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May 25, 2012 Leave a Comment

Today I present to you a guest post from KhasDylar.  This is an entry for the monthly Cold’s Gold Blogging Carnivals over at Cold’s Gold Factory.

This month, the monthly topic asks participants:

“What Are Some Things You Recommend Players Look Out For While Leveling A New Character In World of Warcraft?“

For creating a new character, the first thing one has to decide: why do I want that character? I want it to be a gatherer alt, a raiding toon, am I rerolling ’cause I’m now bored with my old main? Or just simply want one from that class-race combo too, just to have fun? The most important thing is to set this goal before even creating a new character. This is simply important because you need to know what you want, not just wander around blindly or you are just wasting your time. There are several more reasons why someone could roll a new toon, but I won’t list them all here.

Time is a crucial point while leveling. Depending on your goal, you want either level the fastest way you can (for example: if you want to raid with it) or keep a slow pace.
Let me make an example: two of my friends play WoW only 1-2 months every year, meaning they are not too well equipped with high end help (only me and another friend helps them). I always keep a toon somewhere around their level range to be able to play with them. To ensure that I don’t level faster than they, I simply don’t use Heirlooms. We are in the same guild, so the guild perk bonus is equal for us.

Many players tend to forget about their mains and it’s possibilities, when playing a new character – don’t be that guy! For a lvl85 character it’s not a big problem to send some 20-22 slot bags for the little one and trust me, it greatly helps! Of course, it helps the most for a gatherer alt, but every new toon is gratefull for some new equipment.
If you happen to level a gatherer alt, don’t make the same mistake as I did with mine: I tried to get up the gathering profs while leveling my toon. You’ll be bored to death for sure. A max level character has much more traveling options (use of flying mounts for example) than a lower level one and in most regions he doesn’t have to fear from death, he can go whereever he wants – and the feeling when you AoE a dozen mobs who are guarding your precious mineral node, now that’s priceless!

Another way to use your mains resources are of course the Heirlooms. But hey! Watch where you buy them! Don’t just use the Justice vendors, there is still the Argent Tournament quest hub, where you can collect Crusader’s Seals, these can be used to buy Heirlooms as well. If you have some spare Crusader’s Seal with you from the good old WotLK days, it’s a good time to spend them. Another way to utilise them are the BoE pets: with the incoming Pet Battle System in Mists, their prices will elevate a bit – but that’s another topic.

Once you reach the max level, you stand there with a bunch of ilvl 318-333 stuff across all the slots and you can barely enter a Tier 1 Heroic instance with that. Don’t be afraid to spend some Justice and Valor Points on BoE high end epics: up from ilvl 365 ones ’til 397 Valor BoEs, you can almost equip your fresh toon in all of the slots with shiny purples. With that you can already enter Looking for Raid, where you can shower in the ilvl 384-390 stuff. This is not only important for wannabe raiding toons, but you can level faster with better gear in the upcoming Mists expansion, which is soon upon us!

Some words about the professions and their leveling. As I said above, it’s a good practice to first hit lvl85 (or similar high level) before raising a gathering profession. Of course it’s not forbidden to pick a flower or mine a node once in a while during the levelup, but it’s not worth spending too much time on it. This is still true nowdays, when the gathering also gives experience.
As to every rule, there are exceptions to this one also, Skinning is a good example. If you plan to level with questing, which can be very fun and effective in Cataclysm, you are killing lots of monsters anyway, it would be foolish to leave their pelts rot in the wastes – rather skin them and honor their noble sacrifice.
Enchanting being another exception as you’ll be getting tons of trash greens and blues, which you can’t use anyway. Don’t vendor, rather disenchant them. If you want to level Enchanting later, it will be either expensive or a real pain in the a$$.

So, to summarize my advices: the key point in leveling a new character is time management, because we all want to have fun (be it raiding or just fooling around in Azeroth) and why should we delay ourselves in that?
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Best regards!
“KhasDylar“

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Low Level Items to Craft for Profit – Part 2

August 10, 2011 1 Comment
teacher floored her pupils Low Level Items to Craft for Profit Part 2

Teacher wasn't sure if they were sleeping or stunned by her brilliance!

As promised, this week, I’m looking at the next four professions on my list. None of the items sell in large quantities but the mark up is often huge (on my server anyway) so as always, check out your AH for materials costs & for selling prices before diving in to any new market.

Engineering

Mechanical Squirrel Box – skill level 75, recipe drop in Gnomeregan but can often be found for less than 25g at AH.

Lil’ Smoky – skill level 205, zone drop in Gnomeregan so some farming required. Also requires Fused Wiring (skill level 275)

Pet Bombling – skill level 205, drops from Mechaneer Thermaplug in Gnomeregan.

Fused Wiring – skill level 275 – vendor bought in Shattrath or Winterspring – easy materials & often sells well to other lower level engineers making pets  icon smile Low Level Items to Craft for Profit Part 2

Blacksmithing

Thick Bronze Darts – skill level 100, learned from trainer. One of the earliest thrown weapons & good for skill ups while making a bit of gold too.

Iron Buckle – skill level 150, learned from trainer. Used by tailors & leatherworkers whilst they level.

Dense Grinding Stone – skill level 250, learned from trainer. Used most often for handing in at Darkmoon Faire. Time sensitive so buy dense stone mid month between the Faires & either make these to hand in yourself (some rare patterns drop in goody bags) or price them fairly at time of the Faire.

Enchanting Rods – various skill levels, most are trainer taught. All enchanters need various metal rods as they level but they have to buy them. Fel Iron Rod for example, often sells for 100g or more. Check your AH when you get a rod plan from your trainer & see if they are worthwhile crafting for your server.

Jewelcrafting

Delicate Copper Wire – skill level 1, trainer taught. These give around 30 skill up points when you first learn JC. They are also used by Engineers to make their Fused Wiring mentioned above. Cheap to make & a reasonably profitable item to make for other lazy JC’ers.

Mithril Filigree – skill level 150, trainer taught. These sell OK on my server, small profits but regular, especially if I can get a good deal on the mithril ore or bars!

Other items to look for – several other component type items – all sell ok for me. Low level rings can sell well but often a full market as other levellers fill the AH. Look for low mat costs to make items to disenchant (if you have an enchanter too) – think Obsidium Shuffle for low level ores – check ore prices against gem prices & prospect for profit.

Enchanting

Enchanted Thorium Bar – skill level 250, trainer taught. If you have a blacksmith available, use these to make Enchanted Thorium Blades to disenchant for Greater Eternal Essences. If not, you can still sell these at a small but regular profit to Blacksmiths

Enchant Weapon – Agility – skill level 290, reputation purchase from Timbermaw quartermaster in Felwood. Sounds difficult to get but I did it in under 2hours from Neutral to Exalted reputation. Regularly sells for over 800g on my server but needs Essence of Air so you may need to farm for those.

This was a tough one for me. I don’t make any low level enchant scrolls but I do disenchant low level green quality items on a regular basis for dusts and essences. Search the armor & weapons categories only, sorting by bid price, lowest first. Bid on any green item less than say 50silvers then re-sort the AH to search by Buyout price. If there aren’t many low level items to disenchant at this price level, you can raise your buying threshold but look for slightly higher level items too.

 

So there we go – a fairly brief list of some of the items I’ve found to be profitable on my server across various professions. I think you can see that having multiple professions is very, very useful – even at low levels. Next week, I’m planning on rounding up a few items from the remaining professions – Mining, Fishing, Skinning etc. I hope you find this a useful starting point on your gold making journey.

Until then, happy gold making

Nev

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Low Level Items to Craft for Profit – Part 1

August 3, 2011 3 Comments
student kneeling to listen 300x265 Low Level Items to Craft for Profit Part 1

The student knelt to hear the teachers' quiet words

This week, I thought I’d take a look at some of the lower skill level items that various professions can craft for some decent profits. If you are just starting out on your gold journey or even your first character then this list may prove useful. None of the items sell in large quantities like the top end consumables do but they sell regularly & if you pick up the materials as cheap as possible, the profit margins can be huge.

As always, these are general tips – you need to check your own Auction House for prices of the finished item & the materials required. I would try to build a list of materials that you need & check prices regularly. If you see anything really underpriced – snatch it up quickly whether you need it today or not. Spider’s Silk is particularly useful to snatch when cheap – not only is it fairly scarce but it stops your competitiors getting cheap mats too!

Leatherworking

Toughened Leather Armor – skill level 120, learned from trainer. Perfect for level 19 twinks & anyone with a little gold to spend who doesn’t have the Heirloom chest piece yet.

Toughened Leather Gloves – skill level 135, learned from trainer. One of the earliest available ‘blue’ items & useful for its’ great stats

Tailoring

Spidersilk Boots – skill level 125, learned from trainer. Another ‘blue’ item that is perfect for twinks

Spidersilk Drape – skill level 125, learned from trainer. Also a low level ‘blue’ item, this one may not sell quite as well due to the availability of Heirloom cloaks but they do sell & at nice prices.

Alchemy

Elixir of Defense – skill level 130, learned from trainer. Used by Leatherworkers to craft the Toughened Leather Gloves – if there’s a good gloves market, these should sell pretty well too.

Transmute Arcanite – skill level 275, learned from a recipe sold in Gadgetztan by Alchemist Pestlezugg. Great profits if you snap up arcane crystals fro 1-2g.

Inscription

Certificate of Ownership – skill level 200, learned from trainer. These sell occasionally & for good profits but watch your AH before diving in

Mysterious Tarot cards (Rogues Deck) – skill level 85 / Strange Tarot cards (Swords Deck) – skill level 125 & Arcane Tarot cards (Mages Deck) – skill level 175 – these are all learned from your trainer & provide a way to use up the ‘rare’ inks that you will build up whilst crafting glyphs. If you are pricing your glyphs properly & selling those at profit, these decks can almost be counted as pure profit but don’t let that make you lazy – price them at reasonable prices (not bargain cheap prices). They sell really well when the Darkmoon Faire is in your capital city or in Shattrath but not so well when the Faire is at the opposing faction capital. You can check your in-game calender for when & where the Faire is arriving each month.

 

Next week, I’ll be looking at Blacksmithing, Engineering, Jewelcrafting & Enchanting. In the meantime, do you have any favourite low level items you sell regularly? Would you like to share them with us? Drop us a comment, always appreciated!

Small disclaimer – I’ve tried to stick with trainer taught items or unlimited supply plans/recipes. Some of my favourite low level items come from patterns that I’ve picked up while questing & learned but when I checked Wowhead, the drop rates were so low, I decided not to include them here.

Until next week then, I bid you good gold making

Nev

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