How to make money, tons of it [scourge event 1400g in 4 hours]

[Kaynin]

This is prolly getting nerfed soon but it still works at this moment.

Go to areas scourge is invading. there are usually 3/4 or so camps with mobs and a crystal, mobs respawn until crystal is 0 hp and then there are 4 shadow of doom's. All mobs have about 30% droprate of a necrotic runestone thingy. The shadows of doom aloways drop 30, rare mobs often drop 3 as well as some epics.

what I do, depending on how many people are busy, is preferably pull a camp, aoe, loot, run to other camp, pull, aoe, loot, run back to camp 1, pull aoe and loot, etc, until one stone is almost down, stick to that area and do the shadows one by one.

This night, I farmed these for about 3 hours. In total I got 10 or so epics, and 750 necrotic runestones. At the vendor in lights hope you can buy epics for 15 of these stones. I bought around 50 epics.

I disenchanted the total of 60 epics I gained in 3 hours of grinding and had around 100 void shards. (they seem to have a high 2x drop rate).

So that's 100 void shards in 3 hours. these I broke down into large prismatic shards, (make more money on my server.) lps's go for 10-12g a piece on my server. I spammed trade, mass selling them for 7g a piece. And made 1400 gold in 3 hours of grinding and one hour of selling.

1400 gold, four hours. D:

As I said tho, blizz will prolly nerf the disenchantable items form the vendor, like they have done in the past too. However, for now it does still work. Use it while you can!

PPS: the longer you wait, the more likely people will catch on, the more likely prices on your shards drop too. So, you have to sell the shards low and in large quentities. It will flood the market, prices will decrease afterwards. Or keep the shards until when prices gone up again. :P

[Hachoo]

Whats this about the scourge invading? I haven't even heard about this, where is it happening?

[Kaynin]

Oh, I strongly suggest to kill the shadow of dooms one by one. It goes fastest.

I once pulled four of them at the same time, and found myself healing a lot and eventually running oom. And when I used aoe I pulled 10 or so more mobs. I barely, barely managed to kill all four, using everything I had. And all in all the fight lasted like 5 times longer as opposed to killing all four of them one by one. :P

edit: Check your azeroth world map, some areas have a purple skull. go there, kill scourge. Get the quests in lights hope first tho.


An easy way to find all the scourge camps is to find the spacecraft and look at the flashes it directs to the camps on the ground.

[Hachoo]

Found it, cleared out an area, killed all 4 shadows, got my 10 runes per char and an extra 150 or so on my enchanter, bought a bunch of useless epics and DEed them...now im wondering if there are any ele shaman undead slaying pieces? I only saw enhancement pieces at the vendor but all my guys are in greens/blues so if theres any elemental mail i definitely want to pick it up tomorrow. Any ideas?

[Nitro]

Found it, cleared out an area, killed all 4 shadows, got my 10 runes per char and an extra 150 or so on my enchanter, bought a bunch of useless epics and DEed them...now im wondering if there are any ele shaman undead slaying pieces? I only saw enhancement pieces at the vendor but all my guys are in greens/blues so if theres any elemental mail i definitely want to pick it up tomorrow. Any ideas?

Nope, just enhancment, sucks.

[Skuggomann]

Hmmm this is interesting :)

[gorram]

I found a circle all to myself after the servers came up yesterday - here are some of the invasion mechanics I discerned.

Two types of mobs drop epics - the Shades in the middle, and a variety of Rare spawns. So far, i've seen 3 rare spawn models - silvery phantom (can visually blend in with the regular ghosts, so watch for these in particular), skeletal mage, and zombie glutton/patchwerk type. The rare spawns seem to have a 100% chance to drop epic legs. The shades seem to always drop a stack of 30 runes, and have about a 50% chance of dropping an epic chest.

If you summon a Shade, then wait a while, another conjurer will respawn in his place. This won't happen indefinitely, but I did get 6 shades out of one circle. I was really hoping for more rare spawns, and occasionally killed one of shade while waiting. Eventually, the circle faded, and the regular mobs all despawned over the course of a few minutes. The conjurers didnt' despawn, but I Shade-ed them all pretty quickly once I saw the circle was gone. I would guess you could kill 3 Shades, let them repop, kill 3 more, and let them repop again before the circle dissapeared, if the circle disappears on a timer.

The regular mobs around the circle spawn AND DESPAWN regularly. I have no idea why, but the practical meaning of this is that rares will likely despawn if you take your sweet time getting to them (which I wouldn't do anyway, since someone else may happen by and tag them).

There's one armor set each for plate, mail, leather and cloth. Each is dps oriented, only the cloth is caster oriented, and you cannot mix and match the pieces for the set bonus (i.e., mail and leather have different set names, though the bonus is the same).

[Threeofme]

I wonder if this will still be the case after todays patching ?

thx for the tips though ;)

[Hachoo]

Yes someone please test this again today and see if it still works (DEing the epic items). I sold 20 void crystals last night (don't have 375enchanting yet so I couldn't break them into LPS) and was hoping to get another 30 or so tonight.

[Lyonheart]

A better way to make money if this still works is making mongoose enchants to sell on AH ( if you have the enchant )

[Kaynin]

Yeah, probably. I don't have mongoose myself tho. :<

I'm still at work and have been unable to test the new patch myself by the way so can't give confirmation if the items are still disenchantable. :p

[Hor]

Right now I'm on my way to Light's Hope to try this, I'll post with my findings.

It's still working as of Oct 29th, got a few stacks of LPS from this so far :D

[pinotnoir]

A better way to make money if this still works is making mongoose enchants to sell on AH ( if you have the enchant )

Please explain how this is possible.

[Souca]

It is actually possible to get 7 Shadows of Doom from one site. If you kill 3 of them, and then wait with the fourth left alive, another 3 will spawn. Once you kill 4 the area will be disabled and no more adds will spawn, but the three channelers with stay allowing you to interrupt them and spawn a Shadow. All of these shadows will drop 30 runes. I did this on Monday, so it is possible that this has been changed.

Another thing worth mentioning is that once the channelers are up the spawned mobs are of a higher quality and seem to be more likely to drop runes.

- Souca -

[Souca]

A better way to make money if this still works is making mongoose enchants to sell on AH ( if you have the enchant )

Please explain how this is possible.

Scribes (Inscription) can make scrolls that enchanters can place an enchant on. This scroll can then be used to place the enchant on an item. The scroll can be sold on the AH.

- Souca -

[pinotnoir]

A better way to make money if this still works is making mongoose enchants to sell on AH ( if you have the enchant )

Please explain how this is possible.

Scribes (Inscription) can make scrolls that enchanters can place an enchant on. This scroll can then be used to place the enchant on an item. The scroll can be sold on the AH.

- Souca -

Which scroll mine say lvl 35 only.

[zaediex]

Weapon Vellum II (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=39350) can only be used with enchants that have a level restriction of level 35. All current level 70 enchants fall into this category.

edit: Here's Enchant Weapon - Mongoose (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=22559) for reference.

[Kaynin]

Actually, I know my executioner enchant requires a level 60 or higher weapon...

[zaediex]

I stand corrected. Executioner does require a level 60 weapon. I suspect this is an exception, and not the rule likely due to the effect on twink pvp that the armor negation effect would have

[pinotnoir]

This is prolly getting nerfed soon but it still works at this moment.

Go to areas scourge is invading. there are usually 3/4 or so camps with mobs and a crystal, mobs respawn until crystal is 0 hp and then there are 4 shadow of doom's. All mobs have about 30% droprate of a necrotic runestone thingy. The shadows of doom aloways drop 30, rare mobs often drop 3 as well as some epics.

what I do, depending on how many people are busy, is preferably pull a camp, aoe, loot, run to other camp, pull, aoe, loot, run back to camp 1, pull aoe and loot, etc, until one stone is almost down, stick to that area and do the shadows one by one.

This night, I farmed these for about 3 hours. In total I got 10 or so epics, and 750 necrotic runestones. At the vendor in lights hope you can buy epics for 15 of these stones. I bought around 50 epics.

I disenchanted the total of 60 epics I gained in 3 hours of grinding and had around 100 void shards. (they seem to have a high 2x drop rate).

So that's 100 void shards in 3 hours. these I broke down into large prismatic shards, (make more money on my server.) lps's go for 10-12g a piece on my server. I spammed trade, mass selling them for 7g a piece. And made 1400 gold in 3 hours of grinding and one hour of selling.

1400 gold, four hours. D:

As I said tho, blizz will prolly nerf the disenchantable items form the vendor, like they have done in the past too. However, for now it does still work. Use it while you can!

PPS: the longer you wait, the more likely people will catch on, the more likely prices on your shards drop too. So, you have to sell the shards low and in large quentities. It will flood the market, prices will decrease afterwards. Or keep the shards until when prices gone up again. :P


Where do these spawn?

[pinotnoir]

I finally figured it out.

[Nmagrig]

You are correct my friend. So today I did this and I farmed up 3200 gold in 6 hours lol. Man you cant beat this with a stick. Now just imagine if I could do this for a few more days lol. However others are catching on and spawn camps are getting ugly. However when it comes to killing the 4 elites....I drop flammies and go to town on all 4 of them at once. Its kinda chaotic but its fun and I havent come close to dieing yet :D.

As for where they spawn, they spawn in various locations in the zones that the scourge is at war in. Those zones are Tanaris, Searing Gorge, Blasted Lands, Azshara, EPL, Winterspring and I think I am missing one. Just check your map for the skull for details on which zone is at war or talk to the Argent Dawn Dude (ADD for short) and he will quickly give you the low down :D :D

[valkry]

Way too many people online on our server to do this. Every span camp is zerged by either Ally or Horde and you get to kill 1 mob a minute if you are extremely lucky. As for the Shadows, people just crowd around it as soon as it spawns, ready to tag it.

[pinotnoir]

I just farmed 113 voids.. I hope they sell cause I dont have epic mounts yet. Damn wish I would have been doing this earlier. Thanks to original poster. I had no idea you can de these epics.

[Nitro]

Way too many people online on our server to do this. Every span camp is zerged by either Ally or Horde and you get to kill 1 mob a minute if you are extremely lucky. As for the Shadows, people just crowd around it as soon as it spawns, ready to tag it.

Shadows are autotagged by the person who summoned it, they cant be stolen from you unless you die i think. Farmed over 300 void crystals today, good stuff!

[Kaynin]

Way too many people online on our server to do this. Every span camp is zerged by either Ally or Horde and you get to kill 1 mob a minute if you are extremely lucky. As for the Shadows, people just crowd around it as soon as it spawns, ready to tag it.

Shadows are autotagged by the person who summoned it, they cant be stolen from you unless you die i think. Farmed over 300 void crystals today, good stuff!

Going out of range untags them too, but yeah, you summon it and it's yours unless you screw up. :p

[Hachoo]

Also one thing I found out last night, the "Haunted Mementos" you get sometimes randomly from mobs (they're unique but not BoP) - DONT THROW THEM AT PEOPLE. I've sold 3 of them on the AH for 300g each! I got all 3 in like an hour, probably would have gotten more but I didn't realize they were unique so I'm guessing some of my clones didn't loot some.

I didn't get to do this at all last night, hopefully I'll get to tonight and I can still DE everything, I need 5x epic flyers!!

[Kaynin]

Also one thing I found out last night, the "Haunted Mementos" you get sometimes randomly from mobs (they're unique but not BoP) - DONT THROW THEM AT PEOPLE. I've sold 3 of them on the AH for 300g each! I got all 3 in like an hour, probably would have gotten more but I didn't realize they were unique so I'm guessing some of my clones didn't loot some.

I didn't get to do this at all last night, hopefully I'll get to tonight and I can still DE everything, I need 5x epic flyers!!

300g? Oo

They're silly easy to get. You got a weird server. :P

[Hachoo]

Actually I heard about this on the main wow forums, a lot of people were selling them on a lot of servers for a lot. I've seen them on my server all the way up to 800G. I just price them lowest to sell fast.

[Lyonheart]

I'm betting this downtime is fixing the being able to DE these epics? We will see. But after a day of farming the crap out of these I have a feeling it was an oversight on Bliz's behalf. I mean the market will be flooded with shards ( which Is why i turn them into sellable enchant scrolls ). But didn't anyone else feel a tad bit of guilt? I mean it was to easy!

If its not nerfed. I'll be back at it today. it was FUN! 8)

[Kaynin]

Well, they have made these mistakes in the past, however I usually was too late with these kind of things in the past and they got hotfixed. :P

Guilt? No. The market is already destroyed by all the bank sellers in anticipation of WotLK. Endgame is making a shift, and just like back when 60-70, prices are AWOL at the moment. That's why I suggest selling low, quick and big amounts, or keep the shards a few months and hope they'll be orth more once wotlk market balances. However, Large Brilliant Shards never got expensive, Greater Eternal did, but this is about farming epics so, yeah, get rid of the shards asap. Always someone thinking to make a buck if you sell like 200 LPS's for 7g a piece or cheaper then anything on the AH anyhow. Tbh, they probably won't, because by the time they got rid of the 200 shards, it will be a few months from now. :P

Normally Blizz fixes these kinda things within a few days, I find it remarkable this hasn't changed yet in all honesty. :p

[Lyonheart]

How long the invasion going? I would like to gear up my next team if it lasts a few more days ( they are almost 70 )

[Xealous]

Anyone else noticed or had problems with the shadows only dropping runes now?
Have been farming the shadows alot and all I get now is runes - relying on the rare random spawns for the epics :(

[Kaynin]

the droprate for shadows to drop an epic is also abotu 30%, it;'s been like that since the start. :p

[Kayley]

Way too many people online on our server to do this. Every span camp is zerged by either Ally or Horde and you get to kill 1 mob a minute if you are extremely lucky. As for the Shadows, people just crowd around it as soon as it spawns, ready to tag it.I've farmed it quite a lot, stick with me kid. :P

[Nitro]

Also one thing I found out last night, the "Haunted Mementos" you get sometimes randomly from mobs (they're unique but not BoP) - DONT THROW THEM AT PEOPLE. I've sold 3 of them on the AH for 300g each! I got all 3 in like an hour, probably would have gotten more but I didn't realize they were unique so I'm guessing some of my clones didn't loot some.

I didn't get to do this at all last night, hopefully I'll get to tonight and I can still DE everything, I need 5x epic flyers!!

What do you use these for that makes them worth so much? I just thought they were trash, please elaborate.

[Souca]

Also one thing I found out last night, the "Haunted Mementos" you get sometimes randomly from mobs (they're unique but not BoP) - DONT THROW THEM AT PEOPLE. I've sold 3 of them on the AH for 300g each! I got all 3 in like an hour, probably would have gotten more but I didn't realize they were unique so I'm guessing some of my clones didn't loot some.

I didn't get to do this at all last night, hopefully I'll get to tonight and I can still DE everything, I need 5x epic flyers!!

What do you use these for that makes them worth so much? I just thought they were trash, please elaborate.

I imagine people want them for the "vanity pet" haunt that will follow you around. Why they would pay that much for them I have no idea, but if they will I will gladly supply them. Past two nights I've been able to clear out 2 sites solo (solo being my 5 and a hunter friend, no people crashing our party) in about an hour getting 7 shadows each site. I'm also getting the mementos for alts, since its a pretty neat pet.

- Souca -

[Kaynin]

It's getting hard selling the shards on my server now. :P

I have to undersell in large quantities, hoping for a fool that thinks he can get a nice profit from reselling it. Just sold 200 Large Prismatic Shards at 6g a piece. Normal AH prices dropped from 12-14 to 9-12 already in two days time. Market is flooded with the crap. :P

[Kaynin]

It's getting hard selling the shards on my server now.

I have to undersell in large quantities, hoping for a fool that thinks he can get a nice profit from reselling it. Just sold 200 Large Prismatic Shards at 6g a piece. Normal AH prices dropped from 12-14 to 9-12 already in two days time. Market is flooded with the crap. :P

[Souca]

It's getting hard selling the shards on my server now.

I have to undersell in large quantities, hoping for a fool that thinks he can get a nice profit from reselling it. Just sold 200 Large Prismatic Shards at 6g a piece. Normal AH prices dropped from 12-14 to 9-12 already in two days time. Market is flooded with the crap. :P

I think I will hang on to mine until the price is right. I actually like when markets get flooded since I have had a good time at getting things when they bottom out and selling when they peak again. I think that we will eventually see a rise in Outlands enchanting mats after Wrath is out for a bit. With a slew of new characters, some who will be DK enchanters, there is going to be a demand for prismatics. Most people are going to rush to Northrend and never look back and those are going to be the same people that buy up all the stock of mats. it may not be a fast buck, but at this point I can wait until 77 to worry about getting my epic fliers. Besides, I've never regretted having an entire bank full of enchanting mats, esp when they are as easy to get as these are. The only painful part is watching your entire stockpile disappear as you level tailoring or enchanting.

- Souca -

[Nmagrig]

Day two of this has yeilded me a total of 7100g on my server. This is freakin hilarious...HILARIOUS. I am also stockpiling. Alliance on my server dont even come to my zone if I am farming. Apparently as well they dont mess with me on the Isle either. I put a post out saying that if you mess me on the Isle, all alliance will suffer my wrath for the rest of that day....Works wonders :D

[Xealous]

Yeah I know its about 30-50% but killing 30+ shadows and just getting runes seems a little weird ....

So its just me with this issue? :/ lol

[Lyonheart]

i have killed about 20 shadows today so far.. and only a few did not drops epics. I guess I'm lucky!

[Hor]

Well, I got the plate BP today, it's a bit better than what I was wearing. Infact, I've decided to get the plate and cloth pieces for my team, I bought all of the pieces off of the vendor today. And had a few others drop (1 Shaman has claws from ZA and now a full set of the mail gear so I'm going to play around with Enhance possibly).

[Thulos]

Can you do this in a raid? My disenchanter is not one of my normal 5 man teams but would like to drag him along just to grab the runes/epics off the shadows.

[Souca]

Yes, you can tag and loot the shadows in a raid. You will not get quest credit for the kill however. All the loot will drop like normal in a raid.

- Souca -

[Rin]

LOL Haunted Mementos are worth 300 each? I'm rich. 8) ... Gotta get home from work... ugh.

[Hachoo]

I sold 2, the other 2 haven't sold yet (or hadn't last night) in over 24 hours, so we'll see if they're still going for that much :) If not, then don't worry in a month or two they'll be worth even more I'm sure.

[Thulos]

LOL Haunted Mementos are worth 300 each? I'm rich. 8) ... Gotta get home from work... ugh.On my server they were on the AH for 70g when I checked around 1am last night.

[Hachoo]

Yeah but Rin is on my server and I've already sold 1 for 200 and 1 for 300. Not sure if the other 2 sold for 300g each today or not.

[Kaynin]

on my server the mememto's are 5-10 gold. :p

Oh well, I made plenty of gold with shards. I totally screwed up the market of shards on our server tho. :D I sold a total of 400 large prismatic shards in 3 days now. Cba to grind more. All in all I prolly grinded for about 6-7 hours in 3 periods. Still, made a nice buck!

[pinotnoir]

Whats the best way to sell these shards? I am not having any luck on my server. It seems like every hour someone is undercutting. It just continues down until they are listed for next to nothing. How many shards in a stack do you sell?

[Kaynin]

Just sell loads, if AH price is 8g per shard, I just sell 100 for 600-700 gold and spam trade. Find a victim and make him promises of riches and gold as there will never be cheaper shards available.

[elsegundo]

Whats the best way to sell these shards? I am not having any luck on my server. It seems like every hour someone is undercutting. It just continues down until they are listed for next to nothing. How many shards in a stack do you sell?sounds like its time to make a good investment.

[Kaynin]

Keeping the shards wont do you much good anyways. I expect Greater Planar to rise when wotlk hits and the ensueing months, but I doubt very much void/lps will rise. If anything, they'll hover around 5-6g and stay there.

[elsegundo]

why do you believe that?
i also think planar essences will rise due to less people in outlands. right now, pretty much green in outland gets turned into planar essences and arcane dust. once people skip half of outlands to enjoy northrend, less folks will be getting level 60-ish gear. supply and demand.

[Nmagrig]

My 3 day total is 1172 gold from this. For you people who are having issues selling the voids....Do what I do. I look on the ah, if there are alot of voids, I turn some them into large pris shards. If there are alot of large pris shards...this is the uber part. I turn them into Mongoose scrolls. Nobody on the server can come close to my prices. Since I have all the mats I sell them from 250-300g. And they sell faster then the individual shards or voids. They are priced to sell ect. For example yesterday....I sold 11 of these Mongoose scrolls within an hour.

Try it...you might like it.

[Lyonheart]

I have been selling a combo of shards and scrolls. I don't have mongoose ( wish I did ) but have sold tons of savagery and exceptional stats.

The price for LPSs will go up in the future. People are changing trades or starting new ones, and its the cost of skilling up that makes old world mats go up like they do. Also, since most the outland enchants help to enchant level 35+ twinks, that will help make the price rise. Since people will be farming outlands mats less.

I have made over 3k farming the invasion spawns. I still have half the shards i got. Ill save them 8)