This week, a new series of economic changes hit the game. The best part? They were free! Well, in this case they’re not totally free—you might actually have to open your wallet and spend some gold if you want them to stick around. We’ll tell you all about it below.
Weekly Economic Update in World of Warcraft Hello! The 206th episode of the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up is here!
My name is Samadan, and I’m a content maker that specializes in leveraging Professions and TSM to make money. On YouTube, I have a variety of tutorials, and I also broadcast my trips on Twitch.
Because I won’t be able to cover the post live, here’s a pre-recorded video if you’d want to digest the blog in video style…
Madness in the Mage Tower!
The Legion’s Mage Tower event has returned, and the early gold-making results have been excellent! Crafts and consumables from the past are bustling with activity. If you’ve been following along over the previous few weeks, you should be ready to strike gold here. First and foremost, the event has been extended for another two weeks!
Blizzard
- The Mage Tower will be available for play for an extra two weeks, in addition to the two weeks initially planned.
- This will be in addition to any other events that have already been arranged.
- The Mage Tower will be closed for repair during the first week of January 2022.
- This modification will not be reflected in the in-game calendar until it is updated at a later time.
Those that already have professions in these new interest marketplaces, such as Hikons, have been able to profit substantially.
Even on Shadowsong, my own little server, I’ve witnessed some really high sales…
The difficulty is that a lot of these Pandaria profession products are locked behind daily recipe gathering, so if you don’t already have a character that can produce these things, you’ll have to catch up. However, with the time extension, there is still enough time to get started if nothing else.
If you don’t have these recipes, don’t worry; farmed materials, notably Exotic Leather, Kyparite, and Ghost Iron Ore/Bars, as well as all of the BfA Herbs, especially Zin’anthid, are in great demand.
Take a look at the recent price increase in Exotic Leather…
TheUndermineJournal.com provided the graph.
Alchemy and herbs in BFA are completely ridiculous. With a herbalist, you can probably do 100k/hour easily cultivating zin in nazjatar.
You will be extremely wealthy if you can manufacture boralus sausage.
Anyone that hoarded up piles of BC diamonds, like me, has earned a fortune.
Keep an eye on the r/timewalking discord to see what they find out when buffs and nerfs are applied. That will help you narrow down what will be useful (or what should be offloaded as soon as possible before/when it is nerfed).
Manthieus has an excellent video that walks you through the goods you should seek for while crafting and farming.
The Jewelcrafting Gems, as well as the Drums, are very intriguing. What’s also good to see is the amount of variation and min maxing on many characters, which keeps things fresh and has re-energized the market for old world professions!
Please, Blizzard, give us more!
Making Gold Challenges
With all of the excitement around the Mage Tower Challenges, as well as Season of Mastery Never Known Defeat, I began to consider gold challenges.
Goals and rewards, in my opinion, are critical to a game’s drive. I first had to earn enough Tokens to get a Token, and then there was the Brutosaur as a goal, which has since been abolished. What additional economic aims and difficulties can we take on?
For things like recipe gathering, which is connected to gold manufacturing, we may go to dataforazeroth.com. There’s also a character statistics tab in-game, but I don’t believe it’s a realistic depiction. Some people may like the freedom of having the most gold on a server.
Personally, I don’t want to compare myself to others since everyone of us is on our own path and has unique circumstances. I’d keep using All The Things to acquire recipes since it’s a pleasant task for me to complete without comparing myself to others.
A gold sink mount was the ideal challenge for me; I really hope we get another one for 10 million gold or something, and while we’re at it, bring back the Brutosaur.
What other options do we have? Either on a personal level or in terms of a server/world comparison.
To be honest, the biggest satisfaction I get from owning a lot of gold is making other people happy. I gave many legendary goods to my (close) buddies.
I didn’t play between WotLK and SL, so I don’t have a bruto, but I’d absolutely level up my AH char so I could sit in Oribos and offer folks an AH horse.
As a result, I’d want to have (expensive) mounts that anybody can use. An anima deposit mount, as seen in Shadowlands. Alternatively, you may utilize a mount to swap your soulbinds/conduits. Alternatively, anything that can be used as a forge/anvil. Perhaps as a cooking fire (so I don’t have to open the profession window and start a fire).
My current difficulty is the need to keep attempting to acquire gold as quickly as possible.
I already have more gold than I could ever spend, and I would never contemplate doing things like making a gold max bid on BMAH or purchasing a complete mythic raid carry, so a few things are off the table for me. I have every gold-buyable vendor mount, toy, and other item in the game. I’m basically sitting on my gold right now, except from acquiring missing things when they come on BMAH.
I still sell a few low-volume specialty things where I am the only one selling them, but I’ve taken a break from legendary and crafter’s mark products for a few months.
You suggested a recipe collection, which is something I’m working on. I have a lot of pre-cataclysm unavailable and uncommon recipes, and I will constantly attempt to pick up any that are missing anytime I pass by anything (yay all the things). If you check at the dataforazeroth rankings for that category, I’m in the top 2000 in the world.
Knowing that Blizzard benefits directly from the token system, I’m irritated by products in the game like legendary templates costing enough to directly push token sales. Yes, I understand that adults with grownup jobs are willing to pay a little additional real money in order to save time in the game, but it is the idea of being pushed to do so in the first place, as well as the microtransaction culture in video games, that bothers me. For rare instances, like as a shop mount sale when I couldn’t justify spending actual money on a mount, I’ve swapped gold for blizzard balance.
Because the earning potential is high, I want to re-enter the market for the first wave of 9.2 rank 7s and crafter’s marks.
In the future, what would be a decent gold sink? To name a few things, there’s player housing, transmogs, and mounts.
That turned out to be a lot lengthier answer than I anticipated. Thank you for reading this far.
While we may make up our own motives for playing the game and earning money, I believe that another gold sink, such as the Brutosaur or Player Housing, is the next natural step.
CanadiaTV’s TSM Guides
u/canadiatv has begun a whole new series of tutorials looking through TradeSkillMaster and how to utilize it in the goal of bringing together all of the available material.
Good day, everyone! I developed a TSM series because I believed there was simply too much MISSING information on TSM on YouTube. Now, I’m not a TSM expert, but I’ve been using it for almost 6 years and I really like it. I understand that getting started might be intimidating, but it is well worth it. So let’s get started:
As of today, that concludes the series! Please subscribe to get at least two videos every week, as well as other videos that aren’t about tsm. I’m looking forward to hearing from you, as I’m always open to constructive criticism on how to enhance people’s understanding of TSM. Come in for some goldmaking/tsm questions on twitch.tv/canadia tv, where I’ll be broadcasting for 50+ hours!
Good luck with your gold prospecting!
Canadia, thank you for sharing these, we could always use more guidelines!
A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with Pet Arbitrage
u/hotsyhots has compiled an excellent tutorial to getting started with pet arbitrage, the practice of selling pets on different servers…
Hello there, here’s a quick method to selling pets on several servers!
- Make a vulpera if you want to. This isn’t required, but it makes things a lot simpler. They spawn with a little amount of gold to pay listing costs and additional bag space. They also spawn near the AH and bank in the rear of Org.
- Optional: go to the Tauren AH location (very near bank/AH) when spawned. Stop by the enchanting trainer to study enchanting and the mats merchant to purchase the weird dust/lesser magic essence. These may be sold to raise funds.
- Extra pets should be kept in a cage. Useful macros that may be used to go to Ah place (without dismounting you):
For sale: a cage (Any pets you have three of are caged by this macro, leaving two behind.) You may adjust it to your liking (for example, substitute 2 for 1 to cage any pets over 1): /run local t,p,j=,,C PetJournal for i=1,j.GetNumPets() do p=j.GetPetInfoByIndex(i) /run local t,p,j=,,C PetJournal for i=1,j.GetNumPets() /run local t,p,j=,,C PetJourn If t]>2 and p and p, then j.CagePetByID(p) returns end end, else t]=(t] or 0)+1.
/use pet cage to add to journal (this will fail if the journal is filled for a pet, so place additional pets at the bottom of your inventory):
TSM: To price pets depending on total area pricing, use TUJGlobalMean. This allows you to purchase pets for a low price in one location and sell them for a profit in another. For this pricing source, you’ll need the undermining journal addon.
Money-saving advice:
- To buy/sell things listed at a cheaper price than the vendor price, use TSM’s “vendor” search.
- Vendor has magical mats for sale.
- Purchase and DE low-cost greens, as well as sell mats.
- Purchase and smelt ores, as well as sell bars.
- Buy a mail guild tabard for 250g, then sell it for roughly 60g. You eat a loss, but you may move money to another server to fund auction publishing.
Strategy:
- Purchase pets that are drastically discounted from regional rates and relist them on other servers. You’ll start to notice trends, such as farmers swarming a server market and selling a large number of the same pet for a low price, or timewalking pushing down the cost of pets in the turnin area (example: Bemax during Pandaria timewalking, price will tank and then slowly rise once Timeless Isle is less common to visit).
- Boost your stats with pets you’ve made via crafting.
- Keep an eye out for content writers that are willing to share agricultural advice. As more people get on the bandwagon, the price of these creatures will plummet, but if a new farm becomes popular, their worth will skyrocket.
- Learn which pets are purchased from merchants and stay away from them. Their price will not change as much since the supply is steady, and one determined moron can keep the price low. Place an alt at merchants so that you can simply keep them stocked.
- Purchase FOMO and timed pets during occasions that make them popular, like as holidays or the Darkmoon Faire. Later, when they are momentarily unavailable and the price has increased, resell them.
- To harvest rare pets for selling, create a pet dungeon alt. If you’ve previously conquered pet dungeons, the Legion petshop in Dalaran will allow you transport alts to them. Just ask the NPC at the pet store for a teleport. This will make it simple to create an alt at each pet dungeon entry (choose Legion for Chromie time and complete the opening quests and scenario). These are some of the most costly pets, however they will sell for a reduced price if divided over numerous servers.
Crafted pets that are useful:
Pandaria’s dragonling of engineering
Elekk plushie from the World of Warcraft garrison
Garrison engineering pets in World of Warcraft
Beautiful lantern
Do you have any more gold-making ideas or advice to share?
Caging and TSM operations are the “hard work” you’ll need to perform to get things up and running, but after you’ve done that, listing auctions is a breeze. Buying, creating, and collecting pets becomes the tactical component of this goldmaking, and the amount of profit and risk you are prepared to take is all up to you. I won’t touch vendor-sold pets, but I’ll go all out for the premium holiday critters that are inexpensively offered (cursed birman is an excellent example, people were dumping them for 500g on one server and I bought a ton, typical sell is around 10-15k). I usually supplement each server’s toon with purchases of desirable resells, such as garrison auction house pieces or uncommon quest goods that I come across for a low price, so that I may profit from low-cost sales.
The goal is to opt for slower, larger sales so that you don’t have to keep an eye on the individual server market but can still supplement pet sales with consistent, pricey purchases. Abyssal fragments, AH pieces, exhausted weapons/armor, unobtainable goods, uncommon transmogs, in other words, cash in earnings for more valuable pieces that will ultimately sell and post on a more relaxed timetable. Pet sales are primarily used to fund more risky acquisitions.
If you attempt to pursue comm flips, you’ll burn out trying to watch various servers (though it can be extremely lucrative if you have the time/energy, particularly if you know changes are coming, as as when I bought korthite for cheap before the current patch). Because I’m on numerous servers, it’s simple to profit from significant game changes, but I find it tiresome to watch them over time, so I only conduct comm flips when I’m in the mood for some fun AH flipping or when I know something is coming that will likely spike prices.
One of the advantages is that you don’t have to worry about market control or resets. If a pet is selling at a very low price on one server, you may sell it for a nice profit on another without having to bother about market preparation.
This message isn’t sabotage to my personal earnings, though, since others who are doing it will want to help drive prices higher. Drastically undercutting is a good approach to obtain some seed money while also helping other arbitrage vendors by providing them with low-cost purchases. Just don’t keep selling at ridiculously low prices. This pie is available to all of us! Just take your time. Several thousand gold each day for each server rapidly adds up.
Thank you, hotsyhots, for providing all of this really important information!
Additional Reading
The majority of this material was initially debated and shared on the /r/woweconomy subreddit or the associated Discord server. You can also find me streaming live on Twitch for the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up live on Wowhead.com on Sunday from roughly 7PM GMT UK Time (2pm Eastern Time), or you can tweet your feedback/thoughts to @SamadanPlaysWoW.
I hope you found this helpful, and do let me know if you have any recommendations or criticism in the comments section below.
Until next time, best of luck with your gold-mining endeavors!
Samadan
