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The past weeks I haven’t been very actively updating since the heroic modes of Call of the Crusade became available. Basically we farm Ulduar 10/25, VoA 10/25, ToC 10/25 normal on Alt and Main Characters.
The bright side of it all that we get, including the Heroic Daily, 79 Emblem of Triumph per reset and most of us have the T9 4 piece bonus now and we can hopefully get Anub’arak on 25 (heroic) soon.
Pirate Day has started so you might like to visit Booty Bay and talk to Captain Demeza next to the Horde Flight Point on top of the Booty BayBank for “The Captain’s Booty” which is required for “What a long, strange Trip it’s been!“. You’ll get a 12 hour Buff to look like a pirate!
Also tonight the Brewfest will start. There are lots of Achievements and dailies to do, especially to farm the mount in BRD. If you want to do me a special service do a /spit on Ipfelkofer Ironkeg at the Ironforge Brewfest, trust me he deserves it!
If you want a full sumamry of dailies and things to do at the Brewfest you might like to check out WoWhead. In any case don’t forget to move your alts to BRD to farm Coren Direbrew over and over for his mount! I’ll give more information tonight, when we started. Last Year’s farming looked like this:
Generally I like to avoid selling Blues and Epics, because I find it rather difficult to find the balance between making most profit and getting people to buy my auctions. Also the pure profit is usually much lower than selling for example Glyphs.
Basically the same principle I am using for Enchanting Materials and Gylphs works on Blues/Epics/Gems aswell. I don’t ever undercut people, since their auctions will sell and then I am selling mine for much more profit.
But putting up 5000 Blue Items of the same kind doesn’t really make sense to me. Lets look at an example here:
Some Seller has 18 Auctions of Runed Scarlet Rubies up and is by far more expensive than the others above him. Each ruby has a 2.7g auction fee, summing up 48.6 gold. so each 48 hours he loses 1 of his rubies just to finance his auctions. Imo it makes no sense, to put that much rubies on AH, they are expensive and most people most likely use epic gems now anyhow.
By putting up up only 4-5 of these he will sell as much and cut his costs effectively thus raising his profits.
The strategy I am working on my other Auctions, to put up many expensive auctions doesn’t really work well with anything that costs a high auction fee. You can sell stuff expensive, but you have to watch competition a bit closer.
- For example you can add competitors to your friend list and wait till they put something on ah, then check their pricing.
- Put up smaller amounts and check more frequently to resupply.
Blue and epic shoulders, chests and weapons will hardly sell as good as they did before heirloom items. People that buy these items now are most likely new players on your realm and they hardly have tons of gold to spend.
Plate items in general sell quite well, most likely due to the huge amount of paladins/dk’s we see this expansion. Those classes are looking especially for Strength/Crit Items, which makes “of the Soldier” greens and blues quite valuable.
Mail and Leather “of the Bandit” Items are used by Feral Druid, Rogue, Enhancement Shaman, Hunter. These are usually better itemized than the Quest rewards you run across. Especially since quest rewards do not get changed even if classes get major changes (Shamans and Retribution Paladins for example)
As each 2 months it is time for the Total Gold Acquired (tga) summary. I’ll list up the Characters and the niches they are earning gold with.
Daisan, Level 80 Paladin
This one started out as Alternate char to farm old instances (mostly to farm Zul’Gurub for Mounts). For that reason she has “high looted gold” (considering she is a newb Level 80).
Daisan is also selling old enchanting materials (Dream Dust, Illusion Dust, Greater Eternal Essences, Large Brilliant Shards and lower), popular glyphs, cooking recipes and the like.
TGA: 54127g
Exorial, Level 80 retired DK
This char was planned to become what Daisan is now. An alt to farm zg, etc … But I found DK’s realyl unflexible and not fun to play, so I retired her as soon as she hit 80.
Exorial is selling epics, blues, profession recipes, basically everything that costs high ah fees.
TGA: 80350g
Slanty, retired Mace Rogue
Slanty is my Scribe. He is selling nothing but glyphs ( 34.50g bid & 39.50g buyout) and all inks ( 5.25g & 5.75g).
TGA: 77418g
Gregorius, paused Warlock
Arcane Dusts and Infinite Dusts are his only business.
TGA: 69015G
Myrddin, World’s Best Enhancement Shaman (just kidding!)
As you can easily see Myrddin is my Main Char. With 46000 g looted and more dailies than on the other characters. We used to farm Kazzak, Doomwalker, Magtheridon, Outdoor Dragons, Zul’Gurub, Ahn’Qiraj, Onyxia, Karazhan and the like to get our looted gold up fast.
TGA: 80945g
Finewares
Finewares was my original sales character. I prefer to have sales on other characters than my main to avoid the whispers of players that want you to sell stuff cheaper, etc. But at one time Finewares just had no more capacity for all the materials. right now he sells only Greater Planar Essences and Greater Cosmic Essences.
TGA: 90131g
Myrddin, V2!
Magtheridon seems to be a pretty good sales test environment. High Population PvE, highly PvE advanced Realm. I started this Orc Shaman about 1.5 years ago. Secretly I would like to reroll another Shaman as the old Myrddin gets somewhat old, but I’d never leave Borked Guild, the best Guild in the world! So he ended up as Test Char for crazy AH Tests. I hardly pla yhim anymore though, so there is hardly any profit worth mentioning. He sells everything mentioned above, enchanting materials + glyphs.
TGA: 64455g
Summary: At September 09 I am at roughly 516 441 total gold acquired since the introduction of the achievement system. This is roughly 120 000g more since July. Don’t forget 300 000 auctions posted since 3.0 translate into 100 hours spent alone to retrieve mail in the best possible case, due to the 50 mail per 60 seconds limit.
There are several posts about the strategies used to get this done in the earning gold category. More posts to cover all aspects of my moneymaking will follow as I have time to write things down. I am sure you’ll find some useful advice or some tipps for your own auctions!
Myrddin’s Tweets
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- WoW 64-bit Client now available!
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- Interview with Dave Kosak about WoW in 2012
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- Crazy Sales
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