Now how do u make money

[Happycoil]

Since it seems no one's buying anything from the AH cause of the pvp patch, what areas so u guys suggest to farm for coin drops / vendor trash?

[Farq]

Essence for Enchants, dont sell crap greens, disenchant them and then sell the essence / dust / shards

[abreklnzetni]

i got a nice little system working for me right now. (im a tailor and enchanter)

i buy 20-stacks of linen cloth off the AH, the buyout price on the cheaper stacks is usually between 10-15 silver per 20-stack. i don't know where these people are getting so much linen cloth so quick, but the market is totally flooded. i'll buy like 8 of them, so that's 160 linen cloths for about 1 gold. then i spin them up into 80 bolts of linen cloth. i spend 40 silver on fine thread, at 1 silver a peice, giving me 40 fine thread. it takes 4 bolts of linen cloth and 2 fine thread to make 1 "linen britches". with my supplies i can make 20.

so now i've got 20 "linen britches" which are cheap green items, somewhere around level 10 i think. this cost me about 1g50s total.

i disenchant all of them, giving me somewhere around 30 strange dust and 5 lesser magic essence's.

i put the strange dust up on the AH for 20s a peice, and lesser magic essence's for 35 a peice. these prices are usually cheaper than anybody elses listings.

long story short, these things sell like hot-cakes on my server. 30 strange dust at 20s a peice is 6 gold. 5 lesser magic essence (usually there's more) at 35s a peice is 1g75s.

so for 1g50s invested, i get 7g75s in return (probably like 7g-7g25s after AH cut), and i can usually flip all those mat's in just a few hours.

it's a pretty cool system and i'm up to like 50 gold at level 17, i just bought the game 6 days ago, not too shabby. i just decked myself out in some green armour and a cool green staff, and applied all the enchants i could to them that i can make.

i figure once i get up to like 100 gold i'll start expanding into more expensive markets. there's a blue level 19 staff on the AH i've got my eye on, can't remember the name or the price but it's tempting, even though it's an overpriced twink item.

this might not work on all servers, economies vary greatly, but maybe this will give you some ideas. try to find cheap flooded markets for materials that you can use your crafting proffessions to convert into high demand items, preferably enchanting mat's since there's no deposit fee.

good luck and hope i gave you some ideas :)

[BlueEyesAustin]

I'm making money hand over fist on essences and dust. I expect this to continue as folks put chants on all their nice, shiny HWL gear. I also am finding that is is now MUCH easier to buy greens to DE on the AH. Before the patch, it was getting very difficult.

Greater Eternal Essences -- Increase from 5-6/essence to 9/essence
Illusion Dust -- Increase from 17-19/stack to 25-27/stack
Large Brilliant Shards seem unchanged

[rgirty]

Shards haven't went up much because people farm them a lot. The rest of what everyone else is saying is true.

The reason that a lot of the lower level mats are selling so well is that people who had DE mules are leveling them up so they can de again.

[Gyoza]

Shards haven't went up much because people farm them a lot. The rest of what everyone else is saying is true.

The reason that a lot of the lower level mats are selling so well is that people who had DE mules are leveling them up so they can de again.

ahh yes, that is true, cause i was gonna say, last i looked at a stack of 20 strange dust, it was selling for less than 1g (that was about 1mo ago admittedly).

I think i am gonna go farm WC tonite LOL.

[rottentomato]

you can make brown linen robes and do the same thing no? and it costs less because you are using coarse thread and less linen

[snowieken]

you can make brown linen robes and do the same thing no? and it costs less because you are using coarse thread and less linenI could be mistaken, but I think you also get significantly less enchanting materials out of them, i.e. you have to make more of them to equal the amount you would get from Handstitched Linen Britches, evening it out.

[rottentomato]

good to know! thank you! ill check it out with the tailor later on tomorrow

[rottentomato]

after reading your details on the subject, i was making more brown linen robes and ended up with slightly more products to disenchant and about 10 more strange dust and a similar number of greater magic essence...but i understand that it is dependant on numbers and a little bit of luck. i think after 23 robes, i had 22 strange dust and 4 greater magic essence. i got lucky with the lesser magic essence and dropped usually 5 everytime i got the lesser in my loot

[rottentomato]

right now small eggs on the AH are the way to go....my server has them going for 50s-99s EACH!!!!

[Lalaust]

I'm farming ore's - I found out that they sell for alot more when they are in ore form, instead of bars. It's nice, I get some of my level 60 friends to run me through DM (I'm level 14 on my newest char.) where there is Tin, Iron and silver ores. Copper Ores I make into Modulaters (?).

On my level 60 I have started to gather alot of Arcanite Bars - making them myself, giving me a profit of 5g per transmute buying Arcane Crystals and Thoriums Bars. Right now I got 17 bars, and more are comming - I'm saving them for TBC cuz I believe that ppl are supposed to use these bars for leveling up their skills - so I will get rich! :D

[sqchram]

Having been around last Christmas, I knew that [Small Egg] was needed to make the 5 gingerbread cookies for a quest. I was one of several buyers who didn't want to farm low level birds for these eggs, so I just bought the five I needed.

A week or so ago, the idea pops into my head to grab some of these before the Christmas content was released. Bought 5 stacks of 10 eggs for 35s a stack. Used 5 to complete the quest (should have just sold them). And sold 9 stacks of 5 at 2g50s bid, 3g buyout, they all were bought out.

Other than that shards essences diamonds, whatever has no listing fee.
I also do the occasional SM run to DE Small Radiant Shards. 3-4g, or 4-5g depending on the day and supply.

[Gorny]

right now small eggs on the AH are the way to go....my server has them going for 50s-99s EACH!!!!

Use auctioneer add on.

[Pounamu]

I found out that they sell for alot more when they are in ore form, instead of bars.
This is something about the economy of online games that always intrigues me. Raw goods selling for more than manufactured goods. I'm not sure it could ever happen in a real world™ economy. In Wow, however, everyone can become a crafter so the biggest demand is for raw materials, both to make manufactured goods and to raise skills at the same time.

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[snowieken]

I found out that they sell for alot more when they are in ore form, instead of bars.Never looked into that, but I find it hard to believe it's like that on most servers. Take copper ore, for instance: people who still get skill points from smelting, are usually in area's where copper ore is abundant. I can imagine that a person who got to mining at a high level might buy ore to get skill points from smelting, but even then I think it would be pretty useless.

[Hairy]

This is a game and "Real World" doesn't come in to it. I still see lots of things selling on the AH.

When the new Ammo came out, we had on of our guys buying them from a vender and putting them on the AH, making massive profit.

You want to try the same thing with Milk at the moment, you can make a massive profit on the AH with that stuff.

Why? ... because this isn't the real world, it's a game and people are just plain lazy. Why bother getting it any where else when they can just get it off the AH?

I can sell Copper ore for more then Copper bars, they sell for about twice as much.

Gorny ... they got that auctioneer add on working again? Since the update I've noticed the economy go hay-wire in the AH, so many people asking for to much.

[Drakshasak]

The ores are worth alot cause it is used to level jewelcrafing. they cant use the bars for nothing but they need ores and gems.

That is why the ores are worth alot these days

[justread]

The ores are worth alot cause it is used to level jewelcrafing. they cant use the bars for nothing but they need ores and gems.

That is why the ores are worth alot these days

It's still not established whether prospecting piles of ore will level you up when things go live - but you'll absolutely need metals or items crafted from metals for pretty much every jewelcrafting recipe.

There are a few ores that sell for as much/more than the metal and always have, but it's strictly a supply/demand thing. There's always 5-10x as many bars listed as ore, so those that want ore pay the premium.

Copper ore - lazy/alt miners. Buy up 80 copper ore and start smelting and you'll level your mining ability far quicker than finding nodes to mine.
Silver ore - lazy/alt miners. Smelting it gives mining skillups for a narrow band of skill levels (smelting stays green for 10-15 points or so)
Gold ore - lazy/alt miners. Smelting it gives mining skillups for a narrow band of skill levels (smelting stays green for 10-15 points or so)
Iron ore - Enchanters use it to enchant mining skill on gloves. Not all enchanters are miners and not all miners want to supply their own materials for enchants.
Mithril ore - alchemists use it to make Lesser Stoneshield potions. Not many alchemists are miners, so they have to get it somewhere else.
Thorium ore - alchemists use it to make Greater Stoneshield potions. Not many alchemists are miners, so they have to get it somewhere else.

It's also my experience that those that sell ore don't tend to check the bar prices, so if there is a run on mithril bars for some reason (someone buying up hundreds to level up blacksmithing, for example), you'll often see ore prices that are usually higher than the metal suddenly become lower than the bars they make.

[rottentomato]

the auctionner alpha version is up right now, but ive noticed things are just going crazy in the AH. things that sell for more are selling for wayyy less and things that shouldnt be selling for as high as they are are selling wayy high

[rottentomato]

i usually buy mageweave off the ah and relist it for double what it is, and ive been able to buy it for a 10th the price and relist for 2 or 3 gold higher than what i usually do. recently its been around 40s-1g for a stack and ive been reselling it for 4g per stack. kinda nice :)

[Imraath]

Buying cheap green armor, DEing it and selling the dusts... With the changes in Enchanting, everyone is trying to level it up so the prices have skyrocketed! Strange dust on the weekend can fetch a healthy price for a stack of 20!

[Hunniedew]

Use auctioneer add on

These AH add-ons are being heavily manipulated game wide. People are artificially driving up prices on goods for those that use these plug-ins.