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Showing posts with label Alchemy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alchemy. Show all posts

Recipe: Destruction Potion + Ventrilo meeting

It's finally here!
Today is the day! Make sure to clear your schedules and make time for tonights' ventrilo meeting! it starts promptly at 7 PM Eastern Time Zone. The Ventrilo Information will be posted at 6:30 Pm Eastern Time Zone. Everyone is welcome to come, even if you don't have a mic! If the turnout is good enough, this can become a weekly thing and I might even record a couple sessions and make a podcast out of it! We'll have to see though :P

Get on the with today's post!
Today's post regard another item that you should have on your snatch list. It is Recipe: Destruction Potion. The Potion is a rare world drop from Burning Crusade. I've picked this recipe up and banked it, why? Because most likely the prices for all of these rare recipes is only going to go up come cataclysm, and I'm in no rush to get more gold. Keep an eye out for rare recipes! Come to tonights meeting and I'll reveal a tip about them! Sorry for such a short post today!

One last thing, I'd like to give out a shoutout to Cold from Cold's Gold Factory, He's been really helpful with everything, I really appreciate it man.

Elixir Of The Searching Eye - Expanding Your Snatch List

Elixir Of The Searching Eye
Personally, I never even knew this recipe existed until it popped up on the auction house. It was posted for 100g, I wowheaded this elixir and found out it was rare, I instantly bought it.

How do you find these rare recipes??
People always ask me or wonder, Mageshadow, how do you find all of these rare recipes? My answer is time, time, time, time. I've been playing the Auction house for so long, I've had every profession at max level, It just took time before I learned the ins and outs of the said profession, I learned what the rare patterns where, and to be purely honest, I just run a manual scan two or three times a day, and see if any of the patterns/elixirs/schematics draw my attention, and if they do I Wowhead them, read the comments and then proceed to buy it.

Another great resource are other blogs & forums. The Just My Two Copper Forums is a great place to start if you are new and are looking for great tips. Another forum that I visit everyday are The Consortium Forums. Both forums are a great place to start off and learn more about making gold, as well as bounce ideas off each other and just chat with other friendly people that enjoy making gold.

Friday Friday Friday!
Don't forget to stop in this friday to have a live chat with me & anyone else who decides to drop by! No you don't need a mic, you can come in and listen if you want, or we can even join ventrilo chat and you can ask your questions that way! Just because you don't have a mic doesn't mean you can't participate! Everyone is welcome to come!

What Mistakes Have You Learned From While Playing the AH?

What a busy week! Markco & Zuggy are both running a carnival soon, and I've decided to participate in both. I will post Markco's Carnival Question today, and Zuggy's on Sunday. Thank you both for letting me participate in such an awesome event.

Markco's Blog Carnival
What Mistakes Have You Learned From While Playing the AH?

Oh boy.. what mistakes...? A whole bunch of mistakes... from learning how to control markets, to learning how to NOT spend too much and have little to no income come back.... I've learned so much, and to be honest, I haven't made too many mistakes, but the ones I have made have costed me quite a bit.

The most recent one was spending roughly 5k on epic gem materials... I thought that the Alchemy Transmute cooldown was going to be removed with patch 4.0.1... and that completely burned me out, I had 5,000g worth of almost useless materials that just sat there. I managed to get rid of most of the stock, but still I came out losing roughly 1,000g, it's not much but I was hoping that the initial 5k investment would double itself, and I was VERY disappointed.

Another mistake I've made before is buy a couple items too high that are hard to flip. In most cases the item took weeks to sell ( Haunted Mementos... omg you can't get rid of these! )... or in other cases I've sold a couple items for way too low and then realized this and asked myself.... could I have of gotten more? But in all honesty, mistakes are mistakes, if you can't sell this item or that item, don't worry about it, just keep trying and eventually it will sell, someone is out there wanting that specific item, you just need to have patience ( which I have little when it comes to selling high ticket items ). Patience is the key.

Controlling markets.... I suggest you don't even try this. It takes a LOT of gold to control a market and if you are not careful, you WILL burn yourself out. About 5 or 6 months ago, I was the go to man to get cheap flasks, I had a farmer supplying me, and I could sell flasks for cheaper then anyone could. That was until my farmer took off. At that point, I still had a nice supply ( about 2 weeks worth ) and I managed for a little while, after I ran out I started buying the materials off the Auction house, it was profitable but I wasn't happy. I asked around my competition and asked if I could buy their flasks for a little below market value ( 3-4g ) and most of them agreed, I was back in business, man was I wrong. I dumped roughly 20k on cheap flasks ( 17g back then, Market Value was roughly 23-25g )... only to log in the next night to find flasks at an all time low of 12g. They sat there for weeks... they never rose, and they still haven't. I lost 45% of my initial investment on this.... I later found out that my farmer, went to my competition, and he was selling me the flasks that costed him 12g to craft for a little under Market Value.... That really burned me out. I don't recommend to anyone to try to control a specific market, at all, even if you have the gold, it's VERY easy for someone to come and use the Walmart approach ( selling more at low prices ) and totally burn you out.

I guess the point of this post is that, yeah I make mistakes, but it's important that you learn from them and don't make the same mistake again.

Recipe: Flask of Chromatic Wonder - Karazhan Rep


Last night I was checking the AH for any patterns that make my eye popped. I saw this on the Auction house and instantly looked it up on Wowhead, only to find that this recipe can be bought from a vendor outside of Karazhan if you have honored or above rep.

The name of the vendor is Apprentice Darius, he also sells other patterns but they are BOP for the most part. Like I said earlier, this recipe requires honored or higher reputation with the Violet Eye. The recipe costs 4g to obtain.

What I like about this, is that many people don't know about the recipe, and therefore there is no competition. On top of this, the recipe requires honored reputation which not everyone has. The profits that can be made from this recipe are big, I suggest you grab them now and start earning that easy gold.

Recipe: Heroic Potion - Add It To Your Snatch List!


I've never heard of this potion until it popped up on the AH for 200g. Seeing as I've never heard of this potion, I instantly bought it. You're probably thinking.... Mageshadow you're stupid! 200g for a dumb Burning Crusade potion recipe! Let me explain!


200g for this recipe? WOW, You'se so dumb, fo real, You'se so dumb!
I bought this recipe because it's rare, today was the first time I've even heard about this recipe. The Recipe is a world drop from burning crusade, and that is why it is rarely seen. A double whammy... this recipe is unfarmable and on top of that, it only drops from burning crusade mobs. That itself makes it worth at least 1,000g.

Who would waste THAT much gold!?!?!
People do. Recipe Completionists ( is that even right? ). There are people that play this game and get bored, so they decide to get all of the possible recipes that ever exist, and they're willing to pay TOP dollar for recipes as rare as this one. I've even heard of stories where people transfer servers just to buy a single recipe, because sometimes the recipes are THAT rare!


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.

Epic Gem Transmute Cooldown Removed - Easy Gold?


I just read on Mmo champion that epic gem transmutes cooldown will be gone once 4.0 hits the live servers. I know I will stockpile at least enough to craft up an easy 50-100 or so gems, seeing at I don't see gems dropping below 50g per ( the main cuts ), at least until cataclysm hits.

This gives people about a two week window where gems will drop in prices but if you manage to liquidate all of your stock before other people do there is little to no risk involved here. I will be crafting up at bare minimum 50 gems when 4.0.1 hits.

What are you guys thinking? Any thoughts or comments? Will you stockpile materials before 4.0?

Flask of Distilled Wisdom - Targeting Holy Pallies

I myself play a holy pally and I cannot keep enough of these flasks in my inventory. A stack of 20 barely lasts me 2 or even 3 days. Smart Holy Paladins know that this flask is the best flask currently in the game for them, because after all the best stat for us is Intellect. This flask gives us +60 intellect which turns out to be 1542.75 mana initially which supplies 15.43 mp5 from replenishment and 32.14 mp5 from divine plea if used on cooldown for a total of 47.57 mp5.

The recipe can be bought from Fedryen Swiftspear in Zangarmash for 4g.

To make one flask, the mats required are 7 Dreamfoil,  3 Icecap, 1 Black Lotus , And 1 Crystal Vial. All in all I just put these items on my snatch list. I've picked up stacks of Dreamfoil as cheap as 9g/stack, Icecaps at under 30 silver each, and Black Lotus at 1g ea. Normal prices on my server are as followed. Dreamfoil is normally at 27-30g/stack, Icecaps are 50s-1.5g ea, Black Lotus are 4-9g ea.

I craft these and list them at at roughly 37-40g/flask. I making ridiculous profit with these flask, every craft I make roughly 50-65g. They normally sell fast, and there is little competition in this market.

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Swiftness Potion - Making Gold From BG'ers + Unbanned

Quick post today about swiftness potions. This potion increases your run speed by 50% for 15 seconds ( 1 Minute Cool Down ). I know myself and a lot of BG'ers use this potion like crazy. It's amazing during the 19 bracket or Warsong Gulch because, since there are no mounts this acts like your own personal mount and it helps you get that flag back to your base that much faster.

The Recipe itself, [Recipe: Swiftness Potion] is a rare world drop, but many people have had success farming Ragefire Chasm. Alliance might have some issues getting there but, that just adds to the rarity of this potion.

The potion requires 1 Swiftthistle, 1 Briarthorn and 1 Empty Vial. All in all I pay roughly 1.5g per potion if I buy everything off the AH. Profit wise I manage to sell 5 for about 30 gold pretty frequently. The market isn't very competitive as many people just never realize that this potion is even in the game, and the recipe is also a rare world drop.

I still use this potion while I'm farming, doing instances and sometimes even while in raiding to get me out of a sticky situation!

I've also added this recipe to my snatch list, because if you manage to find it for cheap, you can turn around and sell it for a very high price.

On a side note, I'm Finally unbanned! I got unbanned at about 2:30 Pm EST yesterday, the GM's told me I was wrongfully banned and they have put in a ticket to get my lost gametime back. I'll be more careful next time before I spend 65k on a single farmer...

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..."


Recipe: Elixir of Dream Vision - Add it to your snatch list!

A gnome "sleeping" while under the effects of this elixir
[Recipe: Elixir of Dream Vision] is a very rare old world recipe drop. In fact it's almost as rare as the +4 stats to chest enchant. I have heard horror stories about this recipe. The only real way to farm this recipe is to kill the old world dragons which are semi-hard to solo. I attempted to solo one on my 5300 GS ( 45k HP ) Prot Paladin and failed miserably.

The recipe is kinda cool in my opinion, It's just like the warlock spell Eye of Kilrogg, or the Hunter ability Eyes of the beast, which allows you to control a floating eye (warlock) or your pet (hunter) but instead it allows you to control a invisible orb that will not aggro anything. You fall asleep and you can freely move the invisible orb around for 2 minutes. I used mine an elixir Ironforge and managed to get to Kharanos before the elixir wore out.

 I picked up this recipe about 2 weeks ago for 25g. Since then I have sold the recipe for 3500g. It's crazy how much gold rare old world recipes can go for.

That just teaches you that by adding all of these old world recipes to your snatch list you can make ridiculous amounts of gold with minimal time spent ( a scan or two ^.^).

Elixir of Giant Growth - Whoa! How Are You So Big? Smart Advertisement

The past few days I've been messing around since I was able to finally get my hands on an Orb Of Deception. Man this thing is so fun ^.^. I use the trinket and use a Elixir of Giant Growth. People begin to ask me how are you so large? I tell them Elixir of Giant Growth, and the first thing they do is go to the AH and buy out the elixirs that are posted on my bank alt ;S.

The mats for this elixir are extremely cheap, I generally craft them for 50-80 silver per elixir. On top of that I am Elixir spec'ed, so that adds even more profit. I can push 10-15g per elixir, the profit from these things are great!

Im doing this on the alliance side, I've never played horde, and being honest that's where I got this recipe from. I bought this recipe cross faction and then sent them to my main and used one up for myself.

Recipe: Philosopher's Stone - An Alchemists Choke Point

Me Buying the Recipes While Casting :D


The profit on this recipe is quite insane. This recipe is NEEDED by ALL alchemists, because it's used for transmutes, without it you cannot do a single transmute.

This recipe is sold in Tanaris by Alchemist Pestlezugg, for 20 silver. You can buy as many as you want because it's not a limited recipe. I buy roughly 10-15 a week and mail them off to my bank alt and I sell them off by the end of the week. I can generally push for about 35-40g per recipe and sometimes more if are none on the AH.

While your here you can also pick up Transmute Iron to Gold, Transmute Mithril to Trusilver (Limited) & Transmute Arcanite, These sell rather well but I can't sell as many as the Philosopher's Stone. I normally only buy ~5 of these recipes.

I also pick up some Noggenfogger Elixirs while I'm at it :S, I'm a gnome and I've fallen in love with the Undead casting animation ^.^

Transmute Titanium - Instant Profit While AFK + LK Is Dead

I LOVE making money from these bars. Heck, I'm currently smelting ~ 150 stacks of Saronite as I'm writing this post. This method allows me to do other stuff, Write a blog post, research more ways to make gold, check my facebook, anything. Basically what I do is buy Saronite ore a little over vendor price (13g), I then smelt all of the bars I bought and send them off to my Transmute spec'ed Alchemist. I then transmute them all.

2 stacks of saronite yields 2.5 Bars (or 3 with the 20% from being a transmute Alchemist), A stack of saronite costs me 26g, by transmuting the bars I get 2.5 Titanium bars, which I can sell at 15-17g. Im making 11g per 2 stacks of saronite, and this is not even adding in the profit from bar's that are proc'ed.

Finally! Lich King has been killed by yours truly :P I spent the weekend wiping at his feet, I put in 35-40+ hours in 4 different guilds trying to kill him. Well Im onto hardmodes ;)

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?

Saronite Ore - A Magical Wonder.

Saronite Ore.
There's so much I do with this ore it's gotten out of hand, at any time I have ~300 stacks waiting in my mailbox. This ore is and has been a magical wonder to me.

One of the first things that I do with it is prospect it. There's so much profit in this that If I were to sell my Scarlet Rubies at 20g cut, I'd still make profit. The trick with prospecting is to craft as many JC rings as possible and then DE those rings for twice the profit. The DE'ed dusts and essences alone pay for the Ore, the Rare gems are just pure profit.

Another thing to do with this ore is to smelt it and then transmute it. Holy cow this is profitable. I transmuted roughly 250 bars, and walked out with 305. The Proc's of being a Transmutation Master of Alchemy makes this method 5 times better.

One last thing is a simple yet effective method, Eternal Belt Buckles. This is a great method to rid of those extra stacks of Saronite ore.