Two In One, The Faire and Awesomeness

   Before i begin, i want to say that i have never been someone that has been doing the achievements in the game, be it seasonal or event ones. Well today i decided that i want to try out the new Darkmoon Faire, and by gosh it was awesome. The awesomeness didn't come from the the cannon shooting event, or not even from the tonk driving game either, it was from the quests i saw there.

   What i mean by this is, they are not quests per se but they are more of a profession boosts. When you get to the Faire you see a lot of daily quests that will award you tokens that you can exchange for mounts, pets and what not, but no i'm talking about the quests that require you to do some menial thing and you get +5 skill in a given profession. This might not sound like a lot but the best thing is that you can use those +5 skills to get from 520-525 and in certain professions that might end up costing you 2-3k gold.

   So if you have a character that has a profession that doesn't have it's professions maxed out you might want to go to the Faire and take on those quests and get that free boost for your profession leveling. Just so you know there are quests for every profession in the game, starting from cooking, fishing .. all the crafting/gathering professions .. ending with archeology.

   So no point in not going there, go on have fun, and unlike other posts where i tell you ways to make gold, now i'm telling you ways to save gold, so use it wisely.

   Second thing i wanted to show you, is a free version of the Race To World First which is a movie made about the top raiding guilds in WoW and what they are doing in their lives to help them achieve that, so i hope you get to enjoy it as well.

Race to World First from Looking for Group Productions on Vimeo.

The Spotlight (November)

  Even though a little late, can't blame me, too many things happening with the patch to remember everything, back with another post in The Spotlight. In this post i would like to put the center of attention to two sites, one podcast and one very very ingenious evil little goblin. So let's get going, and we'll start with the sites i was talking about.

   This first site i'm going to put the spotlight on is www.askmrrobot.com The main reason why i'm telling you about this site, is that it's a site that will help you with all your reforging, and you will not have to do any math on how to properly do it on your own. Apart from that the site offers tips on how to gear up your character, what specs you should take on, and what would the advantages be if you didn't take something opposed to taking something else. Plus there you will find what stats are priority for your class, and even goes for spec wise. 

   You might have heard about this site, you might have not, there are many blogs/sites out there that advertise it for money, but me being the nice *cough*dumbass*cough* guy that I am, i am doing it from the goodness of my heart.  

   This second site i'm about to tell you, it's a fairly new site but it has a lot of potential to grow into something big as well as to be a nice place where you will be able to go to, when you want to know what is going on in the WoW gold making world. So without further ado, off to the next site.

   That's right, The Power Word: Gold Chronicle. http://chronicle.powerwordgold.net/ Like i said in the intro this site is all about bringing the latest and greatest news from the WoW gold making community into one easy to read, and quite accessible place. He has a RSS feed from the most visited blogs that are out there ( still doesn't have mine :( but maybe in the future he might put me up there ).

   Anyways, it's a good site, i love the way it's structured, i love the sheer simplicity yet awesome functionality, and last by not least, it's a site that brings you the best info on how to make gold so what's not to like. Go there, see it, and if you like it put it in your favorites and check it out daily.

  Ok this was all about the sites, next up we have a podcast, and an awesome one for that matter.

   The Mana Cooler podcast is not a new podast, it's been around and it's been and still is a very good podcast.http://themanacooler.com/ One of the awesome thing about listening to The Mana Cooler  is that it's not one of those 2 hour long podcast, but rather a short and down to the point podcasts that cover what is going on in the world, and what he is doing. So check out George WoW on twitter, or simply go to the manacooler site and check his amazing podcast.

   I know that these few short lines don't do it justice, but i will simply leave it up to you to check it out and see it for yourself, and belive me you will not be sorry.

   So that was all from the two sites, and the podcast i meant to put into this post, but then i got hold of a certain information about a certain gold making goblin that simply go to me and i had to put it out there so people know about it as well.

   As you can see from the trophy image, the thing this guy did is so amazing that i decided he needed to be given something. Ok enough with the suspense, let me tell you what he actually did.

   For safety reasons i will leave his name out of this post. Ok so first of all he's a gold maker and enjoys doing it, and mainly he plays the gem market. So the great thing that he did is the following. Two days before the patch hit, he marked up the two major contenders in the gem market and decided to get very aggressive in the way he deals with them. He started off by mocking up the first guy, but he did it with an alt. He played it very smooth where he was antagonizing the guy, but without actually saying anything  offensive, which at the end the guy snapped and started cussing, insulting and then even dropped the F-bomb and the N-bomb on him. That's exactly what he wanted, he reported him and got him a 48h ban, a day before the patch day, pure epicness to be seen. 

   

   Second guy he marked up didn't get hit as hard but it was funny as hell non the less. From that same alt, he bought up bag full of flour stacks of 20. From there he got his mailing addon to recognize his target as the alt and send mails but separate them in 1's opposed to sending it in stacks. He sent 2000 mails to the guy on the day the patch hit. I thought there was a limit to the mails you can have but i guess they changed it at some point. What this meant is that the other guy got 2000 mails that would take him 40 minutes to take them all out of the mail. Well the given goblin did this to him 4 times, which put the other guy out of business for about 5 hours. In those 5 hours he had the market pretty much for himself and a few of the other small time sellers.

   So this trophy goes out to you, ________ from Sylvanas EU server for being the most deviate goblin of the month.

   So, like always, keep an eye out for good opportunities out there.

Patch Week, The Perfect Time To Sell

   Welcome back ladies and gentle goblins. Today we are going to cover a small thing that if used right can earn your truly awesome profits. From experience, we know that when a new patch hits the sales go haywire, but if that patch brings an end to a season, and start to a new one, then it's a full out sale out.

     Well, this patch happens to be one of those patches, and we all made those awesome profits, but this patch has something that's even better about it.

What i mean by this is, this patch was released on a mid week day when people were at work and didn't all get a chance to play as much as they would want to. Well now we are coming on the weekend, and all those people that were busy working or what not are going to be free and playing. If you happen to be one of those people that were stuck on their work place, or  were busy with something else and didn't get to make the gold you wanted now it the time. So what this means for us is quite simple, SELL SELL SELL.

   I happen to be one of those people that loves to make gold, and on the patch day i tried to surpass my previous record of 200k per day, but kinda failed due to some problems but that's not important i made some awesome amount as well, but what's more important is that the 2nd day of the sales i made half of what i made on the patch day, and the good thing is that now the weekend is starting. So this only means that we get to have 4 consecutive very big sale days so expect to see huge incomes.

   So let's keep it short, and lets get down to what to sell if you missed the previous posts that were made check out The Hour Of Twilight Aftermath post, more precise near the end of the post you will see a list of things to sell, just copy that list and add a few things.

   One of the big, and i do mean big sales has came from selling gear on the AH. Let me clarify, when i say gear i mean visually interesting pieces of gear that in most cases can be obtained by crafting it. Most notably for me at least has been the Nightscape Boots and other boots that have a model that looks like an actual boot. Before i'm misunderstood, when i say actually looks like a boot i mean about how the model looks on a Undead ( This is primarily for Horde ) because a lot of the boot model for Undeads end up looking like slippers. So if you have a character that can craft gear, be it Cloth, Leather, Mail or Plate, make sure you inspect how they appear and see if you like them.

   So a fast recap in short lines of the top sellers that you should be selling :

Gems => Enchants > PvP Gear >Visually Interesting Gear > Food => Flasks, Pots

   And last but not least, if you missed out on the patch day for whatever reason, or didn't make as much as you were hoping to make, then i bid you all good luck and huge profits for this patch weekend.

   So, like always, keep an eye out for good opportunities out there.

Hour Of Twilight Aftermath

    Here we are a day after the patch (or two days for the US readers), and this post is not going to be a long one but rather a patch day aftermath report. Things with this patch were a bit unusual, at least on my server, and the reason for this was that i didn't take into account that alot of people had left the server. ( 3 major raiding guilds transferred away ) Given this information, my profits weren't that high, to top my last patch winnings of 190k. This patch i made 135k in about 6 hours of game time, and the reason for having only 6 hours even with the fact that i had a whole day free, is the universal law that states when everything is right, something will go wrong that will make it all go wrong. In my case, that was the internet connection going down for 2 hours in peek hours. But enough with this, it sounds like i'm making excuses, lets get down to the facts of what was happening and what to expect now.

Here's my MySales sales list taken at 9pm last night, for some reason i didn't make one before i went to bed, so on this one you can see that the sales are hovering at 105823g at that time. From what you can see, 90% of the profits i did are coming from the gem market. Well actually come to think of it on this image you can't see that much about what was selling, but only the gold acquired from the sales. Ok off to the next one where you'll be able to see the most profitable things that i sold and made some gold from.

   On this image, on the right you can see the top earners for this patch for me. Like i said i chose to go full out on the gem market, but did take on a few of the most sold enchants as well. As any patch day, this one was following about the same guidelines. Those guidelines are simple: people get new gear, people want gems for new gear, people want enchants for new gear, goblins make gold from people wanting things. So like i said i chose to go full out on gems for two reasons, first one being that i had all patterns and a stock to hold me for 3 patch days, and second one is that epics got released now so i need to offload the stock i have piled up before it deflates.

   I have a friend that took the other route about making gold on this patch day, he took up the enchanting scrolls and made almost as much as i did. So if you happen to be a enchanter it's still not late to jump in the market, because it's going to be a busy month for us gold makers because everyone will be getting new gear now and gems and enchants will go through the door.

   So that was what i did, and now this is what you should expect to see in the next week up to a month. So if you happen to have a character that can do any of those things you might want to jump in and make some profits.

• Enchants will have a high demand, so if you are enchanter get to enchanting
• Gems need will be high so this is the time to get to cutting gems
• Flasks and Pots will be in high demand so get mixing 
• Food is a great seller now, people want their food before they jump into instances and raids, so get cooking. A great way to make gold here is with the Fortune Cookies.
• New Season starts next week, so the need for PvP gear will go up, so get down to crafting some PvP gear. ( This is going to increase the need for enchants and gems again )
• Sell the belt buckles, everyone will want those so they are and will be a big seller.

   So, like always, keep an eye out for good opportunities out there.

Fast Recap Before The Ball Is Dropped

   So now we know, tomorrow patch day, and if you prepared like you should have it's the day that you will make a killing from all the sales. I won't make this a long post, i'd rather make a short one that will tell you what to expect, and how to make maximum amount of gold from it.

   This first part if for CRAFTERS. Everyone that has ever been in the PvP gear market can tell you that it's a high profit margin market if you start it in the beginning of the patch.

   Q: Will new crafted PvP gear be available ?
   A: Yes, there will be new ilvl 377 crafted PvP gear available with the various crafting professions
   A List of all the craftable items

   What does this mean to us as gold makers? Well it means that if we want to profit, we need to be well prepared, and have all the items premade ( not the actual PvP items, but rather the ore smelted into bars, cloth into bolts etc). If you are low on any volatile that you will need to craft the PvP gear now would be the last moment to buy it.

   Second thing that you must be prepared for, the fact that the orbs from heroics will be made BoE so if you can forge those weapons get on it, and stockpile some Truegold, which if you have read the truegold post  you've probably did it anyways.

   If you are not a crafter don't worry, you can make gold if you happen to be a alchemist. New instances and raid will mean new "thirst" for pots/flasks. So expect their prices to rise up a bit and the sales to intensify.

   JEWELCRAFTERS. If you are one, then get ready for a real storm of demand on patch day. When i say that it's going to be a storm, i mean you are going to be selling faster then you can cut. This is why you want to have all the gems pre cut to atleast a full stack of 20 sitting in your bags. If you want to maximize your profit though there's one thing you should make that is crucial, and that is to log in the minute the server goes up. As soon as you are in, don't go checking out new stuff, don't go opening the door if someone rings or answering the phone, just go to the AH and buy out every single gem you see up there and post them back up, at prices that you feel like are where you want them to be. (for me this is 200g per gem) So don't forget, RESET the prices and keep your stock up.

   One last thing about our PvP oriented readers. Read up on this post from mmo champion blue tracker.
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/207241/pvp-season-10-ending-soon
    In short, don't buy your honor gear on patch day, but wait for one week to do so because there will be more powerful PvP gear available for honor then.

   I usually make my posts with pretty pictures, and catchy phrases but seeing as how i have to go and finish my prepares for tomorrow i leave you with this picture, and I bid you luck on tomorrow's sales