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Alright, well, as many may know, at 70 there are 2 big spots for levels 67-70. These are Netherstorm and Shadowmoon Valley. It works very well if you level JUST in Netherstorm, don't go anywhere near Shadowmoon. Once you hit 70, get your skills, and stuff, and head to Shadowmoon. Get to the village, flight paths, and other important things. Get all the quests there. Start completing these quests. On my shadow priest, it took me about a whole day to complete over half these quests, with the help of a friend. I had 650g in one day, and it was simple, plus the bonus of getting blues and greens, I made about another 100g. 750g in one day. Simple, huh? Also, these 2 add-ons will help VERY much:CartographerQuest HelperIt's June 13, 2008, and both these add-ons are updated and very useful. It should cut off about 2 hours that you would have spent using on finding locations. Hope this helps!

WoW Gold Tips

1. Do not bother with "finished product" trade skills. Jewelcraft, Smithing, and others. They can be a good once you finish them, but they finished down gold trying to level them up.

2. Pick up harvesting skills whilst leveling up. Use mining and skinning. Try and find areas in your maps where there are animals to be skinned and mining nodes. You will make lots of gold. Some areas u can think of off the top are Hillsbrad, some areas in the wetlands, the badlands (whelps in the eastern part of the zone are astonishing for mid to late level 40), durotar, and the Barrens all have several good areas. A good range of levels you can coat between those zones as well.

3. Do not bother buying great gear players. If you are a melee, spend up some money on a good weapon to level faster, but do not worry too much about the rest. You out level gear speedily, so spending tons of money on gear you will be done with in a week is kind of dump. Just get polite greens and be happy with it.

4. Sell all your skins and ores at the auction house. This should go without saying, but I watched a friends of mine vendoring it and gets lot of gold.

5. Do not turn your ores into bars. They sell better as ore and this will make lots of money for you.

6. Sell most gear at the auction house; it will net your more than vendors. But be smart about it. Think if anyone would actually use it. A cloth item with agility and strength is not useful to anyone.

7. Be a solo. Obviously, group up for fun and study to learn how to play in a group player, but as far as cash is concerned, solo is way better to farming. As long as you are skinning and mining you will make way more money than you will from instances. And while you can get several good gears in instances, refer to point 3. You will shortly out level it.

With your gold, u can easily level up, and be a power full player with your money. Buy a “flying horse” to become more power full…good luck.

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The Ultimate Gold Farming Spot Guide

TANARIS

Southsea Pirates(72,44)

There is a Southsea bandit town in eastern Tanaris. The place is called Lost Rigger Cove and you can get there by going through a tunnel. The place is full of level 43-45 pirates who must be very easy to farm on high levels. These guys drop some nice silver, Mageweave and Silk Cloth and also have a good drop tariff for blue/purple items for such a low level mob which make grinding them worthwhile.

UN’GORO CRATER

Devilsaurs

Generally Un’Goro Crater is a great zone for skinners as there are so many kinds of skinnable mobs. It is even better if you can kill Devilsaurs (level 52-55 elites) which can be skinned for Devilsaur Leather (be able to sell for 50 gold per stack). Devilsaurs patrol
6 different paths around Un’Goro and respawn relatively rapidly which means that you can basically do circle around the crater killing Devilsaurs non-stop. Soloing Devilsaurs and Ironhide Devilsaurs should not be too hard on level 60. I’d recommend avoiding Tyrant Devilsaurs though because they have a spiteful Fear ability.

WINTERSPRING

Ice Thistle Yetis(67,40)

These guys are huge for skinners. Not only do they drop nice vendor trash stuff, green items and sometimes blue/epics buy you are able to also skin them for Rugged Leather and Thick Leather which make farming them greatly worthwhile. You will find tons of Ice Thistle Yetis from a huge area North and East from Everlook.

Lake of Kel’Theril(53,42)

There are plenty of level 54-55 ghosts around this lake. (Suffering/Anguished Highborne, etc.) These ghosts are attractive weak, drop 2-8 silver, a lot of green items and even have a tiny change of falling epics. Random chests also spawn on this area. The lake is often deeply farmed but other than that it is a great farming spot.

Also, a weekly water fundamental invasion also takes place around the lake. It go on until the boss, Princess Tempestria is slain. The elementals have a good drop speed for Essence of Water and the boss drops good very precious blue items like Ace of Elementals. You should better group up for the boss though, soloing her is not impossible but still pretty hard to act.

WoW Making Money

Introduction
It’s no lie, everyone in World of Warcraft (WoW) needs money. The only problem is how difficult is to gain. Truthfully though, money isn’t very hard to come by and you don’t even need to rely on the secondary market (gold farmers) to get the items you need or want.
Getting money in WoW can be as simple as slaying turtles over and over or taking up a tradeskill. It can be as complex as buying items low then selling high. It all depends on how much time or effort you need to put forward. What getting money in WoW doesn’t involve is buying it.
It’s not a secret anymore that buying gold is extremely bad for you and the in-game economy. You may think that it’s an innocent act, but in reality you run the risk of losing your account. Blizzard monitors gold farmer’s accounts and watches the mail they send. They don’t give mercy to anyone involved in the secondary market, even the players who purchase the gold. It's right in the ToS that they do not allow selling of gold and with reason! It hurts the market and drives prices up on items making some things way more expensive then they should be.
So read on to find out how you can put some extra money in your pocket with very little extra effort involved or involving yourself with those nasty gold farmers.
General PracticesSmart Purchases, Smart Savings
Before level sixty you should always try to have enough money to buy equipment upgrades along with skills. Everything past that should be saved for later levels (don’t splurge on unnecessary things). At level sixty things get a little different as there is a wealth of really cool items on the Auction House, but their prices have been inflated by gold sellers. I’m going to say this now: it’s a bad purchase to buy any purple item off of the auction house.
You can get almost as good items from running various dungeons (check our instance encyclopedia) which take only a few hours of your time and produce several items a run. Therefore you really only need cash for an epic mount, repairs, and consumables. Dire Maul takes roughly an hour and a half per wing while Scholomance and Stratholme take about two hours. UBRS provides a wealth of loot as well and takes a variable amount of time.
If you aren’t level sixty and want some good battleground items, don’t worry! You can run instances you’ve already completed to get loot drops. You may not get the quest XP/gold but you’ll get the elite enemy XP and plenty of additional blue items.
With that in mind, the best idea to make money is just not spend it! You should only spend money on things you need badly, like repairs and skills.
Before Level Sixty
Before level sixty you are really limited in your ability to farm copper, silver, or gold (depending on your level). You’ve got about two general options. One is to do every possible quest for the quest rewards or go out and grind away on humanoid enemies. Humanoid enemies provide cloth that will sell well on the auction house no matter what (check our grinding section further down). Generally though, not spending too much in the Auction House will allow you to keep enough cash around to buy what you need (skills, equipment, reagents, and repair costs).
To get your mount you should probably invest in at least one gathering skill. Sell everything you don’t need in your inventory on the auction house and try to gather/sell as much stuff from level twenty onwards. A hundred gold isn’t a problem if you keep to buying skills and avoid buying items that give little to no stat bonuses.
At Level Sixty
At level sixty you should be conscious of the efficiency in what you are doing. Watch how much you are taking in and compare it to other methods. Always go with the most guaranteed way of success unless you want to take the risk. Save up your cash and as stated before NEVER BUY PURPLE ITEMS OFF OF THE AUCTION HOUSE! You can always get items that are almost as good as Bind on Equip purple items through pre-Molten Core instances. These items are also generally sold by gold farmers and very few of them are better or as good as Molten Core items. They are just not very smart purchases! Auctioneer
Be sure to pick up this U.I. mod. It’ll let you easily get rid of most of your inventory with little effort. A few clicks and items are up for sale at a very good price. While I wouldn’t use it for high profile/expensive items, but I would use it for crafting materials and any white quality drops. You'll see it mentioned a lot in this guide, since it makes the process of gaining money incredibly easy!
Making Money
Grinding
Grinding away gold works by grinding (the act of constantly killing or doing something over and over) enemies that drop a decent amount of gold and/or loot. This process is generally very time consuming and somewhat boring, but provides a steady income. This is probably the only way you’ll make money before level sixty outside of doing low level crafting and gathering.
When grinding for cash you should always aim for humanoid enemies. Humanoid enemies always drop cloth which can be sold for very good cash on the auction house. They also drop coin and other sellable loot. Not only that, but most humanoid enemies are very weak and easy for all classes to take down (unless they have special abilities). Outside of humanoids, look for things like turtles that have very good grey sell loot.
Gathering
This is one of the best ways to make money. Gathering raw materials for crafting requires very little effort and provides plenty of cash. It’s the preferred method of gaining cash for most everyone. The best way to gather is generally having two gathering skills that compliment each other, like Skinning and Herbalism or Mining and Skinning. If you don’t know, Skinning doesn’t require the mini-map find ability which makes it a good combo for both Blacksmithing and Herbalism.
Skinning: Skinning provides leather off of “skinnable” enemy (generally animals like bears and boars). It’s a great ability that allows you to get extra cash out of any skinnable enemy. It’s highly recommended for anyone leveling up. Here is a little skinning secret! Whenever the Darkmoon Faire comes around, the prices of leather on the auction house skyrocket (as leather is one of the easier paths to increase Darkmoon reputation).
Herbalism: Herbs sell for a lot (well the higher level herbs do along with the lower level Swifthistle). It’s a great gathering skill and provides the comfort of gaining extra cash as you travel the land.
Mining: Mining is a skill that lets you mine for metals then smelt the ore. This skill is perfect for those who don’t mind going out of their way for good bit of extra cash. Metal has a good history of selling well, although the prices seem to differ server to server.
Be sure to grab Auctioneer and mass sell all of your items. It'll make it easier. For herbalism and mining, pick up Gatherer to mark where locations of common items are. Pure Crafting
Crafting is the choice of those looking to make money out of some extra work. Honestly, the only tradeskill that provides a lot extra income is Alchemy. Blacksmithing, Talioring (to some extent) and Leatherworking have little demand outside of special events (like the Darkmoon Faire). Potions are always in demand and even the common recipes provide a good income through potions (Swiftness Potions sell sometimes for over a gold each!). Rare recipes from Leatherworking/Blacksmithing can also provide an excellent source of income, but require more work and patience in finding the materials at a decent price.
Transmuting
You can make some decent cash on a regular basis by selling transmutes (both Arcanite and Mooncloth). You can generally pull in 3-4 gold each time you do a transmutation (depending on the server). That adds up over time and the amount of work required is little. It’s also one of the reasons why Alchemy produces some of the best extra income through crafting.
Some of the special transmutes, such as Undeath to Air can provide a wealth of extra income (depending on the market), but generally the recipes cost way to much to every hope to make the money back. Water to Air though can pull in some good cash, but that really depends on the market on your server.
Disenchanting
All forms of powders and shards are always selling for a lot on the auction house. Disenchanting items generally (not always) pull in twice the income you would have gotten from just selling the item. Not only that, but you can disenchant old gear and regain the cost of it (or near it). Disenchanting is best coupled with a gathering skill or Talioring. Best of all you do not need any skill in Enchanting to disenchant things.
The Auction House
The AH (Auction House) is like a mini-stock market. Buy low and sell high is the theme here. I don’t suggest going by the Auctioneer mod only, as it can often have “corrupted” data (people raising prices on items just to get auctioneer to show a normal price as deal). Use a variety of methods and start with a good bit of cash. If you are smart and do well you can produce a ton of cash by buying and relisting items. However, most of the time you will loose out of on cash as people will not pay too much for items and you have to relist at a lower price.Outside of that, put up everything in your inventory. Grab Auctioneer and use it to mass put your “junk” on the AH. It’ll all pull in some good additional income.
Things to Avoid
Do not scam other players. You can debate the ethics of it all you want, but Blizzard will intervene in any out and out scams. It’s better to have your account then not have your account!
Do not get scammed or buy unnecessary stuff. Compare prices and only buy items you really need. Look for quests that provide armor and weapons instead of buying them off the auction house. Avoid consumables like Swiftness Potions unless you are out PvPing.

WoW Runecloth Farming - Instant respawn

Submitted by Sickmate on Sat, 2006-03-18 08:00.

Runecloth can be a !@#$%^&* to obtain when there are other people taking your mobs. One of the most farmed area of WoW is Kel'Theril in Winterspring. The suffering highbornes be renowned for their runecloth drops & assorted rare drops.

There’s an exploit i found that will allow you to mostly get 2 of these mobs to spawn whenever you want. There is a catch, there's at all times a catch. First you must to have the quest Troubled Spirits of Kel'Theril.

Here’s the quest information, where to obtain it, etc.
http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?wquest=5245

WoW Bloodvine farming

Submitted by whirlwind on Fri, 2006-09-01 07:00.

My hunter collect Bloodvine and voodoo dolls from Zul'gurub(easily doable naked).
I collect a sum of 7 voodoo piles and how ever many herbs i find. This particular run i obtain 5 different voodoo dolls(10gold-15gold) and 3 bloodvine(20gold-25gold).
My record to this day is 6 bloodvine starting one run :). Of course the prices depend on the server, my server is rather low i'd say, and they sell pretty fast.

It is promising to solo this, if you have a AFK Friend or something to remain you in raid, like this!
Summon pet, employ Eyes of the beast, ( pet NEED Dash/dive ) go towards the Enemys, Dash with pet!
Run Quickly Away, pull all mobs from the "Herb" you want, and then, You can Easily Pick the Herb without much difficulty, The longer you appear into the instance, the harder, i've Even Solod the Vodoo thingy ( the one BEFORE Raptor boss (The room before him) So its not that hard)
You get into combat, so you need to run away to a secure spot and Feign Death when you get it. Failed? then Ress pet, And try again, And remain doing this until you get it. Watch out for : Bats, They are fast, Berserkers, They are even quicker. thats all for today!

If you arent saved to the example you can simply zone out leave party and get invited by someone else, if your saved, zone out wait 15 min and zone back in. The instance is reset if you observe the Orange text once you enter..

WoW Farm stratholme with 2 mages

Submitted by Boostland on Tue, 2006-10-17 07:00.

This is possible at level 60 with 3 talent points in to improved blizzard apiece.

It works as follows:

Mage 1 run around using fire blast, arcane explosion and blink to irritate as many mobs as possible without getting killed. Once critical mass is achieved and the mobs are logically close together, hit frost nova.
Mage 2 drops flamestrike followed by imp blizzard. This is a surefire way of receiving the attention of the mobs off mage 1. imp blizzard slows the mob pack to a crawl.
Mage 1 at this point moves behind mage 2 and prepare to drop his blizzard at the nearside edge of mage 2's blizzard. As soon as the first mob moves out of the area of mage 2's blizzard, mage 1 starts channeling.
Mage 2 moves behind mage 1 and repeats step 3 until all is dead.

Mostly it's a safer method of aoe farming than running in and spamming arcane explosion. AE is a more effective technique of dealing damage but it's a little too close for comfort.

WoW Deadwind Pass Farming

Submitted by Assyrian on Fri, 2006-12-01 05:00. Here's a nice circuit for farming vendor trash of the birds in Deadwind Pass. They drop 4-6 pieces of trash per kill, and some of those stacks of 5 sell for up to 60 silver. I made about 2.5g in 5-10 minutes of lolligagging around trying to find the circuit. You could easily makes tons off this.

Here's the map:


Deadwind Pass is located just east of Duskwood. You can vendor your loot at the Innkeeper.
Hope ya guys make some cash off of this! :)

For people who have no idea what to do, ya follow the yellow line ;)

WoW Dire Maul West Solo Farming

Submitted by Boostland on Fri, 2007-01-05 05:13.

The spot you are going to be farming at is the ramp leading down to tendris warpwood(the big tree guy). There is a ledge on each side of this ramp. The mobs you want to target are the groups of trees and the round blue caster things. You can do the larger patrolling trees but they do punt you back so if u screw up youll get punted to the bottom and die. Simply pull a group back to the ramp then hop on either ledge on the side of the ramp near the top. They will run all the way down to the bottom then back up the ledge. If you hop to the middle they will go back to the bottom again then come after you. Then when they start getting near hop to the other ledge. During this time just start casting the second you hop on or off a ledge. Just keep repeating this till the group is dead. One thing to note though is that the tree groups have a healer called a guardian i believe who is colored purple. Do not attack him first. If you attack the regular ones a bit the healer will then begin to heal him but stays locked on him. After the first heal u can then down the healer then down everything else. It takes a bit to get used to but once u have it down its cake. Just gotta have patience with the pulls in between the patrols. Each mob drops good silver and u get greens and grey weapons a lot but the big money is with the librams.of focus that drop in here. Clearing that whole room gives you a decent chance of getting one and it only takes about 30-45 mins to clear the place. These things sell for 3-400g and they go quick.

WoW Warlock Insane Farming

Submitted by Scorpion on Thu, 2007-01-25 05:00.

There's several good aoe spots in the outlands(you can't have mine lol):p It basically takes a team of 2. It could be done if you are an sl lock but just not worth the time. I've powerleveled and farmed with basically every class with this ONE warlock spell. Just have your buddy round up a bunch of mobs and hold them in place while u toss out 5-6 seeds out. I use shadowfury to set it off but if u got a mage that will do just as well. Pallies can easily round up and hold these mobs till you get the seeds off. Even my 66 shaman buddy can do it. Frost mages are real good to ice block then nova and blink out after rounding up the mobs. Warriors work fine too as long as you aren't pullng casters.

Just try it for yourself if you are a lock. First time i tested it i pulled all of andorhol around araj with my blueberry and blew up the whole place in seconds. It's pretty ridiculous. It's bound to get nerfed soon its just not right lol so have fun with it once you get it. I'll give yall the spots once i get exalted with my factions :p

Perfect spot is the manaforge b'naar to the west of area 52 in netherstorm. Full frost mage with points in improved blizzard is by far the best combo ive farmed with. We were pulling roughly 3k rep per hr combined together. Just get the spawn rotation down and pull packs of around 10 geologists. He pulls novas blinks and runs blizzard on them. Start seeding right after the nova. On bigger pulls have him ice block till they all round up on him then nova and blink out.

WoW Buying Gold: How I Lost My WoW Account

Submitted by Benny on Sat, 2007-03-24 11:38.

WoW Easy Gold With Flask Of Distilled Wisdom Recipe

Submitted by VampireChampion on Tue, 2007-05-01 01:23.

WoW Rogue+Maybe Other Class GOLD MINE

Submitted by Mr Tea on Wed, 2007-05-02 11:06.

WoW Gold In Just A Few Hours

My guide will help you get gold in no time @ all

THE GUIDE:

You see I used to be just like you, broke and wanting to quit because I had no money and my character was only lvl 3 but now I have published this guide. You see to get gold there is three professions you can gain to sell things for loads of gold they are: Skinning, Blacksmithing and mining. You see with blacksmithing you can make copper bars and iron bars, heck even if you get gold bars that would be a lot of help and when you have any of those bars you can make Stone that will probably grind it into money but to get the bars you need to go mining to try get the bars out of old gold mines or something similar to that and you are probably wondering how the heck does skinning come into the subject of profiting that will be told now.

If you choose skinning as a profession there are many places you can go to skin creatures and make clothing materials even rare clothes that you can sell to maybe a leather armor merchant. How do I know this you ask? Well I took the advice of another person in spying on every high level people (cheers to the guy who came up with the idea) and got bit by bit out of them of how they got to where they were and I wrote every tip down and scrunched them all together to make a few bigger tips. It was easy but if these people knew I was spying on them (which they probably won't because there are a lot of high level and high profited people out there so they wouldn't no who it was that may have been spying) anyway if u take the advice that I was talking about in the previous last lines about spying on high level people such as level 70s then I wouldn't care because that's why I put up this guide so people would know the secret (sorry about the misspelling people I was just typing too fast) well my arm is getting tired so I'll leave it there for now. P.S If you wish to whisper me in-game I'm in the realm emerald dream and my wow name is listed below.

Author Name: Themolian

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WoW Items To Stock Up On For Easy BC Cash

I don't know about every one else, but it seems at least 50% of my server is planning to pick up jewelcrafting as a profession. At the early levels (until about 150) copper is a huge ingredient, so I'm pretty sure the demand for copper is going to sky rocket for the first few days of TBC... even if there isn't a huge increase in demand (gold), you'll still be able to profit.

Jewelcrafting Guide

So basically what I'm saying is start mining a ton, or buy all the copper on your AH for as cheap as it is right now.

Best place to mine for the horde in my experience is in and around the ravine (thunder something) to the SW of the Orgrimmar gates:

http://www.thottbot.com/?m=545&s=b

Not sure about the best place for alliance, but here's a map of Elwynn Forest showing the general locations:

http://www.thottbot.com/?m=1108&s=b

WoW Another Guide to Making Gold in WoW

Not as complete as I want it to be, but I'll try.
Farming is the process of either running around killing mobs and collecting drops, or
running around gathering raw materials.
Contents
Vendor trash
Raw materials
Recipes
Items
Vendor Farming
First Aid
Alliance
Horde
Miscellaneous Vendor Farming Products
Farming loot falls into the following categories:
Vendor trash
Vendor trash (grey item name) is completely useless loot which NPC vendors will
nevertheless buy from you for good money. No one knows why the hell they want this
crap, but some of it can bring in quite a bit of silver. The trick is knowing which to keep
and which to throw away, especially when your inventory is full. Some addons can
remember vendor prices for vendor trash, so you know which is worth more and which
less. Good examples of vendor trash which bring in some nice money are Speckled Shell
Fragment, Basilisk spine and Soft patch of fur.
Raw materials
Raw materials are used (and used up) in crafting, and can be broken down into the
following categories:
1. Food
2. Herbs
3. Ore
4. Leather
5. Cloth
6. Ingredients
7. Items?
Recipes
Recipes are pieces of paper which teach you specific crafting abilities. Depending on the
profession, they have different names, such as Recipe?, Plan?, Schematic?, Formula?,
and Pattern?. Some recipes are easily found, some are sold by vendors, some are sold by
vendors on a timer, and some must be found by grinding.
Items
Uncommon and Rare Items are any items which are not white or grey. White and grey
items are typically either vendor trash or some kind of raw material. Uncommon items
are green, and rare items are blue. Epic items are purple, and Legendary items are orange.
If you're not going to use these items yourself, you can either disenchant them or sell
them.
Vendor Farming
Vendor Farming is the most morally dubious form of farming. It involves knowing where
to buy skill books and recipes, actually getting to the vendors selling them (they're
usually far out of the way), and then unloading those books and recipes on the Auction
House. The easiest products to vendor farm are first aid recipes.
Vendor Farming is a kind of service. You're making things accessible to people in a
hurry! Many people will happily shell out an extra gold or two rather than waste ten
minutes of their time finding the proper vendor.
Some aggressive people farm vendors on timers, and camp that vendor 24/7 to prevent
anyone else from buying. Since they subsequently charge insane prices for these
products, it's very hard to call this practice a service. It's a monopoly, and a form of
scheming.
First Aid
First aid skill books available for sale from NPC vendors include: Expert First Aid,
Heavy Silken Bandage, and Mageweave Bandage. You can buy up a dozen of any of
these (they're not on a timer) and unload them at the Auction House for double the
vendor price. People always buy these, since they're either too lazy to spend twenty
minutes running (or five minutes flying) to the vendor, or they don't even know where to
get them in the first place.
Alliance
The first aid vendor for the Alliance is in Stromgarde in the Arathi Highlands. He is in
the Alliance-controlled portion of Stromgarde, which is on the right-hand side
immediately next to the entrance.
Horde
The first aid vendor for the Horde is in Brackenwall Village in Dustwallow Marsh. Balai
Lok'Wein is under a tent next to the western entrance of the village.
Miscellaneous Vendor Farming Products
* Frost Oil Recipes
* Deepdive Helmet Schematic: There is a little hut on a cliff in Azshara with an npc that
sells the engineering schematic for the deepdive helmet. He sells it for 35 silver and on
my server these plans fetch around 8–10G on the AH. People dont know its available on
a vendor. Easy way to get there is to swim along the east shore of Durotar into Azshara
and you should see the hut on the cliff as soon as you get there. The plans respawn after
about a half hour or so.
* Mechanical Dragonling Schematic: NPC vendor in the Hinterlands
* Mithril Dragon Schematic: Use the Tarren Mill flight path, then just run around to the
back of Durnhold Keep to the entrance there.
Crafting involves either creating new items, or improving existing items. It typically
takes an assload of money or time to skill up your crafting, especially if you're going for
enchanting. You need a constant and changing supply of raw materials to skill up, and
you need a lot of gold to buy new recipes (from vendors or the Auction House) once your
existing recipes stop giving you skill points.
Contents
Raw materials
Recipes
Professions
Raw materials
You can get raw materials from the Auction House or by Farming. If you buy from the
Auction House, beware of Speculators.
Recipes
You need recipes in order to advance skill in your chosen profession. You can buy
recipes from NPC vendors or from the Auction House. You can also grind to find a
recipe, but they are very uncommon drops.
Beware! Many Auction House recipes are actually available from NPC vendors; they're
just in out-of-the-way places far from civilization. Schemers exploit this by camping out
vendors and buying recipes as soon as their timer runs down. It can sometimes be
difficult to obtain a recipe except through dealing with them. (gold)
Professions
1. Alchemy
2. Blacksmithing
3. Cooking
4. Enchanting
5. Engineering
6. Leatherworking
7. Tailoring
Speculating is a very lazy and parasitic method of making money in WoW. It can take
many different forms, but the basic concept is: Buy low, sell high. Speculating involves
doing almost no work aside from sitting in IronForge/Orgrimmar and constantly bidding
on auctions. Some people frown on this as unfair, manipulative, and mean. Some see it as
a natural extension of the economy. (gold)
Contents
Price Fixing
Tips
Pitfalls
Money Makers
Day trading
Equivalencies
Crappy Greens and Disenchanting
Faction-Specific Items
Personal Accounts
Ethical Concerns
Price Fixing
One method of speculation is Price Fixing. It is a little risky, especially when the item
you're controlling has a high listing fee at the Auction House, but the profit margin can be
extremely high if you're lucky or skilled. Price Fixing also requires a large grubstake in
order to take control and maintain it long enough for you to cash out.
The basic method for price fixing is:
1. Choose a market.
2. Choose a price point.
3. Buy out everything below the price point.
4. Start relisting your product at a substantial premium above the price point.
5. Continue buying out other auctions (or raising their bids) to keep your artificially high
prices competitive.
6. Profit.
Tips
1. Don't list all your product at the same price. Vary it a little. Don't list at exact 1 silver
denominations. Take a hint from retailers and list at 99 silver, 99 copper instead of 1
gold.
2. List using two or more characters so the takeover is less noticeable.
3. The weekends are generally a bad time to list, as everyone has the time to grind and
find things themselves.
4. Don't buy out product that is very close to your price point. Let it sell and save yourself
the trouble of picking it up and selling at a loss (due to AH fees)
5. Enchanting reagents have no listing fee. Within reason, don't compromise on price;
just keep relisting at high prices until it sells.
6. Sell at gradations of price. The higher priced product will make your cheapest
offerings look more reasonable, and when they're gone, the next cheapest will then be
attractive.
7. When possible, overwhelm the market to push other people's product listings off the
first page.
8. Don't try building up your stock quickly. Spend a few days bidding on items with no
buyout. You'll find that you win a surprising number of auctions cheaply.
9. If someone starts undercutting you, either wait them out, let the market crash and
rebuild your stock, collude with them, or buy them out and start listing even higher.
10. Don't try to control the markets with horrible listing fees. It is almost impossible to
make a profit in the Silk cloth market, since the listing fees are so freaking high.
11. Don't try to control ore or common herbs unless you know what you're doing and
you're willing to risk some cash. Low level ore is too common, and high level ore is
generally too expensive. Low level herbs such as Peacebloom are both common and in
low demand.
12. Looking at other sellers on the auction house as competitors is wrong because there's
almost always more demand than there is supply when it comes to lower level trade
goods.
13. If the prices get fucked up and nobody is buying what you have to sell at a reasonable
(read: high) price anymore, don't give up and list for lower. Keep 4–6 auctions at your
standard price and relist if they don't sell. If you do this enough, things will correct
themselves. Don't sell for less unless you need money now. And, really, if you have so
little money that you desperately need more you shouldn't have been doing this in the
first place.
14. Set a buyout price! People hate waiting.
15. DonÂ’t set your initial bid price too much lower than your buyout. ThatÂ’s a good way
to lose money. Conversely, you can bid on the low bids that other people set, and then
sell them back at a profit.
Pitfalls
Price Fixing can bankrupt you in several ways.
1. Overestimating demand.
2. Underestimating supply.
3. Insufficient cash to control the market.
4. Lack of patience and dedication.
5. Intense competition at just below your price point.
The only way to really undercut a price fixer is to buy out all stock, and relist at a 5 silver
or smaller price diference. If you have enough stock listed at close enough – but lower –
than mine, you'll drive me away from that market. Someone did it with Mageweave
(which is almost a loss at the best of times due to 30s deposit on listings) and I've since
sold off the 50+ stacks I had at an incredible loss. If you list mageweave 10s lower than
me, I lose way more than I would stand to gain by buying you out and relisting. --Lukano
Money Makers
Many people have reported great success price fixing the following products:
* Wool
* Linen
* 6, and 8 slot bags
* Ghost Mushroom
* Copper bars
* Greater Fire Protection Potions
Day trading
Some markets fluctuate over a period of hours or days. Before you decide to invest your
time and money, learn the pattern of a particular market. It varies per server depending on
the size of the economy, secondary economies from large guilds, profession distribution
on that server, and other factors.
* Felcloth
* Arcane Crystals?
Equivalencies
In an economy with intelligent, informed traders, you would expect two equivalent
products to command the exact same price. Not true in WoW, because most players are
dumb and uninformed. Sad, but there is no denying it. Thus, we see strange happenings
which are only corrected slowly by the enlightened few. For example, you would expect
steel prices to be fixed to iron prices, since it only takes a bit of time and coal to make
steel from iron. Not so! For some reason, steel and iron seem to be only loosely
connected.
The same applies to many other equivalent products, some of which can be transformed
only one way, while a select fewcan go back and forth. You can exploit this without
even feeling guilty about it, since you're kinda-sorta performing a service. Kinda. Sorta.
1. Iron + Coal -> Steel
2. Copper + Tin -> Bronze
3. Cloth -> Bolts of cloth (careful, bolts are typically not in demand)
4. Greater Essence <-> Lesser Essence
5. Metal bars -> Engineering parts
Crappy Greens and Disenchanting
One rewarding equivalency tactic is disenchanting. You can disenchant any uncommon
or rare item to get dust, essence, or shards (Rares always give you shards, but the cost of
the item is often far more than the cost a shard at the AH). Chance and the level of the
item determine what enchanting reagent, and how much of it, you will receive. You can
make an absolutely insane amount of money if you know the long-term break even point
for a certain level of item. That is, if you buy one hundred items at an average of 1 gold
each, and they disenchant into reagents worth a total of 125 gold, you can earn yourself a
tidy profit auctioning off the reagents you collect.
1. You need an assload of cash to start with. You need to be able to bid on every single
low-priced uncommon (green) item with no buyout in the entire Auction House.
Depending on the time of day and the size of your server, this could mean shelling out 20
gold or 100 gold. Most of it you will get back when you are outbid, but some of your bids
will go unchallenged.
2. Patience. If you win only a few items and they all disenchant into a single vision dust
each, keep buying! Many of your disenchants will result in valuable essences and shards,
just wait! (Note that the level of the item determines how many dust you will get)
3. A good strategy is to bid on any armor or weapon above level 40 or level 45 which is
listed at less than 1 gold. Go through every page in the search results and bid, bid, bid.
Librams, bags, and bullets, however, can NOT be disenchanted, so don't waste your
money.
4. Items level 45 and above will get you the most bang for your buck, but if you lower
your expectations to 40 you can still make money. You just don't make as much on
average, but you're dealing with higher volume so you may actually make more money
this way.
5. You can combine your bargain disenchantable shopping with price fixing of the
reagent market.
6. Set a buyout price. People hate waiting.
7. Enchanting components have no worth to vendors, which means the Auction House
requires no deposit! Don't settle for less, never lower your prices if you can help it. Just
keep relisting until it sells!
8. Use Thottbot to determine what disenchants into what, and AH searches to determine
your serverÂ’s prices. I sometimes use Allakhazam to estimate how well those prices
actually match demand..
9. There are a lot of enchanters who live hand to mouth; that is, they buy what they need
when they need it. It's a good idea to list your essences and shards singly, and your dust
in stacks of 2 or 3 instead of 10. You can do this by holding down the shift key and leftclicking
on a stack, choosing a number in the dialog that pops up, hitting enter, and then
dragging and left-clicking to drop that number, splitting the stack into two stacks. The
fastest way to go about this is to use the right-hand shift key, left-click, then hit enter
right away and clicking an empty inventory slot to drop a single dust. Do this twice
intead of typing “2” or using the arrow buttons. If you sell in stacks of 2, make sure you
inflate your price far past the typical price/dust of a 10-stack. Don't worry! It will sell.
Many dumb enchanters only want a specific amount of dust, they don't care about the
savings they will get from buying in bulk.
Faction-Specific Items
One complicated equivalency which few people bother correcting is in faction-specific
items: pets. Alliance pets are generally cute: kittens, pandas, parrots. Horde pets are icky:
cockroaches and other yucky things. If you're on a non-PvP server, or you know someone
on the opposing faction, you can do some dealing in the Gadgetzan Auction House to
transfer faction pets. A 50 silver pet can easily fetch a few gold at the opposing faction's
capitol city Auction House as long as you don't flood the market and you keep the
technique to yourself.
Ethical Concerns
* Speculation cheats people out of their hard-earned money.
Okay, here's the thing: you can go get this shit yourself. All you have to do is to find a
place where level 15–25 humanoids spawn and you're golden. Free wool for as long as
you care to stay out there. I have absolutely no problem with jacking the prices up on
these goods because the people buying them can all go get them themselves.
Leather, for instance. If someone is buying my leather there's one of two explanations:
they don't want to go out and get leather themselves OR they've decided they can
maintain leatherworking without having skinning as their second profession. In the first
case, who cares? They're paying for the privilege of not doing the work themselves. The
second case is even worse; why should I do the work and make only a tiny profit because
some guy doesn't want to have any gathering trade skills?
Seriously. People make too big of a deal out of AH prices, especially trade goods. No
trade good being sold on the AH isn't freely available, just stop being lazy. Hell, if I
could sell copper stacks for 5g each I'd do it in a second. — Paradoxish
OH NO KINGSBLOOD SELLS FOR 2G APIECE WHATEVER WILL I DO AS AN
ALCHEMIST
Oh, I guess I can go fucking pick it myself. What a concept.— Nail Rat
Scheming is the most heinous form of Speculation. Most forms of scheming involve
tricking people, either directly or indirectly, into (deliberately or accidentally) buying
your goods at an inflated price.
Contents
Good Seller, Bad Seller
Sole Supplier
High Buyout
Scams

WoW Make Gold in World of Warcraft

I wrote this guide to try to help basically two sorts of players: newbies to WoW

and players who raced ahead in levels without learning how to make money (and

wonder why theyÂ’re always broke). Once you learn the tricks, itÂ’s pretty easy to

make good money in WoW. And if youÂ’re willing to work at it a little, you can

become rich.

There is really only one way for players under level 20 or so to get rich in WoW,

and thatÂ’s through picking the right professions. Most professions are moneysinks

at the lower levels. Sure, at higher levels some of these are big moneymakers.

But in general you have to invest a lot of gold to get there. But four

professions are money-makers from the start. These are:

Fishing

Mining

Skinning

Herbalism

All players can get Fishing. It is a “secondary” skill or profession (along with

Cooking and First Aid). All players can get all three of the secondary skills, so get

them as soon as you can (level 5 for fishing). In a nutshell you can at level 10 fish

in some fairly high level areas for certain fish that Alchemists need in their

potions (possibly for Enchanters, too). Please see my HOW TO FISH guide to

learn more. Mining, Skinning and Herbalism are “primaries”, and you can only

learn two of them.

PRIMARY SKILLS OR PROFESSIONS

You can only pick two of these. They include:

Alchemy potion making

Blacksmithing armor and weapon making

Enchanting granting magic powers to items

Engineering making bombs plus useful and wacky items

Herbalism* getting herbs for Alchemy (and maybe Enchanting)

Leatherworking make leather armor (and two small bags)

Mining * get metal and gems for Blacksm, Engi, etc.

Skinning* get skins for Leatherworking, Engi, etc.

Tailoring make cloth armor and many kinds of bags

If youÂ’ve already picked yours, donÂ’t panic. You can always ditch them and train

again in new ones. To lose skills hit K, select the skill, and hit Cancel. If you ever

want to relearn this skill, you can. ItÂ’s an inconvenience, but itÂ’s not that big a

deal.

You may have read on various sites how players recommend that a Paladin go

for Mining and Blacksmithing or a Hunter go for Skinning and Leatherworking, so

they can make their own armor. Mages, they say, should try Enchanting and

Tailoring – and so on. This sounds good in theory – “Hey, I’ll make my own armor

for free.” But in reality, if you’re in an established (i.e. not brand new) server or

realm, nothing could be farther from the truth.

Using Fishing and a combination of Mining, Skinning and Herbalsim, you can

make so much money that you can just pay for all the armor you need, get

enchantments for it, buy bigger bags, buy a pet, and still have money to burn! All

around level ten.

Why? On an established server higher level players have lots of money. They

mail it to their alts to spend or spend it themselves. Even though theyÂ’re high

level, they still need basic trade materials: copper, light leather, herbs, oily

blackmouths, firefin snappers, and so on. And theyÂ’re willing to pay you good

money for these things – things you can get before you’re even level ten.

WHICH TWO PRIMARY MONEY-MAKERS TO PICK?

I chose Mining and Skinning, and it has worked very well for me. Herbalism and

Skinning would work, too, although I donÂ’t think it makes as much money (you

still do okay – and I could be wrong). I don’t recommend Mining and Herbalism

for the simple reason that each of these gives you a “detection” skill on your minimap

to help you find resource nodes. It would drive me crazy to have to switch

between the two constantly, and if you donÂ’t constantly (and I mean every minute

or so) switch youÂ’ll miss nodes. But if you think you can handle it, be my guest.

HOW TO MINE

First you need to train in the skill. If youÂ’re a newbie this means leaving your

starting area and going up the road towards the next bigger town (or to your

raceÂ’s main city). Between the next bigger town and the city are guards (on the

road), most of whom will tell you (if you right click them) how to find a trainer.

Click on the bottom option (Profession Training) and then Mining. You get a

yellow arrow on your mini-map, and when you get close you get a red flag

showing where the trainer is. Easy.

Just right click the trainer and buy the skill (itÂ’s really cheap). Now buy a mining

pick. There is always a merchant near the trainer who sells these. You must have

it in your backpack or in a bag to be able to mine (not in your bank). Now you

need to find a mineral node to mine.

It helps to be at least level five or so to mine copper only because the nodes are

in areas where there are lots of monsters, and you need to be able to survive.

Note, Skinning is a good combo with Mining because a lot of the things that

attack you while you mine are Beasts – and this is precisely what you need to do

Skinning: dead beasts.

Copper nodes are scattered all over areas where level five and bigger creatures

lurk, like Elwynn Forest, Dun Morogh and Mulgore. They tend to be in hilly or

mountainous areas, often around the zoneÂ’s edges, but some are underwater

(just swim down and mine – you have plenty of air). When you buy the Mining

Skill you get several new skill “buttons” in your “book” (one of the buttons in the

middle bank of control buttons). Just click on the Detect Minerals button (copper

hammer icon) and get that same copper hammer appearing on the corner of your

mini-map. Now all copper nodes near you will show up on your mini-map as little

yellow dots.

YouÂ’ll have to spend some time exploring the lowbie zones to find the copper

nodes. Some are impossible – there is one in Elwynn, for instance, that has

literally a dozen wolves around it. Forget it. Leave it and move on. Sadly some

nodes are “broken”. You mine them and either get nothing or you get error

messages. Leave these and move on. Note, this is not the same as a “failure”

message. If you get a red “failed attempt” message as you mine, just try again

until it works.

To mine all you do is run up to a copper node. They are copper-colored lumps

with “crystals”. Right click it, wait, and click on the copper ore, rough stones, and

occasional gems that appear on the window. Each node is good for two to four

clicks. Then, it vanishes. Note where the node is. It will refresh itself over time –

sometimes right away, sometimes in about thirty minutes.

The quarry in the southeast part of Dun Morogh is a great place for copper, as

are the kobold mines in Elwynn. Sometimes youÂ’ll see a copper node on the

mini-map, but it simply “isn’t there”. Most likely it is underground! See if there is a

mine or tunnel entrance nearby. If so and if you can take on the monsters in

there, go for it. Excuse me for being obvious, but mines are great places to mine!

HOW TO SMELT

Once you get 20 copper ore you may want to sell it, but first you should Smelt it

into copper bars. You increase your Mining skill doing this (which is awesome),

and copper bars are what other players want to buy (itÂ’s what they use to make

things).

You get a smelting button with the Mining Skill (you may have to click the Next

button to see it). Find a forge and stand close to it. If you ask a guard where a

Blacksmithing trainer is you will almost always find a forge there. It can be a red,

glowing gizmo with an anvil (some forges are small), or it can be “The Great

Forge” in the center of Ironforge (just go there and stand to Smelt).

Click the smelting button and then Create All. Go make a sandwich. When you

come back you will have made twenty copper bars (if you started with 20 copper

ore), and you will have increased your Mining skill a lot! Great. Now you can sell.

WHAT ABOUT THE ROUGH STONES AND GEMS I FOUND?

Rough stones are turned into blasting powder by Engineers. This can be turned

into bombs or ammo for guns. If you plan to one day switch and become an

Engineer (or if you plan to play up an “alt” or secondary character as an Engi)

then save as many stacks of rough stones as you can in your bank. Otherwise

sell them to other players (more on this later) or sell them to npc merchants.

Gems are mostly used by Engineers for making things like scopes, goggles,

telescopes and so on. Some gems are used by Enchanters. You can sell these

to other players, but prices you can get vary a lot. Higher level gems are worth

much more. Gems youÂ’ll see at lower levels include Malachite, Tigers Eye, and

Shadowgem.

HOW TO SELL MY STACK OF COPPER BARS

Get to your side’s Auction House or AH to sell these, although you can do “/2

twenty copper bars for sale” in any zone to try to sell them in person on the trade

channel. I wouldnÂ’t. IÂ’d do the AH. The Alliance AH is in Ironforge, and the Hoard

AH is in Ogrimmar. Just right click a guard as you enter the city to get directions.

IÂ’ll be giving more advice on selling at the AH toward the end of this guide.

ADVANCED MINING

At Mining skill 50+ and I think adventuring level 10 you can go back to the trainer

and learn Journeyman Mining (I think you start as an Apprentice). When you start

your Mining skill cap is 75. But when you train as a Journeyman you get the skill

cap bumped up to 150.

With a higher skill you can mine and smelt tin. You can smelt copper and tin bars

into bronze bars (buy these abilities from the trainer). Want to know whatÂ’s

crazy? On my server tin sells for about the same price as copper, as does

bronze! IÂ’ve never even made bronze because itÂ’s such a waste (you in essence

“lose” a copper bar to combine it with tin to make bronze – the price of bronze

would have to be more than the price of tin and copper together for the creation

of bronze to make sense). I often donÂ’t even bother with tin because itÂ’s so much

faster and easier for me to go get 60 copper ores, instead. I know where the

copper is, and the monsters around the copper donÂ’t faze me now (tin is a pain to

get – maybe I need to work harder to find better deposits – but why should I if the

market for it is no better than copper?).

Warning, this is how it is in my server. In three weeks this could all change. I

have been seeing copper prices coming down lately. So who knows? Just keep

in mind that occasionally you hit skill caps and have to come back to pay the

trainer to get to the next “tier” of ability. It gets costly as you level up, so save

some money for this.

IÂ’ve just started mining iron. IÂ’ve never mined mithril or thorium, but apparently

you can make really good money on those. They require higher skill and high

adventuring levels (because these nodes are in some hairy places). If you keep

the Mining skill into the higher levels, thatÂ’s what youÂ’re going to be doing.

SKINNING

To get Skinning right-click a guard for directions to a trainer, either in your raceÂ’s

main city or in the village outside your main city. Right click the trainer to buy the

skill. Near the trainer youÂ’ll find a merchant selling skinning knives. Buy one. Like

with the mining pick, you need to keep this in your backpack or in a bag (not in

the bank).

Skinning is much simpler than Mining. There are no fancy buttons that come with

it. Simply kill a skinable beast (you canÂ’t skin spiders, and the very low level

beasts canÂ’t be skinned), loot it completely, and then hover your pointer over it.

You’ll see the pointer change to a “hide”. Right click. If you fail, right click again.

Soon you’ll get a window with “ruined scraps” or “light leather” in it. Save these.

Even ruined scraps can be sold for decent money.

You may come across a field where some other player has left three dead boars,

two dead bears and a dead snow leopard. If heÂ’s looted them, you can now skin

his kills. Cool, huh? If he’s there don’t do it too fast – he may be a skinner, too,

and itÂ’s really rude to skin other skinnerÂ’s kills.

Save your stacks of scraps and light leather, and put them in the Auction House

or AH when you have enough. Scraps donÂ’t always sell well on the AH (if so npc

merchants pay well for them), but light leather is always in demand. Hide is a

rare drop and sometimes gets more money than light leather. More on AH selling

later in this guide.

HERBALISM

Just like with the other skills, right click a town guard and get directions to a

trainer. Right click her and buy the skill. You get a button for “herb detection”. Hit

it, and you get a little “daisy” icon by your mini-map. Now all nearby herbs will

show up as yellow dots on your mini-map.

You can get Peacebloom and Silverleaf right outside Ironforge and Stormwind.

They can be anywhere, although Peacebloom tends to be in the sun and

Silverleaf in the shade of big trees. Earthroot is in the hills or mountains.

Stranglekelp is underwater.

When you find a plant, just right click it. If you fail, right click it again until a

window opens. Pick up your herbs. ThatÂ’s it. Unlike mining, the Herb node only

has one “harvest”. But Herb nodes tend to be more plentiful and easier to find

than mining nodes. Also fewer players tend to become Herbalists.

As you adventure, youÂ’ll see herbs all over the place. Some of the mining nodes

tend to be near clusters of troggs, gnolls or kobolds (and are hard to get), but

herb nodes tend to be out in the open and not so well guarded.

Once you have enough herbs, get to the AH and sell. I have a sneaking

suspicion that herbs sell better on PvP servers than PvE servers. I canÂ’t prove

this, but PvP players aggressively look for every “edge” they can get on other

players. Potions are a great way to get this edge. They can literally mean the

difference between winning and losing. That said, any smart player who wants to

get ahead in the game will want to learn about and use potions.

So there always is a market for potions (and for the herbs needed to make them).

I donÂ’t think the market is quite as good as the metals market, but herbs can be

sold for good money to other players. But I could be wrong. This isnÂ’t the only

guide on the Internet telling players to Mine and Skin to make money in WoW

(prices for metals and leather may come down some). It could be that most

players are overlooking Herbalism and that in the future there will be a good

market for it. If you try it and donÂ’t like it, itÂ’s pretty easy to ditch it and get some

other skill (to lose a skill hit K, pick the skill, hit Cancel). More on how to sell at

the AH later on in this guide.

BUT I DONÂ’T WANT TO JUST HARVEST STUFF; I WANT TO MAKE THINGS!

I understand. But itÂ’s really frustrating if youÂ’re burning up all the copper you find

in your Blacksmithing skill – and no one is buying the armor you make. You have

no extra money for bigger bags (this is a huge pain), for potions, for that rare blue

item you really want that sometimes appears in the AH, for fluff pets – even for

Griffon rides!

ThereÂ’s always a compromise. Maybe put the Blacksmithing on the back burner

a while and sell your copper for cash. If you find your Enchanting skill is eating

you alive, cancel it and make some cash. Gain about twenty levels and then go

back to Enchanting. At that point you can farm the “green” items you need to up

the Enchanting skill like crazy, and you can catch up in a few days. Try fishing.

Do what makes sense to you. All I want for you to know is that there are a lot of

ways to make money, even at the very lowest levels, and no one in WoW has to

be broke. There is nothing more pathetic than some clueless player whining and

begging for money when itÂ’s so easy to make!

MAKE YOUR ALTS WORK FOR YOU

Most players don’t just play one character. They have a “main” and an alternate

or “alt” character. Most people make an Alt because they get bored being one

thing too much. They see some other class having a lot of fun, and they want to

try that out.

But you can also make an Alt to be a money-maker for you. Again, you can make

really good money in WoW at level ten or below. And itÂ’s pretty easy to play up to

level ten. My first day in WoW I got my Hunter to lvl 10 (it was a long day, yes,

but I did it). You can leave your Main as a Engineer/Enchanter or whatever and

occasionally play your Alt to make money. Mailing the cash to your Main costs

only 30 cp.

A Hunter is a great choice for a Skinner because they get track beasts. A

Warlock or Hunter is good for any harvester because these classes can use their

pets to “take the heat” while running between nodes or while harvesting nodes

(Hunters don’t get pets until level ten; Warlocks don’t get a good “tanking” pet

that can taunt well and hold agro until level ten). Night Elves start far from the AH

in Ironforge, so if you want to play a NE consult my travel guide for getting there

fast and easy. For the Hoard it is the Tauren who start far from their sideÂ’s AH in

Ogrimmar (Undead are connected to Ogrimmar by a fast and easy to access

zeppelin that goes to their home city). Again, check my travel guide; itÂ’s not really

that bad getting a Tauren to the AH. But if you donÂ’t want to fool with this extra

trip, don’t make your “money maker alt” a NE or Tauren.

HOW TO SELL – UNDERSTANDING THE AUCTION HOUSE

Get to either Ironforge (Alliance) or Ogrimmar (Hoard) and find the Auction

House or AH. Consult my travel guide for tips to find these cities if necessary.

Remember, Stormwind is connected to Ironforge by tram. Undercity is connected

to Ogrimmar by zeppelin. Both rides are fast and free. Once in the city, right click

any city guard to get directions to the AH.

Press through the other players and right click an Auctioneer. Gnomes may need

to use a “high angle” camera view to find the Auctioneer (I’m not kidding!). You

get an auction window, and you should be in the Browse part of it.

Type the name of whatever youÂ’re selling and hit Search. Make sure you spell it

right. If there is lag it may either take 30 seconds to work, or it may not work at

all. The AH can be buggy at times. If it is, go do other things; maybe log out and

go get a burger or pizza. Just donÂ’t assume that if it tells you it canÂ’t find what

youÂ’re looking for that itÂ’s telling you the truth. At the time of this writing it is often

buggy.

Okay, lets say you’re selling a stack of 20 copper bars. Your search for “copper

bar” gives you the following information on other players’ auctions (bid and

buyout prices in SILVER money):

Akuzo 20 bars bid: 40 buyout: 60

Corino 20 bars bid: 48 buyout: 50

Corino 20 bars bid: 48 buyout: 50

Corino 20 bars bid: 48 buyout: 50

Corino 20 bars bid: 48 buyout: 50

Corino 20 bars bid: 48 buyout: 50

Corino 20 bars bid: 48 buyout: 50

Funkybat 20 bars bid: 45 buyout: 48

Hradakar 20 bars bid: 47 buyout: 55

Hradakar 11 bars bid: 24 buyout: 27

Joebob 10 bars bid: 29 buyout: 30

Joebob 10 bars bid: 29 buyout: 30

Kaolinda 20 bars bid: 42 buyout: 50

Kaolinda 20 bars bid: 42 buyout: 50

Margar 20 bars bid: 25 buyout: 30

Margar 20 bars bid: 25 buyout: 30

Margar 20 bars bid: 25 buyout: 30

Margar 20 bars bid: 25 buyout: 30

Gah! What does all this mean? Is this good or bad?

PLEASE, MY BRAIN IS BLEEDING – JUST TELL ME WHAT TO DO

“I’ve been playing 16 hours straight. I can’t think any more. Just tell me how to

sell my dumb copper and let me get to bed!” Okay! I will. Try to find the “average

price” in the above numbers. Don’t literally average them. Just eyeball it. It’s fifty

silver, right? Or is it 30? No, Joebob is only selling half-stacks, so donÂ’t get fooled

by him. Indeed the “average price” is 50 silver.

The no-brainer approach: if the “average” buyout price is 50, set your opening bid

for your stack of 20 copper bars at 45 silver and set a buyout price at 49 silver.

Click the “auction” tab, put your stack of copper in the little box, and then fill in the

numbers. Make sure you’ve done it right. Then set your auction for “long term”

and create the auction! If the average buyout price is 40 silver, start your auction

at 35 and set your buyout for 39. And so on.

Sometimes it’s literally as easy to find the “average price” as in the example

above. Sometimes the “average price” is really more a “cluster,” say a group of

sellers with buyouts at 52, 54, 55, and 56. In that case set a buyout of 51 to be

safe. YouÂ’re not the cheapest guy in the AH, but heÂ’ll get bought out fast. Over

the next 24 hours your price will eventually attract a buyer. You will almost

certainly sell. Your money will be in the mail tomorrow. Now go get some sleep!

WAIT, I WANT TO KNOW MORE – WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON IN THE AH?

Well, itÂ’s not that hard to figure out, so donÂ’t worry. It works a lot like Ebay. The

price is in silver to buy the whole stack – it’s not a price per unit. So the first guy,

Akuzo, will sell his stack of 20 copper bars if someone bids 40 silver and then no

one else comes along and outbids him or does buyout. The winning bidder gets

his stack of copper bars in the mail when the auction expires. At that point Akuzo

gets the silver money minus a small fee in the mail. If Akuzo never gets a bid, he

gets his copper bars back in the mail, and he can try again. Someone agreeing to

pay the buyout ends an auction right there.

But what’s the big deal with “buyout”; what’s that all about? Let’s say a player’s

got an Engineering skill of 145, and he really want to get that skill to 150. HeÂ’s

going to make five “orange” combines (each challenging or “orange colored

combine” always nets a skill up). This player needs four copper bars per combine

– or 20 bars. He’s most likely going to want to buyout. Why? He wants that

copper right now, and if he goes for the buyout option, he gets it in the mail

immediately. He wants the cheapest price, so Margar the Orc sells a full stack for

the 30 silver buyout price.

Most tradeskillers are going to want to “buyout” the trade supplies you sell.

Again, itÂ’s because they donÂ’t want to wait two, six, ten or more hours for the

auction to expire. They want it now because they want to do their combines now.

Their bank and bags are already full of stuff, and they donÂ’t want to sit on it

forever. ItÂ’s a supply-chain world in WoW for the skills, so to speak. There will

usually be no bidding wars for copper bars.

There may be a bidding war for a rare “blue” magic item. But when selling stuff

like copper bars, light leather and earthroot, “buyout is your friend” (I’ve heard

several players literally say this – I didn’t make it up).

Okay, looking at those prices in the table above, who is the clever Orc and who is

the dumb Orc? Well, Margar has the cheapest price per 20-stack at 30 silver.

HeÂ’s definitely going to sell all his hard earned copper. Is he the clever Orc?

Maybe, maybe not. Eye-balling it, what is the “average” buyout price? About 50

silver (donÂ’t let Joebob fool you). Are these guys selling at 50 really going to sell,

too? Yes, they most likely will. Margar will sell first, then Funkybat at 48 silver.

Then Corino and Kaolinda will start selling. Other players may come in with

cheaper buyouts and sell before them, but as long as they picked the longest

time for their auctions, Corino and Kaolinda will almost certainly sell all their

copper at 50 silver a stack.

Why? ItÂ’s because every once in a while a rich player will come along and buyout

as much copper as he can. He either wants to get his Alt to skill up a ton, or he

wants to make scads of bombs, or whatever. HeÂ’ll buy six or even a dozen stacks

of copper and almost wipe out the AH! He doesnÂ’t care what he pays, either,

although heÂ’ll probably buy the cheapest stacks first. After heÂ’s come through,

then players with higher-priced buyouts can and will sellÂ… usually.

ItÂ’s a small risk. Sometimes buyouts slightly above average work, occasionally

they donÂ’t. If they donÂ’t work you lose a little over silver (for the set up fee) and

can try again. ItÂ’s not that big a deal. But is it really worth it to take the risk for a

tad more silver? I canÂ’t say. ThatÂ’s up to you.

So which player is the really clever Orc in this AH scenario above? Well, itÂ’s

certainly not Margar. MargarÂ’s a really dumb Orc. Why? He saw a lot of people

selling copper and panicked! He said, “Oh no, too much competition! Must sell

cheap!” And he panicked himself into losing close to eighty silver. His impulse to

underbid was good. Underbidding helps “guarantee” a sale. But what did Margar

the panicky Orc do? He way-underbid and screwed himself out of a big chunk of

profit he should have made for all his hard work mining four stacks!

If he’d only taken a moment to think: “who is buying from me? Rich Engineers

and Blacksmiths. What do they want? The cheapest buyout” – he would have

concluded he only needed to SLIGHTLY undercut the average price. People who

come to the AH for copper are going to buy. To sell you donÂ’t have to be ultralow,

just lower than most other players. Had he set his price at 49 silver 75

copper it would have worked. He would have made almost 80 silver more!

So please donÂ’t be a dumb Orc like Margar. If you want to undercut other sellers,

do yourself a favor and do it slightly, please.

So, who is the really clever Orc? The clever Orc is the one who bought out

Margar’s panic-based low buyouts and resold them for a “proper” price! This Orc

will make almost 80 silver off Margar – and for no work to boot! But is there

another clever Orc? Yes. Take a look at Joebob and Hradakar. WhatÂ’s up with

them? They are selling stacks not in multiples of 20.

Hradakar had 11 copper bars – an odd lot – leftover, and he just tried to prorate

his price down, based on what heÂ’s charging for his full stack. But Joebob is

doing something altogether different, isnÂ’t he?

A FINESSE PLAY AT THE AH – SPLIT YOUR STACKS FOR MORE PROFIT

Joebob came to the AH with 20 copper bars but SPLIT them into two equal

stacks of ten (hold Shift and click). Each stack is for sale for 30 silver (grand total

of 60 silver). WhatÂ’s his deal? Joebob is trying an AH finesse move. He thinks he

can get a lot more silver out of his hard-earned copper if he sells them in smaller

stacks. For one thing an impulsive player whose eyes are bleeding from playing

16 hours straight may not bother to notice his stack-size is half the othersÂ’. This

player may see 30 silver and just buyout, thinking heÂ’s getting a good deal.

So is Joebob a criminal? Maybe not. Maybe other players come to the AH and

don’t need a full stack of copper. Maybe a player only needs nine copper bars –

and MargarÂ’s cheap full stacks have just been bought out and re-auctioned at 49

silver. So is this player going to pay 49 or 50 silver for a full stack and merchantdump

11 copper bars? No! HeÂ’ll pay 30 silver to Joebob for 10 copper bars and

only have to merchant-dump one bar. This player gets what he wants. And

Joebob gets what he wants: top buyout price for his copper.

Remember, for most players bag and bank space is limited. No one wants to

have to keep copper bars for this reason. They often want to buy and use on

demand.

Will JoebobÂ’s stack-splitting finesse always work? I donÂ’t know. I just started it

myself, and so far IÂ’ve had mixed results. Once you get established in your WoW

business and get some experience with the AH, give it a try. It may work for you!

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