Weekly Recap

This past week in world of warcraft I made some head way on the auction house that I have chosen to play on. I also hit level 75 on my dwarf warlock and began to level up alchemy all the way up to 525. As of the writing of this article I am about half way there and am going to tanaris to get the pattern for the philospher's stone so that I can do my transmutes when I get there. I also managed to make a little more than 5-7k gold over the course fo the past couple of days and am now using Zero Auctions in order to post faster (Tsm was slow and really bulky). My next alt that I will be leveling up will be my level 61 death knight which I will stop at 70 and just put herbalism/mining onto him and let him gather everything up to wotlk herbs. After that I've considered all my alts and will go with my level 35 paladin who will probably be taken up to level 85 for blacksmithing and so that I have another character at max level in case I ever get bored of my rogue (which will happen eventually). I will end this weekly update with a question, what are some of the things that you have done over the past week in or outside the world of warcraft?

How I do the obsidium shuffle

Today I got back into my normal routine of prospecting as much as possible on my night elf rogue on sargeras. I also continued with placing bids on lower level greens so that i can disenchant them later on if I should win the auction with a bid. Now back to the topic on hand, the obsidium shuffle, I can get anywhere between 12-600 stacks of ore a day in my mailbox that I routinely go through and prospect and vendor gems. Now you may be asking how I make profit off of this, I only vendor enough gems to pay back each stack of ore. I usually keep out a mix of carnelians and jaspers  and vendor the rest, even if it's the daily gem, because on my server there's alot of stockpilers out there that have stacks and stacks of it and it's just not worth my time unless I'm getting 25g per gem on the daily day. Sometimes I will keep out hessonite/nightstone if I can afford to just to increase my stockpile of rare necks/rings on the auction house. I sell hessonite/nightstone rings 199g, jasper/alicite rings 99g and tanking rings/necks 299g each. This will cover the 1/11 chance of a rare proc on the items and will essentially make the dust/essences free which you can just freely throw them up on the auction house and know you will make a profit (ty z-man for all of your ideas with the shuffle). I then take the carnelians and make carnelian spikes since I do not have an alchemist up to the level to make inferno rubies yet, but once I do I will probably take a portion of uncommon gems from each stack and sell shadow spirit diamond meta gems which net a little more profit than just straight vendoring them. What are some of your ideas on how to make profit with the shuffling of goods?

Importance of AH scans

Unfortunately I got drawn back to sargeras - alliance so my priest who I spent countless hours on will have to wait to get some love. On an even worse note before leaving I gave a fellow gold maker my entiring stock pile that I had on my bank+3 tab guild bank+about 7k gold as I did not see myself coming back to the server, but I found about 4k gold liquid across my toons so I will be using that to get back into the shuffle and my other markets I was in before I left. Now onto the meat of today's post, it is important to scan the auction house with auctioneer/trade skill master (those are the 2 i'm most familiar with so sorry if i missed some) at least twice a day to get up to the date and accurate information about pricing items. Now you may ask yourself how this is important and I will respond to your question with a question of my own have you ever found a recipe that you know is very rare but you have never seen it on the auction house so you don't know what to put it up for? Now this could lead to 2 things either you overprice your item and no one buys it or you underprice your item and you could potentially lose out on a large portion of your profit. I will end this post with a question, while scanning the auction house with your addon of choice, what do you do? Thanks for reading and if you would like me to write a post about a specific topic please post it below in the comments.

Finally!!!

I finally hit level 85 on my human priest on moonrunner, now I can start with getting professions on him up. I have decided to go with tailoring/enchanting as his professions so that they can compliment his class and possibly even craft beginning epic quality gear for myself when/if I decide to begin raiding. Enchanting is probably one of the best if not the best profession to have, because it just compliments almost every profession in the game except a gathering profession. If you have cheap mats and expensive enchanting mats you can just craft and disenchant green gear. I saw this alot from leatherworkers who had an enchanter alt or friend in Wrath of the Lich King, they would just craft some cheap pair of legs or boots (can't remember) and then end up making those green items into a scroll and make profit on their investment. Now back to tailoring, I started leveling it around 7:30 pm my time I ran into an immediate road block, linen cloth was way too expensive to level up on. So I did some research and found out that linen cloth is incredibly easy to get now without ever having to set foot into a dungeon, you can just go to sentinel hill and there's a pack of gnolls just past the inn that instantly respawn. I spent about 20 or so minutes spamming holy nova and looting and got 13 stacks of linen cloth rather quickly and everything died in 1 shot and weren't elite mobs. I highly recommend this place for any lower level alliance character looking to make some extra income while leveling. What are some cool farming spots that you found either by accident or by researching?

What I've been doing!!!

Sorry that I haven't posted in a few days, was working on giving away all of my stuff and switching over to moonrunner-alliance. So right now I have a level 83 (almost 84) human priest, 75 night elf druid and 68 human death knight and am working on finishing that priest and get him to 85 and then I will be getting tailoring/enchanting on the priest, alchemy/JC on the druid and then later on leveling up the death knight and putting alchemy/mining onto him for double alchemy transmutes. Today I actually went to the JMTC weekly friday meeting and a topic that I had not heard about came up, the black tabby. Now the black tabby was originally a horde only pet available as a drop from a mob in silverpine forest. It's currently available from doing some research on wowhead.com from any mob in hillsbrad foothills, I did a little farming during the meeting, about 30 minutes or so, just going around killing the naga in the south part of hillsbrad. I came up with nothing, however I did look up the price on sargeras-alliance on theunderminejournal.com and there was no price listed, so I am thinking that people don't know about the new drop chance and will still pay the pre-cataclysm price. So go on out and find items that may have had their drop rates changed and see if you can make a profit from the lack of knowledge of other people. What are some of the items, that have had their drop rates changed, that you have sold successfully since cataclysm has launched?

Weekly Update

This is a new segment here at Kaos Theory of Gold Making where I will be telling you what I did through the week. Well I finally found some farmers around last wednesday or so and actually laid them off a few days later do to an idea I had. I'm gonna be leveling up my warlock to 75 and putting alchemy/Jewelcrafting on him and my rogue will be dropping jewelcrafting for blacksmithing (so I don't have to get another 85). My warlock's leveling is going greater i plan to be hitting 75 either today or tomorrow and then I will be working on getting the mats for blacksmithing/Jewelcrafting/Alchemy so I can power level all of them up to at least 425 in 1 day. I've actually been having trouble making and continue making gold this week, for whatever reason the enchanting scroll markets are not favorable to be in on my server (or at least most of them). Well this is pretty much what happened in my week, so what happened during your guys's week?

Archaeology, why you should do it

I quite recently started to level my warlock past level 70 in Borean Tundra, I've done this zone and all of the northrend zones at least 5 times over the course of Wrath of the Lich King since i was changing servers so often. I got bored about 10-20 quests in and then an aquaitance on the JMTC IRC pointed out that you can skip northrend by doing archaeology, I then proceeded to go with his advice. I started out and went to my first dig site, which was in stranglethorn vale, and did my first survey and ok I got an artifact and then i noticed that I got 11730 xp for 1 artifact and I was like game on and got up to 135ish archaeology and started to gain levels mad fast, unfortunately I don't think you get any xp for solving artifacts. I also noticed that the common items vendored for 1 gold coin each and I looked to see if it was a bug or a glitch, but blizzard buffed the vendor value of the items in the recent patch. I believe that the xp/hour is much higher than questing is and I believe if you want you can exploit this, if you're not after zin'rokh or any epic like that for your main character, by simply not skilling up the profession past 450 and I believe you will still get insane amounts of experience points.

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