Start: 209,339g
End: 252,000g (approximate)
Profit: 42,661g
No, it's not April Fool's related, and I'm a couple days late for that anyway. I was actually not in game last week as much as I normally am, since I was running around trying to get RL stuff done. That means this post won't be as detailed as I'd like. However, I had a goal of 250K gold, and I did manage to meet that goal. Big woohoo! I had to estimate the week ending gold amount because I forgot to write it down, but that's about accurate within 1-2K -- it may have been more, not less.
For some reason, as I was pulling mail last week, I felt like I wasn't making as much gold "as usual," but apparently I was. A brief rundown on markets:
Cata Greens
Sales of these items have slowed down considerably for me, but they are still moving; I'm just not collecting 5K every morning anymore. I bumped the prices back down to 400g per item as of yesterday, since even over the weekend sales were slow. I'm torn on how many pieces I should continue to pick up. On one hand, I want to keep them off the AH; on the other, I have a ton of 'em already. I'll probably keep buying at a good pace for the time being.
Glyphs
I managed to get a decent number of glyph sales this week, though the competition here is still fierce. I've had a new strategy suggested to me by Alto, so I'm going to try it -- posting for 48h is the short version. Since I'll be at work all day, I won't be able to repost constantly, so I needed a change in strategy anyway.
Shuffling
I didn't finish out the shuffle all the way last week, but I did manage to sell every cut inferno ruby I had as fast as I could post them, all on Tuesday night at raid time. That represented a nice chunk of change. I also sold a few other rare cuts. I didn't even make and DE jewelry, so I missed out there, I'm sure.
Vendor Recipes
I made a new bank alt just for these recipes, and she pulled in 6K this week. Yup. Worth doing.
Other Stuff
Leathers and ores from my leveling rogue; a very few transmog pieces, all at lower prices; random leveling gear; a few herbs, gems, pets, and other stuff I can't remember.
So that's it. Overall it was a better week than I thought it was while it was actually going on, and I'm over a quarter of the way to gold cap, which is really exciting. So far this week I'm up to about 262K, but I expect I won't see as many sales since I barely have time to play.
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
As The Gold Turns: March 18-24
Start: 167,859g
End: 209,339g
Profit: 41,480g
A Good Week, Overall
I put a lot more effort into my auctions most days this week and saw an increase in profits. Initially I kept a spreadsheet with each day's spending and income, but then WoW started crashing too much and the data became increasingly inaccurate. I'm going to go with overall numbers and the notes I did manage to make to see which markets were the most successful. According to TSM Accounting, which lost some data due to crashes, my average daily income over the past seven days was 7620g, and average daily AH spending was 954g.
Cata Greens, Again
This week's chart toppers were the level 77-80 Cataclysm greens. No big surprise there. I check several times a day for cheap items and post them for 400-475g on average. I bumped the prices up this week and still had plenty of sales. I think a lot of them are going to the new level 80 SoR toons, but I've been in this market for months and it's always been a consistent source of income. Definitely making a lot more sales, though.
Enchanting Mats
I kind of don't have a good handle on the enchanting scrolls market, and I also think fewer and fewer people are raiding. The market prices for all the scrolls have gone way down and they don't move very quickly. Part of the price drop is because we've got ore botters on the server, ergo ore is cheap, ergo enchanting mats are cheap. Still, I got tired of crafting scrolls only to have them linger and take up bag space and incur reposting fees, so I've basically quit making most of them and am only selling the raw materials for enchants.
This week I posted up a lot of my stockpile of pre-Cata mats, as well as quite a few Greater Celestial Essences, all of which sold well. I waited until the price on GCEs went up from 50g to 80g per to maximize my profit on them, and I sold almost all of my stock. The old school dusts (Infinite Dust in particular) also went for a good price.
Gems
As with enchanting, the gem market is a bit rocky right now. It's still profitable but it does take a lot of time to shuffle (you can see my post earlier this week about what I prospected) and then to cut the gems. I finally spent some of my JC daily tokens on some new cuts and had success in selling them, albeit at fairly low prices. Again, though, between the ore bots and raiding coming to a near-standstill, that's to be expected. I still had some sales, although a majority of them were uncut Chimera's Eyes and purple, green and blue gems. The cut inferno markets are being driven into the ground; I still sold a few.
Glyphs
I did a nearly-full restock on glyphs over the course of the week. I've heard it's like Glyphmas 2 with the SoR folks but I'm not really getting that. In fact, my glyph sales have gone down pretty dramatically. This is probably because there are FOUR new serious competitors in the market, bringing the total to 7, and that means if I don't repost about once every ten minutes I'm undercut all the time. I still post several times a day and I do get a few sales, but it's on the order of hundreds of gold each mailbox check rather than the thousands I used to pull in. I'm going to do a post soon on how I'm largely getting out of this market, but not entirely, because I just won't be able to play enough WoW to keep up. With all the glyph changes coming in MoP, I don't want to end up sitting on a huge stockpile of obsolete glyphs, either.
Vendor Goods
I love vendor recipes. Sometimes they sell for ridiculous prices, sometimes only a few gold more than what I paid for them, but either way it's a profit. I usually see anywhere from 2-10 sales on these a day. I definitely don't have an inventory of every vendor recipe but I'm thinking of making a toon to keep them in stock so I can easily repost. (Hey, I don't have a warlock yet; why not a lock bank alt?) I use my mage to buy them since she can easily teleport around most of Azeroth. Faid has some vendor recipe guides for sale at Clockwork Riot for only $2 each (one for each faction). I haven't picked one up yet but I'm going to this week since I know Faid puts out quality content. Right now I just use the RecipeProfit for Gathermate 2 addon to see where the vendors are and what they sell. Some of the locations it has are inaccurate, though. I also sell vendor pets, inscription items from Twilight Highlands, and probably a few other random items.
Transmog
Still isn't really working out for me. I had a couple of sales this week which brought in about 3000g. There is one major transmog seller on my server and he or she seems to have the market pretty well on lockdown, along with a huge inventory of transmog goods. I've been buying chest and leg pieces that are in Keelhaul's high tiers that I see come up at low prices, but they really aren't moving. I don't want to put a lot more effort or gold into this since honestly it just kind of annoys me, but I'll continue to try it on a fairly casual basis.
Random Stuff
I've been clearing out and organizing my inventory and banks this week, so I've also posted up some one-off items, along with selling off some ore, bars, stones and leather I don't really need for anything. I've also made gold from leveling 3 of my alts a fair bit and doing dungeons and quests.
What I Bought
Mostly just stuff to resell, shuffle, and mill, although I spent a tiny bit on Fel Iron bars for Oph's engineering. I also bought her 280 flight when she hit level 70, since all my alts get that now. Slow flying is slow.
Verdict
This week was MUCH better than last week. I definitely put more effort into making sure all my toons were posting auctions for the stuff they had instead of just letting it sit around in their banks. I'm going to try to keep up a similar level in the coming week and see how things go.
End: 209,339g
Profit: 41,480g
A Good Week, Overall
I put a lot more effort into my auctions most days this week and saw an increase in profits. Initially I kept a spreadsheet with each day's spending and income, but then WoW started crashing too much and the data became increasingly inaccurate. I'm going to go with overall numbers and the notes I did manage to make to see which markets were the most successful. According to TSM Accounting, which lost some data due to crashes, my average daily income over the past seven days was 7620g, and average daily AH spending was 954g.
Cata Greens, Again
This week's chart toppers were the level 77-80 Cataclysm greens. No big surprise there. I check several times a day for cheap items and post them for 400-475g on average. I bumped the prices up this week and still had plenty of sales. I think a lot of them are going to the new level 80 SoR toons, but I've been in this market for months and it's always been a consistent source of income. Definitely making a lot more sales, though.
Enchanting Mats
I kind of don't have a good handle on the enchanting scrolls market, and I also think fewer and fewer people are raiding. The market prices for all the scrolls have gone way down and they don't move very quickly. Part of the price drop is because we've got ore botters on the server, ergo ore is cheap, ergo enchanting mats are cheap. Still, I got tired of crafting scrolls only to have them linger and take up bag space and incur reposting fees, so I've basically quit making most of them and am only selling the raw materials for enchants.
This week I posted up a lot of my stockpile of pre-Cata mats, as well as quite a few Greater Celestial Essences, all of which sold well. I waited until the price on GCEs went up from 50g to 80g per to maximize my profit on them, and I sold almost all of my stock. The old school dusts (Infinite Dust in particular) also went for a good price.
Gems
As with enchanting, the gem market is a bit rocky right now. It's still profitable but it does take a lot of time to shuffle (you can see my post earlier this week about what I prospected) and then to cut the gems. I finally spent some of my JC daily tokens on some new cuts and had success in selling them, albeit at fairly low prices. Again, though, between the ore bots and raiding coming to a near-standstill, that's to be expected. I still had some sales, although a majority of them were uncut Chimera's Eyes and purple, green and blue gems. The cut inferno markets are being driven into the ground; I still sold a few.
Glyphs
I did a nearly-full restock on glyphs over the course of the week. I've heard it's like Glyphmas 2 with the SoR folks but I'm not really getting that. In fact, my glyph sales have gone down pretty dramatically. This is probably because there are FOUR new serious competitors in the market, bringing the total to 7, and that means if I don't repost about once every ten minutes I'm undercut all the time. I still post several times a day and I do get a few sales, but it's on the order of hundreds of gold each mailbox check rather than the thousands I used to pull in. I'm going to do a post soon on how I'm largely getting out of this market, but not entirely, because I just won't be able to play enough WoW to keep up. With all the glyph changes coming in MoP, I don't want to end up sitting on a huge stockpile of obsolete glyphs, either.
Vendor Goods
I love vendor recipes. Sometimes they sell for ridiculous prices, sometimes only a few gold more than what I paid for them, but either way it's a profit. I usually see anywhere from 2-10 sales on these a day. I definitely don't have an inventory of every vendor recipe but I'm thinking of making a toon to keep them in stock so I can easily repost. (Hey, I don't have a warlock yet; why not a lock bank alt?) I use my mage to buy them since she can easily teleport around most of Azeroth. Faid has some vendor recipe guides for sale at Clockwork Riot for only $2 each (one for each faction). I haven't picked one up yet but I'm going to this week since I know Faid puts out quality content. Right now I just use the RecipeProfit for Gathermate 2 addon to see where the vendors are and what they sell. Some of the locations it has are inaccurate, though. I also sell vendor pets, inscription items from Twilight Highlands, and probably a few other random items.
Transmog
Still isn't really working out for me. I had a couple of sales this week which brought in about 3000g. There is one major transmog seller on my server and he or she seems to have the market pretty well on lockdown, along with a huge inventory of transmog goods. I've been buying chest and leg pieces that are in Keelhaul's high tiers that I see come up at low prices, but they really aren't moving. I don't want to put a lot more effort or gold into this since honestly it just kind of annoys me, but I'll continue to try it on a fairly casual basis.
Random Stuff
I've been clearing out and organizing my inventory and banks this week, so I've also posted up some one-off items, along with selling off some ore, bars, stones and leather I don't really need for anything. I've also made gold from leveling 3 of my alts a fair bit and doing dungeons and quests.
What I Bought
Mostly just stuff to resell, shuffle, and mill, although I spent a tiny bit on Fel Iron bars for Oph's engineering. I also bought her 280 flight when she hit level 70, since all my alts get that now. Slow flying is slow.
Verdict
This week was MUCH better than last week. I definitely put more effort into making sure all my toons were posting auctions for the stuff they had instead of just letting it sit around in their banks. I'm going to try to keep up a similar level in the coming week and see how things go.
Friday, March 23, 2012
77-80 Cata Greens and How to Find Them
If you follow goldmaking blogs or livestreams at all I'm sure you've heard by now about selling the ilvl 272 and higher Cataclysm greens. This market has exploded recently with the new SoR 80s; the item level of the gear they get isn't actually very good -- 232, I believe -- so a lot of them hit the AH to get their stats up.
Even prior to SoR, this was a great, reliable market for me. I've been selling these greens for a few months now at a good profit. Prices and volume have now gone up, but a lot of folks are catching on and it's harder and harder to find these really cheap the way I used to. I still search the auction house several times a day, though, and turn up enough to keep my sales going.
At this point, I am willing to spend up to 100g per item, and generally flip them for 475g. The majority of my profits for this week have come from selling this gear. I will buy almost anything (except plate "of the Tiger" items and some things with really bad stats) at the low end -- if it's up for 10g, it's mine. At the high end, I get pickier, trying to choose mostly four-stat items for any slot or three- and four-stat items for helms, shoulders and chests.
You can use Auctionator to search for these items pretty easily, and that seems to be how most folks do it. You just type in a search of Armor/77/80/i272 and voila. However, this search also shows you all the crafted stuff, which I tend to stay away from. I figure the people crafting it can tank my market at any time, whereas sticking to the dropped stuff lowers the competition a bit.
Instead, I use a TSM shopping list for most of it. I'll share it below so you can import it into TSM, but it's really straightforward. I went to Wowhead and looked up the item names for all the gear I wanted to buy, et voila. The only catch is that it sometimes turns up stuff you don't want, namely Rethban Ore and Orb of Mistmantle. But that's only two items rather than scrolling through a page of crafted gear results and trying to remember what you want and what you don't.
Here's the list:
s1@$aboraz;ameth'aran;baradin;bramblescar;darrowmere;direforge;dreadmaul;jasperlode;mistmantle;mosshide;nazferiti;rethban;southfury;stagalbog;sundown;yojamba@
Yup. That's it. Good luck, and don't try to take over the market on my server ;)
Edit: By the way, I don't really do much with the weapons aside from the Toxidunk Dagger, which frequently comes up cheap and sells for a reasonable chunk of gold. The green weapons just don't seem to be good movers for me and the deposits on them are too high, but you can also search Weapon/77/80/i272 as above if you think you'd like to try 'em.
Even prior to SoR, this was a great, reliable market for me. I've been selling these greens for a few months now at a good profit. Prices and volume have now gone up, but a lot of folks are catching on and it's harder and harder to find these really cheap the way I used to. I still search the auction house several times a day, though, and turn up enough to keep my sales going.
At this point, I am willing to spend up to 100g per item, and generally flip them for 475g. The majority of my profits for this week have come from selling this gear. I will buy almost anything (except plate "of the Tiger" items and some things with really bad stats) at the low end -- if it's up for 10g, it's mine. At the high end, I get pickier, trying to choose mostly four-stat items for any slot or three- and four-stat items for helms, shoulders and chests.
You can use Auctionator to search for these items pretty easily, and that seems to be how most folks do it. You just type in a search of Armor/77/80/i272 and voila. However, this search also shows you all the crafted stuff, which I tend to stay away from. I figure the people crafting it can tank my market at any time, whereas sticking to the dropped stuff lowers the competition a bit.
Instead, I use a TSM shopping list for most of it. I'll share it below so you can import it into TSM, but it's really straightforward. I went to Wowhead and looked up the item names for all the gear I wanted to buy, et voila. The only catch is that it sometimes turns up stuff you don't want, namely Rethban Ore and Orb of Mistmantle. But that's only two items rather than scrolling through a page of crafted gear results and trying to remember what you want and what you don't.
Here's the list:
s1@$aboraz;ameth'aran;baradin;bramblescar;darrowmere;direforge;dreadmaul;jasperlode;mistmantle;mosshide;nazferiti;rethban;southfury;stagalbog;sundown;yojamba@
Yup. That's it. Good luck, and don't try to take over the market on my server ;)
Edit: By the way, I don't really do much with the weapons aside from the Toxidunk Dagger, which frequently comes up cheap and sells for a reasonable chunk of gold. The green weapons just don't seem to be good movers for me and the deposits on them are too high, but you can also search Weapon/77/80/i272 as above if you think you'd like to try 'em.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Prospecting: This Week's Ore
As I mentioned in my last part, I was pretty lax about prospecting last week. I took a look at ore on the AH this morning and found a metric ton of elementium at about 40g a stack. I bought 159 stacks; there were about as many left, but I kind of got tired of spending money. I probably should've bought more, but I'm just going to go with this.
Since I just did all of this, I figured I'd give you guys a breakdown of how long it took and what I got. So here we are; I'm going to focus on the highlights rather than every little detail.
Elementium Ore
Carnelian Spikes: 26.
Since I just did all of this, I figured I'd give you guys a breakdown of how long it took and what I got. So here we are; I'm going to focus on the highlights rather than every little detail.
Elementium Ore
- Cost: Approximately 6360g.
- Given my available bagspace, lack of CKS, and slightly slow PC, it took me about 40 minutes to prospect all 159 stacks.
- 38 Inferno Rubies. Pretending that these are the ONLY things I sell from the prospecting results, as long as I sell them for 167g each I'll break even. At the moment, the prices for cut and uncut infernos are really low on the AH, but it's 7am Sunday. I'm going to hold them for raid times and post them then.
- All the stuff:
- Totally didn't transmute anything because I was out of Heartblossom, for Inferno Rubies, and I have enough metas in stock at the moment.
Carnelian Spikes: 26.
- Spent 80g on settings (I had 2 sitting in my bags for some reason).
- 58 Greater Celestial Essences, at a current market price of 64g = 3712g (presuming they all sell)
- Spent 126g on settings.
- 193 Hypnotic Dust, which got mailed to my banker since I'm kind of stockpiling it for MoP.
- 59 Lesser Celestials = 19 Greater Celestials = 1216g.
- 7 blue-quality rings, mailed to another banker to sell. If the blue jewelry doesn't sell after a week, I mail it back and blow it up. Assume 350g sale price = 2450g.
- Spent 63g on settings.
- 86 Hypnotic Dust, again went to the banker.
- 26 Lesser Celestials = 8 Greater Celestials = 512g.
- 5 blue-quality necks, same as above rings = 1750g.
- Another 63g on settings.
- 114 Hypnotic Dust, to the banker to store. (Look, I have >500 on my enchanter anyway.)
- 36 Lesser Celestials = 12 Greater Celestials = 768g.
- 10 blue-quality rings = 3500g.
- Spent 52g on settings.
- 76 Hypnotic Dust, to the banker.
- 40 Lesser Celestials = 13 Greater Celestials = 832g.
- 4 blue-quality necks = 1400g.
If we assume that everything is going to sell at the prices I detailed above, and pretend that I don't sell anything else from this mess (no, I didn't make any scrolls; most of the prices are tanked on my server and have been for a few weeks), I got 16,140g worth of enchanting mats and 6,346g in raw Infernos. The latter will probably sell for more, but we're just pretending here, right?
So that's a total of 22,486g worth of stuff for an initial investment of 6,360g = 16,126g profit. Potentially more, possibly less.
As The Gold Turns: March 11-17
I saw that Shannon over at Shannon's Shenanigans is going to do a weekly post on what he's done to make gold and how it worked out. Shannon, I like your idea, so I'm stealing it. Mwah. Since I didn't know I was doing this until now, I don't have good records or screenshots for you; look for that next week.
A Slow Week
This week was actually really laid back for me in terms of actually putting in the effort to make gold. My husband, who lives out of town for his job, came in for a visit, which means I basically did nothing from Wednesday night on. I forgot to use my 2 transmute cooldowns, I didn't shuffle, and I didn't restock glyphs. So what did I do?
Those Cata Greens
This is currently my favorite market, because it's easy and pretty darn profitable. Folks are still posting level 77-80 ilvl 272 or higher BoE greens on the AH for as low as 10g. I just look through them all and pick up the ones that have quality stats (at least one primary stat, like agi/int/str, preferably some sta, and hopefully at least one relevant secondary stat). I'll spend up to 100g, maybe a little bit more for a blue item I know will sell. (I'm looking at you, Toxidunk Dagger.)
My price brackets for these items are, right now, 400g for 77 or 80 gear, and 300g for 78 and 79 stuff. I'll go 100g below that but not more, so I'm at least doubling what I spent -- and usually well more than doubling. With all the new Scroll of Resurrection 80s, I've been seeing quite a few sales, and I think the market is going up. I'm going to bump all my prices up 50-100g at the start of this week to see if it works. These green items were the major source of my profits for the week.
Glyphs
Even though I didn't restock any of my glyphs this week, I still enjoy posting them, so I just used what stock I had. I don't have a big stockpile since I've only been doing this for a few months, and that means I pretty much sold out. My glyph posting toon has gone from an average auction item value of 50k to 8k. Oops. There's also another person on the scene who appears to intend on seriously competing in the glyph market, so I'm going to have to stay on top of this if I want any sales. One day I posted in the morning and didn't repost at all and had ZERO sales.
There are four folks, including myself, who seem to post mass quantities of glyphs and undercut by 1c, so I pretty much have to repost every couple of hours for best results. Since I just got a Real Job, I pretty much won't be able to do this on weekdays once I start work. I'm not sure right now what I'll do about that; we don't know how glyphs are changing in MoP yet so I'm a little hesitant to sit on a huge stockpile if I can't sell them daily. We'll see.
I still made a few thousand gold from glyphs, in spite of my laziness.
Shufflin'
Gem prices have plummeted on my server, with cut Inferno Rubies down from about 400g to 120g or so. I've never gotten the shuffling spreadsheets to work and so I honestly have no idea how profitable the full shuffle is, but ore prices haven't dropped quite as much. And I didn't put the time in to shuffle anyway, so I was just selling back stock. At this point, TSM is trying to post at my fallback price based on crafting cost, and that's usually well above what the market is. I need to adjust my category and group settings for this. I'll probably work on it a little this week.
I sold a very few gems, mostly cut infernos, for a grand total of about 2k gold. Yippee. Since I didn't prospect, I also didn't make any jewelry or enchanting scrolls/mats, nor did I transmute metas. (The metas I have are suffering from the TSM overprice syndrome, above, so yeah.)
Selling ALL THE THINGS
I've been suffering from a serious lack of bag and bank space on most of my toons, and I finally re-installed Auctionator. Ergo, this week, I actually posted up a bunch of stuff I hadn't gotten into TSM groups yet. Vendor recipes, cooking mats, random greens, a few transmog items I stumbled across while leveling or instancing, crafted junk, etc. I've had about a 25% sell rate on this stuff, and I'm going to continue doing this to get rid of crap and make some gold. I'll also be buying more of the vendor recipes that did sell out, if I can figure out what they were. I don't actually have a great strategy for these; I just use the RecipeProfit addon for Gathermate2 and pick up stuff that looks, from the TSM tooltip, like a good idea.
Thanks to this clearing out, most of my alts now have a decent amount of gold on their own without my feeding it to them.
Leveling Engineering and Tailoring
I decided to ditch Alchemy on my mage and get her into Engineering, mostly because I was heartily sick of leveling Alchemy on a 3rd toon in a row. Luckily, I had most of the mats I needed to get myself to 300 engineering skill, so I only spent about 300g getting there. It'll get ugly now, because I'm on Fel Iron, and my miners are level 23 and level 33. On the other hand, I'm not in any huge rush; I don't play the mage much and I do want to work on the 33 rogue, so I think I can wait and not buy unless I see it well below market.
Oph's tailoring is kind of stuck. I need about one billion Frostweave Cloth, which is a pain to farm and expensive to buy. I gave my 75 DK a Blood spec and took her up to the humanoids in ICC next to the Argent Tournament and got 9 pieces of cloth in about 10 minutes, at which point I stopped for some reason. The mage herself is 65 so my best strategy is probably to level her to Northrend and go from there.
Verdict
I think I added about 10K to my liquid gold this week, but I'm not altogether sure. It may have been closer to 15K. I'll keep better track next week and let you all know real numbers and not off-the-top-of-my-head guesstimates.
A Slow Week
This week was actually really laid back for me in terms of actually putting in the effort to make gold. My husband, who lives out of town for his job, came in for a visit, which means I basically did nothing from Wednesday night on. I forgot to use my 2 transmute cooldowns, I didn't shuffle, and I didn't restock glyphs. So what did I do?
Those Cata Greens
This is currently my favorite market, because it's easy and pretty darn profitable. Folks are still posting level 77-80 ilvl 272 or higher BoE greens on the AH for as low as 10g. I just look through them all and pick up the ones that have quality stats (at least one primary stat, like agi/int/str, preferably some sta, and hopefully at least one relevant secondary stat). I'll spend up to 100g, maybe a little bit more for a blue item I know will sell. (I'm looking at you, Toxidunk Dagger.)
My price brackets for these items are, right now, 400g for 77 or 80 gear, and 300g for 78 and 79 stuff. I'll go 100g below that but not more, so I'm at least doubling what I spent -- and usually well more than doubling. With all the new Scroll of Resurrection 80s, I've been seeing quite a few sales, and I think the market is going up. I'm going to bump all my prices up 50-100g at the start of this week to see if it works. These green items were the major source of my profits for the week.
Glyphs
Even though I didn't restock any of my glyphs this week, I still enjoy posting them, so I just used what stock I had. I don't have a big stockpile since I've only been doing this for a few months, and that means I pretty much sold out. My glyph posting toon has gone from an average auction item value of 50k to 8k. Oops. There's also another person on the scene who appears to intend on seriously competing in the glyph market, so I'm going to have to stay on top of this if I want any sales. One day I posted in the morning and didn't repost at all and had ZERO sales.
There are four folks, including myself, who seem to post mass quantities of glyphs and undercut by 1c, so I pretty much have to repost every couple of hours for best results. Since I just got a Real Job, I pretty much won't be able to do this on weekdays once I start work. I'm not sure right now what I'll do about that; we don't know how glyphs are changing in MoP yet so I'm a little hesitant to sit on a huge stockpile if I can't sell them daily. We'll see.
I still made a few thousand gold from glyphs, in spite of my laziness.
Shufflin'
Gem prices have plummeted on my server, with cut Inferno Rubies down from about 400g to 120g or so. I've never gotten the shuffling spreadsheets to work and so I honestly have no idea how profitable the full shuffle is, but ore prices haven't dropped quite as much. And I didn't put the time in to shuffle anyway, so I was just selling back stock. At this point, TSM is trying to post at my fallback price based on crafting cost, and that's usually well above what the market is. I need to adjust my category and group settings for this. I'll probably work on it a little this week.
I sold a very few gems, mostly cut infernos, for a grand total of about 2k gold. Yippee. Since I didn't prospect, I also didn't make any jewelry or enchanting scrolls/mats, nor did I transmute metas. (The metas I have are suffering from the TSM overprice syndrome, above, so yeah.)
Selling ALL THE THINGS
I've been suffering from a serious lack of bag and bank space on most of my toons, and I finally re-installed Auctionator. Ergo, this week, I actually posted up a bunch of stuff I hadn't gotten into TSM groups yet. Vendor recipes, cooking mats, random greens, a few transmog items I stumbled across while leveling or instancing, crafted junk, etc. I've had about a 25% sell rate on this stuff, and I'm going to continue doing this to get rid of crap and make some gold. I'll also be buying more of the vendor recipes that did sell out, if I can figure out what they were. I don't actually have a great strategy for these; I just use the RecipeProfit addon for Gathermate2 and pick up stuff that looks, from the TSM tooltip, like a good idea.
Thanks to this clearing out, most of my alts now have a decent amount of gold on their own without my feeding it to them.
Leveling Engineering and Tailoring
I decided to ditch Alchemy on my mage and get her into Engineering, mostly because I was heartily sick of leveling Alchemy on a 3rd toon in a row. Luckily, I had most of the mats I needed to get myself to 300 engineering skill, so I only spent about 300g getting there. It'll get ugly now, because I'm on Fel Iron, and my miners are level 23 and level 33. On the other hand, I'm not in any huge rush; I don't play the mage much and I do want to work on the 33 rogue, so I think I can wait and not buy unless I see it well below market.
Oph's tailoring is kind of stuck. I need about one billion Frostweave Cloth, which is a pain to farm and expensive to buy. I gave my 75 DK a Blood spec and took her up to the humanoids in ICC next to the Argent Tournament and got 9 pieces of cloth in about 10 minutes, at which point I stopped for some reason. The mage herself is 65 so my best strategy is probably to level her to Northrend and go from there.
Verdict
I think I added about 10K to my liquid gold this week, but I'm not altogether sure. It may have been closer to 15K. I'll keep better track next week and let you all know real numbers and not off-the-top-of-my-head guesstimates.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Alchemy Leveling: Oily Blackmouth and You
If you're like most goldmakers I encounter, you probably level alchemists all the time. If you don't have at least one, you should (and not just because it's one of my favorite professions); the transmutes are great and getting four hours out of one flask is maybe even better.
Because (I think) of inscription, even low-level herbs can go for ridiculous amounts of money since max-level toons are willing to pay higher prices for stuff to make inks. That makes alchemy expensive to level, too, so any alternate methods are welcome, at least for me.
Which brings us to my friend the Oily Blackmouth. Check out the map on Wowhead showing where it's fished... yeah, Darkmoon Faire. With a lot of people still out there fishing for the profession quest and for their Sea Pony, there's a huge surplus of Oily Blackmouth on the AH during Faire week. This seems to carry over throughout most of the month, too. On my server right now it's at 31s, down from a (TUJ) mean of 1g 32s 83c.
How is that useful? Well, take a look at this popular profession leveling guide for Alchemy. It recommends making Lesser Healing Potion from 60-105, which takes 50 Minor Healing Potion (presumably you have these sitting around) and 50 Briarthorn. Briarthorn is killer, at least on my server -- 2g per right now, which is where it normally sits, and there's often none at all posted.
But then there's Blackmouth Oil. Once you get your alchemy up to 80, you can make these with 2 fish per oil. It's a trainer recipe, so no need to make a special trip to pick it up. I will point out that it's yellow when you learn it, and goes green at 90, grey at 100, so this isn't quite an apples to apples comparison. Lesser Healing Potion goes yellow at 85 and green at 105. If you have the Working Overtime guild perk, it's not as big a deal.
I'm not leveling an alchemist at the moment so I can't give you an exact breakdown, but here's a plausible scenario (I think) from 80-100. Neither of these recipes needs a vial.
Because (I think) of inscription, even low-level herbs can go for ridiculous amounts of money since max-level toons are willing to pay higher prices for stuff to make inks. That makes alchemy expensive to level, too, so any alternate methods are welcome, at least for me.
Which brings us to my friend the Oily Blackmouth. Check out the map on Wowhead showing where it's fished... yeah, Darkmoon Faire. With a lot of people still out there fishing for the profession quest and for their Sea Pony, there's a huge surplus of Oily Blackmouth on the AH during Faire week. This seems to carry over throughout most of the month, too. On my server right now it's at 31s, down from a (TUJ) mean of 1g 32s 83c.
How is that useful? Well, take a look at this popular profession leveling guide for Alchemy. It recommends making Lesser Healing Potion from 60-105, which takes 50 Minor Healing Potion (presumably you have these sitting around) and 50 Briarthorn. Briarthorn is killer, at least on my server -- 2g per right now, which is where it normally sits, and there's often none at all posted.
But then there's Blackmouth Oil. Once you get your alchemy up to 80, you can make these with 2 fish per oil. It's a trainer recipe, so no need to make a special trip to pick it up. I will point out that it's yellow when you learn it, and goes green at 90, grey at 100, so this isn't quite an apples to apples comparison. Lesser Healing Potion goes yellow at 85 and green at 105. If you have the Working Overtime guild perk, it's not as big a deal.
I'm not leveling an alchemist at the moment so I can't give you an exact breakdown, but here's a plausible scenario (I think) from 80-100. Neither of these recipes needs a vial.
- Lesser Healing Potion - let's assume you get a skillup from every craft, so we need 20. Briarthorn at 20x2g = 40g (if you can find them all, and you need Briarthorn further along, too). We'll pretend the Minor Healing Potions are free, since you have them already. So, 40g.
- Blackmouth Oil - let's assume you have to make 1.5 oils per skillup, or 30 total. 2 fish per oil x 0.31g per fish x 30 oils = 18g 6s. Even if you have to make a few more, we're still looking at about half the cost.
But wait, there's more! I don't know about you, but I couldn't give Lesser Healing Potions away. Blackmouth Oil, on the other hand, can be used to make stuff that actually sells:
- Elixir of Water Breathing -- can also be used to level your alchemy all the way to 160 if you so desire; takes 2x Blackmouth Oil, a Stranglekelp, and a Crystal Vial. Stranglekelp on my server sits just under 1g average and sometimes goes way under that. Sells for 3g-ish but is a slow mover, IME. Still, gets you more skillups with less Briarthorn.
- Swim Speed Potion -- goes grey at 170; takes one each of Blackmouth Oil, Swiftthistle, and a Crystal Vial. On my server, Swiftthistle is expensive and the swim speed potions are really cheap and barely move, so I don't make these.
- Free Action Potion -- this is the good one. It uses the same mats as the Elixir of Water Breathing and doesn't go grey until 215. You need to buy the recipe for it in Darnassus, Ironforge, or Orgrimmar. And people love it for PvP. So if you have a decent PvP market on your server, just make a ton of these and sell them off as they go. Market average on my server is 5g per, for something that costs 1g 38s to make (per current TUJ numbers)... and there are hardly ever any listed, so people ask in Trade.
So there you have it. Even if your alchemist is already maxed out, as most of mine are, I sometimes snap up the cheap blackmouth so I can make the Free Action Potions.
TSM Categories for Transmog Gear
Yesterday I was watching one of Jim's amazing livestreams and I noticed that his TSM auctioning categories for Cata greens and mog gear were very different to mine. I didn't take screenshots of my old categories, and until the servers come back up I can't show you the new ones. But adopting the method he uses (and probably many other folks -- sorry I can't name everyone, this was just the first place I saw it!) made everything much simpler and made me way more inclined to continue selling this stuff.
Previously, I had a categories called, for example, gear - xmog - plate - 1000. Within that category I had groups for every individual stinking piece of armor that went into it. This got really messy and confusing really fast.
What I have now is a single main category, just called gear - xmog. (I'll post screenshots of how this is set up after maintenance.) Inside that category I have groups named after the price brackets, so 500, 750, 1000, 2000, 5000 -- at least for now. Here you can see one of the groups, my 500g group (which doesn't have many items in it yet; I'm still setting these up) inside the gear - xmog category. Please ignore the general mess that is my TSM categorization. I'm working on cleaning it up, and this is part of it.
In the group settings for transmog items, I checked the box to add by item ID, since stats are not important, and set up the threshold and fallback according to the price bracket. Here you can see my threshold and fallback for my 500g group. I forgot to get a SS of the "by item ID" checkbox, but it's at the very top in the group overrides tab.
In the category settings, I set the post cap to 1, post time to 48 hours, and the behavior to post at fallback when the market goes below my threshold. (I may change that to not post at all for a little while until I get a better handle on the pricing structure; it's easier for me to pick them out when the text in the auction log is orange.) Here are the category settings:
As I collect new items, I simply add them to the appropriate price group, rather than having to create an entire new group for them. This has already saved me so much time, and it's so much tidier. I'm following a similar method for my Cata greens, except I have those priced by level. (I bumped my prices on those up yesterday and already had a sale at the higher price, so woo!) I haven't had any mog sales yet, but it's midweek and I didn't get much posted before maintenance.
This post probably makes almost zero sense without pictures if you don't see TSM in your sleep, so I'll add screenshots soon.
Edit: I added screenshots but I'm not sure they're actually big enough to be useful. Still getting used to Blogger so I will revisit this sometime when my Internet connection is better.
Previously, I had a categories called, for example, gear - xmog - plate - 1000. Within that category I had groups for every individual stinking piece of armor that went into it. This got really messy and confusing really fast.
What I have now is a single main category, just called gear - xmog. (I'll post screenshots of how this is set up after maintenance.) Inside that category I have groups named after the price brackets, so 500, 750, 1000, 2000, 5000 -- at least for now. Here you can see one of the groups, my 500g group (which doesn't have many items in it yet; I'm still setting these up) inside the gear - xmog category. Please ignore the general mess that is my TSM categorization. I'm working on cleaning it up, and this is part of it.
In the group settings for transmog items, I checked the box to add by item ID, since stats are not important, and set up the threshold and fallback according to the price bracket. Here you can see my threshold and fallback for my 500g group. I forgot to get a SS of the "by item ID" checkbox, but it's at the very top in the group overrides tab.
In the category settings, I set the post cap to 1, post time to 48 hours, and the behavior to post at fallback when the market goes below my threshold. (I may change that to not post at all for a little while until I get a better handle on the pricing structure; it's easier for me to pick them out when the text in the auction log is orange.) Here are the category settings:
As I collect new items, I simply add them to the appropriate price group, rather than having to create an entire new group for them. This has already saved me so much time, and it's so much tidier. I'm following a similar method for my Cata greens, except I have those priced by level. (I bumped my prices on those up yesterday and already had a sale at the higher price, so woo!) I haven't had any mog sales yet, but it's midweek and I didn't get much posted before maintenance.
This post probably makes almost zero sense without pictures if you don't see TSM in your sleep, so I'll add screenshots soon.
Edit: I added screenshots but I'm not sure they're actually big enough to be useful. Still getting used to Blogger so I will revisit this sometime when my Internet connection is better.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Addons: Panda for Inscription
I am an addon addict, it's true. My poor outdated computer has a hard time handling all the stuff I want to run, so I do a lot of switching on and off as needed using Addon Control Panel, which is pretty great in and of itself. Recently I found another addon I just had to grab, introduced to me by @Faid of Nerf Faids fame. (She also does awesome livestreams.)
That addon is Panda, and it makes milling like... super fantastic easy. It apparently has other features for disenchanting, prospecting, etc. but I haven't tried those yet so I can't speak to them.
Previously, I found milling to be a giant pain, because you're trying to manage stacks of who knows how many different kinds of herbs, which may be all over the place in your bags. I had set up a ton of macros for each "level" of herbs, but I couldn't keep track of which macro was for what on my action bars. Panda lets you set up a single macro that will mill any herb you've got. Check out this screenshot:
You'll probably need to enlarge that to see it better. Panda is at the top left of my UI right now, and if you look in Panda's upper right corner, you see the milling icon. Mousing over it provides the tooltip I highlighted: All you need to do is set up a macro that says '/click MassMill' (without the quotes, obviously) and throw it on your toolbars. I tend to bind stuff like this to action key 1 when I'm actually going to use it, and then just move it out of the way otherwise. I know some folks like the scroll wheel binds but they don't really seem to work faster for me since I just get a lot of "You are looting something" error messages. You need to have the Panda window open for the macro to work, at least in my experience.
Panda will also show you icons for all the herb types that can be milled, with a count in the lower right corner showing how many of that herb you have. In case you've got stuff in your bags you don't want to mill (Azshara's Veil, anyone?), you can instead click the individual herb icons to mill one at a time. Bit slower, but if you don't have bank space or are too lazy to go stash some of your herbs, it does work.
So now I've got a visual display of what I have to mill, along with a one-click macro to do it all. I no longer have to switch through multiple macros. Inscription is a really time-consuming profession, so anything that saves a few seconds here and there is great. I do wish it could somehow detect uneven stacks and move those to the bottom (so, like, if you have 44 whiptail it doesn't try to mill the 4 first and give an error), but I'm not sure that's even possible.
Overall, highly recommended. I'm going to be trying it for JC/DE shuffling in the near future. I understand that TSM has similar functionality, but I haven't figured it out, and this interface is super simple. Thumbs up with a night elf flip hop.
That addon is Panda, and it makes milling like... super fantastic easy. It apparently has other features for disenchanting, prospecting, etc. but I haven't tried those yet so I can't speak to them.
Previously, I found milling to be a giant pain, because you're trying to manage stacks of who knows how many different kinds of herbs, which may be all over the place in your bags. I had set up a ton of macros for each "level" of herbs, but I couldn't keep track of which macro was for what on my action bars. Panda lets you set up a single macro that will mill any herb you've got. Check out this screenshot:
Panda will also show you icons for all the herb types that can be milled, with a count in the lower right corner showing how many of that herb you have. In case you've got stuff in your bags you don't want to mill (Azshara's Veil, anyone?), you can instead click the individual herb icons to mill one at a time. Bit slower, but if you don't have bank space or are too lazy to go stash some of your herbs, it does work.
So now I've got a visual display of what I have to mill, along with a one-click macro to do it all. I no longer have to switch through multiple macros. Inscription is a really time-consuming profession, so anything that saves a few seconds here and there is great. I do wish it could somehow detect uneven stacks and move those to the bottom (so, like, if you have 44 whiptail it doesn't try to mill the 4 first and give an error), but I'm not sure that's even possible.
Overall, highly recommended. I'm going to be trying it for JC/DE shuffling in the near future. I understand that TSM has similar functionality, but I haven't figured it out, and this interface is super simple. Thumbs up with a night elf flip hop.
Hello, World!
So this is my newest blogging venture. I thought initially that I'd primarily like to write a WoW goldmaking blog, but frankly I'm not good enough at it. So you'll occasionally see my ramblings on the subject and maybe sometimes I can provide some insight.
Character roster: I currently play on US-Shu'halo(A).
Character roster: I currently play on US-Shu'halo(A).
- My nominal main is Aqualaeta, an 85 Beastmastery Hunter. I generally raid with her; our guild is very casual and we are 6/8 DS 10N. (I used to be all hardcore in TBC, but I prefer this schedule now.) She is a JC/Alchemist.
- Pierogi is my 85 Holy Priest. She goes to FL sometimes but generally just does LFR and random HoTs. She is a JC/Enchanter.
- Alaeriel is my 85 Resto Druid, who mostly PvPs. She was my very first WoW toon, and we've been through a lot together, so that's why I use that name for everything. She has herbalism (of course) and LW.
- Snorgles is a 75 Frost DK who exists primarily to be a scribe. She also has alchemy.
- Ophuulii is a 52 Fire Mage. I find mages insanely boring but fairly fast to level, and I wanted a tailor, so here she is. She's been sitting in the low 50s for quite a while now, though.
- Whirley is my brand new, 28 Sub Rogue. I have a lot of fun with her in battlegrounds, and I leave her flagged for PvP. I'm on a normal server. Nobody has ganked me yet; it's kind of disappointing. Right now she has skinning and mining.
- Shockandale is a 24 Enh Shaman who never gets playtime. I keep promising myself I'll level a shaman to try healing at 85, but I never quite get there.
I also have a couple other alts, bank toons and so forth, and more on other servers. Druids are probably my favorite class; I have three of those at 80 or above. Hunters are next, with two 85s. I actually prefer healing, but right now my raid main is a DPS because she happened to get leveled first; when I moved to a new server, I wanted a max-level toon right away.
As far as goldmaking, I occasionally shuffle but find it super boring. Glyphs are my favorite market, although not always insanely profitable. I'm sitting at about 135k liquid right now and sales have dropped this past week as I've focused on my baby rogue, who is currently my favorite toon to actually play.
So, that's a brief introduction. Welcome, and thanks for reading!
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