Bonus post: Crafting spreadsheet.

Sarainy over at AH-Whoring recently posted something you should really look into: a full-fledged Crafting Spreadsheet. If you're playing the AH game, this should be part of your arsenal.
I've played around with it for a bit now, and it's surely to make a lot of lives a hell of a lot easier.

My thanks goes out to Sarainy for making this gem.

Bonus post: Check your AH.

The inscription guide promised us by Boubouille has now been posted on MMO-Champion. I'm not going to recap it here, nor am I going to advice you to use it. I will however tell you to abuse the opportunity. How you ask? It's very simple.

With easy access to a "get rich NOW" guide so readily availible at a website visited by tons of people every day, a lot of wannabe's are going to attempt to earn gold by following it. They'll start buying herbs, books of glyph mastery, inks and whatever else they need to earn "milloins of goldz lol". This means that they'll probably empty the auction house of those items, and drive prices up on all of them due to the large demand.

The first thing you should do, is check the prices of various herbs (Lichbloom, Icethorn, Adder's Tongue), and see if they've increased since the last time you looked. If they have, and you've stockpiled some herbs, sell them now. Same goes for various inks and books of glyph masteries.
The newcomers will most likely buy tons of herbs and inks to try the new glyph market out, and crash it totally because there will be so many new competitors, while you sit there with a fat wad of cash, laughing.

In a few days/weeks (depending on server) the demand will fall, as most of the newcomers will most likely give up due to a lot of competition, and the realization that all they've done is waste a lot of gold, so take action now.

Day 2: Disenchanting your hard work.

My original plan was to go mine yesterday, to harvest me some titanium. I never got further than my paladin's bank, where I found a stack of eternal earth and about 60-70 green quality gems. From this I crafted about 25 Bloodstone Band and around 30 Crystal Citrine Necklace, which will give me a fair sum on the auction house.

How can I make money off something as simple as that? By disenchanting, of course. I sent all the crafted rings and necks to my warlock, disenchanted it all, and put the mats I got up on the auction house. 4 hours later, it had all sold and I was up about 600 gold. And all for 15 minutes work.

Bear in mind, those items aren't the only cheap items you can craft and disenchant for money. Tella over at Hit The Cap recently wrote a good article about what can be referred to as "DE Fodder". Go read it if you have the chance, it's really useful for enchanters who might want to make some easy money.

Day 1: Where to begin?

After my first day of working the auction house, I've gained..... absolutely nothing.
See, when I decided I wanted to start this "challenge" of mine, I also decided I was going to go at it with an empty wallet. So I sent my previously hard-earned gold to my bank character, and started out from scratch.

The first thing I did was scanning the auction house to see which enchants sold for a decent sum of gold, and how much work I had to put up with to be able to sell that enchant myself. My choices were Scroll of Enchant Weapon - Crusader and Scroll of Enchant Weapon - Agility. Neither of the enchants had hard-to-get materials, and both sell for well over a hundred gold on the auction house. I had my goal, I had to work towards it.

I spent about an hour in Silithus, grinding Dust Stormers, and ended up with 41 Essence of Air. Not too bad for only an hours work. After that, I spent about another hour in Stratholme, and got 5 Righteous Orbs and 14 Large Brilliant Shards. I also got like 10-15 stacks of runecloth, which sells great on AH. So, after two hours of work, I could make 3 enchants. Not what I'd hoped for, but it had to do. Made 1 Crusader scroll and 2 Agility scrolls, and had them up on the auction house. Neither sold by the time I logged off.

Normally, you'd be better off just browsing AH for great deals rather than spend your time like I did. You will most likely gain a lot more gold by buying low-selling high or bidding low-selling normal (whichever you prefer), and it's about one tenth of the work. I, however, had a very low gold supply to start with, and whatever gold I had went in runecloth deposits and repairs. With some luck though, my scrolls will be picked up by tomorrow, and I will at last have some gold to work with.

Starting out.

A rising trend in the World of Blogs these days seems to be gold-making blogs. Some people blog about their own achievments, some set themselves challenges, and others will try to teach others about the art of making gold in World of Warcraft.

After reading several of these blogs over the past few weeks, I've decided that I want to try to make some gold myself, and I will post here (ir)regularily to update the world about my successes and/or failures.

My focus will be to earn money from enchanting and tailoring, which I guess shouldn't be too hard. Some of the blogs I've been reading have had several good posts about how to make gold with both professions, and I will try to make good use of all that I've learned. I've also got jewelcrafting and inscription to help me, but as those markets are hard to work on my server, I'll stick to the ones I know.

Anyway, I'll end this first post here, and will try to have a few posts out every week.