Crafting Shadowland Legendary Items for Profit
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12/30/2011
My New Source for Heavenly Shards
Vicious Amberjewel Bands. Mat prices to craft this PVP ring are coming in line with (and often even dropping below) the value of Heavenly Shards. Also disenchanting them with the Bountiful Bags guild perk will sometimes procs extra Heavenly Shards. Read more past the jump.
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12/27/2011
Great Mogging Finds: The Huge Thorium Battleaxe
Today I wanted to share a mogging item I've been having good success selling: The Huge Throium Battleaxe. This item can be crafted by almost any Blacksmith in the game but I doubt if anyone on your server is selling it. Head past the jump for my experience selling the Huge Throium Battleaxe.
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12/23/2011
The Power Word: Gold Podcast - Episode 024
In this week's episode we discuss transmogrification, transmogrification and more transmogrification. And now on with the show!
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12/20/2011
Power Word: Gold 2011 Year End Review
In this long-form (48 min) video I discuss the Power Word: Gold 2011 year end review as well as look forward to what 2012 may bring for PW:G and the World of Warcraft gold-making community at large.
How did 2011 treat you and what do you look forward to in 2012? Let us know in the comments below (or even better create your own 2011 year end review video and post a link).
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12/18/2011
New Star Wars: The Old Republic Section of Power Word: Gold Launched
In preparation for the upcoming release of Star Wars: The Old Republic we've launched a new section of Power Word: Gold dedicated to exploring the ins-and-outs of the SWTOR economy. You can find it at tor.powerwordgold.net. We are excited about this new section mainly because of the opportunity to explore a brand new MMO and it's corresponding economy.
For us making gold has always been about learning new things, trying new techniques and solving new puzzles. The SWTOR launch offers us all these. That said, as we stated in our introductory PW:G TOR post "The Journey Of A Thousand Credits", we don't plan on mixing our TOR chocolate into our WoW peanut butter. More mixed metaphors after the jump.
12/16/2011
25 Must-Follow Gold-Making Twitterers
A shot of our tweetdeck this morning. |
Since we started the @PowerWordGold twitter account at the beginning of the year we've seen a large increase in the amount of gold-makers (bloggers and players alike) who are joining twitter. A wonderful milieu of gold making goodness has developed. a primordial ooze of news, tips, questions and answers bubbles up on twitter daily. If you want to know what is going on in World of Warcraft gold-making right now twitter is a great place to start looking.
Today I am going to be listing my own 25 must-follow gold-making twitterers. If you have even the slightest interest in making gold than these should be the first 25 people you follow. Head past the jump for the list.
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12/13/2011
Keelhaul's Big Flippin' Mogging List
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We finally have the list we've all been clamoring for: Keelhauls list of mogging items he's been making a killing off of since Patch 4.3 and the introduction of Transmogrification. Feel free to bookmark this post as I think it will be one many of us will be referring back to a lot. Let's hop past the jump and straight into the list.
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12/11/2011
Building A Valor Bracer Shopping List
In this video "WoW Gold-Making - Auctionator & Wowhead For Shopping Lists" I go over how to use Wowhead's item search filters to find bind-on-equip (BOE) item level 397 bracers (known as "Valor Bracers") and add them to an Auctionator shopping list. (The filter I build in the video can be found here.)
I build these type of shopping lists to quickly find which (if any) Valor Bracers I should be buying from players selling them in trade chat for flipping purposes. It should be noted that Valor Boots are also BOE and can be bought/sold in the same way.
For a written description of this process (although the items are now outdated) see our previous post "Buying And Selling Valor Boots For Profit".
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12/08/2011
The Power Word: Gold Podcast - Episode 023
In this week's episode we discuss how World of Warcraft Patch 4.3 has affected the economy, motivations for making gold, stockpiling and much more. And now on with the show!
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12/04/2011
How The Economics of Dreamcloth Are Changing
While working on one of my two tailors today I made a fairly startling discovery. The economics of creating Dreamcloth have completely changed. I first heard rumblings about this via @ssmith0911 and @msherretz on twitter. Basically the way I made Dreamcloth before Patch 4.3 very well may be a thing of the past.
I've been selling off my stocks of Dreamcloth as spell threads and had planned on simply making more the way I always had. I'm glad I didn't. Read on past the jump for my analysis of things every tailor should consider before making one more piece of Dreamcloth.
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12/02/2011
My Mailbox Tactics For Tracking Sales
In this video I go over my own techniques for using the addons Postal and My Sales to quickly keep track how my sales are going.
Here is an image of the Postal settings I discuss about in the video.
(As a side note: I was experimenting with using a new technique for doing live multi-screen section videos. It's a bit rough and rambly but I thought it worked out pretty good. Feel free to give me any feedback in the comments.)
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11/30/2011
Introducing "The Power Word: Gold Chronicle" - The Latest Gold-Making News All In One Spot
I was laying in bed the other night and I had one of those ideas that literally keeps you up at night. I knew right then that no matter how late it was I had to get up and build what was in my head. The fruits of my labor are The Power Word: Gold Chronicle. (Read today's as well as yesterday's edition.)
The Power Word Gold Chronicle (or just "The Chronicle") is a special sub-section of Power Word: Gold (chronicle.powerwordgold.net) providing the most recent gold-making posts from around the community in a simple newspaper-style layout. It has it's own RSS feed that runs completely separate from The Power Word: Gold's RSS feed so be sure you're subscribed to both. I plan to update The Chronicle multiple times a week.
Each edition of The Chronicle is hand laid out and will included many of the most up-to-date gold-making posts from around the community. While similar to automatically-generated gold-making news collections (most notibly the excellent news page at The Undermine Journal) and blogrolls exist (including our own) I think that The Chronicle will provide a nice quiet place to browse what the gold-making community is talking about at the moment.
Enjoy.
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11/29/2011
WoW Gold-Making Changes In Patch 4.3 Megapost
Another patch day means another Power Word: Gold Patch Megapost. Whether you live in the EU or are stuck at work strap in and get your F5 keys ready. I've been sufficiently caffeinated and have appropriate patching/posting music. My ear's to the ground via twitter and a fire hose of RSS feeds. It's business time!
(If you want to chat with those who are poking the patch with a stick right now The Consortium's IRC chat is a great place to start.)
I'll be updating this post live as information comes in. As with any megapost the information will be posted as I find it and will likely not be the "prettiest" post you've ever seen. Enough jabber-jawing! Hop past the jump and let's get this show on the road!
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11/27/2011
The State of Gold-Making Blogging As 2011 Closes
After adding another new gold-making blog to The World Of Warcraft Gold Blog Directory (as well as updating the activity levels on the directory) I had to stop and take a bit of time to write a little about the tremendous blossoming of gold-making blogs we've seen over this last year.
There has never been a better time to be a player looking for information on how to make gold in World of Warcraft. Frankly I'm often overwhelmed by the amount of new information coming out of gold-making blogs (both old and new) on a daily basis. Keeping up with my RSS reader often feels like trying to take a drink out of a fire hose.
Read on after the jump for a few of my thoughts about where gold-making blogging has been and where it's going.
11/26/2011
Introducing Croda's Free Inscription Gold Guide
Today I have launched Croda’s Inscription Gold Guide. It is free and it can be found at my blog marketsforgold.
This guide represents my experiences with the inscription profession that took me to over 1 million gold. It is an aggregation of the posts on my blog marketsforgold and very little, if anything, is in addition to those posts (actually the blog posts are a disaggregation of this guide).
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11/20/2011
The Power Word: Gold Podcast - Episode 022
In this week's episode we discuss making gold with Leatherworking and Valor Points, take a look into a for-pay gold-making guide and much more. And now on with the show!
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11/18/2011
Confessions of a Mogging Fiend
Today's guest post was written by Keelhaul (Twitter: @DEazeroth). If you would like your guest post included on Power Word: Gold feel free to contact us at powerwordgold@gmail.com.
When transmogrification was announced I was really intrigued. Obviously. Right? I mean I ended up starting a blog and noodled on the subject for about six weeks. It's just a fantastic topic and one that is going to remain a stable area of interest and intrigue for a lot of players.
While I'm no longer able to maintain the blog (due to time constraints with our newborn son who's not sleeping more than 2 hrs at a time btw - ugh) I am still in and out of WoW as I try to complete various transmog sets for my 8 toons.
I'll tell you what. Sitting there on a chair from 2-4 in the morning with a baby on your shoulder offers plenty of time to sit and watch the market from the mobile armory on my iPhone. I've begun a little project in this way and I mentioned it to flux and he asked me to write a post about it. So here goes. (After the jump of course.)
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11/16/2011
[White Ribbon] - Heart of Gold
With one voice, as one community, we are speaking out and working to end
violence against women.
The White Ribbon Campaign
The White Ribbon Campaign International
White Ribbon on Twitter
Below are the blogs that participated in today's show of support.
- Power Word: Gold - [White Ribbon] - Heart Of Gold
- WarcraftEcon - White Ribbon – Heart of Gold
- Capped By Cata - [White Ribbon] - Heart of Gold
- Cold's Gold Factory - White Ribbon - Heart of Gold
- Altos Goldish Advice - White Ribbon - Heart of Gold
- Gimps Gold - [White Ribbon] – Heart of Gold
- Fighting Coin - [White Ribbon] - Heart of Gold
- Wragstoriches - [White Ribbon] – Heart of Gold
- Break the Bank - White Ribbon – Heart of Gold
- Auction House Addict - (White Ribbon) - Heart of Gold
- The Gold Queen - I give up. NSFW White Ribbon
- Fortune and Fighting - White Ribbon Campaign-Unite, One Voice
- The Revenge - White Ribbon - Heart of Gold
- Dented Armor - White Ribbon Heart of Gold
- Cazmia's Ramblings - [White Ribbon] - Heart Of Gold
- The Golden Crusade - White Ribbon–Heart of Gold
- The Consortium - White Ribbon - Heart of Gold
- Caffeine, Smokes and Auction House Fees - White Ribbon - Heart of Gold
Additional commentaries and shows of support.
- Theronie's Gold Exploration - White Ribbon - Heart of Gold
- Too Many Annas - You Receive: [White Ribbon]
- Flavor Text - Glass Houses: On Alyzande and Rape Culture in Azeroth
- The 'mental Shaman - That sickening feeling
- Apple Cider Mage - When Blogging Imitates Real Life Rape Culture
- Troll Bouquet - [TW: Mentions of Sex Assault] Stand Together, Stand as One, Never Be Silent
- Need More Rage - Blog banner.
- Mommy Jenkins!! - One of Our Own: White Ribbon
- Bibliotech - Heart's Blood, White Ribbons (Trigger warnings for rape)
- Official White Ribbon Campaign Twitter - Tweet recognizing the gold blogger campaign.
- Amerence Love WoW - White Ribbon: Please Support TGQ!
- Better Off Dead - Guild Webpage
- Meet Ohnekase - [White Ribbon] - Heart Of Gold
- Wow or Gold - White Ribbon - Heart of Gold
- Lion Gaming - Violence and World of Warcraft
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11/12/2011
For-Pay WoW "Gold Guide" Obliterated By Faid
Watch as Faid (from Nerf Faids) completely obliterates the credibility of this for-pay "gold guide". (Also check out Faid's corresponding blog post.)
All I could think after watching Faid's video was get 'em a body bag.
Unfortunately there will be people out there who will be suckered into buying guides like this. Thanks to Faid's hard work I know I won't have to worry about any of our readers falling into such a trap.
If any of our readers have felt ripped off by a gold guide that they have paid real money for be sure let us know via email (powerwordgold@gmail.com) or in the comments below.
If any of our readers are new to gold-making and are looking for a good solid starter guide be sure to check out our 100% free guide "The Power Word: Gold Guide - Free".
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11/06/2011
The Power Word: Gold Podcast - Episode 021
In this week's episode we discuss the introduction of the bind-on-equip Guardian Cub pet available from the Blizzard Store, cooperating with glyph competition, low level gold-making and much more. And now, on with the show!
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11/04/2011
Costs To Switch Alchemy Specializations Increased On 4.3 PTR
Below is a reader email we received outlining the changes they found on the PRT related to new quests for switching your alchemy specialization. While it looks like the travel involved in switching specializations has gone down the costs for changing have gone up by a significant amount. Read on after the jump for details.
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10/31/2011
Sinister Squashling: Trick or Treat?
As reported by Cold there is a chance the Sinister Squashling may become Bind of Equip (BOE) in patch 4.3. If this does indeed happen then there will be a market for selling the pet on the auction house.
Read on past the jump to find out more about preparing to profit from this potential change.
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10/24/2011
The Undermine Journal - A Beginners Guide and Video
Today's guest post and video were created by reader (and erstwhile podcast guest and contributor) Ruls. Follow Ruls on twitter at @formerruling. If you would like to write a guest post for Power Word: Gold contact us at powerwordgold@gmail.com.
When I first considered making a set of videos related to gold making I knew I wanted to first focus on demystifying the process. There is a divide between those that will make money and those that will never have a large amount of money despite many options being added making it easier. More details after the jump.
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10/16/2011
Epic Gem Design Info From The PTR
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We also know more about the Tome of Burning Jewels. It will also be sold by the vendors and cost (4) Illustrious Jewelcrafter's Tokens. I will allow the discovery of a random epic gem pattern. Follow after the jump where I give my thoughts on the new info.
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10/14/2011
Reader Gold Milestone - Snnowman Hits 550K
Today's guest post was written by reader Snnowman of the Frostmane server. If you would like to write a guest post for Power Word: Gold contact us at powerwordgold@gmail.com.
What started as a way to fund my many alts ended in a quest for more.
I got on my gold making kick off and on during Wrath of the Lich King. I wanted the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth so, like anyone else without direction, turned to farming. I sit at the keyboard grinding countless mobs for a few greens and Frostweave Cloth thinking their has to be a better way. Read how after the jump.
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10/10/2011
How To Boil A Frog - Thoughts On Tradable Blizzard Store Pets
Blizzard announced today that they are going to be selling a pet for real money that can be traded (BOE). I just wanted to take a few minutes to comment on this latest offering from the Blizzard Store and what it may mean to the future of World of Warcraft. Read on for more.
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10/09/2011
Going Into Low Power Mode
Owing to current and upcoming real-life circumstances as well as a recent decline in my available World of Warcraft playtime I've decided to put Power Word: Gold into a sort of "Low Power" mode for now.
This means posting will be done on an "as needed" basis. When something strikes my fancy or I feel is important to the readership I'll post.
The podcast will also be done on an "as needed" basis. I won't be doing podcasts on a regular schedule but instead putting them together as needed.
I will still be reading other gold-making blogs as well as maintaining The World Of Warcraft Gold Blog Directory and the Community Gold-Making Milestones. If you have a gold-making blog with 6+ posts and want to be added to the Directory or have a gold-making milestone you'd like added please send me an email at powerwordgold@gmail.com.
I don't have any definite timeline on when Power Word: Gold may shift back into "Full Power" mode but when that time comes I'll be sure to let everyone know. Until then you'll still be hearing from me from time to time.
I plan to stay fairly active on twitter and facebook for now so please feel free contact me there with any questions, comments, news or info.
Thanks,
-flux
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10/05/2011
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 - My Example Of Excellence For Over 13 Years.
Apologies for going a little off topic but we all lost a shining example of excellence today.
On the Apple website announcing Steve Job's passing was the following: If you would like to share your thoughts, memories, and condolences, please email rememberingsteve@apple.com.
Below is what I wrote to Steve.
Steve,
I came to really know and love Apple right after you had come back to the company. The iMac was so much more than any other computer I'd seen in my life. It was just "right". Since then you continued to build product after product that inspired my and changed my life.
More than anything you showed that excellence is possible if only you believe and are dedicated to making the absolute best product you can.
My life will forever be changed by your example and I hope to live up to that example.
You will be missed but not forgotten Steve.
With gratitude,
-Jim Younkin
While the ache I feel in my heart for the loss of Steve will take a while to pass the fact that even right up until the end he was leading by example will be something I will remember for the rest of my life.
10/02/2011
The Power Word: Gold Podcast - Episode 020
In this week's episode we discuss how epic gems might come into the game, Blizzard's philosophy on exclusivity, PTR raw gem changes, setting a price ceiling on the glyph market and much more. And now, on with the show!
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9/30/2011
Raw Cataclysm Gems Can't Be Vendored On PTR
As reported on twitter by @JoshDJX Cataclysm uncommon and rare gems on the PTR currently show as having "No Sale Price" and can not be sold to vendors.
I hopped on the PTR and can confirm I am seeing the same thing. It seems that lower raw gems may not be affected as raw Tigerseye and Malachite still have a vendor price. The same was true for the cut uncommon and cut rare Cataclysm gems I tested.
After Patch 4.3 you may have to cut each and every gem in order sell it to a vendor. So what if anything should you do before the patch if we have large stocks of undervalued rare and uncommon Cataclysm gems we were planning to vendor? Head past the jump for PTR prices, maths and some suggestions.
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9/28/2011
Breaking Down The Datamined Epic Gem Information
World of Warcraft Patch 4.3 is now available for testing on the Public Test Realm (PTR) and with new PTRs comes people who "mine" the data contained in these new patches to bring us lots of new and exciting information.
In the last few days there has been a flurry of new information about the profession changes and additions that will most likely be introduced in Patch 4.3. The two most thorough are "Patch 4.3 - PTR Build 14732 - Spell Changes, New Items, Maps, and More!" at Wowhead News and "Patch 4.3 on PTR" at MMO Champion.
After the jump I'm going to be doing my best to break down the epic gem information which was recently made available via this datamining and analyze what it could mean to us as gold-makers. I'll also be giving a few ideas on how the datamined information matches up with epic gem information given in recent interviews.
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9/27/2011
The Power Word: Gold Podcast - Episode 019
In this week's episode flux discusses how he's been making gold this week, the news of epic gems in 4.3 and what it means to gold-making, posts of the week, preparing for Patch 4.3 and much more. And now, on with the show!
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9/23/2011
One-Handed Mace Mog Flipping Recommendations
Today's guest post was written by Keelhaul who runs the blog Disenchanting Azeroth (Twitter: @DEazeroth). If you're interested in writing a guest post for Power Word: Gold please contact us at powerwordgold@gmail.com.
Many of these items can be found on the auction house now for very low prices. I have The Undermine Journal email alerts set up for many of these items and have been picking them up often between 50-100 gold. The max I recommend you paying for these pre-4.3 is around 200 gold.
Head past the jump for the recommended one-handed mace list.
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9/21/2011
Recommended One-Handed Swords To Sell For Mogging
Today's guest post was written by Keelhaul who runs the blog Disenchanting Azeroth (Twitter: @DEazeroth). If you're interested in writing a guest post for Power Word: Gold please contact us at powerwordgold@gmail.com.
Many of these items can be found on the auction house now for very low prices. I have The Undermine Journal email alerts set up for many of these items and have been picking them up often between 50-100 gold. (The max I recommend you paying for these pre-4.3 is around 200 gold.)
Head past the jump for the recommended one-handed swords list.
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9/19/2011
Ghostcrawler: Epic Gems To Be Individual Drops From 4.3 Raid Bosses
It's official (kind of): Epic gems in 4.3 will have a small chance to come from a "geode" individual players will get each time they kill a 4.3 raid boss. This means that (at least initially) there will be no way for gold-makers to "farm" or produce epic gems (unless they are raiders). Chances for epic gems to drop from "geodes" rare enough that it may take all of patch 4.3 to replace a single player's gems with epic red gems.
Read the interview with Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street as well as our initial reactions after the jump.
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9/18/2011
Good Morning! (Or Could It Be Evening?)
Today's guest post was written by Alyzande from The Gold Queen. Today's Power Word: Gold post can be found over on Epidermuss' blog Wragstoriches.
Timing is everything. It has always been the key between making lots of gold and making LOTS of gold. Know when to buy and when to sell.
Buy your raw materials at the weekend. Raw materials are those that come from the wild, plucked from the ground or monster corpses. I'm talking about all the ores, herbs, and cloth types. It is no secret that player numbers increase at the weekends and with more players comes higher supply and thus lower prices. To cut a long story short buying your ore and herbs at the weekend can shave 20% off the normal prices.
Being a gold gamer though takes our focus to selling. Certain items sell at different times of the day and different times of the week (almost entirely) due to the numbers of target buyers online. Epic Bind of Equip (BOE) items change dramatically. Last weekend my Treads of the Craft sold for 30,000 gold. During the weekday evening their prices are 21,000 gold buyout. They cost me 18,000 gold to make with leatherworking. I prefer the 12,000 gold profit to the 3,000 gold . I'm sure agree.
Raid times are early evening until midnight (a little longer for hardcore raiders). Between the hours of school finishing until raid starting players are eager to stock up with raid food and flasks and will pay extra to make sure they have exactly what they need.
After a raid players come jumping into the auction house full of glee with their new shiny items ready to enchant and gem them. Both enchants and gems sell nicely at other times but fly off the shelves as fast as you can restock after the raids finish.
The final interesting time I've noticed is that leveling gear (greens with good stats) sell quickly and steadily at a low price at the weekend in a market catering to casual gamers. In the weekday those stats must be absolutely perfect because your target market is the alts of more hardcore players who will pay extra for an item which will last longer.
Have you noticed a particular time when your items sell very well or considerably slower?
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Writer and Tea-Maker, www.thegoldqueen.com
Buy your raw materials at the weekend. Raw materials are those that come from the wild, plucked from the ground or monster corpses. I'm talking about all the ores, herbs, and cloth types. It is no secret that player numbers increase at the weekends and with more players comes higher supply and thus lower prices. To cut a long story short buying your ore and herbs at the weekend can shave 20% off the normal prices.
Being a gold gamer though takes our focus to selling. Certain items sell at different times of the day and different times of the week (almost entirely) due to the numbers of target buyers online. Epic Bind of Equip (BOE) items change dramatically. Last weekend my Treads of the Craft sold for 30,000 gold. During the weekday evening their prices are 21,000 gold buyout. They cost me 18,000 gold to make with leatherworking. I prefer the 12,000 gold profit to the 3,000 gold . I'm sure agree.
Raid times are early evening until midnight (a little longer for hardcore raiders). Between the hours of school finishing until raid starting players are eager to stock up with raid food and flasks and will pay extra to make sure they have exactly what they need.
After a raid players come jumping into the auction house full of glee with their new shiny items ready to enchant and gem them. Both enchants and gems sell nicely at other times but fly off the shelves as fast as you can restock after the raids finish.
The final interesting time I've noticed is that leveling gear (greens with good stats) sell quickly and steadily at a low price at the weekend in a market catering to casual gamers. In the weekday those stats must be absolutely perfect because your target market is the alts of more hardcore players who will pay extra for an item which will last longer.
Have you noticed a particular time when your items sell very well or considerably slower?
-Alyzande,
Writer and Tea-Maker, www.thegoldqueen.com
Thanks to Alyzande for providing our guest post today. Like any goblin worth their weight in explosives will tell you: "Time is money friend!". If you would like to learn more about participating in post exchanges with other gold-making bloggers contact Gimp from GimpsGold.
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9/15/2011
What Makes a Mogging Item Worth Selling?
With mogging coming in Patch 4.3 many of us have been talking about the potential of items increasing in value due to their desirability as transmogrification items. Today's reader question asks how we should be determining which items to pick up now for resale after Patch 4.3.
While the mogging market is still a theory at this stage that doesn't mean we prepare to reap profits from players wanting to acquire weapons and armor that look great. Follow us after the jump where we discuss what attributes to look for in potential mogging items.
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9/13/2011
The Power Word: Gold Podcast - Episode 018
In this week's episode we discuss how we've been making gold this week, flipping epic items, working the glyph market, preparing for Patch 4.2 and much more. And now, on with the show!
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9/09/2011
The Shape of The Mogging Market And Staves
Today's guest post was written by Keelhaul from Disenchanting Azeroth. If you would like your guest post featured on Power Word: Gold contact us at powerwordgold@gmail.com.
First, a few market observations. After an initial wave of BoE sales, things have slowed down a bit. I half-expected this because transmogrification is likely going to move at the pace of a typical adoption curve.
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This feature is going to be big enough that it warrants looking at the potential for change in the market in such a fashion. Learn more about the Transmogrification Curve after the jump.
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9/08/2011
Dealing With Super Competitive Glyph Markets
Today's gold-making question comes from a reader who's just started on the road to glyph profit but ran into some pretty scary competition. The glyph market can be one of the most fiercely competitive markets in the whole game. Read on past the jump to to read their question and my answer.
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9/04/2011
Selling Classic Raid Runs To Moggers
Today's guest post was written by Keelhaul from the Disenchanting Azeroth blog. If you would like your guest post featured on Power Word: Gold contact us at powerwordgold@gmail.com.
Throwback gear in 4.3 actually breathes new life into throwback gold-making opportunities for experienced players. The ol' Hand of A'dal vials model for gold-making can be resurrected immediately, and GDKP runs have a new reason for pulling buyers into raids. Follow us after the jump and start thinking out of the box and applying a gold value to actual bosses, rather than to items.
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