**In the comments in this post, lasagna pointed out that there's a faster method to doing this search. I outlined this method here. You can still use this shopping list, but the other method utilizes dealfinding lists for quicker searches.**
This is intended as a simple guide to purchase transmog gear in the most efficient way possible. If you're not familiar with Transmog or TSM, learn how to use the addon package TradeSkillMaster before reading this guide, it's
necessary, trust me. Check out
Faid's Instructional TradeSkillMaster videos here.
1. Addons
To be a great xmog seller you really only need 2 addons (although TSM is a package of addons):
Tradeskillmaster: I use this to buy, post, and empty my mail (as well as keep track of sales). In particular you'll only need the Auctioning, Mailing, and Shopping packages, but all are recommended.
Mogit: Great addon that adds hover over previews to armor items. You'll have to check off "Load out of date addons" on your login screen for this one to work in it's current version. It works flawlessly though, which is probably (hopefully) why they haven't updated it for 5.1.
2. My Strategy
Shopping:
A lot of gold makers use separate lists, say Cloth, Leather, Mail, Plate, Weapons, and Shields. While doing this has it's pros, you're wasting a whole bunch of your own time sitting and searching for 100 items. I often found myself AFKing or browsing the web while doing these searches, and coming back to searches that were completed 10 minutes earlier because I got distracted. Then it hit me. If I'm going to do 6 huge xmog searches, why not do them all at once? Search for 500-600 items, browse the internet, go AFK, or read my
Favorite Gold Blog, and then come back later and go through the results. I've tried it out for over a week now, and I really like my results with this method. Generally I'll buy anything under 50g on this list, and the rest I judge by the appearance whether it's worth buying to flip. My list is based on a compilation of these lists from
Faid at GoClockorkRiot,
Shannon, and
myself. Shannon's list I trimmed down a bit for my own tastes, it originally had over 200 weapons, it now has only 151.
Selling:
For those of you who are new to transmog, I'm going to go over my shopping strategies. Those of you with preset Groups for selling set up already feel free to move to the next section. For selling I break my items down into 4 tiers. Some people like less, some people like more, I like four. My different groups are set up for 48 hour posting, and priced as follows:
(Threshold/Fallback)
499/749g - Common Transmog
750/1250g - Better looking/rarer Transmog
4499/4999g - Really Cool looking/unique Transmog
17,999/18,000g - Ridiculously Rare Transmog (think Jade, Exalted, etc)
As you start working with transmog gear you may decide you want different prices or more tiers based on your server's needs. This is what works for me, and I've had success with it. The first 2 groups above were originally 500 and 1k in Cata, and I bumped them up when MoP was launched because inflation. Use your best guess. Transmog doesn't sell constantly, so don't change your price levels around too much at first. You have to set a standard for your server, and possibly work against any competition. Use your best guess when first making sets. Base it off of the look, and what you think you can get out of your potential buyer for it (use Mogit to mouse over and see what it looks like).
3. The List
Below is the list, Import it by typing /tsm, going to the Shopping Options tab, clicking Shopping Lists, then Import Shopping list. Name it and copy/paste the following data into the "List Data" field. Hit the Accept Button, then Import List. I had some trouble importing this list, most likely because it's so huge. The name didn't go through at first and it took a while to load after importing, but these are minor problems that should not effect the list.
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Tomorrow I'll be going over more specific strategies I use. This should be more than enough to get you going for the time being!
Cheers,
Phat Lewts
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