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Shuffle Woes: How To Obtain Heavenly Shards From Disenchanting Stormforged Shoulders

By on Jul 13, 2011 in Auction House, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Professions, Warcraft Econ

A brief introduction. I am Ghoull of Black Dragonflight. Formerly known as Ghoullash of Detheroc. In the coming weeks and months I once again look forward to sharing with all of you my knowledge and experiences in the World of Warcraft. Especially as it pertains to gold making.

Producing Heavenly Shards

For the past 3 months I have been doing the Obsidium/Elementium shuffle. For the uninitiated, in short you prospect a lot of ore. Then cut the rare quality gems and sell them on the auction house. Your then take the uncommon quality gems, and turn them into enchanting mats. There are many other things you can do with this (which I promise to get into at a later time), but that is the most basic version of the shuffle.

The one problem I have had with this is I never seem to end up with enough Heavenly Shards to create all of the high end, high value enchanting scrolls. I sat down and went through the professions tab of my guild until I came across Stormforged Shoulders.

Reagents:

  • 8 elementium bars (16 ore)
  • 2 folded obsidium (2 bars ea, total of 8 ore)

Through my COD farmers and AH, I purchase the ores on an average of 1.5g per ore. Which brings my cost to 36g per shoulder. Combine this with the level 23 guild perk Bountiful Bags, which I find I proc an extra Heavenly Shard about 1 in 6 disenchants. Brings my cost to 30.8g ea. On Black Dragonflight,  Heavenly Shards sell between 60-70g each. So as you can see this is a much better alternative to buying them from the AH. Quite the opposite ends up happening and I sell them for a nice profit in some cases.

Till next time,

Ghoull

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About the Author

Ghoul is a Staff Writer here at Warcraft Econ. Born and raised in Michigan, I have been playing World of Warcraft for almost 2 years. My mains are Ghoull (Ele/Enh Shaman), Ellduce, and Selmak all of Black Dragonflight. I have been into serious gold making for around a year and have hit the gold cap of 1 Million gold.
  • Kuri

    Have a hard time understanding why you'd farm Obsidium Ore manually even with the guild perk. Prices on the AH tend to drop so low (at least on my server) that per-item costs of Ore could inflate by 5x and buying them would still generate a nice profit.

    Nice idea for getting Heavenly Shards, though. Seems stable if you have access to a Blacksmith.
    My recent post “Just 9 Hours Per Week!”

  • http://www.warcraftecon.net Warcraftecon

    The wording is a bit off, what he meant was that he has "farmers" that COD him the ore. Fixed the wording.

  • Cinderhaze

    The guild perk pertains to the procing of extra shards on DE, not manually mining the ores for extra procs.

  • Pikkle

    This tip was already posted on the Consortium eight days ago.

    http://consortium.stormspire.net/showthread.php?3…

    • http://www.warcraftecon.net Warcraftecon

      The article was originally written on June 19th, almost a month ago. We just decided to publish it now. WoW Insider also wrote about it in May. But that is besides the point; we don't believe that anyone owns the rights to a certain gold making strategy in WoW. We can assure you this author figured it out on his own with and not from a blog. Besides, not all of our readers know about all the information that other amazing sites offer. Here at Warcraft Econ we always give credit to our sources if that's where our information came from, but sometimes you just end up discovering things on your own. That, I hope, encourages other players to think for themselves, discover niche markets, and unique strategies on their own.