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SWTOR - Star Wars The Old Republic

Today is the very first day that you can pre-order Star Wars: The Old Republic.  STWOR (Star Wars the Old Republic) is a new MMORPG style online game, which is set to launch on December 31st, 2011.  Star Wars has always had a ton of fans, so expect the Star Wars: The Old Republic online game to have a huge following. 

Star Wars: The Old Republic is releasing with both a Regular edition and also a Collector's Edition, which includes a ton of goodies only available when you purchase the Star Wars: The Old Republic Collector's Edition, including a whopping 7 bonus digital items.

From the Manufacturer
Explore an age thousands of years before the rise of Darth Vader when war between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire divides the galaxy. Choose your class from a variety of classic Star Wars roles including Jedi Knight, Bounty Hunter, and Smuggler. Make decisions which define your personal story and determine your path down the light or dark side of the Force. Along the way you will befriend courageous companions who will fight at your side. Together, you will battle enemies in dynamic Star Wars combat, team up with other players to overcome incredible challenges and discover the wonders of the Star Wars galaxy in a fully-featured Massively Multiplayer Online Game.

Star Wars: The Old Republic Collector's Edition

Star Wars: The Old Republic - Limited Collector's Edition Features

• Exclusive Gentle Giant Darth Malgus statue
• Star Wars: The Old Republic game disks in collectible metal case
• The Journal of Master Gnost-Dural annotated by Satele Shan
• Star Wars: The Old Republic galaxy map
• Custom Security Authentication Key
• Music of Star Wars: The Old Republic CD
• High-quality Collector's Edition box

Star Wars: The Old Republic - Limited Collector's Edition - Seven Additional Digital Items

• Flare Gun: Fire flares into the air
• Training Droid: Hovers at your side for combat assistance
• HoloDancer: Project your own holographic dancer
• HoloCam: Keep visual records of in-game adventures
• STAP: Sleek and unique in-game vehicle
• Exclusive Mouse Droid: Spunky Droid to join your adventure
• Exclusive Collector's Edition Store: Unique in-game vendor with an assortment of items

The Old Republic, players will explore an age thousands of years before the rise of Darth Vader when war between the Old Republic and the Sith Empire divides the galaxy. Players choose to play as Jedi, Sith, or a variety of other classic Star Wars roles, defining their personal story and determining their path down the light or dark side of the Force. Along the way, players will befriend courageous companions who will fight at their side or possibly betray them, based on the players' actions.

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SWTOR Amazon Pre-Order Bonus



 One sexy benefit of pre-ordering your copy of Star Wars: The Old Republic From Amazon.com is their awesome pre-order bonus (as shown in the above image).  You get early game access and a color stone to change your weapon effect.  Customized lightsaber color?  Very nice bonus for ordering from Amazon.

Why Pre-Order SWTOR From Amazon?

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If you are a gold maker in WoW, then you will be a credit maker in SWTOR.  After you get your pre-order be sure to check out my good buddy Zoxy's newest project on How To Make Credits in SWTOR.

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Patch 4.2 WoW Embersilk Cloth Farming Spot

Solar Core Embersilk Farming

Farming Embersilk Cloth With The Shadow Wardens Daily Quests

While completing my daily quests for the Shadow Wardens, I stumbled upon an awesome location for farming the Cataclysm cloth tailoring material - Embersilk Cloth.  How awesome?  So many corpses I couldn't loot them all between respawns awesome!  Tell me now!  Where?  Where?

The Solar Core

This awesome Embersilk Cloth farming spot is located at the solar core within the Widow's Clutch in the Molten Front.  The solar core is the target of the Shadow Wardens daily quest Solar Core Destruction.  The solar core is located in the Northern area of the Widow's Clutch past the spiders and the rocky outcroppings holding the spiderweb cocoons.  It is easy to find the solar core.  Just look for the glowing orb surrounded by flame channeling Druids of the Flame (as seen in the above image).

Druids of the Flame

Our Embersilk Cloth farming targets are the Druids of The Flame that surround the solar core.  There are 4 Druids of the Flame respawn locations directly around the solar core.  These 4 flame channeling Druids of the Flame are packed close together and respawn rather quickly.  According to Wowhead, these Druids of the Flame at the Widow's Clutch have almost a 50% chance to drop 1-4 Embersilk Cloth when killed and looted.  Rogues are also able to pickpocket for Flame Scarred Junkboxes and Rogue's Draughts as these mobs are considered humanoids.  A near 50% drop rate is amazing on it's own, but the drops are stack sizes of 1-4.  A tailor farming here would be able to get even more cloth with the Cloth Scavenging bonus from the Tailoring Profession. 

Solar Core Destruction

What makes this spot so awesome is not only the awesome drop rates and the quick respawn time, but the Solar Core Destruction quest itself.  All you have to do to complete this easy Shadowlands Daily quest is run past all of the druids surrounding the solar core and click on the solar core orb.  It takes just a few seconds to finish the action of destroying the core.  As soon as you blow up the solar core, you are instantly blasted into the air and you land on top of one of the rocky outcroppings in the Widow's Clutch.  This breaks combat with all of the Druids of the Flame that were chasing you on your way to the solar core.  You are free to then jump down and return to camp to turn in your Shadow Wards quest and collect your Marks of the World Tree. 

Here's the awesome part.  Many players already know that they can just aggro any number of druids and run right up to the solar core, destroy it, and then get blasted to safety.  When farming for the Embersilk Cloth off of the Druids of the Flame, you can set up camp right near the solar core orb itself.  Then you can proceed to kill the 4 channeling Druids of the Flame.  As players on the Solar Core Destruction quest coming running up to you, they will have a train of Druids following them that you can quickly attack to get aggro.  So you have an ideal farming spot where there are 4 closely packed druids and druids wandering around the perimeter.  Combined with all of the free trains of Druid mobs coming at you from the other kiting players and you have an amazingly awesome spot for easy Embersilk Cloth farming.

Be sure to check out How To Maximize Your Beginning Molten Front Dailies and Getting The Most Volatiles Out of Druids of the Talon Daily Questing.

Anyone found any more new ways to farm the new daily quest hub content?


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Profiting On Volatile Earth and Fire Market Crash

Volatile Earth and Volatile Fire Markets are Down...Way Down

Right now the prices of both Volatile Fire and Volatile Earth are nice and low.  This is a direct result of the increased influx of Volatiles from players completing their Firelands Invasion daily quests.  Tons of players getting lots of extra Volatile Earth and Volatile Fire leads to a supply overload and market saturation.  As always, market saturation is followed by a drop in prices of the Volatile Fire and Volatile Earth. 

Further compounding the increased influx of Volatile Fire and Volatile Earth are the players that are maximizing the Firelands starter quests for extra Volatiles and getting extra Volatiles from Druids of the Talon quests.  If you are doing the Firelands Invasion daily quests over and over every day, why not maximize the quests to get the most Volatile raw materials you can each and every day, while completing the daily quests you were going to be doing daily anyway?

How To Profit From Cheap Volatile Earth and Fire

With the drop in prices of both Volatile Fire and Volatile Earth, we can take advantage of the lower production cost of many items.  Volatile Fire and Volatile Earth are raw material components in many of the profitable markets.  The drop in prices of the raw materials equates to lower production costs.  Lower production costs mean either more profits (if you can continue to sell at the same end product selling prices) or an increased ability to battle and undercut in a new market. 

This is one of the reason's you won't catch me stockpiling pre-crafted goods.  I only craft items prior to listing them on the auction house.  I do not mass craft expensive items ahead of time, because you never know when something will change in the World of Warcraft that will lead to a major price drop.  Anyone who stockpiled items crafted with Volatile Fire and Volatile Earth prior to the price drop has sunk more gold into the crafting cost of that item.  So someone new entering the market has cheaper crafting costs than their pre-crafted sunk costs, which means the new entrant can be more competitive with their pricing.

Below is a listing of some of the profitable markets that include Volatile Earth and Volatile Fire.  I would look into these markets on your server and calculate how much profit is to be made.  Many of these markets are still enjoying higher prices (probably due to market veterans trying to keep the prices up since they may have sunk costs and are used to a higher production cost) and are prime for moving in as a bottom feeder, undercutting below the lowest priced craftables.

Volatile Fire

• Bloodthirsty PvP Plate, Mail, Cloth, and Leather
• PvP Jewelry - Bloodthirsty Sapphire Necklace, Ring of Warring Elements
• Leg Armors - Charscale Leg Armor, Scorched Leg Armor, Enchanted Spellthread
• Dreamcloth (Dream of Ragnaros) - Cheaper than Volatile Life version on some servers.
• Truegold Transmuting
• Once unlocked, new epic gear and weapons.

Volatile Earth

• Drakehide Leg Armor (The new tanking leg armor)
• PvP Jewelry - Bloodthirsty Ruby Signet, Bloodthirsty Ruby Choker
• Bloodthirsty Fur Cloak
• Dreamcloth (Dream of Deepholme)
• Ebonsteel Belt Buckle
• Elementium Toolbox
• Hardened Obsidium Gear - Tanking Gear for levelers
• Punisher's Band
• Once unlocked, the new Triple-Reinforced Mining Bags
• Hardened Elementium Bars
• Enchant Bracer - Major Strength (+50 Str)

The list doesn't stop here.  Especially when looking at Dreamcloth and Hardened Elementium Bars, as these are intermediate crafting materials.  Anything else that can be crafted from either of these items, can also be crafted for cheaper with the new lower raw material Volatile costs.

How are you profiting off of the new lower priced Volatile Earth and Volatile Fire? 
Any new markets or strategies?

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WoW Patch 4.2 Tanked Volatiles Fire And Earth

The Crash of Volatile Fire and Volatile Earth

Since the release of World of Warcraft Patch 4.2, the auction house markets for both Volatile Earth and Volatile Fire have been in steady decline.  The introduction of the new Firelands Invasion daily quests has created a massive influx of both Volatile Fire and Volatile Earth.  Both of these Volatiles are easily obtained during The Firelands Invasion Starting Dailies.  The Druids of the Talon daily quests during phase 2 or 3 are an easy source of Volatile Earth, especially for any mining characters. 

The daily grind that is required of every character wishing to unlock all of the content and vendors last for around 30 days.  This means there will continue to be a constant influx of both Volatile Fire and Volatile Earth as players unlock the new areas and also continue to repeat the quests over and over to complete the new acheivements.  Right now is a buyers market for both Volatile Fire and Volatile Earth.  The price will be down for a while as some players haven't even started their Firelands Invasion daily quests yet.  And many of us still have alt characters that are going to be returning to that same content.  Expect the influx of these Volatiles to continue as the vendor race continues.

Did You Stockpile Volatiles?
I hope you didn't stockpile Volatile Fire and Volatile Earth prior to Patch 4.2.  It could take a while for the prices to rebound.  And I doubt if we will see Volatile Fire reach its over 30g price again this expansion.  That is unless Blizzard plays around with some of the drop rates.  With the drop in prices of both the Volatile Fire and the Volatile Earth, you may consider adding more Dreamcloth options to your Dreamcloth crafting.  Both of the Volatile Earth and Volatile Fire prices are comparable, if not cheaper than Volatile Life currently is on my server.  This drop in price is also another reason to make sure to have your Living Elements transmuting Alchemist parked in Uldum where the Volatile Air is guaranteed from the transmute.

Anyone Get Burnt Stockpiling Volatile Earth Or Volatile Fire? 
If So, What's Your Exit Strategy?

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Druids of The Talon Daily Quests Farming

Druids Of The Talon Quests

The Druids of The Talon Chain

You will choose either Druids of The Talon or Shadow Wardens, which will lock you into your second phase of the Firelands Invasion daily quests in the Molten Front.  When you unlock the Druids of the Talon quest chains, you are in for a completely different experience than compared to the Shadow Wardens daily quests.  While the Shadow Wardens will have you killing Cinderweb Spiders and Druids of the Flame, the Druids of The Talon daily quest hub leads you into the battle against Elementals and the Flamewakers. 

The Flamewakers

The Flamewaker minions are considered Humanoids and have a hefty 52% chance to drop 1-4 Embersilk Cloth.  The Druids of the Talon Firelands daily quest chain will have you fighting Flamewaker Sentinals, Flamewaker Shaman, and Flamewaker Hunters.  All 3 of these Flamewaker mobs can be pickpocketted for a chance at Flame-Scarred Junkboxes.  So these would be prime targets for farming Embersilk Cloth, especially if you are a Tailor or a Rogue.  The Rogue could benefit from the pickpocket ability and the Flame Scarred Junkboxes.  The Tailor would benefit from the Cloth Scavenging Tailoring profession bonus.  The underground caves where the quests lead you are an excellent spot for farming Embersilk Cloth.  Bonus points for a Tailoring Rogue.  The spawn rate is very fast at the current time, so many kills can be piled up quickly.  Even if you are just here for the Druids of the Talon daily quests, you can collect a decent amount of Embersilk Cloth.

The Elementals

The Obsidium Punishers are another nice farming option for a Mining character.  Maybe one of your Ideal Alts has the Mining gathering profession and is working on his Firelands Invasion daily quests.  This is a great spot to farm up some Volatile Earth.  Any Obsidium Punisher gives a 15% chance of containing 1-3 Volatile Earths on its corpse.  You will fight a bunch of these on your way up the mountain to take the temperatures of the lava pools and kill Firehawks for the Druids of The Talon daily quests. 

These Obsidium Punishers are stone Elementals are their corpses can be mined by a Miner.  When mined, they have a 9% chance to award 1-3 Volatile Earths and a 5% chance to award 1-7 Elementium Ore.  Why are Obsidium Punishers crumbling into Elementium Ore?  Even though the Druids of The Talon daily quests may require the killing of 5 Firehawks, they are duds other than for the quest.  They drop nothing worthwhile, just grey vendor trash.

Just like the Land of Free Volatile Earth in Mt. Hyjal, this is another area in World of Warcraft where you may just happen upon a ton of corpses from other players completing the Druids of the Talon daily quests.  Often times there may be no other miner around and these free corpses will be yours for the taking.  Another bonus is that these mobs also count for the Jewelcrafting Daily quest to slay Elementals.

I've already discussed how to maximize the Firelands Starting Daily Quests.  Make sure to use both helpful guides in order to be fully efficient. 

Making Gold On The Auction House | 3 Approaches In Finding What To Sell on The WoW AH

What To Sell On The Auction House

One of the common questions I get asked in email is "How do you know what to make to sell on the auction house?"  Well that's a great question and there are various strategies in determining what to sell on your server's auction house.  Every server is different so a blanket statement like "Sell PvP Plate gear!" or even a focused tip like "Sell Ebonsteel Belt Buckles!" may not be appropriate for your server.  It all depends on the prices of raw materials on your server.  Everything is server dependant, so the best way I can help explain what to sell is to go over the thought processes or strategies that I use in determining what I sell.

Diversify

Some players are stuck in a single market.  This may be a result of having only 1 character or only 1 crafting alt character.  Sometimes a lack of playtime (like my recent change in work hours) leads to less posting time and less posting options.  I can't stress enough how much easier it is to have the options of playing in every single market, do to properly leveling an army of alts and keeping their professions maxed and DIVERSIFIED.  That's right, I said the D word again.  Diveristy is not a requirement to make gold, but let me tell you it does make it a lot easier.  Diversifying into multiple markets can help you continue to remain profitable on a daily basis.  If one of your markets tanks, or some bully comes in and just starts heavy undercutting just for fun, you can quickly move your time and investments into another market.  Regardless of how many markets I am in, I have 3 basic ways that I determine what I am going to be selling on the auction house on my World of Warcraft server.

My Three Approaches To Selling On The WoW AH

The 3 approaches I will be discussing are as follows.

1. What Is Posted Too Low, That I Can Relist At The Right Price?
2. What Items Are Selling Over My Price Threshold?
3. What Materials Are Selling For Cheap and What Can I Use Them For?

What Is Posted Too Low, That I Can Relist For Profit?

I am always looking on the auction house for poorly priced items that I can resell for a profit.  This is called "Flipping".  This is an auction house strategy that differs from the flipping of vendor bought goods.  Instead of buying recipes and patterns off of an npc vendor to flip (which is a great way to make gold too), I am searching for higher priced items that are listed too low on the auction house.  The big difference here is that we are looking to profit off of player posting mistakes.  Using The Undermine Journal Market Notifications is a great way to snag deals on rare patterns.  A few of examples come to mind.

• I found the Blacksmithing plans for Mithril Shield Spike for 10 gold.  I bought the plans, then sold for 300 gold on the auction house.
• Recently, I was looking for an enchant for a character of mine.  The enchants were 60 gold each, but I found a stack of 6 of the same enchant on the second page of listings for 90 gold.  Instead of buying the cheapest 60g enchant for my character, I bought the 6 stack and sold the other 5 for 59g59s59c each.  That 90 gold investment got my character the boots enchant plus almost another 300 gold extra profit.
• I found 10-15 Enchant Shield Vitality scrolls listed for 8 gold each (must have been from a player leveling Enchanting) , bought them all out, and sold them all for 75 gold each.  This scroll is now BiS for any low level twink shield carriers.  The cost to craft them is well over 8 gold each so this was easy money.

What Items Are Selling Over My Price Threshold?


I do not follow the Walmart pricing philosophy that many other auctioneers follow.  The Walmart-model is based off of selling as many items as possible at the cheapest prices.  The sheer volume of sales helps bring in the gist of the profits.  I tend to analyze what I am going to sell much differently.  In the Walmart pricing model, as long as there is some profit potential, the item gets listed.  "A sale is a sale" or "Profit is profit" are a couple of the coined phrases a Walmart type poster would say.  As long as a profit can be made, they will post and hope for a massive volume of sales to get the profits.  No thanks!  If I am not making enough profit for the items to be worth my time, I won't post. 
 
I have a threshold that I want the item's current price to be at or over, before I waste my time crafting the item to sell on the auction house.  Only a five gold profit on this cut gem?  Next.  What are Blacksmithing Rods at?  Over my profit threshold?  I'll post.  If not, I move to another market and check prices.  This is where diversity plays a huge role in determining what I will post on the WoW auction house.  Without being diversified, I wouldn't have as many crafting and posting options.
 
Why do I have a price threshold?  It is my firm belief that everything needs to have a nice enough profit for that item to be worth putting my time and effort into.  I am no Walmart.  I want to make nice chunks of profit on each item I sell, because my time is limited and if I can't make a nice enough profit in this market, then I can make it in another market.  My time is better spent in the higher profit margin auction house markets.
 
Another reason I stick to my pricing thresholds is the fact that continually competing at those low price levels does nothing for rebounding the price higher.  It only adds to the competition, undercutting, and general tanking of the markets prices for a longer period of time.  Another example would be with posting time durations.  If the price of your items is lower than ideal, then posting for 48 hours is only going to keep the prices lower for longer.  Posting with a shorter duration, gives the item a better chance to rebound.  Not posting at all in this situation gives a much better chance for the prices to stabilize back higher.  Remember, if the prices are low and you continue to post at that low price, you are keeping the market down.  Are you part of the problem or are you part of the solution?
 
What Materials Are Selling For Cheap and What Can I Use Them For?


A lot of players will focus on the prior method of posting what is selling for a profit or what is selling for enough of a profit to make crafting and posting worthwhile.  Another big strategy for profiting on the auction house is identify cheap materials and what can be crafted from those cheap materials.  The biggest example is with shuffling ores.  If the prices are low enough, we can buy tem items and send them through the ore shuffling process.  If you find cheap herbs, then you can shuffle those through the flask, Mysterious Fortune Cards or Fortune Cookies, or potion markets. 
 
I always make a point to search for more than just the raw material resources when using this auction house strategy.  You can often find a nice batch of crafted intermediate materials on the auction house for low prices.  Sometimes a player will overproduce items while leveling up their WoW professions, then toss them on the auction house just to get some of their investment back.  Many times, these items are listed for far less than the cost to craft them.  Some examples of intermediate crafting materials and how I have shuffled them into nice profits include the following.

• Snatching up poorly priced Enchanted Leathers to craft into Shifting Cloaks.
• Poorly priced Enchanted Thorium can be converted into Enchanted Thorium Blades for Disenchanting into Illusion Dusts and Greater Eternal Essences.

So be sure to try to get out of the same way of thinking about what to sell.  There are many options for making gold on the auction house.  With a litle digging around and looking at selling prices as well as the prices of raw and intermediate materials, you can surely find some new markets or new ideas for making gold within the World of Warcraft.

Auction House Junkies Out and About

Today I would like to take the time and do a little bit of promotion for both Wes and I.  If you enjoy reading our sites and listening to The Auction House Junkies gold making podcast, then be sure to catch us around the blog-o-sphere.  That's right!  My good buddy Wes of cappedbycata.com and I, Cold of Cold's Gold Factory, have both been working on new projects.

Goldgrub's Goblin Academy

Goldgrub's Goblin Academy - The Goldgrub's project for beginning goblins and fresh auctioneers is going very well.  We have been putting out some excellent articles and have been adding new writers to the staff.  We are still accepting guest post submissions.  Writing for the brand new player is harder than you might think.  Please stop by and check out my posts on Mondays.  Wes's posts are live on Thursdays.

Wes Joins Warcraft Econ

Wes has joined the staff at Warcraft Econ.  He is writing there on a semi-regular basis.  Check out his recent article:  WoW Companions & Mounts | An Indepth Tool For Spending Your Gold.

Cold Joins Time Wasted Tuesday

I have signed on as a contributing writer over at TimeWastedTuesday.net.  I will be writing there a few times a month if not more.  Check out my first article:  Twinking: An End To The Carrot Chase.  The site is a general MMORPG site and the authors cover various aspects of different online games, not just World of Warcraft.

Wes Guests On The Power Word: Gold Podcast

Check out the newest episode of The Power World: Gold Podcast and you will hear Wes as the guest on the show.  Wes, Nev, and Flux have a great show for your listening enjoyment.  Wes details his experience with the cut Inferno Ruby market takeover attempt.

So be sure to check out our other projects as we diversify out writing styles a bit.  As always, thanks for reading!

Screw Inferno Rubies, I'm Stockpiling Dream Emeralds

The Race Towards New 4.2 Recipes


While many of my alts are still stuck at the starting line, even though they were well prepared and ready to race alts, my main is towards the front of the racing pack.  As you may have heard Wes (of Cappedbycata.com) and I discussing on a past episode of The Auction House Junkies Gold Making Podcast, I chose to race for the new patterns with my main character.  Since Cold is an Engineer, that means I'm racing to be one of the first sellers of  the new Engineering items from Patch 4.2.  Cold has advanced past the first phase of Firelands Invasion Dailies and has picked Shadows Wardens over Druids of the Talon.  I am only 1 day off of the fastest speed possible and I continue to find just enough minimum playtime to get his daily quests from the Molten Front and the Regrowth completed each and every day.  I want to be one of the first sellers of the new gun, but my main focus is on hoping to bank heavily on the new scope, Flintlocke's Woodchucker.

Dream Emeralds

Dream Emeralds sell horribly on my server.  I think the majority of them have been sold to vendors prior to the price drops on gems.  When they appear raw and uncut on the auction house, the prices can be pretty low.  I have been scooping these cheaply prices Dream Emeralds up because the demand for them is about to explode.  Once the new scopes are craftable on your server, you can expect those Dream Emeralds to be much harder to find.  So stock up now, while the short-sighted players haven't been planning ahead.

Why I Am Stockpiling Dream Emeralds

• The new Flintlocke's Woodchucker scopes each require 2 Dream Emeralds to craft.
• Every single hunter out there will be buying a new scope or having one crafted.
• Tons of scopes will sell to mains and every alt hunter.
• This recipe does NOT require any BOP items to craft.
• The raw Dream Emerald price will rise as some players look to buy the materials and have the item crafted by an Engineer.  You did learn about supplying both purchasers and shoppers right?

The biggest benefit of racing with my Engineer first is that the biggest money maker (Flintlocke's Woodchucker) requires zero Living Embers and zero Chaos Orbs.  All of the other new weapon patterns do require Living Elements Chaos Orbs, which is going to be a major choking point for mass crafting of the new weapons.  Even worse is the dreamcloth chokepoint for the bags, since they are still BOP and take a full week to make.  Most people would probably pick Blacksmithing first, since there are so many options with the new recipes.  I think that as an Engineer, I will have much more profits before the Blacksmith is even able to create a handful of items to sell.  Plus Engineering is the least used profession, which helps limit the competition and opens up a better selling opportunity.  

Who's With Me On This One?

So Many Firelands Dailies, So Little Quest Time

Firelands Daily Quest Grinding

The wait for the Firelands Patch and the inclusion of the new daily quests in Patch 4.2 stirred up much anticipation.  I had been grinding those last few levels on my main crafters.  I had leveled a 5th character to maximum level and had my main and 4 alt characters ready to race for the new craftable patterns.  I started out with my main character, Colddrawn the Engineer, who was racing for the new Engineering patterns added in Patch 4.2.  By the time I started advancing my second racer, my Blacksmith, I had already figured out how to maximize the Firelands Invasion daily quests.  I had huge plans on advancing both my Tailors and my Leatherworker as well, but I ran into a rut.  I just don't have the time to run all of these dailies with all of my alts.  Why is Blizzard making it so much harder for those of use with armies of crafting alts?

Currently my main is the only one completing the quests every day.  I am so busy with work and my blogging projects, that I often get to log in to do my dailies on my main and then I'm logging off.  Luckily I haven't missed but the very first day of the Patch 4.2 quests, so I'm not far behind at all with my Engineer.  I am looking forward to the end of summer when I will not be stuck working 50+ hours a week covering vacations and late night shifts.  And by the end of summer the school kids will be returning to class and the markets will be much calmer.  Hell, I'm not even posting hardly anything on the auction house these past couple of weeks, where my work hours ended up over 60+ for a single week.

What I am doing is stockpiling Dream Emeralds.

Anyone want to figure out why I am stockpiling those crappy rare green Cata gems?

July - Cold's Gold Blogging Carnival | Ideal Alts

Cold's Gold Blogging Carnival

Welcome to the July edition of Cold's Gold Blogging Carnivals. These carnivals will continue to take place the 11th day of every month and will be hosted here at Cold's Gold Factory. All World of Warcraft bloggers are welcome to participate and feedback both here and on the original authors' sites is strongly encouraged. So show some support and please leave some feedback in the comments section. These bloggers put a lot of time and hard work into these blogging carnival posts.  Please let them know what you think of their blogging carnival entries.

If you would like to be included in the next month's carnival, please review the guidelines for Cold's Gold Blogging Carnivals and submit your link via email (ssmith0911 at live dot com) before the 10th of the month. Read up on the benefits of blogging carnival participation at my other blog designed to help new bloggers, Blogging Vitals. Articles are listed in the order they are received. Thank you to all the bloggers participating in this months carnival!  Participate in the Blogging Carnivals and get a quality linkback to your site.

 
This Month's Topic:

Build Your Own Ideal Alt - Inspired By The Original Ideal Alts Series.

This month is all about some of the other bloggers' interpretations of the Ideal Alt creation strategy.  There are some wonderful posts this month, so be sure to visit them all.  We even have a mini-podcast submission this month.  Thanks George!

My first guide, Mysterious Fortune Card Mastery, has been helping a handful of players (70+ sold so far) who have already got their fortune card business up and running and are raking in the WoW gold. Also remember to check out the other great guides in the WoW Gold Guide Shop.

Be sure to check out AuctionHouseJunkies.com for the podcast on making gold, which is hosted by myself and Wes of Capped By Cata. Goldgrub's Goblin Academy has also opened doors for helping newer gold makers.

Goldgrub's is growing nicely and we have added a couple of excellent writers to the staff.  Be sure to check the site out and welcome Xtreme and R9sid9nt9vil of Eviscerated.net.  Xtreme has written some excellent articles and R9sid9nt9vil has just signed up to assist readers with his thoughts on our Sunday posting slot.

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Build Your Own Ideal Alt

Alts, Ideally by Drayden of Third Torch

"For me, alts are all about professions. But there's so many to choose from? Which professions would I want, and on what character?"

Build Auction House Spies With Eternally Free "Starter Edition Accounts" by Fluxdada (Flux) of Power Word: Gold
"While these free "Starter Editions" are eternally-free there are many restrictions on the account to prevent abuse. You can't use mail or chat in general chat. Can't be invited to a guild or trade with other players. You can reach a maximum level of 20 and you can't purchase or sell items on the auction house."

Old Main Is Already Ideal by R9sid9nt9vil of Eviscerated.net and Goldgrub's Goblin Academy
"I had to think about it for a few days to come up with the perfect alt all around. The more I thought about it the more I realized I already have the ideal alt. My old main is a Blood elf Paladin Tank; he is maxed Jewelcrafting and Enchanting."

Ideal Alts If Starting Fresh by Epidermuss of Wrags To Riches
"So on my realm I play on I currently have 9 of my 10 slots for the realm used with a lot a time played between all characters. So I took this topic and looked at it as if I was going to start over on a new realm how I would go about building up a stable of characters and the jobs I would assign to each character."

The Mana Cooler Episode 102 - An Ideal Alt by George of The Mana Cooler Podcast
"In this ideal episode of The Mana Cooler, I talk about what an ideal alt would be for me. I separate into 3 categories - Dream World, Wishful Thinking and Reality. Thanks for listening!"

Making A Buck While Leveling Alt No. 2349 by Windsoar of Jaded Alt
"This alt isn’t for those who are looking to create the perfect complement of max level toons to build their gold-making empire. These are basic tips & tricks that anyone looking to level just for the fun of it can use to squeeze a bit of extra cash out of a disposable character."

The Building A Better Bank Series by Wes of Capped By Cata, Goldgrub's Goblin Academy, Auction House Junkies and Warcraft Econ.
"The three topics I'm going to cover in the next few days are:

• Part 1: To Level or Not to Level?
• Part 2: Choosing the Best Class
• Part 3: Professions? "

An Ideal Alt, Hmmm... Decisions, Decisions by Nev of Auction House Addict
"Now Cold did a fairly comprehensive series of posts on this subject & my first choice was in there so it's taken me a while but I think I've found one he didn't cover! The rep grinding rogue."

Who Else Has An Idea Of Another Ideal Alt?  There Are So Many Options.  What Is Your Ideal Alt?

Arena Season Compensation - Be Prepared!

Breaking News - Arena Season Compensation

As you may already know, some PvP players got completly screwed last Tuesday.  Azuriel did a great post covering the issue on how Blizzard punked some PvP players.  Blizzard has just released a blue post showing an attempt to correct the issues where some players got ripped buying gear that got replaced on the vendors a week later with better gear for the same price.  Check out the blue post below.  Alto has a post detailing the PvP gear costs and making gold with Arena Season 10.

"We wanted to let everyone know that we’re working to address the miscommunication that occurred regarding the introduction of new item level 371 PvP gear, and share our current plans.


For background, many players spent their Honor Points on item level 365 gear once Season 9 ended only to find that more powerful item level 371 gear was available when season 10 started. We should have communicated ahead of time that this was going to be the case, and we apologize for the mistake.

We’ve been working over the past few days to evaluate and determine the best course of action to offer players some kind of compensation for those who were caught off guard by the new gear. The plan we’ve found to be achievable within an acceptable amount of time is to provide players who were affected with 4000 Honor Points. This extra Honor would function similarly to the currency down-conversion in that it would stack over the cap, but you would not be able to earn more until you spent under the 4000 cap.

The process of determining who was affected is certainly the most difficult task of this issue, and the entire process of figuring out who should receive the Honor or not and then delivering it isn’t anything less than a giant undertaking. We’re still evaluating many of the processes that will be required to make this happen. Although we’re fairly confident we can pull it off, there is still a chance it may not be possible. Due to other service related work the soonest we would be able to distribute this Honor is the 7/19 Tuesday maintenance. More complicated solutions we discussed could take months to implement, but we felt getting something to those affected as quickly as possible was more important.

Although some of this is still uncertain we felt it best to let people know as far in advance as possible to allow for adequate planning. We’ll be able to provide more information and specifics on how this process will be carried out, and the requirements to receive the 4000 Honor, next week.

Again, we apologize for any inconvenience caused by our miscommunication. We greatly appreciate those who took the time to give us constructive feedback on the matter."

-Bashiok

What This Means For Auctioneers?

We can expect to see another wave of gems and enchants moving once these compensatory Honor points are awarded to the affected players.  So if your Inferno Ruby price are dropping lower than you would like, consider holding on to your cut Inferno Rubies them to sell once this next wave of free Honor brings in even more PvP gear purchases.  This wave probably won't be as big as the initial rush on the new PvP gear, but it should bring in a noticable spike in sales of item enhancements. 

So keep your eyes peeled as to when these Honor points are going to be awarded and be prepared to ride that wave of sales and get you close to your gold making goal or your Warcraft Econ Hall of Fame interview.

Maximizing Your Firelands Daily Quests

Firelands Dailies In The Molten Front

Have you been preparing to profit from the unlockable vendors added with the Firelands Patch 4.2?  We had prepared our profession crafters and got them ready to race for Patch 4.2 and the new recipes for Blacksmithing, Engineering, Leatherworking, and Tailoring.  Then the Firelands Patch 4.2 dropped and the race to reach those recipes faster than our competition had began.  That race currently continues as players are collecting their Marks of the World Tree and preparing for their first choice of unlocking Druids of The Talon or Shadow Wardens.

Maximizing Your Choices

The new Firelands daily quests require daily attention and we are forced to spend some of our playtime on collecting the Marks of the World Tree.  If we are racing with multiple profession crafting alts, then the time commitment can get hefty, even with the best and fastest route to completion.  Since we will be repeating the same general groups of quests over and over, it is a wise idea to look at what options are the most profitable. 

You may have noticed that you have collected a few Volatiles while completing your daily quests for the Firelands.  The direct choices that you make in picking your targetted quest mobs will affect how many Volatiles you can recieve each day while doing your daily quests.  So why not choose the best options each and every time, since we have to do this same quests over and over?  I decided to dig a little deeper and loot at drop rates for the various mobs that can be chosen to complete a couple of the Firelands quests.

Hostile Elements
The quest Hostile Elements in the Molten Front is one of the Firelands daily quests that does not rotate.  This quest is available every day, but the choices you make can limit your potential earnings while fulfilling the quest requirements.  Hostile Elements requires you to kill 8 Charred Combatants, which can be either Charred Vanquishers or Charred Soldiers. 

Charred Vanquishers or Charred Soldiers?
Charred Vanquishers have a chance to drop 1-3 Volatile Fire when killed.  Wowhead.com shows the drop rate as a 27% chance per kill to award 1-3 Volatile Fire, while the loot table for Charred Soldier shows only grey items.  Captain Obvious says, "Don't waste time and effort killing Charred Soldiers, only kill Charred Vanquishers, so you can collect Volatile Fires.

Hostile Elements Quest Kill Options

Take Away
Ok, so this may be a simple tip, but did you research the options yourself?  Or have you been wandering around willy-nilly killing whatever you can to be done and get your Firelands daily quests over with?  The real point to take away from this is that you should develop an inquisitive mindset.  You should research your options to best maximize your earnings potentials.  That is what making gold and being efficient is all about - maximing your options and getting the most profit for the least amount of work.  Hey that's also the Generation X motive (I'm an Xer too)!

Mine My Corpse For Free Loots

Molten Behemoths and Free Volatile Earth

Another easy source of sellable crafting materials comes from the Molten Behemoths.  These mobs are in the surrounding areas and on specific dailies when their quest is one of the random daily quests even more are swarming the base in the Molten Front.  They only have grey items on their loot tables, but the real bonus comes from mining these giant corpses.  Wowhead.com shows their loot table from mining the corpse to have a 19% chance to gather 2-3 Volatile Earths and a 9% chance to collect 1-5 Elementium Ores.  Just like the Land of Free Volatile Earths, you can scavenge the area where these are killed and collect free Volatile Earths and Elementium Ores with your miner.  This is especially easy on the days that the Molten Behemoths are multiplied due to their daily quest triggered as one of the Firelands dailies.

Firelands Daily Quests: Shadow Wardens or Druids of the Talon?

The Firelands Daily Quests

Within the Molten Front, we are given a choice of which group to award out first 150 Marks of the World Tree, the Shadow Wardens or the Druids of the Talon.  This decision is one of the most commonly asked questions since World of Warcraft Patch 4.2 released.  We all want to get to the recipe vendors as fast as possible so that we can start selling the new craftable gear, weapons, and scopes.  And getting to that stage before our competition is a goal of many of us WoW gold makers and auctioneers.

"Which group should I pick to unlock first, The Shadow Wardens or The Druids of the Talon?"

Pick The Shadow Wardens first.

Which group you pick does not relate at all to unlocking the vendors that sell the recipes.  The reason you want to unlock the Shadow Wardens first is because they unlock 1 more daily quests than the Druids of the Talon.  The Shadow Wardens open up 3 new daily quests, while the Druids of the Talon will open up only 2 new daily quests.  This means that picking the Shadow Wardens first will allow you access to 2 extra Marks of the World Tree every day, until you unlock both.  You must unlock both the Druids of the Talon and the Shadow Wardens prior to unlocking any recipe vendors anyways.

Here is a link to an awesome guide just released about everything you need to know about the Firelands daily quests, recipes, vendors, achievements, etc.  This is an awesome article that should answer all your questions.  http://www.icy-veins.com/firelands-daily-quests

EDIT:  Blizzard has hotfixed this issue and it no longer matters which group you get first.  You can now unlock the same number of quests with either group.  The Shadow Wardens are the faster of the two choices once you get them both unlocked and are just chasing Marks.

Similar posts: 

• Druids of the Talon Quest Farming
• Maximizing Your Firelands Invasion Daily Quests
• Got My Flameward Hippogryph Mount. Now What?
• New Firelands Vendors Offer Auctioneer Opportunities
• Profiting On Cheap Volatile Fire And Earth
• Profiting From Mankrik & The Protectors Of Hyjal Daily Quest

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Looking For World of Warcraft Guides To Review

Call For World of Warcraft Guides

I am looking for authors of Gold Making WoW Guides and World of Warcraft Leveling Guides.  Please contact me, if you would like to have your guide reviewed either here at Cold's Gold Factory or over at the hot new WoW starter site, Goldgrub's Goblin Academy.

Submit your guide or mini-guide to me at SSmith0911 (at) live (dot) com for review.

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What are you waiting for?  Send those guides in and I will help promote the ones that I feel are worth the price based on the given information.

Anyone have any favorite guides that they definately would recommend to others?

Nightmare Tears & Prismatic Sockets in WoW Patch 4.2

"It's not new, but the Nightmare Tear (prismatic gem) is selling like hotcakes to all the higher levels that are getting new gear with prismatic sockets and don't know that you can put any gem into them... Easy 450-550g a pop for these on my Horde server (<250g each on the Alliance side). Been selling 2-5 a day. Yes, each one requires a dragon's eye, but I've been able to buy them fairly cheap (<150g each most of the time) so far and actually those prices are falling after a brief spike over 200g."  - Matthew

Nightmare Tear

Good ol' Nightmare Tear.  You remember the Nightmare Tear prismatic cut from Wrath of the Lich King?  I've had a few reports submitted of people selling these like crazy since the release of World of Warcraft Patch 4.2.  There are no armor pieces dropping from the new content that include prismatic gem slots.  The wave of gear from new content always leads to more gem sales and players are looking for a gem to slot into the sockets of their new armor pieces.  Blacksmiths can create prismatic (or uncolored) sockets for 2 of their pieces of gear and the Blacksmith crafted Ebonsteel Belt Buckles also create a prismatic socket when added to a belt item.

Prismatic Gem Sockets
Prismatic Gems can be placed in a red, blue, or yellow gem socket.  Foolish players believe that prismatic gems are the only option for filling prismatic sockets.  A wise player understands that a prismatic gem socket can hold any color gem.  Newsflash: You don't have to put a prismatic gem into a prismatic socket.  I believe players are getting pismatic gems and meta-gems confused.  A meta-gem has to be placed into a meta-gem slot, but a prismatic gem can be placed into any slot.  Only one prismatic gem can be used per WoW character, since they are unique.

Selling To The Foolish
The World of Warcraft player base as a whole tends to be uninformed and ignorant, as evidenced again by the rush of sales for old outdated prismatic gems for the new gear.  Be sure to take advantage of this unexpected rush before these foolish players are enlightened by their guild mates that know better. 

I have been consistently buying cheap priced Dragon's Eyes in order to sell Nightmare Tears.  I have previously been selling these to leveling characters and higher level twinks.  Since the Patch, this market has been welcoming more and more buyers.  Although these buyers are foolish players that probably don't know any better, I'll continue to take their gold.  If no one is supplying the Nightmare Tears on your server, then test out the market and see if there are foolish players waiting to line your pockets as well.  Other than buying the Dragon's Eyes from the auction house, another great source is from your Jewelcrafting profession since there is no cooldown on Icy Prism anymore.

Is your server also full of fools?

Patch 4.2 Gold Making Checklist

Patch 4.2 Gold Tips

Patch 4.2 has been on the live World of Warcraft servers for a week now.  There are many great opportunities for turning a profit from the changes and additions from WoW Patch 4.2.  Today I present to you a checklist of some of the new additions and things to focus on or to learn to make sure you are aware and able to profit from the new opportunities presented with the release of Patch 4.2.

Patch 4.2 Checklist

• Scribes - Do 1 Northrend Inscription Research to learn the new Glyph of Unleashed Lightning.  As a gold maker, you can sell Snowfall Inks for high prices as all Scribes will need at least one to learn the new Glyph of Unleashed Lightning.  I sell my Snowfall Inks for 35 gold each.
• Scribes - Visit your Inscription profession trainer and learn the 3 new PvP Relic recipes:  Bloodthirsty Charm of Triumph, Bloodthirsty Eyeball of Dominance, & Bloodthristy Jawbone of Conquest.  These are all 3 great new Relics to sell with the ending of the PvP arena season and the new arena season starting soon.  You can also sell the Eyeballs, Jawbones, and Silver Charm Bracelets for crazy inflated prices as the Inscription vendor bought items where the only items spared during the nerf to Twilight Highlands vendors.
• Jewelcrafters - Visit Your Jewelcrafting profession trainer and learn the 6 new pieces of PvP jewelry (rings & neckpieces).  I myself haven't tried selling these just yet, but I do know that they are options for using up some of those excess rare gems that you have left from all the shuffling.
• Companion Pets - New companion pets achievement awards have been added for the new pet achievements that were added in Patch 4.1.  Pet sales have been up since Patch 4.1 and the addition of the new rewards will surely keep the sales of pets moving.  Be sure to grab your free and easy Faction Balloon companion pet also.
• Blacksmiths - Obsidium Skeleton Keys are now only useable by Blacksmiths.  Be sure to send any of the unsold skeleton keys on your auctioneers back to your Blacksmith as the Obsidium Skeleton Keys now require Blacksmithing skill to use.  Was a great gold maker while it lasted.
• Cloak Enchants - Thrall's quest chain in Mount Hyjal rewards an epic ilvl 365 cloak.  Many players are upgrading to the ilvl 365 epic cloak and cloak enchants are selling like mad right now and will continue as players deck their lvl 85 alts in this easy to obtain epic cloak.
• Gems and Enchants - New content and new craftables bring new upgrade purchases.  Top 2 sellers on most servers right now are enchants and gems for all of the new gear.  Inferno Rubies continue to be the bread and butter of most sales, but don't forget other markets, especially PvP oriented gems like +Spell Pen and +Resilience.  Inferno Ruby stocks are hopefully drying up on your server, which can allow for extra profits when you choose to sell your Inferno Ruby cuts.
• New PvP Gear - The old craftable PvP gear recipes have been upgraded.  No need to go learn the new recipes.  If you already knew them, then check your recipe books.  The recipes have been upgraded and increased in item level.  Time to get back to selling that PvP gear!
• New Daily Quest Hubs - Start grinding those dailies to save up your Marks of the World Tree.  All of the new vendors are hidded behind phasing, which requires you to unlock the areas one at a time.  In order to get the new craftable recipes from the Avengers of Hyjal faction, you must get started on the quest chain and get to unlocking more quest hubs.  Lots of dailies and marks to collect - Handle it!

Is there anything else that I've missed here on this checklist?  Feel free to add it in the comments, if you can recall an area I've overlooked.

How To Get Your Horde or Alliance Balloon Pet

WoW Horde Balloon Pets

New Companion Pet Faction Balloons

With the release of Patch 4.2 and the new companion pets for the new pet collecting acheivements, a new companion pet has been added to the World of Warcraft.  Pet collectors and players all over Azeroth are looking to find out how to find these new balloon faction specific companion pets.  You may have seen a character walking around with one of the balloons that look like a mylar baloon of your faction's logo.  Well, my friend, it is a new companion vanity pet and here is how you get yours.

How To Get Your Balloon Companion Pet

1. Speak with Jaga in the Valley of Honor, Ogrimmar or Vin in Cathedral Square, Stormwind.
2. Start the quest "Blown Away"
3. Collect the 5 Windswept Balloons from around the city and return to the quest giver.
4. Collect either your Horde Balloon or Alliance Balloon.

Undocumented Change From Patch 4.2

Sporeling Snacks Recipes have been removed from the game.  Any old recipes have been turned to ruined recipes, so make sure to clear out these and any other items that may have decayed in your bank.  You can still use your Glowcaps as currencies for Clam Bar Recipes.

Auction House Junkies Call For Patch 4.2 Questions

Happy 4th of July

Auction House Junkies

Today we are going to be recording another episode of The Auction House Junkies gold making podcast.  Patch 4.2 has dropped and Wes and I would like to hear what questions you readers and listeners have since WoW Patch 4.2 is now live.  Do you have any questions or new tips that you would like to ask about or share with the show?  Any specific items or professions that you would like to hear a little bit more about?  Want to know something silly and off the wall about your hosts?  Ask away!  How are you liking World of Warcraft Patch 4.2 so far? 

Please use the comments section to ask your questions or to leave comments for discussion on the podcast.


Auction House Junkies is brought to you free of charge by Wes of Capped By Cata and I, Cold of Cold's Gold Factory.  Thanks for listening to our show and thanks for the continued support.

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Recap of Popular June Gold Making Posts

Welcome Back!

Welcome to all of my new and returning readers! Each month I do a recap of the month before and highlight 10 gold posts or gold guides that appeared during the previous month. I highlight the top 5 most popular and the 5 with the most comments / best discussion.  Patch 4.2 is currently live on the World of Warcraft servers.  Overall site traffic is climbing higher than ever as there are many players looking for gold tips and more Patch 4.2 gold guides and strategies.

WoW Gold Post And Guides Recap

Top 5 Most Popular Posts From June

• The Alt Army Preparation For WoW Patch 4.2 - Getting the alts ready to start the new Patch 4.2 Hyjal Dailies.
• Best Use For A Free WoW Vet Account - Using your free second account for cross faction commerce (arbitrage).
• Frost Lord Ahune Cloak Drops Increase Enchant Sales - Can also be applied to the new Patch 4.2 Thrall quest chain which rewards a cloak also.
• Patch 4.2 Inferno Ruby Cuts - Sell Now Or Hold Out? - Are you on the bandwagon or are you waiting for the Inferno Ruby cuts to rise in price.
• Top 9 Uses For The Remote Auction House - What are you using the Remote Auction House for?

Top 5 Most Discussed Posts From June

• My Take On Power Leveling Professions - Why I don't power level wastefully.
• Help a Young Reader Out Research Project - Robbie needs your help witha survey for a school research project related to World of Warcraft.
• That Dreaded Time Of Year Again - School kids are out for the summer.  Competition and auction house camping is on the rise.
• Midsummer Fire Festival | Leveling Alts With Bonfires - +XP buffs, Dps buffs, Easy bonfires, and more.
• Guild Bank Skimming & Cash Flow Update - The random invite guild update and controversial topic.  Check out the forum thread over at the Consortium and comment if you think this is a shady practice or it is perfectly legit.  Unethical Gold Making Forum Thread

Ideal Alts Series For Gold Makers

June also saw the release of a full series on Ideal Alts.  This entire series was both well received and discussed. 

Ideal Alts Series

• Ideal Alts Series Intro /Wes’s Building A Better Bank Alt
• The Dungeon Farmer – An Ideal Heroic Farming Alt
• The Collector – An Ideal Vendor Flipping and Pet Selling Alt
• The Herder – An Ideal AoE Farmer Alt
• The Low Level Dungeon Farmer – An Ideal Alt For Farming Low Level Instances
• The Solo Raider and World Boss Killer - An Ideal Alt For Farming Old Raids

 The Gold Blogging Carnival here at Cold's Gold Factory is coming soon.  The topic is "Create Your Own Ideal Alt."  If you don't have a blog and would like to participate in the blogging carnival, you can send me a guest post on the same topic and I will host your article at Goldgrub's Goblin Academy.  Bloggers, get your carnival entries in to reserve your top spot on the list of entries (First come, First listed).

MFC Mastery Holiday Sale Ending Soon

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WoW Patch 4.2 Firelands Recipes Are BoE

WoW Patch 4.2 - Rage of The Firelands

WoW Patch 4.2 Firelands Recipes

Now that World of Warcraft Patch 4.2 is live, we know the origins of all of the new recipes introduced in this new WoW content expansion.  The new weapon plans and scope schematics are available from Damek Bloombeard and the new profession bag patterns are available from Ayla Shadowstorm.  Both of these vendors are located within the Molten Front.  The vendors are locked behind quest phasing and you must complete the new daily quests to start unlocking the vendors and gain access to those recipes.  These are the recipes that we were preparing our main and alts for Patch 4.2 to start racing to be the first to unlock the vendors and get access to the patterns.

The patterns and plans for the armor pieces are all available from the mobs within the new Patch 4.2 Firelands raid instance.  Currently trash mobs and bosses can drop the new epic patterns for the new epic craftable gear.  Hopefully this is as Blizzard intended and it won't be hotfixed to only allow the recipes to drop from bosses.  All of the new Firelands raid patterns are listed below.

Should You Buy These BoE Patterns?

I myself wouldn't buy these patterns off of the auction house unless I was a major raider and could accumulate enough Living Embers to be able to start producing the gear as soon as the recipe was purchased.  I would wait for the prices to come down as right now paying 20-50k gold for a pattern is going to take a while to earn enough profit to pay off the recipe cost.  While you are working on collecting the Living Embers, the prices will continue to fall.

Since these patterns and plans can be acquired from trash mobs within the Firelands, doing trash runs could be very profitable if you are lucky enough to win a roll for one of the epic gear patterns.  I would sell while the content is fresh and new and the prices are sky high.  You can probably sell for a high amount now and repurchase the same pattern later for far cheaper.

Patch 4.2 BoE Firelands Recipes

Firelands Tailoring Recipe Drops
Pattern: Boots of the Black Flame
Pattern: Grips of Altered Reality
Pattern: Don Tayo's Inferno Mittens
Pattern: Endless Dream Walkers

Firelands Leatherworking Recipe Drops
Pattern: Ethereal Footfalls
Pattern: Footwraps of Quenched Fire
Pattern: Gloves of Unforgiving Flame
Pattern: Heavenly Gloves of the Moon
Pattern: Treads of the Craft
Pattern: Clutches of Evil
Pattern: Dragonfire Gloves
Pattern: Earthen Scale Sabatons

Firelands Blacksmithing Recipe Drops
Plans: Emberforged Elementium Boots
Plans: Eternal Elementium Handguards
Plans: Fists of Fury
Plans: Holy Flame Gauntlets
Plans: Mirrored Boots
Plans: Warboots of Mighty Lords

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Winners Announced And Special Reader Bonus

And The Winners Are...

Today is the day for announcing the 2 lucky winners of the Mysterious Fortune Card Mastery gold making guide.  The Mysterious Fortune Cards are back selling like mad lately with all of the new summer players, kids out of school, and players returning for the new content from World of Warcraft Patch 4.2.

If you didn't win, be sure to read the entire post for your consolation prize.

The Winner of The Newsletter Giveaway

Subscriber #232 is theWinner.  Sub #232 is Charlie.


The Winner of The Comment Giveaway

Comment #1 is the Winner:  Psynister of Psynister's Notebook

Congrats to both Psynister and Charlie for winning! Check your email for your winning MFC Mastery Guide.  Consolation Prize at the bottom of this post.

Wes's Winged Guardian Giveaway

There is also another 15 days left in Wes's contest over at Capped By Cata, where he is giving away one of the new Winged Guardian flying mounts from the Blizzard Store.  Check out the official Giveaway details for your chance to win this brand new mount.

Consolation Prize - Holiday Blowout Savings

I would personally like to thank every single one of you that participated in the newsletter and the comments section giveaways.  I did get some good ideas from the comments and have already done one post inspired by those questions and requests.  As a consolation prize for those of you that did not win the Mysterious Fortune Card Mastery WoW gold making guide, I have decided to offer an amazing discount off of the purchase of your own Mysterious Fortune Card Mastery Guide. 

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