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.

Sulfuron Ingot - Turn Them In!

I'm not sure how many people know that Sulfuron Ingots can actually be turned in to a NPC inside of BRD for an epic BS pattern that sells pretty well.

To obtain the recipe, you do not need any reputation, you just need to find a way into BRD. The Plans are, [Plans: Sulfuron Hammer]. 

The NPC is inside of BRD and is named Lokhtos Darkbargainer. He is the Quartermaster for the Thorium Brotherhood.

What I do is just add the Ingots to my snatch list and buy them at or under 400g ea. I turn the Ingots in for the Plans and then list them at 2,000g+. It's an easy and reliable flip.

The only real downside to this is that you can't flood the market with the plans, as you're only targeting Blacksmiths and in my opinion they are few and far, compared to other professions. Also if someone else is doing this the market can become flooded even with 2 Plans up, it will just become an undercutting war which results in loss of profit.

I managed to flip another Swift Spectral Tiger Today, well not yet but I have a buyer coming with 16 Choppers. I bought the Tiger at 60k and it's being sold for about 220k. I've made roughly 250k in the past two days. I will also hit my first gold cap by doing these 2 flips :)

Abyssal Shatter - An Enchanters Heaven

I love shattering my abyss crystals. There is so much profit in this market, and all you do is hit one button, go make yourself a nice meal, come back and You're set.

The other day I bought 700 abyss crystals from this guy, 15g each. I made roughly a  6,000g profit from these crystals. I shattered them all. I ended up with 950 Greater Cosmic Essences, and 2500 Infinite Dust. Server prices may vary but, I Managed to sell my Greater Cosmic Essence at an average price of 134g/stack and my dust at an average price of 28g/stack.

The Essences alone payed for the abyss crystals and more! When I sold everything i ended up with a little over 16,000 gold, when I originally only spent 10,000.

Since then I've been buying abyss crystals at 20g ea. By shattering them I can turn that investment of 20g into a possible 80.4g, quadrupling my investment.

One small comment about the blog, I've been really busy lately and haven't been able to write up quality posts as before. I will try to write them up before hand but I can't guarantee them.

Tranquil Mechanical Yeti - Huge Profits For A Minutes' Worth Of Work!

I just became an engineer about a week back and I got this schematic instantly. I snagged it, and went to the AH to see if there was any competition and to my surprise, there was none!
To craft one Tranquil Mechanical Yeti, the raw materials are:

1. 1 Cured Rugged Hide ( 1g ea )
2. 12 Thorium Bars ( 50s ea )
3. 4 Runecloth ( 25s ea )
4. 2 Globes of Water ( 5-10g ea )
5. 4 Truesilver Bars ( 4-5g ea )
6. 4 Elemental Earth ( 5-10g ea )
7. 2 Elemental Airs ( 2-5g ea )
8. 1 Gold Bar ( 50 s )

So to craft 1 Tranquil Mechanical Yeti, it would cost me roughly 70-85g if i bought everything from the AH. Since I've picked up engineering, i've managed to sell 6 of these at an average price of 289g each. Im making 200g+ profit for minutes worth of work!

I'm also thinking come cataclysm this schematic will disappear! Due to the vast changes Cataclysm is going to bring, Winterspring is most likely not going to be the same as it was.

I've added some icons to the left sidebar, there's Twitter, Blogger, RSS, And Photobucket. I plan on updating my Twitter & Photobucket as much as possible, so you guys can see what I'm actually doing when I play wow.

Potions Of Speed

Potions of Speed are god sent. I've made so much profit from these potions that I craft them even though I don't have an Pot Spec'ed Alchemist. On my server there is several hundred stacks of Adder's Tongue up at any time, they usually go for 11-12g/stack, I always buy out as much as I can because I also use this herb for inscription.

Potions of Speed require 2 Adder's Tongue & 1 Pygmy Oil & 1 Imbued Vial. 2 Adder's Tongue, Costs me roughly 1.2g, 1 Pygmy Oil costs .25g, And 1 Imbued Vial Costs .4g. Total Cost is roughly 1.85g, I sell these potions at about 20-25g per 5, Although I have some several lots of 5 at 45g+ on several occasions. That's ~2g-4g+ profit per potion you sell.

Thoughts/Comments?