I know we have a major patch coming in a day or two. It's expected 6/28 and i am hoping it's such due to the US holiday on 7/4. This holiday usually allows the weekend warriors to play on monday and increases playtime for everyone. i know many will be out and playing sports, enjoying the weather, perfecting their bar-be-cues, etc. but for me, i'll be posting auctions in the AH. it's the mini-game that i enjoy in the game. kind of.
With the patch hitting us soon and the holiday following a week later, im sure there's going to be lots of traffic in the AH and all over the place. people will be running raid groups and getting new gear. all the JP capped casuals who dont usually raid will have a new reason to do heroics again (to further their own illusion of progression. gearwise, its true, but encounterwise, its the same dumb thing. same idea goes for leveling. its an illusion. i'll explain this more at a later date). in any case, since everyone (casuals, hardcore, raiders, etc) will be getting new items, new gear, new toys, etc, they'll need new enchants and new gems.
yay for economy revival.
at least for a little while, there will be more activity online. this patch is somewhat similar to the Sunwell Plateau patch of Burning Crusade, or the Crusader's Colesium patch of Wrath. its more content with story progression and a restart of the gear race (all over again, i know) for every level 85. but eventually, once we're all exalted or have completed all the quests necessary to finish our acheivements, most of us will still be seeing the same dull gameplay that has pervaded the wow scene ever since Rift dropped. sadly, it's all bliz can really do to keep the attention of the players now. but i'll enjoy it while i can by going through the story, getting new shineys and a title, all while selling everything i have in the AH. yes, everything.
This is what i've been doing for the past couple of years in wow. I've been selling things in the AH but i've always kept some of the items for me, just in case i may need it in the future. more often than not, i wont need it. and with the offchance that i do need something, i can easily buy raw mats from the AH, then prospect/mill/sew/cure what i need and i am done. with this patch, i will attempt to sell all my leftover items, including spellthreads, bolts of whatevers, all my volatiles, all my leathers, all my gems. there is really no reason for me to hold on to any of these things since they're usually taking up bankspace. time to go all-out and doing this after a content patch and during a holiday weekend may be the best time. besides, i am still about 5k gold away from breaking 200k. it's been a long trip, but it will be worth the experience.
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Monday, June 27, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Gems and Inscription come 4.2
hey guys, just wanted to put in my two cents about gems in 4.2. it's not going to be a long post but will just summarize my thoughts on what people have been calling the end of some shuffle or other.
Uncommon, uncut gems will no longer have the vendor price of 5g. What does that mean? almost nothing.
Well, for the lazy, it means that they cannot vendor their stacks of Alicites or Nightstones anymore.
And what about the not-so-lazy people? they're still going to craft pendants, rings and spikes just like before for their Enchanter to DE. and for those who have X-mute Master Alchemists? I still see these items transformed into Shadowspirit diamonds.
This patch wont break anything for the shuffle, or whatever you want to call it. it will basically get those lazy bastids off their lazy ass and actually do some more work if they want to make near the profit margin they had before.
Predictions:
- Uncommon gems (alicites, nightstones, etc) will drop in price since the lazy people who used to vendor them will now sell them on the AH, flooding supplies.
- Uncommon gems used for daily quests will retain its value, or drop slightly.
- Enchanting mats prices will decrease slightly due to some folks actually making pendants, rings and spikes to DE instead of vendoring them. They may even level up their own enchanter to do this or sell the items in the AH.
- Shadowspirit diamonds will decrease in value slightly. Due to the same reason above with alchemists instead of enchanters.
- Obsidium and Elementium ores will decrease in price due to the oversupply of enchanting mats and shadowspirit diamonds. However, Obsidium and Elementium will have a floor (although we'll probably never get there-4.5gold/stack elementium). As JC'ers find their secondary market (dusts, essences and shadowspirit diamonds) overflowing, thus dropping prices, their margins will decrease. therefore, they will continue to look for cheaper and cheaper ores. i do not know what the max would be for a stack of elementium ore yet, as prices for that is dictated by prices for gems, dusts, etc. but overall, a decrease will result.
Deductions:
The changes to vendored prices ultimately brings prices down on various goods used to buff up players' stats. This is a good change as it will make enchating scrolls and shadowspirit diamonds a little more available to the more frugal (i say frugal because you really can be rich in wow. its easy. some people just dont like spending). This change will help support the boom that will occur during 4.2 when everyone gets new gear from firelands (raids or dungeons or rep). not only that, those who were stuck on the first boss of ZG will finally be able to down him and attain more gear. the casuals and baddies will also be able to upgrade their gear as well (normal raids nerfed combined with many class buffs). overall, the turnover in gear will be great, and this change to the vendor price of uncommon gems will help meet the demand.
Also, as prices drop. JCers will find it difficult to justify paying 40-50g per stack of elementium ore. eventually the prices will drop, decreasing the daily profits from the farmers. when this profit decreases, they'll have to find ways to circumvent this. either avoid the AH to recover on fees, or farm more ore. farming more ore will increase supply, thus decreasing the prices even more. maybe they'll focus more on herbalism or skinning instead.
The farmers are ultimately the ones to lose here. they'll be the ones with 5000 stacks of ore to sell at a lower price. imagine if elementium dropped by 10g a stack, that's 10g x 5000 stacks someone is about to lose potential profit on. in this way, it appears that bliz is tackling the problem (although they wont solve it, it does cause a slight dent to it) of gold farmers and gold sellers. they are the ones that are up day and night farming ore. it's no secret to the rest of the world how they fund their gold selling business. especially when the dollar appreciates so much when it goes into the right country. Blizz will just make it a little harder for these guys to make a dollar.
In any case, there you have it. my deductions as to why these changes occur in the first place. Bliz already set it up nicely the past six months, giving an imaginary bottom to ore prices (through vendor price for uncommon uncut gems), then removing it when they need to increase supply from the obsidium/elementium shuffle.
Final Note: please note that we do get dusts and essences through other means. however, because this process is so widely used, a large chunk of the enchanting market is fueled by the gemming industry. therefore, a significant change in the JC industry will cause serious changes in the enchanting industry as well. as for shadowspirits, this portion of the market is entirely dependant on JC'ers. there's no other way to get shadowspirit diamonds except to xmute it from uncommon gems.
Final Final Note: Since patch 4.2 will add significant amounts of new content (as opposed to 4.1 which only saw two 5-man dungeons) and more accessible current content, we will see a large increase for enchants and augmentations to upgrades attained. and since bliz is going to counter that spike in demand with higher supply, this will mean one thing: JC'ers will not see anything like Glyphmas.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
Uncommon, uncut gems will no longer have the vendor price of 5g. What does that mean? almost nothing.
Well, for the lazy, it means that they cannot vendor their stacks of Alicites or Nightstones anymore.
And what about the not-so-lazy people? they're still going to craft pendants, rings and spikes just like before for their Enchanter to DE. and for those who have X-mute Master Alchemists? I still see these items transformed into Shadowspirit diamonds.
This patch wont break anything for the shuffle, or whatever you want to call it. it will basically get those lazy bastids off their lazy ass and actually do some more work if they want to make near the profit margin they had before.
Predictions:
- Uncommon gems (alicites, nightstones, etc) will drop in price since the lazy people who used to vendor them will now sell them on the AH, flooding supplies.
- Uncommon gems used for daily quests will retain its value, or drop slightly.
- Enchanting mats prices will decrease slightly due to some folks actually making pendants, rings and spikes to DE instead of vendoring them. They may even level up their own enchanter to do this or sell the items in the AH.
- Shadowspirit diamonds will decrease in value slightly. Due to the same reason above with alchemists instead of enchanters.
- Obsidium and Elementium ores will decrease in price due to the oversupply of enchanting mats and shadowspirit diamonds. However, Obsidium and Elementium will have a floor (although we'll probably never get there-4.5gold/stack elementium). As JC'ers find their secondary market (dusts, essences and shadowspirit diamonds) overflowing, thus dropping prices, their margins will decrease. therefore, they will continue to look for cheaper and cheaper ores. i do not know what the max would be for a stack of elementium ore yet, as prices for that is dictated by prices for gems, dusts, etc. but overall, a decrease will result.
Deductions:
The changes to vendored prices ultimately brings prices down on various goods used to buff up players' stats. This is a good change as it will make enchating scrolls and shadowspirit diamonds a little more available to the more frugal (i say frugal because you really can be rich in wow. its easy. some people just dont like spending). This change will help support the boom that will occur during 4.2 when everyone gets new gear from firelands (raids or dungeons or rep). not only that, those who were stuck on the first boss of ZG will finally be able to down him and attain more gear. the casuals and baddies will also be able to upgrade their gear as well (normal raids nerfed combined with many class buffs). overall, the turnover in gear will be great, and this change to the vendor price of uncommon gems will help meet the demand.
Also, as prices drop. JCers will find it difficult to justify paying 40-50g per stack of elementium ore. eventually the prices will drop, decreasing the daily profits from the farmers. when this profit decreases, they'll have to find ways to circumvent this. either avoid the AH to recover on fees, or farm more ore. farming more ore will increase supply, thus decreasing the prices even more. maybe they'll focus more on herbalism or skinning instead.
The farmers are ultimately the ones to lose here. they'll be the ones with 5000 stacks of ore to sell at a lower price. imagine if elementium dropped by 10g a stack, that's 10g x 5000 stacks someone is about to lose potential profit on. in this way, it appears that bliz is tackling the problem (although they wont solve it, it does cause a slight dent to it) of gold farmers and gold sellers. they are the ones that are up day and night farming ore. it's no secret to the rest of the world how they fund their gold selling business. especially when the dollar appreciates so much when it goes into the right country. Blizz will just make it a little harder for these guys to make a dollar.
In any case, there you have it. my deductions as to why these changes occur in the first place. Bliz already set it up nicely the past six months, giving an imaginary bottom to ore prices (through vendor price for uncommon uncut gems), then removing it when they need to increase supply from the obsidium/elementium shuffle.
Final Note: please note that we do get dusts and essences through other means. however, because this process is so widely used, a large chunk of the enchanting market is fueled by the gemming industry. therefore, a significant change in the JC industry will cause serious changes in the enchanting industry as well. as for shadowspirits, this portion of the market is entirely dependant on JC'ers. there's no other way to get shadowspirit diamonds except to xmute it from uncommon gems.
Final Final Note: Since patch 4.2 will add significant amounts of new content (as opposed to 4.1 which only saw two 5-man dungeons) and more accessible current content, we will see a large increase for enchants and augmentations to upgrades attained. and since bliz is going to counter that spike in demand with higher supply, this will mean one thing: JC'ers will not see anything like Glyphmas.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
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
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
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Update on gold
Just wanted to give a quick update about my gold making: It tanked. I ended up with the same amount of gold i started with earlier this week. Sales sucked. Some gems got sold, but not nearly enough. Actually i wasnt on long enough to monitor my sales even. I went out often. But when i was on, i barely had time to actually play. I was prospecting, cutting gems, making rings/pendants/spikes, disenchanting those rings/pendants/spikes. got a few herbs down and got a few xmutes done. I need a break. i still have 250 more ores sitting in my in-box waiting to be prospected. maybe then i'll have just a few more demonseyes, inferno rubies and ember topazes to cut and sell.
but for now, i've cut all of my ember topazes, demonseyes and just about out of inferno rubies. still. sales have waned just a bit. actually the number of sales are still steady. but the prices have dropped over the past couple of weeks. sales that did drop in numbers are the shadowspirit diamond sales. i have maybe 8 cuts and most of them did not sell.
so overall, this week has seen almost no change in gold, but i do have a ton of ore waiting to be prospected. that will happen after i recover from the saronite shuffle.... er... i mean elementium shuffle? yea, that's it!
but for now, i've cut all of my ember topazes, demonseyes and just about out of inferno rubies. still. sales have waned just a bit. actually the number of sales are still steady. but the prices have dropped over the past couple of weeks. sales that did drop in numbers are the shadowspirit diamond sales. i have maybe 8 cuts and most of them did not sell.
so overall, this week has seen almost no change in gold, but i do have a ton of ore waiting to be prospected. that will happen after i recover from the saronite shuffle.... er... i mean elementium shuffle? yea, that's it!
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
200 x 200
200. That's about how many shadowspirit diamonds i have in my inventory.
200. That's how much i can sell the cut ones for, on average. (ranging from 100g to 350g)
40,000. That's 200 x 200. Thats how much im short of my goal for Cata.
Currently, im sitting at about 160k gold with less than a week to go before the month is over. usually, i can probably get about 20k gold in a week. but not lately. it looks like things have been slowing down quite a bit. i am hoping that the weekend will bring the bored, the lonely and the less frugal out to play. being that, in the US, it's memorial day weekend, i may have a spike in sales. time to DE all the alicite pendants and jasper rings and sell the mats! Although i know 200 people will not want all my 200 shadowspirit diamonds, i do know that there will be a good number of people wanting to buy gems for their upgrades this weekend. i may have to collect my mailbag june 1st or 2nd to see the final result. hopefully, i would have met my mark of 200k gold by then. if not, there's always next week.
Besides the shadowspirit diamonds, i have quite a few dream emeralds and amberjewels in stock. i am very short on all the other gems (maybe except ocean sapphires) and it is slowly biting into my potential profit. so what's a man to do? be adventurous and herb. my druid has been flying around deepholm for heartblossoms lately, to transmute with carnellians to make inferno rubies. i'll be sending her to twilight highlands and then to hyjal in order to collect mats to make demonseyes and ember topazes. Hopefully, that will help break the 200k mark. but time is limited and the day is slow creeping upon me. it's best to hurry.
in other news: inscription is slow, leatherworking is slow, blacksmithing is slow and even farming is slow.
regarding alts: i have alliances now. they suck but are slowly leveling up. it appears there is a larger number of new players on alliance side. perhaps it is where first timers join up as. eventually, they will switch over to horde (or not) and that makes leveling hordeside a little smoother. im not saying we dont have our short bus crew too--we do! but i am saying i see less of it hordeside than alliance side.
case in point, my warrior, now mid level 30s, is in a guild of about 300 people. the mesage of the day says something similar to this: "Welcome to! Every please buy pvp gear or you wont survive in heroics!"
The exact quote must be screenshotted. I will follow up with that soon.
200. That's how much i can sell the cut ones for, on average. (ranging from 100g to 350g)
40,000. That's 200 x 200. Thats how much im short of my goal for Cata.
Currently, im sitting at about 160k gold with less than a week to go before the month is over. usually, i can probably get about 20k gold in a week. but not lately. it looks like things have been slowing down quite a bit. i am hoping that the weekend will bring the bored, the lonely and the less frugal out to play. being that, in the US, it's memorial day weekend, i may have a spike in sales. time to DE all the alicite pendants and jasper rings and sell the mats! Although i know 200 people will not want all my 200 shadowspirit diamonds, i do know that there will be a good number of people wanting to buy gems for their upgrades this weekend. i may have to collect my mailbag june 1st or 2nd to see the final result. hopefully, i would have met my mark of 200k gold by then. if not, there's always next week.
Besides the shadowspirit diamonds, i have quite a few dream emeralds and amberjewels in stock. i am very short on all the other gems (maybe except ocean sapphires) and it is slowly biting into my potential profit. so what's a man to do? be adventurous and herb. my druid has been flying around deepholm for heartblossoms lately, to transmute with carnellians to make inferno rubies. i'll be sending her to twilight highlands and then to hyjal in order to collect mats to make demonseyes and ember topazes. Hopefully, that will help break the 200k mark. but time is limited and the day is slow creeping upon me. it's best to hurry.
in other news: inscription is slow, leatherworking is slow, blacksmithing is slow and even farming is slow.
regarding alts: i have alliances now. they suck but are slowly leveling up. it appears there is a larger number of new players on alliance side. perhaps it is where first timers join up as. eventually, they will switch over to horde (or not) and that makes leveling hordeside a little smoother. im not saying we dont have our short bus crew too--we do! but i am saying i see less of it hordeside than alliance side.
case in point, my warrior, now mid level 30s, is in a guild of about 300 people. the mesage of the day says something similar to this: "Welcome to
The exact quote must be screenshotted. I will follow up with that soon.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Goal of 200k Gold for Cata
One of the blogs that i follow is a general gold making blog called Caffeine, Smokes and Auction House Fess, 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.
Overall, it looks like there isnt much to work with besides gems. but gems can be fickle and many people have tried to enter into this market. its a market with a lot of potential and a lot of competition. My mantra is usually, if i put up 5k gold in sale items, im sure to get about 2k gold in sales. what doesnt sell can be relisted. that's easy for a market with a lot of turnover. but in a market where things are relatively stale (compared to gems), like leg enchants. but if pants are replaced as often as belts (belt buckles) and headpieces (meta gems), then why not. why not offer up some decent leg enchants and make a couple hundred gold a day? i dont know. it would greatly simplify my life and lower the time i need to spend at the AH.
Finally, i am slowly getting to the 200k mark. my plans to reach it by month-end is steady unless i end up taking a few days break. even if i dont reach that goal, i figured it's a whole lot better than not trying at all.
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.
Overall, it looks like there isnt much to work with besides gems. but gems can be fickle and many people have tried to enter into this market. its a market with a lot of potential and a lot of competition. My mantra is usually, if i put up 5k gold in sale items, im sure to get about 2k gold in sales. what doesnt sell can be relisted. that's easy for a market with a lot of turnover. but in a market where things are relatively stale (compared to gems), like leg enchants. but if pants are replaced as often as belts (belt buckles) and headpieces (meta gems), then why not. why not offer up some decent leg enchants and make a couple hundred gold a day? i dont know. it would greatly simplify my life and lower the time i need to spend at the AH.
Finally, i am slowly getting to the 200k mark. my plans to reach it by month-end is steady unless i end up taking a few days break. even if i dont reach that goal, i figured it's a whole lot better than not trying at all.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Rich is Relative
Last night a "flipper" put up about 200 stacks of Elementium ore for about 37-40g each. my auctionator said there was that many, actually, 194, or something close to that, so i bought them all. If they were all 40g each, i'd be using up 8k gold. the seller thanked me in a whisper and asked if i was going to use it all or flip it. i told him i was going to use it all. he said i just made him a very rich guy. you see, he was a flipper. he watches the AH and looks for deals on whatever it is he wants to flip, then sells them at a later date for more. What i can see from historic prices pre-patch 4.1, is that prices on ores dropped to maybe 35g. so he made about 5g on each stack from me, or about 1,000 gold. minus the 5% AH cut, and he made off with about 950 gold.
i thought for a second and wondered. very rich to him can either mean the net earnings of 950g, or the total revenues of about 7500-8000 gold. for me, i didnt drop below 100k gold throughout the whole buying frenzy (and you know i just hit 100k gold a few days prior). So maybe i did make him really rich. but to me it is an investment in the future. i can turn that 8k gold around and probably end up making over 30k with it. netting me about 20k+ in gold. the only reason i am able to do this is because i have two other characters. one is an alchemist who will gladly make shadowspirit diamonds. the other is an enchanter who will gladly make dust/essences out of some of the alicite pendants i make. to make it even better, she also enchants scrolls and leaves them in the AH (you know, the enchants that people dont make 20 of to level through). my 100k+ gold was made by several people. it wasnt completely my JCer. i have a scribe who funded herself through the entire inscription process (buy mats, make glyphs, sell glyphs, use profits to buy more mats). i make belt buckles, leg armor enchants, glyphs, rare enchants and gems. these are the primary sources of gold for me. but the bulk of the gold comes from JC and the mundane daily activity of relisting expired auctions and crafting more gems to replace the ones that sell. Eventually i will reach 200k. that's my goal for cata. =P and hopefully then, i'll be able to say that im a rich man. again, rich is relative. for me, im still pretty much broke as i see the 100k sitting in my bag as "investment funds". they're there so i can use to make more gold. that is all. anyway, happy tuesday! see you all later!
i thought for a second and wondered. very rich to him can either mean the net earnings of 950g, or the total revenues of about 7500-8000 gold. for me, i didnt drop below 100k gold throughout the whole buying frenzy (and you know i just hit 100k gold a few days prior). So maybe i did make him really rich. but to me it is an investment in the future. i can turn that 8k gold around and probably end up making over 30k with it. netting me about 20k+ in gold. the only reason i am able to do this is because i have two other characters. one is an alchemist who will gladly make shadowspirit diamonds. the other is an enchanter who will gladly make dust/essences out of some of the alicite pendants i make. to make it even better, she also enchants scrolls and leaves them in the AH (you know, the enchants that people dont make 20 of to level through). my 100k+ gold was made by several people. it wasnt completely my JCer. i have a scribe who funded herself through the entire inscription process (buy mats, make glyphs, sell glyphs, use profits to buy more mats). i make belt buckles, leg armor enchants, glyphs, rare enchants and gems. these are the primary sources of gold for me. but the bulk of the gold comes from JC and the mundane daily activity of relisting expired auctions and crafting more gems to replace the ones that sell. Eventually i will reach 200k. that's my goal for cata. =P and hopefully then, i'll be able to say that im a rich man. again, rich is relative. for me, im still pretty much broke as i see the 100k sitting in my bag as "investment funds". they're there so i can use to make more gold. that is all. anyway, happy tuesday! see you all later!
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Hit my WotLK gold goal today!
totally lame that i hit this mark months after cata came out. 100k gold. but i wasnt focused. i just played until it got bored. then played another char or minigame within wow until i got bored of that. maybe im not cut out to be an AH guru. maybe just a user. gem sales are better since patch. =]
Monday, May 24, 2010
Last week's goals
From Last Week:
This weekend's goal:
Get Devynity honored with Lower City
Get Devynity honored with Sha'tar
Get Devynity honored with Cenarion Expedition
Get Devynity friendly with Keepers of time
Get Devynity friendly with a drunk elf
Get key for Shadow Lab
Get key for Tempest Keep Get to 70 (so i can equip most of the gear that will drop in the level 70 dungeons)
Level Krakken, who is currently 75, to at least be 78 (which should be easy considering he's got so much rested exp and im pretty familiar with northrend content.
So i got honored with Lower City. That was quite easy as i've already done a few Crypt/Sethekk halls runs. I only had to do several quests and was done with that. For the Cenarions, i had to do the quests in HFP and then three in Zanga.
I am currently friendly with the Sha'tar and Keepers of Time. Hopefully I can get a durnholde run once in a very logn while.
I am close to honored with the Sha'tar, but half of my Mech/Bot/Alca runs keep turning into wipe fests. Im pretty sure i would have better gear too, but yea.
I found the key for shadow labyrinth by accident. after killing talon king ikiss, i picked up two spirit shards. figuring that i may have missed two from the first boss, i ran back. then i read that someone in my party picked up the shadow labs key. omg omg. so i ran back to the dead talon king and found the chest in the back of his chamber. it was huge. why didnt i see it before? lol.
I leveled Krakken NADA this weekend. he did get one emblem run on friday, and that was all the action he got over the weekend. instead, i took Devynity to Bay of Storms and fished lobsters while waiting for instance queues. yep. got him to Jouneyman and went over to Sholazar to do the daily fishing. So much fun... almost dying. level 70 in a 75 zone isnt too great. maybe it will be better when i hit 72. but anyway. got the ghostfish sucker and yea. psychadelic... in black and white!
one thing about the lobsters is that its used as an easy 5 points from 295 to 300 cooking. Otherwise, someone's going to have to do DM runs for the Tuber recipe (and then find tubers). The darkclaw recipe isnt BOP, so you can find that in the AH. Greater mightfish and sunscale salmon are the other two fish that will get you to 300 easy. I am thinking i will sell each lobster for 5g each. 25g for the last five points to reach 300 cooking skill. that's not too much to pay for. i think i'll be making a few hundred gold, although not all at once. this is one of those slow selling items.
On a good note, i've been making about 210g profit for each Scroll of Enchant Weapon - Agility i post. They never come back unsold. and they always sell for 300g. that's 50% more than what auctioneer saw before. i am aparently the only one selling this stuff now. =]
I say 210 profit because the essence of airs are 60g to buy (though i can buy them for 10g each on certain days), and the shards total about 30g. so that's 90g invested. although i only buy the shards and i "farm for free" the airs. i can farm about 40 airs in about an hour, so that's 600g worth of stuff in one hour. now that 600g isnt going to come instantly. im investing for the long term returns.
2h Agility isnt selling as well though. i'd say the demand for that is 1/4 that of the agility enchant. the only class that will use the 1hander agility is druids. rogues dont have two handers. death knights have their runeforges, and paladins and warriors prefer strength. at least i think that's true. now i know agi increases physical crit, armor and dodge. so these can also be great pvp enchants for any melee class. i do see it selling slowly though. im selling it for only 500g anyway. it may be steep. but look at the rogue that coughed up 600g on a pair of agi for his daggers. the 2hand wielders are getting a 100g break!
In general, things are slowing down. Instances are taking a little longer to start (i imagine a lot of people do not want to do Botanica, mechanar, or Arcatraz. I'd rather do those than go through UK/Nexus again for the 1000th time. What i didnt get at level 69, which was really really dumb on blizzard's part, is i couldnt queue for normal outland randoms. i could not at all. i had to pick them individually. when i hit 70, i could only queue for random outland heroics. now i understand heroics is a 70s thing, but that about mechanar/botanica/arcatraz? shadow labyrinth? shattered halls? in normal? those are level 70 instances!! and at 69 i couldnt queue for ANYTHING in outlands. and at 70 i could only queue for outlands heroics. this is pretty broken if you ask me. even at 70, there's still some folks who would like to join a random for outlands. they beat Utgarde Keep in so many ways really.
And on that note, i'll have to pause and get back to RL work. i'll continue with my analysis shortly, if i have time to spare.
This weekend's goal:
Get Devynity honored with Lower City
Get Devynity honored with Sha'tar
Get Devynity honored with Cenarion Expedition
Get Devynity friendly with Keepers of time
Get Devynity friendly with a drunk elf
Get key for Shadow Lab
Get key for Tempest Keep Get to 70 (so i can equip most of the gear that will drop in the level 70 dungeons)
Level Krakken, who is currently 75, to at least be 78 (which should be easy considering he's got so much rested exp and im pretty familiar with northrend content.
So i got honored with Lower City. That was quite easy as i've already done a few Crypt/Sethekk halls runs. I only had to do several quests and was done with that. For the Cenarions, i had to do the quests in HFP and then three in Zanga.
I am currently friendly with the Sha'tar and Keepers of Time. Hopefully I can get a durnholde run once in a very logn while.
I am close to honored with the Sha'tar, but half of my Mech/Bot/Alca runs keep turning into wipe fests. Im pretty sure i would have better gear too, but yea.
I found the key for shadow labyrinth by accident. after killing talon king ikiss, i picked up two spirit shards. figuring that i may have missed two from the first boss, i ran back. then i read that someone in my party picked up the shadow labs key. omg omg. so i ran back to the dead talon king and found the chest in the back of his chamber. it was huge. why didnt i see it before? lol.
I leveled Krakken NADA this weekend. he did get one emblem run on friday, and that was all the action he got over the weekend. instead, i took Devynity to Bay of Storms and fished lobsters while waiting for instance queues. yep. got him to Jouneyman and went over to Sholazar to do the daily fishing. So much fun... almost dying. level 70 in a 75 zone isnt too great. maybe it will be better when i hit 72. but anyway. got the ghostfish sucker and yea. psychadelic... in black and white!
one thing about the lobsters is that its used as an easy 5 points from 295 to 300 cooking. Otherwise, someone's going to have to do DM runs for the Tuber recipe (and then find tubers). The darkclaw recipe isnt BOP, so you can find that in the AH. Greater mightfish and sunscale salmon are the other two fish that will get you to 300 easy. I am thinking i will sell each lobster for 5g each. 25g for the last five points to reach 300 cooking skill. that's not too much to pay for. i think i'll be making a few hundred gold, although not all at once. this is one of those slow selling items.
On a good note, i've been making about 210g profit for each Scroll of Enchant Weapon - Agility i post. They never come back unsold. and they always sell for 300g. that's 50% more than what auctioneer saw before. i am aparently the only one selling this stuff now. =]
I say 210 profit because the essence of airs are 60g to buy (though i can buy them for 10g each on certain days), and the shards total about 30g. so that's 90g invested. although i only buy the shards and i "farm for free" the airs. i can farm about 40 airs in about an hour, so that's 600g worth of stuff in one hour. now that 600g isnt going to come instantly. im investing for the long term returns.
2h Agility isnt selling as well though. i'd say the demand for that is 1/4 that of the agility enchant. the only class that will use the 1hander agility is druids. rogues dont have two handers. death knights have their runeforges, and paladins and warriors prefer strength. at least i think that's true. now i know agi increases physical crit, armor and dodge. so these can also be great pvp enchants for any melee class. i do see it selling slowly though. im selling it for only 500g anyway. it may be steep. but look at the rogue that coughed up 600g on a pair of agi for his daggers. the 2hand wielders are getting a 100g break!
In general, things are slowing down. Instances are taking a little longer to start (i imagine a lot of people do not want to do Botanica, mechanar, or Arcatraz. I'd rather do those than go through UK/Nexus again for the 1000th time. What i didnt get at level 69, which was really really dumb on blizzard's part, is i couldnt queue for normal outland randoms. i could not at all. i had to pick them individually. when i hit 70, i could only queue for random outland heroics. now i understand heroics is a 70s thing, but that about mechanar/botanica/arcatraz? shadow labyrinth? shattered halls? in normal? those are level 70 instances!! and at 69 i couldnt queue for ANYTHING in outlands. and at 70 i could only queue for outlands heroics. this is pretty broken if you ask me. even at 70, there's still some folks who would like to join a random for outlands. they beat Utgarde Keep in so many ways really.
And on that note, i'll have to pause and get back to RL work. i'll continue with my analysis shortly, if i have time to spare.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Updates pre-weekend.
I wanted to mention that Devynity has reached level 58 and will be questing in HFP shortly. He made the trip there last night and learned Grand Master Enchanting. He will have to make his way on foot (horse) to Falcon Watch to learn First Aid. Enchanting is doing well. I gained Honored with Timbermaw Hold and picked up both agility enchants. I also stopped by the frozen lake in Winterspring last week and, on my second kill, got Enchant Weapon - Icy Chill. second mob. awesome. Finally, in terms of enchants, I picked up crusader from the Scarelet mages right outside Hearthglen in WPL. I cleared the tower once. no enchant. I returned to the tower about five minutes later and killed all the mages on the bottom floor. the last mage on the bottom floor had the enchanting recipe on him still. yay! so there. now all I need is to buy crusader orbs and I should be able to make a few of these.
1. Fiery is selling slowly. 80g a pop sells but not too fast. so maybe two a day if im lucky. sometimes 1. sometimes 0, especially when I get undercut. but for the most part, I am the only seller (or at least, that's what I see when I check the AH).
2. Icy Chill enchant hasn’t even been made due to the various materials I need to buy (and I don’t quite have all the mats in the AH). I'll have to stock pile them up when I can. I want to sell 10 and see how much I can make. 10 is a decent number to get a basic idea to how well these things may sell.
3. Crusader will most likely be my money maker. It sells for almost 200g in my other realm, so it should sell decently here as well, especially for the alts with heirloom weapons, this would be a nice enchant to have (Fiery is probably the cheapman's version of Crusader).
4. Agility. I posted agility to weapon for 200g. and agility to 2h weapon for 400g. will see how that fare. Auctioneer has seen a few and priced it for 180g/350g, respectively.
update: Fiery sells. Agility sells. Agility sells so well i increased the price by 100g and they still sell. for me. not you. dont try to copy me if you're on another server. just understand your market first.
As I go through Outland, I will be disenchanting a lot of items. Hopefully I can disenchant enough to level my profession towards 375 as soon as possible. The reason being is that echanting post 375 is a lot easier due to many saronite shufflers (although it’s a lot less than before) and the greed/DE feature. Enchanting using Infinite Dust would be a breeze. And with prices of shards so low (about 4g each), I can basically buy all of the higher level trainable recipes from the vendor in Dalaran. all good stuff. hopefully the market there isnt as saturated (relatively speaking, ofc) as the gem market. Otherwise, I guess I may just sell novelty enchants like Crusader, Fiery, Agility, and various other Pre-60 enchants for the levelers and twinks.
Also, cooking's at a standstill since I am totally unable to find anyone selling Greater Mightfish, Darkclaw Lobsters or Whitescale Salmon to level my cooking past 300. I can take a trip to Azhara and try to fish it myself (which leads me to wonder how the Azhara fishing zone will change in Cata). So my cooking is stuck below 300. Fishing is just too much of a pain to level right now. perhaps when I reach 80 I'll have enough time to just relax and fish. fishing should be relaxing right??
Also, what's a fish without eyes?
a fsh.
One last update: Dinged 58 before the weekend started. leveled through HFP and instances only to 64 by Sunday. will be trying to hit 65 by the end of the night. peace.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Some not-so-random screenies
The first one: I've finally picked a second profession for the leveling pala. Inscription. Getting peacebloom for 4-5g a stack isnt so bad. but once i got to... briarthorns and bruiseweeds, they basically trippled in price. so... i think my DK will have to switch from mining to herbalsm (since he doesnt mine anymore, he's just a JC bot making pennies. lol). Anyway, level 75 inscription! and i can make my own dam vellums for fiery enchants.
The second one: While checking for "fiery" i found a nice deal. Had to. it was going at 17% of normal price. and i think i'll hold on to it for a while. the less this recipe is available, the more i'll be able to sell without much competition. however, i know it could just be sold to someone who just wants it for their collection. but even there, they can make fiery for their friends, guildies and anyone in trade chat who happens to be asking for it and they see it. so... i picked it up. for 10g. come on. had to.
Finally, here's a funny conversation i had with someone. i was running out of UC to catch the zep to gromgol (to get to swamp of sorrows) when i happen to spy this one comment in trade chat. apparently, this person thought that each city had their own separate trade chat. i had to mention to her that its all shared, otherwise, she'd be harassed by others. yea. saving people every day. lol.
and after the convo... i asked her to join our guild! lol. all good stuff!
anyway... enjoy your weekend. last post until monday or tuesday. i'll have something to talk about then. =]
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