Dailies
Even though I care about other factions, I always make sure I do my Tillers dailies. They are the only faction (other than the crafting recipe ones) that directly relate to gold making. Ironpaw Tokens are even extraordinarily useful in this time of the game, and will be in the months coming. Cooking is turning out to be quite a lucrative profession for me, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. Visiting my farm is one of the first things I do every day, as well as the Silk Fields just south of the farm for my Tailoring CD. Very convenient. My tailoring CD has to be one of my most favorite CDs of this expansion. It takes raw mats and increases their value by at least tenfold.
Black Market Auction House
As a mage with ports to both Org and Vale I decided to set my main's hearth to the BMAH. So far I've bought two heroic crafting patterns for their minimum 20k, and have flipped one for 30k. I check this daily for great deals, and have already blown 80k on a mount. Even though 80k was over my 50k threshold, I got a little caught up in a bidding war, which I shouldn't have. I noticed the player bidding against me was running back and forth to the mailbox going up in 1k increments and decided to do 10k. It got a bit out of hand. Backfired you could say. Oh well.
Transmogrification
I don't know how everyone else is doing with transmog gear, but so far it's been a great seller for me on my low pop server since MoP release. I'd imagine larger servers are seeing too big of an influx of greens to be able to control the market, but I'm getting just enough greens in to hold my market down, and even though I'm not being good about reposting every 2 days, I've been making a lot using transmog strategies from last patch.
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| My Main's MoP Xmog (Click to Enlarge) |
Living Steel
I'm kind of disappointed with the way that Living Steel has gone this expansion, as Truegold had a much better presence throughout Cataclysm, especially in regards to profit margin. I think it's mostly because all the crafted gear is raid finder level, so raiders can replace it pretty fast, and the non hardcore raiders don't bother buying it. I've already dropped my 2nd JC for Inscription and I'm considering dropping at least 1 of my 4 Alchemists to pick up Inscription as well. Mostly for the cards which will lose a lot of value after this upcoming DMF, but I think the trinkets will be in high demand through November DMF so the sooner the better IMO.
While this is by no means an exhaustive list, it's certainly what I've been focusing in on as far as gold making in the new expansion. What are your opinions on the viability of Alchemy (or any profession for that matter) going forward in WoW? What's your new favorite profession?
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I've also found the Living Steel CD to be quite disappointing as well. I've dropped back from 3 transmute masters to 1 simply because it's quicker and easier to just source Living steel straight from the AH (my AH is flooded with them) for prices barely above mats cost.
ReplyDeleteI think because creating LS is so easy now, it's actually allowing more competition into the market and in turn, having a roll on affect for other markets which are tied to LS.
Dailies are a part of every WoW players' life and it's never been moreso since the introduction of MoP (unless you only do PvP). But whilst it can be laborious (*shakes fist at the Golden Lotus), the rewards are there and once the exalted reps are ground out, people will start to slow down on them and experience more of the game.
I've been finding the Pet Battle system to be a terrific side interest at the moment and far more addictive than what many might think.
Yeah I have a team of battle pets right now that are all 22, 22, and 24, so you can bet I've had my share of addiction with them.
DeleteMy favorite pet has been the ones you can capture after getting exalted with the order of the cloud serpent, they're a very cool side reward from getting to exalted with them.