This week we look at what kind of prices things are going for with the Secrets of Naxxramas T3 gear and related markets as well as dive into some easier ways to make gold and get started on your journey.
My name is Samadan and I’ll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!
Secrets of Naxxramas
It’s been a week since 10.1.5 released and we’re still seeing high demand for the rare T3 set pieces and materials and prices are still very much in speculative mode. There have been a couple of hotfixes recently regarding drop rate…
- Scourgestone acquisition can no longer be toggled off. Players who are in this state will resume receiving Scourgestones.
- Developers’ notes: This toggle was added to help alleviate inventory space by players who did not want to engage with the system. However, it was extremely easy to toggle this off without realizing it. We may reintroduce it at a later time.
- Developers’ note: We’ve seen feedback that the rewards from Dented Raider tokens are often underwhelming, and agree that there is room for improvement. We hope that these changes help mitigate some of the frustration experienced by heavily engaged players committed to acquiring their Tier 3 sets, but we’d like to emphasize that these items are still intended to be quite rare.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Rare items dropping from Dented Raider tokens.
- The drop rates for Phylacterweave and Lamented Crusader items have been slightly increased.
The Lamented pieces are seeing a fairly high price still even with the buffs …
Draenor EU prices courtesy of undermine.exchange
Things are looking even more scarce on my low pop realm Shadowsong!!…
If only cross realm trading was enabled eh?
Manthieus has a great video going through why the prices are what they are …
Ultimately, it’s going to be one of those specialist niches where demand is likely to tail off over time, but the occasional rich collector will come in and scoop up some items. With the difficulty in getting items and the vast amounts of materials required, there are still opportunities for the dedicated gold maker with alts..
My setup with alts makes it possible for me to farm around 1800-2100 scourgestones every week, this week i used them all on T3 gear tokens for Lamented Crusader’s items!
Have you guys had any luck with these yet? pic.twitter.com/arKEzzxlSr
— Zanzarful (@Zanzarful) July 21, 2023
Don’t Forget Your Brush!
u/Shlitmy9thaccount posted a friendly reminder that every character can make an easy 2k gold easy flight from Valdrakken ..
It’s under the platform where the dragon riding race is
Not bad for an easy !!
Just Starting In Gold Making?
The Lazy GoldMaker has a nice guide as to what’s needed to make a reasonable amount of gold these days in Dragonflight using the relatively low effort cooldowns for Tailoring & Alchemy among other items and why there’s a barrier to entry for many crafted gear items or region wide consumables ..
The newbie
So what we’ll do today is look at it from the perspective of someone starting roughly from scratch. In many ways this is harder than ever in Dragonflight, due to a combination of profession knowledge barriers, significantly fewer items to sell on the AH and the region wide AH.
So where do we start?
We will take my current main as the starting point. I have XX knowledge as I did not play this character at all in 10.0, and I have not really kept up to date with knowledge gains at all in 10.1. This means I am behind the curve, but there’s still several profitable recipes I have access to.
The best items
In my experience the most profitable, easy to craft items right now are the cooldown limited materials. Both the tailoring cloth and Dracothysts are consistently profitable, and you can set up a new crafter relatively quickl as long as you have a level 70 ready. If you have maxed out Loamm rep you can even buy the barter brick recipe for Dragon isles supplies on alts, making the setup even faster.
Due to the limited amount of cooldowns available, profit per craft will almost always be high for these, particularly now that they have fixed the cooldown reset bug.
Zapthrottles
Another good item is the Zapthrottle Soul Inhalers. These are unlocked from Engineering knowledge, and are sold only on your realm AH. This makes competition a lot more limited. They are necessary to generate the BoP materials needed in both epic gear crafts and toys, making demand consistent.
What else?
Almost every other crafting opportunity in Dragonflight will be gated behind a significant amount of knowledge points. Even if you reach the required knowledge you will either have to fight in trade chat or on the region wide AH to sell your items. Both will work, but both also require more effort than I prefer.
You should focus in the direction you like. Do you like talking to people, making deals and doing the whole customer service bit: set up crafting professions for weapons and armor, focus on one slot first, then the next. If you like the volume business, post scanning on the AH and finding good deals on the AH then go for enchanting, alchemy etc. If you prefer more hands off approaches then flipping cosmetics, crafting legendaries and transmog and other old world markets is the best bet, preferably on multiple realms.
Further Reading
Most of this information was discussed and originally posted on the /r/woweconomy subreddit or in the accompanying Discord Server.
I hope you found this useful and If you have any suggestions or feedback, please do say so in the comments below..
Until next time, Happy Goldmaking!
Samadan
