This week we take a look at uses for spare Artisan’s Mettle and why Transmog and Cosmetics are great markets to get into now. We also look at the basics of finding items to flip and how to make gold without Dragonflight!
My name is Samadan and I’ll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!
Mettle Dumps
We are at the tail end of an expansion where many people have accumulated currency and have not had a use for it. Artisan’s Mettle being a prime example. The premise here being that you can use 50 Artisan’s Mettle to create an Illustrious Insight and with that extra 30 skill, it may be enough for you to guarantee a Rank 3 craft which usually has a higher price.
u/Youaintmyrealdad has put together a handy list of things to use your spare Artisan’s Mettle on.
All I’ll say is look at the stats on the right when you have the craft selected, and make the relevant numbers go up to max (maybe someone else can comment on what the max stats are).
Mettle Dumps for Each Crafting profession
List is not in order of relevance/profit/salerate. Mettle goes the furthest if using it to fill work orders, if you aren’t interested in that then:
- Alchemy – Primal Convergent, Omnium Draconis, any Phial/Potion that needs insight to R3 with T3 mats (go down the list) e.g. Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage, Phial of Glacial Fury, EPP.
- Blacksmithing – Alloys, Shadowed Belt Clasp (xD)
- Enchanting – Graceful Avoidance, Homebound Speed, Regenerative Leech, Accelerated Agility, Reserve of Intellect, Sustained Strength, Devotion of Avoidance/Leech/Speed/Critical Strike/Haste/Mastery/Versatility, Plainsrunner’s Breeze, Watcher’s Loam, Burning/Earthen/Frozen/Sophic/Wafting Devotion, Shadowflame Wreathe, Spore Tender, Draconic Deftness/Finesse/Inspiration/Perception/Resourcefulness.
- Engineering – Arclight Capacitor, Overcharged Overclocker, Calibrated Safety Switch, Critical Failure Prevention Unit, Magazine of Healing Darts, Spring-Loaded Capacitor, Tinker: Arclight Vital Correctors, Tinker: Shadowflame Rockets,
- Herbalism – not a crafting profession
- Inscription – Cosmic Ink, Runed Writhebark, Chilled Rune, Vantus Rune
- Jewelcrafting – Tiered Medallion Setting
- Leatherworking – Hides/Scales, Armor Kits, Shadowflame Patches,
- Mining – not a crafting profession
- Skinning – not a crafting profession
- Tailoring – Blue Silken Lining, Spellthreads, Banners, Azure/Chronoweave bolts (xD)
It’s a great list to get started and work out if it’s worth spending the extra mettle for greater profit effectively giving you a price for your mettle.
The market was higher a few months ago, but now that everybody is in the same predicament of no more new content and mettle to spend. Its afk and free so I’m going to take the free gold where I can.
Now is the Time for Transmog & Cosmetics
Another thing that players tend to do now that we are in the later phase of an expansion is start collecting pets, mounts, transmog. All the things they never made the time for before.
This is where we come in as gold makers providing such a service of craftable transmog, mounts and pets at a convenient price. The Lazy Goldmaker has all the details here …
All of these markets will usually hold long term value well. Cosmetics never truly go out of style, but of course any one cosmetic will have fewer and fewer customers as time goes by. Luckily we also have players coming into the game to keep demand rolling.
Time to revisit old areas and invest in crafting those things that are less commonplace now that the game has moved on.
300k Without Dragonflight
Not everyone has the latest expansion. Returning players may want to dust off their old accounts and get back into the game. Many will turn to gold making as a way to either fund their gametime or save up enough balance to buy the new expansion. Everyone’s situation is different, not everyone can (or might want to) “work an extra hour” to buy gold with real money. Some find the challenge in itself fun.
If it matters, I am a leatherworker (though I’m pretty sure it won’t help, yeah)
Like the other comment said, you could do mogs and pets and stuff, but I find that the sell rate is absolutely abysmal. You can get lucky and can pull good old world patterns and mogs, but again, it is not necessarily consistent. I like to farm transmogs and other items to sell once or twice a week and rotate what i put up. These take multiple reposts and patience. They might sell eventually, and you just have to stick with it. It feels great to sell that one item for 40k that you have had for some time.
If you have alts you can begin to do other farms and utilize different strategies. For example, farming materials for engineer mounts and sell those, but it becomes more worth it on multiple characters.
Making gold in wow is somewhat of a process, and there are alot of niche markets. The one thing to consider is that 300k is fairly close to a token price. I always judge what i farm by my real time investment. This is a game, and it’s nice to make gold, but could you work an extra hour and buy a token instead of farming for 10? That is up to you of course, but i like to judge what i farm based on that real time investment too. As always, good luck!
Basically you just follow your class hall quests in Legion and unlock the mission table but to get the blood of sargareas as a reward you pretty much need to get all followers and go through the whole campaign so it’s a lot of work, if you’ve already done it on several characters though then it can be a lucrative money maker.
There are a multitude of options. I tend to avoid straight up farming myself as I see that as a direct exchange of time for money. Usually I like to be building towards better, more efficient goals at the same time as developing my characters gold making potential. This could be as simple as learning older expansion professions and collecting rare recipes that make something that still sells or working towards a reputation that unlocks some niche or whatever.
The fun is in the finding out and then getting better at something!
But after seeing someone’s “buy low sell high” comment I decided to try it. Went from thinking that’s the hardest but most rewarding gold making activity to thinking it’s the easiest + most rewarding gold making activity.
Don’t need any starting gold really. I managed 0-1M in 3 weeks with level 1 characters, no professions, no grinding, no Dragonflight, etc. Just ~2 months of knowledge/experience.
New to Flipping
To expand a little on the comment above of “buy low, sell high” or flipping as it is known in gold making terms. u/glaeirs asks more about what do you flip?
I recently started dipping my feet into realm flipping and since this is still extremely new to me, I’d love some help. So: what do you flip that makes you money? Transmog, battle pets, mounts, current BOEs or just snipe deals?
Thank you!
You can flip using undermine exchange and send cheaper items to different servers. The best way to make gold however is cross-realm sniping in addition to flipping. But most people find it tedious since you have to make your own sniping list since people aren’t going to share their own unless you buy it from them.
As suggested above, using undermine.exchange is great for looking for things and comparing prices across servers. You can do a generic search for everything and then start picking out expensive items and see what looks interesting..
Once you find something, you can then see how it’s spread over several servers and buy from the cheaper ones and list on the ones more expensive with less of them on..
There are also other sites that give you an insight into markets to look out for such as saddlebagexchange…
From here, you can get an interesting list of items depending on your server selection and can order it by price, market state or any other metric you choose …
Of course, you don’t have to just flip over servers. If you only have one account, you can flip on your own server non-commodities or if you are feeling really brave and have the cash, you can try flipping commodities!
When cloth is extremly cheap I buy a lot of it, it eventually sells. Some times the entire stack sells in a few weeks, others in a day.
The main problem is to store the cloth, I have a spread sheet for the cloth stored in the mail and the expiration date, If needed i set up a TSM mail operation to move between chars.
I dont YOLO sell all of it at once, since it cost 5s to deposit for 12 hours each piece. And when I see the market raising, many times a reset in the price happens, thats when I take the mayor risk and spread a few hundred of thousands in the market since that give me a lot of profit, usually between 1.8 and 2.8g a piece.
Right now, probably because there are a LOT of bots hyperspawning mobs, the market is overflowed and got like 3.5million cloth bought at around 71s stored waiting for a better time.
Last time I checked I had around 61s profit in average (a good amount came from Early in DF) . It is a lot of gold and I dont recommend doing it to anyone because it is extremly time consuming.
Whatever you choose to do, it’s an interesting market to learn. Of course, please don’t invest more gold than you can afford to lose! Prices and sales are never guaranteed!!
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
