Greater Stamina Enchants

I have been making gold by disenchanting and selling the materials from green items purchased using auctioneer's disenchant function, found in the search tab. I place bids on items with bids less than 30 silver if they are expected to net me at least 1 gold profit, and on all items which are expected to net me more than 5 gold profit.

To do this, I first set the minimum profit under disenchanting to 1 gold and run a getall scan. I then sort by purchase price, lowest on top, and buy out all auctions with a buyout less than 30 silver. I then sort by bid price, and place a bid on all auctions with a bid less than 30 silver. Finally, I sort by profit, highest first, and place a bid on all auctions with an expected profit of more than 5 gold.

In the process, I accumulated more Dream Dust than I knew what to do with. I was looking for a way to get rid of some of it, and stumbled across a moderate source of income from a product I had too much of anyway: Greater Stamina Enchants.

There are three: Formula: Enchant Shield - Greater Stamina, Formula: Enchant Bracer - Greater Stamina, and Formula: Enchant Boots - Greater Stamina. They all cost 5 Dream Dust to make, plus the vellum so you can put it on the auction house. I crafted 5 of each and created a QA group to sell them anytime the price was between 25 and 50 gold. To my surprise, there isn't much competition, but there is demand (mostly twinks and leveling tanks, I suppose). My enchants often post for the fallback price of 50 gold, and more importantly, they have been selling (not high volume, but the gold return on time invested is good if I simply keep one stack of each scroll in my bags and hit the post button once or twice a day after a scan).

Next on my list is to check out the market for Scroll of Enchant Bracer - Superior Stamina... the mats for this one are a bit more expensive (10 Illusion Dust), but I think that if the market for the subpar low level twink/tank bracer enchant is there, then there is bound to be a market for the better enchant.

Also, to my readers (few as that number may be), comments are always appreciated. It helps keep me motivated to know that somebody is actually reading the tips I'm putting out there, and if something I wrote was useful to you, I'd like to know.

Sparklers

Red Sparkler, White Sparkler, Blue Sparkler. Buy a bunch of these, and don't advertise or tell anyone that you have them until the vendor disappears for another year. Click the links for vendor locations.

Sorry to those who don't read this until after the vendors are gone. I would have posted this sooner, but I only recently learned of the existance of these items. Also, I hit the gold cap.

Khorium Power Core

It's been a while since my last post, here are the gold making opportunities I've stumbled across in the last month.

Khorium Power Core. Made by engineers, this item is required for a netherwing quest. Exalted Netherwing reputation allows access to 6 flying mounts, useful to those trying to get Mountain o' Mounts. The power cores don't sell in high volume, but I've sold these for anywhere from 250 to 450 gold each, so it's worth it to keep one on the auction house. While you're at it, sell Felsteel Bar in stacks of 2 and Adamantite Frame too!

The dire maul arena spawns a rare elite roughly every six hours... if you have an alt capable of soloing a lvl 58 elite and don't mind leaving that character in the arena, it can be worth your time to quickly check this area on login/logout. The bosses drop boe rare items, including Orb of Deception, which is worth quite a bit on the AH.

I got lucky on my paladin (who is lvl 64 now) and found a Recipe: Savory Deviate Delight on the horde Auction House for 9g buyout. I could have made some gold flipping that, but I used my girlfriend's account to transfer it to my alliance main and learned the recipe. I'm not sure if it's because I play alliance or if it's just my server, but it looks like Savory Deviate Delights aren't on my auction house very often. I've sold several as singles for 15g, so I added a group to Quick Auctions and now keep a couple of stacks on my auction house character, posting 5 single auctions when the price is between 5 and 15 gold.

Well, that's all for now, and thank you Adarellus for commenting on my previous post... it's good to know that someone actually reads this blog!

Still Chugging Away

My horde paladin is still chugging away, level 47 now. I've got a little more than 180k gold, 4 thousand of which is on the horde side (not bad for a level 47, huh?). Some of that gold was obtained by killing the Dalaran Spellscribe a few times in hopes of him dropping Cat Carrier (Black Tabby), an idea I got from JMTC. I sold two already for 750g each on the horde auction house... I should probably try to list the other ones I have for more on the neutral AH, as the alliance cannot obtain this item themselves.

I also completed a nobles deck at a cost of 852g, though I haven't sold it yet. I am still buying bargain green items and disenchanting them to sell the mats on the auction house, and I have started placing select low level enchants on vellums and listing them on the auction house, including fiery weapon and lifestealing.

In addition to hitting the gold cap before the Cataclysm release date (I shouldn't have too much trouble doing that), I'd like to have each profession maxed on one of my alliance characters and then begin trying to automate things... that is my end goal, to have gold flow in with as little effort as possible. Up front, this is taking a lot of time, but that's ok as I like trying new things (healing low level dungeons on my druid, for example). So for now, I'm going to be leveling and setting the framework for the next expansion... if I have any readers yet, it will be slow for a while, but expect things to pick up as Cataclysm approaches. Oh, and comments would be welcome, I'm beginning to think I'm the only one who visits this site.

Gold Wins

Whew! I played my horde paladin quite a bit on my days off, and he is now level 30. I bought 6 bank tabs for the guild I made for my alliance characters, and I had spent 5k more on my dk's epic flight skill, but I still have about 168k gold right now. I could have made more, but I was ignoring my alliance characters while I leveled my paladin.

Speaking of my paladin, I placed a bid for an Ace of Nobles that had a bid price of 1g 30s and a buyout of around 1000g. I figured for sure someone would outbid me, but the auction house hawks must not have been paying attention that day, because I actually won the auction! I checked the auction house, and found several other nobles cards for 40-50g each, so I decided to put together a deck. I currently have 5 of the 8 cards, each purchased for less than 100g, and I have a bid on another card that I need for 101g 50s. If I win that auction, I will only need two more cards for a full deck!

Not including the Ace of Nobles (I haven't actually realized a profit on that yet), I had two gold wins on the auction house. The first came from when I needed a silver rod to continue leveling enchanting, so I checked the auction house. There were none listed, so I bought 6 silver bars for 6g each and also the mats to make the grinding stones needed to make silver rods. I found a blacksmith by hanging out at the blacksmith trainer in dalaran. I had the blacksmith make me 6 silver rods. I used one and put another on the AH for 99g, and it sold! There are some cheap ones on the auction house now, but I will keep an eye out for when there are no silver rods on the auction house and list the others I had made then. The other gold win I had was finding 4 stacks of dream shards listed for 19g per stack. I bought out all 80 dream shards, spending 76g, and promptly relisted them as singles for 4g each. Every single one sold! Sweet!

I'm still buying cheap greens from the auction house and disenchanting them to sell the mats on the auction house, though I seem to be accumulating the materials faster than they are selling. I still say this is a great way to earn starting gold on a new server, but with the way my bank is filling up, I may need to stop buying for a while and just sell off the mats I already have.