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Vendor Items, Profession Catchup, Cross Realm Trading & Addons - Wowhead Economy Weekly Wrap-Up 347
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Hello! Welcome to the 347th edition of the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up!
This week we discuss the latest developments in prices of Tinderboxes plus the merits of selling vendor items. We also discuss rapid methods for profession catchup and whether it's worth diving into slow moving cross realm markets. Finally we talk all about gold making addons.
My name is
Samadan
and I'll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!
Profaned Tinderbox Vendor
Not a week seems to go by without us reporting on changes to the
Profaned Tinderbox
! This time, we have a hotfix adding the ability to buy them from a vendor!
Professions
Delver’s Pouch of Reagents sold by Sir Finley Mrrgglton at the Delver’s Headquarters in Dornogal now costs 500 Undercoin (was 1500) and contains 3 random Delve reagents (was 2).
Profaned Tinderbox can now be purchased from Blacksmithing Supplies vendors Borgos and Sofee Batalsworn in exchange for 3 Ringing Deeps Ingots, or 3 Vial of Kaheti Oils, or 3 Viridian Charmcaps, or 3 Gloomfathom Hides.
Not surprisingly, the price quickly hit the floor based on the prices of the cheapest available trade-in item ..
Graph courtesy of
undermine.exchange
Also, on the flip side, the prices of the trade-in items took a sudden jump upwards in comparison ..
Graph courtesy of
undermine.exchange
If you were lucky enough to have a stockpile, or happened to spot the news and react accordingly, then profits were to be had!
Not Ringing Deeps Ingot Prices 😆
I actually got extremely lucky - I’ve been buying/selling the Ingots and Tinderboxes all expansion long. I had just sold tinderboxes from $6k to $8.5k this week and I was still holding onto ~15000 Ingots at $40-$45 avg. sold them all today between $250-300 gold and made like 700k. Talk about good timing
First thing to go my way this expansion lol. Since week 3 i made it a rule to not hoard anything tinderbox related cuz i was sure they'd make them cheaper. On top if that this weekend i bought like 15k of the other delve reagents cuz they were cheap af and i thought i could flip them next patch maybe. 200k to 5 million flip feels good.
Manthieus
has a video explaining all if you prefer it in visual form ..
Overall, this will balance out prices and enchants and blacksmithing items should get significantly cheaper now and not be so disproportionately high.
Hopefully, this will be the last we cover the tinderbox prices and things will settle down.
Selling Vendor Items
Speaking of vendor items, never underestimate the power of lazyness and/or lack of knowledge! u/Thatonebagel has been quietly flipping vendor items cross realm specifically for the new Engineering mount ..
I have been patiently waiting for this well to actually dry up so I could share with you. I made easily 1M gold off peoples lack of knowledge this expansion. At the start of the expansion I went engineering with the intent of working on the mount to try and sell it early. I had the recipe day 1 and then learned about part scrapping. Made a bunch of gold doing this during early access by making DF engineering parts (since they benefit from TWW gear’s stats) and then looking for parts myself. A week or so went by and I couldn’t sell a mount. I was offering free with their mats or basically at cost (3.2M) with my mats. Obviously not gonna be many takers but I stayed strong. Then it hit me that people might be selling parts on the AH below vendor cost and I could use this to craft it cheaper.
But when I looked, most were actually ABOVE their vendor cost. So I decided why not and through all my mount mats on the auction house with anywhere from 10-50% markup from their vendor cost. When they actually sold I knew this was gonna be the money printer. Because unlike the mount, the mats cross server. Meaning everyone on any server who didn’t know about the vendor who sells all the parts, would think this is the only way. Hands down the most profitable (and arguably still profitable) part was the Assorted Wirrlygigs as the mount requires 200 of them and scavenging didn’t yield that many, these would be the bread and butter. Vendor cost was 2500 and I was selling them between 3-4K each. On 200 of them I was printing anywhere from 100-200K per sale. The other parts did alright, but after a few weeks only the wirrlygigs and the plating were still trading above vendor cost. I had a few permits I scooped up around 800K and pushed them to 900-950k.
There’s still some room to try and move in this market, but I expect it to finally die after this post, which is why I waited so long.
Moral of the story is never underestimate the profit you can make from other peoples lack of knowledge.
This method of gold making has been viable for a long time. Time is money as they say and sometimes it's just easier to scoop up the things you need straight from the Auction House.
I’ve done the same with the thread for tailoring recipes. Since people are buying all of the mats needed for a crafting order from the AH anyways they either don’t know that the vendor supplies the thread or are too lazy to buy it from there. The margins are usually really small but if you just macro buy them and fill your inventory it’s a fast and easy profit. I haven’t done so in a week or two so they may not be as hot as they were now that the demand for crafted items has calmed down some.
Classic selling vendor items.
Back in the day I made so much money just selling basic profession tools (before the overhaul). Lazy people just buy on the AH for hundreds of gold.
I think I once sold an Arclight Spanner for like 3k back in BFA
It's simple and easy to list a few items and keep them in stock on the AH. Not necessarily a sole method for making gold, but certainly viable for adding to the pool for minimal effort.
Turbo Charge Profession Catchup
It's never too late to get into crafting professions thanks to profession catchup and profession shuffling!
Kaychack
has a great video going through what it takes to get a fresh character ready for a new profession with a boost in
Artisan's Acuity
, so you can buy all you blue tools and knowledge books right from the start without having to wait weeks...
It takes a bit of time to cycle through the relevant pre-professions before switching to your main intended profession, but it's a viable method for making sure you're not too far behind when exploring a new crafting market.
Mounts, Pets & Transmog with a Regionwide AH
An interesting discussion arose this week around the supposed profitability of selling mounts, pets and transmog in an increasingly regionwide market.
They have all been money makers in themselves in their own individual markets and are one of the last bastions for cross server trading even though they are slow sellers.
Personally I have had success selling transmog, but it's not fast. You need to have a constantly moving conveyor belt of 1000s of auctions, and you only start seeing regular returns after putting them up over and over for months. Once you have a constant moving supply of them though the money does start to come in regularly, it's just a lot of effort and setup that isn't worth it if you want the money immeditaely.
I also just find it more fun than farming other items so I don't mind doing it.
You can absolutely get rich from transmog, and more things will sell than you'd expect. But yeah, it's slow. It's real slow and real tedious.
I love farming the dungeons, but I just can't be bothered to post thousands of items.
Whilst relisting 1000s of stock is not for everyone, there is still money to be made selling select items cross realm.
You'd be really surprised how many people won't have even realised having a warband bank means you can realm-hop and buy recipes then trade them across via war bank. You'd be even more surprised how many people don't know undermine etc exists. These people aren't reading wowhead, reddit or discords, some may be in guilds but on mid-low pop realms these can be really very casual.
I have friends I've played with since 2004, really great players who know their characters inside out, but who are now semi-casual, do a bit of M+ and now maybe some delves - they are simply not invested enough to worry or to spend the five minutes it takes to run a cow over to TB on a different realm. A lot of them have bank from past expansions so the gold isn't too much of a concern either.
I think really you just watch the market like any other item and if the one you're moving starts to dip you can sell at the discounted price and move onto the next thing. The fun thing for me is finding what's massively over-priced on my very low-pop server and seeing where the gaps in the markets are. Did really well out of buying 10k cooking recipes and selling for 100k+, ditto some of the JC and Enchanting recipes etc.
I guess over time as more people work this out it'll be less profitable then we're all just back to using our vast wealth to flip/reset the market. :D
Even with the Warbank, it's simply not widely known how easy it is now to shift items cross realm.
Just because the information is available, doesn’t mean people will use it. There will always be a significant portion of the market made up of people who can’t be bothered to find out whether or not they’re getting a good deal. Especially when it comes to games, people want instant gratification, and the goblins are willing to provide it, albeit with a decent markup.
It's only a matter of time before the AH becomes completely regionwide, not just commodities. Much like commodities did when they went regionwide, everything else will drop rapidly in price to well below the lowest common denominator as niche markets get flooded by convenience.
For now though, there are still profits to be had even if they are slow to trickle through. Enjoy cross realm trading while you can! It's never been easier now before the last barrier to entry is removed.
Gold Making Addons
Penguinr2gt
has a great roundup of all the addons she uses for gold making...
These are really useful quality of life improvements that make the whole process of gold making so much easier!
In the spirit of sharing, these are the addons I use as a Dual Gatherer and gold maker ..
What addons do you use? Are there any niche ones that you'd recommend?
Further Reading
Most of this information was discussed and originally posted on the
/r/woweconomy
subreddit or in the accompanying
Discord Server
.
I hope you found this useful and If you have any suggestions or feedback, please do say so in the comments below..
Until next time, Happy Goldmaking!
Samadan
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