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What is the Best way to profit gold?
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Post by
Darksoul1719
I know this seems to be a common question amongst many players. And I know that many people say the same thing, by using your professions to gain money, but what exactly are the best things in professions to earn a solid amount of gold from. I constantly see players bringing in a ton of gold with the use of the auction house, and being a veteran player for 5 years now, I still seem to lack the knowledge of how they get so much gold. I have just about every crafting profession in the game, but what are the best things to craft and sell? I currently use auctioneer, but usually I just end up appraising my items according to the market price and selling the items at that value. Anybody have any suggestions? I know the prices of items vary from server to server, the server I play on is high in population. Thanks for any advice.
Post by
Adamsm
Do dailies.
Sell gathering mats.
Don't bother making lots of epics; green will actually sell better at times.
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851570
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Post by
lonewolfe31705
It really depends on your server and what interests you in the game. If you like to quest, do dailies. If you have lots of free time, gather. I know that stuff (raid mats, crafting mats, gear) doesn't sell well on my server, so I do dailies and flip transmog gear.
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Post by
trenshod
Well my question is a bit different than the others. What do you need the money for? If your aiming to buy something then the drive is generally different than I just want to accumulate a mass amount of money. I honestly don't find the motivation to just farm for the sake of having money. Sure money is good but why have it if your not aiming at getting something.
I know I don't have the best gear on my main but she holds her own. Sure I could have bought a trinket here or a another armor piece there. I held off and now the gear I currently have is better.
This expansion by far I have spent more on rep/faction mounts than anything else. Doing the dailies to get to that point has provided me with the money to purchase them. Looks like there will be some new mounts in 5.2 and dailies to boot so no worries there. Gear I don't buy it cycles to fast and its not worth the investment.
These people that buy gold to sink into gear I can't help but laugh. Its just such a waste of RL money.
Post by
Rystrave
I capture pets, get them a few lvl's up, then sell them. Depending on the cuteness, lvl, and type depends on how much I can sell a pet for. I'd probably make 10k a day if I really work at it.
Post by
trenshod
I capture pets, get them a few lvl's up, then sell them. Depending on the cuteness, lvl, and type depends on how much I can sell a pet for. I'd probably make 10k a day if I really work at it.
Is there a list out there that has pets that can be captured and caged for sale? I think every single wild pet, rare variety I can't sell. I can sell the one from AQ but I kinda want to keep that one for myself. I don't see the uncommon/green pets selling for all that much.
Post by
porchprymate
professions and dung's is the best way of making gold
Post by
deathbyte
I capture pets, get them a few lvl's up, then sell them. Depending on the cuteness, lvl, and type depends on how much I can sell a pet for. I'd probably make 10k a day if I really work at it.
Is there a list out there that has pets that can be captured and caged for sale? I think every single wild pet, rare variety I can't sell. I can sell the one from AQ but I kinda want to keep that one for myself. I don't see the uncommon/green pets selling for all that much.
Can't sell any wild battle pets. You can sell ones the are drops like the wheplings
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Post by
TheReal
This is true. Every person I ever met who is rich IRL is also stingy, cheap, a penny pincher. Just spend on what you need. And if you can get something by farming it, like a pet, or a piece of gear for transmog, or mats for something you want to make, etcetera, farm yourself it instead of buying it AH or trade—you'll 1) save gold by getting it yourself and 2) get more matts from farming whatever it is you need (with the exception of pet respawns).
Triple post aside, I'll assume you've never heard of opportunity cost. Farming something yourself might keep the gold in your pocket, but if you spend two hours and grab 10 stacks of something, you're making the price of one stack times five per hour in gold. If you instead put those two hours into doing something that makes more gold than that, you're investing your time wisely. Some people are blue collar and some are white collar, and the difference between the two is brains.
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503532
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Post by
deathbyte
... Are you saying that farming is stupid? You better tell the farming bots this.
...
They are bots for a reason...
Post by
TheReal
That depends on what you're farming and
where
you're farming it.
Let me get this straight. Are you saying that farming is stupid? You better tell the farming bots this.
Hey, if you want to farm up mats and make 500g/hr doing it, then I'll be more than happy to buy your mats and turn them into 2000g/hr. If you're making 2000g/hr farming mats and I can't figure a way to turn your mats into more than that per hour, then farming isn't stupid.
If I want to farm cloth for a recipe, sure I can get it on AH for relatively cheap; but by farming my stacks
in a dungeon
I turn a greater profit because... you may not get this concept but bear with me, it takes brains to understand this. . .
you don't
only
get cloth in dungeons
. Pretty profound isn't it! I also get blues and other things to sell on AH for my time—and let us not forget
I had fun
because after all in the end, it's a game. :)
Your attempt at an insult only wins in the court of the economically challenged minds. No one with any shred of intelligence is going to farm up stacks of cloth in dungeons and count their gold/hr as what they sell the cloth for. Of course vendor trash, greens, and blues all count! You may not get this concept but bear with me, it takes brains to understand this, but if crafting makes me 2000g/hr and I can only manage 500g/hr farming mats in dungeons, I'd be stupid to farm mats in dungeons.
Your point with farming bots falls flat too because farming bots have a significant effect on the "gold gained divided by time put into gaining it" math. Lots of gold divided by one minute of time invested to start the bot is a whole hell of a lot more gold per hour than what I can make whilst white collar crafting.
Now, if you place an intangible value on the fun you have while farming mats, then of course that value gets figured into your equation. If your fun is worth 4000g/hr while you're farming mats and you turn those mats and vendor trash into 500g/hr, then you're effectively making 4500g/hr by doing what you do. Chances are others who have fun by maximizing their gold per hour place a similar value on their fun too, so from a purely gold per hour standpoint, I would like to encourage you to continue to supply me with cheap mats. Thanks.
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503532
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Post by
lonewarrior
The best way to profit gold is to be flexible. There is no method set in stone. It's all about timing.
Of course the more toons/professions you have the greater the opportunity.
An example would be the latest patch. Right now enchanters and jewelcrafters are cleaning up because players are picking up new gear.
Just prior to the patch I was making easy gold with transmog boe runs and battle pets by soloing Vanilla raid runs.
I crafted a BOE epic dark iron axe (
Nightfall
) and sold if for 5000.
Don't vendor those Van/TBC greens, many of them are in demand transmog pieces as well or at the very least if fairly
priced(and ugly) purchased by enchanters for D/E for hard to find mats.
At the beginning of the expansions mats make a fortune because players are renewing craft leveling and/or leveling new class(ala monks). Also early expansion gear crafting clean up big times.
patient helps too. I was able over a period of time purchase cards to make a relic trinket for just around 3000 gold investment. The return was selling it for 10000 gold.
patients also mean when not to sell. If a particular market is flooded I just stow away my goods until the situation improves.
The simple point again is supply and demand combined with timing.
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Post by
wrlwnd
I find that I have to shift my ways of making money on a regular basis. I find that different things make consistent money.
various crafted items sell, I have enchants and flask that are consistent. Mats for them come and go. I have not leveled my JC/Blacksmithing since Lk so am not sure of those markets, but see consistent pricing on those.
I As has been said before, you have to learn the market on your server(s) to determine the best for you.
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