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 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 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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Here is the everything you wanted to know about the new Cataclysm Jewelcrafting Dailies, which reward one Illustrious Jewelcrafter’s Token per day. These JC tokens are then used to purchase JC Recipes which include rare gem cuts, meta gem cuts, bind on equip blue ring/neck, Chimera’s Eye, and their respective cuts. Update: Manaview is having a [...]
It’s that time again… the time to prospect ore in a new expansion. We went to the auction house today and picked up 32 stacks of [Elementium Ore] for around ~6700g, which comes out to about 200g per stack. We would think that this is a pretty good price considering it’s only the second day of [...]
A Guest Post by Alex of The Warcraft Journal Magazine The third World of Warcraft expansion, Cataclysm brings about many new features including guild leveling, races, class/race combinations and much more. Players of all types are excited to experience these and the rest of what Cataclysm has to offer. However, most people know that the main focus [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If I had to place a bet on the most profitable profession in Cataclysm, it would have to be Jewelcrafting. With the potential of mass glyph sales going away, Inscription, JC’s main rival in gold making, will no longer be as profitable as it was in Wotlk. Although we believe there will be a window of opportunity for scribes to make a ton of money during the release of new glyphs as well as the newly introduced medium glyphs. Only time will tell what type of system Blizzard has planned for introducing new glyphs.
Jewelcrafting has proven to be a highly lucrative profession and this will probably be no different in Cataclysm. In fact, with the new change to colors/stats to diversify the highly sought after cuts, there will be less of a discrepancy in price between all the colors. In other words, green gems will be priced comparable to red gems. We have seen this concept before when Blizzard wanted eternals to have similar costs, however we all know that is not the case with Fire and Life being significantly more expensive.
So after digging around the data-mined information about Jewelcrafting, this is what we have come up with. The profession cap is now 525 and you need at least 500 to use the JC only gems. It also looks like current profession bonuses will carry over in to Cataclysm as well. See blue posts below if you need to be caught up with what’s in store for JC.
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Ever wanted to know know if prospecting ore is profitable on your economy based on mathematical probability? Well Ashton Kind, AkA Delcitina of Stormscale US has been working on a prospecting, JC/DE spreadsheet for us at Warcraft Econ. He has even offered to answer any questions/concerns/requests at ashtonbekind at gmail.com By using probability rates of prospects [...]
It’s that time again… the time to prospect ore a few weeks after the introduction of a new patch. We went to the auction house today and picked up 32 stacks of [Titanium Ore] for around 9500g. This is a prospecting test to see if it is profitable like our Prospecting Saronite Ore and our updated [...]
Taking a look back at pre-3.1 Prospecting/DE, which has become a very popular topic, we can see that it was highly profitable when gems/enchanting materials worth a lot. Now in 3.1, we can see that [Saronite Ore] has retained it’s average price of 17-20g per stack, while [Eternal Earth] has skyrocketed to around 10g each. We had actually had [...]
Wes ford has mentioned two weeks ago that his gem market had finally hit a healthy level for him. For me, it has just reached the point where it becomes just almost worth my time to re-dabble a bit into the gem industry. Despite having no new recipes for Jewelcrafting from Ulduar, and having a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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