I make a million gold a month just doing dragon races and the Loamm/ Emerald Dream weeklies on alts and we've got dudes setting up Shadowlands followers tables on 50 toons in 2023. The amount of work some you put in to being lazy is astounding. Just play the damn game."What can I do to get a leg up on the competition?"NOTHING. You will never outwork the armies of bots that run the auction house. You're lucky if you can even sell to them. Get out of the cities and make your own gold. The amount of effort it takes to even get up to speed in gold making would be much better served improving your actual life.
Elixir of fortitude requires 175 alchemy to craft XD
Dragonflight made me just realize I cannot keep up with people that basically has a recurring sub and will sit in cities for hours spaming macros. That or I move my ass around the map with the awful dragonriding system catching a few coins making 15k playing 4 hours.
Did NOT expect @Samadan to mention my advice to the OP on Reddit. :-O I'm Va1trois there. Somehow, I feel humbled and honored. That aside, I will repeat that Dragonriding racing quests seem very much worth the time, especially for a large alt-army, like I have.
Would be interesting to see an in depth analysis of the goldmaking potential of DF activities because I see the same as other commenters here, thousands of gold in world quest available every day (or every 3 days at least), I made 45k in 30 minutes last time dreamsurge magpies lined up with Field of Ferocity (it's still 1600g per char without for a 3 minute round trip), modest chance to loot 50k+ flavor pocket from tuskar feast, the niffen weekly has a chance to reward an extra gold bag with up to 30k in it (in addition to the base ~1500g reward), hundreds up to thousands of gold each selling the boes that drop like candy from a pinata in the emerald dream, not to mention all the vendor trash and miscellaneous auctionables. Of course the yield is proportional to how much time/how many alts you throw at it, but for the cost of 15minutes a day you could still be walking away with 3-5k in raw gold on a single character which far outweighs the potential of pretty much anything else in the game except being an AH/profession goblin.
I disagree about the customer service part, 99% of craft interactions are "Hi, what do you want? ___ Ok, thats 'some gold'" Then they either send you the order or not. Repeat customers are because youre the cheapest at that moment, which just becomes a race to the bottom with other crafters. Youre not going to build a relationship with buyers like etsy shops do.
An observation by a casual player.Listings on the AH of an item that vendors for, lets say, 31.25 have many listings of that item that are listed at less than 32.89* (accounting for the AH cut of 5%), Currently, of the 4441 such items listed, 3934 are listed under 32.89. The item I'm using as an example costs 4.69 to list for 12 hours (18.75 for 48 hours). Each time period that passes when the item doesn't sell increases the SP by that amount. This is not currently a high volume traded item.This holds true for a lot of items of this nature I see, but I don't understand the rationale. Am I missing something?* Strike Price - SP
I stopped doing the garrison four years ago as the prices of hexweave bags reached 60G and wanted to call out this bull#$%^.Then I looked it up, and 30 slot hexweave bags are actually at 500G now (EU) while 32 slot wildercloth bags are at 20G. People are dumb or crazy.