Geodes that are being added in patch 4.3 will be the source for epic gems. These drop from the new Deathwing raid - Dragon Soul: Patch 4.3 Epic Gem Geodes Crystalline Geode has a chance at dropping an epic gem, its NOT guarentted though. Elementium-Coated Geode only drops primary stat (red, purple, orange) epic gems and will always give you [...]
Patch 4.3: Jewelcrafting Changes Jewelcrafting received some pricing adjustments on the PTR, mostly dealing with uncut gems. Uncut Cataclysm uncommon, rare, and meta gems can no longer be sold to the vendor. Cut uncommon gems sell for more to the vendor and cost more to list on the Auction House. Uncut Cataclysm gems cost 1 [...]
Patch 4.3 Changes Here is the compilation of WoW patch 4.3 changes and patch notes. Chaos Orbs We have just made the following change in the PTR: In 4.3, Chaos Orbs are no longer soulbound! Everyone will be able to roll on new orbs that drop, and any existing chaos orbs will become tradeable. (Source) New Search Field [...]
Patch 4.3 Jewelcrafting Epic Gems Update: Manaview is having a limited time sale, 50% off its’ products. Lasts all week! Just want the WoW Tycoon Gold Addon? Click here. Epic gems have been added to the game. Shadow Spinel Lava Coral Elven Peridot Queen’s Garnet Lightstone Deepholm Iolite They will be on the usual Jewelcrafting recipe vendor. Tome [...]
Episode 24 is now available at www.warcraftlounge.com and iTunes (where we have a 5-star rating from our listeners). Topics for the show include: -What we are doing in game: Both my hunter and mage are now in Cata, I am almost ready to start leveling my first alliance alts, discussion of experience point nerf for [...]
Update: Manaview is having a limited time sale, 50% off its’ products. Lasts all week! Just want the WoW Tycoon Gold Addon? Click here. Wowhead.com has put together an extensive list of the best items for transmogrification/mogging. There is quite a large about of items here, separated into tiers, categories, sets, armor types, levels, and other [...]
If you haven’t heard already, the Darkmoon Faire is getting revamped for Cataclysm. It is really outdated with quests and items from Canilla WoW. The interesting thing is that there may be some gold making opportunities here aside from the obvious Darkmoon Decks. Here is an excerpt of all the goodies that the faire will [...]
Episode 23 is now available at www.warcraftlounge.com and iTunes (where we have a 5-star rating from our listeners). Topics for the show include: -What we are doing in game: Continuing to level my hunter and attempting to solo content, found two new great addons (one for a mage and one to rid yourself of anal [...]
HOW DO YO MAKE MONEY WITH TAILORING? My first character in WOW was a Mage, a Tailor and Alchemist, since then I’ve always had at least one of each because they’ve always made me money. But how? It’s a question I get asked fairly often, especially since I started listing my weekly earnings by profession [...]
Today’s entry is on the general subject of pricing and the specific topic of being your own worst enemy on the AH. Let’s say you have three different things to sell, A, B, and C. A is for max level players with a lot to spend, B is for people that are almost at the [...]
Episode 22 is now available at www.warcraftlounge.com and iTunes (where we have a 5-star rating from our listeners). Topics for the show include: -What we are doing in game: A break from 25 man raiding, leveling alliance alts, how to pick a new realm, Ryan’s guild experiment, gearing clothies vs. plate, and more -Economic Minute: [...]
When you’re busy leveling your toon, there’s a lot more to pay attention to than just questing. I’ve already written at length about how everything sells and to try and AH everything that isn’t grey so I won’t be covering that today. Instead I wanted to cover something that’s mentioned every now and then but [...]
Aloha all, Stokpile here. I wanted to talk to you today about predictability and the auction house. As we all know, patch 4.2 added new BoE epic recipes which are becoming more and common each day that passes. In addition to that there are also the reputation epic items that have been attached to the [...]
First of all, how about the layout change? The site looks great doesn’t it? Once again, I just wanted to say thank you to the team here at Warcraft Econ for giving me the opportunity to bring content to a larger audience. I very much appreciate the vote of confidence. With that said, I want [...]
Druids of the Talon and Shadow Wardens It no longer matters which faction you choose to unlock first after Blizzard hot-fixed the one giving an extra daily quest. You have to pick one to unlock first, which requires 150 tokens, then you will have to unlock the other one, which is an additional 150 tokesn. So 300 [...]
Important Update: The estimate of the 21st is the accurate assessment of when the patterns and items SHOULD have become available. In reality though, the new crafted items have been up on the auction house since Monday the 18th. There was a bug during the first few days of Patch 4.2. The daily quests were resetting [...]
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 [...]
World Of Warcraft Companion and Mount Tracking Tool The World Of Warcraft Armory has changed drastically over the years. In fact, I’m not even real sure if they still acknowledge the armory name. Almost all of your character’s information has been integrated to the World Of Warcraft website. You can track your achievements, view your [...]
If you aren’t on the cutting edge of raiding, then you may want to consider farming trash in the new Firelands raid. For 10-man, 2 tanks, 3 healers, and 5 DPS is safe distribution to bring. Below are all the epic items you can obtain from trash including reputation rewards. You can realistically farm trash [...]
Along with various trash nerfs in the Firelands raid, Blizzard also reduced drop rates for BOE epics, recipes, and gold. Unbound Blazing Elementals now have a greatly reduced chance to drop epic items and crafting recipes. They also drop less gold. The rate at which crafting recipes drop has been greatly reduced. Creatures Cinderweb Spiderlings [...]
For those of you who need the recipes off the new 4.2 Hyjal NPC vendors, Wowhead has created a daily quest guide for Stage 1 and Stage 2 of The Regrowth and Motled front quest hub. Here are the quests to get you started. They can be found on the “boards” in your respective capitol [...]
WoW Patch 4.2 Profession Crafted Items MMO-Champion has organized a list for your viewing pleasure of the new crafted items in WoW patch 4.2. While there’s nothing new here if you have been keeping up with our 4.2 news, it’s a great reference to refer to on patch day. Also see our commentary on these [...]
For those of you new to gold making and others looking to brush up on their skills, Powerwordgold.net has created a free basic gold guide for all of you. Written by fluxdada and Bangkok Bill, this guide is generally aimed at those wanted to get started in increasing their income. From addon usage and profession basics, this [...]
We want to inform our readers about some of the articles we found interesting and informative this week. It would almost be impossible for us alone to report on every single issue going on this week, though we want to try. Our standards for choosing these articles and news stories include well written posts detailing [...]
One thing we missed from our earlier post about patch 4.2 profession changes was that Engineers are getting a new scope that can proc +300 agility and shoot a rabid critter at the mob? So far this is the only consumable/item enchancement added in this patch. 4.2 Engineering scopes: Flintlocke’s Woodchucker Squirrel Sights NYI (Not [...]
Hi there, Warcraft Econ here. It’s been a while since we posted some in depth information due to real life obligations. So to try and make it up to you all, we are going to do a patch 4.2 preparation and analysis article today like we used to do since the Burning Crusade patch [...]
If you have skinning as one of your professions and are making gold I am going to tell you a way of making bonus profits using your skinning skills as oppose to just the regular profits of selling leather. This will give you the benefit of making additional profits from a profession where the materials [...]
Patch 4.0.6 PTR (Source) Professions Fishing Rare fishing poles now have a chance to be found in the Bag of Fishing Treasures earned via the Stormwind and Orgrimmar Fishing daily quests. Jewelcrafting Wrath of the Lich King purple, green, and orange gems have been increased in cost to match red, blue, and yellow epic gems [...]
Recently our guild unlocked the first level of cauldrons by crafting 1000 Cataclysm flasks. We had to powerlevel it it mainly by buying herbs and volatile lifes. It wasn’t easy but then again we are a 25-man progression guild, so flasks and cauldrons are highly beneficial. So here is all the information we have on [...]
Just a quick update. The most notable change is this item below, which vendors for 1000g. So save any grey archaeology items you have until 4.0.6. You can look at the full list over at MMO-Champion.com [Word of Empress Zoe] 1000g Patch 4.0.6 this maybe?
We want to inform our readers about some of the articles we found interesting and informative this week. It would almost be impossible for us alone to report on every single issue going on this week, though we want to try. Our standards for choosing these articles and news stories include well written posts detailing how to make insane [...]
We want to inform our readers about some of the articles we found interesting and informative this week. It would almost be impossible for us alone to report on every single issue going on this week, though we want to try. Our standards for choosing these articles and news stories include well written posts detailing how to make insane [...]
Phase 1: Level up Jewelcrafting, Enchanting, and Alchemy Phase 2: Do the Cataclysm ore shuffle Phase 3: Profit! Update: Manaview is having a limited time sale, 50% off its’ products. Lasts all week! Just want the WoW Tycoon Gold Addon? Click here. All we have to say is WOW! This new spreadsheet created by the people [...]
Updated 1/11 Patch 4.0.6 – Build 13482 Patch Notes (Source) Professions Find Herbs, Fish, and Minerals are no longer canceled upon entering an Arena or rated Battleground. A socket has been added to all crafted epic armor pieces that did not already have one. Alchemy Alchemist’s Stones for Agility, Strength, and Intellect have been added. The [...]
Right before the launch of WoW Cataclysm, we discussed what the best profession was in terms of profits. Now that a month has gone by, we wanted to revisit the topic of the highest profit profession for the first few months of Cataclysm. Then we will go on to take a survey on what the best one is [...]
Blue Posts (Source) January 4-5 General Mix Master (guild achievement) is now awarded at 1,000 flasks, down from 10,000, and Better Leveling Through Chemistry (guild achievement) is awarded at 3,000 flasks, down from 25,000. It turns out we overestimated these numbers just a smidgen. More information can be found here. The 7th and 8th guild bank [...]
Blue Posts (Source) We’ve recently implemented a number of hotfixes directly related to guild achievements, flasks, and cauldrons. When first designing the guild achievements, we overestimated the number of flasks that guilds would be able to make by the time they reached guild level 10, and set the number of Cataclysm flasks required for the two [...]
While leveling Archaeology might not be our thing, we know a lot of players who are leveling/using this profession whether they like it or not. We leveled it to 4, yes four, points before we gave up, but maybe we’ll pick it up later when we aren’t busy with the rep grind and raiding. However [...]
Blue Posts (Source) January 3 Classes Mages Flame Orb and Frostfire Orb no longer break any version of Polymorph. Paladins Righteous Fury is now unable to be dispelled. The Strength bonus from the Retribution version of Guardian of Ancient Kings now applies its bonus based on total Strength instead of just base Strength. Dungeons & [...]
We want to inform our readers about some of the articles we found interesting and informative this week. It would almost be impossible for us alone to report on every single issue going on this week, though we want to try. Our standards for choosing these articles and news stories include well written posts detailing how to make insane [...]
An amazing spreadsheet by “flyinfungi” of the Elitist Jerks forums. This updated spreadsheet advises you on whether prospecting obsidium, elementium, and pyrite is profitable on your realm. Simply input the cost of gem prices and volatile earth and it does the math for you. It even shows columns estimating up to 20% less profit to [...]
We wanted to inform our readers about some of the articles we found interesting and informative this week. It would almost be impossible for us alone to report on every single issue going on this week, though we want to try. Believe it or not, some of our posts take 3-4 hours to write, research, data-mine, test in-game, code, [...]
Blue Posts (Source) General Weekly resets and calculations which occur during regular maintenance should no longer be applied one hour early, which should prevent them from being run twice. The sell prices for the 7th and 8th bank tabs purchased with guild level 5 are now 0. Professions Chaos Orbs can now only been seen [...]
Blue Posts (Source) General Paid services now allow characters level 81 or higher to be transferred with up to 50,000 gold. Professions The search radius to find an Archaeology node from the Archaeology ability Survey has been increased. This will result in fewer searches needed while in the “green” range of surveying. The Alchemy specialization [...]
Sticky: So we wanted to take an informal survey on what type of content our readers would like to see on this site. You may be new to the gold making business and become overwhelmed with articles that deal with prospecting 200 stacks of ore and using spreadsheets. Or you could be a gold capped [...]
So we finally were able to find [Pyrite Ore] at a good price to do a prospecting test with, although prices of gems have fallen a bit as well. We picked up 22 stacks at ~4300g a stack or 195g a stack. Prospecting Results 440 (22 Stacks @ 195g per) [Pyrite Ore] Requires 500 skill [...]
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