had four farmers getting me the cobalt for twenty gold a stack, and that's the kind of relationships you'll want to set up a monopoly on the auction house.
It's really quite simple, ask them to COD you their items and always be sure to pay them as soon as possible. They get to enjoy farming with instant gratification, and you get to enjoy incredibly underpriced goods to resell. It's a match made in heaven!
In the words of my chinese farmer friends: "Vury Simpur! Go round circur curektin weeds and come back hur fur gold."
Remember, Suggestion Box Friday is your chance to be the blog writer! Anything goes here (as long as it's about making wow gold) and I encourage new, creative ideas as well as any good old fashioned farming spots.
Poll
The poll results were very interesting. 60+% of those that voted believe it's ok to take advantage of a bug in auctioneer and fool the guy next to you in the auction house. I voted no because it's a pathetically small profit but maybe you'd like to justify your yes/no/undecided in the comments section?
Email
Thanks to everyone on the support after I finally got my character back. I am ecstatic to get back to the vidoes I need to shoot, posts I need to write, and of course my guide. To those of you with blogs that emailed me please send me some kind of guest post so that I can review it and eventually post it or ask for a revision. I had some really cool emails from people with neat tips to share so I'll try to get those up soon.
Comments
HokieJayBee made his points on the "Carrot and Stick" posting method:
HokieJayBee said...
the point is, that he has a set price in his head, that he wants to sell his items at, at a margin he prefers, and at a specific minimum profit. if he just posts his items at that price, as you describe in your timeline example, you and others will undercut him and he won't sell. so, he sets a fake ceiling price. and you and others come in and undercut him. then he posts where he really wanted to in the first place and he sells more than he would have had he just posted at that price first.
To HokieJayBee: It's ok if there's negativity or dissagreement on this blog. I know that I am going to make mistakes (and I've made several in posts already) and therefore diversity in thought is always welcome. Having your ideas challenged also forces you to examine them further with the possibility of learning something new in the process!
Archangel brought up an excellent point in regards to 2 Nerfs from Just My Two Copper - Why aren't people making the Reinforced Chest Pieces as much?
Archangel said...
"It cost now less gold to make the reinforced items. Dust went up from 4g to 7g on my server. GCE same : who cares ? Dust wins. Cobalt price is below 1.5g when supply is present (weekends) but goes above 2g weekdays. Bottom line - you make more money now, with the new recipe changes. But you know what's curious ? People stopped doing it. They didn't quit making money, but they just stopped doing the reinforced thing (from 14 pages listed in the past down to 3 in the present). For me is to much waiting time involved (you make fewer items now, for the same amount of materials). The same competitors I had on dust and GCE business have moved on the enchant scrolls business (so have I). And it makes sens e : why bother selling dust and essences when I can make scrolls and sell them for the market price of mats + profit. Scrolls also don't take deposit fee. "
To Archangel: I too have seen the scroll market go up during the past week. It seems people are charging around 50% more for mat costs than individually selling them after enchanting a scroll. That's great profit!
Check out this great tip from Hisaac:
Hisaac said...
"An item I have found to be in low supply and high demand on my server (Korgath-US) is elemental water. There are only a couple places to farm these as they only drop from Water Elementals, the most efficient of which is a small island just Northwest of Grom'gol. I have been posting these at ever increasing prices (20g at this point) and they sell each and every time. There is very little market competition, and it's easy to farm 15-20/hour. For anyone level 40 and above, this results in profits of 300-400g hour. let me know how the markets are for elemental water on other servers, i'd be interested to know.."
Regarding my AOE frostweave farming spot:
Phizuol said...
"I have a Mage/tailor friend who I linked this post to. He confirmed that it was indeed very dangerous for a mage.We did learn, however, that this is an awesome spot for a Paladin+Mage duo. I ran in and grabbed agro, then healed through the damage while he burned the enemy down with AE. He was using two of the mana-back trinkets from Exalted Oracles rep so he had full mana the entire time. The slowest part of it all was looting the bodies!Not only did we get a lot of cloth, but also enough greens and greys to make us both happy. Thanks for recommending this spot!"
Discussion:
I think there's enough in here that I don't need to add more :)
Have fun guys! Talk it up!
Please give a warm welcome to Bloodshrike who sent in the following guest post to Just My Two Copper!
If anyone else has a blog (or not) and would like to guest post as well please email me and I'll be more than happy to publish it.
Here's Bloodshrike who hosts the blog: "A Boy and His Death Rays"
“Carrot and Stick"– by Bloodshrike
Greetings all! This is my first guest post ever, prompted by Markco kindly offering to post my Auction House psychology theory.
Are you tired of seeing people undercut your Auction House postings into the ground? Tired of having your crafted items sell for LESS than the mats required to make them? Well, take heart, I have a few tips for you (well, one main one, really).
I noticed people's tendencies to undercut each other to the poverty level when I first started playing WOW over 2 years ago, and it hasn't really changed. These casual posters are just looking to make a few gold or silver, and the only way they know how to do that is to beat your price. That's it, they don't think of anything beyond that.
You, on the other hand, have tired of farming for stuff to sell on the AH, don't have time to do dailies, or only have a few minutes each day to devote to making gold to save up for your epic whatever.
Here's the secret. --- POST HIGH!
Whatever you're selling, send a few to an alt, and have them post the item for 48 hours at a very, very high price. Not a ridiculous price (like 10,000 gold) but definitely stretching it. For example, a blacksmith can make Arcanite Rods, which they tend to sell for ....... right around the price of 3 Arcanite bars, or even less. Where's the profit in that? I usually have my blacksmith make 2 extra rods for an alt to post for 48 hours at 160-180 gold, with my BS posting his at 125-130 gold for 24 hours. I come back the next day, and my BS usually has 300+ gold in his mailbox.
The same applies to glyphs and enchants. Minor Glyphs cost next to nothing to post, and enchants that you've put on scrolls don't have any posting cost whatsoever. 2 of my 3 enchanters are capped at 300 enchanting (they're both level 40), so Crusader/Lifestealing/Fiery/Icey are their bread and butter. If you make 5 Crusader enchants (I usually buy the Righteous Orbs, since I'm not high enough to do Strat) and have the alt post them for 200-230 gold, my enchanter will post theirs for 160-170 gold, and make a good profit, even though I'm buying all the mats off the AH.
I could go on, but each server is different, so you just have to get a sense for it. Trial and error, folks. I will say that with Inscription, it helps to have some knowledge of other classes abilities. For example, Minor Glyphs of Charge/Bloodlust/Battle sell well to Warriors (and my Warriors love them), but the Glyph of Thunder Clap (increases range by 2 yards) doesn’t do much for me, and didn’t do well on the AH.
Here’s why this works. By you keeping your high priced alt’s items in the AH, even when your low priced stuff gets sold out, those items will still be in there as a placeholder. Otherwise, when all your stuff gets sold, the first person to come along sets the price that other people undercut. So when other people come along to post their items, they’ll be undercutting a very high price, leaving you free to post a few more under them. I’ve been self-regulating the minor Glyph market on Demon Soul, Darrowmere, and Daggerspine using this strategy. When a glyph that’s extremely useful starts getting sold for only 5-6 gold, I start posting at 30-35 gold, and voila! the price starts trickling down from the 30 gold range. Like Markco said in his AH Psychology post, don’t flood the market. Post a few high, post a few normal, and check back in a few hours to collect your gold and repost.
Hope this was useful to you.
Bloodshrike
The site is the internet journal of an aspiring wow player who is trying to make as much gold as possible while leveling and still maintain a decent days /played. He's not trying to break any records (there are none in this category) but he was curious enough to make a character alone on a new server and try his luck.
To help him out, I gave him a free copy of Markco's Gold Guide (still in the editing process but I gave him the most recent draft) and I'm hoping that he'll show everyone just how powerful this guide will be.
Have you tried making gold while leveling or did you give up from frustration?
Check out rush's site: Warcraft Gold Rush.
Tell him what you think about his 'quest.'
Two areas of the game have been nerfed recently and I believe that they are a direct result of my postings on the world of warcraft forums.
Before this site gained popularity in the wow community I was posting on forums to try and attract visitors. My most notable post was in the guide section of the forums.worldofwarcraft.com and recieved something crazy like 14,000 views. It detailed how to disenchant cobalt chest peices to make unlimited amounts of gold. Within three weeks it was stealth nerfed in a patch.
My #1 best WOTLK farming spot was possibly stealth nerfed in the most recent patch. I went there yesterday and noticed a distinct drop in eternal airs and relics of ulduar.
Thankfully the post I made on relics of ulduar being sellable did not cause them to get nerfed into being account bound as one blue poster suggested. Eventhough my idea received a blue post and was covered by every major wow site.
Needless to say I will not be posting on the world of warcraft forums any more, eventhough it's probably too late as the Blues do read wow related blogs.
I find all of this very disturbing. Blizzard has taken an interesting view on farming locations in the game. Instead of providing players with interesting areas to farm they have tried to limit every location in the game to one type of drop. If you farm this elemental you only get eternals. If you farm these humanoids you only get cloth. They have effectively killed multi-item farming and this probably is a direct attack on gold farmers. What do you guys think?
These actions by blizzard have helped influence me into writing my own gold guide, except with a twist. I'm going to create a guide which doesn't focus on "do this here, farm this there" but rather explains HOW I find gold making tricks through my professions, thus allowing people to find out new niches regardless of which patch it is and what has been nerfed.
Expect my guide to come out in the next couple of weeks, or as Blizzard loves to say... *SOON*.
Constantly I'm being asked via emails, in-game whispers, and the comment section of posts for what items I buy to resell on the auction house. Here's a look at a simple item which I love to sell.
Spider's Silk
All types of spider silk are good sellers, but the lowest level form in particular is extremely hard to come by. It's difficult to farm (I managed six in an hour on a level 70 mage spamming arcane explosion around packs of constantly respawning mobs) and most lowbies simply vendor trash them. These spider silks can go for 1-2 gold a peice and are used to make craftable twink items. Definately make searching for spider silk on the auction house a priority because so many players undervalue this item tremendously. Because of the lack of understanding how much these items are worth, auctioneer (going off of player made prices) will usually undervalue these items. This makes posting them by hand a must and you should try to buy these out for resale during peak times for a quick gold or two per. Depending on your server you can make a killing with these items, just be aware that only a few will sell per day.
FYI: Thottbot puts spider's silk as being worth 2 gold+ ! That's crazy for a white item dropped by mobs level 15-35.
Here are the two popular twink items you can make with spider's silk.
Tailoring: Spidersilk Boots
Leatherworking: Toughened Leather Gloves
Based on these two recipies, it would be wise to sell the silks in stacks of 2.
Let me know in the comments section how these items sell on your server, and if you see some great deals be sure to buy them out for resale!
In this video I'm going to show you how to avoid all the undead side mobs in stratholme, thus eliminating the need to have some way of removing their debuff when farming there. This strategy requires a level 80 character to avoid every mob, but if you have a level 70 character you can avoid everything just like in the video except for the first two pulls.
In this particular run I made:
4x Righteous orbsIf I was doing this run for Crusader I would of made enough for two enchants worth.
Alexander's Battleaxe
Bottom half of armor
Plans: Serenity
113x Runecloth
6x Dust
8x Shards
Greys/some gold
You can do it much faster than I did, remember that the mobs to focus on are the humanoids in live side, because no other mobs drop Righteous Orbs. Don't skip the bosses either since two of them have a 50% chance to drop a Righteous Orb.
This is a helpful little tip to reduce your latency that I learned a year ago from the famous warrior Swifty:
(With warcraft exited and not running)
1. Click on start, run, then "cmd". In the window that just opened type "ipconfig" and press enter.
2 You'll see something like "IP Adress . . . . . . . .: [Your Ip here]
3. Write down the Ip address.
4. Next, Click on start again, run "regedit".
5. The Registry Editor will show up, Open "HKey_LOCAL_MACHINE", "system", "CurrentControlSet" , "Services", "Tcpip" , "Parameters". "Interfaces"
6. Now in interfaces look in each folder until you see the one with your IP address.
7. Right click(anywhere on the white area of the tab), New, D-Word Value, Name it "TcpAckFrequency". Double Click it. Put "1" as a value and press Ok.
8. Close the regedit. Now disable your connection, enable it and finally login to the game.
My connection dropped from 180ms to 33ms using this trick. You can see your latency by mousing over the little computer monitor icon which leads you to the game menu on your hotbar. MS stands for milliseconds, and is really the time it takes you to send information to wow and then get something back.
This will surely help anyone lagging in areas like Ogrimmar, Ironforge, and dalaran which will in turn allow you to sell your goods in the more frequented major cities..
Let me know if it helps in the comments section.
Thanks everyone for the encouraging emails and support while my account was locked. Some more good news on my hacking: They gave me 13,000 of my gold back! Apparently they caught some of the people who bought the gold and I'm grateful to get some of it back.
It just goes to show that investing in items is the best way to protect your gold! Had I just kept all my money in one place (like so many people do to brag about how much they have) I would have lost all of it save for the 13,000 returned. Instead I spread my gold out by investing in items whose values change over time.
Speaking of investing, I would like to go over something for the people struggling with making gold on the auction house.
This was how last week looked for one of my banking alts on the auction house (Note that saturday my account was locked by mistake)
Started with 1,000 gold...
Tuesday, Day 1: 0 gold from auctions / -600 gold investments (400 gold)
Wednesday, Day 2: +1,200 gold from auctions / -1,400 gold investments (200 gold)
Thursday, Day 3: +2,300 gold from auctions / -800 gold investments (1700 gold)
Friday, Day 4: +1,400 gold from auctions / -1,500 gold investments (1600 gold)
Saturday, Day 5: Didn't log in.
Sunday, Day 6: Check Auction House: 3,300 gold from auctions (4900 gold)
As you can see I LOST MONEY on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday during the week.
But was I really losing money? NO. I was gaining items which had fluctuating values of their own. If you have 200 gold on your character and a stack of saronite bars worth 5 gold each when sold individually, then you have 300 gold on your character, not 200. If the price of bars drops to 4 gold then you have 280 gold on your character, not 200.
See the difference? Hope this helps those of you struggling with the auction house!
Remember, Suggestion Box Friday is your chance to be the blog writer! Anything goes here (as long as it's about making wow gold) and I encourage new, creative ideas as well as any good old fashioned farming spots.
Hacking Status: I'm BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK! And rolling with 6k gold which my alt made while I was away. Unfortuneately Markco lost ALL his gold. I'm not sweating it though and I will continue to work on this blog every day while maintaining a 1-3k gold a day average from the auction house. This will allow me to spend a little time for arenas, yey! World first prot warrior to 2100 here I come (hey I can dream right?).
Email
Thank you everyone for the emails regarding your success with using my tips, guides and farming spots on this blog. Always appreciated. I have added several to the testimonials on this blog's Post Directory page.
For those few of you still struggling, have faith! The road to success is paved with bricks composed entirely of blood, sweat, and previous failures. Ask questions in the comments section of posts and feel free to continue to email me with your requests.
If you are struggling with my old 22 Steps to Auctioneer guide, there really are only two things that changed for the resale search: You can now do a fast scan without typing /aadv getall and you can now right click on a button on the auction house tab which will redirect you to the appraiser tool for searching.
Comments
Regarding Auction House Psychology:
Aeryn said...
"You forgot to mention something important: don't be a jerk.I've paid six gold more for something than the cheapest item on the auction house just because I didn't want to help out the jerk. Did I waste money? Sure!Did I feel damn good about doing it? You betcha!"
Jhaman made a great observation on my #1 farming spot:
Jhaman said...
"Another interesting thing to note. When these guys die they don't auto give you the 50% move-speed buff. You have to walk into the cloud of dust left behind over their corpse in order to get it. These "clouds" stay active for about 10secs so its enough time for anyone to run in from range loot and get the buff to move onto the next one."
Jacob said...
Not really a comment to this post, but more of a thank you and a report :-) Thank you a LOT for your truly awesome guides and tips. You are the person who made me able to start making gold on the Auction House :-D We've talked some and on my (now) 33 Druid I've gained 820 gold in 2 days from tiny 3 gold from the beginning!! :D Thank you, love your blog, love your guides and tips! Have a really nice day Markco! Best regards, Jacob
To Jacob: Thanks and you too! Welcome to the blog, watch out for the wave of awesomeness that can overcome the weaker among us from reading posts here. If you experience awesomeness for longer than three hours, go see a doctor.
Regarding Frostweave Cloth Farming:
Anonymous said...
Seems the DR on Frostweave in general got dropped across the board. :( Has anyone found a new spot to farm?
Discussion:
Apparently you can't take advantage of being hacked. I was unable to keep any of the items/achievements/honor I received while playing on Echo Isles. Oh well, what a shame I couldn't give away the items to some random guy and make his day. I had about 4,000 - 5,000 gold worth of items that I had purchased for 1,500 - 2000 gold.
Also, can any of you guys help out with anonymous' question regarding the Frostweave Cloth farming spots? As you all know I've had very little access to the game and couldn't really check out places to farm. I'll be looking into low level instances as a possibility soon.
Remember Bowsmalone? Well since I was booted off the server I thought now was the best time to try and make peace with the egotistical brat. Here's the conversation:
If you can't read this it says:
Markco: "Hey man I wanted to apologize for before."
Blowsmyload: "How the **** are you not on my ignore ?"
Markco: "... wow I dunno"
That last line that is hard to read is "Bowsmalone is ingnoring you."
I nearly fell off my chair laughing :)
Guess something good came about from my being banned after all: I had been removed from his ignore list.
Here's what happened the last time we met... he bet 5000 gold that he could beat me in a duel... he never paid up :(
This prank is absolutely hillarious and probably the only scam in this game that I approve of.
Step 1: Mail a letter from one character to another character (Mr. Smith to Mrs. Smith in this example). Be sure to write something funny on the letter, this is where your prank goes.
Step 2: Go log off Mr. Smith and log into Mrs. Smith to collect the letter.
Step 3: Take the letter out of your mailbox so that it's in your bag space.
Step 4: Post the letter on the auction house, be sure to check your auctioneer to see what a good price would be for it. Post it for around 7% or less of the nearest price.
If you don't have auctioneer, just check the current rate of Plain Letter (s) on the auction house. As long as you're way below the average auction house price your fellow auctioneers have a good chance of mistaking the item for an incredible deal.
Please don't abuse this, but it is very funny and I suggest trying it once and keeping it below 5 gold. I did this to two people on my server just to try it out and refunded them the five gold each, it was pretty darn funny.
In order to set up the prank, you may need to post several letters at incredibly inflated prices for a few days.
Be sure to leave what you would write on the [Plain Letter] in the comments section :)
