I have 13,000 Gold but i need more! Suggestions

[Slats]

My team consists of:
Miner/JC
Inscription/Enchanting
Engineer/Blacksmith
Alchemy/Tailor
Enchanting/Tailor

I pretty much use my Alchemy Transmute each day, and learn my Inscription Recipe each day and do my JC daily. I then use my Bank Character to do a 'getall' scan of the Auction House and I buy out all the cheap materials, like cloth, ore, herbs whatever.

I then do Wintergrasp once a week, sometimes more if I feel like it. I make sure I do all the quests. If I have the time I AFK out of 10 5v5 Arena Matches to get base points.

Tuesday nights are very quiet for me. There are never any raids scheduled so I login all my team and I sit and craft:
Eternal Belt Buckles
Ammunition
Netherweave/Frostweave Bags
Flasks/Pots/Elixirs
Blue and Epic Gems
Enchanting Scrolls

I then use a mod called Quick Auctions 3. I setup groups that define things like bags, epic gems, meta gems, ammo, enchanting materials. It uses the values I setup each group with to undercut the current competition and post up all my auctions. I tend to post for 48 hours because I'm lazy and dont care that much about the AH anymore.

This is how I make my money. I can always keep my gear gemmed and enchanted and have lots left over to buy novelty stuff with. For instance I have a motorbike, a travelling tundra mammoth and I've bought plenty of other expensive boe epics and pets and other stuff. I expect I'll go into Cataclsym with well over 100,000 gold ready for whatever the next big money sink is.

I can see wanting a million alchemists and tailors, but at the end of the day thats alot of blue gems and eternals you need to find every day/4 days. Its alot of effort to keep all those x-mutes going. You will get bored of it. My method suits me because I can lazily stockpile everything I collect in my 6 slot guild bank then just spend one night queueing up stuff to make in Skillet and just click "continue" every 10 minutes or so while I watch Heroes or Hosue or something.

[Ualaa]

I'm just running dailies.

It would probably be smart to get a bunch of alchemists or tailors.
For the transmutes.
Would be making comparable gold to two teams running the dailies.
In much less time.

I'd imagine gems are here to stay.
So in Cataclysm, there will be transmutes the same as there are now.
Just different gems being transmuted.

I'm sitting at 30k on the alliance side (three teams running) and 10k on the horde side (one team there).
The goal was 100k, 75/25... so I'd have 5k per toon saved, against whatever cash sink there is for Cataclysm.

I'm tempted to do the transmute route.
It does not preclude the dailies.
Could continue to do them too, instead of, or with the transmutes.

[Prega]

personally i never played with ah: so cant say nothing about it. sometimes tempted...
this week got other 5 alchemists to 450, all master trasm: now i have 15 alchemists, 14 are master trasm. a good way to get at worst 2000g each day.
atm saved over 400k in my gbank
a nice amount for start some ah game, when gems/epics market crash: it will happen, soon or later

[Ualaa]

Well.. cost me 3,800g, buying herbs on the AH.
Did 0 to 450 Alchemy today.

Well, that includes the last six points of Jewelcrafting on my JC toon.
I had enough JC tokens to buy eight epic cuts.

Checking auctioneer historical data vs current average pricing.
It looks like 150-200g (assuming no transmutation procs) per cooldown is the profit after buying the mats for the transmutes, and having my JC cut the epic gem.

I've got 22 toons, high enough and with an open trade skill slot, to reach 450 alchemy.
It is roughly three sets of my daily route (@45 mins each), to pay for the alchemy leveling.
But I have three sets of 80's, who can run dailies if I want to run them in a day.

At 150g, it's basically 25 days of transmutes per toon, before they recuperate the cost of training them.
But, have the gold/income, to add an alchemist each day, or at least every couple of days.

Down the road, doing transmutes on 22 toons, sending to the JC to cut, and then placing on the AH...
Will be much less time then running dailies...
I'd imagine over time, the transmutes will gradually go down in value.
But still, 20x 100g... which is a drastic drop from 150-200g profit per transmute/cut at the moment... is basically as much gold in 10-15 minutes, as 90 minutes of dailies is currently.

And chances are good, there will be 75 pts of alchemy to do in Cataclysm, and then new transmutes.
And those will start off at a much higher profit then transmutes are making now.

[SideWays]

Damn Im trying to get Alchemy up on 5 of my toons too but there are almost no preTBC herbs available on the AH so ive spent the whole day farming mats for 200-300 alchemy x5 and im still not done yet

[DrChaos]

the transmute way to go is slow but works a little for me. The more chars you have at 450 tailoring the faster and easier it will seem. If you make 3 cloth every 3 days it takes a while. If you make 15 cloth every 3 days, it dont seem to bad. and thats just if you have tailorig.

[Ualaa]

Damn Im trying to get Alchemy up on 5 of my toons too but there are almost no preTBC herbs available on the AH so ive spent the whole day farming mats for 200-300 alchemy x5 and im still not done yet

There was only one type of herb (Sungrass), which was not available on the AH.
Spent about an hour in The Hinterlands, running around for 60 of them (needed 55, according to the Alchemy guide I followed).

Farming sucks... but ultimately, several toons (eventually 22) with transmutes will be worth it.
I'd rather run dailies for 2.5-3 hrs, and buy the mats then farm them.

[SideWays]

There was only one type of herb (Sungrass), which was not available on the AH.
Spent about an hour in The Hinterlands, running around for 60 of them (needed 55, according to the Alchemy guide I followed).

Farming sucks... but ultimately, several toons (eventually 22) with transmutes will be worth it.
I'd rather run dailies for 2.5-3 hrs, and buy the mats then farm them.

Yea actually i thought I could rush to 450 just by buying herbs from the AH - looks like i failed (as soon as i hit 300 I can buy my way to 450 though, yay)

[blbjtb]

1-300 is a nightmare... And to be honest I really REALLY wanted to do it this weekend but just couldnt muster the strength to do it.. I know this shit needs to be done and I really dont have a good reason why im not doing it. "Just Do IT" lol should be my motto. But I have such a one track mind at the moment and that battered hilt X5. I'm now @ 20k which on my server is only 2 hilts. I feel like I would be better off pumping that cash into Alchemy......

[zenga]

I actually did the same yesterday, couldn't get past 150, will continue today if the mats are up. But ualaa, mind sharing the guide you followed?