5 items you need to sell before 3.1 (for BoE epics)

While still relevant, this post is slightly outdated. If you wish to read about patch 3.2 preparation, you can click here.

With the ulduar patch coming in a few weeks now, I've been asked by several people on which items to sell while they still can. Today I'll cover the bind on equip gear, since these are the items that costs anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand gold. Some of you probably have some in your bank, or you have to find some way to liquidate your guild bank before patch hits. Today's post will show you 6 items you need to release back into the market before 3.1 hits.

Basically, the items that will be the worst hit will be those that have an immediate BoE ilvl 226 or ilvl 219 upgrade from ulduar. People looking to gear up their mains or alts, will hold off buying the following items, since it would be more cost efficient to purchase the higher item-valued slot piece instead of buying a ilvl 200 item only to replace it a few days later.

Another criteria for selection, is the exclusion of any future ilvl 226 BoEs that require runed orbs. Requiring 15 Emblems of Conquest, runed orbs will likely be an expensive commodity for quite a few weeks to a few months following patch release. Each crafted BoE will require about 5-6 runed orbs, which would be about 90 emblems. That would be almost enough to buy t8.5 head and chest piece. As such, I highly doubt that runed orbs will reach equilibrium prices anytime soon and will remain overpriced and expensive.

While some of the following items are still a decent placeholder for a newly minted 80 starting to gear up, come 3.1 there will be a disparity between these epics and the highest tier ilvl available, seriously devaluing the amount by which you can sell them for.

Thus, without further ado, here are the items that needs to go into someone else's inventory:

1) Anything that goes into the wrist slot
That is, basically any Emblem of Valor bracers that you have.
The key reason you should sell them off now, is because
a) more and more people now know that there is no further use for valor tokens, and the next thought that goes through their mind will be to convert them to bracers and sell it off, increasing your competition. And to make it worse, they will be willing to sell them at any price, driving it down to perhaps 500-800 gold each.
b) the week ulduar comes out, guilds will rush through ulduar-10 to ensure extra gearing up of their raiders, not to mention a large army of people waiting to bite their teeth into ulduar through pugs or small guilds. Ulduar-10 drops a plethora of ilvl 219 bracers, meaning that people gearing for bracers will be looking at the ilvl 219 wrist slots, and not your EoV bracers.
For a more detailed run-up of the bracers, check out my previous post.

2) Jewelcrafting:

Titanium Impact choker will be replaced by
-Nymph Heart Charm

and Titanium Earthguard Ring by
-Signet of the Earthshaker
although druids might still go for the Jewelcrafting ring

3) Tailoring:
Deathchill Cloak, Wispcloak

Will be replaced by
-Asimov's Drape

4) Blacksmithing

Spiked Titansteel Helm, sell it before
Iron Riveted War Helm appears on the AH

and the same goes for Titansteel Shield Wall
before people go for the ulduar 25 shield Northern Barrier

5) Leatherworking:

Get rid of Giantmaim Legguards, since Darkcore Leggings will be dropping in ulduar 25


With this list in hand, its time to hit the AH and trade channel and sell them off before their prices depreciate!

3.1 Patch Preparation, Twink Item: Barbaric Bracers

You can find the level 80 version of PVP bracers here

Welcome to another feature on making gold at low levels, be it in profession level or character level. If you're reading this before patch maintenance, you might want to take a peek at the AH for good bids on the mats provided later in this post. For those who are reading this during patch maintenance, well, there's always tomorrow's AH market!

Well, my first article on this theme was with the spidersilk boots over on warcraftecon.net
It's a pair of tailoring boots that gets stealthbuffed into the best twink boots in the 10-19 bracket once 3.1 hits live.

Today, I'll however be covering Barbaric Bracers, so that Leatherworkers won't feel as if they are left out of the action.

Before: Barbaric Bracers
After: Barbaric Bracers

Basically, the bracers keep their 4 Agi and 6 Stam
But the totally useless 6 spirit gets converted into a sizzling 8 AP.
Yep, once again, another blue item has been stealth-buffed into the ultimate twink leather bracers.

The materials for this one is slightly tougher to come by however, so you might want to start looking on the AH.
8 Heavy leather
2 Cured Heavy Hide
4 Small lustrous pearl
1 Raptor Hide
4 Large Fang

Yep, that's quite a grocery list. While the reagents are cheap, it might take a while to build a sizable stockpile of all these in time for patch 3.1

If you start early however, I think you can probably make each bracers for about 1-2 gold, and sell them for 35-60 gold once patch hits. They used to sell for 25 gold before the patch, and with the current buffs making them Best In Slots, I'm pretty sure the twink buyers can be persuaded to part with that much more gold! This beats all other competition for the best bracer in the lvl 20-29 bracket.

You can even slap a +9 stamina enchant on it for good measure, and sell it for a slightly greater premium. Ah well, to all those lvl 20-40 leatherworkers out there, all the best in sizing this opportunity to work towards your epic mounts!

There are a few other items being stealth-buffed that holds pretty good potential, so stay tuned as I attempt to cover them all!

Turbo Charge your Twink Jeans

I've been spending quite a while in vanilla wow, but now I'm going to be taking a look at outland professions in this particular entry. Tailors and leatherworkers should have an inkling about what this will entail, but for the rest, this will be a gold making post on leg armor kits and spellthreads.

Namely: Nethercobra Leg Armor, Nethercleft Leg Armor, Golden Spellthread, and Runic Spellthread
and then their blue (rare) equivalents

Why are these leg enchants still useful, you may wonder. Well, unlike the WotLK leg enchants, the burning crusade enchants can be used by a lvl 60 on a pair of BoE twink pants, and then mailed to the twink. This works pretty much for all brackets, making it a must have for any serious twinks.

With most lvl 70s and higher running around in northrend, the people who have achieved exalted with the required Burning Crusade factions are few and far between, so there are less kits and threads on the auction house these days. You can take advantage of this to make and list these enchants for between 200-250 gold, and make a tidy profit. (Depending on server demand and supply naturally) The mats themselves are pretty easy to get, perhaps between 80-120 raw costs when purchased from AH and thus about 100 gold profit, or you could go back to Outlands and farm them yourself, which should be rather easy if you have a strong lvl 80 leatherworker or tailorer.

Case Studies:
Nethercleft Leg Armor
16x Clefthoof leather = 16 x 5g = 80g
1 x Primal Nether = 1 x 2g = 2g
8 x Primal Earth = 8 x 2.5g = 20g
4 x Heavy Knothide Leather = 4 x 5g = 20g
Total = 122 g

Sold for 265g, approximately 250 g after AH cut, and thus 128 gold in profits!

Tailors have an easier time, in making
Runic Spellthread
1 x Rune thread (from tailor supplies vendor)
10 x Primal Mana (or life for golden) = 7 x 10 = 70g
1 x Primal Nether = 1 x 2g = 2g
Total = 75 g
Sells for 180-230 gold, which would give you a profit of around 100 gold too.


Sell them one by one, or two by two, and you should make a steady 100-200g extra per leg kit each day!