My TSM_Crafting Enchanting Setup

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In my last post, Handera asked how I set up my TSM_Crafting module to make enchanting scrolls, so this is just going to be a short post in response to his question.  He said that he uses it for glyphs, so this post is going to assume a general knowledge of TSM_Crafting, but not the specific enchanting parts.

What I do for this, is I override minimum profit, in both gold and %profit so that I only make crafts worth my time.  This is how you do that:

Setting up TradeSkillMaster_Crafting For Enchanting


Step 1: Type /tsm and click on the Enchanting module

Step 2: Go to Options, and check the box "Override Minimum Profit"

Step 3: I use both Percent and Gold Amount.  My Minimum Profit (in %) is set to 50% and my Minimum Profit (in gold) I set to 150g.  This ensures I'm making a good return on my investment AND each scroll is (theoretically) making at least 150g, at current market prices.  

So that's basically how I set up the options before I craft.  Making non-Cataclysm scrolls is acceptable, granted they are profitable enough.  

Creating Crafting List

Then you can go into enchanting and open the crafting window.  Click Restock Queue and you should come up with a list like this:

Shopping for Mats

When you open the TSM window at the AH, click on "Crafting Mats", and make sure only enchanting is selected in the top, and for Destroying modes to use you can have Disenchanting selected (disclaimer below).  

If you do have Disenchanting selected, it will bring up search results like this, if not it will only bring up the mat you need to craft, which is less time consuming, but you can find some good deals this way.

Explanation of Above: We're searching for Greater Cosmic Essence here.  The top item (when disenchanted) will turn into GCE at a certain rate.  On average disenchanting this item that costs 17g will yield a GCE that cost 15g11s11c.  In this case I would just by the GCE for 19g 26s 90c, as I only need 6 of them (shown on the right under "Need").  Note: Using this method comes up with many items can turn into either Dust or Essence, and it's a random proc, so unless the deals are like 25% off or more of the raw mat, go with the mat itself.

From here you can go back to the profession screen and craft all your scrolls, or use TSM_Destroying to DE all the weapons/armor you bought, then craft.  

Note:
The one thing I would highly suggest doing when using this method is if you do the obsidium/elementium shuffle, disenchant the rings/necks before doing these searches.  The shuffle is THE utmost cheapest way to come up with these mats on probably any server.  If you're looking to optimize profit, that's the route to go!

Hope this Helps!

Cheers,

Phat Lewts

Weekly Review 2/27/2012

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I decided that I am going to start doing "a week in review" posts to give readers insight into what I am personally doing.  I will be discussing no methods here, but if you'd like me to further expand on what I write, feel free to ask in the comments.

Highest Seller
This week I sold an item for 10k gold (9500 after AH tax).  One search that I like to do every so often is one for "Plans", one for "Recipe" and another for "Pattern".  Doing this search 3 weeks ago I found Plans: Felsteel Longblade on the AH for 3200g.  After much deliberation I bought it, and then held onto it for about a week trying to decide if I would flip it or craft the blades for transmog.  I decided to flip it for 10k, which isn't THAT great of a profit margin, I made 6300g from one transaction.  My highest resale profit to date.  Not all resales have to be mogging!

Constant Sellers
Gems of course are always selling, but this week I decided to go into TSM and craft profitable Cataclysm scrolls, and I've had great luck.  The searching for things to disenchant gets me the best prices on enchanting mats, and I've made about 15k profit this week just from this.  Not too bad for the hour or so it took to make the scrolls.  One of the most constantly selling and cheapest enchants to make is Enchant Chest - Mighty Stats.  I always keep a 20 stack of these on my posting toon.  If you do the ore shuffle, you can easily and cheaply make these too, and definitely should!

New Additions to Gold Making
This week watching Jim Younkin's Livestream (Jim can be found at www.powerwordgold.net) I was inspired to go rare spawn hunting in Blasted Lands.  I know this is a method that others have been using for a while, but I kind of questioned the viability of the strategy (ie gold per hour) and was a little skeptical, but decided to give it a try.  Man were my expectations exceeded.  There are 12 rare spawns in blasted lands, and with the quest items they drop, each one has 2 chances at great transmog gear.  So assuming half of them are spawned, in a bout 15 minutes on a 85 character you can get a chance at 12 mogging items.  While out there I got a Swashbucklers Eyepatch, which I think will be a gold mine in and of itself, so I was very happy.

Also new this week, Faid from the blog Nerf Faids came out with a post: Importable TSM Mog Lists v2.0.  As you know if you've read my blog in the past I have a certain affinity to Auctionator for searches, but I tried out Faid's lists this week, and I really like them.  The current project for my blog right now is looking to make my previous gold making Auctionator Lists into TSM lists that ya'll can import.  Expect them out no later than Friday morning this week.

Non-Gold Making
Recently I've decided to start farming Circle of Flame for my mage.  It's pretty easy to get to now that they added the mole machines to the beginning of BRD but I've had bad luck this week.  Over 45 attempts at this 5% drop so far.  Really like the animation on that one, and going to continue farming it in the weeks to come, hopefully just this upcoming one!  Also did LFR and a feral druid won the caster staff which made me really happy >:o.

Hope you enjoyed my week in review, check out my blog regularly this week for my upcoming TSM lists!!

Cheers,

Phat Lewts

Expanding on the Cataclysm Twink Market

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A while back I posted a few twinking searches for level 77 twinks.  The idea here is that at level 77 you can get your hands on some ridiculously OP Cataclysm BoEs and melt faces in BGs till you ding 80 and move up to the 80-84 bracket.  Since many mains will have hit the point in the expansion where they "can't get better", we may see an influx of alts coming in that will buy this stuff up like candy.

Today I'm going to expand on my original list, and suggest some pricing points which I believe will work on almost any server.  I have done this across 3 servers ranging from Low-High Population, so this has a lot of potential for any server.  That being said, this method is really dependent on the prices that this gear is already going for on your server.  So here is the Auctionator list that I use for looking for Cata Twink Gear:

***Cata Twink Gear
Armor/77/77/i272/
Weapon/77/77/i272/
Armor/78/78/i300
Weapon/78/78/i300

What do these searches do?

• Armor/77/77/i272/ and Weapon/77/77/i272/
• These searches look for items usable by only level 77's of minimum ilevel 272
• This is your bread and butter of this market.  These weapons provide the longest term usage over the 77-79 range where cataclysm armor is available to newbies.  
• This is the fastest of the turnover rates.  
• NEVER buy anything called Dreadmaul _________ of the Tiger.  This is plate gear with agility and hit as stats DON'T DO IT!
• Pricing - I price these at 499g99s99c across the board, I only buy at 250g or less.

• Armor/78/78/i300 and Armor/78/78/i300 
• These 2 searches will look for a select few items.  These items are of rare quality and are usable by level 78s and up.  These are the only Cata level 77-79 Rare BoE items.
• Depending on your server there may be an overabundance of these, or none at all.
• The best selling item in this group for me across 3 servers hands down is Alpheus Legguards.
• Pricing - I price these at 999g99s99c across the board.  I tend to buy at prices up to 750g when there is only one on the AH (but in general I would suggest no more than 300-400g). 

This isn't a get rich quick scheme.  If you have gold laying around that you don't have invested in anything, this is a great investment!  I have used it to make tens of thousands of gold on servers I rarely play on, and see this as a GREAT way to build your capital through high returns!  If you're interested in seeing a breakdown of my personal returns from this method check out my recent post.  I find this method to have very little time invested for the great return you get, and it's an amazing asset to add to one's gold arsenal.  

Cheers, 

Phat Lewts

Auctionating Mogging Shields

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Don Gonzales' Shiny Shield (BoE lvl 80 Cata drop)

Northern Barrier (Uld 25 BoE)

Hey guys,

I created another mogging list that has been off the radar for some - Shields.  I've had quite a good return selling shields on both My main (low/med pop) server and Lightbringer (high pop).  What I was doing is going through all the shields for sale by hand and buying them.  This worked great on my low/med pop server, but on higher pop servers there are lots of crafteds, and low level shields that look very bland, and up to 3 pages of 50 shields a pop to look at.  So I decided to make an Auctionator list to simplify my searches.

Emerald Shield (Random Drop BoE)

How I made my list
I went to wowhead and filtered shields by the following:

1. BoE
2. Not crafted by a profession

This left 183 shields, that I arduously went through models of one by one, to pick out a list of 50, and here it is, hope you enjoy it!  Use this list with Auctionator and Mogit for maximal results!  (Check out my last post for the link to Jim's video on importing Auctionator lists).

***Shield Moggs

Blackskull Shield

Northern Barrier

Skullflame Shield

The Green Tower

Aegis of Stormwind

Crystal Pulse Shield

Don Gonzales' Shiny Shield

Garrett Family Crest

Mountainside Buckler

Redbeard Crest

Shield of Thorsen

Shield of the Wayward Footman

Troll Protector

Black Husk Shield

Blackforge Buckler

Bloodforged Shield

Bloodlust Buckler

Bloodspattered Shield

Chief Brigadier Shield

Emerald Shield

Emperor Shield

Fel-Iron Shield

Field Plate Shield

Glorious Shield

Headhunter's Buckler

High Chief's Shield

Hulking Shield

Hyperion Shield

Ironhide Shield

Jazeraint Shield

Kaskala Buckler

Khan's Buckler

Knight's Crest

Lofty Shield

Lord's Crest

Ornate Shield

Outland Shield

Overlord's Shield

Revenant Deflector

Saltstone Shield

Slayer's Shield

Spiked Targe

Spoke Shield

Steadfast Buckler

Symbolic Crest

Tyrant's Shield

Warbringer's Shield

Warstrike Buckler

Hyperion Shield (World Drop)

High Chief's Shield (World Drop)

This list includes what I think are the best 50 BoE shields that aren't crafted.  Import this list to Auctionator, then use the mogit addon to mouse over the ones that come up to see if the price is within your range!  Hope this list becomes a great addition to your mogging arsenal!  

Cheers, 

Phat Lewts

Rare Chest Mogging Lists

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Let me preface this a bit.  When I was on my alt in <Power Word Guild> on Lightbringer [A], I was mousing through the cloth chests when I stumbled upon Black Velvet Robes:

They were for sale for a measly 10 gold.  Since they were Rare BoE's, they were on no current mogging lists on Power Word: Gold (which are the ones that I use for greens) or elsewhere.  In less than 48 hours I flipped these robes for 2500g.  Forget the price right now, but this made me realize that there should be some buyout lists for Rare Chests in Auctionator, maybe even shoulders and pants, but that's for another day.  My list is comprised of BoE Rare chests.

How I Made my Lists
Basically I moused through wowhead, and searched through rare chests with 2 filters: BoE and not made by a profession.  From that pool I clicked through through and chose the good looking ones, and ones that could possibly compete with my common mogging list items.  With out further Ado, here are the lists I came up with!  Enjoy!

***Rare Cloth

Beguiler Robes

Black Velvet Chest

Black Velvet Robes

Chan's Imperial Robes

Demonweave Raiment

Egg-Warming Blanket

Elemental Raiment

Funeral Pyre Vestment

Mechbuilder's Overalls

Necrology Robes

Noble's Robe

Robe of the Crimson Order

Robe of the Magi

Shroud of Spiritual Purity

***Rare Leather

Bulge-Concealing Breastplate

Chestguard of the Dark Stalker

Chestguard of the Talon

Demon-Cured Tunic

Fumblub's Seat Cushion

Greenhealer's Garb

Pristine Glowbear Pelt

Quillward Harness

Skystalker's Tunic

Spirewind Fetter

Starsight Tunic

Wolffear Harness

Ymirjar Physician's Robe

***Rare Mail

Archon Chestpiece

Avenger's Armor

Aviary Guardsman's Hauberk

Bonebrace Hauberk

Breastplate of Rapid Striking

Condor-Bone Chestguard

Demon-Forged Hauberk

Double Link Tunic

Drakescale Hauberk

Dreamwalker Armor

Hauberk of Totemic Rage

Martyr's Chain

Scarlet Chestpiece

Val'kyr Vestments

***Rare Plate

Agin's Crushing Carapace

Breastplate of Blade Turning

Chestguard of Illumination

Demon-Forged Chestguard

Drakescale Breastplate

Hydralick Armor

Patina-Coated Breastplate

Slatesteel Breastplate

If you copy from and including *** to the end of the list you can paste it into auctionator's import tab.  For more on doing this, check out This video starting at 3:00 (props to Jim from PW:G for this video).  If you don't like that it's in 4 seperate lists, have no fear!  You can condense all 4 lists into 1 as follows:


*** Rare Gear
Agin's Crushing Carapace
Archon Chestpiece
Avenger's Armor
Aviary Guardsman's Hauberk
Beguiler Robes
Black Velvet Chest
Black Velvet Robes
Bonebrace Hauberk
Breastplate of Blade Turning
Breastplate of Rapid Striking
Bulge-Concealing Breastplate
Chan's Imperial Robes
Chestguard of Illumination
Chestguard of the Dark Stalker
Chestguard of the Talon
Condor-Bone Chestguard
Demon-Cured Tunic
Demon-Forged Chestguard
Demon-Forged Hauberk
Demonweave Raiment
Double Link Tunic
Drakescale Breastplate
Drakescale Hauberk
Dreamwalker Armor
Egg-Warming Blanket
Elemental Raiment
Fumblub's Seat Cushion
Funeral Pyre Vestment
Greenhealer's Garb
Hauberk of Totemic Rage
Hydralick Armor
Martyr's Chain
Mechbuilder's Overalls
Necrology Robes
Noble's Robe
Patina-Coated Breastplate
Pristine Glowbear Pelt
Quillward Harness
Robe of the Crimson Order
Robe of the Magi
Scarlet Chestpiece
Shroud of Spiritual Purity
Skystalker's Tunic
Slatesteel Breastplate
Spirewind Fetter
Starsight Tunic
Val'kyr Vestments
Wolffear Harness
Ymirjar Physician's Robe

Using This List
To use this list just go to the list and hit "search all".  If you have the condensed list, it will take a while, but is well worth it!  Using this list with mogit will help you determine what price threshold you can buy for, and it will be wonderful.  Champagne will rain from the heavens, and you will be hailed a mogging god!!

Hope this helped streamline a bit of your gold making from mogging, good luck!

Cheers,

Phat Lewts

Phantom Blade

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You may know that when Cataclysm removed weapon/armorsmithing from the game, it also removed a lot of the patterns that went with each.  One of the coolest looking ones was the Phantom Blade, and as some may or may not know, if you don't have the pattern, it was added back to the game in the 4.3 patch.

WARNING: If you want to farm this pattern it's pretty easy to farm but BEWARE the pattern is BoP so you'll have to do it on your Blacksmith.

Alright the link to the pattern is here.  You may be looking at the drop rates thinking ".02% drop rate?  That's insane!"  This is very much not the case.  This item was added back to WoW in Patch 4.3, and this .02% drop rate is calcualted on all the drops from those adds (over 115,000) since vanilla WoW, which haven't dropped the pattern until now.  For a more accurate drop rate, the WoW site lists the drop rate as "Very Low", which is in the range of 1-3% (as compared to extremely low which is <1%).  For reference another item that has a drop rate of "Very Low" is  Ashes of Al'ar which Wowhead correctly calculates, and has listed at a 1.7% drop rate.  Luckily, unlike Ashes, the Plans for the Phantom Blade are farmable off of multiple creatures that can be reset.  

Farming the Phantom

To get this pattern you have to kill either Shrieking or Wailing Banshees in Stratholme's The Gauntlet, which the entrance to is located in Western Plaguelands here (don't do what I did at first and go to the regular entrance) 

Once inside, you can follow this path, and you just kill the banshees along the path (dotted line is no banshees, but necessary).  

Now there is one caveat to this method.  Anyone doing this method is subject to Blizzard's 5 instances per hour lockout.  At 85, you could probably do 12 of these per hour, but it WILL lock you out after 5.  I did this, and it ended up taking me 12 runs.  On average it should take less, but it is possible to take more than 12.  Again you may have to take a break, but luckily queuing for random dungeons/raid finder doesn't count towards this total so in your downtime you can do randoms.  

Crafting/Selling

Like the Icy Cloak Post I wrote a while ago, this has look alikes that are available from vendors.  Your main audience is those who will see this item and say "Hey I want that, and I'd be willing to pay that price for it".  You're not going to get someone who looks it up on Wowhead and says "lol look at all these lookalikes!  I'm not paying for that one!", unless they're deadset on the color, so price it accordingly!  I just really like having these cool looking craftables on my alts, make 3-5 of them, throw them in the bank, and if they sell, great!  If not, reduce the price after a few weeks, keep trying.  I had a lot of fun farming and crafting this, and I hope you do too!  If you do try doing this, leave a comment about your experience getting it, I'd love to hear from you! 

Cheers,

Phat Lewts

1,000,000 Gold on a Low/Med Population Server

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Finally made it to 1,000,000 gold this past Thursday!  On December 9th I hit half a million, so in 47 days I managed to make 500k, or about 10,500g per day profit on a server that is Low pop during the week and Medium on weekends.  For those who are curious I'm going to post some of my data taken from TSM for my favorite gold making strategies.


1) Jewelcrafting


Spent

Item	Gold Spent
Elementium Ore	320,156
Obsidium Ore	37,051
Pyrite Ore	33,301
Total Spent:	390,508

Gold Earned on Cut Gems (Sums of Rare Cuts)

Item	Gold Made
Inferno Ruby	585,408
Ember Topaz	93,296
Demonseye	64,942
Amberjewel	27,367
Ocean Sapphire	17,046
Dream Emerald	16,785
Total Earned:	804,844

This alone puts my profit from JC over 400k gold, more than doubling my original investment in the ore.  Now, this data is only for the cut gems that I sold, not to mention the rings/necklaces I made with the common gems and Disenchanted for enchanting scrolls/raw enchanting mats.  JC is my favorite, can you tell? 

2) Cata Twink Gear

Armor Type	Gold Earned	Gold Spent	Profit
Lvl 77 Cloth	13,375	4,476	8,599
Lvl 77 Leather	13,052	7,325	5,727
Lvl 77 Mail	11,495	5,658	5,837
Lvl 77 Plate	13,703	6,768	6,935
Lvl 77 Ring/Neck	4,796	1,813	2,983
Lvl 77 Weapon	15,576	6,342	8,984
Lvl 78 Assorted	9,322	7,660	1,662
TOTALS	81,319	40,042	41,277

The reason I've included this is because, like the initial cut gems, it has basically doubled my investment.  The only difference is that this method literally takes seconds per day, compared to the enormous amounts of time jewelcrafting takes to prospect and cut.  

NOTE: The "Gold Spent" column also reflects gold I have spent on items that haven't sold yet.  

3) Mogging

Love it or hate it, mogging has become a great source of quick income for many gold makers, and I'm no exception.  Unlike most moggers I prefer crafting and selling items on the AH, although when I have no work to do for JC you can find me at the AH looking through models.  Here is my data for crafted and resales.

Type of Mogging	Profit	Number in Category
Resales:	13,784	28
Crafted	7,786	3
Total:	21,570	----

The three items that I am able to resell that I craft are below with their average profit per item.  The links are to posts about them by me, or in the case of the axe, Power Word: Gold:

• Icy Cloak: 2195g Profit per sale
• Big Voodoo Robe: 1402g Profit per sale
• Huge Thorium Axe : 688g Profit per sale

A lot of the responses I got from my Icy Cloak post was that there's another cloak that's purchasable from vendors in Shattrath for 300ish Justice Points.  I've sold 2 of these cloaks on a small server, and what I have to say to that is don't assume that all players have the same resources that you do, or know how to utilize them properly.  

4) Misc. Sales

Some other sales data that I think is worth noting:

Wrath Epic Gems

Gem and Cut	Number Sold	Gold Made	Average Gold/Sale
Brilliant Cardinal Ruby	110	22,288	202.6
Solid Majestic Zircon	61	12,870	211
Mystic King's Amber	96	21,535	224.3
Reckless Ametrine	23	4,563	198.4
Willful Ametrine	13	3,130	240.8
Purified Dreadstone	4	763	190.4
Total:	307	65,149g	212.2

Easily the most profitable use for Justice Points when the gear is too cheap, will also buy @100g raw to cut.

Transmutes

Volatile Life Avg Price Bought Per: 5.24g

Volatile Air Avg Sale Price: 17.59g

Profit per "Living Element" Transmute: 185.25g (procs not included)

Volatile Air Sold: 3,690

Total for Living Elements: 45,571g (Didn't include procs)

Avg Price of Volatile Air x10: 162.5g

Avg Price of Volatile Water x10: 118.8g

Avg Price of Volatile Fire x10: 47.99g

Avg Price of Pyrium Bar x3: 36.65g

Avg Cost to make Truegold: 365.94

Cost after factoring in x1.2 proc: 304.95

Avg Truegold Sale Price: 606.34

Avg Profit per Truegold: 301.39

Truegold crafted: 55

Total Truegold Profit: 16,576g 

The reason I tended to do Living Elements more even though Truegold was more profitable, there was a point in the expansion where someone who seemed to have been stockpiling Truegold decided to sell about 150 for under 400g each, which would have drastically reduced my profit margin.  

Alright that's it for now, thanks for reading until the end, not all my data, but the interesting bit of it.  Look out for more gold making posts as I ease down on game time after hitting my milestone.

Cheers,

Phat Lewts