Grinding, and Spending your gold. They will be works in progress so check back offten.
All updates will be moved to an Update page in the comming weeks.
**Patch 2.0**
The addons are broken as of patch 2.0, however auctioneer is scedualed to be fixed by the 19th of december., You can still utalize the methods in this guide untill that time without the use of any addons,and in fact you may even be able find some great deals by doing it manualy untill the 19th.
Also check the bottom of the page (or click here ) for new updates regarding the upcomming Expansion !!
Just a small update on my own personal quest for gold for those of you interested I am currently up to just shy of 58,000 gold. Enjoy:
Before I start, I want to emphasize something. If you want to make a TON of gold in WOW you have to do work, and you have to do it consistently. I'm not saying you have to work hard, because you don't ? this is EASY. You don't even have to work A LOT , 15 minutes a day is sufficient if that's all the time you want to put in. However you have to be consistent and keep at it every day.
Its all about execution and follow-through. A lot of people skim through a guide and think they learned something but then fail to follow through and take action.
So read this over, then read it over again, and then download the add-ons you need, and get started making gold. And if you have any questions feel free to email me.
Be sure to check the screenshots page for examples of many of the things discussed in this guide.
<( ' ' )> THE GUIDE <( ' ' )>
My Strategy
There are many ways to make gold in WoW:
Grinding, Tradeskills, Etc.
However none are as effective as Reselling . or ? Buying low and selling High ? .
This strategy can be applied to any MMORPG, I started doing it in Everquest years ago, it worked well for me back then and it has worked very well for me in WoW as well. I have made somewhere in the ballpark of 80,000g in the 7 months that I have been playing WoW spending only around 30 minutes per day on average buying and selling.
I sold a good portion of that gold, and the rest I spent on friends, and myself. I was able to keep all my (and a couple of my close friends) characters in the very best blues and purples as I leveled them (I had all the BoE tier 1 epics from molten core in my bank when I was in my 40's), buy mounts at 40, and epic mounts at 60, power level all my tradeskills to 300 in a matter of hours, even powerlevel many factions through turn-ins of BoE items purchased in AH. Allowing me to buy other races epic mounts among other rewards. I got all 1,200 tickets for darkmoon fair in an afternoon buying all the turning mats on AH. I also was able to create an army of twinks all decked out in the best gear, and best enchants money can buy. And I still have so much gold I don't even know what to do with it. And the best part is that it was SO EASY! I laugh every time I think of someone grinding for hours on end to make a few gold .
Ok enough of that lets talk about what we need to do to prepare to make some money!
First we need to downlaod and install a few indespensible tools:
Tools
Auctioneer
Download here:
This is the most current version as of 9/16:
For MAC users I think you need the *.tar.gz version:
Alternate download source:
Auctioneer is included with many UI mods already, but if you do not have it, go download it, it is the single most important tool to have for making gold in wow.
Auctioneer scans the auction hall and records all of the items and their prices into a searchable database for you. This allows you to do two things:
1) spot items that are listed for too low of a price
2) buy said items and sell for a profit.
Installation: Unzip the package so that the two folders "auctioneer" and "enhtooltip" reside in your
C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns directory.
This is what the auction house windows looks like with Auctioneer succesfully installed:
Shopping list
Shopping list is an add-on that works in conjunction with Auctioneer; It allows you to create a list of items which you can search for in your auctioneer scans. This allows you to search your scans for specific items rather than just search by price.
Why is this good? Because some items are very rare, which means they are not listed in AH very often. If something is not listed often then Auctioneer may have never seen the item before in a scan and thus would not report it in your search results as a good buy. For example I have Antenna of Invigoration In my shopping list and it came up in a shopping list report one day for 150g. Auctioneer did not report that as a good buy because it had never seen it in a scan before. I knew ahead of time that the item was valuable which is why I had put it in my shopping list. I bought and resold that item the same day for 1,500g.
Shopping List is also useful for finding tradskill items you use a lot.
CT mail
Download the CT_MailMod package. CT Mail Mod allows you to auto-open all the mail in your mailbox. Very handy when you are dealing with 100+ emails a day with gold from sold auctions, items to re-list from expired auctions, and items from new purchases.
Simply click "open all" and it will automaticaly open all your mail and put the items into your bags.
Your mailbox will look like this with ctmail mod installed:
Lootlink
Lootlink stores clickable links to every item that is ever linked in public channels or on people that you inspect. It is very handy for getting links to rare items to add to your Shopping List.
Bring up the lootlink window once it is installed by typing /ll or /lootlink
** update 9/16**
You can get a precompiled lootlink database with 35,000 items in it here:
Download and extract the database adder into your addons folder, when you laod the game it a window will pop up askign if you want to add the database, click OK, then log off and delete the lootlink database adder folder from your addons directory, or simply disable the addon so that it does not try to run anymore (it only needs to run once).
Linkeratior
Is a good alternative to lootlink also.
It keeps track of links that you see, then to retrieve the link you simply type the text version of it.
For example you woudl type [krol blade] and on your screen would actualy apear [Krol Blade]
as a clickable link
*update*
In order to install any of these mods in warcraft all you have to do is unzip them into:
C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\Addons
or whereever you have wow installed, that is the default location though.
If the addon does not apear when you log in to wow, you probably do not have it unzipped into the correct location. Check and make sure it is in the addons directory.
If you get an error saying that you do not have enough memory to run the mod, then do the following:
log into warcraft and at the character selection screen click the "addons" button, then in the uper right hand corner notice the box labled "Script Memory(MB)" I believe the default number is 48, change it to a few MB higher than what it is set for , say 64mb for example. then click OK and try to log in again.
** UPDATE ** 7/19
MACRO KEYS
I have the following macro keys set up:
/auctioneer broker 500
/auctioneer broker 100
/sl list
/sl report
the first two will allow you to quickly check for buyouts with a 5 gold, and 1 gold profit, these can be pressed even durring a scan and if you see somethign worth buyign you can stop the scan and buy it.(if your sitting at your PC)
The third just shows you what is on your shopping list
The fourth is very useful, it shows you what items on your shoppign list were seen on the last auctioneer scan, and also what percent above or below the average price they are.
General Strategy
READ THIS ONCE NOW, FINISH READING THE GUIDE, THEN READ THIS SECTION AGAIN.
The general idea is to scan the AH, buy the items which are listed below the avaerage selling price, then relist them for a profit:
1. Make a level 1 character
2. Give Him/Her a catchy name
3. If you have enough money to do so at this point, go ahead and buy some 14 or 16 slot bags. If not don't worry, you can work your way up to that when your rolling in gold.
4. Park yourself in AH
5. Set up your shopping list (read on to find out how)
6. Open up the auction window
7. Uncheck the categories: Container, Consumable, Projectile, and Quiver as things in those categories generally do not produce good profits and just slow down your scans.
8. Press the scan button and wait for it to finish.
9. For the first few days the best thing to do is scan with Auctioneer as many times as you can through the day at different times. After a dozen or so scans across a span of 2 or 3 days auctioneer will begin to accumulate enough data to give you somewhat accurate pricing information.
10. Once you think you have enough scans to have good enough pricing data you can start searching for good buys:
11. I search for good deals 2 ways:
I create a macro : ?/auctioneer broker 500?
This is a quick button I can click at any time and see everything that is listed at least 5g too low.(you can do whatever amount of gold you like 100 = 1g)
I also use the ?Search Auctions? Tab in the AH window. This is installed by the Auctioneer add-on.
12. Check your /auctioneer broker 500" hotkey results
13. Check your shopping list report.
14. On the ?Search Auctions' tab in AH search for:
? Buyouts with percent less 80% and minimum profit 50silver
? Buyouts with percent less 50% and minimum profit 1g
? Bids (short / medium) with percent less 80% and minimum profit 50s
? Bids (short / medium) with percent less 50% and minimum profit 1g
15. I have the 6 searches saved so I can run them all quickly in a row, starting with the 1g profit searches first.
16. As you begin to make more money you can search for higher profit items only as the smaller profit items will not be worth the effort then. For example I usually search:
? Buyouts with percent less 90% and minimum profit 2g
? Buyouts with percent less 50% and minimum profit 5g
? Buyouts with percent less 25% and minimum profit 10g
? Bids (short / medium) with percent less 90% and minimum profit 2g
? Bids (short / medium) with percent less 50% and minimum profit 5g
? Bids (short / medium) with percent less 25% and minimum profit 10g
17. Then if I don't find many items in those searches, then I fall back to my lower profit searches and pick up a few more items there.
18. You can tweak these numbers and percents as you see fit those are just what I do.
19. Buyout all the good deals, and then head to the mailbox to pick them up and come back and relist them for more in AH. Read the rest of this guide for exact guidelines on what to buy and how to sell. You have to use common sense and some guidelines when choosing what to buy. In general when you are just starting out stick with low level(<lvl29) blues and greens which you can aquire for 5g or less, and which have desirable stats. Enchanting mats are also great to start with since they have no listing fees.
20. When you start to accumulate a lot of items (I usually have over 100 items in AH at a given time) it is helpful to leave the expired ones in your mailbox until you are ready to re-list all of the items at once. This will make it so that you only have to empty your mailbox and list items once a day, rather than every time you are at the mailbox. This will make your life a lot simpler once you have a large inventory.
21. Run these scans as often as you can, because the more you scan the more money you will make. I generally scan 3 times a day on weekdays: Once when I wake up and let it run while I shower. Once when I get home from work or while I eat dinner, and once right before I go to bed. Scan more if you can, remember it only costs you about 30 seconds of your time to log in and start a scan you can go do something else while it scans.
22. Always keep your character either at the mailbox, or in front of an auctioneer, that's why you made a lvl 1 alt for this so that you are always ready to go when you log in.
SPECIFIC GUIDELINES
BUYING
* Run scans as often as possible
The more scans you run the better your data will be, and the more deals you will find.
Also scan at non-peak times to find delas that others miss. Scan many times durring peak time if you can because many items get listed every minute.
* Bid on Tuesdays before the servers go down
Get your bid in before the server goes down on items with short or even medium durations left and you will have a better chance of winning them.
* Scan late Sunday night/ early Monday morning
These are one of the best times to pick up some cheep deals because everyone lists all the items they found over the weekend late Sunday night or early Monday morning. Not only are there a large amount of items for sale, but lots of competition so people list their items cheaper undercutting each other. This is great for us because we can buy up the under priced items then wait till a better time to sell them for a profit.
* Sell on Sunday
Sunday is by far the best day to sell. For some reason a lot of people do their AH shopping on Sunday. Maybe it's just because more people log-in on Sundays so more items get bought, but whatever it is Sundays are great for selling items. I always have a mailbox full of gold by Monday morning.
* Make offers to people auctioning their items in the trade channel
If you see a particularly good item in a trade channel that you know will sell well make the seller an offer that is lower than what you know you can sell it for in AH. I usually offer anywhere from 50% to 75% of what I can sell it for depending on the item. Don't waste too much time haggling with them, just make them an offer, and if they refuse don't worry about it there are plenty more deals to be had. Also many times a seller who has rejected my offer will message me some time later and ask me if I still want the item for what I offered because they have not had luck selling it and they just want to get rid of it.
* Use the Shopping list add-on
Use the shopping list add-on to keep track of items that you buy on a regular basis like tradeskill items for potions or whatever you craft. The most important use of shoppinglist however is searching for rare items. Auctioneer works by collecting prices over time and averaging them to find a ?value? for an item. If an item has never been seen in a scan before (because its very rare) then when auctioneer sees it for the first time in a scan it will not know whether it is a good deal or not because it has nothing to compare the price to. So auctioneer will not even report that item, and you will never even know it was in AH at all. However if it's on your shopping list it WILL get reported at the end of the scan. Now this only does you some good if you have an idea of how much you think you can sell it for. But at least you know its for sale. I have gotten several very nice items because of shopping list that I would have missed had I only used auctioneer. Now in order to add an item to the shopping list you have to first know what rare items you want to look for(I will maintain a list of these items on this site) and have a link of that item. There are 3 ways to get the link in game: 1) be lucky enough to find it in AH 2) Search for the link in your Lootlink add-on 3) If you cant find the link you can always ask for the link in the trade channel.
* ** UPDATE 7/19 **
Shopping List USE:
To add an Item to the list:
/sl add [Item Link]
- In other words: type "/sl add " and then <shift><left mouseclick> on the item, or item link which you wish to add. Then hit enter.
To View your shopping list:
/sl list
To get a REPORT of items from the last auctioneer scan that are on your list:
/sl report
*note- A report will automaticaly be shown after each AH scan, although you might miss it if you are not at your computer when the scan finishes.
SO :: Make a macro button for "/sl report" so that you can click it when you sit back down at your PC and see the report.
To make a macro go into the macro menu from the main menu, click "new", choose an icon, fill in the macro (in this case /sl report), then drag the icon to your hotbar.
* Manually searching for items
Here is where you can really make some money, after you have done the auctioneer thing, and all the good deals have been bought up, there are some other actions you can take to ensure maximum profits. And this is where I make a lot of money so pay attention.
I was bored one day with doing the same old auctioneer scan thing so I decided to try something new. I decided to find something that I could buy up for cheep that I felt was undervalued. While power leveling my rogue one day I noticed that the biggest help in my killing power was having the best daggers I could get for my level, I also noticed that a lot of people make twink rogues. So I went to AH and bought up every green dagger between the levels of 5-19 and having ?of agility? and ?of power? since these seemed to be most desirable for a lowbie rogue. They were selling anywhere from 5s to 50s on my server. I re-listed them all for 1g 99s, every time I was in AH I would buy up all the lower priced daggers than mine. Mine began to sell.
Within a week I had upped the price to 2g99s for of power, and of agility daggers, and was now buying up all the other alternative green daggers such as ?of strength? and ?of stamina? and was listing them at 1g99s. They always sell. The re-listing fee is negligible so I can list them as many times as it takes. In fact if I get an overabundance of a certain type of dagger, I usually just vendor them. Since I buy then for like 10s ? its better to just buy them up and vendor them and loose a few silver , and have someone buy yours for 2g99s instead. You are still making a huge profit.
I then moved on to other green lvl 1-19 items following the same idea:
Lvl 1-19 green cloth ?of the eagle?; listing them all for 1g99s to 2g99s
Lvl 1-19 green leather ?of the monkey? ?of agility? ?of power?; listing them all for 2g99s or more. I can sell a +5+5 of the monkey legs or +4+4 monkey gloves for well over 10g a pair.
1-19 green rings of the monkey, eagle, bear, etc as well as Blood rings, Demon Bands, and Ring of the Moon; Buying them all up and re-listing them for anywhere from 5g for a +2+2 stat ring to 19g for a +3+3 of the monkey or of the eagle ring.
Another idea I had that has worked well :
lvl 40-50 green MAIL of the Monkey, Agility, Power. At level 40 hunters can begin to wear chain, this means that they need to upgrade all their gear starting at 40, so I buy up all the 40+ green mail gear that has good hunter stats and I re-list it for higher prices. If you keep buying up all the cheaper alternatives that get listed the hunters have no choice but to pay your prices, which they will because they are excited about getting to wear chain so they impulse buy.
You can come up with your own ideas following the same idea, some that I haven't had time to try are 40+ plate of the bear for warriors, or 40+ gear for shamans.
It doesn't really matter what item you choose as long as you know there is a demand for it and you are diligent in buying up all the lower competition and relisting them. You could even do this with rare or uncommonly seen trade goods etc.
* Use caution buying 40+ blues; especially weapons
Use a bit of judgment befor ebuyign up too many 40+ blue items. Be sure that you are going to be able to sell the item for a decent profit because the AH listing fees on 40+ blue items can be high. Some higher level blue weapons can have listing fees of several gold . So only buy high level blues if you know 1 )the item has a high demand 2) you will be able to make a profit even if you have to list it a few times because 2g a listing adds up.
* Epic Items
The same goes for epics, they generally have high listing fees, and the auctioneer data may be skewed because of a handful of overpriced epics that have been sitting in AH for weeks. Use caution when buying epic items. I would suggest that you only get involved with epics once you have plenty of experience and gold reserves on hand. Unless you are 100% sure that it's a killer deal. If you do see something hat jumps out at you don't hesitate to buy it. When I was just getting started I didn't know a whole lot about the prices and values of most epics, but I did know that when I saw a Krol Blade for 150g it was an awesome deal and I snapped it up and resold it for over 500g.
* How much gold to keep in reserve, how much to invest
In the beginning buy up every good deal you see, don't worry about having gold in reserve. As you start to accumulate gold however you will find that you cant spend it all because there are not enough good buys on AH to spend it on, at this point you will probably be buying items and mounts for your other chars, and spending gold on other things. Once you reach that point you should always keep at least several thousand gold on your AH char at all times, you never know when someone is going to list 100 nexus crystals for 199g a stack of 10. This is exactly what happened to me one day. I spent 1990g buying 100 nexus crystals that I assume were listed by some guildbank , and relisted them for 59g a piece over several weeks, and turned that 1990g into 5900g ? quite a hefty profit.
SELLING
* Sell on Sunday
Sunday is by far the best day to sell. For some reason a lot of people do their AH shopping on Sunday. Maybe it's just because more people log-in on Sundays so more items get bought, but whatever it is Sundays are great for selling items. I always have a mailbox full of gold by Monday morning.
* Listing fees and durations
Always list items for 24 hours, the fee isn't that much more, it lets more people see the item, and it makes it so you only have to list the item once per day.
* Always use buyout
Always Always set a buyout. If you don't you will miss out on 99% of your sales. People want instant gratification, and also a buyout scares people into impulse buying because they feel that someone else could buyout the auction at any moment. With just bids and no buyout people know they have hours to think about it and often decide they don't really need to spend all that gold on that item today.
* Stack size
A lot of times I will buy up stackable items either in small stacks or 2 or 3 etc, or I will end up with stacks with like 17 or 18 items in them. This is not the best way to sell stackable items. I use the following guidelines:
o In general if you have enough to combine into a stack of 10 or 20 do that because it is a nice even number and people can easily figure out if the price is good.
o If you only have a few of the item (like 3 or 4) split them up and list them singly.
o Some items are needed in specific quantities for quests or tradeskills; these are the exceptions where it may be beneficial to list them in those quantities. An example is nexus crystals are generally required in quantities of 3 for most high level enchants. So if someone else has them listed for 50g singly, and you have 3 for 150g, odds are your stack of three will be purchased because someone probably needs 3, and its less clicking for them to buy your stack of 3.
* 7's 9's rule
I always list my items using 7's and 9's let me explain:
If the item usually sells for around 10g I list it with a min bid of 7g77s and a buyout of 9g 99s. Never list anything for 10g or 20g etc, always 9g99s, 19g 99s
Its only 1 s difference but it makes people feel like its 10g cheaper. It's the same principal as all those TV commercials that sell stuff for $19.95 It just sounds a lot cheaper than $20 even though its not really.
Sometimes if the item is worth only 15g, but there is no competition in AH at the time I'll list it for 17g 77s / 19g 99s. People see 17g and think ?17 is about the same as 15, and 19g is only 2 more g ? I really want it so I'm just going to buy it.? They just paid 20g for a 15g item that's 33% markup. They probably wouldn't have bought the item had you listed it for 20g/20g.
Granted if you had listed the same item for 13g/14g99s they defiantly would buy it, but that is a judgment call you will have to make on an item to item basis based on how much competition there is, how much you paid for it, and how badly you need to sell it(because listing fee is high or whatever) personally I do not like to put myself in situations where I feel pressure to sell an item, and the best way to avoid that is to stay away from the higher level items whose demand you are unsure about.
* Undercutting minimum bids
When most people search specifically for an item they sort the results based on lowest price first. The price is not determined by the buyout price but rather the minimum bid. So sometimes it makes sense to undercut the competitions minimum bid, but not necessarily their buyout. This will ensure that your item is at the top of the list and the first thing they see when they sort their results by lowest price. Be careful though never set your minimum bid below the minimum price you can sell the item for or you could loose money if someone bids on the item and the auction ends with that bid.
**How to start with no money at level 1 **
Use searches that will find lower priced items to buy
People ask me "what if i dont have any money to start?" Well I say I started with about 1 gold. You should be able to start with even less. So after telling somone this ... I started another char lvl 1 with 0 gold just to see how difficult it would be, I killed a few mobs on my way to orgimar, leveled to lvl 3, sold all the stuff I had collected and had 3 silver total. So .. now what can I get for 3 silver and turn a proffit ?!?
I did a couple scans and then did a search for:
and ended up with this result:
Bam I bought up the 3 lesser mystics(that was a stack of 3, i acidentaly chopped the 3 off), split them up and sold them each for 24s.
Now I was sitting at 72s, almost a whole gold at level 3 within an hour or two of creating the char.
Later I did:
Buyouts with percent less 80% and minimum profit 20silver
which yielded the following results:
As you can see there are several items here which you can buy for a few silver and make
a hefty profit, especialy the heart ring which is a lvl 18 ring with +5sta .. a very nice twink item which will sell very well for 1g99s leaving you with a quick 1g79s profit.
so if I bought that ring and that cloak, I spend 27s, that puts me down to 45s, and I sell the two items for a total of 2g50s, I am now sitting at just under 3 gold. !!!!!
Keep in mind im only lvl 3 and have gone from 1 silver to 3 gold in 3 quick transactions.
That is impressive!
You can change the numbers till you find something, try lowering the minimum profit, or try lowering the percent less numbers a little untill you find something that looks good.
Important thoughts:
Auctioneer is in no way definitive or perfect at what it does!
It is simply a tool to HELP you sort through the 1,000's of auctions in the auction house. If you trust the scan results of auctioneer 100 % and buy up everythign that it says is too cheep, you will loose money. The key is to use common sense to narrow those choices down to make smart purchases. I have had several people read this guide, run two or three auctioneer scans in a row and then procede to buy up everythign it tells them to. Guess what? they lost some gold!
Run lots of scans, and use some common sense in what you purchase. In the following sections I will try to give you a run down of what type of items I look for. As a rule of thumb just think about the item like this is it rare? does it have awsome stats for the classes that can use it?
No one is going to want a plate item with intelligence on it on the horde side, and conversly no one will want chain items with intelligence on it on the alliance side. Or I look at daggers and think .. rogues want agility or + atack power, so those are the daggers I buy. Caster gear with +int + sta at lower levels. and + spell damage at higher levels. You get the idea.
In the begining start small, and use caution till you get a feel for the market.
< ITEMS - some guidelines on what I look for. > *updated 9/16*
Rare blues - these are the blues that only drop in one instance, and are not world drops, there are only a handfull of them.
These are a good example of what to put on your shopping list. Odds are you will miss a good deal on them if you do not. Ask for links in public channels, or check your Lootlink, for the links to put on your shopping list
Again ? the command to add to your shopping list is:
/sl add <shift-click item link here>
These are the big ones that I have on my list right now I will update this list as I find more:
* Antenna of Invigoration
* Elemental Attuned Blade
* Teebu's Blazing Longsword
* Recipe: Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops
These are less rare, but still worth putting on the list, especially in the beginning when you don't have many scans:
* Pendulum of Doom
* Assassin's Blade
* Shadowfang
* Miner's Hat of the Deep
* Expert Goldminer's Helmet
* Shovelphlange's Mining Axe
* The Jackhammer
* Unearthed Bands of _ _ _ _
Unearthed Bands of Agility
Etc. (keep in mind its leather so the good ones are going to be agility, power, monkey, etc)
* Petrolspill Leggings
* Mantle of Thieves
* Flintrock Shoulders
* Wolfclaw Gloves
* Hotshot Pilot's Gloves
* Mechbuilder's Overalls
* Maiden's Circle
::Here are some of the other sets of items which I know are good sellers when im looking for stuff to buy::
Cross-faction patterns/items
There are several patterns or items that are only available to either alliance or horde. These can be purchased at vendors and if you can get them to the other faction AH you can mark them up hundreds of percent.
For example an alliance only pattern that costs around 50silver and sells very well horde side for 50gold + on my server is
* Pattern: Red Whelp Gloves
* To get ahold of this item you will either need to have a friend with an account on the other faction, or a second account yourself. Have the friend, or on your other account buy the item and list it for 1s or something in a neutral AH, then buy it and list it in your factions AH for whatever you want.
This is one of the better items I have found because the Gloves that it makes are highly desirable 10-19 BG Twink items.
Again I will update this List as I find more items worth doing this with.
Rare Tradeskill goods
These are hard to come by tradeskill goods that usually are not on the AH much or are very expensive because they come from raid zones/bosses. They are defiantly worth putting on your shopping list and keeping an eye on, especially once your get a good stash of gold, or if you have a lvl 60 char that can use them, or items made from them.
[Dreamscale]
[Fiery Core]
[Lava Core]
[Brilliant Chromatic Scale]
[Bloodvine]
[Core Leather]
[Large Obsidian Shard]
Rare Tradeskill Patterns
There are some rare tradeskill patterns that you should keep an eye out for, prices on them might vary by server but they will sell for a lot regardless. I found a Formula: Enchant Chest - Greater Stats for 5g once, and a Enchant Shield - Lesser Block for 1g. I sold the first for 500g, and the other for over 100g. So just keep your eyes out for a obviously cheep price on any of these. *Update* I picked up the following recently: felcloth bag for 100g, flarecore wraps for 150g. I sold the first for 499g, and the second for 399g.
Formula: Enchant Weapon Lifstealing
Formula: Enchant Chest - Greater Stats
Enchant Shield - Lesser Block
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Crusade
Formula: Enchant Weapon - Superior Striking
Formula: Enchant 2H Weapon - Superior Impact
Pattern: Core Felcloth Bag
Recipe: Major Rejuvenation Potion
Pattern: Flarecore Wraps
Pattern: Black Grasp of the Destroyer
Resist gear
Fire resist gear is a good resell item because the majority of guilds and players are doing onyxia molten core and blackwing lair right now, and most have minimum resist requirements for them, so the demand on these items is high. The other resists are generally not as good.
* Stick with lvl 50+ items, not many people want low lvl resist gear when they are 60.
* Rings with +19 or better FR are generally desired
* To search for fire resist items simply search AH for ?fire resist? lvl 50+
* Just check for any items that are obviously underlisted. For example I just picked up a +15 FR green necklace for 7g. I sold it for 75g. Another was a +15 fire resist offhand lvl 54 I picked up for 3g, and resold for 99g.
Items with no listing fee
Some items have NO listing fee, enchanting supplies are a good example. Dusts, Essences, and Shards have absolutely no listing fee, which is good because it means you can relist them over and over and not loose money. These are GREAT items for people who are just starting in their gold earning career because you can start with the lower lvl ones which are cheep and you can relist them without loosing any money. Also you can list them for only slightly more than you paid because you don't have to worry about fees.
One word of advice about buying enchanting supplies is to buy on the weekends or when you notice a large amount of them in AH, and then sell in the middle of the week when supplies are dwindling.
TWINK ITEMS
Twinks are a huge source of money for me, A twink for those of you that don't know is generally a lvl 19, 29, or 39 char (top of each battlegrounds level bracket) that is decked out in the best blues/purples that money can buy or can be obtained through instances or quests. And they generally have lvl 60 enchants on every slot. They are usually funded by their lvl 60 mains, and their only goal is to be the most decked out badass person in the battlegrounds so that they can dominate. They generally stay at that level for months or indefinitely just to dominate that bracket. Many people have one of each of the 3 levels for each bracket.
Once you start making gold you will be able to make twinks if you choose, however the reason we are talking about them now is because they will buy certain gear from you for ridiculous prices. I know a lot of other guides say no lvl 19 will pay 200g for a lvl 19 blue. But that is just in fact UNTRUE. Lvl 19's repeatedly pay 50-200g for lvl 19 blues. There is a list of these items to look for below, but let me just provide you with one specific example. For example I love when I find an Assassin's Blade
For like 5g in AH (happens quite a bit) they sell for 150g ? 200g on my server. And they DO sell. You might have to relist it 5 or 10 times, but the relisting fee is like 5s so no big deal. That is an extreme example because it is an especially rare item which comes from only 1 instance. However many of the items below sell for 40g or 50g + regularly.
Twink blues:
10-19:
Feet of the Lynx
Deviate Scale Belt
Sentry Cloak
Assassin's Blade
Thorbia's Gauntlets
Silver-linked Footguards
Skeletal Club
Night Reaver
Shadowfang
Black Malice
Tree Bark Jacket
Darkweave Breeches
Keller's Girdle
Magefist Gloves
Twisted Chanter's Staff
Witching Stave
Skycaller
Lil Timmy's Peashooter
20-29:
Barbaric Bracers
Enduring Cap
River Pride Choker
Watchman Pauldrons
Tigerstrike Mantle
Brawler Gloves
Harbinger Boots
Dreamslayer
Cobalt Crusher
Forest Tracker Epaulets
Mantle of Thieves
The Butcher
Zealot Blade
Ironweaver
Claw of the Shadowmancer
Frostreaver Crown
Pugilist Bracers
Girdle of Golem Strength
Hotshot Pilot's Gloves
Beguiler Robes
Mechbuilder's Overalls
Glowing Magical Bracelets
30-39
Basilisk Hide Pants
Assault Band
Necklace of Calisea
Ogron's Sash
Papal Fez
Speedsteel Rapier
40-49
Elven Chain Boots
Twink greens :
Some lvl 10-19 greens sell for 5g or even 10g+ simply because they are the best items you can get for those slots period(AH, Instances, Quests or otherwise) here are a couple examples.
Bristlebark Gloves
Forest Leather Bracers
Red Whelp Gloves <- On horde side they are very valuable, because it's an alliance only pattern
LVL 10-19 rings : Ring of the eagle, monkey, bear, agi , eluding, blood ring, demon band, ring of the moon, etc etc
good low level rings always seem to sell well, I think it is because lower levels always seem to have empty ring slots to fill because they seem to drop less than regular armor.
Also because for twinking they are generaly better than the blue instance dropped or quest rings for some classes.
Here are a couple of searches I run without using auctioneer. I just use the standard AH search box:
1) lvl 2 - 19 rare all catagories. sort lowest price first. emmiting level 1 skips over all tradskill itmes and leaves us only with blue weapons, and armor below lvl 19. since it is sorted lowest price first, we can imediatly see if there are any items listed very cheeply. Her is an example I ran today to show you:
as you can see I entered 2 and 19 in the lvl box, selected rare from the rarity box, clicked search, and finaly clicked current bit to sort it by price.
Kellers girdle is listed for way way too low, it actualy sells for closer to 20g, and I will buy it and relist it at 19g for a great profit !
2) Lvl 1 - 19 rings of any quality sorted by price. Same idea here, easy way to find good twink rings.
3) lvl 1 - 19 daggers sorted by price. look for cheep of agi, power, monkey daggers. saves you the time of searching for them one by one!
** UPDATE 7/19 **
Lvl 60 blue spell/skill books:
New lvl 60 spells and talents drop in AQ20 and AQ40 now, and are sellign for quite alot. I have sold them for 500g and up to 750g for the more desirable ones.
Keep an eye out for cheep ones in AH, and if you see one in public trade , haggle with them a bit and see if you can get it cheep.
note that there are also a few new lvl 60 books from normal instances that are not worth nearly as much. all of the good ones however are listed below.
Rare ones:
Grimoire of Shadow Bolt X
Tome of Frostbolt XI
Grimoire of Immolate VIII
Manual of Revenge VI
Tome of Arcane Missiles VIII
Guide: Serpent Sting IX
Tome of Fireball XII
Guide: Multi-Shot V
Manual of Heroic Strike IX
Book of Healing Touch XI
Grimoire of Corruption VII
Codex of Prayer of Healing V
Libram: Blessing of Wisdom VI
Manual of Battle Shout VII
Book of Rejuvenation XI
Libram: Holy Light IX
Libram: Blessing of Might VII
Codex of Renew X
Book of Starfire VII
Guide: Aspect of the Hawk VII
Handbook of Feint V
Handbook of Deadly Poison V
Handbook of Backstab IX
**8/17 Update - Upcomming expansion**
The upcommign expansion will allow for palidans on the horde side, and shamans on the alliance side.
What does this mean?
1) lots of people will make new characters: This will create a huge demand for twink items when the patch comes out. chain gear for the new palidins on horde side, and leather items for the new shamans on alliance side. also lvl 40+ plate for the pallies, and 40+ chain for the shamans to a lesser extent. The real demand will be for lvl 1-40 gear tho.
2)people will also want to level tradeskills (especialy first aid) for these new characters, so we may see an increase in demand and price for cloth, and other tradskill supplies.
In addition the new expansion will bring a NEW TRADESKILL: Jewelcrafting !
I can only speculate at this point, but I have a strong feeling that the prices of Gems and Metals will skyrocket, especialy the high end ones. I am personaly going to start thinkign about some long term investment in arcane crystals/arcanite bars maybe some dark iron, and I am guessing that they might have finaly found a use for those now almost usless Pristine Black Diamonds, and Black Diamonds. As well as some sappires and rubies large opals and such, cant hurt to pick up any that you see for cheap, you can always sell them for what you paid. Im going to pick up a bag full of stuff and stick it in the bank. Might pay off .. Might not. /shrug.
Other thoughts:
You will find that over time you will get better and better at knowing what to buy and how to sell, it is just like anything else it takes practice. This guide gives you a big head start but there is still plenty to learn, different items will sell better or for different amounts depending on your server, the economies between new and old , high and low pop servers varies greatly.
Once you have a good ?feel? for the local economy on your server you will begin to make wiser choices and make more gold.
Thats it , go get started !
Teil 2 ^^
Grinding
I don't grind much, Its too easy to make money in AH, but some people like the mindless grind and want to know where to maximise proffits. So since this is the case I will share with you some of the better spots in the game for maximum gold per hour. I also know a few instance bossesd which can be soloed by certain classes, and will include this information also.
The two main places I farm (in the RARE occasion that I farm) are:
Silithus
(level 56-60)
Air Elementals ? (56-60mobs)
The only place, to my knowledge, that Essence of Air drops. That's worth it right there. In the northwest corner of Silithus is a group of Earth and Air elementals. They are easily fought one at a time. They drop Elemental Air (50s each), Breath of Wind (50s each) and the occasional Essence of Air (15g). They occasionally drop a decent item, but also sometimes drop nothing at all. You have to be patient, but an hour of grinding here can be well worth it.
Twighlight Cultisits (Level 58-60 mobs)
Encrypted Twilight Texts (60g+ an hour)
The Twilight Cultists in Silithus drop the Twilight Texts. They stack up to 250, and if you are just grinding away on them, you can get 20 an hour. They sell for about 1.5 ? 2 gold EACH at the AH on my server. That's 300-400 gold for a 200 stack. You will also get runecloth which sells for 1.5 ? 2 g a stack on my server. You will also get Twilight Cultist gear, which sells for about 1g each on the AH. As well as the normal green/blue/purple world drops.
Tyrs Hand
(level 60)
located in the southeast corner of EASTERN plaguelands. These are 53-54 elites. They also drop up to about 30 silver, the drop rate of green, blue, and purple items is very high. And they drop tons of runecloth stacks.
Other stuff to farm:
Cloth
Wool - 1.25g per stack
Wool is for some reason rediculously overpriced on most servers
I farm the cloth at Lakeshire in the Blackrock castle, Stockades in Stormwind, Deadmines in Westfall, and for the horde, you can get it in RFK, WC, and any place where there are low level elites. That is why you need a high level character. At least 50+ if you want it to be somewhat easy.
I loot about 12-20 stacks of wool cloth for every ½ hour of farming! That's 24-40g an hour!
Humanoid mobs between 14-36 level have wool with drop rates from 17-26 in the 2-8 mobs per wool range with a peak at 20-23 of 1-4 mobs per wool.
* Lvl. 5 If you have Skinning you can skin sheep for wool. The level 5 ones drop 1 wool every 2-3 sheep. in Elwynn forest
* Lvl. 10+: The Barrens Dropped by Razormanes right on the entrance to barrens coming from Durotar.
* Lvl. 13+: Silverpine Forest in Fenris Isle you can find enough Wool to gain some levels.
* Lvl. 18-23: Ashenvale Both the ruins near the northwestern border have good drop rates.
* Lvl. 20-23: This is the main level range where Wool drops off Humanoids (1-4 mobs per wool)
o The Blackrock clan in Redridge Mountains is loaded with wool and has about double the normal drop rate.
o Also Shadowhide Gnolls in Redridge starting at 23 have above average drop.
* Lvl. 23+-25+: The Defias in the Stockade drop 1 wool for each 2 mobs in general which is double the normal rate.
Runecloth 1.5 g per stack.
* Lvl. 50+: Felwood, just west and north west of Jadefire Run Located in the North part of Felwood (Felcloth Drops here also)
* Lvl. 51+: Western Plaguelands , all the undead. Places to look are:
o The 4 fields in WPL, from east to west, Felstone Field (51+), Dalson's Tears (53+), The Writhing Haunt (55+), Gahrrons Withering (57+)
o Andorhol (55+)
o Sorrow Hill (51+)
o Hearthglen (humans)(58 elite)
* Lvl. 55+: Eastern Plaguelands , all the undead. Places to look are:
o Corrin's Crossing (56+)
o The Undercroft (55+)
o The Noxious Glade (58+)
o Northdale (58+)
o Tyr's Hand (humans) (58 elite) Beware of Gold Farmers.
o Plaguewood (57+)
* Lvl. 55+: Silithus Twilight Cultists of all sorts drop the stuff like crazy
Felcloth - 40g per stack
* Lvl. 50+: Felwood, just west and north west of Jadefire Run Located in the North part of Felwood. (Runecloth also drops here.)
* Lvl. 52+: From the Satyrs (Legash encampment) in Azshara. Beware of Gold Farmers.
Fused Wiring ? 5-10g each
* Venture Co. Shredders in Stranglethorn Vale
* Elite Mobs in Gnomeregan
Larval Acid 10-15g each
Lvl 55 non-agressive grubs in Eastern Plaguelands
Essences, and other elemental reagents.
Essences all generaly sell for significant amounts of gold, because they are used in so many high end tradskills.
Mages especialy can clean up farmign these, just cast Dampen Magic on yourself, Mount up and run around about 6 and then dismount?..chain cast Arcane explosion while running a straight line away to avoid the thunder storms they cause. After you kill them loot all of them rinse and repeat.
Also as a side note, as a mage you can also use this method once you hit level 30 to powerlevel to about level 40 in 8 hours or less of play time. Use it on the elementals in Stranglethorn Vale, Northwest island. by using improved dampen magic you can round up 10-12 level 34-36 elementals and kill all of them very easily.
Essence of Fire, Elemental Fire, Heart of Fire : drops off Living Blaze and Scorching Elemental at Fire Plume Ridge in Un'Goro Crater.
Elemental Earth, Essence of Earth, Core of Earth . A good place to farm would be Desert Rumbler and Desert Rager in Silithus, Greater Obsidian Elemental and Obsidian Elemental in the Burning Steppes, Stone Guardians in Un'Goro Crater, Thundering Invader in Azshara, Infernal Sentry and Infernal Bodyguard in Felwood.
Essence of Air, Elemental Air , Breath of Wind .: drops from Air Elementals in Silithus.
Essence of Water, Elemental Water , Globe of Water . Drops from Toxic Horror in Felwood, Watery Invader in Winterspring, and Blighted and Plague elementals in Eastern Plaguelands .
Living Essence .. Un'Goro Crater Tar pits, Warpwood and Irontree mobs in northern Felwood
Other random farming tips from other sources:
untested below this point, this is from other sources I thought maybe there was somthign good in here, let me know if any of it works or doesnt.
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You can farm the stockades in Stormwind City for easy greens and wool + linen cloth. This is THE BEST dungeon/instance to farm wool cloth because every other kill yields 3-5 pieces of wool and there are about 100 npcs in this instance. A stack of wool can go from 77silver to 2 World Of Warcraft Gold on the AH. You can do the math.
You can farm scarlet monastary chests and locked chests for the chance to get large knapsacks (sells for 1.25-2 world of warcraft gold) or a BLUE item. I roughly get a blue item once every 11th locked chests. If you focus on the graveyard, library, and armory (NOT CATHEDRAL), then you can easily get about 8 locked chests an hour, and about 10 regular chests. Need a rogue to lockpick or take blacksmithing and use Golden Skeleton Keys (requires 150 blacksmith skill).
You can farm furlbogs in southern map of Felwood for 1-3 pieces of mageweave every 3.5th kill. About 40 npcs in the area. Easily can make 100 mageweave an hour and 9 World of warcraft gold an hour off coin drops, for a total of 20-27 World Of Warcraft gold an hour.
You can farm Zul'Farrak outside in Tanaris zone for 2-5 pieces of mageweave every 3rd kill. About 40 npcs spread around that region. Can easily make 5 World Of Warcraft Gold an hour off coin drops and 80 mageweave an hour and sell that on the auction house for 10 World Of Warcraft Gold.
You can farm western plaguelands at the felstone field and field next to it for easy 25 world of warcraft gold an hour, traveller backpacks that sell from 15-27 world of warcraft gold an hour, and 1-3 pieces of runecloth every 5th kill. You can easily make a total of 60-120 gold an hour if you grind fast and it is not camped (which usually it isn't). Both farmsteads have about 60 npcs or 80npcs. Plenty for everyone.
Farm the center of thelsamar. There is an island full of troggs that are level 13-15 called stone splinters that drop 1-3 cloth every 3rd kill. Drops a green every 10th kill.
Farm the south of thelsamar to kill level 9-11 troggs that drop 1-3 cloth every 5th kill. Drops a green every 10th kill.
Can farm Whelplings on the east side of badlands in lelthor ravine. They drop "Dark Whelpling" which can sell for 35-200gold on the auction house. They make great companions and gold generation.
You can farm ShadowFangKeep south of The Supulcher south of the Undercity. They also drop the Horde equivalent of 3-5 wool cloth per kill and 3-5 linen cloth. There are about 300 npcs here. You can make about 5 World Of Warcraft Gold an hour off coin drops and another 20 World Of Warcraft Gold off greens and Wool Cloth sales on AH.
Can grind ragefire caverns in Orgrimmar (horde only or suicidal alliance) for 3-5 linen cloth 80% of the time off humanoids, and massive amounts of low level greens. Some greens sell on the ah for 1-2 World Of Warcraft Gold each to twinks. A green drops roughly every 7th kill.
You can farm normal rock elementals in the south, middle edge of The Badlands zone (nestled in a small valley). They drop a lot of grey loot that vendors for 50silver to 1.5 World Of Warcraft Gold and drop it every other kill. They also drop ELEMENTAL EARTH which sells on the ah for 1-3 World Of Warcraft Gold A PIECE. Average drop of the earths is 1 out of 17.
Can farm greater obsidian elementals in the middle of Searing Gorge zone. They drop an elemental earth every 20th kill and an essence of earth every 33rd kill. You can easily get 3 essences and 5 elemental earth's an hour, and resell them for a whopping 70 world of warcraft gold or more.
Can kill level 53-54 toxic horrors in felwood on the middle top area of the map, west of the alliance flight path for essence of waters every 18th kill. These essences of water sell for 7-20 world of warcraft gold each.
Can kill level 55-58 undead in eastern plaguelands for essence of water that drop every 33rd kill. While this isn't a good ratio, there are hundreds of these. Concentrate on the middle of the map where you can find Plague Monstrosity, Plague Ravager, Blighted Surge, Discordant Surge, and Blighted Horrors. These essences of water sell for 7-20 world of warcraft gold each.
Can farm Living blaze level 54-55 for Essence of fire every 50th kill in Un'Goro crater. Level 53-54 Scorching Elementals in Un'Goro crater for Essence of fire every 20th kill. Sell the essence of fire for 7-20 world of warcraft gold on the auction house, each.
Can kill entropic Beasts in the middle part of felwood for essence of fire every 100th kill. Not great but if you want an uncamped spot... Sell the essence of fire for 7-20 world of warcraft gold on the auction house, each.
Can kill Dust Stormers in Silithus for essence of airs on the entire top side of the map that drop every 70th kill. Can kill Whirling Invaders that spawn from the event for essence of airs that drop every 20th kill. Can kill level 58 Cyclone Warriors for essence of airs that drop every 30th kill in the middle to bottom part of silithus. Sell these essence of airs for 15-30 gold each due to higher rarity.
You can farm elemental slaves on the west side of Alterac mountains (horde only) for the chance to get elemental earths (1 out of 15 kills). Goes for 1-3 Gold a piece on Auction House.
Can farm elemental exiles on the southwest area of Arathi Highlands for elemental earths. Same 1-3 World Of Warcraft Gold per earth on AH.
Can farm Dabryie's farm in Arathi Highlands (horde only) for 30 npcs of 2-6 silver each on 3-5 minute spawn timers. Often times not camped. Easily can generate 1-5 Gold an hour, more if you are an AOE class.
Can farm Go'Shek farm in Arathi Highlands (alliance only) for 30-40 npcs of 2-6 silver each on 3-5 minute spawn timers. Often times not camped. Easily can generate 1-5 Gold an hour, more if you are an AOE class.
You can area of effect the scarlet monastery graveyard (in Tristfall glades northeast corner of map) for a good 2silver - 6 silver per kill. An aoe class can easily farm and reset the instance for a good 30-60 Gold an hour.
You can farm warpwoods and deadwoods (funny, walking tree treant guys) for 2-10 silver, rare herb drops that sell for 1-5 World Of Warcraft Gold EACH, major healing potions (sells for 1-1.5 World Of Warcraft Gold each on my server), and Living Essences (sells for 8-14 World Of Warcraft Gold EACH on AH!). The warpwoods are located on the north side of Felwood zone near the alliance flight path person. The deadwoods are located just southwest of where the warpwoods are. I made an easy 40-80 an hour depending on AH prices with my 60 PALADIN. If you have any other faster dps class, you can EASILY get DOUBLE the per hour I got (I should've rolled a different class.... *cries*).
You can farm twilight hammer elites in Searing Gorge. They are located JUST WEST of the alliance/horde flightpoints. You can easily get 3-5 mageweave cloth per drop and about 2silver-16 silver per kill, with 9/10 silver being the most common drop of coin. Easily can make 10 World Of Warcraft Gold per hour off coin drops and 5-20 Gold per hour off the green and mageweave drops.
You can farm The Stockades elites located in Stormwind City for decent low level silvers and 3-5 wool cloth per drop on kill. A stack of 20 wool sells for 1-1.15 Gold on my server.
You can farm Dustwallow Marsh dragonkin elites (forgot name) on the south side of the map. They are actually Onyxia's guards but they are low level 41-43 gold elites. They drop a nice 3silver - 12silver on kill and can be skinned for medium and heavy leather(not sure on heavy but it might happen i think, i know medium is confirmed). They also drop the occasional 3-5 mageweave cloth. Easily can earn at least 30 Gold an hour.
You can farm Alterac Mountain ruins Ogre elites for easy, quick cash (located in middle of the map). THey are level 37-40. They drop a moderate amount of greens and once every 110th kill a blue item will drop, potions every 15th kill, and about 3-10 silver each kill. Don't forget to go inside the unbroken buildings because a named Ogre Elite resides in each one. Watch out for mel'gore the miser wandering patrol. I easily earned 40 Gold an hour.
Then there is the ultimate, the Wetlands zone. On the east side of the map leading to and near Grim Batol are level 58-60 dragonkin elites. Some of these guys drop up to FORTY-FIVE (45!!!) silver on kill! My paladin dps sucks too much to make this worth while but any dps class will love this place. It's also virtually uncamped. Just watch out for the named elite dragons that roam but they are *very* easy to avoid since they're so big, walk so slow, and you can pull your mobs away from his patrol path and not get agro. This area can potentially make you 45-80 Gold an hour.
Then there's the classic Hearthglen (north side, middle, of western plaguelands) elites of 55-57. They drop up to 33 silver but they hit my 4000armor plate for 150-200 damage and have about 7000 hp. It's also somewhat camped but generally is less camped than most other high end elites - you can easily find a spot of elites and safely solo if you pull correctly.
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