8 Free Tools to Help a WoW Gatherer Make Gold
Farming gold in World of Warcraft is something I hate doing. I prefer making gold via Auction House as it takes less time. However some people who are in a rush to get their epic flying mounts, and will do both methods to speed things up a bit.
I used to raid quite often, however due to my real life work schedule I would always have to go on a waiting list to get into any raids. While I waited I was usually outside gathering herbs or mining stuff close by to at least think that I’m doing something productive. I found a few add ons to the World of Warcraft game that made gathering a little easier for me.
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WoW Season 3 Brings Great Gold News
Today and yesterday was a good day for many people in World of Warcraft. While people were hoarding arena points to get their new Season 3 pvp gear. The smart ones were hoarding materials to sell for today. Here’s the WoW Professions thread in which some people claim to have made up to 58k gold. Many Miners, Jewelcrafters, Enchanters and even some Tailors/Leatherworkers were marking up their goods.
While I thought I did well cashing in at 1,600 gold today, I guess I was beat by those people who prepared in advance for this. I apparently didn’t follow my own WoW Auction House Gold Tips regarding preparing for Tuesdays. Don’t mind the Earned/hr part of the screen shot since I only logged in to check my mail so not very accurate on that part. Also my Titan Bar money mod is a little screwed up ever since Patch 2.3 came out, and I haven’t bothered to fix it since I only look at it when I log in/out.
Anyways I want to know if anyone of you readers were able to cash in on this last update with some impressive numbers. Let me know, and good luck to you all for when the next Season’s arena gear comes out.
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Update For World of Warcraft Tip For Leatherworkers
I just wanted to update my free tips for the poor WoW leatherworker post. Seems like there are many people wanting to know more about a particular product called Heavy Knothide Armor Kit that was released with the recent WoW patch 2.3.
Heavy Knothide Armor Kit
What is it?
Permanently increase the Stamina of an item worn on the head, chest, shoulders, legs, hands or feet by 10. Only usable on items level 60 and above.
Where can Leatherworkers learn it?
In Lower City Shattrah, from the Master Leatherworking Trainer Damari at location 67, 67(The southeast part of the city map near the exit into Terrokar Forest.
Who makes it?
Leatherworkers with 350 or greater skill.
What does it take to make one?
It takes three Heavy Knothide Leathers.
How many skills ups can I get from it?
Heavy Knothide Armor kits are Yellow from 350-354, Green 355-364, and go Grey at 365.
Can I make gold selling it?
Definitely, I make more gold selling these than selling the Heavy Knothide Leather on the auction house by themselves.
I hope this answers many of the questions that people seem to be searching for regarding Heavy Knothide Armor Kits.
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World of Warcraft Gold Tip for The Poor Leatherworker
So you wanna be a leatherworker in World of Warcraft? This isn’t the guide for you then, the leatherworker power-leveling guide is located here along with all the other professions. This quick tip is for those poor leatherworkers who finally got the nice shiny Epic leather gear. Now the only problem is once you made your gear what else can I do with the skill? I know, I can sell various armor kits to make money like that expensive Nethercobra Leg Armor! I’m sorry to say it’ll be a slow going process for you unless your running heroics day in and out for those Primal Nethers.
Well this quick tip won’t make you rich fast, but it can put an extra 50-100g a day for a few minutes work.
Here is what you’ll need:
Minimum LW Skill: 325 (yep fund your 300-375 training with this)
About 100g to start off if you have no materials.
Skinning – Not required, but useful
Auctioneer – Not required, but makes things go a lot faster. Check my post on Auctioneer Guide.
First thing first – check for your competition
Go to the Auction House, and search for Knothide Armor Kit and Heavy Knothide Leather. As of Patch 2.3 there is also a Heavy Knothide Armor Kit(LW Skill 350) available as well. Write down the prices of those items, and also check which increments are selling. Are there stacks of 20? Or are there stacks of 1s and 2s. Figure out the unit price of Knothide Armor Kit, and Heavy Knothide leather. (ie: if a stack of heavy knothide leather is 40g each piece is 2g. [40g / 20pc = 2g])
Step two: Next based on this unit price figure out how much you need to buy your materials for to make a profit. For the purpose of this tip we will use Heavy Knothide Leather at 3 gold sell price, and Knothide Armor Kit at 2 gold 50 silver sell price.
Heavy Knothide Leather
Materials: 5 Knothide Leather OR 25 Knothide Leather Scraps
Unit price of Materials for Heavy Knothide Leather:
Knothide Leather: 60 Silver [3g / 5pc] or 12 gold per stack
or
Knothide Leather Scraps: 1 silver 20 copper [3g / 25pc] or 2 gold 40 silver per stack
Knothide Armor Kit
Materials: 4 Knothide Leather OR 20 Knothide Leather Scraps
Unit price of Materials for Knothide Leather Armor:
Knothide Leather: 63 Silver [2.5g / 4pc]or 12.6 gold per stack
or
Knothide Leather Scraps: 1 silver 25 copper [2.5g / 20pc]or 2 gold 50 silver per stack
These listed prices are your unit costs. You want to get your cost down to around 1/2 to 3/4 this to make a worthwhile profit. So your target prices are 30 silver [6 gold per stack] for Knothide Leather, and 60 copper [1gold 20 silver] per Knothide Leather Scrap
Step Three: Check the Auction house for materials at this amount.
Due to each server having its own economy, you will have to adjust according based on the above formulas.
If there are materials (knothide leather or knothide leather scraps) with a buyout with the target prices listed above. Buy those materials outright. On my server Leather Scraps can be found for less than 1g a stack(knothide leather for around 7g), and I can sell it for 3g making me 2 gold per piece. If material costs are high, but there is no finished products (Heavy Knothide Leather/Knothide Armor Kits) you might be able to start making a little extra money. Just figure the cost of the finished product, and sell for a profit.
Step Four: Put your goods on the Auction House
Now that you bought your materials start making those armor kits, and heavy leathers. Then put them up on the auction house in increments of 1 or 2. I would maybe start with 5 stacks of 2 heavy knothide leather to feel where the demand is. Then check back the next day to see if it all sold or not. Adjust this accordingly so that you don’t lose your deposit if an item doesn’t sell. Do the same for your knothide armor kits. Put them up in increments of 1 or 2. I usually sell out if I place 10 auctions of 1 pc, but it never sells when I put up 1 stack of 10. Remember this!
Step Five: Restock your materials
Now you’ve started to sell some goods, but don’t stop buying materials. Your next goal is to buy out all the materials at below your unit price. Also place bids on the other items if the bid price is lower than your unit price. This does two things for you:
1. You have a ready supply of product to sell if the market suddenly dries out.
2. By buying out everything cheaper than your material unit price you are setting the price in the market for your goods. If someone tries to undercut you they will have to do so at a loss or at the expense of time farming their own goods. Neither is something most people will do for an extended period of time.
Notes:
I say look for scraps for one main reason. Skinners who never took leatherworking.
They cannot convert their scraps into regular leather, so they end up with bags filled of scraps to list on the auction house. Use this to your advantage. Buy the scraps, and convert it into these two goods, and rake in the money.
Why do these two items make more money than selling an expensive armor kit like Nethercobra leg armor?
Answer #1: Volume – You can sell 20-30 pieces of heavy knothide leather in the auction house overnight, but will probably only sell 1 Nethercobra Amor kit a day IF you have the nether for it.
Answer #2: Quest – People wanting to complete the quest chain Quenching the Blade need 4 heavy knothide leather.
Answer #3: Other Trade Skills – Both Tailoring and Engineering require Knothide Leather, and Heavy Knothide Leather for some of their goods. However since they only use 2-4 pieces at a time the big stacks aren’t very profitable for them. If your the nice leatherworker that puts up stacks of 1s and 2s of Heavy Knothide Leather these people will love you.
This tip is part of a series of tips I will share on my site so stop by every now, and then. Also check the Auction House Day tip while you’re here.
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Auctioneer Guide for World of Warcraft
My regular job has been having me work alot lately so I haven’t been pushing any products lately. However, while I’ve been looking around the web for something to write about, I came across a good Auctioneer Guide site. Free of ads, and pretty much sums up everything I would have written about the mod. I use this mod daily, and without it I probably would not be here blogging about making ridiculous amounts of gold in World of Warcraft.
A couple things I would add about Auctioneer is that it is a memory hog. If your computer is lagging already in the big towns like Orgrimmar I would either a) not install it or b) use it in a less populated auction house accessible city like Thunder Bluff/Darnassus. The mod stores useful data, and after a while the database gets fairly large causing it will slow your computer down eventually.
The second thing about the article is its download link. Like all programs to download from the internet, I would advise anyone to download the program from the original download site at AuctioneerAddOn.com. I don’t have anything against the link that was posted, but sometimes people add in their own malicious code when you download something from a 3rd party site. It also has a nice little donation page too if you are feeling generous, and like the work they do. Feel free to ask me if you have any questions about this mod, I feel that I’m pretty confident about its use.
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