This is a follow-up from my post
What should I do?.... I wanted to report what I did with all that material (well, not all... let's say one third of it)... For those of you who wonder how having problems with this is possible, look at
Zoxy's "What should I do?" post... Yes, Zoxy had my same problem, as many others! It's funny we choose the same name for our posts ^_^ I posted just ten days earlier, so this is clearly a problem of these weeks.
I'm still drowning in a huge amount of gems, but things actually started working great. What really did the trick is this comment from Altolycus, from
ALTOs Gold"ish" Advice- The Worst WoW Blog Ever!:
What has also worked for me is checking the opposite faction and seeing the prices over there. Normally, the major farmers hit one side and not the other.
I know I should have thought about it, but sometimes the most obvious solution are the most difficult to find!
I sent to my Horde toon 15 stacks of
[Greater Celestial Essence], 10 stacks of
[Hardened Elementium Bar] and a lesser quantity of some other things (two stacks of
[Hypnotic Dust], a Darkmoon Fair card of which I had three and the usual pets). My alt didn't have a lot of gold, just 3k (I had transfered some expensive items the other way round just days before). Next evening it had 25k, and I didn't had sold half of what I had sent.
[Greater Celestial Essence] where going for ~80g each (40g Alliance side),
[Hardened Elementium Bar] for nearly 200g (120g Alliance side). Prices dropped a bit in the following days, so acting by without checking Horde's AH for sometime actually did me good. Prices are still a bit higher than in the Alliance, and things move faster.
This gave me the ability of smelting nearly all the Elementium I had left (I just have other 50 stacks in Ore form now) and made me trust disenchanting a bit more.
What I'm doing is keeping
selling hardened elementium bars, but now to both faction... That's a lot quicker!
So, thanks Altolycus!
Dailies aren't enough to get rid of
[Nightstone],
[Zephyrite] and
[Jasper], and I still hadn't time to craft all the
[Jasper Ring] I should... When I have some spare time I cut a bunch of
[Zephyrite] and sell them to the vendor. If some "Perfects" proc, I try to sell them on the AH, no more than two at a time (I vendor the others. No way I'll keep all of them in my bag).
[Alicite] Is the worst so far, since
[Alicite Pendant] don't sell at any price (at least on my server).
[Alicite] is consistently put in the AH under the vendor price of the cut version... Usually around 8g 50s, but I'm not buying them since the work of cutting and vendoring is quite long and boring even considering just the
[Alicite] I already have.
[Hypnotic Dust] is going for 10g, and not selling very well. Since
[Alicite Pendant] really don't sell, I still don't think crafting
[Alicite Pendant] would be great. There isn't really a lot of profit I can make from them.
The same applies to
[Jasper Ring], but since the
[Jasper Ring] already repay themselves (
[Jasper] is aroung 9g on my server, while
[Hypnotic Dust] is sold at 10g each), I don't have any problem in crafting them.
I still have a big amount of
[Shadowspirit Diamond], but they're starting to sell (both cut and raw)... I get 10k just this night from selling them. I started whispering to other seller searching those who will agree not to undercut me if I post things exactly at the same price they are posting them, making them doing the same for me. Some of them actually thanked me! I now have to be less vigilant on the AH and this actually helped my sanity a lot.
I'm selling some
[Shadowspirit Diamond] every day, for prices that can vary a lot... from 140g to 330g!
I haven't tried engineering pets yet, since I don't have an engineer alt. I should have started to work with a friend of mine (the same that helps me cross-trading), but we were both quite busy in the last days.
It also seems that botters are having an hard time now, due to some hotfixes made by Blizzard... This could very well reduce my problems if the AH stops to be flooded by raw mats. I'm actually still seeing some gold-farmers, but surely less than before (this supposing that people with name composed by twelve random character are gold-farmers).
I have still a lot of
[Obsidium Ore] stockpiled, so this would really be great!
It's very easy to participate: you have time until February the 4th to choose your favorite post of January for your blog, add a link to the Carnival and send me an e-mail at kreaton05 (at) gmail.com
Hi again!
The impact rifts have on the game is great: it's by no means just a way to farm some kind of currency, but something that dynamically changes your quest-flow. You log in to do something, and most of the time the world is different from when you left it (unless you're parked in your faction main city... but even then, you could have some invaders at his entrance).
I still don't feel confident enough in my knowledge of the game to give you great tips, but I'll use my blog to let you know about what's happening and what others are writing, like in this great post by MissMediocre: On My Way To Becoming A Platinum Princess. MissMediocre is doing really a better job than me: I thought that keeping at 15-19 platinum while raising my professions was a great success for a level 34 character, but she totally proved me wrong!
Since this is a gold making blog I suppose you'll be interested in the economic aspects of the game.
Weaponsmithing - Craft Weapons
Other changes to metagems: [Eternal Shadowspirit Diamond] the block value has been lowered from +5% to +1%
Another gem cut had been added: Vivid Dream Emerald provides resilience/spell penetration and can be purchased for 3 Illustrious Tokens.
Enchant Cloak - Dodge can no longer be cast on capes below the character level 35 requirement.
The Auctioneer Hot Spot In New Orgrimmar, form Cold's Gold Factory
Kill Some Critters, Get A Critter!, from Miss Mediocre
Inscription:
Jewelcrafting:
Enchanting:
Mining:
Alchemy:
Without needing any profession:
From the PTR 4.0.6 Patch Notes:
Well, I don't think we have the informations to know it for sure. Some people are saying the two poles will simply be the [Bone Fishing Pole] and the [Jeweled Fishing Pole], which I would find strange and disappointing, since anyone serious about fishing has already one of those or the [Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole], which is obtained just by a rep-grind many people have already done before Cataclysm and that is surely better.
My hope is that Blizzard will go further buffing the [Bag of Fishing Treasures], putting in there some other useful items and increasing the average value of the grays it holds...
Probably the biggest problem Blizzard is facing, is that [Bag of Fishing Treasures] is easily obtainable at nearly every character level (except maybe for one Alliance quest which is done quite near some lvl 85 sharks... I'm not sure if there is an Horde equivalent... Please tell me if you know!), so they didn't want to put any big reward in it. I don't know why they made it this way. Even if they wanted fishing quest lowbies could do, couldn't they put two different quests rewards, depending on character level? Or two different quests, one with an higher level-requirement, made for high-level characters?
You thought I wouldn't come back? You were wrong!
As you have seen if you read my post "What should I do?", I'm trying to get rid of a great amount of [Obsidium Ore] and related uncommon gems...
I'm actually putting them at 185g a stack and they actually sell very well... This seemed a bit strange to me, but I've been doing this for nearly a week without a great deal of competition. I checked the horde-side of my server, where there are less farmers, and there the prices for [Obsidium Bar] are a lot closer to what you need to make them.
This makes this knowledge very server-related, I know... But if your server is full of gold-farmers you should want to check if miners have stopped smelting [Obsidium Bar] (and maybe also [Elementium Bar] and[Hardened Elementium Bar]... Some time ago I made a post about selling Hardened Elementium Bars). I sell at least 10-15 stacks every day. Each one costs me less than 80g, and I price them all at 185g (even if there are some at less than that price... Usually there are so few [Obsidium Bar] that people start to buy mine in a brief time... Also because I'm the only one selling stacks and not singles).
I'm not quite sure of how much [Obsidium Ore] I have. In the last few days I've bought it only when it was selling for less than 45g, but that's still a lot of stacks.
