Maximizing Profession Profit In Patch 5.4

Kaliope recently wrote about the mechanics of Leatherworking cooldowns on the Patch 5.4 Public Test Realm. Based on their observations it seems the act of daily cooldowns teaching new PVP and PVE recipied will continue in 5.4.

I just wanted to give a few tips to people looking to make gold from these recipes. Head past the jump for my advice.

What We Know

As I mentioned in my previous post (and what Kaliope seems to have confirmed at lease for Leatherworking) is that Blizzard will use the same learn-a-recipe-every-day-from-a-daily-cooldown mechanism for Patch 5.4.

If you've been making gold with Crafted Dreadful Tailoring, Blacksmithing and Leatherworking PVP items in Patch 5.3 you will likely be familiar with the routine of doing a daily cooldown, learning a pattern and (possibly) making that item to sell.

I believe the reason Blizzard designed it this way was to keep all of us crafters logging into the game day-in and day-out. I know my Leatherworker has leaned over 50 Crafted Dreadful PVP patterns and still isn't done.

That is at least 50+ days of daily cooldowns and counting. Nearly 2 months of doing a cooldown each day and still not being finished.

Where to Obtain Them?

While things are still up in the air as to where to obtain these cooldown recipes Kaliope let us know that the Leatherworking cooldown recipe was a drop from random Mists of Pandaria mobs. This is the same way the new Leatherworking recipes were obtained in 5.3.

How the Tailoring and Blacksmithing cooldowns will be obtained is still unknown to me. (If you have insight on where they are obtained let us know.)

Update: Commenter myroom2yours posted "Confirmed that the patterns for Leatherworking, Tailoring, and Engineering are all acquired from random mobs in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. I have 600 level profs in all 3 of those categories prior to killing mobs in the ptr." Thanks!

Update 2: A reader emailed us the following updated info: "Also the Leatherworking and Tailoring profs have the same 'discover a recipe' procs with each daily cd. I have learned the new PvP items and there are PvE raid worthy items also that I have learned. however the PVE are BOP!!!!! no sale profits from those in the future."

What We Learned

Putting all conspiracy theories about Blizzard coercing us to stay subscribed aside we did learn a few key things about these markets as we've been working them day-to-day over the last few months. The following relates exclusively to the PVP gear sets (Crafted Dreadful in the case of patch 5.3)


Conclusion

What have we learned from all of our experience? The most important advice we can give is that the first few days (maybe weeks) of the patch will be when you'll be able to command the highest prices for your Crafted Malevolent items.

You may be the only player on your whole server/faction that will be selling the item. As more players learn more patterns that exclusivity advantage will disappear.

The second is to stockpile (a bit). I'm most worried about having enough Magnificent Hides. Trillium Bars and Ghost Iron Bars are my second most important set of materials.

I've been making some very good gold in the Crafted Dreadful Blacksmithing market and I want to have all the crafting materials (in this case Ghost Iron Bars) I need to continue that trend.

Be ready for Patch 5.4 with all the mats you need to learn, make and sell Crafted Malevolent items and you could see some nice profits early on in Patch 5.4.

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