Making Gold on the AH

[Flex]

Large dump of mats on my server, ore is selling decently, but it's not the bonanza that we had in Cata, due to longer time to farm, gates on crafting, and I think less crafting alts.

Longer time to farm? Are we playing the same game? I can get around 100 ore without really farming just from doing The Tillers dailies. I have to stop myself from hitting every yellow dot on the map or else I'd never get the quests done.

What professions have gated crafting? I've leveled my alt JC to 600 from ore gained while leveling my main, alt alchemy to 600, alt tailoring and enchanting to 600 from BoEs and cloth gained while leveling my main, alt inscription to 600 and my main's engineering to 600 and that took a while mainly due to the trillium bottleneck.

If anything professions are way too easy to level compared to Cataclysm requiring many fewer mats combined with only one primary ore type that is killing the ore market. Herb market will probably kick in in a week or so when raids open up.

[degre]

Large dump of mats on my server, ore is selling decently, but it's not the bonanza that we had in Cata, due to longer time to farm, gates on crafting, and I think less crafting alts.

Longer time to farm? Are we playing the same game? I can get around 100 ore without really farming just from doing The Tillers dailies. I have to stop myself from hitting every yellow dot on the map or else I'd never get the quests done.

This...

Yesterday took me forever to finish the Tillers dailies because I was mining and collecting blue items, I forced myself to stop and go to bed when I delivered over 50 blue rep items and had some 15 stacks of ore which I kept collecting because because I couldn't do two steps without finding a node, or a dirt mound.

Also, I wish I could nuke the Valley from orbit to extinguish those vermin, pray that you don't aggro one, or a whole fraggin' field will come after you. Vermin are Murlocs v2.

[halabar]

sigh... what would a day be without flex disagreeing with everything you say.

Compared to Cata launch, it is slower. It's also somewhat time dependent. Vot4W is certainly the prime mining spot, but you only need one or two 90s flitting around to not make it worthwhile, especially with the dropping prices.

And by gating, sure you can max your professions. BFD. But with many of the major items gated by rep requirements, SoH, and cooldowns, demand isn't where it could be.

[Holyblaze]

Yeah Hala, I dont have any issues with faming ore. Like Degre said, to much ore to mine! I dont get SHIAT done now. haha bah! So mkuch ore that I lvled BS/Engie on Holyblaze without ANY SoH's. took me hundreds of bars extra to do it like that...but lvl 85 does not colect much motes

[Holyblaze]

I agree with you 100% on the 'gating' issue Hala. What a PAIN IN MY ASS that I need SoH's to craft the good shiat on my BS/Engie who will not be leveled any time soon.

FYI - Insciption is the lamest shiat to lvl this time around. I spent 400G to get the inks and lvled him in 5 mins. haha LAME SHIT!

[halabar]

I agree with you 100% on the 'gating' issue Hala. What a PAIN IN MY ASS that I need SoH's to craft the good shiat on my BS/Engie who will not be leveled any time soon.

FYI - Insciption is the lamest shiat to lvl this time around. I spent 400G to get the inks and lvled him in 5 mins. haha LAME SHIT!

See, that's the thing, you can max inscription, but that doesn't get you anything. The money is in the DMCs or in non-trained glyphs. Both of which are going to be a long process.

My spriest is 89 and has for dang SoH right now, need a bunch more just to make stuff for that toon.

[Flex]

Vot4W is certainly the prime mining spot

Every place is a prime farming spot. There is no "farming area" in MoP like circling Uldum or Deepholm. Every zone is so full of ore that there is a huge potential supply out there, I often times have 4 to 6 dots on my mini map, people who don't have the engy goggles in the guild make the same comments about all of the ore and herbs out there. Even if nothing was limited by cooldowns or SOHs the supply would be so far in front of demand prices would remain low.

Also the good stuff isn't very good either. LFR level epics are meh at best.

[halabar]

Also the good stuff isn't very good either. LFR level epics are meh at best.

Considering that it will be harder to gear up in LFR, they should sell better than in Cata. Especially the offhands. However, what I really want to make are the BoA staves, which will certainly be useful as other alts are leveled.

Still boggles my mind that engineers are selling the Mists Goggles for under 1k, considering that they take 2 SoH to make, and you are just making your competition better by selling them. Should be using those SoH for scopes instead.

[Holyblaze]

Ive sold alot fo the blue plate while lvling that off so it was not a total waste, but now stuck since I cant make it to Star City. HEY! Can a guildie that has a double mount take my pally there even if hes lvl 85? OH SNAP! Even a Lock can get me to Star City! haha DOH!

Doing the once daily shiat for Inscription is weak! Its material and I want it NOW!*see what I did there? My fellow AMericans should get that one for sure*

Leather has been good for me I have to say. Peeps sticking the scaprs up CHEAP and the Exotic's sell for 200-300% magins! well worth my AFK time on that front.

Chanting is a total waste right now on my server. I will be ganking all this low lvl shiat and selling once more peeps get into Heroics/LFR/Raid gearz.

JC seems to be a huge pile of gold as ever. The rings and necks being chief amoung them. Gems will be bank once again come LFR and to a lesser extent from Raids.

[masterpoobaa]

Another fun margin to be had:
5 dust = 1 essence.

I found 5 dust selling for around 20-25 gold, yet essences sell for 40g+
DING Profit!

[degre]

Also the good stuff isn't very good either. LFR level epics are meh at best.

Considering that it will be harder to gear up in LFR, they should sell better than in Cata. Especially the offhands. However, what I really want to make are the BoA staves, which will certainly be useful as other alts are leveled.

Still boggles my mind that engineers are selling the Mists Goggles for under 1k, considering that they take 2 SoH to make, and you are just making your competition better by selling them. Should be using those SoH for scopes instead.

random digression
I beg to differ.

Will be harder to gear up in LFR for organised guilds facerolling LFR and assigning loot.

Will be easier to gear up in LFR for your average Joe that in DS LFR had his gear rolled by everyone and his mother because they need for MS, OS, hold hostage for exchange, griefer and so on.

on topic
I guess the main reason lots of level 90 goodies are not selling now is simply because there is hardly any level 90.

[econ21]

Will be easier to gear up in LFR for your average Joe that in DS LFR had his gear rolled by everyone and his mother because they need for MS, OS, hold hostage for exchange, griefer and so on.

It won't make much difference at the start, when everyone wants gear. But later on, I am pretty sure the new system will make it harder to gear up. Not everyone is selfish and in my experience, it was rather common for an alt to be able to pick up a good haul of gear from clearing LFR because she needed it and many others didn't.

I think the new system may be a good move though, in trying to protect the social norms of "need/greed" in PUGs. It's still frowned upon by most PUGs for dps to need tank gear etc. But the old LFR system threatened to undermine that, as people were adopting a negative "do unto others first before they do it unto you" philosophy as in a group of 25 you'd often have one or two bad apples and the effective social pressure is much less than in a 5 man.

[Ironshaft]

JC seems to be a huge pile of gold as ever. The rings and necks being chief amoung them. Gems will be bank once again come LFR and to a lesser extent from Raids.

Just a question but my guild JC who is 89 has indicated that he does not yet have access to the item level 450 neck/ring patterns. Where can he find them? I would look but I am firewalled at work.

IS

[Winkle]

Jade Forest i think. If it's not in your capital city its in Jade forest.

I find the whole SoH thing strange, since they're BoP but also used to create BoE gear they're almost worthless to some people but a goldmine for others.

[djlar]

Sadly my main toon is a LW, so I'm gated, getting above 575 is a pita, you need honored with Golden Lotus to buy the 575 skill up recipe, that I think, needs SoHs for crafting, and the epic recipes exhalted, I've beeing hitting the dailies and I'm half way to honored...