Primal Mights

I'm still working on my mage and his alchemy, which is coming along great now. I hit 69 yesterday, and went to Netherstorm to grab the transmute quest. After seeing the mats requirement, I portaled to Orgrimmar to see what a Primal Might sold for. They sold for 140g on average.

At first this annoyed me to death. 140g for an old-world crafting material? Seemed I had to go grind the reagents myself. But then it hit me: I'm going to start selling these badboys myself, and see if I can make some money off of it. The results up until now haven't been that bad.

I managed to get myself a sweet deal on the Primals i needed, paying around 250g a stack per primal (12g50s per Primal needed), except for Primal Earth which was 60g. Total cost for that ended up on somewhere around 1000g. So after transmuting all 20 mights (I realized quickly right after doing this, that had I learned my transmute mastery first I could've had several more >_>) I went to put some on the AH. I put 4 up at 120g a piece, and they had all sold this morning. While it doesn't cover my Primal costs just yet, if it keeps selling like this it will cover all my alchemy expences quite fast. I will continue to put them up 4 at a time, undercutting by some gold, and post results sometime next week.

Getting somewhere.

Even if my prediciton was a little off, I'm still quite satisfied by the leveling speed I've had the last days. My mage dinged 67 yesterday, i even almost made it to 68 before I had to call it quits.

In the process, I also managed to push up my alchemy quite a bit, and am now at 413 skill. I would've started on the Transmutation Mastery questline a long time ago, but apparently I need level 68 to do it, so I'm racing there as fast as I can. Have also begun doing the alchemy research, but with a 3 day cooldown it's going to take some time to get all the stuff I want.

My goldmaking has however been very slow. With all this time focused on my mage, and on my paladin's raiding, I've only been able to sell tailoring cloth and a couple of epic gems. So I've made gold, just not a lot of it. Expecting things to go back to normal once my mage is at 450 alchemy and can transmute stuff.

The Goldthorn trick.

I've been working on my alt's alchemy lately, and as I was doing some research on where to herb, I happened to find quite a good trick for earning gold as well.

On my server, a stack of Goldthorn is averaged at 23g, Liferoot is about 20g. And there's a great place to farm these in a short amount of time: Scarlet Monastery. More spesific, the Cathedral.

In the Cathedral, you're guaranteed 2 Goldthorn nodes and 1 Liferoot node. If you have a high level herbalist, you can run in, grab the nodes, and get out in a minute. Reset, rinse and repeat. If you have other things to do, park your herbalist outside and go do other stuffs. Log back in after an hour, do the same thing 5 more times, and go do something else. This can easily be 40g/hr for a minimal effort.

Mind that your milage may vary from server to server, but at least it's a sure way of making a little extra cash on the side.

Slowing down.

Lately, it feels like my income has slowed down a lot. Not that I've really made a huge pile of gold compared to other blog I've been reading, since I've pulled about 12k in 3 weeks, but it still feels like I'm earning less of it. I think I badly need something new to work with, as I'm just not getting the output from enchanting and tailoring that I want. Hopefully, my alchemist will help me solve the problem.

Speaking of which, my prediction that I'd hit 70 by the end of this week is WAY off. I'm currently 53, and my week is already looking too full to fit in alt leveling. I'm raiding mondays and thursdays, I'm watching the newest series tuesdays and fridays (House M.D. for the win!), and I get busy a lot during weekends. So that leaves about two days a week where I can effectively level my toon. It's going to take a bit longer, but it's getting done.

I've had a bit of luck while leveling that toon aswell. When questing in Cumswallow Marsh (a fine little nickname we've given Dustwallow Marsh around here), I stumbled upon Dart, which dropped the hatchling. It sold for 650g after 5 minutes on the AH. Also, while questing in Un'goro, I happened to cross paths with the Ravasaur Matriarch, which also drops a hatchling. It sold for the stunning sum of 1299g on the AH after about a day. So now I've already got some money for leveling alchemy. All I need now is getting to level 70.

Hallow's End

A new holiday is upon us. This time, it's the Hallow's End event, and like with most other events (Except for the Brewfest event I guess), there's easy money to be made. The trick this time, is to sell wand charges for The Masquerade. This might require a bit of luck from your side, but if you're like me and are going for Hallowed Be Thy Name, you'll get enough of these wands anyway.

The trick to this, is to stand in one of the major cities and announce that you're selling a transfrom from Wand X for Y amount of gold. I've seen these charges run for anything between 10g - 30g, which means anything from 50g - 150g per wand. And as you pay nothing for the wands, nor do you do any special amount of work for the money, I'd say it's a nice profit.

Another good way of earning easy money during this holiday, is to aim for Tricks and Treats of Azeroth. You do this by visiting the inns of your faction all over Azeroth and Outlands. Every Candy Bucket gives you 6g63s at level 80, and a bunch of useless candy (except for G.N.E.R.D.S., which you will be using to get G.N.E.R.D. Rage). Doing all of these will net you 311g61s. Concidering the time it takes you to get all candy buckets, one could say it's not great income/hour, but it doesn't require a lot of work so it's basically free gold. And your auctious will keep selling even if you're off exploring, right?

If you're going for the title, you'll have to do all this anyway, so if you're in it for the money, you might want to concider going for the title.

Lazy friday: Low level money making.

I'm more or less too busy to write something long and interesting today, so I'll just post a quick gold making tip for you low levels.

I'll start by saying that as usual, not many servers has as unstable an AH as mine does, but I guess this'll work for most servers, as the demand for herbs usually stay semi-high all the time.

Peacebloom and Silverleaf are found everywhere around the starting areas of most races. Get yourself a herbalist (for example a death knight with which you pick up herbalism) and run around farming those. Getting a few stacks shouldn't take very long. Pick up anything else you find along the way.

Run to the nearest auction house, and check prices for both. On my server, they've been somewhere between 6g and 10g per stack throughout the week. Post stacks, receive profit. And all that for barely a couple of hours work.

The good thing with this trick is that it doesn't require you to have some high level character with epix and 450 skilled professions. It requires 1/75 herbalism, and in Horde/Alliance only zones, you're mostly safe from getting jumped. Have a nice weekend!

Moving into other markets.

Reading other people's blogs the last week has made me realize that I should try to broaden my search for a good market. Since I have an inscriptionist, some would say that would be the obvious market to move into. At the moment, I'm still working on doing minor and northrend researches every day, until I'm satisfied with the amount of glyphs I can craft, so I'm letting that market sit for now.

I do have a market I'm planning to move in to right now though, and I'm working hard on leveling an alt to 70, so I can get all the recipes and such I need to hit 450 in that spesific profession.
My target? Alchemy.

Leveling the profession itself might be a bit time consuming, as I'm planning on farming most of the herbs myself. I have a character with max herbalism, and an epic flyer, so I'm good to go there. I also have a character with 450 JC and several epic gem patterns, so I'm covered there aswell. All i need now is to hit 450 alchemy and get epic gem transmutes. My character is 45 right now, but with the speed of leveling right now, I predict level 70 by the end of next week.

It's not time wasted though. While leveling, I get some nice greenies to disenchant into profitable materials, and I get netherweave cloth for my bags. And I'm not going to have much downtime on the gold making either.
The cloth I'm crafting on my warlock takes me 10 minutes every 4 days. A jewelcrafting daily takes me 5 every day. The only time consuming work I have right now, is crafting Netherweave Bags. But then again, I'm selling 30 of them per day almost, so I'm going to keep at that for sure.

Anyway, back to alt leveling! And as usual, if anyone does have suggestions as to which markets I could try based on my professions, or maybe ways I could increase the profits on my current markets, throw me a comment. Suggestions are always nice.