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Low Level Items to Craft for Profit – Part 3

August 17, 2011 4 Comments

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As promised, a round up of a some items for the last few professions in the list. In Part 1 here, I covered leatherworking, tailoring, alchemy & inscription whilst in part 2 here, I covered engineering, blacksmithing, jewelcrafting & enchanting. This week, I thought I’d round up a few odd bits & pieces from the gathering professions of mining & skinning as well as the secondary professions of cooking & fishing. I’m not going to look at Archeology for 2 reasons 1) I haven’t had a go at it yet & 2) I’m not sure it’s really a gold making profession as such!

Mining

Mining is mainly a gathering profession but you can also smelt the raw ores into bars. This on it’s own can sometimes be a profitable second step. Many miners just put their ores straight onto the AH but it’s worth looking at the price of bars too. Why? Because some Blacksmiths, Engineers & Jewelcrafters buy all their bars from the AH as they dropped mining to use that profession slot for a crafting profession.

The highest priced ores on my server tend to be the Outland ones – Fel Iron, Adamantite & of course, Khorium. Cobalt from Northrend is also in short supply as is Titanium so if your miner is high enough for these zones, you should make some good profits here.

The other processes available to miners that immediately jumped to my mind for this article are -

Enchanted Thorium Bar – skill level 250, learned from the trainer. Used by Blacksmith/Enchanter combination to create & disenchant Enchanted Thorium Blades for Greater Eternal Essences.

Smelt Khorium – skill level 375, trainer taught. Khorium is a rare ore in itself so always good profits but the khorium bar is used by engineers to make a Khorium Power Core – a key component of the Turbo-charged Flying Machine. I’ve sold a few khorium bars for 100g each, such is the rarity of this ore & the bars.

Skinning

The beauty of skinning for me is the fact that whilst out questing, you’re killing these creatures anyway, you may as well make the most of them! Once you hit skill 100, you can divide your skill level by 5 to find out what level mob you can skin. So, for example, if your skill is 200, you can skin mobs upto level 40.When skinning, you don’t just get leathers, you can also pick up hides, various scales like black dragonscale, turle scale, fel scale but also arctic fur (Northrend) and in Cataclysm zones, a Strange Bloated Stomach (eeewww!) which gives you a random bonus of volatiles.

The most expensive skinned items on my server are heavy leather, rugged leather and of course, savage leather (Cata) but all hides & the various scales also sell well.

Herbalism

It’s difficult to pick a particular bit of herbalism for this article as so many herbs sell well at all levels. Particular ones to watch prices for are Briarthorn & Goldthorn as well as all the Outland ones (Felweed, terocone, dreaming glory etc).

Fishing

Not renowned for being the most profitable pastime but there are a few fish which sell really well. Many of the cataclysm fish are used for the highest level buff foods so these are a fairly obvious good money item but lower down the scale, alchemists need Oily Blackmouth & Firefin Snapper to name just 2. I find these sell for a nice price albeit slowly as you need a levelling alchemist to be looking for them. If you really enjoy fishing, there are some great pets & fishing rods to be fished up as well as 2 fishing competitions on the weekends. Head over to Els Anglin’ for all things fishing related – it’s got everything you could ever wish to know about fishing in WoW.

Linking in to Cooking below, you can also visit Wailing Caverns & Northern Barrens for the Deviate Fish. It sells well on its’ own & if you eat it, you get a random, shortlived effect.

Cooking

The most profitable cooked items are of course, the top level Cataclysm buff foods but as I mentioned briefly above, cooking your Deviate Fish into Savory Deviate Delight will almost always make you more money! This recipe used to be a very rare drop but I recently levelled a lowbie hordie & got 4 in one session of questing in the Northern Barrens. If you are Alliance, have a look on your AH if you don’t want to farm the recipe – there are usually quite a few available at reasonable prices but I wouldn’t pay more than say, 20gold.

The other way to make a bit of gold with cooking is to do the cooking dailes in the main cities which rewards about 10g as well as a Chef’s Award. You can only do 1 cooking daily per day per character but if you are lower level, they do award good XP & you can use the Chef’s Awards to buy a bag of Imported Supplies containing lots of Cocoa Beans. Cold nicknamed me the Chocolate Cookie Queen – at one point, I was converting the cocoa beans into Chocolate Cookies with my maxed cook & selling maybe 800 cookies per week! Even if you don’t have maxed cooking yet, a level 10 or above can do the cooking dailies to get the cocoa beans. Most bags contain at least 20 & sometimes 40 cocoa beans which I was selling at 1g each!

So there we go – all professions covered except archeology & first aid. I hope you’ve found this series helpful & I’m always open to comments or suggestions for any items you think I have missed.

Until next week, happy gold making

Nev

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Low Level Items to Craft for Profit – Part 2

August 10, 2011 1 Comment
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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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