Category: Enchanting

Patch 4.3: Cataclysm Jewelcrafting/Enchanting Changes and New Vendor Costs

By Oligopoly on Oct 09, 2011 in Enchanting, Featured, Jewelcrafting, News, Professions, Raw Materials

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 Datamined Epic Gems, Alchemy Transmutes, Profession Recipes, and Maelstrom Shatter

By Oligopoly on Sep 28, 2011 in Enchanting, Featured, Jewelcrafting, Leatherworking, News, Professions, Raiding, Raw Materials, Tailoring

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 [...]

Warcraft Lounge Episode 22: Don’t Quit Your Day Job

By Drakkmur on Aug 09, 2011 in Auction House, Blacksmithing, Blogsphere, Classes, Economy, Enchanting, Featured, General, Jewelcrafting, MMO, News, Podcasts, Professions, PvE, Raiding

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: [...]

New WoW Patch 4.2 Items Mean More Gold Making Opportunities

By Stokpile on Jul 28, 2011 in Auction House, Enchanting, Featured, General, Jewelcrafting, PvE, Raw Materials, Stockpiling

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 [...]

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

By Ghoull 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 [...]

WoW Companions And Mounts: An Indepth Tool for Spending Your Gold!

By Wes on Jul 12, 2011 in Auction House, Economy, Enchanting, Engineering, Farming, General, Mining, PvE, Tools, Vanity, Warcraft Econ

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 [...]

Free Cataclysm Gold Guide – Created by PowerWordGold.net

By Oligopoly on Jun 20, 2011 in Alchemy, Archaeology, Auction House, Blacksmithing, Cooking, Economy, Enchanting, Engineering, Farming, Fishing, General, Herbalism, Inscription, Jewelcrafting, Leatherworking, Mining, Professions, Skinning, Tailoring, Tools, Warcraft Econ

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 [...]

Catalcysm Prospecting Spreadsheet: Obsidium/Elementium/Pyrite Shuffle

By Oligopoly on Jan 14, 2011 in Alchemy, Enchanting, Jewelcrafting, Mining, Professions, Tools, Warcraft Econ

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 [...]

Patch 4.0.6: PTR Build 13482 – New Alchemist Stones, Archaeology Buffs, New Enchants and Meta Gems

By Oligopoly on Jan 11, 2011 in Alchemy, Archaeology, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Fishing, Herbalism, Inscription, Jewelcrafting, Leatherworking, Mining, Patch Notes, Skinning, Tailoring, Warcraft Econ, Wotlk Beta

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 [...]

Best Profession in Cataclysm Revisited

By Oligopoly on Jan 11, 2011 in Alchemy, Archaeology, Blacksmithing, Cooking, Economy, Enchanting, Engineering, First Aid, Fishing, General, Herbalism, Inscription, Jewelcrafting, Leatherworking, Mining, Professions, Skinning, Tailoring, Warcraft Econ

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 [...]

Cataclysm Gold Making Guides: Weeks 50-51 2010

By Oligopoly on Dec 22, 2010 in Archaeology, Auction House, Blogsphere, Economy, Enchanting, General, Herbalism, Inscription, Jewelcrafting, Mining, News, Professions, Tools, Vendors, Warcraft Econ

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, [...]

Cataclysm Hotfixes – Updated Dec. 21

By Oligopoly on Dec 22, 2010 in Archaeology, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Jewelcrafting, Leatherworking, News, Professions, Skinning, Tailoring, Warcraft Econ

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 [...]

Survey: What Type Of Content Are You Interested In?

By Oligopoly on Dec 19, 2010 in Alchemy, Archaeology, Blacksmithing, Cooking, Enchanting, Engineering, First Aid, Fishing, Herbalism, Inscription, Jewelcrafting, Leatherworking, Mining, News, Professions, Skinning, Tailoring, Warcraft Econ

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 [...]

Cataclysm Prospecting Obsidium Ore and Prospecting Spreadsheet

By Oligopoly on Dec 16, 2010 in Alchemy, Enchanting, Jewelcrafting, Mining, Professions, Warcraft Econ

We went to the auction house today and picked up 200 stacks of [Obsidium Ore] for around ~24,000g, which comes out to about 120g per stack. Although once we can find Pyrite Ore at a decent price and in good quantity, we will do a prospecting test with it. It really looks promising if Volatile [...]

Best Profession in Cataclysm? A Look Back at Wrath’s Highest Profit Professions.

By Oligopoly on Nov 30, 2010 in Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Cataclysm Beta, Cooking, Enchanting, Engineering, First Aid, Fishing, General, Herbalism, Inscription, Jewelcrafting, Leatherworking, Mining, Professions, Skinning, Tailoring, Warcraft Econ

The list of profitable professions should look more like the one below, at least for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. The list is based off of experience, interviews with gold capped and millionaire players, various gold blogs, articles, and forums. There is a common theme among those players that have hit the old [...]

Post Cataclysm Preparation

By Oligopoly on Nov 24, 2010 in Alchemy, Auction House, Blacksmithing, Economy, Enchanting, General, Herbalism, Inscription, Jewelcrafting, Leatherworking, Mining, Professions, Skinning, Tailoring, Warcraft Econ

A Guest Post By Zenith of Zenith’s Round Table. I want to thank Warcraftecon.com for organizing this event and giving me a shot at winning the TCG loot card regardless of the card type. I plan on giving the winning card to my wife as a X’mas gift as we may not be getting Cataclysm this year. We [...]

Diversity In Your Gold Making

By Ghoull on Aug 17, 2010 in Auction House, Economy, Enchanting, General, Jewelcrafting, Leatherworking, Professions

This week I would like to talk about one of the more important things when trying to hit gold cap, diversity. While I am sure there are some items out there that you can craft and make decent sums of money, what happens when some yahoo comes along and drives the price into oblivion. Even [...]

Simply Enchanting: From a fleck to a pearl

By Sherry Faith on May 01, 2009 in Enchanting, Reader Email

Recently, we have just received a mail seeking from help, which I will reproduce here: Hey I’m A Newbie With 4 Months experience Of World Of Warcraft. I Have Two Classes, A DK (71) And A Warrior (62). I Need Some Advice As far As Making A Lot Of Money Fast For My flying Mount [...]

Professions Inside Ulduar

By Oligopoly on Apr 24, 2009 in Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Cooking, Enchanting, Engineering, First Aid, Fishing, Herbalism, Inscription, Leatherworking, Mining, Skinning, Tailoring

Ulduar is a great place for some professions, but so far nothing that benefits Jewelcrafters yet. We found that you can use all 3 of the basic gathering professions as well as fishing and salvaging. In addition, there are a few more reasons to kill extra trash mobs aside from increasing your chances of an Epic [...]

Market Watch: Eternal Earth or Everlasting Profit?

By Wes on Apr 10, 2009 in Enchanting, Jewelcrafting, Market Watch

Market Watch is a weekly column that takes an in depth look at individual items inside the World Of Warcraft. Have an item you would like to tell us about? Leave us a comment! So this week I haven’t spent as much time directly in the market as I usually do, but I still [...]

Enchants of the Burning Crusader!

By Sherry Faith on Apr 07, 2009 in Enchanting

Are you getting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome tanking giant dragons and undead liches? Are your wrist braces and splint not holding up under your intensive repetitive strain injuries? Are you paying through your nose for repair fees? What you require are new ergonomically designed enchants to ease your daily load! While every raiding tank is dishing [...]

Prospecting Saronite Ore & JC/Ench Spreadsheet

By Oligopoly on Mar 13, 2009 in Enchanting, Jewelcrafting

This article is an extension of our previous articles on Powerleveling Jewelcrafting, Cheap Enchanting as a Byproduct, and Recouping all Expenses and Disenchanting Stoneguard Bands. To sum up what those two are about; they are the process of taking raw materials, crafting, then disenchanting for profit. For this method to work at its’ optimum level, you will [...]

Disenchanting Stoneguard Bands (Revisited)

By Oligopoly on Feb 03, 2009 in Enchanting, Jewelcrafting

This is a follow-up post requested by our readers. The original article on making gold by Disenchanting Stoneguard Bands was a neat trick you could do for easy enchanting mats or profit. After patch 3.08 and the nerfs to the number of materials used in enchants led to prices of dust/essences declining in price on some servers. This was [...]

Powerleveling Jewelcrafting, Cheap Enchanting as a Byproduct, and Recouping all Expenses

By Oligopoly on Jan 26, 2009 in Enchanting, Jewelcrafting, Personal

Powerleveling Jewelcrafting So I finally decided to make the switch to Jewelcrafting and dropped skinning for it. JC being a better min/max profession and not having to physically farm for materials was my motivation for doing it. Skinning was hardly used outside of instances and even then the money wasn’t that good. I just ended up buying most [...]

Disenchanting Stoneguard Bands

By Oligopoly on Jan 18, 2009 in Enchanting, Jewelcrafting

With enchanting materials selling so well, disenchanting items have become very profitable. There are different items that can be created using very cheap mats or even purchased for a low price from the auction house. These are mostly level 75+ green items that disenchant into mostly [Greater Cosmic Essence] and [Infinite Dust]. You may have even [...]

Patch 3.08 Enchanting Materials Change

By Oligopoly on Jan 05, 2009 in Enchanting

We had talked about some enchanting changes that surfaced about a week ago. Blizzard has stated that they wanted balance the cost of enchanting dust/essences and shards. As you may know, [Dream Shard]‘s are everywhere and very cheap, while [Infinite Dust] and [Greater Cosmic Essence] are still very expensive. The original Blue post was: “In [...]

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