Wednesday, March 23, 2011
How to be a Sand Dragon: 101
So, this post is going to be something a little different than my normal long-winded, yet insightful posts about wow and its riches. This could make you rich, of course, but in reality, its all about being the coolest guy standing around in Org. Nobody is cool in Stormwind.
Anyway, this is all about the Vial of Sands. If you don't know what this is, I'll explain it so your pecan sized cranium can comprehend. This makes you turn into a Sandstone Drake AND you can carry someone on your back. Yea, its that cool. Also, that expensive, selling for well over 50k apiece. This is the Ferrari Mount of the World of Warcraft. Everyone wants one, few have one. But you can include yourself in that little number.
First Things First, this isn't easy. But it might be worth it to you.
Anyway, lets get going. First your going to need Archaeology as a secondary profession if you even want to begin hoping to find the recipe. From there, you will need a max level Alchemist to create your item because while the mount is no longer BoP, the recipe for the mount IS. So, I would recommend if you have no characters with Alchemy, and are planning to avidly seek this out and were planning to start a new char anyway...well do so and level them all together with your character.
Your other alternative is to dump one of your current professions, and powerlevel alchemy.
You'll have to level your archaeology and in doing so, digging around and such, you'll keep finding more stuff. Now there is no "level" that you need to reach to find this, some get it in the 200s some are maxed at 525 and still looking, better check your karma before you get started.
Anyway, the beauty of the item itself, is that it only costs about 29k in mats to make. Sure, sure seems like alot to most people, but think of it this way. Lets say, your making decent gold with your dailies etc and you want this drake. Well, other people are willing to pay, so you paid 29k, which is lessened with the level 24 guild perk or the goblin racial. And your selling for about 55k. That makes your money back twice over. From there, you can do it again and again....see what I'm getting at? Eventually, you'll have either gold cap or enough money to easily buy and make your own, so you can finally look cool. Well, sort of anyway.
If your wondering how you could possibly make enough gold for the initial 29k investment for mats, well, check back, our guide series is coming to a close and we'll be posting all kinds of cheap guides and instructions on how to make money. Heck, you'll probably end up like me, why spend the time working to get that, I'm fine with spending gold.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
World of Warcraft Gold Making Tip of the Day: Hey, is that Volatile Water?
Ah, yes, its getting wet in here. Moist, damp. Lovely.
Why?
Well its this little item right here:
Volatile Water : Wowhead
Thats right. The tip off the day is to find it, grab it, love it. Oh, and don't drink it. Its called Volatile for a reason.
That said, in the last few days these little babies have been selling faster than I or anyone else I know can get rid of them. Crazy I know.
The reason is simple really, almost EVERY profession uses these babies to craft some really nice stuff. (Feel free to comp me anything you don't want).
Anyway, if your a fisherman (or er, fisherwoman) feel free to head to Tol Barad and fish away almost anywhere. Good stuff.
Don't fret though, if your not patient, like me, then you can just kill almost any water based mob in the Twilight Highlands and land some pretty smooth stacks of the stuff. If you can't go to either of those areas yet, you can get some in the Throne of Tides instance, but you'll still have to be 79-80 to run that. And not suck.
These are selling for around 13g a piece on most servers, some more, some less. However, today I did notice that the market is starting to get alittle flooded. Either dump all yours now, or go farm for a few days and sell them over the weekend, say post them on Saturday.
Anyway, thats the tip of the day!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
The Rich Orc Auction House Master Sell of the Day: 3,000 gold in 30 Minutes
Fresh from the fields of blood and glory, I have a story to share.
Sit down round the fire, and let me share the glory of my master sell today.
Utilizing the same principals that I have been harping on you peons about I made 3000 gold while I slept.
How you ask?
Well, little bumpkin, pull upa log.
While scanning the AH, and using the SEARCH function on Auctioneer that I told you about. (You did pay attention right?) I ran across some poor sap who DIDN'T KNOW THE VALUE of what he was selling.
Let me digress for a bit and explain my last emphasis.
If your going to make money on the Auction House, your going to have to understand the value of the things you are buying and selling. The main problem I run into is people who don't PAY ATTENTION to what things cost. I'm not talking about knowing how much every little tiny piece of junk cost so you can buy at 25 copper and resell at 55. Thats called, "Wasting Time".
What I'm talking about is finding out the items that are selling on your server, what sells for the most, what items can typically me made, or resold for a decent profit more often. What are people buying? What is down, what is rising?
Don't think you can figure all that out? Actually, its pretty easy. Once you spend time looking around, reading the actual trades going on in trade chat, and in general playing experience. You can also, and I strongly advise you too, get on The Under Mine Journal. Check on your server and check the hot items list. Look at the things you can afford to buy and resell, look at items related to skills you have, items you know where they are and you can obtain. If you know how to get an item, go get it, if you know a sweet little spot that you realize this item drops in alot, GO GET IT. Know and understand the items your dealing with.
Back to the story
So, as I said; I was doing some scouting on the auction house, decided that I had some time before I logged off, and wanted to see if anything was viable to reselling to the masses. This poor sap put up an Illusionary Bag for 500g. Now if that seems like alot to you, re-read what I wrote about VALUE. The mats for the bag are very difficult to make and if someone puts their mind to it, it will take about 2.5 WEEKS to make just one bag. There is a reason that this 26 slot bag sells for anywhere between 4k-9k depending on the supply/demand.
I saw this and instantly bought it.
I ran to the mailbox, nabbed it, ran back and reposted it for 3.5k. I logged off and went to sleep. Actually I saw that there was NO crystallized water on the AH, so I spend about 20g on some Eternal Waters, broke them up and sold the resulting water for 3g apiece. That was about 1:35 A.M.
When I checked in the morning about 7:45 A.M. the bag was sold and every single one of those crystals. That was a total profit of 4k overnight from both items minus the investment.
Be smart. Pay attention and you'll make some serious dough.
Sit down round the fire, and let me share the glory of my master sell today.
Utilizing the same principals that I have been harping on you peons about I made 3000 gold while I slept.
How you ask?
Well, little bumpkin, pull upa log.
While scanning the AH, and using the SEARCH function on Auctioneer that I told you about. (You did pay attention right?) I ran across some poor sap who DIDN'T KNOW THE VALUE of what he was selling.
Let me digress for a bit and explain my last emphasis.
If your going to make money on the Auction House, your going to have to understand the value of the things you are buying and selling. The main problem I run into is people who don't PAY ATTENTION to what things cost. I'm not talking about knowing how much every little tiny piece of junk cost so you can buy at 25 copper and resell at 55. Thats called, "Wasting Time".
What I'm talking about is finding out the items that are selling on your server, what sells for the most, what items can typically me made, or resold for a decent profit more often. What are people buying? What is down, what is rising?
Don't think you can figure all that out? Actually, its pretty easy. Once you spend time looking around, reading the actual trades going on in trade chat, and in general playing experience. You can also, and I strongly advise you too, get on The Under Mine Journal. Check on your server and check the hot items list. Look at the things you can afford to buy and resell, look at items related to skills you have, items you know where they are and you can obtain. If you know how to get an item, go get it, if you know a sweet little spot that you realize this item drops in alot, GO GET IT. Know and understand the items your dealing with.
Back to the story
So, as I said; I was doing some scouting on the auction house, decided that I had some time before I logged off, and wanted to see if anything was viable to reselling to the masses. This poor sap put up an Illusionary Bag for 500g. Now if that seems like alot to you, re-read what I wrote about VALUE. The mats for the bag are very difficult to make and if someone puts their mind to it, it will take about 2.5 WEEKS to make just one bag. There is a reason that this 26 slot bag sells for anywhere between 4k-9k depending on the supply/demand.
I saw this and instantly bought it.
I ran to the mailbox, nabbed it, ran back and reposted it for 3.5k. I logged off and went to sleep. Actually I saw that there was NO crystallized water on the AH, so I spend about 20g on some Eternal Waters, broke them up and sold the resulting water for 3g apiece. That was about 1:35 A.M.
When I checked in the morning about 7:45 A.M. the bag was sold and every single one of those crystals. That was a total profit of 4k overnight from both items minus the investment.
Be smart. Pay attention and you'll make some serious dough.
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