WoW Insider http://wow.joystiq.com WoW Insider http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/wow.joystiq.com/media/feedlogobig.gif WoW Insider http://wow.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2015 AOL, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. View our terms of service here: http://legal.aol.com/terms-of-service/full-terms/ Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/ <![CDATA[How to use TradeSkillMaster 2]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/09/08/gold-capped-tradeskillmaster-2/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/09/08/gold-capped-tradeskillmaster-2/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/09/08/gold-capped-tradeskillmaster-2/#comments
WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen aims to show you how to make gold on the Auction House. Check out Basil's gold making podcast, Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

TradeSkillMaster is the only addon you need to make millions of gold, and it's the only way to do that without expending an unreasonable amount of energy crafting and auctioning the items you sell. It's just been completely overhauled for version 2, and you should know that:
  • Version 1 is never being updated again. When it stops working, probably on 5.4 patch day, it's never going to get fixed.
  • Version 2 forces you to completely redo all your settings. There are no imports of your old groups or anything else.
Basically, you have no choice: if you want to use TSM (and no other addon comes within spitting distance of being as useful as it for gold-making), you have to upgrade to 2, and you're going to have to redo everything. If you're really unlucky, an addon updater might have already overwritten your old version with the new one and taken all your setup with it.

Version 2 took me a few days to get to the point I'm at now where I can do almost everything I did with my version 1 settings. In fact, I found all my experience with TSM 1 caused this process to take longer than it would have if I was completely new to the addon. Some concepts (like groups) are now very simple and intuitive, but it took me a while to get over my experience using TSM 1 groups.

That said, once I made the jump, I found that things are faster now and I expect I'll be able to make my gold with less effort. There are some things that are gone (or moved) but once I decided to try going without them, I realized I didn't miss them as much as I thought I would. There's plenty of help, but diving right in, here's what you need to know to get started with TSM 2:

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]]> auctioning-operatorcategoriescrafting-costscrafting-operatorgroupslost-groupsoperatorstradeskillmastertradeskillmaster-2tradeskillmaster-2-create-groupstradeskillmaster-2-groupstradeskillmaster-all-groups-gonetradeskillmaster-import-groupstradeskillmaster-lost-all-groupstsmtsm-2tsm-2-create-groupstsm-crafting-costtsm-pricingwhat-happened-to-my-tsm-groups (Basil Berntsen) Sun, 08 Sep 2013 18:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: Sha Crystals are about to get a lot cheaper]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/27/gold-capped-sha-crystals-are-about-to-get-a-lot-cheaper/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/27/gold-capped-sha-crystals-are-about-to-get-a-lot-cheaper/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/27/gold-capped-sha-crystals-are-about-to-get-a-lot-cheaper/#comments WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen aims to show you how to make gold on the Auction House. Check out Basil's gold making podcast, Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

I hope you don't have too many Sha Crystals saved up for this upcoming patch. The 5.4 PTR has new epic craftable PvP gear on it which will likely disenchant into them, and some of these pieces will take very few materials. Six Bolts of Windwool Cloth, for example, will make you a nice disenchantable purple cape. The Sha Crystal from this can be turned into two Ethereal Shards, each of which can make three Mysterious Essences.

Right now, the vast majority of enchanting materials are made through disenchanting gear crafted by tailoring or jewelcrafting. Jewelcrafters turn green quality gems into rings and amulets which DE into a lot of dust and a few essences. Tailors make blue PvP gear that disenchants into shards. Sha Crystals are only made on the daily cooldown that enchanters get, or through disenchanting epic gear obtained in other ways than crafting. Patch 5.4 will change everything. These methods will still work, but it'll get you more materials per bolt of cloth if you use the new recipes. Each purple Crystal will be able to be broken down into two blue Shards, which can be broken down into 6 green Essences. This new way will make more enchanting materials per cloth than the existing ways.

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]]> auction-housecheapest-sha-crystaldisenchantingenchantingethereal-shardgoldgold-makingjewelcraftingmaterialspatch-5.4-ptrprofessionspvp-gearsha-crystaltailoringtailoring-to-DEtailoring-to-disenchantwindwool-cloth (Basil Berntsen) Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: How to handle undercutters]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/10/gold-capped-how-to-handle-undercutters/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/10/gold-capped-how-to-handle-undercutters/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/06/10/gold-capped-how-to-handle-undercutters/#comments gold capped WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen aims to show you how to make gold on the Auction House. Check out Basil's gold making podcast, Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

I hear this all the time: "Every time I post anything, someone undercuts me within minutes." Luckily, there's a relatively simple solution to dealing with undercutters: ignore them. You don't ignore them hoping they go away, you ignore them because they aren't actually going to prevent you from selling your auctions.

Think back to the last time you bought something from the Auction House; let's say an enchant. You search for the best enchant you can put onto the gear. If the lowest price is affordable, you buy it. If it feels too expensive (compared to what you've paid before or what you know the materials cost), you might buy the mats and ask friends or trade chat for someone to make it for you. You might instead look at the second best enchant for the gear if it's something you won't be wearing for long or you're not expected to always use best-in-slot enchants.

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]]> auction-housedealing-with-undercuttersfeaturedgoldgold-guidegold-makinggold-stratgold-strategygold-stratsgold-tipsundercuttersworld-of-warcraft-goldwow-ahwow-goldwow-gold-guidewow-gold-strategywow-money-guidewow-money-making-guide (Basil Berntsen) Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: Never scan the Auction House again]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/05/15/gold-capped-never-scan-the-auction-house-again/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/05/15/gold-capped-never-scan-the-auction-house-again/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/05/15/gold-capped-never-scan-the-auction-house-again/#comments Gold Capped Never scan the Auction House again DNP WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen aims to show you how to make gold on the Auction House. Check out Basil's gold making podcast, Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

Have you ever scanned the Auction House with TradeSkillMaster (the best auction management addon, well worth the trouble of learning) and not gotten a complete scan? Maybe you see an error message and your crafting window starts displaying unknown materials prices, even though you can see the prices right front of you when you search? This is a bug that affects anyone on a realm with a lot of auctions (more than 42554, according to the TSM error message). In essence, the GetAll scan that's used to grab a dump of the AH in a few seconds can be incomplete if there are a lot of auctions.

As far as I know, the traditional scans are immune to this, but they take a lot more time; like 20 minutes instead of 20 seconds. Even if the scans work perfectly on your realm, scanning is still an extra step that you have to do every time you want to update the prices before you queue up your crafting list. Luckily, there's a way you can get up to date price information without ever having to scan the AH again.

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Gold Capped: Never scan the Auction House again originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 15 May 2013 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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]]> 42554-auctionsahauction-housecraftingdealfindinggetall-scangetall-scan-brokengoldgold-makingprofessionsscanscan-ahtradeskillmastertradeskillmaster-applicationtsmtsm-apptsm-bug (Basil Berntsen) Wed, 15 May 2013 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[How to check the Black Market Auction house without going there]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/05/10/how-to-check-the-black-market-auction-house-without-going-there/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/05/10/how-to-check-the-black-market-auction-house-without-going-there/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/05/10/how-to-check-the-black-market-auction-house-without-going-there/#comments Check the Black Market Auction House on The Undermine Journal The Black Market Auction House is a special AH that allows you to buy items that are rare and sometimes unobtainable with gold otherwise. It's an extremely effective gold sink, but it's tucked away in the middle of nowhere, and you can't see what's for sale on your realm from the remote AH. Unfortunately, since Blizzard doesn't make the BMAH accessible through the same API as the regular Auction Houses, you are expected to log in and travel to the Veiled Stair in order to see whether there was anything there for you.

The Undermine Journal is a website that collects, organizes, and displays information about the Auction House of every realm: Horde, Alliance, and Neutral. Additionally, starting in January, they launched a (still beta) feature that shows us the contents of the BMAH. Assuming you're not on a PvP realm, you can avoid the flight to the Veiled Stair to check whether there's something worth buying by simply checking the Undermine Journal.

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]]> black-market-auction-housebmahgoldthe-undermine-journal (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 10 May 2013 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: How to make cheaper Enchanting materials]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/04/14/gold-capped-how-to-make-cheaper-enchanting-materials/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/04/14/gold-capped-how-to-make-cheaper-enchanting-materials/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/04/14/gold-capped-how-to-make-cheaper-enchanting-materials/#comments WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen aims to show you how to make gold on the Auction House. Check out Basil's gold making podcast, Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

One awesome side effect of the latest patch's new PvP gear is a way to make Enchanting materials much more cheaply. Since all the new gear is iLvl 458 blues, they disenchant into an Ethereal Shard. Sometimes two of them, although that is probably from the guild perk. By far, the most popular profession to use to craft this type of gear for disenchanting is Tailoring. Windwool Cloth is cheap and plentiful, and 20 of them make a single Crafted Dreadful Gladiator's piece that can be DEed.

The best pieces to make are the ones that take 4 Bolts of Windwool Cloth: After these, the materials start going up. That doesn't mean you can't use them, just that you'll have to live with a higher cost than all your competitors.

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]]> ahauction-houseblacksmithingenchantingethereal-shardgoldgold-makingmysterious-essenceprofessionstailoring (Basil Berntsen) Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Patch 5.2's jewelcrafting changes and how to profit]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/02/18/patch-5-2s-jewelcrafting-changes-and-how-to-profit/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/02/18/patch-5-2s-jewelcrafting-changes-and-how-to-profit/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/02/18/patch-5-2s-jewelcrafting-changes-and-how-to-profit/#comments There are going to be some new important recipes in 5.2 for Jewelcrafters: a "prism" style daily cooldown Serpent's Heart, and a no-cooldown recipe that allows you to craft the uncut meta gems, Primal Diamonds, out of gems and Spirits of Harmony. Kaliope reports that both recipes are world drops in Pandaria on the PTR, and shouldn't take long to farm.

Serpent's Prism would have been a better name

While the profession is better designed than ever (with much less waste for shufflers and far fewer items ending up at the vendor), the Serpent's Eyes that you get while prospecting Mists ore tend to pile up. They're used to make the 450 crafted jewelry, but the market for that isn't nearly as large as the supply of Serpent's Eyes. Many people end up making these into blues and disenchanting them so they're not wasted.

Now that all JCs will have the option of turning three Serpent's Eyes into a prism every day, that will provide an outlet for the Eyes that may be more profitable than the 450 blues. So far, only a few Prisms have been opened, but they seem to award a random blue gem, just like prisms from expansions past. Since it's on a daily cooldown, it's unlikely to be able to push down the price of blue gems much.

Is it worth using Spirits of Harmony?

The new Primal Diamond recipe has no cooldown, but requires Spirits of Harmony which are their own sort of cooldown. One criticism of Jewelcrafting has been that JCs have nothing except research and extremely low-liquidity mini-pets to spend their Spirits of Harmony on. Jewelcrafters generate Spirits as quickly as any other character, and in theory, it'd be nice to have a JC option to use them on. Especially seeing as how anyone doing daily research will have almost certainly finished learning all their cuts by now.

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]]> auction-housecraftinggoldgold-makingjewelcraftingkaliopes-wow-crafting-blogmeta-gemmists-of-pandariapatch-5.2patch-5.2-ptrprimal-diamondprismresearchSerpents-Eyeserpents-heartserpents-prismspirit-of-harmony (Basil Berntsen) Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: Leveling blacksmithing just got easier]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/02/03/gold-capped-leveling-blacksmithing-just-got-easier/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/02/03/gold-capped-leveling-blacksmithing-just-got-easier/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/02/03/gold-capped-leveling-blacksmithing-just-got-easier/#comments Gold Capped Leveling blacksmithing just got easier WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen aims to show you how to make gold on the Auction House. Check out Basil's gold making podcast, Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

The PTR for patch 5.2 has a real treat in store for people who want to powerlevel Blacksmithing: you will now be able to get to 500 skill without having to wait for those rare old-world materials to show up on the Auction House! If you are level 85 and up, all you have to do is visit your Blacksmithing trainer in your faction's shrine (the same one that sells recipes for Spirits of Harmony), and they will offer you a fast-track path straight to 500 skill.

The way it works is that you will be able to train patterns that take only Ghost Iron Bars to make grey items, and once you get up to 500 skill, there's a quest to make a Ghostly Skeleton Key. At the time this article was written, the data-mined recipes on the Wowhead.com PTR site seem to indicate that it will take a lot of ghost iron to complete. Of course, this might receive a rework before it hits live.

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]]> 5.2blacksmithblacksmithingcullen-hammerbroweconomyfastest-way-to-level-blacksmithingghost-ironghost-iron-barghost-iron-oregoldJorunga-Stonehoofleveling-blacksmithing-1-500patch-5.2power-levelingprofessionprofession-skilltraining (Basil Berntsen) Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[What you should plant on your Tiller's farm]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/01/13/what-you-should-plant-on-your-tillers-farm/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/01/13/what-you-should-plant-on-your-tillers-farm/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/01/13/what-you-should-plant-on-your-tillers-farm/#comments This hit my inbox the other day:


What's the most profitable thing to plant in a farm? I'd assume in most cases people plant for their profession or whatever raw material sells for the most. I, however, am a chronic alt-oholic and have every profession maxed and available to me. I don't raid and can't stand dailies, so I only have patterns available that are vendor trained, bought with spirits of harmony, or learned off a cooldown. So what's the start and end of the equation?

-Matt


So what is the most profitable thing to plant on your farm? Matt assumes correctly that the majority of people simply plant what they can use to avoid having to buy off the Auction House. There is plenty of opportunity to improve this, though!

Generally, the least profitable thing to farm is vegetables. This is only true because everyone else already farms them, and they're all you can farm until you get farther into the Tillers reputation grind. The reputation seeds for leather, ore, cloth, or enchanting mats are generally lower yield than simply getting Harmonies and trading those for what you need, and that's generally less than you'd get by planting Enigma Seeds, selling everything you get, and using that gold to buy leather, ore, cloth, or enchanting mats. In short, the most profitable thing to plant is usually Songbell Seeds or Enigma Seeds.

Songbell Seeds

Songbell Seeds provide you with Motes of Harmony, which provide Spirits of Harmony. If you have a profession that requires these to make items valuable to other players or allows you to use them to skip daily cooldowns, then you can figure out exactly how much one of them is worth and do the math.

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]]> ahauction-houseenigma-seedsfarminggoldgold-makinghalfhillsongbell-seedsspirit-of-harmonytillerstillers-farm (Basil Berntsen) Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Best places to farm meta cuts and Harmonies]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/01/06/best-places-to-farm-meta-cuts-and-harmonies/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/01/06/best-places-to-farm-meta-cuts-and-harmonies/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/01/06/best-places-to-farm-meta-cuts-and-harmonies/#comments Gold Capped Best places to farm meta cuts and Harmonies Mists of Pandaria's economy has been characterized by having some of the recipes that make the most valuable items gated behind things that a main character would get: reputation, random world drops, and BoP Spirits of Harmony. Profession alts that you haven't leveled but have a maxed out profession are still very useful, but they won't be able to compete with people who happen to have that profession on a character they play.

Specifically, jewelcrafters won't get meta gem cuts, enchanters won't get the best bracer and weapon enchants, and other crafters won't get Harmonies that they can use to craft gear. If you have an alt that you don't have time to level and properly play, but still want to get some of these gated recipes, what can you do?

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]]> ahauction-housebest-place-to-farmcarpe-diemessence-of-despairfarm-meta-gem-cutsfarming-motesgoldjcken-kenmake-goldmeta-gemmeta-recipesmote-of-harmonymotes-of-harmonypearlfin-villagewowzhus-despairzhus-watch (Basil Berntsen) Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: Train Nomi for free Ironpaw Tokens]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/31/gold-capped-train-nomi-for-free-ironpaw-tokens/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/31/gold-capped-train-nomi-for-free-ironpaw-tokens/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/31/gold-capped-train-nomi-for-free-ironpaw-tokens/#comments "Every" week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Basil's re-reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

After writing my Ironpaw Shuffle guide, JessicaHealy posted a very insightful tip in the comments, which I had actually missed from all the way back in November on the Consortium professions forum: the Cooking School Bell is an investment that's well worth the price of 50 Ironpaw Tokens. If you have completed To Be a Master and finished leveling your cooking, you can buy the bell which will let you summon Nomi, your very own trainee!

Nomi has his own reputation faction that you need to do daily quests to complete, and once that's done, he'll provide you with a one time gift of 5 of your choice of token-bought food, and then daily Tokens of Appreciation, which rewards a free Ironpaw Token.

Luphian, in the Wowhead comments, calculated the time it takes to get exalted:

Non-human, and no guild perk:

1000 reputation a day: 42 days, but four times through these quests, we will get two daily quests, because of the new gained friendship level. This 4000 reputation removes four days, so it will take 38 days to get exalted.

Human OR Guild-Perk (10% extra reputation):

1100 reputation a day: 39 days - but four times through these quests, we will get two daily quests, because of the new gained friendship level. This 4400 reputation removes four days, so it will take 35 days to get exalted.

Human AND Guild Perk (20% extra reputation):

1200 reputation a day: 35 days - but four times through these quests, we will get two daily quests, because of the new gained friendship level. This 4800 reputation removes four days, so it will take 31 days to get exalted.

Once this is done, in 50 days you will have the 50 tokens you spent to get the bell. If you're using the tokens to buy Soy Sauce, Rice Flour, or Black Pepper, it'll only take 45 days if you consider the reward you get for getting exalted.
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]]> ahauction-housecookingcooking-school-bellgoldgold-makinggold-tiphalfhillironpaw-shuffleironpaw-tokennomi (Basil Berntsen) Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: Inscription gold-making guide]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/28/gold-capped-inscription-gold-making-guide/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/28/gold-capped-inscription-gold-making-guide/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/28/gold-capped-inscription-gold-making-guide/#comments "Every" week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Basil's re-reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

Have a scribe? Need gold? Look no farther. Inscription is one of the best gold-making professions in the game. You can make glyphs, Darkmoon cards, and all kinds of other odds and ends. Each of these markets has a characteristic time investment requirement and potential profit. Each realm is going to be different, but in general:
  • Darkmoon cards: Scalable time investment, massive profits
  • Glyphs: Massive time investment, low profit
  • Odds and ends: Minimal time investment, medium profit
Darkmoon cards start off simply enough: if you do your daily research, you can make a card a day. Different cards have different values, but on average, you'll make back way more than the value of the inks. You can trade cards, and the more cards you make, the better efficiency you'll have making decks. Assuming you can make a full deck for every 12 cards you produce (which is the ratio you see if you trade really well and/or produce a lot of cards), it'll cost you 120 stacks of any herb but Fool's Cap, or 75 stacks of Fool's Cap. At 40g per stack of, for example, Green Tea Leaf, that's 4800g per deck. Some decks can sell for over 20,000g.

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]]> darkmoon-cardsdarkmoon-decksdarkmoon-faireglyphsgoldgold-makinginscriptionmillingscribescroll-of-wisdomshoulder-enchantswow-gold (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: How to make gold as an enchanter]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/27/gold-capped-how-to-make-gold-as-an-enchanter/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/27/gold-capped-how-to-make-gold-as-an-enchanter/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/27/gold-capped-how-to-make-gold-as-an-enchanter/#comments Gold Capped How to make gold as an enchanter "Every" week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Basil's re-reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

Enchanting can be a very good way to make gold. Every time someone gets an upgrade, the first thing they do is see whether there's an enchant they could put on it, and if so, either have someone enchant it in a trade window, or buy a scroll from the AH.

The first thing you'll need to know if you're going to get into the scroll market is that it's not a good idea to use the default interface. You will face challenges that it is simply not equipped to handle. Chiefly:
  • Knowing whether a scroll is profitable
  • Knowing whether you already have scrolls made and for sale

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]]> enchantingenchantsgoldgold-makingscrollsselling-enchantstradeskillmastertsmwow-gold (Basil Berntsen) Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: Cheap Ironpaw Tokens]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/26/gold-capped-cheap-ironpaw-tokens/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/26/gold-capped-cheap-ironpaw-tokens/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/12/26/gold-capped-cheap-ironpaw-tokens/#comments Gold Capped Cheap Ironpaw TokensASAP "Every" week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Basil's re-reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

Feasts are expensive, but are still cheaper than everyone bringing their own food. The reason they're expensive is that they all require an ingredient that can only be bought with an Ironpaw Token, the 100 Year Soy Sauce. Ironpaw Tokens are a non-tradable currency obtained by doing quests (including dailies, or a weekly if you're a scribe), and their short supply can be a real limiting factor on leveling cooking. Leveling the "ways" of cooking requires a lot of tokens, and once they're leveled, using them requires a lot more. If you rely on dailies for these, you'll never have enough.

A better way

Luckily for us, you don't have to rely on dailies! The first thing I noticed when I was first exploring Halfhill was that Nam Ironpaw, the token vendor, had a repeatable quest called Replenishing the Pantry that asked for a Bundle of Groceries. Once I worked my way past the Preserving Freshness quest, he did, at least. Anyways, essentially, you can buy an empty container from Merchant Cheng (next to the seed vendor) which can be right clicked on to consume some quantity of cooking materials to make a Bundle of Groceries. This can be turned into an Ironpaw Token.

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]]> auction-housebanquetscheap-ironpaw-tokencookingfeastsgoldgold-makingironpaw-shuffleironpaw-token (Basil Berntsen) Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: How to get a MoP Darkmoon trinket]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/11/12/gold-capped-how-to-get-a-mop-darkmoon-trinket/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/11/12/gold-capped-how-to-get-a-mop-darkmoon-trinket/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/11/12/gold-capped-how-to-get-a-mop-darkmoon-trinket/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Basil's re-reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

The Darkmoon Faire comes to town once a month, and if you want to get one of those amazingly good darkmoon trinkets, you're going to need a fairly large pile of gold. There are a couple of ways of going about it with varying levels of cost and effort.

Interestingly, our own Fox Van Allen became a "Darkmoon Mogul" last expansion when he made his first million gold. At the time, you could simply make as many cards as you were willing to mill the ink for, and people willing to make those cards could profit in spades. There's still money to be made in this, however don't walk in with your eyes closed -- the system has changed, and there's more risk now than ever.

Getting one the hard way

Getting a deck for yourself can be expensive and simple, or cheap and complicated. You basically have two choices: hustle for cards to make your own deck, or buy a finished deck or trinket.

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]]> card-tradingcrane-deckdarkmoon-carddarkmoon-card-of-the-mistsdarkmoon-fairedarkmoon-trinketdarkmoon-trinket-guideink-of-dreamsinscriptionox-deckRelic-of-Chi-JiRelic-of-Niuzaorelic-of-xuenRelic-of-YuLonscroll-of-wisdomserpent-deckstarlight-inktiger-deck (Basil Berntsen) Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[The economics of perfect gem cuts]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/11/02/the-economics-of-perfect-gem-cuts/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/11/02/the-economics-of-perfect-gem-cuts/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/11/02/the-economics-of-perfect-gem-cuts/#comments Perfect Cuts Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Basil's re-reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

This expansion is the first one where "perfect" cuts (which are about a 10% proc rate when you're cutting a green quality gem) are blue quality, and even though they have different names, they have identical stats as blue quality gems. People still don't generally know this, and will sometimes skip over the perfect cuts when they're gemming new gear, but over time it will become more commonly known that there's no difference between socketing, for example, a Perfect Delicate Pandarian Garnet or a Delicate Primordial Ruby.

If you're an enchanter, you may have noticed that the price for the common materials has gone way down, and if you're a jewelcrafter, you're probably wondering what to do with all the green quality gems you get from prospecting, as well as potentially looking wistfully at the profit margins on some of the really desirable research blue cuts.

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]]> economyenchantinggoldgold-makingjewelcraftingperfect-cutperfect-gem-cutsprocprofessionshuffletradeskillmaster (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 02 Nov 2012 09:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Ink traders finally accepting new inks]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/10/12/ink-traders-finally-accepting-new-inks/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/10/12/ink-traders-finally-accepting-new-inks/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/10/12/ink-traders-finally-accepting-new-inks/#comments Ink Traders Accepting New Inks, Finally If you're looking to get a Darkmoon Deck made before the end of the faire, you might be interested to know that despite a false start earlier this week, the Ink Traders and inscription vendors now accept trades of 10 Ink of Dreams for a Starlight Ink.

The Darkmoon Faire is only around once a month, and the one on now is ending this Sunday, October 14th. Unless the Faire is going on, you can't trade, for example, a Crane Deck in for a Relic of Chi Ji.

This expansion, unlike in others, Darkmoon Cards require an item that can only be made once a day by scribes, the Scroll of Wisdom. Scribes who have been hanging onto their Scrolls should probably look into making them into cards now that the inks can be gotten cheaply, since by the time the next Faire rolls around, there will be 3 more weeks worth of daily cooldowns waiting to be turned into cards. These trinkets range from pretty good to among the best in slot for most classes, so almost everyone can use one, and many people really want one.

Additionally, since the Starlight Inks have been so expensive lately, the epic quality shoulder enchants have been quite expensive. Now that you can trade the much less expensive Ink of Dreams in for them, you should see the prices lower on the Greater Ox Horn Inscription, the Greater Crane Wing Inscription, the Greater Tiger Claw Inscription, and the Greater Tiger Fang Inscription.
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]]> ahauction-housedarkmoon-carddarkmoon-fairegoldhotfixinkink-of-dreamsink-traderinscriptionscroll-of-wisdomspirit-of-harmonystarlight-ink (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: Shuffling Ore in Mists of Pandaria]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/10/01/gold-capped-shuffling-ore-in-mists-of-pandaria/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/10/01/gold-capped-shuffling-ore-in-mists-of-pandaria/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/10/01/gold-capped-shuffling-ore-in-mists-of-pandaria/#comments Gold Capped Shuffling Ore in Mists of Pandaria
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Basil's re-reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

What's my favorite part of the expansion so far? The way that Blizzard has reworked the Jewelcrafting, Enchanting, and Alchemy professions to more efficiently support the "shuffle". That's a cute little name we auctioneers give to a fairly complicated business that takes ore and turns it into cut gems and enchanting scrolls. In every expansion where this has been possible, there's been a ton of waste. It's great to be able to make gold by combining profession synergy, but vendoring stacks of, for example, green quality gems feels like a waste.

How to do the MoP shuffle

While the business seems complicated to outsiders, it's actually a lot simpler than it looks. Let's break it down:

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]]> alchemyenchantingghost-ironghost-iron-oregoldjc-shufflejewelcraftingmaterialsmeta-gemmopore-shuffleshuffletransmute (Basil Berntsen) Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: Six tips to make gold in the first month of MoP]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/09/26/gold-capped-six-tips-to-make-gold-in-the-first-month-of-mop/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/09/26/gold-capped-six-tips-to-make-gold-in-the-first-month-of-mop/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/09/26/gold-capped-six-tips-to-make-gold-in-the-first-month-of-mop/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Basil's re-reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

Every new expansion brings with it two things: more ways to make gold, and more ways to spend it. Making gold can be a very rewarding and engaging way to play the game on its own, but it's not for everyone. Here are a few tips that can help anyone make gold in the first few weeks of an expansion.

Pay later

A huge part of how much gold you have is actually how much you spend. Most people neglect this part of the equation, allowing their subconscious to choose when to splurge. A very simple way to have more money to spend on even more cool stuff is to avoid buying something until you absolutely need it.

For example, if you decide to powerlevel that engineer or leatherworker, you have a choice: either pay now, or choose to wait a few weeks and level your profession when the mats go down in price. The only difference is the order you do things in, but waiting will save you thousands of gold in materials.

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]]> easy-goldfarming-guidefeaturedgoldgold-farminggold-guidegold-makinggold-stratgold-strategygold-stratsgold-tipsworld-of-wacraft-money-makingworld-of-warcraft-easy-goldworld-of-warcraft-goldworld-of-warcraft-money-making-guidewow-easy-goldwow-goldwow-gold-farmingwow-gold-guidewow-gold-legalwow-gold-strategywow-gold-tipswow-moneywow-money-guidewow-money-making-guide (Basil Berntsen) Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Scattered Shots: Hunter PvP after Patch 5.0.4]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/09/13/scattered-shots-hunter-pvp-after-patch-5-0-4/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/09/13/scattered-shots-hunter-pvp-after-patch-5-0-4/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/09/13/scattered-shots-hunter-pvp-after-patch-5-0-4/#comments Every Thursday, WoW Insider brings you Scattered Shots for beast mastery, marksmanship and survival hunters. This week, Euripides is filling in for Frostheim, who has taken a week to debate shaving his arm hair.

Hunters are shaping up to be excellent in PvP this patch. We've always been sort of acceptable at very high skill levels, but now we have a bunch of new tricks in our toolbox. It's still too early to give a definitive guide to the best choices you can make, but with everything that's changed, it's worth going over where we are now.

Beastmastery is the spec of choice

Marksmanship was the most commonly played spec for the last two expansions, mostly because of readiness and silencing shot. These can now be learned by any spec, and since BM has the best damage of the three specs, it's the default PvP spec. In addition to the raw damage, BM also has an additional crowd control breaking effect with The Beast Within, a stun, and the ability to tame exotic pets, including one with a heal. On its own, that heal isn't much to write home about, but with glyphed Stampede, it can heal for a large portion of your health.

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]]> featuredguide-to-huntershunter-guidehunter-infohunter-talentswow-hunterwow-hunter-infowow-hunters (Basil Berntsen) Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Ink traders still accepting Blackfallow Ink]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/08/29/ink-traders-still-accepting-blackfallow-ink/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/08/29/ink-traders-still-accepting-blackfallow-ink/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/08/29/ink-traders-still-accepting-blackfallow-ink/#comments Ink traders still accepting Blackfallow Ink Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Basil's re-reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

The ink traders you find near inscription trainers allow you to buy any lower-level common ink you might need for the price of one current ink. Glyphs take a variety of inks, and if you want to craft one, you're more likely to need ink from some earlier expansion than you are a current ink. In Wrath of the Lich King, we were trading in Ink of the Sea. In Cataclysm, we've been trading in Blackfallow Ink. In Mists of Pandaria, including patch 5.0.4, we'll be trading in Ink of Dreams -- or at least the tooltip at the ink trader would have you believe.

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]]> blackfallow-inkeasy-goldfarming-guidefeaturedgoldgold-farminggold-guidegold-makinggold-stratgold-strategygold-stratsgold-tipsink-of-dreamsstockpilingstockpiling-inkworld-of-wacraft-money-makingworld-of-warcraft-easy-goldworld-of-warcraft-goldworld-of-warcraft-money-making-guidewow-easy-goldwow-goldwow-gold-farmingwow-gold-guidewow-gold-legalwow-gold-reviewswow-gold-strategywow-gold-tipswow-moneywow-money-guidewow-money-making-guide (Basil Berntsen) Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Mists of Pandaria Beta: Transferring wealth between servers with battle pets?]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/08/06/mists-of-pandaria-beta-transferring-wealth-between-servers-with/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/08/06/mists-of-pandaria-beta-transferring-wealth-between-servers-with/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/08/06/mists-of-pandaria-beta-transferring-wealth-between-servers-with/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Basil's re-reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

Note: This article is about the Mists of Pandaria Beta. There is no guarantee that this functionality will exist in the live version of MoP.

The new pet battle system in Mists of Pandaria is going to be one of the most exciting new features for a lot of people; however, a potentially unintended consequence of the way it's currently implemented is that by selling pets on one realm that you bought on another realm, you will be able to transfer wealth between servers or factions. Orkchop wrote me an email that got me investigating:

All these pets are bound to your account, across all servers, across both factions, and can be sold. You can log on to your level 90 main, buy some pets, learn them, then log on to another server, create a level 1 and go sell those pets at auction. All without touching the neutral auction house and its fees.

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]]> battle-petsbind-on-accountbind-to-accountboa-petscross-faction-arbitragefaction-arbitragegoldmini-petsmovingmoving-gold-realmsneutral-ahneutral-auction-housepetsrealmstradable (Basil Berntsen) Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: Spirit of Harmony crafting limitations]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/07/02/gold-capped-spirit-of-harmony-crafting-limitations/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/07/02/gold-capped-spirit-of-harmony-crafting-limitations/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/07/02/gold-capped-spirit-of-harmony-crafting-limitations/#comments Gold Capped Spirit of Harmony crafting limitations Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Basil's re-reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

The Spirit of Harmony is going to be the limiting factor in a lot of craftable items in Mists of Pandaria. Just take a look at all the recipes it'll be a reagent for -- some 153 so far, and they haven't even finished designing the professions. The interesting part of this is that the Spirits (and the Motes you can turn into Spirits) are going to be bind on pickup, which means that you can't trade for them.

Does this means that you will not be able to level a profession up to the new maximum skill level without farming Spirits and Motes of Harmony yourself? Will it mean the end of readily available, entry-level crafted PvP and PvE blues?

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]]> auction-housebind-on-equipbind-on-pickupgoldgold-makingmists-of-pandariamists-of-pandaria-betamists-of-pandaria-professionsmists-professionsmote-of-harmonyprofessionsspirit-of-harmony (Basil Berntsen) Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[How to set up your alts for gold making]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/06/08/how-to-set-up-your-alts-for-gold-making/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/06/08/how-to-set-up-your-alts-for-gold-making/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/06/08/how-to-set-up-your-alts-for-gold-making/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Fox and Basil's reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

One of the things I simply can't do is spend time on alts. Between the Auction House and playing my main, I simply don't have the time or interest to seriously use the other character slots on my account the way most people do. And then there's this guy:

Hey Basil, I've been playing WoW for quite a few years now, and just recently stuck my pinky toe in the water that is the Auction House to profit from various sources.

I have alts. Lots of alts. 8 at 85 currently. All of them are able to do HoT dungeons. Now my question is, is there an easy (or efficient) way for me to make multitudes of gold utilizing these alts at all? I would assume leveling as many professions as possible, but there has to be other ways I'm missing. Thanks for your time!

Mellark, altoholic, Hyjal US.


Having eight level 85 characters is a definite advantage when you play the AH. In fact, one of the things that holds me back to this day is lack of profession slots on level 85 characters. I have all the ones I absolutely need, but I'm missing some compared to a lot of my competition. Every character is an opportunity to have two professions, and each profession is a different way to make (or save) gold.

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]]> altsgoldmaking-goldprofession-altsprofessionswow-gold (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: Things that still sell at the end of an expansion]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/18/gold-capped-things-that-still-sell-at-the-end-of-an-expansion/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/18/gold-capped-things-that-still-sell-at-the-end-of-an-expansion/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/18/gold-capped-things-that-still-sell-at-the-end-of-an-expansion/#comments sunset pandaria Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Fox and Basil's reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

The end of an expansion is a tough time to make gold. There's a lot more competition for a lot less demand. Many people see gold-making as a nice casual way to play while they wait for the next content dump, and fewer people are playing seriously (which is the root of demand for a lot of popular and profitable markets). To top it all off, we know that inflation is going to take a huge chunk out of our net worth when Mists launches, and there are a bunch of new things to save money up for. What kind of things can you still sell to make a profit?

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]]> altsend-of-expansiongoldgold-makingmarket-makerpetssell-transmog-geartransmog-setwow-gold (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 18 May 2012 12:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: Unlimited long-term storage]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/04/gold-capped-unlimited-long-term-storage/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/04/gold-capped-unlimited-long-term-storage/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/04/gold-capped-unlimited-long-term-storage/#comments tradeskillmaster mailing addon Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Fox and Basil's reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

Ever see anyone trying to buy or sell a guild with bank tabs? There are people who will stop at nothing to store more stuff, especially those of us who play the gold-making game. One of the biggest challenges of making gold is, in fact, storing stuff. Bags are expensive, guild tabs are even more expensive, and there is a hard limit of 10 (for now) characters per realm. Each character has four bag slots and eight bank slots, as well as some built-in backpack and bank slots. This may seem like a lot, but what if you wanted to, for example, stockpile 10,000g worth of Hypnotic Dust, expecting it to sell for 70,000g in Mists of Pandaria? That could be over 700 stacks.

Luckily, there's a simple and virtually free way to store unlimited amounts of stuff and save all your expensive inventory slots.

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]]> automailbulk-storageget-all-mail-macroget-wow-goldgoldinventorymailmail-all-macromailingstoragetradeskillmasterwowwow-goldwow-macro (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 04 May 2012 09:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Raiding: Weighing the benefits of 25-man raids vs. 10-man raids]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/20/raiding-weighing-the-benefits-of-25-man-raids-vs-10-man-raids/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/20/raiding-weighing-the-benefits-of-25-man-raids-vs-10-man-raids/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/20/raiding-weighing-the-benefits-of-25-man-raids-vs-10-man-raids/#comments 25s 10s raiding graph According to Wowtrack.com, the number of 25-man raiding guilds is several orders of magnitude smaller than the number of 10-man raiding guilds. Why is Blizzard spending so much effort balancing both the 10- and 25-man raid formats when the 25-man raiding community contains an incredibly low percentage of the raiding population?

Blizzard Community Manager Zarhym recently posted this on a forum thread about the subject:

Zarhym
We'll continue making adjustments as necessary to keep 10- and 25-player raids within a relative alignment, in terms of time investment, difficulty and rewards. It may never be perfect, but we still see interest in both raid sizes for different reasons. And ultimately we'll continue designing 25-player raids as long as there are a decent number of guilds interested in the format. We've seen no evidence as of yet that such interest is waning to any degree that should cause us great concern.

We tend to begin raid design around 25 players anyway before tuning for the various sizes and difficulties. That, when combined with our intent to carry on with 25-player Raid Finder group sizes, makes it very much worth our time to continue designing 25-player raids.

Regardless of what players' personal preferences or opinions are regarding the varied raid formats in World of Warcraft, we don't see removing options as a smart choice in the foreseeable future.

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]]> 10-man10-vs-2510s25-man25sfeaturedguild-leadershipguild-managementguild-officersleadershipraid-formatwow-guild-managementwow-guildswow-leadershipzarhym (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Taking charge of your gold in the first days of Mists of Pandaria]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/06/taking-charge-of-your-gold-in-the-first-days-of-mists-of-pandari/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/06/taking-charge-of-your-gold-in-the-first-days-of-mists-of-pandari/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/04/06/taking-charge-of-your-gold-in-the-first-days-of-mists-of-pandari/#comments chopper monks Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Fox and Basil's reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

The first few days of an expansion are a little like the wild west. This week, Gold Capped received an email about these first days:

I love your column on WoW Insider. It's been an eye opener for me on just how easy it can be to make some serious gold. That said, I didn't discover it until well after Cataclysm had launched, and so my question to you is; what were the first few days of the Cataclysm launch like economically, and what do you think I can expect from Mists of Pandaria? I had a blacksmith at the time of the Cata launch, and I remember spending exorbitant amounts of gold on ore/bars (he wasn't a miner). Is it a situation where, for the first few days, farming actually is worth doing, or are goods still worth making then? I have a bunch of 85s, all with worthwhile trade skills, and I'm just wondering what the best way will be to capitalize on the newness of the expansion.

The first few days of every new expansion, including Cataclysm, were a little crazy. The first thing you need to prepare for is the hyperinflation. Everyone will have more money, and they will all be spending it. Nothing gets people spending their savings like a new expansion. Pets will be battleable, new glyphs will be available, and everyone will be leveling professions. All this new demand is going to overwhelm the farmers, and for a while at least, the only cheap way to get materials will be to farm them yourself.

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]]> expansionfirst-daysgoldinflationmake-goldmists-of-pandarianew-expansionpandaria (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[3 things that will become more expensive in Mists of Pandaria]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/30/3-things-that-will-become-more-expensive-in-mists-of-pandaria/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/30/3-things-that-will-become-more-expensive-in-mists-of-pandaria/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/30/3-things-that-will-become-more-expensive-in-mists-of-pandaria/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Fox and Basil's reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

If you save every gold you have right now until the next expansion, you won't actually be any poorer than you currently are, but you sure will feel like you are. Assuming there are no new gold sinks, the amount of gold entering your characters' pockets is going to skyrocket, and they will all buy stuff you want, raising prices across the board. Farmers will make more from crafters, who will charge more for crafted goods.

World of Inflationcraft

Inflation is one of those universal truths like taxes and hunter envy. Unlike hunter envy, though, it can't be avoided by simply upgrading your main from a support class to a hunter. The best way to deal with it is to plan ahead and tie up as much of your money on things that will go up in price. You want to aim for things that will rise at least as much as inflation will erode the value of your savings.

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]]> goldgold-makinggold-stratgold-strategygold-stratsgold-tipsmists-of-pandariaworld-of-wacraft-money-makingworld-of-warcraft-goldworld-of-warcraft-money-making-guidewow-goldwow-gold-strategywow-gold-tipswow-moneywow-money-guidewow-money-making-guide (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[3 things that need to change about WoW's auction house]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/16/3-things-that-need-to-change-about-wows-auction-house/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/16/3-things-that-need-to-change-about-wows-auction-house/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/16/3-things-that-need-to-change-about-wows-auction-house/#comments ah interface Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Fox and Basil's reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

Of all the many things that could be done to make the Auction House a less frustrating and intimidating experience for players, three stand out to me. First, Blizzard needs to fix the insane inflation in the economy. Second, it needs to fix what people see when they click on an auctioneer, and lastly, it needs to allow farmers to fill buy orders instead of posting stock for sale. These three changes, if made, would greatly equalize the economy and serve to reduce the drudgery that the vast majority of players have to deal with.

What the heck are buy orders?

I'll start with buy orders because it's the least obvious issue. Right now, when a farmer wants to make some gold for a BoE or a mount or whatever, they go and farm and then come back to a city and dump everything they've made onto the AH. Nobody likes waiting for their money, and most farmers have been burned by a huge batch of goods coming back, minus the auctioneers' listing cut, unsold due to too much competition. In order to have to wait to lose money for all the hard work they did, they'll list their goods more cheaply than they're perhaps worth.

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]]> easy-goldfarming-guidefeaturedgoldgold-farminggold-guidegold-makinggold-stratgold-strategygold-stratsgold-tipsworld-of-wacraft-money-makingworld-of-warcraft-easy-goldworld-of-warcraft-goldworld-of-warcraft-money-making-guidewow-easy-goldwow-goldwow-gold-farmingwow-gold-guidewow-gold-legalwow-gold-reviewswow-gold-strategywow-gold-tipswow-moneywow-money-guidewow-money-making-guide (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[2 crafting professions that won't make you rich]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/04/gold-capped-two-crafting-professions-that-wont-make-you-rich/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/04/gold-capped-two-crafting-professions-that-wont-make-you-rich/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/03/04/gold-capped-two-crafting-professions-that-wont-make-you-rich/#comments glyph heat map Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Fox and Basil's reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

If you're trying to decide which professions to put on your character and you are considering their gold making potential, you'll want to avoid engineering and inscription. While they're not terrible if you consider their stat bonuses, they're not ideal for gold making on many realms.

Of course, every realm has its own ecosystem, and as with all advice you'll read from this column, you should check that the assumptions hold for your realm and faction. That said, by far the most common problems I have trouble helping people with are related to these two professions.

Inscription

I'll start with the one that's going to get me the angry comments first. Inscription has long been touted as a cornerstone of the money making meta game -- heck, it earned my esteemed colleague, Fox, his first million gold on Darkmoon Cards. Before that, we had "glyphsmas" when 4.0 hit and a steady level of demand for glyphs before that. We still have the stupidly profitable fortune card market that lets anyone open a tiny, Blizzard-sanctioned casino. So what's not to like?

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]]> chopperdarkmoon-cardsengineeringglyphsgoldgold-makinginscriptionmysterious-fortune-cardspetsprofessionsranged-weaponsrelics (Basil Berntsen) Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Six gold-making macros that will save you hours]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/24/gold-capped-six-macros-that-will-save-you-hours/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/24/gold-capped-six-macros-that-will-save-you-hours/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/24/gold-capped-six-macros-that-will-save-you-hours/#comments banker pile of gold Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Fox and Basil's reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

As you start spending more time making money, you start to realize how much time you waste. Have you ever had to mail every single item in your bag to another of your characters? It's a lot of right-clicking. There are a bunch of tasks like this, including selling to vendors, buying from vendors, prospecting, posting for sale, and crafting.

First, know that only some things can be really automated. If there's a cast time, for example, the best you can do with a macro is shorten multiple clicks into a single macro that can be clicked or hotkeyed. Luckily, there's no cast time on vendor and mailbox interactions!

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]]> goldgold-guidegold-makinggold-stratgold-strategygold-stratsgold-tipsmacrosworld-of-wacraft-money-makingworld-of-warcraft-easy-goldworld-of-warcraft-goldworld-of-warcraft-money-making-guidewow-easy-goldwow-goldwow-gold-guidewow-gold-legalwow-gold-strategywow-gold-tipswow-moneywow-money-guidewow-money-making-guide (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[How to make gold when your competition is camping the AH]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/13/how-to-make-gold-when-your-competition-is-camping-the-ah/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/13/how-to-make-gold-when-your-competition-is-camping-the-ah/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/13/how-to-make-gold-when-your-competition-is-camping-the-ah/#comments Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Fox and Basil's reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

Making gold with heavy competition is hard. I get comments on my articles all the time about how my ideas don't work on some high-population, high-competition realm. There's an implicit (and sometimes outright stated) disclaimer that any advice you'll find here is general and may not apply to your realm.

It's time to talk about what to do when you're always being redirected back to these weasel words. If your server really is so competitive that you can't make any normal strategies work, what can you do?

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]]> competitiongoldgold-guidegold-trickshigh-populationmake-gold-high-popmaking-gold (Basil Berntsen) Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Five myths about making gold]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/03/five-myths-about-making-gold/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/03/five-myths-about-making-gold/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/02/03/five-myths-about-making-gold/#comments treasure box Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Fox and Basil's reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

Gold making is one of those games you can play without much cooperative interaction with other players. If I hadn't been set straight about how to raid by cooperative guildies when I started, I'd still be as bad as I was when I started, minus any progress I'd have made myself. This type of environment is a breeding ground for less-than-optimal gold making strategies, so here are five myths about gold making that continue to require banishment.

1. Mats are free if you don't pay gold for them. It doesn't matter whether you picked up a gem from a Satchel of Exotic Mystery, farmed a stack of herbs, procced a bonus somehow, or mugged someone. If you figure your cost on the mats for whatever you're selling as what you actually paid for it, you're doing it wrong. The value of crafting mats is what you could sell them for.

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]]> addonsauctionatorgoldgold-makinggold-tipsmythstipstradeskillmasterwow-gold (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[How to make 146g in Maelstrom Crystals in 5 minutes]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/20/how-to-make-146g-maelstrom-crystals-in-5-minutes/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/20/how-to-make-146g-maelstrom-crystals-in-5-minutes/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/20/how-to-make-146g-maelstrom-crystals-in-5-minutes/#comments Maelstrom Crystal Prices Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Fox and Basil's reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

All enchanters know that Maelstrom Crystals can be expensive, especially now that more players than ever have access to pretty good epic gear through the Raid Finder. This increase in demand has touched all professions that make things that improve gear, including enchanting. I know I went from paying under 90g for a Maelstrom Crystal to paying over 250g at one point soon after the launch of patch 4.3 and the Raid Finder, and that was after stockpiling (and subsequently blowing through) more than 75 stacks. If I knew then that I could have been making them in unlimited supply at 146g each, I'd have made a lot more.

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]]> easy-goldfarming-guidefeaturedgoldgold-farminggold-guidegold-makinggold-stratgold-strategygold-stratsgold-tipsmaelstrom-crystalworld-of-wacraft-money-makingworld-of-warcraft-easy-goldworld-of-warcraft-goldworld-of-warcraft-money-making-guidewow-easy-goldwow-goldwow-gold-farmingwow-gold-guidewow-gold-legalwow-gold-reviewswow-gold-strategywow-gold-tipswow-moneywow-money-guidewow-money-making-guide (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: The fastest way to make 10,000 gold]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/06/gold-capped-the-fastest-way-to-make-10-000-gold/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/06/gold-capped-the-fastest-way-to-make-10-000-gold/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/06/gold-capped-the-fastest-way-to-make-10-000-gold/#comments race track Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Fox and Basil's reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

Every so often, I get asked something to the effect of "What's the fastest way to get 10,000 gold?" It's usually asked by someone who is perpetually poor in game and is looking to get a BoE or some other sort of reward that costs gold. The fastest way for me to get 10,000 gold is to log in and check my mail. My daily haul is many times that and scales based on how much time I have to craft, list, and relist. This isn't a useful answer to someone who lives paycheck to paycheck, though. So what advice would be helpful?

First off, if you're below level 85, get to level 85. This nets you quite a bit of gold simply from quest rewards and vendoring gear you acquire. If you're already level 85, the first thing you need to do is identify how much money you can make per hour running 5-mans for valor points that you can use to sell BoEs. On my realm, I could sell a BoE costing 1,650 VPs for about 10,000 gold. That means every valor point I earn could be worth 6 gold, which makes the 150 points I get from a 5-man worth 900g. I can do seven per week per character with the requisite gear. Also, every trash kill and boss kill has a chance of awarding you with valuables, including enchanting mats (if someone can DE) and BoEs.

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]]> auction-housebeginnersfarminggoldgrindingmaking-goldprofessionsquick-way-to-make-gold (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[How to sell Hagara Pick Pockets to rogues]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/30/how-to-sell-hagara-pick-pockets-to-rogues/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/30/how-to-sell-hagara-pick-pockets-to-rogues/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/30/how-to-sell-hagara-pick-pockets-to-rogues/#comments afrasastraz Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Fox and Basil's reboot of Call To Auction, and email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

There's a fairly simple way to make gold without professions: Sell summons to a pick-pocketable Hagara to rogues looking to get their legendary quest starter daggers, Vengeance and Fear. These are the most accessible rogue weapons, because aside from picking the pocket of the fourth boss in a raid instance, the quest can be easily completed with a 10k gold and a minimum amount of help. These daggers are the best entry-level options for rogues who PvP or PvE, available as soon as they hit 85 and are capable of completing the quest.

If players are raiders, they'll probably get it for free just by being in a raid that gets to Hagara; however, if all they do is PvP or casual PvE through the Raid and Dungeon Finders, they won't be able to get the first leg of the quest finished. Within a few weeks, most rogues who want to start the quest will have started it. Until then, I've heard of non-raiding rogues paying as much as 25k for the opportunity to pick Hagara's pockets.

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]]> daggerdragon-soulfearhagaralegendaryLockoutpick-pocketroguesellingvengeance (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[How to profit off Winter Veil]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/19/how-to-profit-off-winter-veil/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/19/how-to-profit-off-winter-veil/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/19/how-to-profit-off-winter-veil/#comments ice cold milk price ahspy Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Fox and Basil's reboot of Call To Auction, and Email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

Winter Veil is probably one of the most profitable game holidays. There are lots of achievements and quests people do, and some of these involve acquiring things that can be sold on the Auction House. The most interesting thing is that none of the things people will be needing require a maximum-level character to get and are, in fact, farmable by just about anyone over level 6 or so.

Small Eggs

Let's start with Small Eggs. Five of these are used to make the five Gingerbread Cookies required for the holiday quest Treats for Greatfather Winter. Small eggs are easily farmed, but the demand for them between Dec. 15 and Jan. 2 is more than can reasonably be farmed by any one person. People in the know have been preparing since last year and have stockpiled these eggs.

That said, the bulk needed to meet the demand generated by just about every single active player doing this quest on all their characters is pretty high, and these eggs don't come up on the Auction House that often for cheap. For the next few days until demand drops off a bit, people will buy these for between 2g and 5g, and if you have a character capable of killing level 6 monsters, you can farm hundreds an hour in Eversong Woods outside Silvermoon.

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]]> ahauction-housedeeprock-saltgoldgold-makinggreen-winter-clothesholiday-gold-makingice-cold-milkpreserved-hollyred-winter-clothessmall-eggwinter-veil (Basil Berntsen) Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: Selling valor point gear]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/16/gold-capped-selling-valor-point-gear/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/16/gold-capped-selling-valor-point-gear/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/16/gold-capped-selling-valor-point-gear/#comments valor point vendor Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Check out Fox and Basil's reboot of Call To Auction, and Email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

Every single content patch, Blizzard turns the tables on gold makers and, for a brief period of time, allows any player to make tens of thousands of gold by selling valor point-bought BoE gear. We've all seen the ads in trade of people looking to buy them or sell them, but most people focus on their own gear first and only think about selling them once they've gotten a few upgrades. Is this unwise?

What if I told you that you could get several thousand gold and still have as much valor gear at the end of the month as your guildie who didn't sell a single BoE? It's all about timing. The valor point weekly cap is 1,000, and in the beginning of the week that valor BoEs are available for purchase, the prices are extremely high. They stay high for a few weeks but quickly plummet as people start to use more points to buy gear for selling. They bottom out eventually when people stop having upgrades available for valor.

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]]> easy-goldgoldgold-makingpatch-4.3selling-valor-pointsvalor-points (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:00:00 EST WoW Insider <![CDATA[Gold Capped: This is the wrong way to do epic gems]]> http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/09/gold-capped-this-is-the-wrong-way-to-do-epic-gems/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/09/gold-capped-this-is-the-wrong-way-to-do-epic-gems/ http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/12/09/gold-capped-this-is-the-wrong-way-to-do-epic-gems/#comments boxes vendor Every week, WoW Insider brings you Gold Capped, in which Basil "Euripides" Berntsen and Fox Van Allen aim to show you how to make money on the Auction House. Email Basil with your questions, comments, or hate mail!

Epic gems are here, and they're designed differently than we're used to. To be specific, they're designed without fairness baked in, which is somewhat of a new feeling for people who weren't around buying epic gems in The Burning Crusade.

Fairness is actually the wrong word for this. Life isn't fair, and neither is WoW. Instead, I'll talk about balance. Blizzard has gone to great lengths to ensure that the game remains fun for as many people as possible by trying to avoid changes that suddenly disadvantage an arbitrary subset of players or shift the desirability of choices made a long time ago.

Balanced changes don't force competitive PvP and raiding group to play the gold-making game to be on a level footing with the competition. They also don't provide a tangible itemization difference between the profession perks of different crafting professions.

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]]> conquest-pointsdemandepic-gemsjewelcraftingpatch-4.3pricepvepvprarescarcitysupply (Basil Berntsen) Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:00:00 EST WoW Insider