Making Money

[Rendakor]

How does everyone here make gold? Dailies? Professions? Let's have some specifics! Please don't just say "I play the AH", what exactly do you buy and sell?

Personally, I sell bulk glyphs using Inscription to make my cash. With some effort, I can pull about 1-2k a day; this seems the most profitable tradeskill based on my experience. I used to make some cash with enchanting but the scrolls don't sell anymore, and fuck sitting in Org spamming LFW. Flasks sell decently well on certain days, which is decently profitable (moreso with Elixir spec); Frostweave bags and leg enchants also sell decently.

If anyone else is looking to make cash with Inscription I can go into more detail there.

[WindupAtheist]

Dailies. Throwing cloth and enchanting mats from random heroics on the AH. I have mining and skinning at max, but can't often be bothered to actually fly around mining or whatever. Sometimes I mine thorium, which goes for exorbitant prices on the AH since no one wants to bother.

Sometimes I mass-kill trash in Scholo to farm runecloth while I wait for a heroic to pop. It goes for only 1g less per stack than frostweave on my server, and I have the quest trinket that lets me use the ghost blacksmith outside the instance to repair and sell vendor trash.

[Lantyssa]

Dallies on my 80 Druid.  Cooking, Fishing, Tournament, and random others depending on my mood.  That was with giving all my greens to an enchanter to do whatever with.

On my DK which I am now leveling, Herbalism.  I have skinning, however everything is being sent to my Druid for making into armor enhancements for the moment.  Herbs alone make a good deal of money.

[Lakov_Sanite]

don't listen to them, grinding is a suckers game.

Buy low, sell high and play the AH for all its worth. If you don't have 100 auctions running at once you're doing it wrong. Now me, I dont have the patience for that but there's a druid in my guild with over 200k spread across his toons(htere actually is a gold cap)  he plays the AH like a wild man, he even has some of his alts undercut the inflated prices on his other alts to make people think they are getting a deal on things.

[apocrypha]

I do 5 or 6 dailies a day, either Argent Tourney or Fishing/Cooking/Kaluak/Oracles, depending on my mood. Plus I mine everything I fly over and sell the metal & gems.

That plus a random heroic every day and the weekly raid every week and I have plenty of money.

[Fordel]

Dailies and Epic Gems.


Sometimes I'll do the full tourney loop of dailies, other days I'll do the WinterGrasp circuit, or the Hodir bunch. I usually mix up which area. Doing a handful of dailies is more then enough to keep myself well funded for whatever I would want.


The other place I get gold from is selling Epic Gems. You can get epic gems for 10k honor a pop from the SW/Org honor vendor, and I spend much of my playtime in WG/BGs either way. Even at their cheapest they still sell for 150'ish gold I find. Even if you do nothing else for honor but the Wintergrasp quests once a week, you'll end up with enough to buy 2-4 gems usually. The Red ones sell for the most and quickest 90% of the time, the other 10% it would be the Blue ones.


If I ever really wanted to stockpile up a big cash reserve, I would just go back to selling my potions. I collect the herbs mostly as a side effect of my normal play activities, and the one universal truth about the AH, is that potions always sell.

[Selby]

I do dailies (tournament and fishing, the cooking dailies I am done with) every day and it keeps my raid expenses in check.  I have tailoring and enchanting, but neither of those are big money makers (it's cheaper to buy the enchant off the AH than it is to make it with the materials).  When I hit 20 stacks of Illusion dust, I sell off 5-6, same with Greater Cosmic Essences and Abyss Crystals.  Those tend to sell pretty well despite not being as pricey as they once were.

My alts pretty much all farm, and sell the materials on the AH.  Some things sell well, some things just don't.

[Nevermore]

How does everyone here make gold? Dailies? Professions? Let's have some specifics! Please don't just say "I play the AH", what exactly do you buy and sell?

Personally, I sell bulk glyphs using Inscription to make my cash. With some effort, I can pull about 1-2k a day; this seems the most profitable tradeskill based on my experience. I used to make some cash with enchanting but the scrolls don't sell anymore, and fuck sitting in Org spamming LFW. Flasks sell decently well on certain days, which is decently profitable (moreso with Elixir spec); Frostweave bags and leg enchants also sell decently.

If anyone else is looking to make cash with Inscription I can go into more detail there.

It's funny you mention Inscription because it highlights how different the various servers can be.  Last night in guild chat there was a discussion going on about crafting professions and there were some complaints about how Inscription makes no money at all.  Flasks seem to be the most consistent sellers on our server.

I generally make (not much) gold just doing some tourney dailies, random dungeons and selling whatever mats I happen across: Herbs from my Druid, Ore from my Shaman or enchanting mats from my DK.  The price of enchanting mats has plunged to near vendor levels though because of the new leech-off-the-enchanter disenchanting choice.  I don't bother selling flasks because Frost Lotus is so bloody rare I'd rather make them for myself or my guild (should I ever be allowed on a real raid again  ).

[Morfiend]

I do dailies, mostly the argent tournament, and sell low level crafting materials. Ore especially. On my server you can get 50+ gold for a stack of iron and around 30g for a stack of tin. Also Adamantite and Thorium sell very well.

[Soulflame]

AT dailies, JC, cooking, usually fishing, plus heroic daily.  Not to mention King of the Mountain, perhaps the best daily ever.  It brings me around 2k a week or so, which is plenty for my current goal:  Save up for buying stuff in Cataclysm.

[sickrubik]

I do a little hustling on the Stormwind Docks.

Also, Dailies and Glacial Bags.

[Rendakor]

It's funny you mention Inscription because it highlights how different the various servers can be.  Last night in guild chat there was a discussion going on about crafting professions and there were some complaints about how Inscription makes no money at all.  Flasks seem to be the most consistent sellers on our server.

I generally make (not much) gold just doing some tourney dailies, random dungeons and selling whatever mats I happen across: Herbs from my Druid, Ore from my Shaman or enchanting mats from my DK.  The price of enchanting mats has plunged to near vendor levels though because of the new leech-off-the-enchanter disenchanting choice.  I don't bother selling flasks because Frost Lotus is so bloody rare I'd rather make them for myself or my guild (should I ever be allowed on a real raid again  ).

See, the thing with Inscription is that you can't just sell the top 2 most expensive glyphs and expect to make a profit, because trying to figure out exactly what glyphs will sell on any given day is an exercise in futility. Instead, you have to sell EVERY glyph, which still brings in a good amount of money because people tend to buy glyphs 3-6 at a time. The hardest part really is keeping well stocked on herbs, which requires you to farm like a chinaman, or buy from one.

People actually buy Glacial Bags? Even though I consider myself pretty wealthy in game, I'd never drop 600g for 2 extra slots.

[Rasix]

I have a transmute spec'd alch and a miner/JC.  I transmute my own prospected gems and sell them raw on the AH.  It sells very consistently and even if I have to buy the gems/eternals due to shortages, my return is still 300-500%+.   I could do inscription, especially since I have all of the recipes, but it's a complete crap shoot. Any time I've tried to sell glyphs, they just end up coming back to me.

Granted, I'm not rich, but I don't really need money.

I used to like playing auctions back in EQ, but that was easier without the middle man (AH) and you could make an absolute killing due to how easy it was to corner certain item markets.  I suppose Auctioneer would help if I wanted to do this, but I'm not going back to the one addon that seems to introduce a lot of instability into the client for me.

[proudft]

Blackmail.   

Also, our AH is so big nothing is consistent, so I move around.  Lately it's enchanting scrolls for me.  In the past, I've done cut gems, raw gems, glyphs, disenchanting greens from the AH, and if you go way back, crafted blacksmith items. 

The most reliable money is from leveling alts through Northrend and then not buying the poor bastards a proper mount, though.  That's like 3-4k easy over two weeks of actually having fun from 70-80.

[Rendakor]

I actually stopped using Auctioneer for my Inscription because I started using Quick Auctions, and the two don't get along well. Every time I auction, QA scans the AH something like 1200 times, which very quickly makes Auctioneer's database large and laggy. However, QA alone is amazing for mass market selling.

I don't see how you guys have such little luck with glyphs...They've been consistently profitable since I started selling at the beginning of WotLK. While all of my glyphs don't sell after being listed any given time, enough of them do that I make a large profit. Last night for example I posted about 300 glyphs, woke up this morning to find about 50 of them sold and bringing in 1000g.

[proudft]

My main problem with really going whole-hog into the glyph market is inventory space.   All them glyphs & herbs eat up a lot of room!

[Lantyssa]

I don't see how you guys have such little luck with glyphs...They've been consistently profitable since I started selling at the beginning of WotLK. While all of my glyphs don't sell after being listed any given time, enough of them do that I make a large profit. Last night for example I posted about 300 glyphs, woke up this morning to find about 50 of them sold and bringing in 1000g.

At a guess they aren't selling at anywhere near the volume you are.  I deal in stacks of 2-5 herbs.  300 is crazy to me.

[Fordel]

People actually buy Glacial Bags? Even though I consider myself pretty wealthy in game, I'd never drop 600g for 2 extra slots.

I would! Have even!

[Nebu]

People actually buy Glacial Bags? Even though I consider myself pretty wealthy in game, I'd never drop 600g for 2 extra slots.

I would! Have even!

I as well.  There's a point in game where money becomes essentially valueless.  I've even bought a few Haris Pilton items just for the achievement.

[Fordel]

Portable Hole imo!

[proudft]

Speaking of money being valueless, I finally have enough money to make a motorcycle.  I've been hemming & hawing about making one and putting it on the AH just to see what happens.  When people are buying Battered Hilts for ~15k you know there are people with more money than sense.   Worst case, I use it myself.

[Nebu]

Speaking of money being valueless, I finally have enough money to make a motorcycle.  I've been hemming & hawing about making one and putting it on the AH just to see what happens.  When people are buying Battered Hilts for ~15k you know there are people with more money than sense.   Worst case, I use it myself.

I used to buy the rare parts from the vendor everytime I was in the area.  The market for motorcycles exists, but varies widely.  In a month I sold one for 18k and couldn't sell another at 13k.  Give it a shot.  If one sells, you can use the profits to make another and drop it on the AH.  I did mine all my own ore and smelting the titansteel, so my cost was little more than time and buying the vendor parts (11 or 12k I think. )

[Sjofn]

The problem with inscription on Doomhammer is that we have a lot of 'em on the server, and they all sell the glyphs for practically nothing (unless it's a brand new decent glyph). The effort involved to actually make money on it is ridiculous, I make more money making ink and selling that. Well, minor glyphs are pretty good too, last I checked, but I've mostly stopped bothering. I'd rather just do dailies.

[proudft]

I did mine all my own ore and smelting the titansteel, so my cost was little more than time and buying the vendor parts (11 or 12k I think. )

Time is money, friend!   

[Sjofn]

MAN I can't wait to be a goblin. 

[Nebu]

Time is money, friend!   

You're right.  Titanium is like winning at the slot machine when you're flying around doing dailies.  Titansteel is just something to make once a day when I'm in Dalaran.  I feel stupid admitting how happy I get everytime I find a titanium node.  It's pathetic of me.  

[Rendakor]

My main problem with really going whole-hog into the glyph market is inventory space.   All them glyphs & herbs eat up a lot of room!

I've got 5 Inscription bags and 2 herbalism bags that I use to fix that; I've also got an entire guild bank tab pretty much to myself (Guild leader of really small guild ftw).

[caladein]

Dailies here too.  At this point, I get adequate cash flow from doing Random Heroics or Raiding so I'm only doing ones I need for rep or the easier Dalaran Cooking/Fishing ones.

[Ingmar]

Yeah you can make tons of money doing inscription, even on our server; the problem is people don't do it right then think inscription is worthless. It takes a big effort to get an inscription operation to the point where it really 'works', and I don't have the patience personally. The key to it is you have to deal in like 40 different glyphs at the same time to make money, because no single glyph has a very high sales turnover. Tons of inventory space needed, tons of time listing every single type of glyph, even with AH mods, and lots of time monitoring the AH to make sure you're keeping things listed and pricing them right.

[sickrubik]

People actually buy Glacial Bags? Even though I consider myself pretty wealthy in game, I'd never drop 600g for 2 extra slots.

They are up less than a day (usually within hours) and sell for about 700 or so depending on the current market.

[Hutch]

On my main, I do dailies (fishing, cooking, tournament, random dungeon, WG). Also, I have mining and engineering, so in the course of doing the dailies, I'll be gathering up crystals of shadow and earth and etc. I have an alchemy alt that I use to tranform the shadow and water Primals that I complete into Life and Fire, respectively, which sell for much higher prices on the AH. 1 transmute per day, of course.

On the alt that I am currently running through Triumph town, I do as many random dungeons as I can fit in, for badges. While waiting for my dungeons to pop, I fly around Northrend, gathering herbs. Said herbs get sold on the AH. Herbing also yields Primal Life.

Random dungeons themselves are net money makers, assuming you don't die so much that your repairs cancel out your gains.
There's the quest reward, there's the cash you get from looting and vendoring, and then there's the option of selling whatever items drop, and/or de'ing them for mats. And you can then opt to sell the mats, of course.

[Ingmar]

Also raids are also pretty good money themselves assuming you don't die.

I should figure out if the net badges/money/shards are worth the time of running quick Naxx 10 runs.

[Fordel]

Also raids are also pretty good money themselves assuming you don't die.

I should figure out if the net badges/money/shards are worth the time of running quick Naxx 10 runs.

This is why you are always broke, you think raids are good money.

[Ingmar]

Also raids are also pretty good money themselves assuming you don't die.

I should figure out if the net badges/money/shards are worth the time of running quick Naxx 10 runs.

This is why you are always broke, you think raids are good money.

My recollection is that I would walk out of a Naxx run usually a couple hundred gold richer than I went into it all told. Add badges to that and if you can get it done in a couple hours seems like its probably a good deal.

[Fordel]

You recollection is terrible.


Do your dailies like everyone else and maybe you won't have to scrounge cash off of alts every time you need new enchants!