For those that are tired of the same ways of making money. For those that want something completely else to do, for those that want something different.


How to make gold in a boring, suicidal, ludicrous or other way, this new installment will hopefully cheer you all up with prospects in the future!

Today: Old sKool Raiding!

Yes raiding lvl60 and 70 content, though for different reasons.
lvl60 raids and dungeons drop parts of the first ever made dungeon set and 3 of those (waist, hand and wrists) are BoE, now I know what you are thinking, but seriously they sell! and they sell for about 50-100G a piece, if you are lucky and run MC with 2-4 guys (3 is the best tbh, 2 makes some mechanics finicky) you can get dungeon set 2-3 wrists/belt. that was the first EPIC set and the wrists and belt again are BoE these sell for about 100-200G a pop. Now include this with about 100G you get from the raid itself + another 100G for core of earth, hearth of fires etc. and you get between 250 and 500G for a run of an hour, This isn’t the “best” way to make money but it is fun! if you want some old gear for your self (I got my full dungeon 1 set on my hunter) or want to get an achievement or just want some fun, this is a good way to make an extra buck

lvl70 dungeons/raids are yet again a bit different. These drop a lot of blue/epic BoP items so money doesn’t come from them, but the bosses drop about the double amount of gold, a lot of greens on trash and some misc’s all around. The money is about 200G if you are running with more 4 guys, about 250 when you run with 3.
Other reasons to run this content is to get some really really easy reputation. If you want to complete your skillbook this is another reason to run these things. (Don’t forget that those patterns etc, can make you money if your lucky) Or do you want a new mount? go for the impossible drops and get a phoenix, a horse, a raptor etc etc…

As said the money isn’t all that, but it still makes you a nice buck, and is guaranteed to push your skills if you only take a min. of persons.

So if you want some gold, some fun, some skill testing, some “bonding” in the guild/friends, suicidal runs (your a lvl60 running with 2 lvl80 guildies) or just want to tag along while bored. this is the place to go.

I’ll see you next week ready to go again!

Seth,
A fortune starts with ONE and only ONE copper!

Yes, podcast nr. 2 is getting out THIS MONTH!
after a lot of personal bussiness my time frame allows me to start podcasting again!

ofcourse I’m going to talk about what you can sell during the christmas event. I’m going to shout out the people that won the contest. (long overdue but they already have their prizes) I’m going to shout out the first donation I received (a week ago)
and more… and then some…
anything you would like me to talk about, change anything, etc etc, let me know…

PS email adress = broke again so leave a comment and if needed/asked I’ll mail you directly from another account.

grtz
Seth

I got this great question asked to me Saturday.
“if you are against socials, why do you blog? since blogging is sociall?”

Now this is true blogging, or at least blogging for your readers = social. But there is more to blogging, or at least my blogging.
There is a quite simple explanation that is important enough for me to write about:


If I blog, and I have about 1000 readers a day. (250 over feed, 750 visiting the site) that are a possible 1000 people that will shed from the social and leeching life. with every post I write, I have a chance to make the group of sheep (M&S) smaller. which that I’m actually not paying for them anymore.


To make my ramble a bit clear, I blog to stop the social, sheepish and M&S movement. I blog so “Goblins” can make gold over the sheep’s back. I blog in the hope that somebody, anybody, sees the error in their non-employed life. etc etc.

Seth, leeching the sheeps since 1988.


Don’t let the Sheep cost you, make money on them! Shed your sheepskin and join the Wolfpack of Goblins, read One-copper.com!

omg… I’m really going to stop here, Fever ain’t good for writing.


grtz
Seth
A fortune starts with one copper!

Tailoring… tbh I never ever made it to 450 with tailoring I’m currently sitting up on 300 and waiting for my lvl48 warlock to get to 55 before I can start lvling it again. Now that doesn’t mean I’m completly retarted on the subject. (this is open for discussion though)

Ofcourse what we all know and love is the netherweave bags. Easy and fast profit for everyone around.
Another thing that sells really well are the “threads” fe. haste on the cloak if i’m remembering right.

Now I do know some things that sell slowly but do sell and which can give you a boost in profit.
The best example here is: the Kaluak’s herb bag. It’s the biggest one available and on all the servers I looked it goes for about 600gold while the mats are 300-400G. Bad thing about this is though that it sells really slow, about one each week and that you need some reputation with the Kaluak.

The best cooldown on cloth … whow … Frankly I have no idea, I went online and talked to my tailori though and he said that mooncloth-line is selling 2 to 3 times faster then the rest. And for a better price.

Tailors have a problem though, they don’t have something unique. The most profit needs to come from selling the cooldowns on the cloth, the bags (glacial has started selling well the last months) and the threads.
The occasional specialty bags give a good second income but not nearly enough to actually live on.

Sadly enough that’s all I have for tailors right now, so if you have some extra’s be sure to comment and I’ll put it in the post.

Grtz
Seth

PS post dedicated to:Zatosh and Avaryse.

I’m not trying to assert that your methodology isn’t earning gold. It clearly earns you plenty. It’s possible that the guy I referenced that’s crafting thousands of glyphs for 50 silver auction price is turning some profit. He’s just making gold very very slowly.
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So 3% or 50Silver is “too slow” to make money?
let’s do some very very simple math:
I’m making it so simple I’m using a median price and set demand.

TOTAL glyphs sold a day: let’s say 100
normal profit: 10%
competitors: 5
asuming that 15G is the sellers price.

I’m selling for normal price (with other words: undercutting for one copper) 15gx100 : 5 = 1500: 5 = 300G sold
300G x 0.1 = 30G profit.

I’m selling at my profit (3%) – selling price stays the same, cost of making = higher – 15Gx100= 1500G x 0.03 = 45G

Since I’m the only one selling for such a low price, I’ll make more profit then selling at the normal price and competing.
Ofcourse the example herebove, can be flawed since I pulled up the costs in stead of lowering the price, but this gives a you all a good idea of what I mean.
If someone is selling ten pieces for 10G profit yes they make 50G. But I sell 100 pieces of 1G profit, which means I make 100G and the other guys is not going to sell anything.

A lower price and lower profit margin does NOT mean that my overal profit is lower, by having only a 3% profit margin I’m the only one selling and there by I’m raking in the money.

Why do you think that Colruyt fe. is making more money then a GB/Carrefour etc? since they sell the same stuff (exactly the same brands etc) for less money… which means more customers which means more profit…

I hope I made my point. And that you can see that having a lower margin of profit can give you better results in the end of the run.

So we already know that enchanting is a pain to level up. But these are my Golden 5 that can make it easier:

Whiteline

1: Get someone with inscription to craft you vellums for a low price. If you have to buy them @ the normal price you’ll even hurt more…

2: get fiery weapon… seriously it sells like candy. Ok the scroll = 50G but you’ll sell the enchant for 10-30G profit a piece so 3 sells and your at profit.

3: Agility! get the best of the best agility enchants pre 300skill. They also sell quite nice.. WHY? rogues are the most common pvpers at lowerlvls. they would be happy to pay for agility, even warriors, pala’s  and hunters pay for 1% extra crit.

4: Don’t do the spirit enchants, yes they are the easiest but they sell like crap..  on bracers, weapons or whatever, it won’t sell, it’s not needed in pvp and most that want lowerlvl enchants are people twinking or lvling through bg’s. a smaller group ofc just for lvling pvewise but even they won’t need it and a priest lvl40 isn’t paying for +5spirit since he doesn’t have manaproblems.. at all.

5: and this is my moneymaker: enchant shield – major stamina: 45Gold a pop // enchant shield – resilience 25G a pop. Costs of both: as low as 5-15G. Even if they are grey keep doing them! they sell, and they sell fast. WHY? warriors/paladins/shaman = flagrunners = want more hp, want to beat the crap out of someone. in pve = warriors/paladins = tanks, need more hp.

IF you follow these 5 easy to do guidelines, you’ll cut your expenses for the first 350 skillpoitns by half, if you take it slowly you’ll even break even. If you are really patient you’ll profit, but then again you lose money for taking it too slow (3 extra days for high lvl enchants = more gold then > 3 days of lower lvl enchants to sell so you don’t spend too much money)

Grtz

Seth

This actually is a reference to the economy. 10 spelendid years followed by 10 years of decline. And all by all in the economy this is half and half true. the economy does go up and down but not by the fixed 10 years.

In WoW you don’t have such things, though we see that major content patches drop certain prices. What I have been seeing these last days is that the epic gems are really tumbling in price. Runed cardinal Ruby’s are now cheaper as the Cardinal Ruby’s. The profit on Rigid King’s amber is getting really slim vs King’s amber. Enchants are getting cheaper and so are belt buckles.

Now this all is actually very weird, and I hope that it ain’t happening on your server.  My server already has a small market for raiders (med pop RPVP server) And all the “real” raiding guilds already have T9(.5) and have their sockets/enchants/buckles already. A lot of new guilds are also setting up and they don’t want the high end stuff yet.

So if you can have a look at the prices of epic gems, and you’ll see them decline over the next few months.

And this is my tip for when 3.3 hits: when you see really really cheap gems, buy them now, craft them, and sell them a week after 3.3… A lot of players should have new gear by then and be more then happy to pay 150% for the gem.

Grtz

Seth

PS:  The wowhead plug in will be here soon

This is one of the oldest tricks in the book:

Sell your WANDS! the costume wands are highly desired by achievement junkies and they are willing to pay for it. 5-50G a charge (depending your server) could be worth your time, no?

On another note:

Lvling alts can be a chore, visit all the inns for some extra xp (and candy) The xp is quite good and the candy makes leveling faster = more profitable.

this was my small tip for today and also my first on this new site. I

Enjoy!

Grtz
Seth