Bargain Blues Stockpiling
Right now there seems to be a crazy amount of underpriced blue leveling gear showing up on multiple auction houses. I have been stockpiling a ton of great low level blue weapons and lower level blue gear because I am absolutely positive that I will sell it all for a major profit once Mists of Pandaria launches. How can I be sure? I do it every expansion and Mists will be no different. Well, Mists is bringing us the Monk player class, which means a massive increase in demand on leather items, specifically agility based leather gear and jewelry. Oh yeah, we also get an 11th character slot in Mists. That means even more new alts being created by those players who've been capped at ten characters for a while.
Why Blue Gear?
Blue gear is worth more than green gear because of increased stats, lower drop rates, less supply on the auction house (which gives more visibility to your blues), and for status effect for socials. Some players with extra gold will pimp out their alts as they level and other players make low level battleground twinks. Twinks are looking for best in slot gear and pimped out alts are looking for great blue gear with the stats to either increase survivability or ramp up their damage.
I have been able to pick up an amazing amount of blue leveling gear pieces off of the auction house. The majority of these blue items are way underpriced. I'm snagging the majority of blue gear for under 20 gold apiece with a ton of it listing as stupidly low as 5, 10, and 15 gold. So I have been buying up all of the good pieces (good as in proper stat combos) and banking them away for the new player rush.
How To Search For Blue Gear To Stockpile
The ingame WoW auction house and the WoW remote auction house both use the same technique for finding good deals on the leveling blue weapons and gear pieces.
You can place extra emphasis on agility based leather gear, rings, and neckpieces because the incoming wave of monks will be easy targets to sell to. Also place extra emphasis on non-BoA gear slots like Belts, Wrists, Rings, Legs, Neckpieces, & Trinkets.
Here are some of the crazy stupid low prices I've paid while working on this sure-fire mega profit blue gear stockpile.
Idiot Jewelcrafters Who Just Give Stuff Away
Along the exact same lines, be sure to also keep a watch out for poorly priced jewelcrafting rings. I've been seeing horribly low priced rings on multiple servers (been using the strat on 2 servers myself), which are obviously some idiot leveling his Jewelcrafting profession and tossing all the rings on the AH for stupid cheap. They always come in big batches and are all the same price, regardless of stat combo! That's about as dumb as you can get. Aquamarine Signets take 3 aquamarines to craft and they sell for more than the foolish JC is listing the completed rings for. And it's been the same thing with Sapphire Signets, stupid prices and a flat price regardless of stat combos. These blue rings are being listed on the servers I'm on for 5g, 7.5g, or 10g each, even when they proc the uber stat combos!
Aquamarine Signets are crafted with Jewelcrafting, but 2 of the 3 stats on the rings are randomly determined. Every ring will have +20 Attack Power, so I buy out the ones with combos that support AP. I target these types:
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Right now there seems to be a crazy amount of underpriced blue leveling gear showing up on multiple auction houses. I have been stockpiling a ton of great low level blue weapons and lower level blue gear because I am absolutely positive that I will sell it all for a major profit once Mists of Pandaria launches. How can I be sure? I do it every expansion and Mists will be no different. Well, Mists is bringing us the Monk player class, which means a massive increase in demand on leather items, specifically agility based leather gear and jewelry. Oh yeah, we also get an 11th character slot in Mists. That means even more new alts being created by those players who've been capped at ten characters for a while.
Why Blue Gear?
Blue gear is worth more than green gear because of increased stats, lower drop rates, less supply on the auction house (which gives more visibility to your blues), and for status effect for socials. Some players with extra gold will pimp out their alts as they level and other players make low level battleground twinks. Twinks are looking for best in slot gear and pimped out alts are looking for great blue gear with the stats to either increase survivability or ramp up their damage.
I have been able to pick up an amazing amount of blue leveling gear pieces off of the auction house. The majority of these blue items are way underpriced. I'm snagging the majority of blue gear for under 20 gold apiece with a ton of it listing as stupidly low as 5, 10, and 15 gold. So I have been buying up all of the good pieces (good as in proper stat combos) and banking them away for the new player rush.
How To Search For Blue Gear To Stockpile
The ingame WoW auction house and the WoW remote auction house both use the same technique for finding good deals on the leveling blue weapons and gear pieces.
- Select Armor auction group.
- Change to rare quality only.
- Search required level to 0-29
- Check all blue gear results for poor pricing.
- Buy the ones that have good stat combos and are poorly priced.
- Do the same for Weapons level 0-29.
- Then Armor 30-57.
- Then Weapons 30-57.
You can place extra emphasis on agility based leather gear, rings, and neckpieces because the incoming wave of monks will be easy targets to sell to. Also place extra emphasis on non-BoA gear slots like Belts, Wrists, Rings, Legs, Neckpieces, & Trinkets.
Here are some of the crazy stupid low prices I've paid while working on this sure-fire mega profit blue gear stockpile.
- Cobalt Crushers 5g
- Axe of Rin'ji - 3 at 7g ea
- Frostreaver Crown - 12.5g
- Watchmen's Pauldrons 4 for 5-10g ea
- Sparkleshell Mantle - 3 for 10g ea
- River Pride Choker - 12g
- Yorgen Bracers - 5g
- Thunderbrow Ring - 12g
- Tigerstrike Mantle - 20g
Idiot Jewelcrafters Who Just Give Stuff Away
Along the exact same lines, be sure to also keep a watch out for poorly priced jewelcrafting rings. I've been seeing horribly low priced rings on multiple servers (been using the strat on 2 servers myself), which are obviously some idiot leveling his Jewelcrafting profession and tossing all the rings on the AH for stupid cheap. They always come in big batches and are all the same price, regardless of stat combo! That's about as dumb as you can get. Aquamarine Signets take 3 aquamarines to craft and they sell for more than the foolish JC is listing the completed rings for. And it's been the same thing with Sapphire Signets, stupid prices and a flat price regardless of stat combos. These blue rings are being listed on the servers I'm on for 5g, 7.5g, or 10g each, even when they proc the uber stat combos!
Aquamarine Signets are crafted with Jewelcrafting, but 2 of the 3 stats on the rings are randomly determined. Every ring will have +20 Attack Power, so I buy out the ones with combos that support AP. I target these types:
- +Agi/+Sta
- +Str/+Sta
- +Agi/+Dodge
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Brilliant sir. With as well as 77-80 Cata greens and 67-69 Wrath greens do for me I should have thought to move down the chain.
ReplyDeleteJust did some crazy shopping. Thanks for the idea.
Cold, you were a little (needlessly) condescending with people posting up under value items on the AH. The AH market is a fickle beast at the best of times and people's logic/reasoning for posting at certain price points may not be the same as your own.
ReplyDeleteSome people might have different motivation for selling lower than regular market value (market domination for example) or simply because they need liquid gold quickly. Then again, it might simply be a case of not having the same level of market knowledge as your regular Goblin with Auctioneer/TUJ data but it has to be said that lack of market knowledge <> stupidity either.
Listing 400g items for 5g is just dumb Anyway you look at it. Whether the poster is a new player, ignorant, or just plain foolish is irrelevant as the prices are still stupidly low compared to their true value.
ReplyDeleteIf someone is so broke or impatient that they want to sell me a best in slot twink item for 20g, then I'll take it, but that price is still stupidly low brother. But I guarantee 99% of these items are posted by people ignorant of the true values.
Very nice-
ReplyDeleteHere is the TSM list:
s1@$cobalt crushers;axe of rin;frostreaver crown;watchmens's pauldrons;sparkleshell mantle;river pride choker;yorgen bracers;thunderbrow ring;tigerstrike mantle;aquamarine signet;sapphire signet@