I'm a fraud.

My blog is all about how to make WOW gold WITH OUT using Inscription. Well I have to confess that recently I've taken up Inscription on my low level alt. I have every profession covered with my four level 80's, and various 70's except Inscription, so why not? While I don't intend to start a glyph business, as this character will probably never mature to level 80, I do want to talk a little about Inscription.

Inscription a great low level money maker. I'm only at level 150 Inscription and I've already made a few hundred gold off of selling rogue's decks and blue tomes. I havn't sold a single glyph yet but I do have about half a guild bank tab full of them. I got to say looking at a full guild bank of all my own glyphs seems pretty cool. I can actually see running a glyph business and kind of being fun, especially if the profits are as good as I hear.

All I can say is that my first character would have killed to have 300g at level 25.

Ore Galore!

I have mining on three of my level 80's, but I don't actually farm ore. Mining is basically an easy way for my characters to get 60 stamina and a titansteel cool down. I used to farm herbs when my paladin was a herbalist. I never minded farming herbs because there always seemed to be another node just around the corner, also herbs weren’t farmed by tons of people on my server. As far as ore goes, I pick it up when I see it, but I don't go looking for it. This is basically due to ore being farmed like crazy on my server. It's like every node I spot gets taken by someone else before I get there.

Prior to patch 3.3 saronite was basically useless. People would farm saronite, but they were really looking for titanium. The same reason herbs are mostly useless, people are looking for frost lotus. 3.3 let alchemists transmute saronite into titanium. After 3.3, It became cheaper to buy saronite and transmute titanium, then to actually buy titanium ore/bars. One can even make a profit transmuting titanium and reposting the bars on the AH. I figured there would be a few weeks of this until prices of saronite increased, and prices of titanium dropped. While the prices have started to equalize, the best titanium for your dollar is still transmuting ore. Based on higher prices of saronite ore, I need to assume two things. Demand for saronite is up(duh, because of titanium xmute), and supply of saronite is down(duh, people who farmed saronite for titanium no longer need to). This lead me to the assumption that farming of saronite is down over all. This brings me to the point of my post.

For the past week I've been farming ore again. I've only farmed in the early morning and normally not more then 30 minutes. This is my "wake up" time before getting ready for work. I have yet to encounter one other person mining ore in three days. Normally at this time of day there would be at least a few. I'm also running into tons of titanium ore. Over the past three mornings I've farmed 12 stacks of saronite ore and over 2 stacks of titanium ore. What's really nice about titanium nodes is they also have a chance to drop crystallized fire which is needed in titansteel bars, and is a big cost to the final profit (anywhere between 30g-60g). The saronite easily yields eternal earth/shadow. I don't plan on selling these mats on the AH, but I am using them for the production of my three titansteel bars per day, and at the end of the day 30 minutes of farming easily pays for three titansteel bars. The only thing I might have to buy is an eternal fire or two if I get unlucky with the titanium nodes dropping crystallized fire. Even if I don't get enough titanium for three bars (18 ore per day) I can always transmute the saronite ore. Afterwards I send my JC all the extra saronite and gems from the nodes and that off sets the cost of the eternal fire. It looks like im back on track to recoup the cost of my ilvl 264 boe's.

Where did my gold go?

In my previous post I mentioned buying the ilvl 264 boe pants. Well yesterday I also bought the ilvl 264 boe boots. All in all I spent about 20k on two top tier items. (until heroic icc is released). I'm a tank so it is important I have adequate gear. My boots and my legs were both some of my lower tier pieces. (ilvl 232/ilvl 226). These upgrades were pretty massive and although I'm not happy about spending half of my stock pile, I'm fine with the way I spent it.

The major expense for these boots was due to the Primordial Saronite. The demand is still really high for this, and the supply is low. I'm sure after all of ICC is released the demand will go down. My plan right now to recoup some of my cost is to use my three other level 80's to buy Primordial Saronite for frost badges. I should have three Primordials by mid week and hopefully the price hasn't gone down. I'm not buying any with my main as he is keeping all his frost badges for gear. Had I planned ahead I would of made sure to always run the daily heroics/weekly raids on my alts.

The easiest 3k I ever made.

Long story short I bought the ilvl 264 tanking pants. They cost a lot, over 10k. I wanted to wait but I said to myself the only reason to have gold (up to 40k) is to spend it to make the game easier/less grindy. I spent the gold.

Afterwards I felt bad, but seeing as I already spent 12k, and someone was offering the battered hilt in trade for 10k I would go with it if I could talk him down. Why not? WHO CARES ABOUT GOLD!?!?!??!

I offered him 7.5. He declined saying he had a 9k offer already. I came back from two random dungeons and he is still spamming for 10k. I offer him 7.5k. He declines. He counter offers 8k. I decline. The dance continued, and I explained I had time to wait the price was only going to go down. He had no time to wait, the price wasn't going up. Normally no one will take an offer 25%/2.5k lower, but after 2 hours of spamming he was tired. He agreed 7.5k battered hilt.

I posted on the AH right away. 11.5k buy out, 10.5k sell.....buy out with in minutes. 3k in my pocket for almost nothing.