Making gold off Burning Crusade prospecting

Yeah, you read right, I'm going back to burning crusade when the new expansion just hit, why? Simply because everyone is busy with the new expansion, while the old money makers are simply getting no love, and in fact, a new expansion really boosts these types of ways, as it drives people who were normally doing it out because they're simply too focused on Cataclysm.

Any who, today we'll be talking about buying and prospecting Adamantite Ore. One of the great things about doing this is that prospecting adamantite yields adamantite powder, which is a item essential while leveling Jewelcrafting. '

Currently on my server, adamantite ore goes for 20-25g per stack, and yields roughly 3-4 adamantite powder per stack. Adamantite powder goes for 14-20g on my server, and now that there is no competition, I'm sure you can push to 30 or even 40. The basic idea is, the powder pays for the ore and more, making whatever gems you get out of the ore, pure profit.

The reason this powder sells so well is because many people follow guides blindly, and most guides tell them to use this powder to level up. There are cheaper ways to level through the specific level without using this powder, but like said, most people follow guides blindly and simply want to level up.

Get to buying that adamantite ore! I, will be farming it along with outland herbs to add a little more to my depleted ethereal ink stockpile!

Camping The Dalaran Spellscribe - The Black Tabby

You're asking what a  black tabby is? Well The Black Tabby is a non combat pet that is mostly found on the horde side auction house due to the way it is obtained. Come cataclysm the best way to obtain this pet is going away, so I suggest that you start farming this pet now, and either sell the pet now, or store it for cataclysm.

Great! Where do I go?
Well first things first, ask yourself, do you have a horde toon that is about level 20? If the answer to that question is yes, then you're in business! The mob spawns in Silverpine Forest and can only be killed by horde characters.  The Mob is named Dalaran Spellscribe. He spawns roughly every three or four hours. He is located In Amber Mill, he can spawn in three places, but they are all located very close to each other. In fact what I do now is log, in and press a button ( a macro ) and if I target him, then I send my pet to attack. The macro is nothing, special, it's a simple target macro, I will post it below.

/target Dalaran Spellscribe

 Below is a screenshot of where I stand, it is where I spam my macro and If I do manage to target him, I simply send my pet after him, and I follow my pet.

How much gold am I looking at here?
Well it depends. It depends on what you ask? For one, are you going to be selling this on the Horde Auction House? or will you be smart and sell it at the Alliance Auction House? It also depends if you're even going to sell the pet, or if you are going to be holding onto it for cataclysm. At bare minimum, I value this pet at 1,000. That is if it is sold right after you obtain it, and post it at the Horde Auction House. If you transfer it to the Alliance Auction House, you're looking at something around 4-5,000g. Now, I myself currently have enough gold, so I plan on saving these for cataclysm, where they will be rare. I predict their prices will go somewhere near 10,000g, if not more, due to how rare it will become. The only other place to obtain this pet is from mobs that have a .01% ( 175 out of 147531 ). So yeah, the rarity of this pet is going to increase, and therefore will it's price come Cataclysm

Razzashi Hatchling - ZG Woes

.... So MMO Champion has confirmed that ZG Mounts & pets are going away from Zul'gurub. The pet is actually rather farmable... and since it's going to be discontinued, the prices for these pets is going to sky rocket 6 months into Cataclysm. They're easy to farm, and it can be done by anyone that has patience. Sure it might require so time but it will surely be worth it come Cataclysm where people are going to want these and will be willing to pay top gold for this soon to be vanity item.

How/Where do I farm them?
They are farmed inside of Zul'Gurub, the best place is near/around the raptor boss. If you see a dinosaur with the name Razzashi, Kill it. The best way to farm for this pet is to get a fresh ZG lockout and just farm the pets, walk out and then wait about 30 minutes for a soft reset... and just walk back into ZG and keep on farming. If any of the bosses are killed them I do believe that the trash doesn't respawn ( Don't kill the raptor boss especially )... Don't quote me on this though, as this information comes from several comments from wowhead.


What do I do after I get them?
If you're impatient, you could try to sell them now at high prices... I've been scanning the AH and I've seen one of these pets pop up. That would be the safest route to take right now. You could also hold onto them well into Cataclysm where they will likely double or triple in price. People are willing to pay top dollar for vanity items that are hard to obtain. I myself will for sure be using one of these pets just to have.

Low Level Herbs - What Is Going On!?!?!

Alright so this weekend I managed to level my death knight to level 65 and ATTEMPTED to level alchemy. Keyword ATTEMPTED. I quickly picked up alchemy only to run back to AH and find all of the low level herbs at INSANE prices. Peacebloom going for 24g/stack, Briarthorn going for 27g/stack. My jaw dropped, I was like what in the world is going on?

So What's The Deal, Mageshadow?
Here is my theory, 4.0 is coming and it's coming quickly. People I'm sure by now know that 4.0 removes the cooldown on epic gems. Therefore everyone is rushing and leveling Alchemy on their alts/mains. People buy out the AH while leveling Alchemy and people who have nice stock of these low level herbs are making a HUGE profit from this. There is a huge demand for these herbs and a low supply.

Should I go out and farm these?
I would totally go out and farm these herbs. The demand for them right now is crazy to say the least. Everyone and their mother is leveling alchemy. The demand is high and the supply is low. I would go make an alt and level them with herbalism and pick everything in sight.

Molten Core - In With The Old

This is an old post that I dug up from when the blog first started out, I'm bringing it back because when the blog first started not many people read/saw this, So I thought doing a repost about it will inform those who don't or haven't looked through the archive.

Today I'd like to focus on the beloved Molten Core. I've ran this place now 7 weeks, With only 3 of those being full clears. I love running this place. I don't care if it's solo of it it's with a couple buddies. There is HUGE profit to be made here.

Alright let's get started. The main reason I started solo'ing Molten Core was because I wanted the enchanting formulas ( Formula: Enchant Weapon - Spellpower & Formula: Enchant Weapon - Healing Power ). I farmed this place for 4 weeks without seeing a drop, on the 5th week, it dropped and I was in a bit of a dilemma. Should I try to sell it for 5k, Or should I learn the Formula and mass craft and sell these babies? I decided to try to sell it, I started spamming trade like a mad man, I got a couple low ball offers then I got a 4750 offer. CHA-CHING! I sold it instantly.

On top of having those enchanting formula's drop you can also rack up a TON of Nexus Crystals which can be transformed into make small prismatic shards, which can be turned into Large Prismatic Shards, this can make you net a couple mongoose scrolls for VERY cheap. On top of that you have the Fiery cores, Lava Cores, essence of fires, BOE's and on top of that you have a chance of getting a Sulfuron Ingot! I've gotten 4, and sold them all for ~1250 average!

I make roughly 2000g a run with no formula and that's roughly 2 hours worth of solo'ing/clearing the place. It's a great place to spend a couple hours if your bored and are looking for a new place to make a couple thousand gold.

There are other awesome BOP recipes, for example tonight I got Schematic: Force Reactive Disk, A level 60 BOP engineering Recipe that crafts an epic BOE shield. Now My Paladin is no engineer, Sadly ;(, but I'm sure people would be willing to pay a nice chunk of change for this awesome shield! Other Recipes Include, Biznicks 247x128 Accurascope, Core Marksman Rifle, Elemental Sharpening Stone, Core Armor Kit, Bottomless Bag, Core Felcloth Bag, Major Rejuvenation Potion.

Primal Air Farming - Easy Gold For Engineers

I don't know how many people noticed that I transferred my Mage to horde side about a week or two ago, since then I've been trying to find ways to make money with engineering. I've found that farming Primal Air in Nagrand by using the Zapthrottle Mote Extractor is an excellent way to make gold! The place to farm them is in Nagrand, there are roughly 10-12 "clouds" that can be farmed.

What is this Zapthrottle Mote Extractor? Where do I get it?
The Mote extractor is a engineering device that "extracts" motes from Mini clouds that are all over Outlands and Northrend. To obtain the schematic, you have to go pick up a quest in Zangarmarsh. The quest can be started at Mack Diver, for the horde, and K. Lee Smallfry. The quest is fairly easy to do, it can be done in under 5 or even 10 minutes.

I have the schematic where do I go??
You are going to be flying around Nagrand. There are 10-12 clouds around that can be farmed continuously, especially since not many people know about the mote extractor. Click this map to view where the motes "spawn"

So why does primal air STILL sell? This stuff is from BC!

The main reason this stuff still sells is because people are doing the transmutation master quest, to either keep it and then drop it and changing it to elixir or potion spec, but either way, they need 5 of almost every primal that is available in Burning Crusade.

Another great reason this stuff still sells is because of the twink enchant, 15 agility to gloves. I must admit, not many people have this enchant but the few that do have it, are most definitely buying primal airs, rather than going out and farming them.

Hakkari Bijou Farming - Do It NOW!

People don't realise how close cataclysm is. Mmo Champion said the predicting November 2nd to be the release date. if that's the case, ZG's days are numbered ( well they have been for a bit now ). People are going NUTS for farming the Zanzalar tribe reputation before ZG departs, therefore the reputation items from the tribe are sky rocketing in prices. The time to get these items is NOW! They are seling for ridiculous high prices, and I can't imagine what they'll go for come Cataclysm.

So What's the Deal?

The main reputation item(s) are the Hakkari Bijou's. They gives 75 reputation per turn in, plus another 50 from the token you get for turning it in. That's 125 rep per Bijou. These things drop so much in ZG that if you were to go to Zg and farm the trash mobs you could easily walk out with several thousand gold, even more if the Tome of Polymorph: Turtle drops.

What About The Gold?

The gold here is AMAZING! The Bijou's drop so often that you could walk in here dirt poor and walk out filthy rich! The Bijou's currently AH for 35g on my server, and people are buying them in trade chat for 15-20g per. I farmed this place for about 35 minutes, and walked out with about 25 Bijou's, a bunch of coins, essences, dusts and greys.

So do I save them or sell them?

 It's personal opinion on this one. You could sell them now while people are freaking out about ZG being gone, or you could save them until a couple months after Cataclysms release and sell for even more gold than normal. That is if blizzard doesn't leave these puppies behind in the "new ZG questing zone"

Farming While An Engineer - You Read Right!

Alright, since I just faction changed my Mage I've found myself using cobalt frag bombs like crazy in battlegrounds. Cobalt bars have been going for crazy high prices that I'm not willing to spend money on. So I thought, hmmm I remember back when I got Jeeves there were these little gnomes in storm peaks that I could "skin" for engineer materials. I quickly flew over there and started mass pulling them ( 10-15 at a time ).


I was amazed at what materials they dropped, it was the exact mats needed to make the cobalt frag bombs, since then I was hooked. They have a change to drop 1-3 Volatile Blasting Triggers ( Each worth roughly 4-5g ) or 1-4 Hand Full Of Cobalt Bolts ( Each worth roughly 2-3g ).

I farmed these for about 25 minutes, and man I must say their respawn timer is short! I walked out of here with 4 greens, about 120g in pure vendor greys, 60 Volatile Blasting Triggers, and 42 Hand Full Of Cobalt Bolts. The greens got DE'ed and turned out to be an extra 56g, once the materials sold. I managed to sell the some Volatile Blasting Triggers at 4g per and the Hand Full Of Cobalt Bolts at 3.5g per. They also have a chance to drop relics of Ulduar, I walked out with about 50 of them, the markup on them isn't as big as they used to be, but they should still net some decent gold.

All in all, once these materials sell, I should make about 560g, for 25 minutes worth of work. Not bad considering that turns out to be about 1120g per hour. Please do keep in mind, you are only targeting a specific type of market ( engineers ) so the how fast you sell the materials is going to vary from server to server. I imagine it would be better for PVP servers as the cobalt frag bombs are amazing to use while BG'ing.

Profit From Cooks - Selling Materials For Cooking Daily.

There's good gold to be made here. The first thing I do once I get up is to the Dalaran Cooking Daily/Fishing Daily. The Second thing I do is run to the Auction House and buy the required meat for the Dalaran Cooking Daily. There's great gold to be made here, and no doubt it's extremely easy.

4 out of the 5 Dalaran Cooking Dailies require meat. 3 of those require 2-4 chilled meat, and the last one requires 4 Rhino meat. Both meats can be farmed with ease but they require flying for 2-8 minutes. 

Where To Farm

 

A great place to farm Rhino Meat is in Storm Peaks. Right around the Engine of Makers there are several Rhino Packs that are easy to chain pull and loot & then skin. I can generally pull a stack of meat in about 5 minutes. On top of the meat you also get leather! A great plus, If I must say.

As for farming chilled meat. I reccomend flying over to Scholozar Basin and farming Hardnuckle Foragers. They have roughly a 61% drop rate on the meat. They are easily chain pullable, and on top of this they are also great for skinners. This is by far one of the best spots to farm Chilled Meat & Borean Leather.

How much gold we talking here?

If you sell the meats in stacks of 2 & 4 ( Chilled Meat ) Or A stack of 4 ( Rhino Meat ), you're going to be making more gold than selling them in bulk. There is a stack of 4 chilled meat on the Auction House right now going for 6g. A stack of 4 Rhino Meat goes for 10g on my server. 

Both of the meats are great money makers. Especially the Rhino Meat. If you're a cook you can also sell the finished product required for the cooking daily, it might fetch for more than the raw meat.

Gold at Level 30 - 200-500g for Logging in!

 There is an easy way to make easy gold at level 30, and all you have to do is log into to your toon.

What you are doing is farming the Razzormaw Hatchling nest, which spawns roughly every 6-8 hours. What I have done is I grabbed an alt that currently isn't being leveled and parked him exactly where the next spawned. I then log in after ever server reset ( or try to ) and whenever I can to check if the nest is there.

I myself have snagged me about 3 of the pets. I've sold them as much as 560g each, and as low as 200g each. Either way it's pure profit for minutes worth of work.

If you also have mining ( as I do ), there are several Silver & Iron Nodes that I pick up. It's extra gold even if you don't get the pet. On top of all this, this is a great place to grind out a level or two, once at thirty. The Mobs drop tons of green which can be AH'ed, and there is also a rare spawn that has a chance to drop [Plans: Iron Counterweight]. These plans are worth quite a bit as they are an awesome BOA enchant for low levels.

My Level 15 Project - Gold At Low Levels.

Me on my level 15 priest showing off my bags :)

I recently started a little project of my own. I decided to level a priest from 1-15 and see how much gold I could acquire. I only payed for 2 Deadmines runs, which costed me 20g total, and everything else was quested. Most, if not all of the questing was done in Westfall, as this is an awesome place to earn gold & level at the same time By level 15 I had 187g in my bags, more than enough to suffice. Do keep in mind I did not use any professions while leveling, if I would of had , I would of made double the gold.

  

What Items Sold Best & Why

• Wool Cloth & Linen Cloth, both of these cloths were one of my biggest source of income. Wool cloth goes for 6-7g per stack, I usually grabbed about 5-6 stacks per paid deadmines run.

• "Of The Monkey" Gear, another great seller. Twinks are always looking for this type of gear, and they always have a high mark up.

• Low Level Potions, I sold several for a couple gold pieces, almost everyone wants the low level health potions as they are always handy.

• Boar Snouts, Flask of Oil, Okra, & Stringy Vulture Meat. These Items are used for a quest in Westfall. Not everyone has the patience to do quests that require things to drop, so they run to the auction house to see if there are any available.

•  Moss Agates, these are used for Jewelcrafting, they have a  high mark up value due to how rare they can be.

• Small Eggs, & Clam Meat. Both of these are low level cooking materials, they have a high mark up value. Easily farmed in Westfall.

Why these specific items sold

The reason most of the items sold is because they are either needed for quests, or are used for leveling professions at low levels. Either way level 80's are willing to pay top dollar for these low level materials, because they don't want to go out and waste their time farming these items. To most 80's, 5 gold is nothing, so they would rather buy something that's "cheap" instead of going out and spending their valuable time farming.

Twilight Texts - The Dreadful Grind

 I recently did the grind for the Guardian of Cenarius title, and I must say what a painful grind! I already had the BC rep to exalted so that was no trouble at all, but the Cenarion Circle is a very long and painful grind. When I first started I barely had 500 rep into neutral. I myself grinded from neutral to mid way revered ( 9k/21k ) before I just gave up. I just could not stand the last 12k reputation grind

I order to get reputation with the Cenarion Circle, you have to kill mobs in Silithus that drop Encrypted Twilight Text. Every 10 texts will net you 500 reputation. I myself bought 190 of them at 10g ea!

There's great gold to be made here! Especially for the people who LOVE to farm things. There are two camps in Silithus, take a look at the map to the left, the red circles represent the two camps. There is a rare spawn that drops anywhere from 7-10 Texts, but she wonders off and is sometimes hard to find. The blue dot is her spawn point, and the green dots is the path she follows. Another awesome thing is, that while you're grinding here you'll be able to see/hear if there is an elemental invasion happening. The invasion is another GREAT place to farm materials. I will write a post about it soon.

Well guys, I haven't been posting everyday as I have been for the past 3 weeks ( or tried ). I'm currently looking for a job. I've been busy, applying for jobs, going to interviews, tours, etc, etc. The blog is not going to die ( I won't let it! ), the only thing is that posts will a little more spread apart, maybe a post once every 2-3 days.

Just a quick update on myself! I'm currently at roughly 75k, I've been spending like crazy! I leveled an twink alt on the horde side of my server with a buddy of mine ( my toons are alliance ). I only transferred 5,000g over to twink out the toon(s), I split it with my buddy. My twink's almost twinked out, the last thing I need is a ring from SFK and he's all set. I'm very happy with this project :).

Runecloth Farming - Reputation Woes

I Tell You It's A Myth!

Alright well today's post will be about farming Stratholme. I myself have started working on the Ambassador title, and I totally HATE questing. I have started to buy out ALL stacks of Runecloth I can possibly find at 5g/stack.

A great place to farm Runecloth is Stratholme. When I run "Runecloth" farming runs, I also try for the Baron. See the great thing about Stratholme is that almost everything that drops inside here has value. Greens get DE'd into dusts and Essences for enchants. Blues give me Large Brilliant shards, Greys are vendored, Pristine Black Diamonds are sold for ridiculous prices, Runecloth is used. Farming this place is like killing 7 birds with one stone.

When I run Stratholme, for any reason, I walk out of here with almost 900g worth of items, and even more if I'm lucky and a Pristine Black Diamond Drops. 1 run takes about 40-45 minutes, so the gold per hour here is pretty good. Although I must admit you won't makes as much if you're not an Enchanter. An awesome plus is that you also have a chance for the baron mount ( which is a myth! ).

Gordok Ogre Suit - Easy Gold Within Minutes

Ogre Party In Dalaran!

I love how people are always asking me, Hey Mageshadow, where'd you get that costume? Or How'd you become so big?. It's a great way to advertise specific items on the AH. By using this method you can easily rake in a couple hundred gold in a matter of minutes!

Today we're going to be talking about [Gordok Ogre Suit]. The suit does what the tooltip says, it turns you into an ogre, for 10 minutes. This suit is obtained inside of Dire Maul North, by completing a repeatable quest. The materials required to craft one are, 4 Rugged Leather, 2 Bolts of Runecloth, 1 Ogre Tannin, and 1 Rune Thread. Now your going to be like... Rugged Leather... check... Bolts of Runecloth... check.... Rune Thread....check.... Ogre Tannin.....What the #^@& is this? An Ogre Tannin is obtained by grabbing it from a basket that is right upstairs from where the quest turn in spot is. You can also obtain 1-2 extra Ogre Tannins from Knot Thimblejack's Cache, but the drop-rate is NOT 100%.

Originally this suit is intended to be used to "trick" an Ogre inside of Dire Maul, which in turn gives you an extra piece of loot if your running the instance. But I soon realized that you can actually mass craft these babies and sell them on the AH for large amounts of profits!

Many Ogres Sitting Around A Circle In Exodar

The only downside to these suits is that you can only have 1 in your inventory/bank at a time, no more & that you can only obtain 1-3 Ogre Tannin per Dire Maul North run. Each run for Ogre Tannins takes me roughly 4-5 minutes, even less if I use swiftness potions. The trick that I have found is to farm about 10-15 Ogre Tannin before hand ( normally 17, 1-2 to display the costume in Ironforge, Stormwind, ETC ), and then proceed to turn in the quest while dropping my trusty MOLL-E right next to the quest giver. This method allows me to mass craft the suits and then mail them off to my bank alt, where I post them up on the AH.

I do realize that Leatherworkers & Tailors can learn the patterns and mass craft these suits while in a major city, but they still need Ogre Tannins, so they still have to go to Dire Maul North.

Once you have obtained a fair amount of these, what I do is spam trade with a macro such as:

"Want to become an Ogre? Go buy an[Gordok Ogre Suit] at the AH! But be quick! They're rare and sell fast!"

By spamming this macro over the course of 15-20 minutes, I can normally sell 10-15 suits within 20 minutes. I can normally push for about 80-95g per suits on the AH, because simply, there is NO competition for these! That's the great things about crafting these, they're rarely known about and semi-hard to obtain.

Another plus when crafting the suit, it's better if you turn in the materials to the quest giver rather than craft the suits by using professions ( Tailoring & Leatherworking ), because when you turn in the quest you get reputation towards the Steamwheedle Cartel, it might not be much but if you craft as many as I do every week, then the small rep will add up, and you'll be that much close to the Insane title!

On a side note, I've made some changes to the blog, I've added a semi-decent logo that I'm content with, added twitter updates, More blogs to my blog roll and changed some color's around, but I wish to add more, so please any suggestions you can add, just leave a comment, I would appreciate it greatly. Feedback doesn't have to positive, criticism for me is just as good feedback as a compliment ( at least for me :D ). Sadly, I am still banned, and I will be until Sunday 5:34 PM EST. I've contacted Blizzard several times, 3 times by phone and twice by e-mail, and everyone has told me the same stupid story... " Your account has already been elevated and we cannot do anything, you must wait for the Game Masters to proceed with their investigation..."

Molten Core - A Sweet Delight

Today I'd like to focus on The beloved Molten Core. I've ran this place now 7 weeks, With only 3 of those being full clears. I love running this place. I don't care if it's solo of it it's with a couple buddies. There is HUGE profit to be made here.

Alright let's get started. The main reason I started solo'ing Molten Core was because I wanted the enchanting formulas ( Formula: Enchant Weapon - Spellpower & Formula: Enchant Weapon - Healing Power ). I farmed this place for 4 weeks without seeing a drop, on the 5th week, it dropped and I was in a bit of a dilemma. Should I try to sell it for 5k, Or should I learn the Formula and mass craft and sell these babies? I decided to try to sell it, I started spamming trade like a mad man, I got a couple low ball offers then I got a 4750 offer. CHA-CHING! I sold it instantly.

On top of having those enchanting formula's drop you can also rack up a TON of Void Crystals which can be shattered to make mongoose scrolls for VERY cheap. On top of that you have the Fiery cores, Lava Cores, essence of fires, BOE's and on top of that you have a chance of getting a Sulfuron Ingot! I've gotten 4, and sold them all for ~1250 average!

I make roughly 2000g a run with no formula and that's roughly 2 hours worth of solo'ing/clearing the place. It's a great place to spend a couple hours if your bored and are looking for a new place to make a couple thousand gold.

There are other awesome BOP recipes, for example tonight I got Schematic: Force Reactive Disk, A level 60 BOP engineering Recipe that crafts an epic BOE shield. Now My Paladin is no engineer, Sadly ;(, but I'm sure people would be willing to pay a nice chunk of change for this awesome shield! Other Recipes Include, Biznicks 247x128 Accurascope, Core Marksman Rifle, Elemental Sharpening Stone, Core Armor Kit, Bottomless Bag, Core Felcloth Bag, Major Rejuvenation Potion.