While still relevant, this post is slightly outdated.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!
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Breaking News: ilvl 219 EoV
I just found several shocking statements by the blues regarding EoVs on the blue tracker
You can read the blue tracker here and here
You might have to scroll down a bit
Certain key points can be derived
-Ulduar10 drops different colored EoVs
-Nothing besides relics/totems/idol/sigils will be added to the EoV vendor
-Blizzard doesn't "want piling up a bunch of emblems now to give a big advantage when a patch launches where someone buys a set of gear from the beginning."
-Which means, you won't be able to buy Tier8 tokens with EoV if things remain as they are until patch day!
What does this mean for you?
Sell your EoV bracers! Now! Yesterday!
Sell them while they still fetch anywhere from 1k to 3k!!!
Well that is, it depends on whether you still have any use for Emblems of Valor before Ulduar hits. So before I begin making premature decisions, here are still some last few things (besides selling the bracers) one could buy with it:
1) Off-spec Gear
2) PvP Gear
3) Tier tokens and remaining items for mainspec Gear
Why shouldn't one start liquidating their EoV stock?
1) You plan to change your spec immediately, or when ulduar comes out.
2) You've been pvping, and you just need that one or two more set pieces to get the bonus
3) You've only started raiding recently, or you've been really unlucky, and you really need that gear upgrade.
For those reasons, you might indeed make a better investment in gear upgrades than in liquidating your stock.
If you don't belong in the above categories, or unsure of where you are, you might then want to consider the following.
1) If you have an offspec, but you don't think you'll be using it for serious raiding anytime soon. Go ahead and sell your 60 badges, ulduar 10 and 25 will be dropping plenty of gear, and both versions will drop gear that are half a tier to a tier better than whatever offspec gear you can get from the vendor now.
2) If you're more pvp oriented, or you intend to start soon, just sell. Arena season has ended for now, although you can still earn and spend points for another week or so. (Do correct me! I have not really been keeping up with season 5) The new ulduar 10 badges can still be used for hateful gear. But more importantly, Ulduar 25 conquest badges can purchase Deadly gear. If you have yet to start pvping intensively, wait for ulduar, sell your badges now while they still fetch a pretty price.
3) If you have gear upgrades from the vendor still, but they are more of sidegrades to minor upgrades. Just go and sell your bracers, Ulduar is a few weeks away, and most of what you have now will be upgraded the raid you attend right after patch drops.
And if you're hesitating, here's why you should start selling now
a) There will be no further use for your emblems, you cannot buy tier 8 with it, so there is no point in saving it up to get instant upgrades the day 3.1 hits live.
b) The only way to liquidate EoV pre and post patch as a result, will be to buy these BoE bracers and sell. However, there will be a huge difference in the price they can fetch pre and post patch. Currently, the ilvl 213 Bind on Equip wrist gear are decent to best possible gear slots for a great many classes and specs, and are pretty much the BEST bind on equip bracers any class can get. BUT, once 3.1 hits, and the huge horde masses towards ulduar, you'll soon see ilvl 219 bracers hitting the auction house. That is because half the wrist slot drops in 10 man ulduar will be bind on equip, like this and this and this and this. I think you get my point!
The demand for the old ilvl 213 bracers will definitely tank(of the submarine type, not the soak damage kind).
Ultimately, you must make the right decision for yourself.
As for me, you'll find me in trade channel broadcasting "WTS 60 eov bracer, pst"
Cheers!
For those new to the site, you might want to check out my recap of past posts
You can read the blue tracker here and here
You might have to scroll down a bit
Certain key points can be derived
-Ulduar10 drops different colored EoVs
-Nothing besides relics/totems/idol/sigils will be added to the EoV vendor
-Blizzard doesn't "want piling up a bunch of emblems now to give a big advantage when a patch launches where someone buys a set of gear from the beginning."
-Which means, you won't be able to buy Tier8 tokens with EoV if things remain as they are until patch day!
What does this mean for you?
Sell your EoV bracers! Now! Yesterday!
Sell them while they still fetch anywhere from 1k to 3k!!!
Well that is, it depends on whether you still have any use for Emblems of Valor before Ulduar hits. So before I begin making premature decisions, here are still some last few things (besides selling the bracers) one could buy with it:
1) Off-spec Gear
2) PvP Gear
3) Tier tokens and remaining items for mainspec Gear
Why shouldn't one start liquidating their EoV stock?
1) You plan to change your spec immediately, or when ulduar comes out.
2) You've been pvping, and you just need that one or two more set pieces to get the bonus
3) You've only started raiding recently, or you've been really unlucky, and you really need that gear upgrade.
For those reasons, you might indeed make a better investment in gear upgrades than in liquidating your stock.
If you don't belong in the above categories, or unsure of where you are, you might then want to consider the following.
1) If you have an offspec, but you don't think you'll be using it for serious raiding anytime soon. Go ahead and sell your 60 badges, ulduar 10 and 25 will be dropping plenty of gear, and both versions will drop gear that are half a tier to a tier better than whatever offspec gear you can get from the vendor now.
2) If you're more pvp oriented, or you intend to start soon, just sell. Arena season has ended for now, although you can still earn and spend points for another week or so. (Do correct me! I have not really been keeping up with season 5) The new ulduar 10 badges can still be used for hateful gear. But more importantly, Ulduar 25 conquest badges can purchase Deadly gear. If you have yet to start pvping intensively, wait for ulduar, sell your badges now while they still fetch a pretty price.
3) If you have gear upgrades from the vendor still, but they are more of sidegrades to minor upgrades. Just go and sell your bracers, Ulduar is a few weeks away, and most of what you have now will be upgraded the raid you attend right after patch drops.
And if you're hesitating, here's why you should start selling now
a) There will be no further use for your emblems, you cannot buy tier 8 with it, so there is no point in saving it up to get instant upgrades the day 3.1 hits live.
b) The only way to liquidate EoV pre and post patch as a result, will be to buy these BoE bracers and sell. However, there will be a huge difference in the price they can fetch pre and post patch. Currently, the ilvl 213 Bind on Equip wrist gear are decent to best possible gear slots for a great many classes and specs, and are pretty much the BEST bind on equip bracers any class can get. BUT, once 3.1 hits, and the huge horde masses towards ulduar, you'll soon see ilvl 219 bracers hitting the auction house. That is because half the wrist slot drops in 10 man ulduar will be bind on equip, like this and this and this and this. I think you get my point!
The demand for the old ilvl 213 bracers will definitely tank(of the submarine type, not the soak damage kind).
Ultimately, you must make the right decision for yourself.
As for me, you'll find me in trade channel broadcasting "WTS 60 eov bracer, pst"
Cheers!
For those new to the site, you might want to check out my recap of past posts
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Rolling Recaps
Normally on tuesdays, I would be sniping last minute auction house bids to get the best deal, but it looks to be rolling resets today, so I was chilling with friends at a cafe instead of camping the AH. I'll probably run around collecting limited supply vendor items once I reach home.
In the meantime however, maybe you'd like to have a recap on what is available on this blog thus far?
The posts currently on this blog can be separated into certain accessibility tiers, ensuring that there is at least one gold making strategy available to everyone! Here we go:
For anyone (lvl 1+)
Explanation of a tried and true method used to build up seed money on new servers, or for people new to wow.
This post guides you on how to sell vendor pets to other players through the AH to make a few quick dozen gold pieces even on your level 1 character!
My guest post at warcraftecon
This article shows you how to prepare for patch 3.1, even if you're not lvl 80, but have tailoring
A follow up to the above article
This one is for Leatherworkers!
For people with burning crusade (lvl 60+)
The last lvl 70 daily you'll ever do!
This is for everyone! Even if your fishing skill is 1
On the good old burning crusade reputation earned leg enchants
Yes, those agonizing days spent grinding thrallmar rep, can still earn you decent money!
For people with WOTLK (lvl 70+)
Icecrown Resistance goodies
Get them while they're hot! Guilds will be needing them in ulduar
And that's it for this round, hope you find this recap useful
Over and out!
In the meantime however, maybe you'd like to have a recap on what is available on this blog thus far?
The posts currently on this blog can be separated into certain accessibility tiers, ensuring that there is at least one gold making strategy available to everyone! Here we go:
For anyone (lvl 1+)
Explanation of a tried and true method used to build up seed money on new servers, or for people new to wow.
This post guides you on how to sell vendor pets to other players through the AH to make a few quick dozen gold pieces even on your level 1 character!
My guest post at warcraftecon
This article shows you how to prepare for patch 3.1, even if you're not lvl 80, but have tailoring
A follow up to the above article
This one is for Leatherworkers!
For people with burning crusade (lvl 60+)
The last lvl 70 daily you'll ever do!
This is for everyone! Even if your fishing skill is 1
On the good old burning crusade reputation earned leg enchants
Yes, those agonizing days spent grinding thrallmar rep, can still earn you decent money!
For people with WOTLK (lvl 70+)
Icecrown Resistance goodies
Get them while they're hot! Guilds will be needing them in ulduar
And that's it for this round, hope you find this recap useful
Over and out!
Monday, April 6, 2009
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!
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!
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Summation Mondays
It's been 12 days since this blog started, and i've gotten a few emails and a few days of spikes in page views, which has been more than i expected!
I'll take this time to address the e-mails that have piled up, and the search questions that sends people to this blog:
I'll start with this search result, what is the disenchanting skill level required for ilvl 213 items and up. I've had a few related searches and an email on this. Well, my answer is...
I'm not too sure myself! Since I'm the guild disenchanter, my enchanting level has sat at a comfortable 450. The old formulas to calculate minimum disenchanting level also do not work. I would venture a guess that it is between 375-400. I'm afraid I can't help much with this D:
Do send me an email or leave a comment if you can provide an answer!
The other topic I'm getting lots of hits and a few emails from are that of low level ways to make gold. It seems really popular, and quite a bit of people love the prairie dog whistle. Stay tuned, for I'll be adding more low level ways to make more gold!
Once again, do let me know if there's any particular level range or theme which you want coverage about!
Last, but not least, here's an excerpt of what one reader sent
Hi Sherry, I've really enjoyed reading a new blog that brings a refreshing change from the other blogs out there that helps people make gold with minimal time spent, and I've recommended it to my guildies, keep up the good work and update more. Would you like to consider putting pictures up on the blog though? Just to add a little spice
Well, I'm really not sure how to get an image host up and running actually. Could anyone help? And thanks for recommending it to your friends, I hope this blog can continue to grow like a gigantic feast! Please help to spread the word!
I'll take this time to address the e-mails that have piled up, and the search questions that sends people to this blog:
I'll start with this search result, what is the disenchanting skill level required for ilvl 213 items and up. I've had a few related searches and an email on this. Well, my answer is...
I'm not too sure myself! Since I'm the guild disenchanter, my enchanting level has sat at a comfortable 450. The old formulas to calculate minimum disenchanting level also do not work. I would venture a guess that it is between 375-400. I'm afraid I can't help much with this D:
Do send me an email or leave a comment if you can provide an answer!
The other topic I'm getting lots of hits and a few emails from are that of low level ways to make gold. It seems really popular, and quite a bit of people love the prairie dog whistle. Stay tuned, for I'll be adding more low level ways to make more gold!
Once again, do let me know if there's any particular level range or theme which you want coverage about!
Last, but not least, here's an excerpt of what one reader sent
Hi Sherry, I've really enjoyed reading a new blog that brings a refreshing change from the other blogs out there that helps people make gold with minimal time spent, and I've recommended it to my guildies, keep up the good work and update more. Would you like to consider putting pictures up on the blog though? Just to add a little spice
Well, I'm really not sure how to get an image host up and running actually. Could anyone help? And thanks for recommending it to your friends, I hope this blog can continue to grow like a gigantic feast! Please help to spread the word!
Friday, April 3, 2009
The last lvl 70 daily to do
If you're lvl 71 and up, you might know that the lvl 70 dailies you spent half an hour everyday doing rewards much less gold than you were used to due to the conversion of gold to experience. As a result, the Isle of Quel'danas dailies only gave out about 4-5 gold, and quickly became deserted.
These days, no one even goes to shattrath anymore.
However, there is one lvl 70 daily quest you might not want to miss!
That would be the fishing dailies that starts off in Terrokar Forest,
It's a quest that sends you around the world catching fishes, upon which you receive a bag of fishing treasures. The reason why this quest is still profitable is because all the rewards for this quest comes from the bag, which gives you pure gold (about 5-10 that averages to 7gold19silver) which does not get converted into experience, nor is affected by the gray quest level. Furthermore, you will get pretty decent vendor junk (which can go up to 10-25 gold) as well as "pimp my bank alt" equipment!
Here are a few things you can expect to get:
Noble's Monocle that you might have fun selling in trade chat.
Antique Silver Cufflinks: Wowhead's buyout price for this is 50g!
The 2 Ring which might still have collector's value
And if you're worried about your fishing level being insufficient, you would be glad to know that there's a chance in 5 of you getting the crocolisk quest, which requires a fishing skill of 1.
You basically have to fish up a crocodile in orgrimmar, stormwind or ironforge, hearth back to dalaran and take the portal to shattrath again.
To top it off, its the only way to get one of three extremely rare crocodile pets, like chuck
So if you're preparing to skill up your fishing before patch 3.1 and the lvl 80 fishing dailies hit, do pop by good old shattrath once in a while and help me say hi to A'dal!
And don't worry about competition, for one, no one is in outlands these days but death knights.
For two, no one can steal your fishes from you!
P.S. for exact step by step guides to each of the five dailies, stop by El's Anglin
These days, no one even goes to shattrath anymore.
However, there is one lvl 70 daily quest you might not want to miss!
That would be the fishing dailies that starts off in Terrokar Forest,
It's a quest that sends you around the world catching fishes, upon which you receive a bag of fishing treasures. The reason why this quest is still profitable is because all the rewards for this quest comes from the bag, which gives you pure gold (about 5-10 that averages to 7gold19silver) which does not get converted into experience, nor is affected by the gray quest level. Furthermore, you will get pretty decent vendor junk (which can go up to 10-25 gold) as well as "pimp my bank alt" equipment!
Here are a few things you can expect to get:
Noble's Monocle that you might have fun selling in trade chat.
Antique Silver Cufflinks: Wowhead's buyout price for this is 50g!
The 2 Ring which might still have collector's value
And if you're worried about your fishing level being insufficient, you would be glad to know that there's a chance in 5 of you getting the crocolisk quest, which requires a fishing skill of 1.
You basically have to fish up a crocodile in orgrimmar, stormwind or ironforge, hearth back to dalaran and take the portal to shattrath again.
To top it off, its the only way to get one of three extremely rare crocodile pets, like chuck
So if you're preparing to skill up your fishing before patch 3.1 and the lvl 80 fishing dailies hit, do pop by good old shattrath once in a while and help me say hi to A'dal!
And don't worry about competition, for one, no one is in outlands these days but death knights.
For two, no one can steal your fishes from you!
P.S. for exact step by step guides to each of the five dailies, stop by El's Anglin
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
3.1 low level crafting item feature: Silk Headband
Ah well, Now that April's Fool is over, move along move along :D
That was pretty sharp there, Anon.
As promised, here is another update on twink level crafted items that will come into vogue when Ulduar hits live:
For the previous item feature at warcraftecon, hit here
Today, we'll be taking a look at the silk headband, a white item on live servers.
Silk headband 3.0x
34 Armor
Required level:27
Normal (white) quality
Silk Headband 3.1+
34 Armor
+2 int
+8 Spi
+ 4 crit rating
Required level:27
Uncommon (green) quality
Crafting Materials:
3 bolts of silk cloth
1 fine thread (purchased with a few copper from the tailoring supply vendor)
The difference pre-patch and post-patch are huge!
By adding 8 spirit and 4 crit, it just became the only helm in the 20-29 bracket to give crit rating. There are only two caps better than it an both are blue, one of which is bop and requires farming of gnomeregan, and the other a rare drop that fetches over 50 gold.
In contrast you only require 3 bolts of silk cloth to craft one silk headband, on most servers, this would probably cost 50-60 silver. You could likely resell this back to the twink market at a modest 3-5 g markup. While its nothing spectacular for lvl 80s, it'll help lower level fellows work towards their epic mount with a few minutes work a day listing it up on the AH.
And if worse comes to worse, when everyone is squeezing in the same niche as you, well, you can always mail it for disenchanting, now that its an uncommon quality item!
Check back next time for more lowbie nuggets!
As for the lvl 70s and 80s out there, my next post will cover a gold making opportunity that would be for higher levelled characters
That was pretty sharp there, Anon.
As promised, here is another update on twink level crafted items that will come into vogue when Ulduar hits live:
For the previous item feature at warcraftecon, hit here
Today, we'll be taking a look at the silk headband, a white item on live servers.
Silk headband 3.0x
34 Armor
Required level:27
Normal (white) quality
Silk Headband 3.1+
34 Armor
+2 int
+8 Spi
+ 4 crit rating
Required level:27
Uncommon (green) quality
Crafting Materials:
3 bolts of silk cloth
1 fine thread (purchased with a few copper from the tailoring supply vendor)
The difference pre-patch and post-patch are huge!
By adding 8 spirit and 4 crit, it just became the only helm in the 20-29 bracket to give crit rating. There are only two caps better than it an both are blue, one of which is bop and requires farming of gnomeregan, and the other a rare drop that fetches over 50 gold.
In contrast you only require 3 bolts of silk cloth to craft one silk headband, on most servers, this would probably cost 50-60 silver. You could likely resell this back to the twink market at a modest 3-5 g markup. While its nothing spectacular for lvl 80s, it'll help lower level fellows work towards their epic mount with a few minutes work a day listing it up on the AH.
And if worse comes to worse, when everyone is squeezing in the same niche as you, well, you can always mail it for disenchanting, now that its an uncommon quality item!
Check back next time for more lowbie nuggets!
As for the lvl 70s and 80s out there, my next post will cover a gold making opportunity that would be for higher levelled characters
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