How to Make Gold with Blacksmithing

There are a lot of options for making gold with Blacksmithing in World of Warcraft. The challenge is finding the specific things to craft on your realm and find buyers for them. The most lucrative item to craft is the Eternal Belt Buckle and ought to be the staple of every Blacksmith's income (see table below). With high cost items like Titansteel gear*, try to find a buyer before you craft the items. This isn't necessary but it can save you a lot of hassle. You can find a piece, like a Titansteel Destroyer on the Auction House for 1500g and try selling it in trade for 1400g and when you find a buyer craft it up right quick and sell it for the discounted price. You can utilize the high price as testimony for why your customer should pay 1400g. To help determine the value of each item accurate to the Auction House prices, I've included the below tables for all of the best Blacksmithing items. You can print these off and write in the prices of each material and add them up to calculate how much you'll need to sell the product for to make a profit. Most of the work with these high end items is in finding a buyer.

*Titansteel no longer sells this high. Each patch there is a new set of gear that can be crafted using the epic materials that drop from instances & raids.

• Patch 3.0 iLvl 200 epics crafted from Frozen Orbs (list)
• Patch 3.1 iLvl 226 items crafted from Runed Orbs (list)
• Patch 3.2 iLvl 245 items crafted from Crusader Orbs (list)
• Patch 3.3 iLvl 265 items crafted from Primordial Saronite (list)

Eternal Belt Buckles and Enchanting Rods
Eternal Belt Buckles are a new "mandatory" enchant used on belt equipment. It adds a new gem slot to the belt, so every level 80 is going to be buying one of these with each new belt they equip. These are a must for posting in the late afternoon and watching them sell when everyone gets their evening upgrades.

Rods also have the potential to sell very well. Their volume is much lower but some of them support very strong profit margins like the Arcanite and Eternium Rods. Don't flood the market with these, craft 5-10 of each and release them over several weeks for a steady stream of profit.

Item	Materials
Eternal Belt Buckle	Saronite Bar x 4
	Eternal Earth 7
	Eternal Water 8
	Eternal Shadow 7
Titanium Rod	Saronite Bar x 2
	Titanium Bar
Adamantite Rod	Adamantite Bar x 10
Arcanite Rod	Arcanite Bar x 3
	Dense Grinding Stone
Eternium Rod	Eternium Bar x 4
Fel Iron Rod	Fel Iron Bar x 6
Golden Rod	Gold Bar
	Coarse Grinding Stone x 2
Silver Rod	Silver Bar
	Rough Grinding Stone x 2
Truesilver Rod	Truesilver Bar
	Heavy Grinding Stone

Ulduar Gear (Patch 3.1)
The following recipes drop from inside Ulduar, and therefore can be valuable if you are lucky enough to get one. They require a combination of 6 Rune Orbs, Saronite Bars, Eternal Fires, Eternal Airs, Eternal Shadows and 10 Titansteel Bars. You can sell this gear straight up in trade chat before you craft it. This is a good idea to do if you're not sure which items are worth and none are on the Auction House for comparison. A lot of players won't know that these items exist since several patches have come out since. For other characters they will have already gotten much better gear from doing the end-game raids so it won't be of much interest.

Item	Materials
	Titansteel Bar x 10
Battlelord's Plate Boots	Eternal Shadow x 8
	Saronite Bar x 25
	Runed Orb x 6
	Titansteel Bar x 10
	Eternal Shadow x 8
Belt of the Titans	Saronite Bar x 25
	Runed Orb x 6
	Titansteel Bar x 12
Indestructable Plate Girdle	Saronite Bar x 30
	Runed Orb x 6
	Titansteel Bar x 10
Plate Girdle of	Eternal Fire x 5
Righteousness	Saronite Bar x 20
	Runed Orb x 6
	Titansteel Bar x 10
Spiked Deathdealers	Eternal Fire x 12
	Runed Orb x 6
	Titansteel Bar x 10
Treads of Destiny	Eternal Air x 12
	Saronite Bar x 20
	Runed Orb x 6

Crusader's Gear (Patch 3.2)
Crusader's gear is iLvl 245 and during Patch 3.2 was some of the best gear in the game. The recipes drop in Trial of the Crusader, so you will need a little bit of luck to obtain the recipes. Check the prices of the gear before you craft it, and if you can't do that then advertise the gear in trade chat before you craft it. Even after patch 3.2 people still like this gear because the prices of Crusader Orbs dropped accordingly.

Item	Materials
	Titansteel Bar x 12
Breastplate of the White Knight	Eternal Life x 8
	Majestic Zircon x 2
	Crusader Orb x 8
	Titansteel Bar x 8
Saronite Swordbreakers	Saronite Bar x 20
	Crusader Orb x 4
	Titansteel Bar x 8
Sunforged Bracers	Eternal Life x 12
	Crusader Orb x 4
	Titansteel Bar x 10
Sunforged Breastplate	Eternal Life x 20
	Crusader Orb x 8
	Titansteel Bar x 10
	Crusader Orb x 8
Titanium Razorplate	Deadly Saronite Dirk x 4
	- Saronite Bar x 28
	- Crystallized Air x 8
	Titansteel Bar x 8
Titanium Spikeguards	Crusader Orb x 4
	Vengeance Bindings
	- Saronite Bar x 12
	- Eternal Fire

Primordial Saronite Gear (Patch 3.3)
Primordial Saronite drops inside Icecrown Citadel Raids and can be purchased from Emblem of Frost vendors for 23 emblems. The recipes for the gear also drop in Icecrown Raid.. The more mature your realm and the longer it's been since Patch 3.3 was released will determine the prices. Just like with any other high level item it might not be a good idea to craft these without a buyer. Instead look for a buyer first via trade channel.

Item	Materials
	Titansteel Bar x 8
Boots of Kingly Upheaval	Eternal Earth x 12
	Primordial Saronite x 5
	Titansteel Bar x 8
Hellfrozen Bonegrinders	Eternal Water x 6
	Eternal Fire x 6
	Primordial Saronite x 5
	Titansteel Bar x 12
Legplates of Painful Death	Eternal Shadow x 12
	Primordial Saronite x 8
	Titansteel Bar x 12
Pillars of Might	Eternal Earth x 20
	Primordial Saronite x 8
	Titansteel Bar x 8
Protectors of Life	Eternal Earth x 12
	Primordial Saronite x 5
	Titansteel Bar x 12
Puresteel Legplates	Eternal Air x 20
	Primordial Saronite x 8

Cobalt Tanking Gear
The Cobalt tanking gear is an amazing way to make gold with Blacksmithing. Some realm Auction Houses don't have any of this stuff posted, and I guarantee you every level 68-72 wanna-be plate-wearing tank will load up the AH and search for this type of stuff. It is extremely useful for entry level Northrend dungeons. Advertise this stuff as a set in /2, it's total cost is 37 Cobalt so you can sell it for, say, 100-150 or even 300g to a customer! Imagine, the best level 70 tanking 7 piece set right at level 70 for only a few hundred gold!

Item	Materials
Cobalt Belt	Cobalt Bar x 4
Cobalt Boots	Cobalt Bar x 4
Cobalt Bracers	Cobalt Bar x 4
Cobalt Chestpiece	Cobalt Bar x 6
Cobalt Gauntlets	Cobalt Bar x 5
Cobalt Helm	Cobalt Bar x 5
Cobalt Legplates	Cobalt Bar x 5
Cobalt Shoulders	Cobalt Bar x 4

Titansteel Weapons
A lot of new level 80s want to get the appropriate Titansteel weapon for their class. I've found several buyers while flying through Storm Peak and Icecrown mining, I've even found a buyer while helping them with Icecrown dailies. Some level 79s don't realize that they can get such awesome items right at level 80 for such a low price.



If scouting for buyers while mining isn't your style, trade channel can work as well. Even if an existing item is selling on the Auction House you can undercut it without actually making it yet (just make sure you have the mats). You can advertise the uncut price in trade and when people claim the price isn't fair, refer to the Auction House price (you can also use an alt to post items at inflated prices to help sell items on other characters)

Item	Materials
	Saronite Bar x 6
	Titansteel Bar x 6
	- 18 Titanium Bar
Titansteel Bonecrusher	- 6 Eternal Fire
	- 6 Eternal Earth
	- 6 Eternal Shadow
	Frozen Orb x 2
	Saronite Bar x 8
	Titansteel Bar x 8
	- 24 Titanium Bar
Titansteel Destroyer	- 8 Eternal Fire
	- 8 Eternal Earth
	- 8 Eternal Shadow
	Frozen Orb x 2
	Saronite Bar x 6
	Titansteel Bar x 6
	- 18 Titanium Bar
Titansteel Guardian	- 6 Eternal Fire
	- 6 Eternal Earth
	- 6 Eternal Shadow
	Frozen Orb x 2
	Saronite Bar x 6
	Titansteel Bar x 6
	- 18 Titanium Bar
Titansteel Shanker	- 6 Eternal Fire
	- 6 Eternal Earth
	- 6 Eternal Shadow
	Frozen Orb x 2
	Saronite Bar x 4
	Titansteel Bar x 3
	- 9 Titanium Bar
Titansteel Shield Wall	- 3 Eternal Fire
	- 3 Eternal Earth
	- 3 Eternal Shadow
	Frozen Orb
	Titansteel Bar x 6
	- 18 Titanium Bar
	- 6 Eternal Fire
Titansteel Spellblade	- 6 Eternal Earth
	- 6 Eternal Shadow
	Infinite Dust x 2
	Frozen Orb x 2

Spiked Titansteel (hit and crit)
The Spiked Titansteel set is geared for Death Knights, Warriors, etc. Notice the average prices for these items are much higher than other products which require the same materials. This is because there is much higher demand so it's been easier to make a profit on these items.

Item	Materials
	Saronite Bar x 4
	Titansteel Bar x 4
	- 12 Titanium Bar
Spiked Titansteel Helm	- 4 Eternal Fire
	- 4 Eternal Earth
	- 4 Eternal Shadow
	Frozen Orb
	Saronite Bar x 4
	Titansteel Bar x 3
	- 9 Titanium Bar
Spiked Titansteel Treads	- 3 Eternal Fire
	- 3 Eternal Earth
	- 3 Eternal Shadow
	Frozen Orb

Tempered Titansteel (defense)
Tempered Titansteel is amazing for new tanks reaching level 80. It's somewhat mandatory gear to enter heroics or entry level raids. Some may argue the Treads aren't worth their epic status (and this is why the average price is so low).

Item	Materials
	Saronite Bar x 4
	Titansteel Bar x 4
	- 12 Titanium Bar
Tempered Titansteel	- 4 Eternal Fire
Helm	- 4 Eternal Earth
	- 4 Eternal Shadow
	Frozen Orb
	Saronite Bar x 4
	Titansteel Bar x 3
	- 9 Titanium Bar
Tempered Titansteel	- 3 Eternal Fire
Treads	- 3 Eternal Earth
	- 3 Eternal Shadow
	Frozen Orb

Brilliant Titansteel (crit, mp5 & spellpower)
The Brilliant Titansteel set is geared for Paladins. As you can tell by the average price these items don't sell for a whole lot compared to the other Titansteel gear. I would definitely try to line up a buyer before trying to make a profit on this gear.

Item	Materials
	Saronite Bar x 4
	Titansteel Bar x 4
	- 12 Titanium Bar
Brilliant Titansteel Helm	- 4 Eternal Fire
	- 4 Eternal Earth
	- 4 Eternal Shadow
	Frozen Orb
	Saronite Bar x 4
	Titansteel Bar x 3
	- 9 Titanium Bar
Brilliant Titansteel Treads	- 3 Eternal Fire
	- 3 Eternal Earth
	- 3 Eternal Shadow
	Frozen Orb

Tempered Saronite Tanking Gear
The Tempered Saronite tanking set is a mid 70s set for tanking, it can be used into the 80s and provides solid stats to your customer.

Item	Materials
Tempered Saronite Belt	Cobalt Bar x 6
	Saronite Bar x 5
Tempered Saronite Boots	Cobalt Bar x 3
	Saronite Bar x 8
Tempered Saronite	Saronite Bar x 13
Bracers
	Cobalt Bar x 6
Tempered Saronite	Saronite Bar x 5
Breastplate	Crystallized Earth
Tempered Saronite	Saronite Bar x 14
Gauntlets
	Saronite Bar x 12
Tempered Saronite Helm	Crystallized Earth
Tempered Saronite	Cobalt Bar x 5
Legplates	Saronite Bar x 5
	Crystallized Earth
Tempered Saronite	Saronite Bar x 12
Shoulders
Saronite Defender	Cobalt Bar x 6
	Saronite Bar x 4

Farming Iceweb Spider Silk

Iceweb Spider Silk is used by Tailors in various epic and rare tailoring patterns such as spellthreads, mounts, and gear. On average it sells for 1g and 50s each or 30g a stack. IcewebSpider Silk only drops in Drak'Tharon Keep, Naxxramas, The Storm Peaks, and Zul'Drak.

The following map shows you where you can find Iceweb Spider Silk in The Storm Peaks.

It drops off of Crystalweb Spitters (29%), Crystalweb Weavers (29%), and Icetip Crawlers (6%).



The following map shows the locations where you can find Iceweb Spider Silk in Zul'Drak.

It drops off of Trapdoor Ambushers (38%) and Trapdoor Crawlers (28%).

Farming Relics of Ulduar

Relics of Ulduar are a staple of the economy and will remain so until an easier to obtain shoulder enchant is released. All level 80s who are not scribes will need to earn Sons of Hodir reputation to earn their level 80 shoulder enchant. They drop from most mobs in The Storm Peaks, some have higher chances than others, but most of all, some have overall higher yields if you consider all of what they drop combined. For example, Seething Revenants east of Dun Niffelem near Fjorn's Anvil, have a reasonable drop rate for both Relics of Ulduar and Crystallized Fire. However, they are Fire Elementals that are often heavily farmed.

Each area tends to have its downsides and sometimes you might just be sick of an area and want new scenery. So, I've listed my top 5 favorite Relic farming areas, each has a high overall yield from either Eternals or Frostweave.



A) Nidavelir
The Stormforged Magus, War Golems, Champions and Artificers are probably the best farming spot for Relics of Ulduar. On both sides of the valley there are tons of Stormforged humanoids who drop tons of Frostweave and Relics. They are tightly packed and there are enough to keep going forever.

B) Sifreldar Village
Sifreldar village is my second favorite spot for farming Relics. The Sifreldar Storm Maidens and Runekeepers drop extra Frostweave Cloth along with Relics.

C) Thunderfall
Thunderfall is a great place for Relics. It would be my first pick if it wasn't so heavily populated by people doing Sons of Hodir dailies. The Niffelem Forefathers, Restless Frostborn Ghosts and Warriors drop plenty of Frostweave Cloth. This is a good place to go during obscure server hours, like 5am ST.

D) Fjorn's Anvil
Fjorn's Anvil is a classic place to farm both Crystallized Fire, the Seething Revenants drop the Relics along with Crystallized Fire, sometimes I go here for the bonus of getting the extra Eternals. You can sneak out onto Frostfield Lake and kill Brittle Revenants too, they drop Crystallized Earth and Relics.

E) The Howling Hollow
This cave is full of Scion of Storms, they drop Crystallized Air and Relics. This is a good spot to get away from the crowd if Thunderfall and Fjorn's Anvil is too populated and you don't want to fly across the zone.

Low Level Farming For Mount

Introduction

Remember that the higher level you are the more gold you will earn per hour, you have to think about why you choose to farm gold at low level in the first place. Free gear upgrades are available via questing, and this is easy as long as you do quest at your own level (Yellow or Green colored quest).

So the only reason that you would need to farm at low level is to obtain your first level 30 mount (total cost 45g). Otherwise focus on achieving Level 70 with our leveling guide before you begin focusing on Gold Farming.

And at Level 60 you might want to farm some more to upgrade to a Fast 100% ground mount.

Power Farming Tips

Gear selections is important, the idea is to kill as fast as you can. Try to stack up on as much as offensive gear as possible, e.g. having extra Stamina is worthless as you can recover quickly with bandages. Having more Strength, Agility or Intellect and Spirit is far more important.

Turn on Auto Loot, Most items stack, sort all unwanted at the same time later, key here is to save time and loot as fast as you can.

Minimize downtime. Sometimes you don’t need full health to carry on.

Focus DPS on all mobs. Don’t bother focusing your damage to kill one mob at a time as killing them all at the same time is always faster even though you end up with less HP but that’s easily recoverable with bandages.

Before You start

Empty your bags leave all unnecessary stuff in the bank you need all the bag space you can get. Make sure you’re fully repaired and stocked up on food, water and other reagents required for your class e.g. (flash powders for rouges). Running out of reagents or food can cost your precious farming time.

Bags
Try to fill up all your bag slots, as more bag slots = more profit. This will save you time running back to the vendor to empty your bag. Don’t be afraid to purchase bags because all bags are not Soulbound that means you can use it then resell it when you decide to upgrade.

Level 1 – Just use what you can find from mobs.
Level 9 – Don’t worry about 6 slot bags, save up for 8 slot bags which are usually about 15s-20s each.
Level 18 – You should have a full set of 10 slot bags costing around 40s each.
Level 30 – Skip 12 slot bags and get a 14 slot bag which costs around 2g-2g50s each.

Level 30 Gold Farming Guide

Thunderaxe Fotress (5-7g/hour) : Farming Humanoid for Silk Cloth is the best way to earn maximum gold in a short time without involving any proffession. In Desolace there's a high amount of humanoid that will drop a lot of Silk Cloth. You should be able to get about 30-40 Silk Cloth an hour.

This is the easiest place for ANY Level 30 character to collect Silk Cloth and the NPCs are all level 30

On average you will collect

1g20s of money picked up
36 Silk Cloth = 3g60s
5 Trash Grey Armor/Weapons average vendor price of 10s each = 50s
1-2 Green Item worth about 50s each in AH

Other Level 30 Location

Arathi Highlands (5-7g/hour): This is also a very good location if you prefer to farm in the Eastern Kingdom, being close to Refuge Point & Hammerfall makes it ideal to minimize travel time. However the NPC are slightly higher level at 31-32.

Level 40 Gold Farming Guide

Scarlet Monastery (16-18g/hour): The Scarlety Monastery is located in Trisfal Glades Horde territory but Alliance can access them as well. It’s divided into 4 parts Graveyard, Cathedral, Armory and Library.

Graveyard is best for farming simply because of mobs Unfettered Spirit (30-31) these mobs have the same drop % rate as elite mobs even though they’re non-elite and very easy to kill.

in 1 hour of farming using average gear you will gain.

2g50s of money picked up.
3x Stack of Silk Cloth average AH price of 2g per stack = 6g
10 Trash Grey Armor/Weapons average vendor price of 18s each = 1g80s
10 level 27-30 Green BOE items average AH price of 90s = 9g
2 Gems (Citrine / Lesser Moonstone / Jade) AH price of 1g each = 2g

Grand total of around 18g per hour

It is usually better if you Disenchant the green items and sell the mats

This is possible for any level 40 class, by ignoring (sneaking pass) the elite mobs and killing mostly the triplets of Unfettered Spiri (26-32)

Horde: Set your hearth to Brill.

Alliance: Set your hearth to South Shore. Takes a bit longer for alliance to reach SM than horde but using this guide it should only take you no more than 5mins with a level 30 mount. Read below for shortest route to Scarlet Monestary

Shortest route to Scarlet Monestary for Alliance

From South Shore run North to Alterac Mountains, follow the road to Western Plaguelands, along the road in Western Plaguelands you should reach Chillwind Camp and you can pick up a new flight path. From Chillwind Camp follow the road head North West see map.

Swim through the water, after you reach the other side of the water unfortunately you might run into at least 2 level 55 mobs that will most likely kill you, avoid them and keep running to your destination as best as you can. After you die return to your corpse resurrect and keep running to Bulwark you’re safe from any high level mob once you reach bulwark and run the rest of the way to SM. Allowing for 1 death it should take no more than 10 mins but If you’re in a PVP server it can take you longer if you run across to any Horde.

If you’re a Rouge or Druid this is ideal as you’ll be able to avoid dying quite easily. Safest way to travel is to go through Silverpine Forest, running on foot will take you at least 15mins without dying.

When you reached Scarlet Monastery

Go into the Graveyard instance, to reach the Unfettered Spirit (26-32) area you only need to kill 2 elite mobs, and bypass the rest. Download this quick clip to show you how. Any class should be able to solo the Unterred Spirit (26-32) you just need to watch out for patrolling mobs. Keep an eye out for a rare spawn elite mob such as Fallen Champion (32-33)+ and Ironspine (28-33)+ they guarantee a Rare BOP drop and sometimes a Rare BOE drop which you can sell for tons of gold. This area is likely to have a chest as well, if it's not there it's most likely inside the building ahead, you can reach them by killing the mobs. The chest contains 1-2 random Green BOE to sell at AH. Once you run of Unfettered Spiri (26-32) to farm, reset the instance in these steps.

Resetting the Instance

1. Leave the instance
2. Right click your potrait
3. Select Reset all instance and confirm Yes.

When you finish

After about an hour it’s likely that you’re running out of bag space, its time to hearth back to Brill (Horde) or South Shore (Alliance). Sell all grey items to any vendor and head over to the mail box. Mail all items you wish to sell in the AH to your mule. Repair, stock up and head back to SM until you have enough.

Other Farming location for Level 40

Badlands (12-20g/hour) : Just east of Kargath Rock Elemental (36-38), these drop [Elemental Earth] which are worth around 2-5g each on most servers and they drop high value grey stones to sell to vendors. On an average hour you will earn 3g worth of grey stones vendor items, and 4 [Elemental Earth] which sell for about 2-5g in most servers.

Alterac Mountains (10-16g/hour with Skinning): At Growless Cave farm the large population of Mountain Yeti (30-33) and Giant Yeti (32-34). With your skinning they can drop a variety of Leather and Hide. [Heavy Leather] has the highest drop rate, and if you’re lucky you can find [Large Fang] which is very valuable in the AH.

In an average hour with skinning you will earn:

1g60s of money picked up
3x 20 [Heavy Leather] average AH price of 2g50s per stack = 7g50s
35 [Medium Leather] average AH price of 5s each = 1.75g
18 [Heavy Hide] average AH price of 15s each = 2g70s
4 [Medium Hide] average AH price of 5s each = 20s
8 [Large Fang] average AH price of 50s each = 4gs

Any level 40 class should be able to kill and skin these yetis non-stop, if there’s other people in the area also killing the yetis usually they’re questing and you can skin their kills. For level 40 with skinning this is better than going all the way to SM since it’s very close to Tarren Mill and South Shore. Zero downtime is the key you should at least be able to kill and skin a yeti every 30 seconds that will get you at least a variety of 120 leather/hides total.

Level 60 Farming guide

Power Farming Scarlet Monastery (45-50g/hour): Yes SM Graveyard is still one of the best places to farm even when you’re level 60 because you can do it at a much faster rate. Zone in and kill every ‘Unfetered Spirits’ and any elite mobs that are guarding the chest.

On an average run you will get:

30 [Silk Cloth] average AH price of 3g
6 Grey Armor/weapons average 30s each = 1g80s
6 level 27-30 Green BOE items average AH price of 90s = 5g40s
1 level 27-30 Rare BOP items average vendor price of 35s
1g80s of money picked up

Grand total of 10g minimum per run

It is usually better if you Disenchant the green items and sell the mats

A level 60 player can do this entire run in less than 15 mins depending on character so that’s a minimum 4 runs an hour for 36g/hour. A paladin can do this run the fastest by agroing all the enemy then use Shield and Consecration doing 5 runs an hour is achievable with an AOE class.

Recent patch have reduced the number of times you can enter an instance to a maximum of 5 instances an hour. This won't affect this farming technique at all as doing more than 5 runs an hour is quite difficult.

You might want to skip grey vendor trash items and pick up only green items as the trip time spent unloading your goods can add up.

Western Plaguelands Heartglen and Eastern Plaguelands Tyr’s Hands

(30-35g/hour) or (65-85g/hour with Mining):

Farming level 54-57 Elite in Heartglen an hour will earn you on average 35-55g/hour with Mining. These elite's are very easy to kill one at a time, you must interrupt their healing and you should be able to farm these continously.

7 Grey Armor/Weapons average vendor price of 1g each = 7g
2 Green BOE items average AH price of 3g = 6g
40 [Runecloth] 4g per stack = 8g
12g of money picked up

Heartglen have 5 spawn point for Rich Thorium Vein. But only a maximum of 2 will spawn at the same time. Tyr’s Hand also has these veins which make this an ideal place for miners to farm. But it depends on the popularity of the area you’re farming, you might have to compete with other farmers to reach the vein first. If you’re the only one farming the area which can happen sometimes, your potential profit sky rockets.

The rich thorium vein spawns every 15-20mins and they always spawn those 5 points so remember to patrol for the veins every 10 mins. Its often that you get an [Arcane Crystal] (worth around 20g on most servers) an hour if you have control of both veins.

Thorium Ore worth more unsmelted worth over 20g per stack of 20.

Rich Thorium Vein Locations in Hearthglen

Fireballs anywhere (And create lag with a G15 keyboard)

If you use this to lag people out, its bannable, use at your own risk. Just firing it normally is fine though.

The bombs from Intercept the Reinforcements Can be used anywhere. They make a fireball that looks cool etc etc, anyone can grab them (70+). If you have a g15 keyboard or another way to spam a key+mouse press extremely fast (100+ of each a second) then you can use this item to create lag spikes (and a really, really cool explosion).

The macro: Have your G15 macro press whatever button you keybound the bombs to then left click. If you don't want lag, put in a 0.1 second delay then copy it and paste it as many times as you want.

If you want lag, do not put in the delay and put in as many fireballs as you want, the more in the macro the laggier it will be (Personally I made one that lags the area out for ~5 secs and another that just makes one short lag spike).

If your macros aren't working, try putting on repeat while pressed.

Kill ANY enemy as Mage

Two Words: Spell. Steal.

Shadows in the Dark

Stacks to 99. Scales 100% with spell power. Kills ANYTHING that touches you.

To find out how much damage it will do, use this simple formula.

(Base)(SpellPower)(Stack)=(Damage)

This is slightly incorrect Though. The proper formula is: (Base+1.5(SpellPower))(Stack), leading to lower numbers then posted.

or,

(450)(2000)(10)=9,000,000

Thats way over 9000, people. In fact, you can't even hit 99 stacks (the max) because there isn't a mob that has 135,000,000 health (450x3000x99, rounded).

Now, many people don't believe me. No one in my guild did. So I asked a friend to come and heal me while I had the buff, while waiting in ICC. It works. It 100% bonafide kills ****.

Proof of idea:



proof of concept:


proof it works outside utgarde pinnacle:


Soloing (complete solo) Kazzak - 500g in 15 minutes (Doomwalker when he respawns, also has 500g drop).

Because I just made 517g in 5 minutes.



Also made 501g in 5 more minutes, a few days later.

Quick annoucement

Sorry for not posting anymore everyday guys, usually i do not have time to go on the computer, and therefore it leads me to not posting for several days or even weeks, although whenever i have free time i just think of more to write about wow guides/exploits etc and lately my guild has been busy running to get a few new guys geared for the second wing of Icc, i also like to note that on the 19th of jan i will be going for a two week holiday to Europe to visit around and during that time i most likely will have come up with a few wow guides while on travel so just don't be surprised that every-time i post one day you do get several guides at a time

WoW Auctioneer Strategy Guide

Gaming the Auction House is no doubt the most profitable way to earn gold in World of Warcraft. Best of all, it doesn't involve any grinding and doesn't get as repeatitive as MMORPGs usually do in the long run. Insteads you get the excitement of taking risks and playing with your gold like it was gambling.

Making money in the Auction House is all about your personal skills and having the right tools. Thanks to many helpful AddOns it doesn't take that much of your time. You'll need to do stuff on the Auction House constantly but you necessarily don't need to spend too many hours at a time on it. This guide teaches everything from getting started with the Auctioneer AddOn to some very advanced strategies that some people are using right now to make hundreds of gold per day.

Starting Out

1. Install Auctioneer AddOn - Must have

Auctioneer AddOn automatizes the process of finding great deals for you. It does in few minutes what would take you hours to do manually. This AddOn is a must for anyone planning to earn serious gold in the AH.

• Auctioneer

2. Install CT Mail AddOn - Must have

CT Mail will simply make your mailbox usage quicker. It enables you to mail up to 21 items at one click of a button and also move multiple items at once from your mailbox to your bags.

• CT Mail

3. Create a level 1 "mule" Character

You certainly don't want to play the Auction House with your main character. That would be a huge waste of because you can have an alternate character live in the Auction House city insteads doing nothing but bidding, selling and carrying tons of items. When your main character finds loot, you can mail it to your alternate character and save a slot in your bags.

4. Get to the closest city with an Auction House

Alliance Auction Houses are at Ironforge, Stormwind and Darnassus. Horde Auction Houses are at Undercity, Orgrimmar and Thunder Bluff. Starting points for most races are near cities so you shouldn't have much trouble getting your level 1 toon to the closest city.

How It Works

5. Do A Scan

When first starting out, you should do multiple scans per day. After a few days and 10+ scans your Auctioneer has enough information to start giving accurate price estimations. After that you should try to do scans as often as possible. The more you scan, the more deals you'll find. The important thing here is to not not rush to buying items after a couple of scans just because Auctioneer says that you will make a big profit. Remember that Auctioneer is probably way off on its price estimations at this point.

Just open the auction window and click Scan the button:

6. Find Some Good Deals

After doing scans for a few days Auctioneer should have a good enough grasp on historical average prices for the most common items. You can now start searching the Auction House for items with the biggest profit potential.

Use the Search Auctions tab:

Auctioneer search options:

At first you should concentrate on finding items with a small absolute profit (Minimum Profit) but a high relative profit (Minimum Percent Less). This enables you to quickly earn some gold that you can spend on higher profit auctions.

Guidelines for searching auctions:

• Always search for Buyouts first, then for Bids. This is because your gold gets 'locked' in the auction for a while when you bid and that gold is out of your budget for making instant profit with Buyout auctions. Always set Maximum Time Left to Short or Medium when searching for Bids (not Buyouts). Otherwise you'll end up bidding on auctions with as much time as 24 hour left.
• Search for high Minimum Percent Less first. This is pretty obvious. You want to make maximum profit so always prefer to put your money on as high margin auctions as possible. For example you could search for 90% Minimum Percent Less and move on to 80%, 50%, etc until you've spent all of your current cash.
• Grow the Minimum Profit by time while you get richer. First you have to set the Minimum Profit to something like 50 silver because those are the only items you can afford. Then you should grow that over time to 1 gold, 2 gold, 5 gold and so forth as you get a bigger budget.

7. Pick up and relist the items

When you are just starting out you might want to relist your items immediately after buying them to grow your gold reserves as quickly as possible. Later when you deal with tons of items it might be wiser to empty your mailbox only once per day. This enables you to better stay on track with all the items you're dealing with.

8. Stay on the city and do scans as often as you can

Auctioneer bases it's estimations on historical information from your past scans so the accuracy of price estimation for an item completely depends on how many times the item has been up for bidding in the Auction House when ever you have scanned. This means that more you scan, the more deals you'll find and the more money you'll make. It's as simple as that. Remember that you can do what ever you want while scanning. Take a shower, eat, exercise or alt+tab to your desktop and surf the web.

Advanced Strategies

1. Beginner strategies

When you're just starting out it's naturally better to concentrate on low level items and keep your profit per item low. World of Warcraft charges higher listing fees for items that high level/rare items and you definedly don't want to put your too much gold to put on listing fees at this point. It's a good idea to put additional weight on buying enchants because those items have no listing fees at all.

2. When to scan and bid?

Scan as often as possible. You can run the scan while doing daily tasks elsewhere. Remember that every scan is an opportunity to find great deals before someone else does. The most important time to scan at is late Sunday or Monday morning when people are selling the loot they found during weekend. Also scan on late Tuesdays before the server goes down for maintenance.

3. Timing and pricing right

• Try to sell your stuff on Sundays. That's when people have the most time to play so it's natural that people do msot of their shopping on Sundays too.
• Always use 24 hour auctions. This is how you get the most bang for your buck. 24 hour auctions give you the biggest visibility and the listing fee isn't that much higher.
• Always set a buyout price. There is just no reason to sell without a buyout price. Gamers expect things to happen instantly and winning an auction is no exception.
• Use a low minimum bid even when your buyout price is higher than your competitor's. This is because the Auction Window is sorted by minimum bid price, not by buyout price and this way you can get to the top.
• Use the 9.99 pricing format over an exact 10.00. There is a reason why real world stores do so and you should use it too. This type of pricing makes your auction look cheaper and it also signals that you carefully set a competitive price instead of just throwing an overpriced ballpark figure out there.

4. Be careful with uncommon items

Auctioneer often gets it's price estimations horribly wrong with less common items. A major reason for this is that there are people who constantly overprice their auctions either by accident or purposely. For less common items this may have a really heave effect on price estimations. You shouldn't blindly trust Auctioneer on what ever it says or you'll end up paying expensive listing fees for items that never sell for the price Auctioneer thinks they do. Be especially careful with high level blue and epic items have very expensive listing fees.

5. Watch the trade channels

You should keep an eye on the trade channels for people trying to sell items you're familiar with. Make them an offer that's something like 50% of the going price and if you're lucky you might do a nice profit. You can also go to buy stuff 'straight from the source' on the zone where you know something is being farmed/gathered and then mail it to the AH to be sold for profit.

6. Monopolize niche markets

Trying to monopolize a market in the Auction House is maybe the most exciting and most risky business move you can make in WoW. When doing this you should first identify a group of items that there is a constant demand but limited supply for. Then you decide on a price point to list your items for and commit to buy all competing auctions below that price point out of the market. Lastly you can relist your competitors' items at your own price and if everything goes well you'll own the market and sell at your own price. Doing this requires some effort but once you learn to do it right, it can be very profitable.

7. Limit your spendings

Once you start getting richer you need to start putting gold in reserve insteads of spending it on low profit auctions. This is very important because otherwise you could lose a huge deal just because you just spent all your gold on something that makes only a 10% profit.

Gold making guide: Farming Cloth

Selling cloth on the Auction House is a good way to make gold. There is usually a stable market for it and from my experience cloth is one of those items that will usually sell fast the first time you post it on the Auction House. One thing to be careful of when selling cloth on the Auction House is to not flood the market with tons of cloth or continually post auctions undercutting other prices because you will drive the price of the cloth down.

The chart below shows the various types of cloth you can farm for gold and the average buyout price for it on the Auction House. As you can see, the profitability of different cloth types varies, this is due to the fact that some cloth is very easy to get and some cloth has a very high demand. Felcloth has a very high selling price but one thing to keep in mind is that Felcloth is hard to get and there is a limited demand for it since it is an old world cloth that is used by very few recipes. In fact, I wouldn't advocate farming it, but it can be a bonus if you happen to loot some while farming Runecloth.

Cloth Types	Average Buyout Price on Auction House
Linen Cloth	5s each (1g stack)
Wool Cloth	10s each (2g stack)
Silk Cloth	5s each (1g stack)
Mageweave Cloth	25s each (5g stack)
Runecloth	20s each (4g stack)
Netherweave Cloth	15s each (3g stack)
Frostweave Cloth	75s each (15g stack)

Below you will find maps for some of the best places to farm cloth. I have also included some information about instances since instances are often really good places to farm in if you are a higher level. When farming for cloth it's important to consider not only the drop rate of the cloth off of the mob but the number of mobs in an area. It's better to have 30 mobs in an area with a 50% drop rate than having 10 mobs in an area with a 75% drop rate because with fewer mobs it's likely that you will have to wait for mobs to respawn.

Farming Linen Cloth
Besides the maps that I have shown below other good areas to farm Linen Cloth are in the Ghostlands and Westfall.

Below you will find areas for farming Linen Cloth in Silverpine Forest. The areas on the map have a 42-55% drop rate of Linen Cloth.

Note: Pyrewood Village to the south is friendly to the Alliance during the day but at night the residents turn into mobs which are kill on site. The Horde can kill the mobs here any time.



Below you will find areas for farming Linen Cloth in Loch Modan. The areas on the map have a 42-46% drop rate of Linen Cloth.



Farming Wool Cloth
Besides the areas in the maps below, you can also farm Wool Cloth good in The Stockade and Blackfathom Deeps. If you are Alliance I strongly suggest that you try The Stockade if you are farming with a high level character.

Below you will find areas for farming Wool Cloth in Ashenvale. There are some areas that are friendly to one faction or another so in those areas I have marked whether or not the Horde or Alliance can kill there. The areas on the map have a drop rate of 24-31% of Wool Cloth.



Below you will find areas for farming Wool Cloth in Redridge Mountains. The areas on the map have a drop rate of 25-28% of Wool Cloth.



Farming Silk Cloth
One of the best places to farm Silk Cloth is in Scarlet Monastery, if you have a high level character I strongly suggest you try Scarlet Monastery because of the high amount of mobs and good drop rate of silk.

Below you will find areas for farming Silk Cloth in Alterac Mountains. The areas on the map have a drop rate of 34-37%.



Below you will find areas for farming Silk Cloth in Dustwallow Marsh. The areas on the map have a drop rate of 39-43%.



Farming Mageweave Cloth
If you have a high level character I suggest trying out Zul'Farrak if you are looking to farm Mageweave Cloth. Otherwise the two zones below are quite good for finding Mageweave. One of the maps I have included is for the Horde only and it is one of the best Mageweave Cloth farming locations.

Below is the Horde area for farming in Blasted Lands. This is an excellent area to farm Mageweave and the area on the map has a drop rate 45-47%.



Below you will find areas to farm Mageweave Cloth in Tanaris. The areas on the map have a drop rate of 26-46%.



Farming Runecloth
One of my very favorite places to farm Runecloth is Strathholme. It has a decent drop rate of cloth, blues, and other items to sell, which is why it's featured in the Instance Farming section of this guide. You can also find lots of Runecloth in Dire Maul, Blackrock Spire, and Scholomance.

Below you will find areas to farm Runecloth in Eastern Plaguelands. There is one area in the north that is for Horde only and the areas in the south are elite mobs. The areas on the map have a drop rate of 41-47%.



Below you'll find areas to farm for Runecloth in Hellfire Peninsula. The areas on the map have a drop rate of 40-44%.



Farming Netherweave Cloth
While you can get Netherweave Cloth out of Outland instances, I have had better luck farming in Shadowmoon Valley and Nagrand.

Shadowmoon Valley is a great place to get cloth because there are so many humanoids with good drop rates throughout the zone. The areas circled on the map have a drop rate of 39-51%.




Nagrand is also a great place to farm for cloth. One thing to note is that some of the mobs in Forge Camp Hate and Forge Camp Fear are elites. The areas circled on the map have an average drop rate of 40-49%.




Farming Frostweave Cloth
Because Wrath of the Lich King is the latest expansion it's a little more difficult to farm for cloth in Wrath instances so your best bet for farming Frostweave is by visiting Sholazar Basin and Icecrown.

Below you will see cloth farming locations in Sholazar Basin. The areas circled on the map have an average drop rate of 39-45%.



Below you'll find locations for farming Frostweave Cloth in Icecrown. The areas that are circled in the map below have an average drop rate of 35-48%.