Blackwater Cutlass - Easy Monk Profits

Making WoW Gold Off Monks - Blackwater Cutlass


Flipping Blackwater Cutlass Post Mists of Pandaria

 Blackwater Cutlass

Blackwater Cutlass is a super nice piece of low level gear that can leads to easy profits on the WoW auction house.  One of the areas of profiting in any major expansion is to target items to craft and sell to the new players and new characters.  With Mists of Pandaria, it was a no-brainer to target poorly underpriced goods that were selling for very little gold prior to the expansion that would be expected to see an increase in demand and profit potential in the new expansion.  I set my sights on a bunch of leveling gear and weapons that I expected to see a nice profit potential (or Bargain Blues Shopping) with the wave of new Monk characters that we all knew would arrive along with Mists of Pandaria.  In addition to crafting items that Monks will buy, I was also grabbing monk friendly items to flip for a profit as well.



Blackwater Cutlass

Today I present to you one of the fastest selling and nicely profitable items that I had been buying out to flip for all of the new Monks.  The Blackwater Cutlass is by far the best of all of the gear and items that I had stockpiled to flip.  I've been flipping the Blackwater Cutlass for 5 days now and I've already sold 16 of them.  The chart above shows the Alliance side of my server, where I was buying the Cutlass for 2-16 gold each and flipping for 69 gold a piece.  I had less supply on the Horde side, but was able to increase my prices because of the supply shortage to 125 gold each.  Overall, my Resale MySales data shows that the 16 sold had an average Sale Price of around 75 gold, with an average purchase price of around 6 gold.  I've recently sold out on both factions, so I grabbed a few more that I saw posted with hopes of flipping them for an even higher price, but others have now caught on and are dropping the prices down on me.  The demand has been high enough that I'm not worried about undercutters, as they can sell theirs and mine should sell too. 

Blackwater Cutlass on All US Servers

Take a look at the price and supply of Blackwater Cutlass on your server.  There may still be plenty of chances for flipping them for a nice profit per sale like I have been doing.  The Undermine Journal shows that the prices are still pretty low on far too many of the WoW auction houses.  Hurry and start flipping them before everyone else catches on too!

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Bargain Blues Stockpiling For MoP



Hooray For Cheap Blue Gear!

 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. 

1. Select Armor auction group.
2. Change to rare quality only.
3. Search required level to 0-29
4. Check all blue gear results for poor pricing.
5. Buy the ones that have good stat combos and are poorly priced.
6. Do the same for Weapons level 0-29.
7. Then Armor 30-57.
8. Then Weapons 30-57.

When determining a price point, even if you dont understand which items can sell for a lot more, you should be able to identify that any good stat combo blue item should sell for 75g or more.  So buy out anything at 50g or under that has a good stat combo.  Many of the excellent items will sell for over 100 gold easily and some as high as 300-800 gold if its a best-in-slot twink item. 

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

As you can see these are top notch items that will sell for 150g minimum easy, but I will be pricing them 200 gold or more due to the demand spike and inflation.  This is just the tip of the iceberg!  I'm snatching tons of good blue gear to sell to the levelers, including the Tarot deck crafted blues that get listed too low.  You should be checking your auction house on your WoW server too! 

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

Sapphire Signets work the same way.  Why are you selling that +14 Agility ring for 5 gold?  Nevermind, thanks for being so dumb!  I'll make the money you were too foolish to recognize.


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Top 6 Items To Craft For The MoP Monk Influx



Monks & Pandas Incoming In MoP


MoP Monk Influx Suggested Craftables

With the Mists of Pandaria expansion looming and the obvious flood of Monks on the way, it's time to stock up on specific items that we can use to craft items sought after by these new Monk characters.  I have always been heavily invested into the markets that supply new players with gear and enchants at the forefront of every new WoW expansion.  Each and every expansion I have made hefty profits selling low level gear and enchants to the floods of new and returning players and characters.

With my years of experience selling items to new and leveling characters, I can say with absolute certainty that these are the 6 best items to stock up on to sell to new characters, specifically to the new Monks.  I've have always stocked up on the required crafting materials for months ahead of time, and I NEVER have enough items to meet the massive demand.  I've already been stocking up on these required crafting materials and again I will not have enough to supply the masses of new players coming in Mists of Pandaria.  The demand for these items is just massive and unless you've been stocking up on the materials for months, you should be able to sell every one that you craft too.  The limitation partly stems from the inability to obtain large quantities of some of these materials due to their decreased drop rates.

I can never craft enough of these leveling items because they are top quality items for levelings and players who like to gear out their leveling characters.  I sold out in Cataclysm again and that was with no new character class being added.  With the addition of Monks, the demand on these low level items is going to explode.  Due to the difficulty in obtaining the recipe or materials for these items, you don't have to worry about leveling characters flooding your market as they level their professions.

Top 6 Items To Craft For Monks

1. Barbaric Bracers - A favorite among twinks and leveling characters.  Large fangs are super rare now and this pushes the price and profits up even higher than in previous expansions when I would easily sell out for 125 gold each.
2. Deviate Scale Belts - Recipe no longer obtainable, so very easy market to control completely.  Perfect Deviate Scales are the limiting factor in how many you will be able to craft and sell.
3. Toughened Leather Gloves - Spider's Silk requirement makes these rarely seen for sale on the Auction House.  Stock up or farm the Spider's Silk now and make these in MoP.
4. Malachite Pendant - These are the only ones we may see flood the market from JC profession levelers.  Fear not, this is one of the best low level items to buy up and flip for huge profits, because it's the only + Agility neck piece for a while.
5. +15 Agility To Weapon Enchant - The best enchant for Monk fist weapons and now sought by Hunters, Rogues, Druids, & Monks.  Stock up on those Essence of Air and Large Brilliant Shards.
6. Fiery Weapon Enchant - #1 selling enchant for leveling characters overall in my experiences.  Sure Crusader sells to some classes and Mighty Intellect to others, but Enchant Weapon: Fiery flies off the auction house when a new expansion drops.  Rich players buy +15 Agi; poor players buy Fiery.

Stocking Up Materials For These Great Monk Items

Here is the master list of materials you will need to craft these 6 items.  Start stocking up now, especially on the rare and hard to find items like: Perfect Deviate Scale, Large Fangs, & Spider Silk, & Heavy Hides.

Barbaric Bracers

• Heavy Leather (8)
• Cured Heavy Hide (2)
• Small Lustrious Pearls (4)
• Raptor Hide (1)
• Large Fangs (4) - Where to Farm Large Fangs

Deviate Scale Belt

• Perfect Deviate Scales (6)
• Deviate Scales (4)

Toughened Leather Gloves

• Medium Leather (4)
• Cured Medium Hide (2)
• Elixer of Defense (2) [Wild Steelbloom & Stranglekelp]
• Spider's Silk (2) - Where to Farm Spider's Silk

Enchant Weapon: Agility (+15 Agi)

• Large Brilliant Shards (4)
• Essence of Air (4)

Enchant Weapon: Fiery

• Small Radiant Shards (4)
• Essence of Fire (4)

If you can't seem to get enough of these materials from the auction house you may turn to farming your own.  If you can't acquire enough on your own, once Mists of Pandaria actually launches, you may be able to find these materials listed for cheap on the Auction House as new players post them for well under their true value.


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