On Jun 3, 3:15 pm, Spuds wrote:
> Thought I would post a gold making strategy which I recently stumbled
> upon.
>
> Your are making earthstorm diamonds to be cut and sold on the auction
> house.
>
> You first must collect the mats 10-15g or 30-35g on average
>
> 1. Green Gems- Generally I buy these from the AH as they are about
> 1-2g per
> 2. Primal Earth- These can also be bought from the AH but if you have
> a miner you will have plenty also if you have a friend that mines.
> 3. Primal waters- You need to get these on your own to be profitable
> on a decent scale- the best way is to have an engineer and go around
> Zangarmarsh extracting motes. If not there are various areas which you
> can farm them at, Refer to Thottbot.com
>
> Then you need to buy an alchemists transmute usually 10-15g
>
> The next step if very crucial, you must look in the AH at what is
> already up meta wise, Look for the most expensive cut with the least
> auctions on it if there is one that isnt up there that works to as you
> can determine your own price. Generally Powerful and Relentless
> Earthstorms are the bets way to go.
>
> Next Get your gem cut 5-15g
>
> Lastly Get your gem on the auction house
>
> They range in price from 100-170 gold on most servers
>
> worst case scenario being as lazy as possible on the worst server you
> will make 35g on the best server not being lazy and getting lucky with
> prices you will make 155g
>
> between 35 and 155g depending on your economy from farming 2 primal
> waters and doing a bit of networking to get things Cut
>
> Please visit my blog athttp://wowtrickandsecrets.blogspot.com/for
> more helpful tips tricks and gold making strategies
AH finagling is always a risky way of making gold in WoW. I made a
lot of gold for a while by buying netherweave cloth and turning it
into 16-slot bags. I usually was able to double my investment in
cloth with the sale of the bags. This worked great for a while.
You're method is much more complex and has multiple points of
failure. Lack of green gems for one, though unlikely, its entirely
possible on some servers with weak economies that there aren't a lot
of green gems available. This means purchasing much more expensive
ore instead and hoping you get lucky. Primal Earth's tend to be in
abundant supply, but Primal Water's are a little more difficult. The
best place for non-engineers to get Primal Water is Nagrand, where
competition for mobs and pool spawns would make it difficult to farm.
Then there is the issue presented by you sharing this information. If
everyone runs out and starts buying all the green gems and primal
earth and waters, the prices on those items will start to go up. More
people will be searching for an alchemist to do a transmute for them,
burning their cooldown, and a potential lack of available transmutes
means the price on an average transmute will also go up. Now, you
need to sell the final product at a high price to make up for any
losses incurred by rising cost of mats and services, except all the
other people who are doing the same thing you are will be competing
for the same sale, driving the cost of the final product down.
Essentially, thats what happened with my 16-slot bag business. Other
people caught on that they could buy netherweave, craft bags, and sell
for a profit. The price of netherweave went up as the supply
dwindled, but the price on 16-slot bags came down as the supply
exploded. I know on some other servers this has always been the case,
and my server was a unique situation.
Also consider that Primal's are used for just about every other
crafting profession as well. Other professions, and other players
gathering mats for something, work to add to the problems of supply.
The final result is there is no single universal way to make quick and
easy gold in the game. Dailies are assured gold, but take a bit of
time to do. Selling crafted items has potentially high payouts, but
comes with a lot of risk. The more complicated and expensive the plan
is, the more risk involved.
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