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.

World of Warcraft’s gather professions include Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning. Depending on your servers needs, the two profitable ones are mining, and herbalism. Skinning can be profitable if you know of a place like the Caverns of Time, in which you can get a good deal of Knothide Leather in a short amount of time. You don’t really need tools for that. Just information on where to make the best use of your time.

Map Mods – Both Gatherer, and Cartographer are great for keeping track of where mining and or herb nodes are found in game. You only need to install one or the other. I would check with your guild mates on which one they use as Cartographer can be hard on your memory usage if your running a lower end computer. Cartographer is better (in my opinion) in which you get updated whenever a fellow guild member finds a mining/herb point that you don’t have. So if your friends in guild are mining, your map gets updated while you are playing as well.

• Cartographer

• Gatherer

This route is from Almost Gaming which has more on their Mining/Herbalism guides for 1-300 pages.

• World of Warcraft Maps

• Wowhead

• Thottbot

• Allakhazam

Note: Thottbot is also the site that lets you put in mouseover item links for World of Warcraft items. For example mouse over this link for the Ashes of Alar, which was the mount that was sold for 190k gold in China. You’ll see the familiar mouse over item tool tip like in the game of World of Warcraft. Useful tool if your hosting a site that links to in game items frequently.

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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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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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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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