The Klaxxi Faction Guide

November 16, 2012 1 Comment

The Klaxxi

This guide is more of a summary of links that you can use if you have any questions you need answered quickly. I didn’t go into the dailies in detail because let’s face it, you pick up all the blue “!” open your map and go to the area. Once you do them you will fly through them quickly. At Honored, players can purchase Restorative Amber, which is like Major Dreamless Sleep Potion with a vanity effect. They can also buy a wide assortment of Justice Points gear and Blacksmithing recipes.

Chests: (2200 Justice Points)

Wrists: (1250 Justice Points)

Hands: Honored (1750 Justice Points)

Blacksmithing Plans: Honored (20 Kyparite each)

At Revered, players can purchase ilevel 489 necks, pants, and belts.

Necks: Revered (1250 Valor Points)

Pants: Revered (2200 Valor Points)

Belts: Revered (1750 Valor Points)

To grind rep with The Klaxxi, you’ll have to do a long quest line in Dread Wastes starting with Psycho Mantid. This should get you to Honored, where there are at least 6 quests available from the Elders you freed.

Also at Revered, you free two more Paragons, who give you additional daily quests. There are 3 different hidden dailies that available as drops for elite mobs in the areas where the other dailies are located.

Kypa’rak – Found at 34.0, 62.1 in the Dread Wastes. Once you kill this elite mob it will drop the Massive Kypraite Core which starts a quest you can hand in as a daily with the same associated rewards as other dailies for the Klaxxi. This elite also has a chance to drop an ilevel 450 staff as well, Kaleiki’s Lost Training Staff, it looks to be ok for Agility based classes.
Warload Gurthan – Found at 66.3, 31.5 in the Dread Wastes. You will need help summoning this elite mob, there is 2 runes on the ground and one person has to /kneel in on and the other person has to /sleep on the other for the boss to spawn. Once killed he will drop The Ashes of Warlord Gurthan, which starts a quest you can hand in as a daily with the same associated rewards as other dailies for the Klaxxi. This elite can also drop an ilevel 429 green crossbow but it’s nothing to write home about.
Karanosh –Found at 41.8, 32.8 in the Dread Wastes. Once you kill this elite mob it will drop Enormous Kunchong Mandibles which starts a quest you can hand in as a daily with the same associated rewards as other dailies for the Klaxxi.

At Exalted, you can pick up vanity-themed items. Klaxxi Tabard is a tabard that only serves a cosmetic purpose, while Reins of the Amber Scorpion should especially make Alliance players happy, as it’s a Horde-style scorpion mount. The most interesting reward at Exalted is a series of ilevel 463 weapons with distinctive amber-dipped looks for transmog.

Weapons: Exalted (Sold for Gold)

Also at Exalted, you can get an epic ilevel 489 ring from completing Shadow of the Empire. You must ensure you’ve completed Amber is the Color of My Energy before this quest will appear to you, even if Exalted. After you unlock all of the Klaxxi elders, you can request buffs from them, Enhancements and Augments.

Enhancements:

Augments

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1-600 WoW Tailoring Guide For MoP

November 11, 2012 Leave a Comment

WoW Tailoring 1-600 Leveling Guide

Here is the level 1-600 WoW Tailoring Leveling Guide that R9sid9nt9vil mentioned on The Eviscerated Gaming Podcast. The Eviscerated Gaming Podcast is available on iTunes, Stitcher Radio and at Eviscerated.net. R9s worked up this guide on leveling your WoW Tailoring profession from 1-600 for MoP, but focused on items that are good for resale on the auction house or created items for disenchanting.

Apprentice Tailoring: 1 – 75

1 – 45: 60 x Bolt of Linen Cloth

120 Linen Cloths

45 – 75: 30 x Heavy Linen Gloves

60 Bolts of Linen Cloth
30 Coarse Threads

Journeyman Tailoring: 75 – 125

75 – 100: 27 x Bolt of Woolen Cloth

81 Wool Cloth

100 – 110: 10 x Simple Kilt

40 Bolts of Linen Cloth
10 Fine Threads

110 – 125: 15 x Double-stitched Woolen Shoulders

45 Bolts of Woolen Cloth
30 Fine Threads

Expert Tailoring: 125 – 200

125 – 145: 27 x Bolt of Silk Cloth

108 Silk Cloths

145 – 160: 15 x Azure Silk Hood

30 Bolts of Silk Cloth
30 Blue Dye
15 Fine Threads

160 – 170: 10 x Silk Headband

30 Bolts of Silk Cloth
20 Fine Threads

170 – 175: 5 x Formal White Shirt

15 Bolts of Silk Cloth
10 Bleach
5 Fine Threads

175 – 185: 12 x Bolt of Mageweave

48 Mageweave Cloths

185 – 200: 15 x Crimson Silk Vest

60 Bolts of Silk Cloths
30 Red Dye
30 Fine Threads

Artisan Tailoring: 200 – 300

200 – 215: 15 x Crimson Silk Pantaloons (Level 39 PvP Twink Pants – Sell on AH)

60 Bolts of Silk Cloth
30 Red Dye
30 Silken Threads

215 – 220: 5 x Black Mageweave Leggings

10 Bolts of Mageweave
15 Silken Threads

220 – 230: 10 x Black Mageweave Gloves (Level 39 PvP Twink Gloves – Sell on AH)

20 Bolts of Mageweave
10 Heavy Silken Threads

230 – 250: 20 x Black Mageweave Headband

60 Bolts of Mageweave
40 Heavy Silken Threads

250 – 260: 10 x Bolt of Runecloth

40 Runecloth

260 – 280: 20 x Runecloth Belt

60 Bolts of Runecloth
20 Rune Threads

280 – 295: 15 x Runecloth Gloves

75 Bolts of Runecloth
30 Rune Threads

295 – 300: 5 x Runecloth Headband (Level 54 PvP Twink Helm – Sell on AH)

30 Bolts of Runecloth
10 Rune Thread

Master Tailoring: 300 – 350

300 – 325: 25 x Bolts of Netherweave

125 Netherweave Cloths

325 – 330: 5 x Netherweave Bag (Sell the bags on the AH)

20 Bolts of Netherweave
5 Rune Threads

330 – 335: 5 x Netherweave Pants

30 Bolts of Netherweave
5 Rune Threads

335 – 345: 10 x Netherweave Boots

60 Bolts of Netherweave

20 Knothide Leathers
10 Rune Threads

345 – 350: 5 x Netherweave Tunic (Get the pattern from either of these NPCs)

40 Bolts of Netherweave
10 Rune Threads

Grand Master Tailoring: 350 – 425

350 – 375: 25 x Bolt of Frostweave

125 Frostweave Cloths

375 – 380: 5 x Frostwoven Belt

15 Bolts of Frostweave
5 Eternium Threads

380 – 385: 5 x Frostwoven Boots

20 Bolts of Frostweave
5 Eternium Threads

385 – 395: 10 x Frostwoven Cowl

50 Bolts of Frostweave
10 Eternium Threads

395 – 400: 5 x Duskweave Belt

35 Bolts of Frostweave
5 Eternium Threads

400 – 405: 60 x Bolt of Imbued Frostweave (Save for crafting Frostweave Bags from 415-425.)

120 Bolts of Frostweave
120 Infinite Dusts

405 – 410: 5 x Duskweave Wristwraps

40 Bolts of Frostweave
5 Eternium Threads

410 – 415: 5 x Duskweave Gloves

45 Bolts of Frostweave
5 Eternium Threads

415 – 425: 10 x Frostweave Bag 5+ Skill per (Sell the bags on the AH)

60 Imbued bolts of Frostweave

20 Eternium Threads

Illustrious Grand Master Tailoring: 425 – 500

425 – 450: 28 x Bolt of Embersilk Cloth 2+ Skill per

140 Embersilk Cloths

450 – 455: 5 x Deathsilk Bracer

10 Bolts of Embersilk Cloth
10 Eternium Threads

455 – 460: 5 x Deathsilk Boots

15 Bolts of Embersilk Cloth
10 Eternium Threads

460 – 465: 5 x Deathsilk Leggings

15 Bolts of Embersilk Cloth
10 Eternium Threads

465 – 470: 5 x Deathsilk Cowl

15 Bolts of Embersilk Cloth
10 Eternium Threads

470 – 475: 5 x Spiritmend Belt

20 Bolts of Embersilk Cloth
10 Eternium Threads

475 – 480: 5 x Spiritmend Boots

20 Bolts of Embersilk Cloth
10 Eternium Threads

480 – 484: 4 x Spiritmend Leggings (Stop crafting at 484!)

16 Bolts of Embersilk Cloth
8 Eternium Threads

484 – 494: 2 x Embersilk Bag

30 Bolts of Embersilk Cloth
30 Hypnotic Dusts

494 – 500: 6 x Spiritmend Robe

36 Bolts of Embersilk Cloth
12 Eternium Threads

Zen Tailoring: 500 – 600

500 – 535: 90 x Bolt of Windwool Cloth +2 Skill per

450 Windwool Cloth

535 – 547: 4 x Windwool Shoulders +3 Skill per

16 Bolts of Windwool Cloth

547 – 556: 3 x Windwool Boots +3 Skill per

12 Bolts of Windwool Cloth

556 – 568: 3 x Windwool Pants +4 Skill per

15 Bolts of Windwool Cloth

568 – 576: 2 x Windwool Hood +4 Skill per

10 Bolts of Windwool Cloth

When you reach 575 you can purchase vendor recipes for the last 25 points. The Tailoring recipes are on a vendor in Vale of Eternal Blossoms;

Esha the Loommaiden (Horde) in Shrine of Two Moons
Raishen the Needle (Alliance) in Shrine of Seven Stars

Some of the patterns sold require Level 590 tailoring. Each pattern will set you back 1 Spirit of Harmony or 10 Motes of Harmony. Make what you want or can use the patterns range from 4 Bolts of Windwool to 8 bolts of Windwool to craft. I usually will craft Shoulders, Chest, Helm and Gloves to sell when it comes to PvP gear. Mainly for 2 reasons;

These slots historically sell the fastest
They serve another purpose now, Transmoging, these are the most visible pieces on your character so if players don’t buy them to cheat the LFD iLevel requirements and don’t buy them to PvP in they will buy them to Transmog. That may be justification for the first reason.

Below is the specific crafting path I took:

576 – 591: 5 x Contender’s Silk Amice +3 Skill per

20 Bolts of Windwool Cloth

591 – 595: 1 x Contender’s Silk Cowl +4 Skill per

10 Bolts of Windwool Cloth

595 – 600: 1 x Imperial Silk +5 Skill per

8 Bolts of Windwool Cloth

At this point you need to check out this post by Nev at AHaddict to find out which Mist of Pandaria faction to work on reputation with so you can get the epic patterns. Make sure you do your Imperial Silk cool down, EVERYDAY, whether you have the patterns to use them on or not yet. You can only make one Imperial Silk per day and they are soul bound.

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Making Gold Off Of The New Player Infux

January 7, 2012 Leave a Comment

I'm coming for you, Wes!

New Players – New Opportunities To Make Gold

Lately in World of Warcraft, we have been seeing the influx of new players that got WoW for Christmas. These new players are entering the game and are a new source of income for those of us that are into making gold in WoW. While many of these brand new players can’t afford much from the auction house yet, there are a few areas that you should pay special attention to. It has been proven year after year that the influx of new players creates new opportunities to make gold in WoW. Let’s take a look at a couple of historically accurate markets as well as a brand new market that these new players will help contribute to.

Netherweave Bags

The first major problem that any new player runs into is not having enough bag space. Netherweave Bags have long been the standard for new players. Even after breaking a million gold, I am still crafting and selling those dang Netherweave Bags. Why? They are one of the most consistent items in the game, since they are bought by both alts and new players. With the wave of new players ntering WoW since Christmas, I have seen the sales of NW Bags pick up. They are even selling for close to double what I would normally sell them for. So don’t forget to keep your tailor making those Netherweave Bags.

Poorly Priced Items

With an influx of new players, comes an influx of poorly priced goods on the auction house. New players don’t really have a good grasp on what items are really worth. They just tend to try out the auction house first by selling the items they collect while questing. Instead of selling them to the npc vendors, they may experiment with trying to sell the same items for more on the auction house in WoW. Many times you will find items listed for far more than they are worth. Bottle-neck crafting tems like Perfect Deviate Scales, Large Fangs, Spider Silk, Slimy Murloc Scales, and Heavy Hides are good examples of items that you can find for cheap. So be sure to keep looking for good crafting materials that may be tossed up at too low of a price. Then you can use those in crafting or simply to flip for a profit.

Transmogrification Gear To Flip

Transmogrification is an emerging market, still in its infancy on many servers. Transmogrification, however, is a new market for making gold in WoW. Like the poorly priced crafting materials mentioned above, you will see low level armor tossed up on the auction house for very cheap. If you are able to find some of the gear that is part of a set then you can probably make easy gold flipping the items to a much more appropriate price. I myself have been buying green (uncommon) robes that are unique looking or have a cool pattern on them. I turn around and flip those sames robes to Moggers (short for Transmogrifiers) for 400-450 gold each. Robes are a low entry cost market and a good area to get your feet wet with the emerging Mogging trend. Originally I wasn’t too hyped on the whole Mogging market as a gold making strategy, but I was wrong. The Mogfather (@DEAzeroth on twitter) has opened my eyes to the huge profit potential of playing within the gear markets for transmogrification. And now is a great time to build your stock levels as new players are throwing stuff on the auction houses at incorrect prizes.

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How To Make Gold In The World Of WoW

September 17, 2011 1 Comment

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How To Make Gold In The World Of WoW

Making Gold In The World Of WoW

Gold is a requirement for many things within the World of WoW. Therefor it is important to learn the major ways to make gold for yourself in the World of WoW. There are 6 main ways to make gold within the World of Warcraft. Most players use a combination of multiple gold making methods in order to secure their share of WoW gold. Every single player has the ability to make enough gold for themselves with a little planning and practice. Never risk your account’s security by buying gold for the World of WoW. Learn to make gold yourself and you can continue onwards towards a goal of financial freedom and independence.

6 Main Ways To Make WoW Gold

Looting
Questing
Farming
Flipping
Crafting
Other Oddities

Looting

Looting mobs for their gold and items to sell to the vendors is one of the most basic ways to collect gold in the World of WoW. Many adversaries will drop coins and items that can also be sold for more WoW gold. Looting is not the best use of your time as a gold maker.

Questing

Questing is another of the most basic ways to get gold in the World of WoW. As we complete quests we are awarded with coins and items for selling or disenchanting (if you are an Enchanter). While questing gold and rewards are a biproduct of leveling you character, there are still better more time efficient ways to make gold in the World of WoW.

Farming

Farming is one of the first steps that most players take on their path towards earning gold within the auction houses in WoW. Farming involves either killing select creatures or mobs for specific items that they drop or farming various material resources from out in the wild of the World of WoW. Farming is more commonly referred to for the gathering professions – Mining, Herbalism, Skinning, and Tailoring. Killing creatures or humanoids over and over for the items they drop is also commonly referred to as Grinding. Selling those farmed items on the auction house is a sure fire way to increase your gold reserves. Be sure to check out the Beginner’s Guide To Farming here at Goldgrub’s Goblin Academy.

Flipping

Flipping items is a very easy gold making strategy if you know what to buy and what to sell. Some npc vendors sell limited quantity recipes that are almost always going to sell for more on the auction house than you originally paid for the item from the original npc vendor. Once you understand the various markets and their market cycles in the World of WoW, you will be able to identify items that you can buy now and sell for more later. Grossly underpriced items can be snatched up and flipped for a near instant profit. So you can make gold off flipping items from other players or from items sold off of npc WoW vendors.

Crafting

Crafting involves the fine art of buying raw materials and converting those raw materials into finished usable products such as armor, gems, enchantments, weapons, glyphs, etc. Crafting is where we make the most of our profession choices in the World of WoW. Many of us serious gold makers have multiple crafting characters (commonly referred to as crafting mules if their sole purpose is just crafting) so that we can cover multiple markets by utilizing multiple crafting professions. Crafting is probably the best over all World of WoW gold making option as long as you are educated on what items to craft and sell for a profit.

Other Oddities For Gold Making

Other odd ways to make gold include options such as GDKP runs. A GDKP run is a run through a raid instance where all dropped items go up for auction and each member of the raid has the option to bid on the item and pay gold to win the item. The highest bidder of each items pays gold into the pot and at the end of the raid all gold is split evenly amongst all of the participants. This is a nice way to make gold with a higher level character and often the BoE items obtained from within the raid can sell on the auction house for far more than your winning GDKP bid.

Dancing naked on top of a mailbox and begging for tips are another oddball options that can earn you gold, although your time is almost definately more wisely invested in any of the other gold making options in the World of WoW.

So there you have it. The 6 main methods used in how to make gold in the World of WoW are all available to everyone of us. Using a combination of these gold making options in WoW will help secure your seat atop that throne of gold.

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5 Things Not To Forget Once You’re Maxed

September 13, 2011 1 Comment

This post was inspired by one of my newer guildies. He’s quite young & although a very good player, he’s never really looked into gold making. I sent him to my blog & pointed out my blog roll. Ten minutes later on skype, he said that he’d learned something new to him & told me what it was. I was kind of surprised that he didn’t know it already because he’s a pretty smart cookie but it made me think of what else I take for granted that might not be so obvious to new goldmakers & so this post was born! I hope it helps any inexperienced readers to make some gold but also, it is a sharp reminder to the more experienced of us, not to forget some of the simpler thngs that we can do once we’re playing with our maxed professions.

Skinning & Leatherworking

When you first start skinning, you get a lot of Ruined Leather Scraps which I clearly remember selling to a vendor when I was totally new to game. If you don’t have a Leatherworker, you could learn it on a bank alt as converting these scraps to Light Leather is one of the very first skills you gain. Light Leather always sells for a better price than the scraps but there are also Knothide Leather Scraps, Borean Leather Scraps & Savage Leather Scraps at the higher levels which a Leatherworker can convert to their respective leathers or even, one step further into the ‘Heavy’ versions.

During Wrath, I found that Heavy Borean Leather always sold for a higher price than the normal version & so far, in Cataclysm, the same seems to be holding true for Savage Leather & Heavy Savage Leather. I used to use Heavy Borean Leather to trade in for Arctic Furs & now I use Heavy Savage Leather to trade in for Pristine Hides.

Mining

This was the little tip that my guildie didn’t know – bars of metal often sell for a higher price than the ore. This can work at all levels – if you think which professions use bars (Blacksmith, Jewelcrafting & Engineering as well as a few for rare Tailoring or Leatherworking patterns) then it seems to a newer player that pairing those professions with mining is an obvious choice. However, once they have maxed their Blacksmith/JC/Engineer, players often drop their mining for a second crafting profession. This leaves them reliant on the Auction House for their supply of bars & that leaves them open to paying slightly higher prices!

This can work at all levels of mining from Copper & Tin all the way upto Elementium & Pyrite ore but that’s not all. There are also a few ‘special’ bars that a miner can make – namely Enchanted Thorium Bar, Hardened Khorium, Hardened Adamantite, Titansteel & of course, Hardened Elementium. Currently I make Enchanted Thorium (to craft & disenchant) & Hardened Elementium but as always, check your own servers’ markets. The Khorium & Adamantite are very rare on my server mainly because they are the older outdated max level items & there is not much demand for level 70 epic gear anymore. Titansteel is also the old outdated version of the current max level bar but it is used by Engineers to make the chopper/hog which is still selling for good price on my server – there may be a market there on your server.

Jewelcrafting

If you have mining as well, this one can be very useful – check the prices for gems at all levels – often the lower level ores sell for a pittance whilst the gems you can prospect from those ores sell for silly high prices. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have a miner, just buy those low priced ores & prospect away! If you’re not sure which ore prospects to which gems, auctioneer can add that information to your tooltip or you can check it out under ‘prospecting‘ on wowhead.

Tailoring

Unlike ores, converting various cloths into bolts is not quite so reliable. However, some bolts of cloth do sell very well & for me that’s the Imbued Frostweave. I would say, as always, check your own server – in the past, I had good sales with bolts of Netherweave cloth & even Wool.

The other items not to overlook in Tailoring are the Netherweave Bags (very good seller on almost every server, it’s a very common tip) but also the shirts, trousers & robes especially if you are on a Role Play server. With the introduction of Transmogrification in the next patch, there could be an upsurge in the shirts market especially if people want to colour match to their new set.

Enchanting

As with Tailoring, this one’s not quite so reliable but I have been having some nice profits from this one for a while now. Raid your AH for all the very, very cheap ‘green’ armor & weapons & disenchant them. You will mostly be finding the very lowest item level greens but sometimes you can pick up higher level items to disenchant to dream dust or arcane dust for example.

I’m also an alt-addict so I almost always have an alt somewhere levelling & picking up cloth as they go. For any linen & wool, if the price of the cloth on the AH is very low, I craft it into the cheapest green item I can then disenchant that. I often look for very very cheap linen cloth on the AH & craft that too.

Well, there ya go, I hope this helps. Let me know in comments if you think of something I should have included here or if you try one of these tips, let me know how it goes!

Happy Goldmaking

Nev

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Leveling Your Alt Toon

September 9, 2011 1 Comment

So, you decided to make an alt toon but are dreading the leveling you will have to face? No worries anymore. WOW has made it quite simple to level your toons a bit faster. If you have a main toon that is 85, you can always send mats, gold etc to your alt toon to help it along with professions as well. Mining and Herbalism do grant you extra experience if you choose to learn these specific professions.

Guild Perks

First of all, if your toon is an alt, you may already be part of a guild which has guild perks. One great guild perk is achieved at Guild Level 2. This guild perk gives your toon an extra 5% increase when completing quests and killing monsters. If you are part of a guild whose level is already 6, you get a 10% increase when completing quests and killing monsters.

Blue Bar, Blue Bar!

No matter which starting area you start at or which faction you choose, questing is easy. I went up to level 5 easily within 30 minutes of playing my alt toon. One thing you want to make sure of before you turn in any quests is that your experience bar (which is located above your ability/user interface bar) is blue and not purple. When you turn in a quest and your bar is blue, you get 200% of the experience instead of 100%. You will turn purple if you fight or kill something but if you are simply turning in quests, your bar can remain blue as long as you rest at an inn or major city. This means you must stay there until your bar turns blue or leave your toon and log off for a bit.

Quests

Questing is a great way to level up your toon as well. I usually take quests which are orange (coloring of the quest title) and yellow. If a quest turns green on me, I will abandon it. Keep in mind as you are completing quests, you are also killing monsters, beasts, etc. So you are getting experience from killing things as well as completing the quests. Don’t forget to rest at an inn or any major city before you turn in your completed quests.

Battlegrounds

Once you reach level 10, you unlock two battlegrounds: Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin. The interesting thing about battlegrounds is that if you enter while your experience bar is blue, it will not turn purple when you are playing a battleground. Of course, you can earn honor points and experience in these battlegrounds. You can receive double experience and honor points if one of the battlegrounds happens to be Call To Arms as well. Your honor points can be stored (cap is 4000) until you are ready to purchase something with them.

Dungeons

When you reach level 15, you are eligible to enter random dungeons. Dungeons are another great way to level your toon quick. Not to mention, you will get gold, extra experience and a bag of goodies which usually contain a rare piece of gear.

Questing, battles and random dungeons are all great ways for you to level up your alt toon. Chances are you may know the quests from previous toons as well as the dungeons. I have seen some of my guild mates level up 10 levels very quickly. Hopefully these basic tips can help you when you are ready to make an alternate toon. Good luck!

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5 Ways to Make Gold on a Low Level Bank Alt

September 7, 2011 Leave a Comment

Almost every gold blog going has suggested a low level bank alt for newbie goldmakers – it’s a basic necessity when you first start out on your gold making journey. I’d also say it’s a necessity when you first start playing the game or when you want to start fresh on a new server. Having the ability to just mail everything saleable to one alt & then list it at the AH later saves so much time while questing & you maximise your profits instead of vendoring or just deleting stuff to make space!

Now I always feel the need to level my banker a little – probably because I really enjoy those first lowbie zones but also (especially on a new server) because it raises a little cash to start the ball rolling. But my banker doesn’t just sit in Stormwind, oh no – she has work to do as part of my gold making routine. I thought I’d list just a few of the things my bankers do for me & how your banker can work a little harder for you too.

1. Limited Supply Vendor Recipes & Pets

I pretty much covered this in last week’s post re the RecipeProfit addon but for my banker – she just does a run around Ironforge with an occasional side trip to Darnassus or Exodar to purchase any recipes/patterns/plans etc that are available from various vendors.

For the pets, I have found the Moth Eggs from Exodar are my best sellers with the White Kitten available in Stormwind from Lil Timmy selling for the highest price. Unfortunately Timmy is on a 3hour spawn timer so getting a regular supply of White Kittens is difficult.

2. Flipping items on the AH – Buy Low, Sell Higher

Using Auctioneer or Auctionator, you can often find some really good deals – I tend to stick with trade items like cloth or low level gems (malachite/star ruby/aquamarine especially). I tend to stay away from armor & weapons purely because prices can vary so much, they can take a while to resell & the AH deposit fees are usually quite high. One or two relists & you could easily wipe out any profits.

3. Cooking

Yes, cooking! If you base your alt in one of the capital cities that has cooking dailies, you can do the cooking daily to get XP & some cash & spend your Chef’s Awards on the bag of Imported Supplies. Once opened, it will give you Cocoa Beans – usually 2 stacks which you can sell on the AH. Check the price of Chocolate Cookies on your server & price your Cocoa Beans just below – that way, the Cookie Makers will be able to buy your beans & still make some profits.

Obviously, if you’ve levelled your banker much higher then you can also look on the AH for meat & fish to cook up into buff foods – watch the prices for a few days before jumping in though – I find buff food prices to be very erratic on my server.

4. Inscription

This one isn’t for everybody as it does require some ‘nursing’ to get the best returns. I did a post on my own blog back at the beginning of July with a level 10 bank alt glypher – I won’t try to re-write the post here but basically, if you can get really cheap herbs on your server, you can probably make a nice profit on glyphs & Darkmoon Faire Decks.

5. Tailoring/Enchanting

Why these two professions in particular? Well I’m aiming this at people who are still levelling new characters through the lowest zones – you will pick up shedloads of linen cloth & wool cloth & although you could just sell it on the AH, I have often found that prices for a stack are ridiculously low due to the almost unlimited supply. It also doesn’t matter what professions you have on your levelling alts – they will pick up cloth anyway. However, when you use this cheap linen to make into something using your tailoring (for example, Brown Linen Pants) , you can then disenchant it & sell the enchanting materials for a much higher price.

You can also search the AH for armor & re-sort the listing to show by lowest bid price – anything below say 50silver may be worth bidding on to be disenchanted. I’ve been doing exactly this on my main server – my budget is a little higher as I have maxed my enchanting & I am looking for materials across the whole range but I am still making some nice profits. Not huge profits admittedly but that’s not actually the aim for me – I’m trying to get the Guild Achievement!

I’m sure there are loads of other ways to make gold with a low level banker – what’s your favorite method of maximising your bank alt?

Til next week

Nev

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Here Fishy Fishy…

August 26, 2011 2 Comments

Every time I see a yellow dot indicating a fishing pool, I fish. I do enjoy fishing even though most dread it. The one thing I have noticed on my realm is the lack of fish available for sale in the auction house. I decided to farm for any fish I could find in the areas I was questing. You must obtain a Weather-Beaten Journal to track these pools in your map. The Weather-Beaten Journal can be obtained in: daily fishing bags or any crate/box you pull up from fishing pools. This journal can only be learned when you have obtained a fishing skill of 100.

My Fishing Trip

I was out leveling up my mining skill on one of my toons when I decided to level up her fishing as well. Anytime I saw a specific pool on my map, I would plop down, turn on my music and fish in serenity. I probably did about 30 minutes of fishing in an area that was abundant with Oily Blackmouth and Firefin Snapper fishing pools. I obtained close to 30 Oily Blackmouth and about 20 Firefin Snapper. Since I had no use for the fish at that time, I decided to check the auction house and see what they were going for. One person had 1 Oily Blackmouth up for 10 gold. I ended up putting the Oily Blackmouth up for 30-35 gold buyout per stack of 5. Oily Blackmouth are used to make Blackmouth Oil for Alchemists. I checked the Firefin Snapper and saw that there were none for sale. I put the Firefin Snapper up for 45-50gold per stack of 5 just to see if they sold. Firefin Snapper is used to make Fire Oil which is also used for Alchemists. Within the day, all of my fish had sold. I checked my realm for different fish that I could fish for and ended up reaping in nice benefits. I farmed for fish for the next week and even had a guild mate make me a Lure Master Tackle Box to hold all my fish.

My Results

I gathered many stacks of different fishes for various professions. I sold 80-85% of all the fish I farmed for within 3 days totaling almost 1000 gold! Please note that every realm is different but nevertheless, a little research on which fish are selling great on your realm’s auction house is encouraged. You can check out The Undermine Journal for what fish are selling well on your realm. Even though fishing can be boring and tedious to some, don’t underestimate the profit you can get from farming these fish. I will also add that the Deepsea Sagefish sells for close to 175 per stack of 20 on my realm. This fish is used to create a delicacy which most healers and casters hunger for in 85 dungeons and raids. Even the two created foods: Delicious Sagefish Tail and Severed Sagefish Head sell for a nice profit on my realm. All you need to do is check out what is selling, grab your strong fishing pole and turn up the music. Oh, one more thing…it doesn’t hurt to say “Here Fishy, Fishy” as the pupils in your eyes turn into gold coins.

Filed Under Farming, Professions, Uncategorized Tagged With auction house, Farming, fishing, grinding

Fab Profession Addons

August 24, 2011 3 Comments

Getting started with professions can leave you going round in circles (just like the Malygos fight for me). Some professions (especially Engineering) have numerous crafted components that you need to make before you can craft the final item you wanted in the first place! The standard craft UI (User Interface) is very simple to use but it doesn’t have a crafting queue or any way of making life easier.

Advanced Trade Skill Window (ATSW)

That’s where the following two addons come in handy. The first one I use on all my alts for every craft is Advanced Trade Skill Window, ATSW for short (screenie below). I’ve purposely picked my Engineering alt to show you this nifty addon & how it simplifies things for multi component items. Below, you can see I’ve decided to make 5 Mechanical Squirrel Boxes which needs 4 components – 2 of which are also crafted by engineers. ATSW has automatically added the basic crafted components to the craft queue so I don’t have to manually work out how many copper bars I need to make the copper modulator, the handful of copper bolts & the mechanical squirrel box.

My next move would be to close this window down, go to my bank & use this addon to get all the basic materials out of the bank for me (this setting is in the Options tab, top right of the window). No more hunting various bags for all the bits, just 1 or 2 clicks & it gets them for you. Next move to the anvil & start crafting. How easy is that?

You can sort the various items by categories (default), by name (very handy when you know the name but not the category) or by difficulty level (more on that in a minute). There’s a manual search bar & a drop down menu for the various categories which I use mostly on my enchanter when looking for, say glove enchants.

Lil’ Sparkys Workshop

The second addon I want to tell you about today is Lil’ Sparkeys Workshop. This addon works with ATSW & basically uses your Auctioneer scans (you have been doing them regularly, haven’t you?) to calculate costs & profits for each craftable item. You can see an extra column of figures in the screenshot below – that’s the Lil Sparkey’s results and if you hover over one of the results figures, you get the little pop out window shown at the bottom right, which gives you the breakdowns.

You can also see that I have sorted the craftables by difficulty for this screen shot. When I first started playing, I took skinning & leatherworking & levelled both gradually as I was questing & levelling my character. I wish I had known about these 2 addons then! I would have made the most profitable items that could give skill ups rather than the item which used the least mats.

These days when I level a profession, I use the Lil Sparkeys profit figures as a guide to which of the skill up recipes to make. In the above screenie, you can see there is a huge profit to be made on the Gnomish Net-O-Matic Projector but if you look at the item details, Auctioneer has only seen 2 of them & this item is only useable by Engineers so I wouldn’t be counting my chickens on this one. (screen shot of Item data given by Auctioneer, not for the Net-O-Matic but you get the idea!)

Whilst the Unstable Trigger is only showing as 4g 81s profit & it’s a green skill up (less chance of a skill point), if my aim is to maximise profits whilst levelling then that is the obvious choice. Sometimes it’s lots of little profits to get to the same place in the end. Don’t be blinded by those big numbers, engage your brain & think about what your addons are showing you.

Hope this helps Have fun, get rich

PS You can click on the screenshots to get larger, easily readable versions.

PPS I originally posted this on my blog but it fits so well here too, Cold said I could bring it over

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Making Money 101 – 6 Easy Lessons For WoW Gold

August 23, 2011 4 Comments

Making Money 101 6 Easy Lessons For WoW Gold

Today we have a guest post from a freelance author, Laraku of Skywall Horde. Intersted in being published at Goldgrub’s? Check out the information for Guest Posters.

Recent Conversation In Orgrimmar

[X] Can any1 give me 5 gold, lvl 14 just started this server?
[Me] lol, by lvl 14 I had over 300g
[K] no way
[X] liar
[Y] impossible
[Z] only if you got it from another character
[K] how is that possible?
[Me] :> making money 101 – 6 easy lessons, interested?

I am assuming you are starting on a server with no other resources.

Lesson 1: Gather

Get yourself started with Skinning and either Mining or Herbalism.
Skin, you are killing mobs anyway, dont leave gold laying on the ground.
Gather ore or herbs, it does not matter which, both are in constant demand.
Commit to gathering until at least level 80.
The other professions will not help your gold balance until you have a healthy bankroll and knowledge.
The Secondary professions, Cooking, First Aid and Fishing are good to get started asap.
They cost little to start and can be helpful to your leveling efforts.

Lesson 2: Make a bank alt

Create a new character, spend the 1/2 hour needed to quest up to level 5.
Then run to nearest city and park yourself between the mailbox and auction house.
The job of the bank alt is to receive everything your main character acquires and sell it on the Auction House.

Lesson 3: Maximize questing / leveling time

Sell all grey items. (Loot Filter add-on)
If you can wear it or eat it, keep it. Otherwise mail everything to the bank alt.
This way you only need to go to the city to train. And that only happens every 2 levels.
I recommend Postal add-on to help with handling your mail.

Lesson 4: Bags, Bags, Bags

The more bag space you have, the less often you need to visit a mailbox, which interrupts questing time.
Bags should be the #1 item on your shopping list.
Fill you bank alts bank slots with bags also.
So what if you can only afford a 6-slot bag to start.
That’s 6 more slots! Or put another way 120 herbs/ore/skins.
Keep an eye on the auction house for cheap bags. Snatch them when you can.

Lesson 5: AH seed money

Everything your bank alt owns/receives goes into the Auction House.
Sell your cloths too! Just a few silver will jump start your AH business.
At this point, just post everything, 48-hours, at whatever the current price is.
You are not maximizing profit at this point, you are acquiring working capital.
If you can, get Auctioneer add-on to help with posting auctions.

Lesson 6: Buy low – Sell high

Many if not most Wow players have little or no idea what items are worth.
So the auction house is full of deals if you only learn to seek them out.
Start with the trading goods, look at each category, what items are there a lot of?
What items are scarce? Can/did you gather those?
When I started, I only bought items with a price percentage under 30%. (Auctioneer again)
I never had trouble finding trade goods posted that low.
Then I would post the same item back at 80-120%.(the term is flipping an item)
That is correct, every Item sold for double or triple the purchase price!!!
Also, look for items with a very low Bid price. If it is under 1 gold, you might be able to
snatch it up and profit nicely.
Rinse and repeat, if you do this once a day (20-30 min) your bankroll will just keep growing.

There is a staggering amount of ‘gold making’ information available. Seek it out!
So much is available free: Gold Blogs, YouTube videos, Websites.

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