The Cookie Season

   So Winterveil is upon us and the only thing i'm giggling about is the amount of cookies i'm selling. Well these are not the regular fortune cookies but rather the Gingerbread Cookies that are required for the event with "WoW's Santa" (No i'm not going to call him Great Father Winter)

    The only requirement to make those is to have 1 small egg and some holiday spices, and boom, profit. So if you didn't pick up any before the season check your AH to see maybe (slim chance though now) there's some egg left for a cheaper price, then flip it and make it into a cookie and then profit. I've been selling them in stacks of 5 for 350g per stack, and they are literally going ... well like cookies/cakes.

   If you didn't stock up on eggs, or simply didn't know about it, there's a way to farm these eggs and quite an effective way for that matter. What i'm talking about is killing the Feral Dragnohawks outside Silvermoon that have 100% chance to drop it and have a chance to drop 1-2 per kill. It took me 4 minutes and i already gathered up 50 eggs so it's an extremely fast way of obtaining those. As you can see on the image on the right, that's the best place to farm these.

   Another thing that you might want to get down to supply your Auction House is to make those outfits that you end up with the pattern in your mail if you have the corresponding profession leatherworking/tailoring.

   With these two in mind you can make some easy profits, but be warned though, the prices i stated were from my server, so before you get into this market check your ah and see what's what.

   I won't drag this on any more, so i bid you happy holidays and good hunting.

   If you want a second opinion on the matter check out Cold's post on the matter, and see what experiences he has had with the event and what he has to say.

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

The Quick Flip

   Like i've stated in many cases in the past, my favorite way to turn a profit, or make a killer sale is the one where i have to invest the minimum time into it and get the maximum profit. 

    One of the ways that i see are easiest to get to this is simply by using your professions to acquire raw ore/herbs then smelt/crush them and re list them back.

Main reason why this is a good idea is, well because everyone that's playing the game for the PvP or PvE aspect of the game are choosing their professions that give them the edge in competitiveness and maximum amount of DPS/HPS increase. 

    Well the good thing about this is that even with those professions they will still need someone with the gathering professions to actually turn their ore, leather or herbs into the materials they will need to have to continue working with their max professions.

   As a good example for this would be the price disparity between the ore/bars in many of the mineral tiers. We can see on many servers that prices of a given ore is (as an example) 10g/stack, and some of the bars require 1 ore or 2 ores to smelt into a bar, but for some reason the price of the bar for that same ore that requires 1 ore to make it into a bar is 15g or 20g. Well what that means is that you can turn a profit by simply buying out the ore stock ( i'm talking about the older tier of ore) then smelt them into bars and put them at 200 or even 300% profit margins.

   Only thing you need to be careful, is the amount of ores it takes to make a bar, because as i said some of the bars require 2 ores to make a single bar, so open your eyes. 

   Best market you want to get your greedy paws into, is the Vanilla and TBC markets, purely for the fact that people that powerlevel their professions will be picking up their bars as already smelted. But if you don't want to deal with the more slow moving bars then you might as well try to get into the Cataclysm markets, but be warned those investments could be tricky to deal with purely for the fact that most of the botters are gathering the Elementium and Obsidium Ores, and in effect keeping the prices down.

   This same strategy could be used in the leather markets, or the herbs/ink market, so pretty much any market in which you turn the raw materials into finished materials. Just so you don't have to manually check the prices the see if it's worth it, you can try and get your information from any of the AH gathering sites that will give you a overview of the situation of the prices.

The Undermine Journal 

WoW Trader

AH Spy

Wowuction

   So as a short recap, check the prices of ores against bars, check the prices of lower tier leathers against the higher ones and check the prices of the higher inks compared with the price of the lower ones.

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

   

The Old Man And The Sea ... And The Gold Fish

   Before i start this post, i would like to thank an unnamed person on my server that reminded me that even at this time of WoW's life, there are still people that are just starting out and are finding the WoW universe to be just that, WOW. Ok now that i got that out of the way, lets see how we can make some gold off from those people or even people that started in Late WOTLK, or hell even earlier.

   Unlike my usual stance on "farming" where i'm all about not doing it to make profit, i find fishing to be relaxing sometimes ( i'm going to put the accent on SOMETIMES, because at other times it can piss you off ). The best thing about fishing is that everyone can do it, but not everyone does it. Back in Vanilla, TBC and especially WOTLK fish were a very sought after commodity, but in Cataclysm that demand went down the drain except for a few types for fish that were needed for the feasts.

   But here i am again going deep into a subject that i didn't really mean to write about. So even though this post is about making gold from fishing, i am not going to tell you to go out and fish for those feast fishes, no, i am going to direct you to the oldest and most profitable fish since WoW was released. Yes, ladies and gentle goblins i give you the Deviate Fish.

   What is so great about this fish is the ease with witch you can catch it, and it's availability. One drawback for catching this fish as an Alliance character is that, well you will need to go to the Barrens to catch these guys.

   On the image here you can see the best locations there are for catching the fish. As you can see there are three spawning zones for the fish, and when i say spawning zones i mean spots where schools of fish will appear that will guarantee you a catch every time you toss that fishing line. Another great thing about having three spots to farm these fish is that by the time you finish catching the fish at the first location, then are finishing the second location and thinking about going to the last one, the pools in the first one have already respawned. Except these spots there is another place that you can farm for these fish, and that is inside the Wailing Caverns instance. only difference is that there are no fishing pools in there but a rather 40-45% chance of catching the fish in open water. So we covered where to find the fish, now lets cover how to sell, cook and market the fish.

   The Deviate Fish when eaten on it's own has a few side effects. These side effects are five in total ranging from small heals, stamina buff as well as the ability to put you to sleep, but there are 2 other effects that are kind of cool and those are the Shrinking and the Party Time. The Shrinking is an effect that is pretty much like the Noggenfogger Elixer and can shrink you. ( Don't worry guys the effects are temporary, it WILL grow back up ... so where was i ), while the Party Time effect basically makes your character start doing random emotes and dance and laugh. This effect can be dispelled, but lets be honest if you dispel that effect you have no soul ... or you are a politician.

   But even with those two effects the Deviate Fish is not a big seller because of them but rather to the effects that it can have if you cook it. So if you have the Recipe then you can make it's cooked form which is Deviate Savory Delight. The best thing about this is that it can make you end up looking like a, and now get this, a Pirate or a Ninja!

   When we say ninja, the first thing we end up thinking is something like the guy on the left ( Scorpion for those who have never heard of Mortal Combat ), while when we hear about Pirate we think of ... ahh .. what do we think of, uhh i know, Polly wants a cracker talking parrot. But that's beside the point, whatever we think is not important, what's important is that they sell a lot if you do it right and can net in some great profits.

   So, after covering the where and what, lets get down to the last part in which we discuss the marketing and selling strategy.

   Best way to sell these is in stacks of 5's and 20's. One of the things you want to check out first is the competition on the server, usually it's low to none but still check it out, and check out the prices. On my server i was in a bit of luck and managed to find a seller selling 40 stacks of raw Deviate Fish for 20g/stack. Bought them all out, posted 1 stack of 20's for 200g and 4 stacks of 5's for 50g/stack, while the rest i cooked and posted on the AH for 250g/stack. I managed to sell about 30 stacks in 1 day. I'm not saying you will always find deals like that but if you see their prices being low at under 100g buy them out then repost them at 250 or even higher if you think you can fence them, and watch your profits soar.

   And last but not least, this item is an item that people generally don't know about unless they've tried it out in the past, so you want to make a macro that you can post in trade channel that will advertise it a bit. Making a ad macro for this is easy, simply put Ninja and Pirate and anything in between those two and it's a formula for success.

   So we covered the what, the where and the how, and now the only thing you have left to do is go find some chillout music if you decide to do some fishing, or go and dominate that part of the market and watch your profits.

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

Pissed Off, And Then Some

   See this baby on the picture, well he's a level 1 pissed off individual, me on the other hand got to level 10 yesterday and today. The reason for this is not something i did in WoW, or maybe someone even undercut me or cheat me out of a sweet profit, no, the reason for my pissyoffness (not a real word but who cares, it's how i feel) is the streak of bad luck i've had with posting for the last few days. What i mean by this is actually the inability to post.

   What really happened is yesterday i spent about an hour and a half making a very detailed post about a new auctions site that is rising up, gathered all the info, cropped and PS tens of pictures, made some funny remarks, and in general i liked it because it made me happy. Well my happiness came to an abrupt stop, when about one minute away from pressing the post button the power went out. That was a moment just like the ones in the commercials when they end it up the word PRICELESS. But my case was even more amusing when the power came back on and i saw the only thing that was saved in the draft, was the first intro line, and the line stated as following "Settle in a comfy position because this is going to be fun". That was when PRICELESS went to EPIC.

   But enough about that, let me give you the given site information, but this time instead of doing it on my own again, i will simply put out two links to two guys that did a pretty good job covering it. Just so you know the site i'm talking about can be found at  http://www.wowuction.com  and here are the two posts that did a pretty good job covering it.

The Golden Crusade

Alto's Goldish Advice

   These guys did a pretty good job covering the site so give them both a whirl and see what they think about it.

   Another thing i had written about and is pretty much lost was a think that Kuja kinda made a similar post about. What i mean is the ability to make gold by catering to the needs of the leveling characters, or the twinks in the 79 bracket. Kuja's Post on flipping twink gear is pretty much what i've done for a while, with a bit of a twist where i would go and acquire the gear on my own when i was bored. How i did that was simple, i would take a treasure finding potion, and go do the Embersilk Cloth farming spot, if you don't know about it, read all about it in The Way Of The Farmer post. The reason why this is the best place to do it is because everything you kill is a humanoid and you end up killing a lot of them so good chance at getting greens. When you get items there if they are for level 79 price them at 350g if they are 80 or 81 price them at 250g .. they will sell, eventually.

   So hopefully next time i make a post, i will not have to make it as a repository of links but rather something more in the line of a proper post. Until then a shout out to the guys that did cover those three topics

Xsinthis, Alto and Kuja.

New Season, New Possibilities

   One week ago we saw the drop of the patch. That is when all the sales started going haywire, when the demand for gems, enchants and everything in between went up. Well, today is that same day, but on a smaller scale. What i means by this is, we have the start of the new PvP season, which in return means new PvP gear and people starting to do more PvP to get the new gear. Like we all know, new gear requires new enchants and new gems so we should see a big increase in those.

     So this time around make sure you get your crafters shelling out goods to sell. One good thing about the start of the new season besides the new rise in demand for enchants and gems is the rise in new characters in playing PvP, and those characters need a intro level gear so they don't absolutely suck, and get them selves killed in two shots.

    That right there is what you want to focus on. Get that PvP gear out on the market and see how many you end up selling.

   If you have a Leatherworker, Blacksmith or Tailor, make sure you have bought the patterns for the given PvP sets and that you price them relatively high, as an example if the mats cost you 200g price them at 1500g, they will sell no doubt about that.

   If you are a Jewelcrafter, this time around expect a rise in the sales of the PvP gems. So all those gems that are collecting dust in the corners of your bank are going to see some sales today and in the following week.

      This next bit is more focused at the PvP playing community. Namely they have been given the chance to acquire their epic gems that are PvP oriented straight from the PvP vendor, but given the fact that it costs 750 conquest points i don't see them going for them any time soon unless they are playing on an alt and want to make some gold off the insanely high price of the gems now. My guess is that this is Blizzard's way of addressing the crying PvP community that was crying out on the forums, now they have a place where they can go ahead and tell them that there are PvP gems in the game that can be bought.

   So not much else to talk about, except one thing, if you are a PvPer enjoy the new season.

   So, like always, keep your eyes open for good opportunities out there.