Weekly Review

I've decided that I will start doing a review of what sold well for me in the previous week. I will separate each profession and talk about anything that sold from each area.  I'll do it every Tuesday starting today. I may also mention any topics I might post about in the upcoming days.

Enchanting
Think I made around 10k or so from enchanting this week. I sold several crusader scrolls and mighty intellect to weapon scrolls also. Out of the cata enchants I sold, the top sellers were the ones that require lesser celestial essence and also the cloak enchants.

Engineering
I made around 2k or so from engineering. Just sold a few of the engineering pets. Nothing special.

Blacksmithing
I made around 2k from this also. Sold several belt buckles and a few weapon chains too.

Tailoring
I made around 1k or so from this. Just sold a few embersilk bags.

Inscription
I made around 10k or so from this. I sold a stack of mysterious fortune cards and also one darkmoon card.

Alchemy
I made around 1.5k or so from this. I sold a lot of flask but the best selling one was the intellect flask.

Jewelcrafting
I made around 2k from this. I mainly sold uncut and cut meta gems along with a few cut inferno rubies.

That ends this review. Look for a post in the next couple days covering how to be more efficient at selling and managing your items and a probably a post on glyph selling of some sort.

Bags,Bags and More Bags

Bags are a constant item in WoW. Every person needs them at some point while leveling their character. There are bags for nearly every single profession and also generic bags too. Lets look at each of these bags and where they come from.

Generic Bags

The generic bags are the bags that are made through tailoring. Several of these bags sell rather well also. The ones that sell well include the glacial bag, abyssal bag, frostweave bag, embersilk bag, illusionary bag , and of course the netherweave bag. The mats of most of these bags can be gotten cheap enough to allow you to turn a large profit on them. I would recommend saving your dreamcloth instead of making any more illusionary bags right now mainly because of 4.2 and the new recipes coming out. Netherweave bags tend to sell in groups of 4 so I would recommend posting at least 4 of them at a time. The mats for the frostweave,abyssal and glacial bags can be bought pretty cheap usually and they usually sell for the same price as an embersilk bag.

Herb Bags 

There are actually two herb bags that sell quite well. The wrath version of it is the emerald bag and the cataclysm bag which is the Hyjal Expedition Bag. You can usually sell at least two or three bags a week.

Enchanting Bags

Again lets look at two enchanting bags in case the market for one could be bad. The Mysterious Bag is the wrath version and the mats price for it can be cheap sometimes. The Otherworldly Bag is the cataclysm enchanting bag but it is kinda unique in that it uses wrath enchanting mats to make it. This tends to make it one of the cheapest specialty bags to make.

Jewelcrafting Bag

There's only one jewelcrafting bag and it is rather small compared to the other specific profession bags. It's called the Bag of Jewels and it only has 24 slots. People tend to buy it though because profession specific bags will automatically sort your inventory for you so it makes it easier to manage your auctions. The mats are easy enough to get and it will sell for triple the price of mats easily. There usually isn't a lot of competition on these bags since its a rather niche market.

Mining Bag

All of the previous bags could be made through tailoring. These next bags including this one are all made through leatheworking. The only mining bag of note to sell is the Mammoth Mining Bag. Mats are very cheap and can also be easily farmed.

Inscription Bag

The one inscription bag of note is the Pack of Endless Pockets. It is a very useful bag for glyph sellers and in very high demand. The mats are exactly the same as the mining bag so you can expect to get them quick and cheap.

Leatherworking Bag

The one leatherworking bag to take notice of is the Trapper's Traveling Pack . It is the largest bag for leatherworking and also skinning so it is a decent seller too. The mats are the exact same as the previous two bags made from leatherworking.

Engineering Bag

These next two bags are both made through engineering. There's only one engineering bag that seems that sells decently. It is of course the Elementium Toolbox. The mats should be rather cheap on most servers because of the price of elementium ore.

Fishing Bag

There's a fishing bag it seems. I've never actually attempted to sell one but I could see it being useful to some people. It is called the Lure Master Tackle Box. Its mats make it fairly cheap to craft. If it sells tho, I've honestly no idea on that one.

Miscellaneous Bags

There were quivers, bag to hold ammo, for hunters and soul shard bags,bag that hold soul shard for warlocks, but both ammo and the amount of soul shards got destroyed in cataclysm.

Well that wraps this post for today. Hope you enjoyed it.

What is my most devious gold making strategy?

This post is in response to the JMTC blog carnival post http://www.justmytwocopper.org/p/wow-gold-blogging-carnival.html.

One of my most devious gold making strategies isn't one that is devious per say but it is just taking advantage of what people will do. I will usually post various enchanting mats of the current raiding tier then I will link my enchanting in trade chat. This will usually get people to purchase my mats in order to get the enchant they want made and after I make it for them they will usually tip also. This gets your mats sold and a tip as well for 5 minutes of work. You can of course use this for any profession.

Thanks for stopping by

Darkmoon Faire part 2

Here we are again at the Darkmoon Faire. You may believe that the only thing you can do at the Darkmoon Faire is turn in decks but there are a few other things you can do there.

Don't Forget the Vendors
At the Darkmoon Faire there are two vendors that have some valuable stuff on them. This vendor http://www.wowhead.com/npc=14846 and this vendor  http://www.wowhead.com/npc=14847 are the two vendors that stock some useful items. The items are on a limited supply so you may want to place one alt there for them and check back every so often.


Dense Grinding Stones
I first saw this idea here http://consortium.stormspire.net/showthread.php?751-Guide-Profit-From-Dense-Stones-and-the-Darkmoon-Fair .  It involves turning in mass amounts of dense grinding stones for tickets at the Darkmoon Faire and then purchasing either the greater or the lesser darkmoon prize. The idea is that since each of the prizes can drop nearly anything you are hoping to get lucky and get a rare recipe. There are several rare recipes that you can get from it. You should aim to get stacks of dense stone at around 2g or less a stack. Even if you don't get any rare recipes, you do get a lot of uncommon quality items that I usually sell for 25g each or you can of course disenchant them and sell the mats.

Thanks for stopping by for a bit. Let me know in the comments if you did  the dense grinding stone method and if  you did, then did you get anything valuable.

Darkmoon Faire part 1

This post will be part of a series of posts that will cover various tips and tricks in ways to make extra gold through the Darkmoon Faire.

Cards and Decks

The days leading up to the Faire and even after it you should constantly be checking the ah for cheap cards. Many people will make a few cards and then realize how random it is and give up. These people will post the few cards that they made onto the ah for a low price in order to get out of the card making business. You should buy their cards up and either post them again at a greater price or you could use them to make a deck for a low cost.

During the week of the Faire itself, you should be checking the price of the decks versus the trinkets. Sometimes you may find the decks to be a few thousand cheaper than the trinkets which allows you to easily flip them for a decent profit.

If you feel like being a little bit devious you can during the weeks prior to the Darkmoon Faire buy up all of one card from each type of suit from the ah. This could create a shortage of this card causing your opponents to not be able to create their decks unless they make them randomly. There is a risk in that somebody could make a large amount of these cards and just swamp the market with them but its worth a gamble if you are feeling lucky.

Thanks for reading, that's all for now.

How to make a few gold from people who are insane.

I recently finished the insane title on my hunter and it got me thinking how much potential profit there is in the long grind. I'll be covering each rep individually.Each rep requires getting to exalted except for Bloodsail Buccaneers which requires honored rep.

Bloodsail Buccaneers

There isn't much to do on this one. The rep is only earned by slaughtering the guards and npcs in booty bay. So you could have someone pay you for every 1 rep=1gold. They would then put you on follow and then you get to start murdering all of booty bay for about 5 hours. The guards have been buffed so its a lot tougher unless you have a tank class of some sort.

Darkmoon Faire

This rep is one of the easier ones to earn gold from. A lot of people will pay you to let them turn in your decks for you for rep and then they return the trinket to you. An ideal cost would 1g per 1 rep but you can adjust to suit your needs. You could also craft the rogue's decks and sell them on the ah. Each deck usually sells for around 20g a deck or so.

Ravenholdt

There are a few things you can do for this rep. They can pay you to follow you and then you slaughter the syndicate members in arathi highlands. There is also a turn in part for the rep also. It involves turning in lockboxes that you pickpocket from lvl 55ish mobs. Every 5 boxes equals 75 rep. It will take over 2100 lockboxes to get exalted with this rep so there is plenty money making potential.

Steamwheedle Cartel(Booty Bay, Everlook, Ratchet, Gadgetzan)

Again this rep involves them putting you on follow then you get to go slaughter a bunch of pirates. There are pirates outside of both Ratchet and Gadgetzan that affect this rep.

Obsidium shuffle, redux 3

Hello and good to see you here

This will be the last post covering the individual gem shuffle in which this will cover alicite, nightstone, hessonite and zephrite and the potential profit of buying it up and deing it.

Alicite

Alicite is first up this time. Like all of the gems it can be crafted into a green quality pendant and will occasionally be a blue quality pendant. Alicite disenchants into 1-4 hypnotic dust or 1-4 lesser celestial essences, not taking into account the bountiful bag perk. Let's take a look at a formula that takes this into account along with being able to figure out your potential profit. This formula will also include the value of the blue quality jewelry and its disenchanted form too.

2NP + N(1.42)< 2.5Nb(dust)=Fdust     P= price of alicite,  N= number of alicite, 
                                                               dust=value of hypnotic dust
2NP+ N(1.42) < 2.5Nb(1/3(GCE))=Fessence          GCE= value of greater celestial essence
Nb=N-b                       Nb=Number of alicite left after the subtraction of all blue quality items

2NP + N(1.42)< b * R= Fblue           b=number of blue quality items,
              or                                          R=average value of blue quality items
2NP + N(1.42)< b * (1/3)S= Fshard          S= Value of a heavenly shard

2NP + N(1.42)< (.74)Fdust + (.26) Fessence + Fblue          Fdust= total value of dust,
                  or                                                                    Fessence= total value of GCE
2NP + N(1.42)<(.74)Fdust + (.26) Fessence + Fshard         
                                                                              Fblue= total value of blue quality items
                                                                               Fshard= total value of heavenly shards

As usual 1.42 represents the price of one jeweler setting. The 2 at the beginning of the equation shows that it takes 2 alicite for each pendant. The average amount of dust and essence was assumed from the wowhead DE table. The 1/3 in front of GCE shows that we are converting lesser celestial essences into greater ones and the 1/3 in front of the S shows that we are converting small heavenly shards into normal ones. You have to choose which has greater value on your server, either the blue quality items or heavenly shards. The final equation brings it all into one along with also showing the odds that you will get that enchanting mat with .74 representing a 74 percent chance of getting hypnotic dust and a 26 percent chance of getting lesser celestial essences.

Now lets look at examples on my server to see if this equation actually works. Alicite is currently at 11.55g on my server. I buy 27 alicite at 11.55g each. Hypnotic dust is at 9.75g, GCE is at 24.27g each, a heavenly shard is at 62.2g each and blue quality pendants are around 90g each. Now lets say you get 1 blue quality item from your crafting.

2(27)(11.55) + 27(1.42)< 2.5(26)(9.75)
662.04< 633.75=Fdust
2(27)(11.55) + 27(1.42)<2.5(26)(1/3)(24.27)
662.04< 525.85=Fessence
2(27)(11.55) + 27(1.42)<1 * 90
662.04<90=Fblue
2(27)(11.55) + 27(1.42)< 1(1/3)(62.2)
662.04<20.73=Fshard

662.04<(.74)(633.75) + (.26)(525.85) + 90
662.04< 717.896

For me the equation works but only if I get lucky and get a blue quality item.

Zephrite

Not  much to say about zephrite besides to vendor it or sell it on the ah on the days that it is the daily.

Hessonite and Nightstone  

Hessonite and Nightstone are exactly the same in the way that they disenchant. The only difference would be their price and number once you plug them into the formula. They each can DE into 1-4 hypnotic dust and 1-4 lesser celestial essences. Their blue quality version can be disenchanted into one heavenly shard. Its very nearly the same equation as alicite but I'll show you anyway. All disenchant values I used are from wowhead's disenchant tables.


2NP + N(1.42)< 2.5Nb(dust)=Fdust     P= price of the gem,  N= number of gems, 
                                                                dust=value of  hypnotic dust
2NP+ N(1.42) < 2.5Nb(1/3(GCE))=Fessence          GCE= value of greater celestial essence
Nb=N-b                       Nb=Number of gems left after the subtraction of all blue quality items


2NP + N(1.42)< b * R= Fblue           b=number of blue quality items,

              or                                          R=average value of blue quality items
2NP + N(1.42)< b * S= Fshard          S= Value of a heavenly shard


For nightstone



2NP + N(1.42)< (.72)Fdust + (.28) Fessence + Fblue          Fdust= total value of dust,

                  or                                                                    Fessence= total value of GCE

2NP + N(1.42)<(.72)Fdust + (.28) Fessence + Fshard        
                                                                                Fblue= total value of blue quality items

                                                                                  Fshard= total value of heavenly shards

For hessonite
 
2NP + N(1.42)< (.73)Fdust + (.27) Fessence + Fblue       

                  or                                                                   

2NP + N(1.42)<(.73)Fdust + (.27) Fessence + Fshard

The same explanation I gave for alicite covers these also. The only differences are the removal of the 1/3 from the S because of the fact that they will disenchant into full heavenly shards and the different percent chances of getting dust and essence. I don't believe you need another example here but if you do want one please say something in the comments.

Thanks for reading these long posts of math. I'll try to shorten down the math if  you guys wish. Just let me know what you think of it in the comments.