The Pessimist's Guide To WoW Crafting Markets

The Pessimistic Guide To WoW Crafting Markets

Some Truths, Some Fallacies, Some Myths - Can You Tell Which Is Whack?

Jewelcrafting - These damn ore prices are insane.  Who can make any gold with Elementium Ore going for 120 gold a stack?  None of this PvP jewelry is selling worth a damn.  There is no place for hundreds and hundreds of Zephyrites to go.  Same old quests over and over for tokens is pretty boring and lame.  Epic gems are too expensive of a market to enter.

Blacksmithing - These damn Shield Spikes and Weapon Chains don't sell anymore.  Gah!  Look at the ore and bar prices!  I wasted all these materials on PvP gear and they aren't selling.  Only epics worth crafting are too expensive to craft now.  Blacksmithing rods suck, cause people only buy 1 ever.

Enchanting - Good Lord, the prices of raw Cataclysm materials!  How can anyone turn a profit off of enchant scrolls with prices this low on scrolls and so high on the materials?  Craft for a loss?  Disenchanting crap is boring and annoying.  People don't tip Enchanters much at all.

Engineering - There is barely anything to craft for a profit!  All you have is pets to sell.  This professions isn't for making money; It's for pets, mounts, and fun.

Alchemy - All I can do is 1 transmute a day, that's it.  Potions and Flasks are worthless markets.  No one buys older alchemist made items anymore.

Inscription - Inferno Inks, LOL!  Darkmoon Faire trinkets are a dead market.   Glyphs are nothing but an undercutting bloodbath.  Players aren't stupid enough to buy Mysterious Fortune Cards.  You can't make any money, until you know all of the glyphs.  The Glyph market died with the permanancy change.

Leatherworking - Leg Armors are the only item worth selling.  Leather prices are always crazy high and in short supply.  No one buys this leather PvP gear.  Most skinners are also leatherworks who just craft their own gear.

Tailoring - Dreamcloth items are limited due to the 1 week cooldown.  PvP gear isn't selling.  Tailoring is just for making your own items to Disenchant.  All the good recipes require reputation grinding!  Bags are the only viable source of gold.

Cooking - People don't buy cooked foods; they just cook their own.  There is nothing to spend my cooking tokens on anymore!

Many of these are common complaints from playing the different profession auction house markets.  We all run into obstacles, competition, and slow sales periods.  Don't give up.  You must push onward and take a deeper look into your professions.  Don't let the hard times or the complicated situations get you down.  Use your head and find a way around the obstacle.  We all do it on a daily basis.  You can too.

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10 Reasons It Rocks To Make Gold In WoW

Why Make Gold In WoW?

Yesterday I gave you the Top 10 Reasons It Sucks To Be A WoW Gold Maker, but there are plenty of good things to outweigh the negatives.  Making gold in WoW can be a lot of fun, but can also be a headache at times.  Still though, as WoW gold makers, we continue to push for that bigger bankroll.  We continue to look for new ways to make gold.  Why?  Because that's what greedy goblins do.  We enjoy lining our banks with WoW gold.  Here are 10 more reasons for making gold in the World of Warcraft.

10 Reasons It Rocks To Make Gold In WoW

1. You can't get the most out of a GDKP run if you are broke.
2. You can gear out, max the professions, and entirely support all 10 characters on your account.
3. You can use your gold to bully other players around when they step into your market.
4. Opening hate mail is so much fun.
5. It feels nice to line your pocket with the gold of the ignorant, lazy, and clueless WoW players.
6. Mount Collector?  Companion Pet Junkie?  Recipe Hunter?  Hell, as a WoW gold maker you can collect it all.
7. While others are out grinding for gear upgrades, you can just buy yourself the gear to get into the raid or heroic instances with the correct item level.  Just ask Wes of Auction House Junkies.
8. Complete financial freedom to buy whatever you want whenever you want it.
9. You can actually afford the expensive items required to make a competitive twink character.
10. For the show-offs and the vain, there are plenty of gold sinks to let everyone else know what you've blown your gold on.

Add your own additions in the comments.

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10 Reasons It Sucks To Be A WoW Gold Maker

Being able to support all of your characters by your own financial success is a great feeling within World of Warcraft.  Being able to afford anything is excellent, but being a gold maker isn't always a positive thing.  I present to you today the top 10 reasons it sucks to be a gold maker.

Top 10 Reasons It Sucks To Be A WoW Gold Maker

1. If your friends / guild members know you are rich, they will ask you for loans, free gold, or pricing discounts.  Hey were are friends right?  Sorry.  Business is business.
2. You get home from work, log into WoW, and go right back to working in game.  Um, isn't this game supposed to be fun?  I'm paying Blizzard to do more work in my free time.  Fail!
3. If I shuffle another stack of Obsidium Ore, Saronite Ore, Elementium Ore or Pyrite Ore I will go crazy!  Every day I'm shufflin'!
4. Dealing with idiots in the trade channel who believe that /2 trade is not for advertising your crafted goods.  Get real!  It's the damn Trade Channel after all.
5. You often miss out on entire content patches before they are nerfed into the ground.
6. The life of a pure gold maker is a solitary one.  Raiding?  What's that?  PvP?  Huh?
7. Size does matter!  Stacking size that is. Bigger is always better, but you will never be satisfied.
8. There is always someone with more free time than you that will undercut your every move.
9. Being in major cities with auction houses most of your play time, leads to overexposure to the vile wretchedness that is the trade chat channel. Anal this, Chuck Norris that.
10. You can't be dancing nekkid on top of the WoW mail boxes, if you are always stuck in the auction house.

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You Know You're A Greedy Goblin When...

You Know You're A Greedy Goblin When...

1. The Shattering destroys Azeroth as we once knew it, but you haven't even noticed.
2. You delete your Hearthstone because it is taking up important bag space.
3. You spend your IRL lunch hour scouring over gold blogs.
4. You have so many guild banks you keep losing track of what items are stored where.
5. You have enough back stock to put the entire goblin trading cartel out of business.
6. You have 4 year old items in your bank waiting for the value to return.
7. You lie and tell others you have far less gold than you actually have.
8. Even though you have hundreds of thousands of gold, you tell the 1 gold beggar to "Go the f*ck away and earn your gold like everyone else".
9. Your in game friend list is full of nothing but competitors.
10. You delete and re-roll a new banking character every few weeks.
11. All of your characters have special letter characters in their name.
12. You get hate mail on a daily basis.
13. You're broke IRL, but you're rich in WoW!
14. Cataclysm has been out for over 3 months, but you still haven't ran a heroic dungeon.
15. Your banking toon's gear is worth more than the character its on.
16. You don't even know where Tol Barad is on the world map.
17. You're still waiting for more nerfs before starting your dungeoning career.
18. You can make 35k in 5 hours selling nothing but Mysterious Fortune Cards.  :)

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Ravenwood Fair | WoW Easter Egg



Ravenwood Fair vs The Horde

Ravenwood Fair



While playing the Facebook game, Ravenwood Fair, I got the above letter as completion to a quest for the princess of Ravenwood.  Made me chuckle.  Thought I would pass it on.