One of the blogs that i follow is a general gold making blog called Caffeine, Smokes and Auction House Fees, who has just announced his plans for what he will be doing after he hits his single character gold cap of 999,999, has got me thinking as to what i would do if i were to hit my milestone of a lowly 200,000.



Now i dont have big dreams in wow like getting vial of the sands on all my toons.  heck, only one toon has super fast 310% flying, and thats my miner (with crusader aura!).  and most of them do not have big fancy items.  only one toon has a mechano-hog.  i am somewhat of a very frugal person in this game.  i dont spend too much gold and what i do have, i save up.  the only times i actually spend a lot of gold is when i am buying ore to prospect, or herbs to mill, or frozen orbs to make who knows what. ;)



But i do find myself getting closer to my goals.  if i keep up what im currently doing, i will have 200k gold by the end of the month.  now i do only play the AH when nothing else interest me.  lately, heroics are a blah, raiding is nil, farming is even blah-er.  i barely want to log on and when i do, its really just to play with my girlfriend and play the AH.  i dont even do professions anymore.  I still have to level up my leatherworking, my enchanting and my tailoring.  I have alchemy maxed, inscription almost maxed, bs maxed and jc maxed. i really do not need to try to make gold from LW/Tailoring enchants or from enchanting itself (the dust/essences sell well already).  getting closer to my goals will mean one of two things: i will do something else or i will continue to make gold on the AH.



now there are more paths to take when i do move on, like how many "something else" can i list and do?  or if i continue making gold, will it still be as a JC?  or will i try to dive into other markets?  if i dont care too much about returns, should i even bother with going into a "lucrative" market?



If i were to move on to other markets but still play within the AH, i would have to be OK with collecting less gold each day. this is fine with me, so long as i make sales.  i think the only thing that bothers me more than not finding crafting mats in the AH when i need it, is to find expired auctions in my mailbox.  i love the feeling of having a sale, whether it be for 5g or 50g.  now 50g is better, but 5g isnt too bad at all.  at least i removed a useless item from my inventory... that's my thinking anyway.  I can go into enchanting, but i'll still have to rely on my jewelcrafter to supply a lot of my mats. My leatherworker can make leg enchants but it does look like the mats cost just as much as the final product.  there's a lot of competition out there and perhaps finding the right market to list items in can be a game in and of itself.  currently, my tailor is making bags because spellthread doesnt make positive gold.  my leatherworker is on hold because there's no positive gold potential there either.  my scribe is pulling in about 200g a day on glyphs (yes, sadly) but does slowly sell infernal inks.


Update:  I wrote this post several weeks ago and thought that i published it. however, it looks like its been missing and i never realized.  =D

I jsut wanted to say that i am at about $170,000 gold and ready for that final stretch.  the last couple of weeks have seen quite a slow down in the gem market.  everyone seems to be done farming the troll dungeons and sales have dropped quite significantly.  This isnt to say that i havent been selling.  Gems arent selling so well (although i still make about 2k a day, down from 3-5k a day).  but i've been selling bags, enchants and various pvp items.  these net me about 2-5k for the whole week. I've also been on my second server working on some things so that's been taking up a lot of time too. 

For bags. i see netherweaves, frostweaves and otherworldly bags.  the otherworldly bags sell slowly so i sometimes have to bark it in trade, for significantly lower than the AH (about 50g).  but that's still a hefty profit per bag. 

In terms of enchants, i've made some leg enchants (both from LW and tailoring) and post those 5 at a time on the AH.  they sell slowly as well.  i often have to repost these things several times to sell them all. 

Overall, things have slowed and it seems people are busy rifting or leveling alts.  now i have to figure out how to profit from all the alts!

But i think after my push to $200K is over, i will simply make gold just to cover costs.  oh and maybe spend it on a mount, or two.  =D