Argent Tournament Pets - What Will Become Of Them?

 I've been thinking.... man Wrath Of The Lich King was awesome... but it's coming to an end very quickly. I thought... what item is going to have a huge increase in price because it's farmed for in Wrath Of The Lich King and won't be farmed as heavily in Cataclysm? I instantly thought, the Argent Tournament Pets! These things will rise so much in value, because quite frankly, no one is going to farm these puppies come cataclysm!


So What's The Deal?
The Deal is that these things take ages to farm, even with doing everything, they are such a pain in the butt, I'm not even sure why they go for so low. Anyways, like I said  right now they are a pain to farm, so I suggest stocking up on these pets before cataclysm hits as you won't see many around. Their prices are going to rice, regardless, Not many people are going to go out of their way to farm these pets, so it's best to pick them up before hand.

How much do I buy then for?
I've started buying them for as low as 350g per pet. You might think WOW that's extremely low! They currently AH for about 600-700g, but people are so desperate to get rid of these pets, you'd be amazed how many bites you'd get if you spammed trade for 30 minutes.

I've also started trading the pets cross faction as they have a even higher markup value. I can easily push for 1500g per pet if they are of the opposite faction.

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"

Enchant Weapon - Blood Draining - Huge Profits!

I ran an Ulduar 25 pug a couple weeks ago and was lucky enough to have this formula drop of heroic XT. Man am I glad I did! These things sell like hot cakes and the profit margins on it are HUGE!

[Formula: Enchant Weapon - Blood Draining] requires 4 abbyss crystals, one scarlet ruby and 40 infinite dust. I buy all the materials off the auction house and it costs me roughly 185-200g. I then put the enchant on a scroll and list them on the auction house for about 800-900g per scroll! Yeah that's right 700g PROFIT from 1 scroll!

The best thing about this enchant is that many tanks use this, therefore it sells pretty fast. Also since the formula is so rare, you'll rarely have competition. The profit margins are so high that even if you do have competition, and you undercut each other down to 500g, you're still making 300g from it!

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.

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.

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.

Enchanting - A Gold Guru's Heaven

Ah Enchanting! I love this proffesion. I make so much from this proffesion it's gotten out of hand! I craft 20-30 scrolls once every 2-3 days and make what I spent on the mats times 5! I must admit tho I've never had much success selling the high end enchants, instead I focus on the BOA enchants. Im going to name off a few enchants I sell and list their cost & price that I sell them at.


Enchant Name - Enchant Cost - Enchant Sold At

Enchanting Weapon - Agility - 60-80g - 249g+
Enchanting Weapon - 2H Agility - 80-120g - 199g+
Enchanting Weapon - Mongoose - 250-300g - 400g+
Enchanting Weapon - Major Intellect - 100-140g - 350g+
Enchanting Weapon - Mighty Intellect - 140g-160g - 300g+
Enchanting Weapon - Strength - 45-60g - 350g+
Enchanting Weapon - Unholy - 60-70g - 150g+
Enchanting Weapon - Lifestealing - 70-90g - 200g+
Enchanting Weapon - Firey - 20-50g - 100g+
Enchanting Weapon - Icy Chill - 30-40g - 90g+

Enchant Bracer - Healing Power - 40-60g - 150g+
Enchant Chest Major Stamina - 2-5g - 50g+
Enchant Shield Greater Intellect - 20g-30g - 150g+

Those are the ones that I sell the most, if you have something else that you think I should be crafting and selling please let me know by posting a comment!

Update: FINALLY killed Lich King! Tonight I shall be Mageshadow, The Kingslayer! I spent roughly 40+/- Hours wiping on him with several guilds ( 4 to be exact ).