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!

Guest post on warcraftecon.net!

Wow, the guest post I wrote here sure brought in a bucketload of traffic. Here's a big hello to all of you who came from over there!

If you have came all the way here, I take it you have like the post on the opportunity in low skill crafting professions, so as not to disappoint, I'll be writing another article on some of the changes made to crafting items in a short while.

In the meantime, enjoy your visit here!

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!