Life in WOW - Coining it.

Back.... with a tip

2009-10-02T13:34:00.005+02:00

With 3.3 just going live on PTR I had a look at what might make some money once it hits and thus I had a look at what is changing in the crafting professions on the early literature.

Tailoring

Leggings of Woven Death have been added to the game.
Deathfrost Boots have been added to the game.
Lightweave Leggings have been added to the game.
Sandals of Consecration have been added to the game.

Leatherworking

Legwraps of Unleashed Nature have been added to the game.
Blessed Cenarion Boots have been added to the game.
Bladeborn Leggings have been added to the game.
Footpads of Impending Death have been added to the game.
Lightning-infused Leggings have been added to the game.
Earthsoul Boots have been added to the game.
Draconic Bonesplinter Legguards have been added to the game.
Rock-steady Treads have been added to the game.

Blacksmithing

Puresteel Legplates have been added to the game.
Protectors of Life have been added to the game.
Legplates of Painful Death have been added to the game.
Hellfrozen Bonegrinders have been added to the game.
Pillars of Might have been added to the game.
Boots of Kingly Upheaval have been added to the game.

Now have a look at most of the Blacksmithing gear, most use Eternal Shadow and with Plate being one of the most worn armors in the game I bet it would only be a matter of time before people start asking for these to be made and thus prices will start to go up.

Hopefully the plans/patterns etc will not be too hard to get as everyone will want a piece of the Item Level 251 pie.

Kudos to Blizzard GM's

2009-07-26T19:19:00.002+02:00

I have to admit, I was unhappy whent he GM told me that they couldnt restore my bank because the thief had access and rights.

After about 5 min the GM came back to me again and told me he pulled some strings and will get people to investigate my case.

Low and behold, all my stock and hold was sent via in game mail.

Thanx blizzard and the GM's who helped. I can now return to my duties of Gold hunting and teaching.

Stolen

2009-07-25T17:36:00.003+02:00

Well your more than likely waiting for an update, well have I got one for you.

After a week of buying stock and selling regulars, we made some good cash and good stock.

I decided to clean out most of the mats and low and behold, we have been cleaned out. Most of our gold stolen and almost all our mats gone.

It was a old Officer from when the guild started. A good friend (or so i thought) who I had kept in the guild with myself and my banking partner as he was offline for some time and I wanted him to know where to find my main when/if he came back.

So here's your lesson. DONT TRUST anyone.

Blizzard is now in the process of reviewing my ticket and thus I might get some of the stuff back or not.

If not its 3000+ G gone.

My stock

2009-07-21T08:43:00.004+02:00

Well we started yesterday with trying to find stuff we wanna buy and sell.

I netted a good 100G again via pet trading in the AH as selling in /2TRADE gives other people the idea of selling your items for cheaper thus getting the sales and ruining the market.

What I also found is that currently the mats for making Frostweave bags (60x frostweave cloth, 12x Infinite Dust, 2x Eternium Thread [per bag]) are significantly cheaper than what the bag itself is selling for.

On my market the mats amount to about 50-56G per bag and the bag sells for 68+ G thus netting me a good 8+ G profit (after deposits etc), making it a good way to make money and level up my skill.

Also started looking into buying Eternals and found that as usual the market is confused with high and low sellers. Once the low seller is bought out, the prices shoot to the norms again, which is normally high.

Also had a look at pets (other than the usual constant income pets I sell) and found that the market is too volitile to play in and I decided that I wont be losing money on those.

So all in all, we will be looking for cheap stock for the next week or so of Titanium Ore, Eternals and mats for bags and needed items.

I will also be looking into using my main (and paying her a salary/tip) to make things like Spellthreads and bags to make cash.

My partner will be looking into making armor kits to also recieve a constant income.

Eternal Belt buckles are dead on my realm, listing for anything from 28G-45G, thus the market has been killed in the last few months since I last sold those. I will however be keeping an eye on that item as it can turn at any time and with some innovative marketing in trade this selling price could once again be increased.

Tips for new players:

Try and make Netherweave bags if you are a tailor as this is a constantly selling item and will offer a good constant income to supply your training/repairs with gold.

So it starts

2009-07-20T11:02:00.003+02:00

Ola dear readers

Seeing as it is the 20th of July 2009, I have to start my new goal of money making with my current setup.

To get you up to speed.

Joined up with a guild mate who also has a banker
Converted my old guild to banker only guild with us two members
Saved up money these last two weeks, in total approx 1500G in guild bank
about 200+ G on my banker, dont know about partners banker

What we looking to do, make as much gold as possible in as little time as possible.

Now i know this sounds very generic and its something we all strive for but simply put, my main is steadily heading towards level 80 and pre-naxx gear, Epic Flying, cold weather flying and dual spec needs to be paid for. This means lots of gold will be spent on those things as well as the usual training and repairing.

Now we have the capital and with two users scanning the AH almost at a daily basis it means that we will have a better overview on what will make us a profit and what will not.

With a guild bank (4 tabs) nearly full of stock such as gems, enchanting mats and cloths we have quite a bit of money's worth of stock, but to me thats not enough.

We are looking to expand our stock with the likes of cheap Eternals and Titanium pre patch 3.2 as eternals have a very hectic fluctuating market, meaning great amounts of money can be lost/won in a short period of time and as most of you know titanium ore which WILL fetch a good price after 3.2 as jewelcrafters can prospect for Epic Jewels.

I will also be looking at cheaper non-combat pets as constant income money makers as they normally sell when posted at good prices on weekends in about 1-2 hours, thus netting a 300+ % profit in a very very short perdio of time. Take this over 1 month (4 weekends) and it could become a very profitable business.

I will take screenshots tonight and let you all know what we buying and what we will be using as constant selling stock and what not.

Darkmoon Faire is on the way again and we will be putting two roaming DK bankers at the faire which will be buying cheap stock of herb and leather mats as well as some motes etc for sale later on.

I will also be looking into getting rare Darkmoon Cards for level 70 and 80 toons and keeping those for sale in the 2 weeks before a new darkmoon faire, since all the quick-buck sellers will be dropping the market prices on these straight after darkmoon.

Now TIPS FOR THE NEWBIES!!!

Biggest tip i can give any new player would be to check selling stack sizes.

This is essance means that selling something in a stack of 4 or 5 might be a lot more profitable than selling full stacks.

A prime example would be a Alchemist wanting to make a potion which uses 4 units of Frost Lotus, now imagine the price of Frost Lotus to be 20G per stack (1g per unit).

20G is a lot when your constantly levelling your skills and thus this person only wants 1 of these potions. Spending 20G on something he will not even use half of is thus a waste and he will either buy singles of look for smaller stacks.

Now this player would rather buy the stack of 4 or 5 units for a slightly higher unit price than buy the cheap full stack so if you list 4 units at 5G you are making a 1G on market price profit and thus getting the sale instead of the guy selling the full stack.

This is very very much applicable to ore of any kind as jewelcrafters use 5 units at a time to prospect and thus dont always want stacks of 20.

When 3.2 comes out I will be posting all my titanium in stacks of 5 units and I can bet you that I will sell quicker than the person selling full stacks.

Another tip for newbies is selling stuff people want but are to lazy or stupid to go and get themselves.

A great example of this would be Stylish Black shirt which can be bought for 50Silver from a vendor in Stormwind very close to AH (will post Coords later).

I went and bought these for 50S and then went to resell on AH for 2.5G each.

I was a quick and painless profit as people were just too lazy to go and look for the vendors and for most high level players customizing their toons 2.5G for a shirt was not much.

Now im not saying that this same product would be the same on your realm but there are thousands of possible products which might have the same effect on your servers as I have with these shirts on my server.

Balancing a good WOW to real life ratio...

2009-07-14T11:54:00.002+02:00

Todays post will be a bt more serious as I only have 5 min to type and try and give a tip as well.

Todays tip is: MEAT!!

What do I mean?

Well I have been looking at various things in my bags to so whether picking up greys and some whites is actually profitable and low and behold, I once again rediscovered meat.

Just like bear flank which is used for cooking up to a certain level and making good raid food, I have found that northrend meats, Shoveltusk (?) meats and Chilled meat actually fetch a impressive price on AH, specially on heavy raiding servers as raid food means an extra buff without dropping a powerfull Elixer or Scroll.

So look into things used for levelling a skill and products which are usefull on your server.

i.e. On my Pve server, PVP based elixers etc are not half as valueble as on other PVP servers.

But having less people and mostly levelling players means that lower level potions and meats makes for good profits.

On to my main topic:

Im leaving this one open to you, how do YOU personally strike a healthy WOW/Life balance?

I understand you can take days off etc etc but what about your dailies?

I type this with heavy...

2009-07-10T08:39:00.003+02:00

...eyes.

Dear reader

I am stukkend (Translation: Broken) tired.

After a week and more of serious dungeons and raids and trying to level and making gold I am dead tired.

Tired from late nights and hectic concentration.

Ok so to summerize last night.

Became a raid leader for the first time on my main, running the two raids in Silithis in Classic, those are level 60+ with a 20 man and 40 man respectively.

Was a bit of a scrable as I forgot about the raid and was planning on enjoying a night in Heroic Magisters terrace and then loving my soft bed. It was not meant to be.

Logging in with a swamp of whispers and guild requests for the raid I started getting to it.

Now for anyone who has had NO experience in handling and organising a raid; Yes it can be a daunting task but thats easily overcome if you just sit back and relax and get the job done.

Getting a group of 20 people together and running the Ruins raid, we cleared it in approx 30-45min and decided to try the 40 man Temple with about 23 members.

Here we cleared the raid quite fast with very little wipes on members except when we got to the end boss which we wiped on twice.

All in all, for my first experience as a raid leader it was fun, educating and intense at the same time. I will from now on be organising weekly raids with my guild and make sure we offer newer players all the fun to be had in WOW.

On the gold front, I have been selling frogs and more frogs. Its as if a bunch of new players have started collecting pets all of a sudden and they are hungry for froggies.

I also sorted out bank slots and realised that we have a lot of gold's worth of stock available and thus we will start to sell/clear out some of the slower levelling based mats and only keep what mats we need to either skill up and stock which sells fast.

This brings me to a good point and something I realised this morning over coffee with my fellow banker.

Keeping stock isnt always the brightest idea.

The reason I say this is because on my banker and my main I have kept bags and bags full of stuff, from ores and cloths to gear and gems, but some stuff I will never use or will only use when I changes profs etc.

Why keep the stock then? Your only using up space which could be used for faster moving stock.

For example, I am keeping +stam Gems and lots of different Ores which I am doing nothing with except waiting for better days with better selling prices. In essence all i am doing is using space for a product for x amount of time which might net me 50G in the future, but I could be using the same amount of space for a product which might only net me 20G but in a much shorter period of time and recurring.

Example of this in my case would be Darkmoon Card: Twisting Nether, its sitting in a slot hoping to sell for 150-250+ Gold and I have been trying to sell it for 2 weeks now. In the same time I have sold 20+ Frogs and thus that space could have been used for cheap pets i.e. cockroach/frogs which I could sell one a day for 2 weeks, netting me a profit of 42G+ and thats almost guaranteed.

Id rather stick to the solid/constant income than use the space and time for a product which might not sell or might sell for less than expected.

Hope this helps all you gold diggers out there as I am very tired and typing with very heavy fingers.

Have a productive and profitable weekend.

Coining...

2009-07-09T08:29:00.002+02:00

One down, 6 to go.

Finished Heroic: The Mechanar last night and did a run of Magisters Terrace to get the atunement for the Heroic Version.

Tonight however will be a bit quieter as we will only be running Heroic: Magisters Terrace and then the guild goes to raid, of which I cannot yet join due to level requirements and gear spec.

So last night made some good rep 2000+ with the Sha'tar and made approx 40G in the instance itself.

Also sold my Darkmoon: Beserker card to a fellow guildmate for 550G thus increasing my total worth to about 1100G.

As stated in my previous post I will be using my banker as primary money maker and use the Gold I make from questing and dailies for my main's everyday expenditure. So with that in mind I moved most of the gold on my main to my banker and thus have 125G+- in my main's bag and the rest sitting in the bankers bank.

So the bankers guild bank now has close to 1k Gold in it and as per myself and my partners agreement we will be banking cash and starting with investment on the 20th of July so what amount we will have accrued by then still has to be seen.

Sold some more Frogs on the AH last night along with some Plans: Storm Gauntlets and thus netted another 50-70G on a very small investment.

Went and bought another Chaos Deck to go hand in at the Darkmoon Faire for another Darkmoon card, but this time the Deck was seriously underpriced and I think I will actually make a great profit on this item.

Sorry for the small post but not a lot happened last night. I will be starting another gold making goal along with our trading date on 20 July so get ready for some GREAT gold making tips and tricks as we need to make huge amounts of cash in a very short period of time due to myself and partner reaching 80 and needing gear and flying training.

Getting there

2009-07-08T11:07:00.007+02:00

So my goal this week is to get the Outland Dungeon master Achievement and maybe level a level or 2 within this time.

The reason I want to get the Outland Dungeon Hero achievement is because when you do Heroic Instances and finish them you get both an Achievement for the Heroic as well as the normal, thus speeding up the process.

Last night I completed two before calling it a night:

They were:

Heroic: The Alcatraz
Heroic: The Botanica

Now all I have left to do are:

Heroic: Sethekk Halls
Heroic: Shadow Labyrinth
Heroic: Opening of the Dark Portal
Heroic: The Mechanar
Heroic: Magister's Terrace
Heroic: Auchenai Crypts
Heroic: The Escape from Durnholde

Of which I will hopefully finish Mechanar, Magisters Terrace and Maybe Auchenai Crypts tonight as the group I am doing this with is amazing and we are well geared for the tasks.

Getting to the money....

Well I started off last night with 50+ slots open in my bags and after having a disappointing greed roll evening I filled up only 5 slots of those open with greens and some high value vendor trash, but amazingly I made 50G+ from those two Heroic Instances and got +-5000 rep with the Sha'tar making it a very good evening indeed.

On the other side of the coin, my banker also had some luck with mass posting of Wood Frogs and Tree Frogs from the previous Darkmoon Faire netting me 100+ Gold.

I also eventually sold one of my Darkmoon Card: Twisting Nether for a disappointing 130G on trade.

I am now sitting with 300+-G on my banker and about 60G on my main with more spread across my banking alts. In total I’m above the 500G mark and still buying strong with my roaming DK banker at the Darkmoon Faire.

Now this month I have changed my goal for the darkmoon faire, where if you have been following my progress you will know I normally sell all the mats (leather/herbs) for huge profits and occasional processing i.e. milling.

This time I’m taking a different approach, trying to get mats for trade skills and levelling as runic potions for instance are costing me a fortune for my main toon.

Thus with herbs this cheap it only makes sense to buy cheap and get some made thus saving me gold in the long run and more than likely saving me more than I would have profited.

GREAT TIP FOR NEW GOLD HOUNDS

After deliberation I have decided to ask a fellow guild mate and real life friend to join up with my banker as his banker is solely relying on his bags for storage.

Now this brings some pros and cons to the table.

Firstly we have decided that whilst we are achieving goals for our mains that we will not use the banker’s money for the mains as it’s not really needed. Great gear is normally dropped and the grind from +-72 to level 80 doesn’t normally need special gear. Only at 80 will we actually take money to get the gear needed for Nax etc.

Plus we are already making enough money to support our mains by questing and doing dailies.

The pros of an agreement are as follows:

More capital as two bankers are making money for one bank
more stock for volatile market
more money = more bank tabs (more space)

The cons:

your partner could Ninja all the gear and leave you with nothing
your partner could use money for bad investments/gear on main
your partner could use all the mats/supplies you buy to sell for own profit or invest it wrongly

So in essence you have to be in agreement before you even start with this. A good basis is this:

Agree all money goes to guild bank
No gear is bought for main whilst you are in the capital generation phase
Set investment amount on a daily, weekly basis
Make sure you mainly use money to buy storage (this includes bags)

For myself I used this:

We agreed that 40% of the gold available on a weekly basis is used for investment and stock purchasing, unless we both agree on a product we want to invest a bit more in i.e. Titanium Ore before 3.2.

This means that if 1000G is in bank, that we can use 400G of that to bid on items and use profit from that to reinvest. We will then in the new week see what we made money on and if we profited for now and then adjust our amounts.

This means we always have money in the bank should we make a bad investment and that we never need to worry about losing out on a good deal, i.e. someone posting Titanium Ore at a ridiculously low price.

This constant communication also allows us to see what is selling well and what is not, so 2 sets of eyes are thus keeping an unstable AH in order as we have a lesser chance of making investment errors.

This also means that you can buy storage quicker and have the largest amount of storage available at any one time.

So for all the lower level players, making friends you can trust is of epic importance because in the long run it doesn’t cost much to get your own guild up and running with paid for Guild Charter Signatures.
After that a mere 100G nets you your first bank tabs and 88 slots of love.
That 88 slots of stock/gear or trade skill items like Eternal Belt Buckles.
And with the addition of a partner you will get all these things in half the time.

Just make sure that it is CLEAR that no big investment will be made without both party's go ahead and if the other is not online/in contact that no more than 40% of current value may be used. NO exception to the rule.

If both parties are online then decisions can be made on larger investment amounts i.e. 8 stacks of Titanium Ore at 100G a stack. (Example: 1000G in bank, stock investment 800G, still got 200G for emergencies)

Always remember DO NOT invest all your money as you then have no lifeline to hang on to.

Taking on new things

2009-07-07T14:07:00.003+02:00

You might have noticed in my previous post i mentioned that "myself and NEW guild" will be doing some Heroic Dungeons.

Yes I left my self created guild and handed it over to my trusty banker for administration.

This was a first step to happiness for me as I now have a banker with an extra 3 Guild Bank tabs (3x88=264 slots) for storage.

I am also doing more and more things I used to wait for, so no more [TRADE] LFG ManaTombs (Heroic) as the new guild has 200+ members of which about 70 are very active, thus it doesnt take me long to find party members for group quests and dungeons.

Being level 72 also has its benefits in terms of more dungeons to do as well as being invited to more high level raids as Im currently one of the highest DPS and AoE DPS members for my level in the guild and my gear is also top notch due to early experiments with Heroic instances and socketed gear.

Now Im just aiming at making money for my Epic Flying and Cold weather flying at level 78-80 as most of the good gear I can now make (Tailoring) or get from various quests and dungeons. So essentially all I need to spend money on are my potions and elixers (both of which I can get from alchemists in my guild at lower prices).

I am doing dailies specifically for rep with there factions:

Shatar (Shattrah City, BC)

The Kalu'ak (Borean Tundra, WotLK)

Shattered Sun Offensive (Isle of Quell Danas (?), BC)

as these net me keys and items i need to continue... (little Pengiun pet comes to mind)

more to come soon....

Welcome Back

2009-07-07T13:46:00.004+02:00

Ola my dear readers.

Sorry for the long absence but my WOW time has been drastically shortened by a teething baby (still love her though).

I have however been playing a bit of WOW and have been doing quite a few dailies as well as some questing, either for Heroic BC instance keys or Rep grinding.

The money making aspect has not been going as well as I would have liked after making a few mistakes andinvesting some of my gold in stock.

Firstly: THE MONEY

With approx 300G spread over my characters, I have a limited source of investment should something nice come my way.

I might or might not have told you that I have invested in 3 full stacks (60 units) of Titanium ore and a deck of cards which netted me another Beserker Card which I currently have listed on the AH for 799Bid and 999BO. If it sells at this price then I will be making 350-550G profit on this item excl the listing fee.

I do however have BAD news when it comes to the two Darkmoon Card: Twisting Nether which still have not sold thus I am relisting for 150G each and they still not selling.

Now I have had some hard days as trying to level my main's Tailoring and First Aid to 420+ has been a very very expensive ecersize and thus have left me wanting money desperately.

So... to get back on track I have set myself some new goals.

With my main toon I plan on doing all the Outland Heroic Dungeons this week with my new guild and thus not spend a cent with her, netting myself some AWESOME gear as well as making myself some good money as Heroics normally give 40+G per dungeon.

I will also continue with my dailies which net me in the region of 1-12G per daily and some well deserved reputation with some cool factions.

Having created a DK (now 58) and getting her to Stormwind means that I now have a roaming banker/mule which can go to rough areas to either buy prooduct or farm mats/items.

She is currently situated at the Darkmoon Faire in Mulgore where my lower alts would not be able to go, due to unsafe cicumstances (horde/level).

Now I understand that you want to read this blog to learn what to buy and what not, but this week I am actually dry on ideas.

My AH has had a mind of its own this last week with people not realizing that they bring a market down via hectic undercutting.

One thing I didnt count on was the rush...

the rush that the announcment of 3.2 caused on the AH in regards to Titanium Ore.

Prices with this rush to buy stock SKY rocketed for about 2 weeks after the announcement to a level where I could have made 50G easy profit on the higher prices which I had originally paid.

I decided not to post my stock on the AH as I need to be patient just in case the tip really pays of after 3.2 gets implemented.

I have also stopped trying to post green items on the AH due to the higher list prices and thus cutting your profits by as much as 50%, so i decided all unused green items with a less than average AH price of 30+G will be vendored or given to the guild as:

TIME = MONEY

and relisting a non selling items is a waste of time, time thish could have been used to farm 10 more mobs for cloth/leather or hitting a low level instance in search of a twink item whilst still making money.

I will seriously this week go and look at what is new on the AH and whats hot and whats not.

Daily Grind ... no really its a grind!

2009-06-24T11:52:00.003+02:00

Welcome one, welcome all.

Today im sitting on 500G again spread over my alts but with the added bonus of +-2000G worth of items on the AH.

Yet thats not the topic for todays post, my topic is the kick butt stuff I have done over the last few days.

Seeing as Midsummer Festival is yearly I thought it appropriate to complete as much of the achievements as possible

and thus get my Title and some more goodies.

Problem is that I am only buying WotLK later this week so the "Juggle 40 Torches in 15 sec" in Dalaran is out for the time being and thus the title has to wait.

I have however been running some instances and have been grinding Ahune, Frost Lord in Slave Pens, Coilfang for the last few nights.

I have been doing this for good reason and that is to get the staff he drops for my main toon.

Frostscythe of Lord Ahune

but last night I scored big time as the cloak I wanted dropped as well as won on a greed roll for the rare pet he drops:

Cloak: Cloak of the Frigid Winds

Pet: Scorched Stone

The pet was super lucky as it only drops approx 1.2% of the time.

Out of the +-10 times I have run this boss I have not yet seen the staff.

Run to you (not the Whitney song!)

Well well well...

Long time coming this, finally had time to go and get my Flying mount training and mount and seeing as my tailoring skill isnt high enough yet to use my Magic Carpet (which I got for bargain 40G on my server) I chose to purchase a Snowy Gryphon for my first flying experience.

Also I played Alterac Valley on a losing side till it came out of my ears to get 50 Alterac Valley marks of Honour to buy a Stormpike Battle Charger and so far I am impressed!

On to money making:

So far it has gone well. Making money from daily quests and doing the Midsummer Achievements has nicely bolstered my income as an average of 10G per 1xHorde Flame and 1xAlliance Flame has been quite welcome.

I have also been trolling the AH for quest items such as Fel Armaments and Marks of Segeras for my main to Rep grind.

I have also been buying up the regular suspects such as mid-high level ore's. Specially Titanium as Titanium unit prices has gone up to 19G per unit on my server.

Stuff i have been buying up:

Bear Flank (for cooking)

Small Furry paw (for Darkmoon Faire Rep grinding)

Dark Iron Ale Mug (for Jubling Pet at Darkmoon Faire)

Various herbs (for pigments)

Cheap Gems (selling for less than 30-40% of value)

Well thats all I got for today. Comment or let me know if you got anything to share.

Midsummer is here

2009-06-22T15:29:00.004+02:00

Ola peeps

Damn, two posts in one day...

Well I was just thinking of the great advent of WOW Special events such as the Midsummer Fire Festival currently in you nearest main city.

Now this presents players of higher level with a chance to get a Title and some cool achievments and lower level players to get their hands on some items which they would otherwise have to wait a year for.

It also offers mid level mages a great chance to make some G by selling portal. Now i know this could be something seen as common knowledge but a mage who is mainly seen as a taxi/water dispenser can make some serious cash in busy times with this festival.

Offering portals from SW or IF to Darnassus for the Unusual Activity quest line offers easy quick rewards of gold and selling the occasional portal to Theramore can net you good profits. This is applicable to any players doing this quest line from level 22+

Other then that there is not a lot of money to be made by lower levels by/for this event.

For the higher level player there is quite a bit of money to be made as Honouring flames outcity the major cities allow you to net 3+ G per flame and dessecrating Horde flames will net you 5-7 G+

Now imagine all the horde flames and alliance flames and you can just imagine the money you can make whilst grinding for an achievement.

Thats all I got for today. Have fun and comment if you got good info on this subject.

Also check out markco's blog : Just my two copper for some awesome gold making tips.

Back by popular demand

2009-06-22T09:17:00.002+02:00

Been very busy in the last whilst both in a private fashion and a WOW fashion.

Been trying to get to level 70 and make enough money to pay for my Flying Training and my dual spec as Im starting to do more heroic instances and thus need to learn how to play different specs and make sure my role as DPS is done properly.

With the darkmoon faire a memory (a bad one as it was in stormwind) I still have lots of Frogs and some herbs available to sell, but seeing as my server houses more Alliance than Horde the amount of people who bought at the faire was rediculous and this the AH is still flooded with most of the mats.

Hopes are high that the market will restabalise itself next month with the Faire being in Mulgore and not being available to low level alliance players.

Good news though is that whilst I paid a good 350-550G per deck of cards which I thought wasnt going to sell I realized that I had reached the level with my main where I can hand in these decks and sell the cards which drop.

I have resold a few Darkmoon cards for 300-500G profit each. Just if you follow this and try sell cards first take a month to research which cards sell quickly and which dont.

DO NOT just buy decks of cards as my Darkmoon Card: Twisting Nether just is not selling.

Light at the end of the chapel

Well at least there is some hope. I know this might be old news to some but for you who dont know:

Titanium Ore can be prospected to Epic Gems as of update 3.2., this means that Titanium Prices will shoot through the roof in the near future.

I have invested a good sum of gold in this and hopefully will make a good profit.

Sorry thats all I got for today. I will be posting more regularly to update you on my progress with Rep, PVP and more heroics!

What a surprise

2009-06-10T09:03:00.002+02:00

Hey All

Sorry for the long lost posts....

Got some great news though.

Darkmoon Faire started again this week and thus I sent my DarkmoonBanker to go and represent.

Now on a server which is mainly Alliance, having the Faire outside Stormwind means a lot more visitors and thus sometimes not getting ANY stock from Lhara.

But last night a realized a market which I never tapped.

Dark Iron Ale which can be procured in Blackrock depths or the AH on non Faire weeks is relatively cheap.

This item is used to get two pets.

Jubling

Disguting Oozeling

Now before you go off on me. I know the Oozeling doesnt need this, but after reading up a bit, your chances increase in getting this pet if you have the Ale with you (?)

But to the point.

TO get the Jubling you need two Darkmoon Iron Ale's which you will use at on of the Darkmoon Faire's NPC's.

One to lure the Jubling to its master and another to give to the NPC as gift.

She then hands you the Jubling Egg which hatches in 7 days.

No usually I coundnt sell these on AH for 2-3G each, but last night after selling my stock prior for 1G for 2-4 units I started selling them for 7-12G per 2 units in AH and quick sales of 2 units in /2 TRADE for 7-10G.

This is a money making extravaganza and a tip of the week!

PS: EU servers are not benefitting as much from the USA summer holidays as I expected as prices on my server seems to still hover and fluctuate in the same areas as before. Thus dont go and spend all your money on Eternal's and Eternal belt buckles just yet.

Just not in the mood - angry at Blizzard

2009-06-03T10:02:00.004+02:00

Ok this is a rant, if you looking for info and helpfull stuff then check the previous post on my addons.

This is a pure, paying customer is pissed off entry into this blog of mine.

Levelling in WOW is great fun and most new players are engrossed by this huge world which has been painstakingly created to be as amazing as it can be in terms of Aesthetics and interaction.

Now from experience I can say that I have found myself lost in this world many times, playing for must longer as I planned by searching for this special item or running around in this maze of an instance.

So I hit 60 a few days ago, meaning finally being able to get some good gear in terms of socketed gear and Tier Armors, but I was sadly mistaken on the latter.

Now blizzard has thought of after many complaints about allowing players who have levelled all the way to 80 to start any alt toon at a hight level than 1, i.e. 40 or 55 like a DK.

I think this is very wrong as its part and parcel of the game. You start at level 1 to enjoy the story and learn how to play the class.

My problem: how can I as a player enjoy the game at level 60 if I cant even get the armor I want. My problem arose whilst in this flurry of excitment about grinding and raiding for my tier armors and after seeing the Tier 3 armor for level 60's on Wow-europe's website I though about getting those instead of the 1 and 2 sets (another rant, but ill keep that till last).

Searching google and wow head for info on this Tier 3 Frostfire armor for my mage I started reeading comments etc on this armor of how and where to find it. Comments dating back to 2006 shows that this armor rocks for a mage and you need this and that all the whilst my excitement was growing as this armor did not really need me to spend 2-4 hours getting a raid together for Oznia's Lair or Molten core and where to get the damn key.

BEATEN DOWN:

After patch 3.? this armor set was kind of disabled, meaning quests and drops pertaining to this armor set was disabled and thus the armor set is still in the game, you just cant get it any more.

Now this is why im MOST pissed off and am actually taking the rest of the week off. How the hell can I enjoy a game which Im paying for if the stuff which makes me want to discover and explore every nook and cranny of it is disabled? Why must I go to the level 60 raids (25-40 man) if the gear I wanted is not there anymore, or if I need to spend 2-4 hours getting people together for raids which will net me worse gear?

And this is where my second gripe comes from, this is the reason I actually am getting the same ideas as 90% of newer WOW players out there.

WotLK gets released and NO one wants to do classic or BC anymore. Only level 70+ stuff matters and its a race to get there.

I cant even get a decent crew together for a 20 man raid in Classic or BC because people are too busy trying to hit the magical 70-80, so they actually skip entire chapters and areas of the game missing out on the magic which is WOW.

I now actually want to use the guide I posted a day or two back to go and QUICKLY level my 63 mage to 80, just so I can solo most places, so I can in fact experience some of the WOW areas I cannot right now.

The problem with Blizzard pushing all this new stuff and forcing people to push for the WotLK instances etc etc is that most players are newbies when they get there.

Example:

•Level 55 WArlock gets tired of warlock getting killed due to cloth armor etc etc. He rolls a new lvl55 DK....

•Firstly he doesnt know how to play a melee class and thus wipes the groups he plays with.

•70% of players rolling a DK in this fashion cant play the class effectively and thus RUINS the DK class reputation

•Levels as quick as possible to 80, meaning he has no understanding of real RAID and 10/25 man groups.

Where Classic and BC instances and raids are designed to teach players about specific situations, the players are now not learning that and thus these virgins walk into Ulduar and get not jsut their own but their RAID groups asses kicked as they cannot fill there role in the group.

An example is a raid in BC, where players gets a charge from a boss, either Negative or Positive.

If you get close to an opposed charged player you do damage (explode kind of).

Same type of raid in WotLK, but people never did this BC training and dont know what to do, so people keep wiping and poeple get pissed off, not wanting to play with DK's and level 74 and lowers etc etc.

Good bye for the rest of the week!

My Addons list

2009-06-03T09:18:00.003+02:00

Ok so today I thought about adding my list of addons which I use to make my WOW more interesting.

Now keep in mind I play on 1680x1050 res and thus make my toolbars smaller and thus have no need for bar mods as I think the original looks cool.

Now on the right you will see my list from the Curse Client.

My top 3 Addons are:

1. Carbonite Addon: (not on Curse)

http://www.carboniteaddon.com/

Cannot do without this, its a map mod and a quest helping mod which gets updated regularly. Try it out, you will not look back, EVER. Has a nifty quest list and punk detecter which alerts you of nearby enemy toons.

2. Auctioneer:

The one and only Auction House mod. If you are into trading on AH, then this is the mod for you. Tracks prices on AH and gives you a broad outlook on profits to be made.

3. Titan Panel:

My information service, this mod allows a range of other addons to be added to a neat bar at the top of your screen. Info like location, money, bag space, mail, AH alerts and others all assist in getting your info faster.

Note: This works awsome with things like Easymail and Auditor

Helping a good cause + making money (not for the cause though :))

2009-06-02T13:15:00.005+02:00

Ola peeps, sorry for the lack of updates, but this is my realax week with the family so Im not playing half as much as I normally do.

Just something to keep you busy.

I found a FREE levelling guide that has the right ideas and the fact that the author is notcharging for the opportunity means that I will support him as much as possible.

I for one might not use his guide as I normally like taking my time levelling and exploring but for those of you wanting to get to level 80 QUICK, then i think this will help a lot.

http://www.ding80.com/

UPDATE:

Been using 250+G on my main to level Tailoring so she does not have much money now.

Took banker though and bought another guild bank tab 2 days ago for 500G, thus leaving him with approx 450G in bags, 400+G on AH and about 200-400G in stock (in bank and bags)

But struck a bit of good luck though and this will be my tip for the week.

Never think that all people use auctioneer as THEY DONT!

People easily undervalue or overvalue items.

Example:

I bought this gun: Don Santos' Famous Hunting Rifle on AH for 320G on sunday morning as Auctioneer was telling me its worth 1600G+, but in my haste I forgot to look at the amount of times it has been seen on the AH (in my case I saw it was two times).

This means that Auctioneer could have seen way overpriced prices for this item and thus mislead me on this and some other occasions.

Trying to sell this the entire Sunday evening, I thought I'd try trade whilst sticking this on the AH for 670G. In trade I advertised for 500, no hits, tried 450G still with no luck.

Thus i was sitting and actively advertising this in TRADE for close to 30-45 minutes to no avail, even dropping the price to 450G and thinking about dropping the price even more.

To my surprise, just as I was to once again drop the TRADE price, I got a message telling me its sold in the AH.

.....

Needless to say I made a 350G profit on this item in less than a day and was back to 1000G+ on my banker even after buying mats and the guild bank tab.

So the tip is in short:

When buying always remember to actually look at how many times a item has been seen on the AH as many times equals a accurate price and few does not necceseraly.

With this said also remember that there might be people who dont check this and buys on impulse.

"A purple, rare item for 20-30% of its value? Damn i had better snatch this up now before its gets spotted"

I have had these moments and think most of you have had it as well.

Thus most people who dont have auctioneer wont see the average price and some with auctioneer actually see it as a bargain.

Remember to add this to your library of variables and you could make tons of cash.

From my experiences:

Think that people have auctioneer and thus can spot a bargain
Think people have auctioneer and have not scanned enough to get a realistic price thinking expensive items are actually bargains
Think people dont have auctioneer and thus list items just to make bag space
Use trade for lazy people. Going to AH means 1000's of players lagging your connection, meaning some people dont like to go to the AH in main cities, thus when they see something nice in TRADE they will generally buy it at a higher price.

If you got anything to add, then please leave a comment.

I know this isnt a perfect post, but Ive just ranted a bit.

Stealing Ideas: What to do when you a nooby

2009-05-29T14:13:00.004+02:00

Was reading a interesting article at "one Copper" (http://one-copper.blogspot.com/2009/05/1g-plz-proudly-presents-your-first-gold.html) I started thinking how I would make money if I had to start agina at level 1 now.

So here goes (please bear with my limited thinking capabilities on this Friday):

If I had to start at level 1 now with no gold and limited killing and farming capabilities I would first level to 10 and then go on my assualt of the auction house.

First things first. Choosing two gathering professions would net a immediate income as low level herbs and specially ores are always wanted on the AH, but be aware that although you would like level your mining skills by smelting your ore's, first check your local AH for the difference in Ore and Bar prices as ore could be more expensive as not only do people use it to level mining quickly and easily but jewelcrafters can also use ore to prospect jewels.

Now if your going after the mining ore money making route there are a few things to remember:

use a add on called Auctioneer if you want to use the AH
if using trade (/2 TRADE) remember that trade is made for a quick easy sale, thus prices will be lower
have patience, as AH will net you more profit
MOST IMPORTANT: sell ore in stacks of 5 as prospectors can only use stacks of 5 thusdont always need 20

Using herbalism will also net you a good profit with inscriptors and alchemists trying to level as alchemist want to make potions/elixers and inscribers want to mill these herbs into pigments.

Also do a bit of research on which alchemy potions use which low level herbs and the quantities needed as sometimes its more profitable to list 2-4 units of a herb on AH instead of a entire stack.

If you want to make good gold and have enough gold for all your training and skills, then remember to NOT buy any gear i.e. weapons/armor until you reach at least level 40 as any gear you buy will be bettered in 1 or two levels of play and more than likely be bettered when you visit your next instance.

Another way of making quick gold is just taking time and watching the AH for specials.

Finding armor at a <40%>

I have found loads of ore's, armors and cloths at coppers and silvers on the AH and resold for double the amount as most newer WOW players are not using Auctioneer and thus dont know what the going prices for items are.

Another way to go are cloths.

The irritating mat, cloth of any type (Linen, Wool, Mageweave etc) will always drop from humanoids and thus normally fill all your bags and generally irritate you.

BUT...

Cloth is a good money maker as most people need this for Tailoring and First aid, so once again this mat is used for two different purposes.

Try selling cloths in larger amounts in trade as most densly populated servers will have lots of people farming cloth and thus you have a better chance of selling 3-5 stacks (20units) of cloth to a private seller than selling yours at a good price with undercutting farmers on the AH.

On the lower population servers cloth is easily sold on AH, a good example would be Wool Cloth on my server which Im reselling for 2.79.79 as we dont have many farmers and people look for bigger stacks.

Hope this helps all my newer low level readers and if you take time to read my older posts you would see many tips on how I got to 1000+ G by playing normally and never farming from level 1.

'tis a week to be jolly

2009-05-25T08:33:00.005+02:00

Hello All

So I did it!

Got 600G on saturday evening before hitting level 60. Didnt make 1K Gold like I would have wanted to, but I think that this is a clear indication of what you can do if you put your mind to it.

Logged in this morning after a weekend of meager playtime due to family (family time comes first, specially if you have a new born) seeing as I only needed about 20-30K Xp to ding 60.

Finished a quest or two and wha la, hit level 60 and the good news is that some items sold last night netting me another 50G+ thus I could do all my mage training and still have 610G left to do riding skill training.

Ive decided to go classic and get a swift Mechanostrider untill I can get a Ellek or something else BIG.

On another note, this is a teaching/tutorial blog so I have some screenies from saturday evening after a run into Scholomace and some running around in Hellfire.

Did another run into Scholomace last night quick as Im trying to get the full set of Necropile armor for my mage.

So next up is a screeny showing that I had the 600+ G on saturday evening, before hitting 60 and the items in my AH at the time.

My Plans: Storm Gauntlets are selling well, but not dramatically fast.

Bear Flank on the other hand I cant keep up with. Bought stacks on AH for 1G-2G and resold in stacks of 5 for 2.79.79, so I have been making a solid income on these alone.

Now just a little tip for early risers or daytime players. Look for 30min or less auctions (Press Scan for quickscan with no string in the search input block) and look for any good armor (blue/purple) which is 40% or price (using auctioneer addon) and no buy out price.

These listers never think about their stock actually not selling, thus thinking that the product would sell quick and people would over bid. This over confidence with the market sometimes leads to their own loss with you picking up items which are still on starting price and thus priced way lower than expected.

Last night sold a item (cant remember what....) but its a craftable Purple Leather Chest Item for 180G in Trade which I bought on AH for 136G. Meaning I made 44G for mearly passing it from one set of hands to the next.

Buyers dont put buyouts as they have not done enough research thus seeing that one such item has sold for 300G but all the new ones are listed for 230+- meaning that when they are sold off and his remains that people would once again bid to 300G to get this "sought after" item.

Thats my biggest tip for this week. Always specify a buy out price!

I might be going stealthed this week as I want to spend a bit more time with the family, so I will update asap once I get back in Wow again (will still play a bit this week but not hectically).

Sidrep 23/05/2009

2009-05-23T07:50:00.002+02:00

Hey All jsut a quick update on my monetary status.

Still on level 58 as I only finished 2 quests last night and spent the rest of the evening with my family.

So all in all I am on 382G in my bag with approx: 489G worth of auctions.

Items I have in AH are Bear Flank in stacks of 5, Blackskull Shield and Plans: Storm Gauntlets.

Now after finishing the quests for Scholomace I was rewarded with an orb which allows you to see the deseased citizens of the town around Scholomace.

Well needless to say there is a ghost vendor which sells me the Plans: Storm Gauntlets for 4G and I resell for 30-50G on AH.

Now that is a gold making tip.

Enjoy the screeny and please comment....

Level 58 and not too close to my goal

2009-05-22T08:24:00.007+02:00

Good day and welcome to the progress report on my new challenge.

If you a first time reader ill explain:

I need to reach 600-1000G by level 60, now you might think this is easy but I was on level 56 when I gave myself this goal as to pay for trianing and riding skills/mount.

All this whilst not slowing down my game play i.e. mats grinding/mining and low level instancing for expensive sellable items.

I can only use what ever I had on me and my bank and can sell etc anything I pickup from the high level instances/quests.

Now on to my progress:

Now since level 56 I have been in Western and Eastern Plaguelands doing quests and running the instances which are there i.e. Scholomace and Stratholm.

This screenshot show my gold; 167 G with some items on the AH which is in the following screenshot.

Now on wednesday evening I didnt quest/instance much as I was helping a friend to get some gear and gold in Gnomeregan and then took him to Gatgetzan to finish some quests. So I wasnt making money/xp at all for that evening.

Started hitting Sholomace last night with a extra run through Stratholm and in turn got some of the best gear ive seen for my class and level.

Currently on level 58 so of the gear I got was:

http://eu.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=14626

http://eu.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=16686

http://eu.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=16692

http://eu.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=16685

http://eu.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=14632

as well as some really good Cards which sell for 150+ G on my server.

Runecloth is a dime a dozen and if you need to make quick cash then farming runecloth in these instances and surrounding areas is a quick easy way of making some money.

With all the greens and blues I vendored I easily made 40+G and with all the gear now on auction I could in essence make 700+ G by the end of the weekend.

My stats as of this morning is as follows:

Sorry that I havnt posted a pic of my AH, ill take some screenies tonight and post them.

My Auditor says this:

But please keep in mind that this might include my bankers details as I have no idea how to work this tool.

Sorry for the sporadic updates and post right now, but my mind isnt here from lack of sleep and with that will be taking a breather with the family tonight and only play for max 1-2 hours.

So let me know what you think.

Some luck

2009-05-20T12:23:00.005+02:00

Hey all just a quick update.

Recently I went to Sunken Temple for the achievment and to get some good gear.

Now in the last few weeks I have been trying to get a fellow guild member a Blackskull Shield or a Wall of the Dead Shield.

I eventually found a blackskull on the AH for 120G and bought it. He didnt use it so sent it back as he levelled quickly rendering it useless and thus I sold it for 160G.

Back to Sunken temple. First mobs we kill, BANG epic drop of a blackskull shield and thus I had a second shield which I held onto and actually thought I had sent to my banker and sold on AH.

BUT no, looking at the screenshots from my previous posting I noticed something which I really didnt know was there and seeing as this falls into my rules of my new challenge, I now have a headstart on my money making goal.

So ladies and gents meet my newest 160-200G

If you think this doesnt adhere to my rules then let me know

So it has started

2009-05-20T09:11:00.004+02:00

Hello All and welcome to my new challenge.

Long story short, I need to make in the region of 700-1000G before I hit level 60 and im already on level 56.

Now keep in mind that my aim is to do this without stalling i.e. Farming for ore hours on end or running low level dungeons (without a request from guild member to boost) for twink items etc.

This is to show that making money can be done whilst constantly concentrating on playing WOW and experiencing new places and instances.

The lowdown:

Went to eastern plaguelands last night and quested a bit running into some problems with multiple mobs and getting my arse handed to me.

I was then joined by my guild mates and ran Scholomace to get the achievement and maybe score some good gear for resale/equip.

Got some good new gear for myself such as : Wand of Biting Cold and Councillor's Circlet.

Also picked up some random drops from mobs which I then listed on the AH before it went down for maintanance.

Started off with a almost full bag and a almost full bank and 128G.

Spent a bit of that on training and mats for a quest and ended up with about 60G before going to instance.

Listed quite a few items and used the info from my research to make a good profit.

Listed stacks of 5 units of Mithril Ore on ah for 5.79.79 and they all sold.

Also listed some Steel ore which I made a profit of about 1.5-2G per stack on as I had bought Iron Bars from TRADE earlier for 8G and made the steel bars and listed for 11.79.79 and they all sold as well.

Still a few things on AH such as the prairie dog whilstle I picked up from Neutral AH for 3 and relisted for 8G on Alliance AH.

I could not see my profit or anything this morning as the servers were still offline, so you will have to wait for an update tomorrow morning to see if im heading in the right direction.

Just an update on my banker:

He is doing fine with 100+ auctions on AH with 50+ % of those being the herbs etc which I bought at the darkmoon Faire.

Pets are going slowly but epic recipes are selling like hotcakes.

Still believe my server's market is ruined as I cant even sell a White Kitten for 20G in AH.

Dont know whats going on as non essential things like pets have dropped in price and essentials have sky rocketed i.e Eternals, Mats (i.e Wool Cloth).

Now is actually the time to farm mats and sell for huge profits before the market drops again.

I will however be looking into buying up some of these really cheap pets and armor sets with the hope that they will increase in price asap.

Also started noting that Bear Flank is rediculously expensive as its the only orange meat (recipe) at skill level 250+ and thus sells quite well and for a great markup.

I know this because I have been buying some to level my cooking on my main.

Think I will be going to Winterspring to farm bear flank as it adheres to my rules for my challenge as I will be levelling and not jsut farming.

Finishing Scholomace

New Challenge

2009-05-19T13:14:00.003+02:00

Ive been sitting here thinking about how I have let my blog go due to hard work and a busy life, but I also thought about the great times I had trying to make my first gold from NOTHING.

After half a day of thinking through meetings I have decided to set myself a new goal.

Now please dont think this will interfere with my usual gold making tips using one of my two bankers, it will however be a task for my main who is currently in Eastern Plaguelands as a Level 54 Gnome Frost Mage with Herbalism and Mining as my profs.

I actually started thinking about this last night as I would be using most of my bankers money for training and my fast mount when I hit level 60.

Now that would not be a good thing as I like doing spur of the moment buys with my banker requiring quite a bit of gold in his tuxedo pockets.

Now the challenge:

Currently my main is sitting on roughly 50G in her bag and with this and dungeon drops I need to pay for all my training and mounts and all this within 6 levels of gameplay.

Training will be in the reagion 20-60 G for the rest once I hit 60 and my mount will be 500-600G, with hopefully an extra mount with a faction im trying to get exalted with.

I know most of you are saying; "this is easy, one Epic drop from Scholomace and your fine", I beg to differ as my chances of something like that is 0.1% at most.

I also wont cheat and purely herb/mine for the cash before hitting 60 as Im planning on hitting 60 by hopefully this weekend's end or early sometime next week.

I also wont be doing lower instances looking for twink items, rare drops as that wont make me level.

BUT...

I will help my fellow guild members if they ask me to run them into a smaller instance but I will roll greed and only greed for items that are bind on equip.

Now I do have bags of stock on this toon and I feel its only fair to use some of said stock if need be to make items/sales that might pop up.

Let me know what you think...

DELAYS!

2009-05-19T09:26:00.003+02:00

Hey peeps

Sorry for the delay in posting but I have been hectically busy with work and my baby.

I will post updates asap.

All I can say is that it has been a rollercoaster of ups and downs as the markets are ruined by cheap sellers and idiotic buyers.

I have made a slight profit as I have lots of gold on my toons and even more, very slow moving stock in the AH.

Too many things going on

2009-05-07T09:40:00.005+02:00

Here you go a update as promised all be it a half arsed one.

So last night I logged in after the maintanance and the AH was a buzz with buying excitement to my disbelief.

Now at this stage I realized that I had a problem as my banker was in Shattrah at the darkmoon faire with about 60-100 auctions which had expired sitting in his mailbox.

What could I do? Hearth back to IF? and then get a portal back later to Shattrah or create a backup Bank Toon which will later serve as a higher level inscriber and alchemist.

What did I do? I did both!

I will introduce my new banker to you tomorrow as I forgot to load the screenshot onto mem stick before coming to the office.

But long story short.

Sent all main banker's auctions and some of the mats I bought at the Faire to the new banker (Oogyboogy) and started trading on AH as soon as I had some money for posting. Had 200G in less than 30 min, as I sold Primal Mooncloth shoulders for 62G and they were trading for 25-50 on AH (thank you TRADE channel).

Bought some more bags as well, 4 netherweave for Oogyboogy and another mining bags and a bag of Pelts (? Leatherworking bag) for a fellow guild member.

All in all my alt banker is sitting on 211G in the bag and +-800G worth of items on AH.

Main banker is on +-300G in bag with 300-500G wirth of stock in bag and bank. Almost nothing on AH.

Will post screenies tomorrow morning as an update so you can see the items I have on AH.

One lucky thing:

Bought 25 Large Brilliant Shard a few days ago on TRADE for cheap cheap, I think it was something like 20G and sold off 20 single units on AH yesterday for 3.79.79 each.

Got some Eternal Belt Buckles from my supplier after getting Eternal Shadow at half price in a direct buy from TRADE and listed three out of the two this morning. Listed at 45G which is slightly higher than some of the other sellers but hopefully the post-maintanace buying spree will see these sold quickly.

Did do quite a bit of questing last night with my main mage gnome and I got from 45-47 by doing quests in Badlands and surrounding areas.

NOT WOW!

2009-05-06T13:00:00.001+02:00

Off topic:

Visit my city:

http://sandtonia.myminicity.com/

REgular WOW updates will resume tomorrow morning after I have levelled a bit more tonight!

Cool site for you level 70+'s in Northrend

2009-05-05T13:44:00.004+02:00

Found a great link in my eternal search for mats for eternal belt buckles.

For level 70+'s only as we normal mortals will only die there and more than likely not be able to set foot there.

Farming Eternal Fire

Next to my homie.... for a week!

2009-05-05T08:37:00.000+02:00

Well, I started yesterday morning with my week long dredge of waiting and buying at the Darkmoon Faire.

Been buying herbs, leather, mote's, eterenals, potions and scrolls for a day and a bit now and already I have had to travel to shatrah to empty my bags a little.

I even bought another 28 Slot mining bag on Trade for 38G to fit more stuff into my bank, but to no avail. My bags are still getting full so im resorting to mailing my alt mage to make space.

So to let you know:

Bought about 9-10 Wood Frog Box's as they cost 1G and sell for about 12-16G per unit on AH.

Bought some potions for use on my main toon as I run out of health and mana potions real quick on her.

Bought some scrolls:

Scroll of Int IV = for my main as Int buff for mana

Scroll of Int VII = for level 70's and selling for 1-2G each on AH

and a few more scrolls

Below is a screeny of my bags this morning after a half clean last night and just before I went and got the extra bags and bought some more herbs and frogs and stuff (so I have more now).

Total spent on mats (bags not included) so far at Darkmoon: +-100-140G

Stock worth in bags and bank and mail: +-300-500! Gold So its a huge profit margin and the weeks only started.

Its going to be tough selling these slow for a constant income and having stock when the prices shoot up.

Please let me know waht you think.

What ive done since level 1

2009-05-04T13:35:00.000+02:00

Just a short post to make people understand where my money has gone and that anyone can do this:

I started a guild (didnt pay anyone to sign)
Bought myself 11 netherweave bags for main toon and her bank slots.
Bought main character 7 bank slots.
Bought Bank Alt 5 Bank Slots and filled those with Mammoth Mining Bag, Enchanter's Satchel and 3 more netherweave bags.
Bought Bank Alt 4 Netherweave bags for himself
Bought the guild two bank tabs (100G for first and 250G for second, they helped with about 30G of those amounts)
Got some of the best gear for my level 45 Mage, via buying specials in trade and questing
Supplied Guild bank with +-50-100G worth of stock (mats, armor, weapons for all levels)
all toons bank bags are 80-100% full of stock

By simply taking some time researching and reading I have made more money than the average lvl 40+.

By doing this I do not have any problems buying anything I need and getting the training needed to enable my mage to be as strong as she can be and thus be a beneficial member to groups/party's i find myself in.

Markets and naive buyers.

2009-05-04T10:21:00.000+02:00

After concentrating on leveling my mage (now Lvl45) and leveling my better half's Shaman (lvl 19), I started looking at selling twinks and finding rare drops worth lots of gold.

See, I still think its better to still play the game and make good gold, thus world drops (rare) are good sources of money whilst still leveling.

This move was inspired by a recent blog by Skrooge titled: Twink'd

I will add on to a twink/expensive item list as I go along.

After researching items/gear to go kill for and sell, I actually found a few underpriced items on the AH saturday morning on my server.

Picked up quite a few items for Silvers when they are worth 25-73G per item.

Easy...

...problem:

Naive or just plain stupid buyers.

What I mean by this is that I would, for instance, offer Night Watch Shortsword or Thorbia's Gauntlets on the TRADE channel and someone would whisper me instantly offering i.e. 18G, but auctioneer tells me after weeks of scans that approx 10-20 units have sold at a average price of 56G.

Now sometimes I sell from the AH, meaning I would have something on for 10G Bid and 20G Buyout, but whilst scanning (+-15-20Min) I sell my auction item for 15G in Trade.

So as im selling these and get these offers, I tell them that the prices are 40-50G, and heres the clencher.

Buyer = "wowhead/wowwiki/thollbot says it should be 15G but im prepared to offer 18G"

Me = "my scanner says its 56G on buy out normally and please remember that our market is not thollbots market"

Buyer = "but no level 20 will have that sort of money, I also scan the auction house" (?WTF?)

Me = ...i then explain the average prices and such to the guy/gal...

silence

Buyer = "so will you take 18G?"

WTF?? , the sad part is I go through this about 4 times per items.

How can people be that stupid? Its like telling me 16Gb USB Drives are only 2$ in China (dollar equivalent) but here they cost 80$.

Markets are so different and prices are due to consumer need and supply.

Like I said in previous blogs, on Terokkar the price of Eternal Shadow has gone from +-19G per 5 units to 80-100G in a matter of 1-2 weeks.

Look I do eventually sell these Twink items and rare drops but it takes time, so a profit of 25-50G on a item is worth the wait and cost of relisting.

Tonight though I will be looking for another little pet and being 20 levels higher than the mobs, ill be able to farm a few for this drop and spend the rest of the evening on leveling the shaman.

That little pet is: Tiny Crimson Whelpling as this retails on AH for 150-300G on my server.

PS: As a note, paid 8G for a damn portal to Shatrah this morning for my banker as the darkmoon faire is back in town. Already spent +-6G on items and auctioneer tells me that its worth 30-40G already. Will post tonight or tomorrow morning on my weekly AH fast as Im only standing at the faire spending money, not even going to town or for a toilet break.

Noblegarden almost coming to an end. So move quickly

2009-04-30T10:36:00.000+02:00

Monday was the start of Noblegarden and boy was it met with a flurry of excitement by players new and Level 70+.

Being in the four starting areas and involving changing into a bunny and collecting quests this was a easy achievement extravaganza.

Now the premise is simple:

Collect Brightly Coloured Eggs and hand those in as currency and get prices/quest rewards.

Easy Achievments to get straight away (even if you level 1):

Chocolate Lover = Eat 25 Chocolate Eggs
Chocoholic - Eat 100 Chocolate Eggs
Blushing Bride = Equip Tuxedo Shirt and Pants and /kiss emote to character wearing elegant dress
Dresses for the occasion = Find Elegant Dress in an egg
I found one = Find an egg and open it
Spring Fling = Find a Spring Rabbits Foot and use it, giving you the Spring Rabbit as pet, then summon pet in the four starting areas where there are other Spring Rabbits summoned by other players, they will fall in love and make eggs (?)
Sunday's Finest = Find both the tuxedo shirt and pants in Brightly Coloured Eggs

Keep in mind you wont get the achievements Sundays Finest and Dressed for the occasion by buying the items, you need to find them in eggs.

Enjoy the hunt and make it count. Remember these Shirts and Pants will sell for lost of Gold in the coming months once everyone has forgotten about NobleGarden.

There are some quests as well:

A Tisket, a Tasket, a Noblegarden Basket = you have to find 10 brightly coloured eggs

The Great Egg Hunt = find 20 egg shell fragments, this happens when you use the Brightly coloured egg. This is a daily quest, thus experience to be made every day for a 5-15 minute grind.

Id hit that 1000+GOLD achieved

2009-04-30T08:48:00.000+02:00

So logged in this morning and guess what 1100G sitting in my bag/mail.

So where to start. Finished Shadowfang keep yesterday with a guild mate for the achievment and then went into banking char.

Saw my abyss crystals have not sold yet and that they wouldnt sell as people were relisting at 5s cheaper the whole time thus getting the sales. Traded 2 of them on TRADE channel for 150G each thus losing 20G on each. Luckely 1 sold for 173G meaning a profit of 3G.

I needed the cash for high level items which were popping up in trade as well as getting money scraped together to try and buy more Eternal Shadow which I need to get eternal belt buckles as I have been out of stock for close to 4 days.

This is where I hit my first snag.

Prices on eternal Earth and Water were fine (i still had 10 eternal water in the bank) but the prices on Eternal Shadow has gone up from 19G per 5 units to 80-100G.

Got three... so hopefully it will still be profitable to continue making these as the mat prices are just so expensive.

Also bought 500 units of Frostweave cloths and tried to get some frostweave bags made, but the cost of one (60 frostweave cloth, 12 infinite dust (20-30G for 5-10units) and 2 eternium thread (3g each)) was just not worth the money and thus I rather bought the cheaper bags on the AH and am now going to see if I can get the bolts of Frostweave made and sell those on the AH for a huge profit.

Little tip, maybe too late already is that I bought up all the cheap Tasty Cupcake's on AH for silvers and relisted for 1,27,27Bid and 2,79,79Buy Out (Gold,Silver,Copper) as there will be a influx of buyers tomorrow for the childrens week achievments.

As you can see in the image below, I got Kang the Decapacitator, Flurry Axe and Truestrike Ring in a trade and they are going SLOW on the AH, but eventually will sell netting me hopefully 700+ Gold for all three.

Well have a look at the screeny below to see what I got on AH. Hopefully you will get a few tips from this. In future I wont be activily pushing my AH sales and rather going to concentrate on levelling and playing the game, but making enough money to sustain training and stuff I need.

So the blog will continue with regular updates on my Frost Mage and making money using my banker.

Just goes to show, you dont need to sit in the AH all day to make money at lower levels. You can enjoy the vast world of World of Warcraft and still make money at the same time to pay for the various expensive things.

Just always remember, the gear you pick up from Levels 1-40 will be good enough for you, dont spend money on gear if your below level 40, that will already save you heaps of money.

Looting all night long

2009-04-28T08:05:00.000+02:00

Sorry for delay in updated. New baby taking up a lot of my time.

To get to business, started my banker character a whilst back (+-week + 1/2 ago) and its been going well:

First things first:

Money in bag: +-300G

money in AH: +-1300G

Stock in bag/bank: +-350-400G

The most money I have actually had in my bag (remember im aiming for 1K) has been 720 odd Gold so im getting closer to my target daily and I think ill get to my goal buy end of this week.

On to the next item:

In the last week i realized that after I have reached my goal I will need to do some well deserved shopping, on my list is (all for bank toon): Mammoth Mining Bag , Emerald Bag , Bag of Jewels/Gem Pouch and of course the rest all Frostweave Bags (as they are priced right on our server).

I also said I will try and buy our next guild bank tab at 250G which will open quite a few more slots for my main character to store dungeon items which will be a heaven sent.

Now to the stuff which I made money on:

Please keep in mind I am only human thus I have forgotten quite a bit.

Started buying Abyss crystals and they are not selling as fast as I had hoped (bought for 170G per unit x3) and now on AH for 180-210G, but they not selling.

Bought a pet: Tiny Crimson Whelpling for 300G direct and after 12 hours of not selling at 350-400 (undercutting by 10G max) I decided to relist for 333G and it sold that night.

Sold some more eternal belt buckles although the competition is fierce and undercutting is making prices drop to almost below 30G pet unit.

Started buying up cheap titanium ore and have been making 2-5G per stack of 5 units.

My mooncloth sold for 299G netting me a 179G profit. This i bought direct form a TRADE sale for 150G for a stack of 20.

I have been questing and running instances quite a lot the last few days trying to do 1-2 dungeons per night, thus I have collected quite a bit of good gear and to my luck a bit of twink hear.

Sold a sentry cloak a few nights ago for 83G, this I got running some people through Stockades.

Well thats all I can remember about money making this week.

Now we are talking.

2009-04-21T08:27:00.000+02:00

Spending days on that AH scanning in the mornings and evenings and doing fast scans everytime I go in I have finally started to make some good money.

Bidding cheaply in the morning (anything Auctioneer tells me is undervalued <60%)

Examples of this is:

Icy Dragonscale

Arctic Fur

Frozen Orbs

any Cheap Ore, specially Titanium Ore (not the bars...)

Black/Frost Lotus

Gems

I have bought stacks of 10-20 Arctic Fur for 20-80Gold when they go for 13-15G per unit thus netting me anything from 70-100G on stacks.

Icce Dragonscale is selling quite well when bought cheap at +-60% of value and reselling for 80% thus still undercutting and making a good 10-20% profit.

Frozen orbs sell for 130-170G on my server with a rare cheap orb at 130-140 which I quickly snatch up and sell either direct via TRADE channel or relist on AH for 140Bid and 150BO.

Cheaper items to look for (if your just starting out) will be Icy Dragonscale, any cheap gems and ores.

Cheap gems like bloodshards can be bought for small amounts of silver and sold for 1-2 Gold on most servers, thus netting you a instant profit.

One problem which I picked up though was my eternal belt buckles. I sold out last night... now once again I need to find a supplier who will sell it to me for profitable prices as on my server you always get the moron who goes and ruins the market by undercutting by 10+ gold, thus my prices for 40Bid/45BO are undercut by his prices of 29Bid/30BO but if I can find my other supplier and get these items for 15G a piece again then I will have the room in my pricing to undercut or at least be competitive.

Amount of gold this morning:

641 Bag

+-50-60 in AH

+-50-60 G worth of stock in bank

PS: Started buying and farming mageroyal as childrens week is coming up and this is one of the ingredients for the Delicious Chocolate Cate which is needed for the achievement award during Childrens Week (Bad Example)

Also looking for small egg's but they are already very very expensive on the AH.

Updates Updates Updates... almost didnt make this one

2009-04-19T09:45:00.000+02:00

Quite a long time since my last post I see... well thats due a good reason.

Taking some well deserved time off from the real world and having some more time to do house work and DIY + add some good hours to WOW without affecting my work performance.

So I chose to burn the night oil and level whilst using the early mornings when the server is least full to big on low markup items.

Now to put this into perspective. I cant remember all the numbers of how much gold I had on each day, but I can say that at a stage I had 450+ G in my bag, 70+- in the Guild Bank and about 50G on the AH.

First bit of bad news. After my last purchase of Eternal Belt Buckles (4 units) and the devil named Patch 3.1, the prices fell sharply with a lot of undercutting happening. Prices fell as low as 27G Bid and 30G BO (Buy Out). Now with two still up for sale this was a bit of a shocker and I eventually sold 1 of the 2 via direct advertising in the trade channel and spamming WTS ad's.

Sold for 40G, 1 left.

Also started looking into Frozen Orbs and Frostweave Bags and the prices range as follows:

Frozen Orb: 140Bid - 150-170G BO

Frostweave Bag: 79Bid - 90-100G BO

I was lucky this morning in bidding on a Frozen orb for 140G and 5 min later won the auction... (?) and immediatly advertised in TRADE for 150G, thus making a 10G profit in less than 5 minutes.

Frostweave bags are a different kettle of fish all together. Found a tailor who would make them for me as ,me being stupid, she offered to make them for 70G each which i misunderstood and then proceeded to buy her the materials for two bags 2x (60 Frostweave Cloth, 12 Infinite Dust and 2 Etherium Thread) so its a lot of mats. Mats came to approx +-190G and one bag sold for 95G and the other listed at the same price, so I will in essence make a 0G profit... more than likely a 3G loss with posting costs.

I have made some mistakes though with Adimantium and Arctic fur, although these sell really well, with my auctioneer not having enough data to give me accurate prices I bought these on whims and thus made either no money or a small loss.

Did find a few bargains though in terms of cheap armor which my ALT will now disenchant and some cheap ore, herbs and minerals which I have sold some of and keeping some for when the market starts to go up a bit more. (once all the 3.1 bugs are sorted)

On a lighter note, I have gained about 6-7 levels in the last week by seriously questing and doing dungeons (either with higher levels or same levels) so I finished Gnomeregan again, did Razorfen Downs, Scarlet Monestary, Mauradon, some other one starting with A and sounds like mauradon.

In these I made approx 50-60G just from that and selling the cheaper green drops.

Some Screenies!

Patch 3.1....

2009-04-15T19:06:00.000+02:00

Just updated and wha la... auctioneer doesnt work and various other add ons....

Will have to wait for updates which im not looking forward to.

Meow is the word my friend

2009-04-15T08:22:00.000+02:00

Yesterday whilst sifting through the Action Houses, Neutral and Alliance, I decided to do a search for everything and have a look through some of those which will expire first; 30min-2hours and see which ones are listed under value (way under value).

Picking up quite a few things like ore and armors, I realized that lots of people still dont use auctioneer to manage their auction house experience.

With this I bid on a 2 hour auction for titanium ore and won: Total cost(bid) 80+-Silver which I then split up into stacks of 5, 5, and 10 and sold for 25Gold per 5 and 38Gold for the 10 units as titanium ore dropped its price in a matter of 4 hours on the AH.

Now with a nice profit I looked into getting more bargains and started shopping again missing out on a Fiery War Axe which was on buyout for 101G and worth 200-250G. Bought up from under my nose as I waited too long.

Then came my big mistake of the day.

Sitting with 250G + in my bag I started furiously bidding on items like ore's, bar's and cards which were undervalued and then came the bad one... with a 2+ hour auction I bid on Titanium Bars for 199G, auctioneer told me the market value was 250G + and undercutting would still net me a good 50+ G profit... then the market dropped and I couldnt even get my 199G back.

Now sittting with 4 G to my name and loads of auctions I decided to keep the titanium bars on my person and not list them as Jewelcrafters wont buy this as they need ore for prospecting, not bars.

Unlucky and lucky for me all my Blacksmiths who make me Eternal Belt Buckles were back at work yesterday so for most of the day I could not find a Blacksmith who would make me belts for under 50G cost (i normally pay 28-30G).

Later the evening though a old supplier of mine (the one i bitched about in a previous post) came online and started supplying me again, but a deal was struck.

30G per Eternal Belt Buckle and for the first sale I would give him the titanium bars for 190G (a loss of 9G on my part) and he would give me 4 buckles and 70Gold. GOOD DEAL

At the evenings end I had sold 3 of the four buckles and listed the fourth just as I went to bed.

Amount of gold on me= ??? no idea but with some of the AH items selling (some recipes, bunnies etc) I am looking at the 350G +, meaning I made a profit of +-100G yesterday.

Not bad at all, considering that I was questing for a whilst.

DING! Level 32.

Happy man today...

2009-04-14T09:20:00.000+02:00

Trials and trebulations...

Started off last weekend when I bought those Eternal Belt Buckles and they battled to sell.

Starting off a bit weary I bought another 3 units as I found a blacksmith who was making them for 28G for me per unit. Slapped on the AH and waited.

Finally after not selling for a good amount of time I found someone undercut the market by a margin and decided to actively start selling these and undercutting him.

Started spamming the trade channel with WTS posts and listing 2 and keeping the third for direct sale.

Listed on AH for 42G 79S 79C and buyout of 43G 79S 79C and sold direct to the public at 42G if they would collect in SW via trade.

Low and behold, a bit of hard work and marketing and they started selling and within about 3 hours all three were gone.

Now looking for a blacksmith who understands a business arangement is a hard thing.

The gent who I bought the last three from was now angry at the fact that I was selling these at profit on AH and decided he doesnt want to supply me and want to go into business himself.

STOOPID!! He raids etc so he doesnt spend as much time as me in the AH so if he sells 2-4 a week then he will be lucky and if he continued to supply me, then he would have sold 2 per day.

He then proceeded to undercut in the AH by approx 10G and I cancelled those Auctions and sold direct...

I eventually found another supplier and we struck a deal, 30G per unit and I took 4 units staight off the bat. Also organised that if I buy ten or more then he would drop the pricce to 28G per unit.

Good supplier and arranged that he would not undercut or anything like that as I was a constant source of income.

Sold three in 20 minutes on Monday, fourth sold this morning after I had cancelled the Auction due to previous supplier undercutting.

So at the end of the day. I supplied my guild with 40 Gold for the bank. I have 268G in my bag and lots of Pet stock in my bank. Also about 50-100G worth of items on the AH.

Now ill have to start looking for other items to sell on AH other than the buckles as this sale surely cant go on...

Pet Farming

2009-04-14T09:06:00.000+02:00

Sitting thinking about achievements on Sunday evening after the Egg hunt I found I wanted to get the easy ones first so the vanity pet achievement came to mind...

Trawling Google and finding the whereabouts of various pet vendors and names of more rare pets I decided to do some investigating on my local AH to see the prices and what I could find. Needless to say I got the 15 pet achievment without spending too much hard earned gold.

But then something happened and a little pet friendly thought came to mind... auctioneer told me these (some 40S and some 1G) pets sell for good-excellent mark ups.

I went shopping.

First off I put some thought into my sales plan and decided I would do some cheap travelling to make sure I had the right pets for the right markets.

Snowshoe Rabbit, bought for 40S at some little girl outside IronForge they sell like hotcakes on the Bootybay (neutral) AH for 1.5-2 Gold, a profit of 1.1-1.6G per item.
Ancona Chicken: bought for 1G at the Saltlake Racerack in Thousand Needles they sell well on the Alliance AH for approx 3.5-4G, a profit of 2.5-3G per unit.
Cats... good sellers on Neutral AH, but too many people list them so prices are not worth the competition EXCEPT for one Cat (White Kitten) which is a semi rare spawn with a little boy in Stormwind (he spawns randomly approx every 3 hours) but you sometimes need to fight to even get close as other people also "Kitty" camp and seeing as he only has 1 unit from spawn to despawn, you have to be first. This I waited 2 hours for, camping and levelling fishing at his spawn point but sold it for 45G and its been known to go up to 200+ G per unit. Buy for 15SILVER sell for 45-200G, thats a 323123283787443 % markup!

Happy Easter it almost was not

2009-04-14T08:20:00.000+02:00

This weekend went by in a real blur!

First of all did some more camping and buying at the darkmoon fair on Saturday evening and Sunday to stock up on reagents and rare mats like Arctic Fuc and Black Lotus to sell for good markups (Arctic Fur: Buy - 12G, Sell - 17-22G) and massive markups (Black Lotus Buy 8G (20unit), Sell 18-30G (20units).

I also dabbled in upgrading items and with this found Eternal Belt Buckle's which are varied in price if you want to buy them from Blacksmiths.

First found a gent who sold me said item at 40G a piece and I ordered two (Down 80G) then found another guy 5 minutes later who sold it to me for 30G (Down 80G + 30G = 110G).

They did not sell...

...untill Sunday evening when people started seeing my spamming in the trade channel.

Sold two for 45 and one for 42, so in total a profit of 22G. Now that scared me as I was putting quite a bit of my money into one basket but what else is there to do. Rare metals etc do not come cheap on AH and making a profit means sitting there for long hours watching your bids and after all: I am writing this blog for the person who still plays WOW and wants to make money.

So life continues.

Started playing a bit again on Saturday evening and Sunday morning early (as I had Easter Lunch and Egg hunt) and eventually levelled to 31 where I had to spend money on my mount... 45G in Total.

not me in pic. Copyright blah blah

So after spending that money and having quite a lot on the AH I was almost broke...

Money started dribling into my mailbox from sold Mats and metals like Steel Bars.

Note on that: Found Iron bars to be cheaper than the ore +-8G per stack (20), so I bought up a lot (checking percentages using Auctioneer and choosing the lowest rates) and bought some Coal and proceeded to make Steel Bars which sold for 10-11G per stack (20), so make a small but constant income.

Good days and bad days

2009-04-11T09:18:00.000+02:00

After spending hours yesterday waiting and hiding to get more mats etc at the Faire I put everything onto the aliance AH.

Now not eveything has sold like I wanted it to specially the scrolls, but it they are not sold by tonight then I will most def be splitting the stacks up into individual items.

AH amount increased last night to +-80-100 items! Woohoo.

On a better note I made close to 120G yesterday from the AH with easily still 140+ G in the AH and lots of stock sitting in the guild bank.

Currently sitting with 73G in my bag, 37G in the guild bank and lots and lots of metal stocks.

The reason I bought metal stock is because I found someone yesterday who can provide a solid income for metals + with the fact that bars are cheaper than ore and Im mining ore in any case it just means that I make 1G+ profit per two stacks of bronze I sell and its constantly so it a win win deal.

Ill be trying today to go to Shatarah and list some items there as the mats Im buying from the faire will more than likely sell quicker there to the high level players.

Also spent some time last night questing and going through stockades with some high level players.

Leveled from 25-27 last night mostly from XP made by handing in higher level quests i.e. Lvl 31 Stoackades quests.

Now I can really start grinding mobs Frost AoE style with the help of my trusty healer buddy. High amounts of XP here we come!

Still Daily Grind

2009-04-10T09:59:00.000+02:00

Well been at Darkmoon Faire for most of the morning and collected quite a bit of stash.

All the items I collected/bought run up to about 248 Gold at the AH using the Auctioneer addon's market price (taking undercutting into consideration)

Lets hope all these sell.

Daily Grind - Starting with my money making quest

2009-04-10T08:05:00.000+02:00

So I logged in yesterday after work to see if Ill be getting any Gold anytime soon seeing as I ony had silver on me...

I scored a little bit from the AH and then realised that I had a nice Blue Sword (cant remember the name) which I sent my alt for safe keeping when raiding Gnomeregan, turns out it was worth 18G+ on the AH and thus I advertised it for sale on the trade channel and eventually sold it.

With 18G and some silver in my pocket I made a quick trip to the Darkmoon Faire, where I bought some 2 standard frog boxes and 1 wood frog box (which just aint selling!) and on the way bought some cats close to stormwind and some parrots+patterns in booty bay.

Listing the cats in the Neutral AH in BB (booty Bay) and the Parrots in the Stormwind AH has sold a few, but not exactly what I wanted.

The frogs from darkmoon faire has sold quite well as I undercut the competition by quite a margin whilst making a +-300% profit.

This morning was quite a nice surprise, some of my AH items sold last night which netted me close to 65 G and I decided to go and list more on the neutral AH and go back to the Faire for Black Lotus and the like, but I have decided that I will stay at the faire as long as possible to make sure I spend close to all my G on rare/difficult reagents and scrolls which I will then post in the alliance AH.

Wish me luck.

<---This is me /sleep 'ing to hide from Horde.

Just so you know. After +-1 hour of hiding and fighting at the Faire I have loads of Reagents and scrolls and still have 50G 50S on my person with about 80-100G in the AH (40-50G of which im just waiting for the auction to expire)

Will give you a more indepth review later on on what I bought etc etc.

Getting ready for Childrens week

2009-04-09T09:24:00.000+02:00

With Childrens week approaching quickly I want to start making plans as soon as I can to make money and get achievements.

First off: This is a special event, so items which allow for achievements and the like will be worth many a gold for a short duration of time.

Two such items to start looking out for are:

Tasty Cupcake
Delicious Chocolate Cake

These are used in the Bad Example achievement and its a easy achievement to get if you can find the sweets to eat.

Thus for a week or two these two small items will fetch a good price on the AH and just in the local trade market.

Please keep in mind as a lower level you wont have access to these recipes as they are mostly from high level daily quests (rare drops) and have quite high cooking requirements, thus if you have a high level friend with high cooking skill then I would encourage you to start asking now for these to be made, or try and buy low/sell high on the AH.

I will personally be aiming for the following achievements:

Home Alone
Aw, isnt it Cute
Veteran Nanny (maybe)
Bad Example

Wish me luck and please let me know if you have any luck with making money from this event.

A little test: A tale of 1000G.

2009-04-09T09:13:00.001+02:00

Discussing gold with a friend in a group last night I found out that level 21's normally have approx 10G at that level from playing the game, not playing the market so I realized that with 140+G sitting in my pocket (now spent) and more in the AH that I was playing the markets right and thus wanted to do an experiment.

Now I know this is not a unique thing as its being done by Skrooge at his blog.

What I propose doing is seeing how fast I can now reach 1000G. Now please keep in mind I only have +- 1G 50S in my bag right now and about 40G in the AH.

So I will wait for the money to come in form AH and then start using the AH and making gold by any means possible, thus I will sell rare vendor items and look for cheap deals on the AH.

Soon as the money is in from the AH I will start this blog entry in more detail.

On a lighter note (but something beneficial to my WOW gold collecting effort, is that it is easter tomorrow and I have taken some well deserved leave as well. So I have ten days of late WOW playing and daily house cleaning and gardening... but most importantly, ten days of late WOW playing.

Happy Easter to everyone.

Instances...

2009-04-09T08:55:00.000+02:00

Well well well, the achievements are just popping up.

Started doing a bit more instances and thus started leveling up my gear quite decently as well as made lost more XP.

Tuesday I hit Deadmines with a level 80 and a level 20 and it went quick, picking up a lot of good items and making some copper from fallen enemies.

Tried it again directly afterwards with a full group featuring a level 24, me (21 at that stage), 17,16 (x2). This was hard as our tank was brilliant but a level 23 Druid and the other guys didnt know what their roles were thus the beginning was a bit sketchy with level 16's aggro'ing everything in site and getting the group killed numerous times. After about 35-45 min worth of play the level 17 druid left and it started going smoother. The level 16's stayed back and healed (Priest and Paladin) and myself and 23 Druid got to kicking some arse.

Was good and more items were had (Blue's and Greens)

So last night I get invited by the 23 Druid from the night before to do Gnomeregan (an instance in Dun Morogh (close to Ironforge) but he didnt pitch till late due to other party member being tardy. So i found a level 75 mage which agreed to take me through (even though I was too low level at 22).

We were joined by a level 28 hunter and his friendly Raptor pet and went off into the wild dark dungeon.

Needless to say, its HUGE and thus we got lost a few times, but using my skills as a navigator we made it to all the bosses and thus also got the Achievement and some great items.

Tips to newbies of instances:

If you low level, stay back (even if you are a paladin and want to tank, you cant if your level is too low)
Rolling Need/Greed: If you dont need it, pass. If you want it but its not a neccesity the roll greed. And if you the only i.e. Mage in the group using cloth and a cloth item comes up then roll need. Then only!
Dont spend too much time looting, you hold everyone back if you in a high level group. Just love the free XP your getting.
Try to assist if your shots keep missing. Heal, Buff and make sure your not getting flanked

Hitting my first 100G

2009-04-09T08:49:00.000+02:00

Well with a bit of luck and lots of skill (!) I made my first 100G last night.

Selling quite a bit of mats which I bought from the Darkmoon Faire I easily made 60-80 G yesterday just on those and there is still about 40G waiting for me in the AH.

I then proceeded to buy myself 5 Netherweave Bags and buy a Bank Tab for the guild.

Total cost: 125 G (100G for Bank Tab and 25G for the bags.

I will be going back to the Fair tonight to go pick up more mats and special items.

Alternative to Outfitter

2009-04-08T14:17:00.000+02:00

The creators of WOW addon: Outfitter has stopped working on it and there are doubts that I will be handed over/supported in future patch version of WOW.

A alternative had to be found.

In comes ClosetGnome

This equipment management addon is not only small on system resources but small in size but strong and easy enough for beginner WOW player use.

Allowing you to specify 'outfits' i.e. Fishing outfits and the like, it will automatically equip you with the right equipment for the job.

Let me explain:

you specify your outfit for i.e. Fishing and save that 'outfit'/gear as Fisherman.

When you want to fish, you mearly click on the Fisherman name in ClosetGnome and it equips all the relevant gear.

When you want to go back you just click on the normal equipment you have specified.

Quick and easy.

Only thing is you cannot edit a set, but saving it as the same name will overwright the existing gear set.

Darkmoon Faire Time (chance to make money)

2009-04-08T13:56:00.000+02:00

Its that time of the month again...

Darkmoon Faire is in town (well not exactly), and as a new player with a hunger for gold I decided to visit the fabled area of cheap alcohol and rare items. Problem is the faire was in Mulgore this month and im alliance.

All I can say is that it was worth the trip.

Story:

Sitting in Stormwind without a quick way of getting to the faire in Mulgore I decided to hoof it and take any means of transport needed.

Luckily I traveled (took AGES) to Bootybay last sunday for the weekly Fishing competition which I was to low level for (dont ask) and thus had a flight point already there.

The trip was as follows:

Fly - Stormwind -> Booty Bay
Ship - Booty Bay -> Ratchet
Run - Ratchet -> Mulgore

First time I went, I did not know what to expect and which things I would be able to buy there.

Sorry for me....

If you get the chance to go to the faire, do it but WARNING make sure you clear out your bags beforehand as being far form a home town means no postbox, no bank and not alt to give stuff to and make sure you take as much money as possible.

Arriving you will meet an asortment of characters but the two you really want to talk to are:

Lhara (exotic goods vendor)

Flik (frog vendor)

Lhara has many goods ranging from mats like herbs and leather to items like Darkmoon Ring.

She also has a roughly 10-20 minute respawn on most things she sells and if you use Auctioneer you will see that most of the items are cheap in comparison to their AH prices. An example would be Ancient Lichen which you can buy for a few silver but sell on most auction houses for gold pieces. So stay for a whilst and stock up on mats and items. Just watch out for items which you buy for 20Silver when they only fetch 21-28 silver on AH, thats just not worth the visit.

Flik, now he is a whily one. Running almost non stop you have to catch him when the frog he is chasing stops and believe me you have to do business fast as he bolts off after the frog in a few seconds, so right click and buy ASAP.

He only has three items he sells namely:

Heavy Leather Ball
Tree Frog Box
Wood Frog Box

Now if you are a collecter like me, then buy yourself the two frogs asap and use them for yourself. If you just want to make money then buy a few Tree Frog Box's at 1G each and sell for approx 5-6G on AH. Flik randomly has the Wood Frog Box in stock and has only 1 available at that time, so getting two can be tricky and time consuming but its worth the wait as I just listed under AH value at 10-20G for a 1G dealer cost item. Keep in mind the Wood Frog is a rare pet and will be good value all year round.

Now to the hidden stuff:

Go to the AH and search for Dark Iron Ale Mug and buy 2 units. Then go to the faire and look for Morja. Use the Dark Iron Ale and place it at her feet, you will see Jubjub (her pet frog) coming to her (this takes a minute or two), you will then be able to talk to her (blue Question Mark) where she will ask you for another Dark Iron Ale (glad you bought two), once you give that to her she will give you a Egg which will hatch in 7 days and you will be the proud owner of your own JubJub Frog.

Good reads (Mostly links for mages)

2009-04-08T13:48:00.000+02:00

Mage Levelling Guide

AoE Grinding Guide (awesome!!!)

Bangy's AoE guide for Mages (Frost). Bangy tells you how to grind using the Frost Talent tree as mage.

Zug Gaming Mage Frost AoE Guide

This guys is a god when it comes to making money.

Mage Macro's

Frost mage AoE Guide

This has a great explanation on mob anchor radius i.e. how Aggro and mobs attacking you whilst you run past works.

Low Level Wow Gold Tips

Sometimes the smallest things make you the best money

Wow Insider News

Wow Insider Essential Addons for WOTLK

Your first gold piece... /yell Dont BEG!

2009-04-08T12:48:00.000+02:00

Now if your not a Level 80 who just rolled a new toon (alternate character) and given him/her money and if you dont have friends in high places who will just give you money then you will have to start making your money the honest (?) way.

First things first, pick up almost everything and sell everything. Dont let something pass which is worth gold, the more gold you have the more you can make (or loose).

Secondly try and get a gathering profession as soon as you can. These include Mining, Herbalism and skinning (fishing also counts but not as easy/profitable).

Herbalism takes time to get the good profit:work ratio herbs whilst mining is hard as veins are not always available and it takes ages to level so you can mine the good stuff. Skinning is an easy and great "partner" profession as almost anything you kill can be skinned and the leather sold and seeing as you will kill things a lot you will also level this quicker and get more materials (mats).

Dont get me wrong, I am currently using mining and herbalism as my main professions and if you want to make some good money then I would recommend getting two gathering professions as well.

You can always roll another toon or swap your profession at a higher level when you got enough money to something else like Jewelcrafting etc. but at lower levels two gathering professions will aid in your money making endevours as you will have no need for the mats you gather and thus can sell everything and make money.

So lets start with the processes I use.

Using Auctioneer:

This is actually very very simple, try and log in as many times a day as possible to scan the AH.

The more you scan the auction house, the more realistic/accurate the data will be and soon you will get a feel for what stuff sells for.

A scan takes approx 10-25 minutes so I start a scan when I eat breakfast, when I return home from work and just before I go to bed.

Now when you post items on the AH auctioneer will track those items and even allow you to undercut the competitors.

Gathering your way to some money:

Use your gathering professions as much as possible (just be weary when you reach your expetise cap i.e. 75 Mining as you wont level mining unless you go to a trainer first).

Example:

In most starting areas of the game you will get copper veins and gather anything from 1-4 copper ore from each. Meaning that after 30min or so of running around and mining from a area such as Dun Morogh you can easily have 1-2 stacks of copper ore (1stack = 20pieces).

When returning to town or whenever close to a forge you can convert these to Copper Bars.

Now on my server a stack of Copper Ore fetches about 1.2-1.8G and a stack of Copper Bars can fetch anything from 2.3-3G.

Keep in mind, you might think no newbies will be able to afford that, but most alternate characters (i.e. the main char is Lvl. 80 and rolled a new character) will just want to level professions fast and have the money to spend so believe me when I say you will sell your mats quite quickly on a busy server.

Making money from junk:

Once my toon is past level 30 then I will release my secret items for sale untill then I will leave you with this glimmer of monetary hope.

Go to all stores/mechants and with auctioneer installed move your mouse over all the items.

Dont bother with the normal crap like Anchk's and Bread etc. but over things you dont normally see. Recipes (cooking, alchemy), patterns (tailoring) etc will sometimes offer you really nice surprises.

One such example is the Pattern: White Wedding Dress which can be bought in Stormwind's mages quarter for +-95 Silver and sold on the AH for anything from 3-5G.

Which AddOns to start out with

2009-04-08T12:20:00.000+02:00

So the day came when I had installed WOW, BC (Burning Crusade) and WOTLK (Wratch of the Lich King) and all the needed patches when I came to the sudden realisation that I needed to get myself some addons for WOW.

Now I could remember these from my previous WOW install where a friend made me copy his entire interface folder but back then I didnt really know what to take and what I even had.

Forward to today, when things are easier.

Visiting a site called www.curse.com I found they have a slick interface and a client which can be installed on either PC or Mac aptly named the "Curse Client".

Now what this tool does is watch your wow addons for you and allow easy updating and installation of addons. Works 99% of the time, but some addons are not complaint and thus needs a manual install and set up in game.

After installing curse client and researching quite a few sites for addon and interface info I found that the following were the addons I wanted and needed (keep in mind, this list will be updated/changed from time to time).

These addons I selected as I was leveling and making money thus didnt need raid addons etc.

First off:

Auctioneer

This is an essential mod should you want to rule (maybe) the Auction House(AH) as it scans all items on the AH and works out what the prices are and how to undercut them. It does a lot more than that but take my word for it, you need this.

Titan Panel

Awesome little tool, displays a toolbar at the top with info on it i.e. How much gold you got, armor condition, where you are etc etc and can be further modified to house more info and better info regarding your character.

Carbonite (not available form Curse)

Carbonite jusst became FREE!!!

This is a awesome addon (which I have been waiting for and installing tonight) which... wait ill lets the salees talk do the work:

Map - The Carbonite map gives you all the information you need in one easy to use and flexible Google like map. Move, size or zoom it the way you like. Map Features
Quest - Blaze through quests at lightning speed and level faster than you ever thought possible. Our extensive quest database lists the location of quest givers, objectives and turn-ins. Simply click any objective from your quest list and Carbonite will show you where to go. No more wasted time bouncing back and forth between a web browser and the game. Quest Features
Guide/Hud - The guide is your in-game GPS - it contains the location of every mailbox, trainer, flight master, repair vendor, instance, battle master, etc... if it's in the game it's in the guide. Just click the icon and the HUD navigation arrow will show you the direction, distance and ETA to your target. You can also use it to locate your friends or guild members in a battleground. Guide Features

...to name a few.

Questhelper and Atlasloot Enhanced

These are essentially more of the same and I think (ill have to double check) I have both installed on my system.

QuestHelper tells you how to finish your quests in the easiest, fastest manner.

AtlasLoot Enhanced is an UI mod allowing for loot tables of bosses to be browsed whenever needed within the game. It can access full item tooltips, show drop rates, allow items to be chat linked and to use the dressing room.

Elkano's BuffBars

EBB provides groups of statusbar style indicators to show (de)buffs currently affecting your toon or some other units (currently focus, pet and target). For the player, it can also show indicators for temporary enchants place on it's weapons.

You essentially use this to track how long your buffs i.e. Scroll of Intelligence still have to go before expiring and also to track DeBuffs like poison etc.

I will post more detail on the various addons as I go on.

Welcome (to me)

2009-04-08T11:57:00.000+02:00

Well well well.

Decided to create this blog to help people like me starting out with wow.

A little history:

Played World of Warcraft on a private server housing at most 200 players at a single time and another 2800 players waiting to log in. This was free and mostly crap as it was very very buggy and there was not really a sence of it being the WOW that everyone was going on about.

Been playing games (mostly PC) for most of my life, so I know the lingo and thus will try and pass that knowledge onto you dear reader.

After a strangly not so long process of getting my ADSL (broadband) line installed in my new home I decided to start playing WOW on the real servers where I was told 19999 other people could be joining me at any time.

The rumors were right and I joined a EU server called Terokkar which is a PvE (player vs enviroment, this means you cant just be attacked by everybody and anybody, thats what PvP is for) server.

Now I have to add that I was doing a lot of research on which race, class and proffesions to take and read alot of text and guides, also watching quite a bit of youtube videos on what can and cant be done.

Now from the first time I playing World of Warcraft on the private/free servers I knew that money (gold) in game would play a very important role and thus decided to almost rival my race/class research with reseatch pertaining to making Gold and making LOTS of it.

This is where I think ill strike a niche: by helping low level players make their first gold easy and quick.

Hope you enjoy this and bookmark the blog, or RSS feed it?