Making gold in cata

[JohnGabriel]

In WotLK I took my 5 man team and did dailies, that brought it quite a bit of gold. Running a couple heroics with them every day and disenchanting all the drops made quite a bit as well.

But now in Cata the dailies seem to take twice as long and heroics too tough to make quick work of.

How are you making gold this expansion?

[Emo?]

Maggy (500), Gruul (500), TK (not sure but around 2-4), BT (2-3k depending on drops), Doomwallker (if hes up). Gives a good net of cash, doesnt take that long, i can solo all with my 4x DK team (1 blood, 3 frost) all just blue pvp gears.

[Ualaa]

I've got the army of transmute specialist alchemists.

Toons who are 75+ can raise their alchemy cap to 525.
You don't need any special recipe, it can all be learnt from trainers in SW/Org.
You need 485 for Transmute: Elements.

On each team, leave the one who is on the same account as your AH toon in SW/Org.
Park them at the mailbox closest to the bind point.

Take the rest of the team and fly to Gadgetzan.
From there, head to Vortex Pinnacle, in Uldum.
Specifically, the summoning stone.

Buy Volatile Life.
Use a spam macro, that you push every 5 mins or so, when on your AH toon.
Buying Volatile Life in bulk, paying "x" each or "y" per stack of 200, please send COD to AH Toon.

Mail 15 Volatile life, per team member... or 75 per team of five toons to the toon on the team that is in SW/Org.
Have the party summon the toon to Vortex Pinnacle.
Distribute the Life, so each toon gets 15.
Do your once per day transmute (cooldown refreshes at Midnight server time).
Trade the transmuted Air + Randoms to the delivery toon.
Have that toon (only the one) hearth back to SW/Org.
Mail the transmuted mats to your AH mule.

You'll get mostly Air.
But the proc, if transmute spec, will be randomly Fire, Water, Air or Earth.
Earth will always be sold.
If Truegold is at a decent price on your server...
Then save Fire/Water.
The Transmute Elements will take your toons up to 520/525 skill.
Not that far or expensive to go to 525 for Truegold.
If Truegold is not selling well, or is too lowly priced then just sell Fire/Water off as well as Earth.

Truegold is 3 Pyrium Bar, 10 Air, 10 Fire and 10 Water per transmute.

For me, Truegold was a good option for a close to a month.
But Life > Air is far better now.
Then again each server has a different economy.

I buy Life at 8g each, having people send to me COD.
Buying on the AH is on average 9g each.
For quite a while, I've had two different bulk suppliers sending me Life at 6g each... but they've stopped.

Air sells for 15-16g on average per single.
But in stacks of 5's, they sell for 17-18g on average (per one, or 85-90g per stack).
Stacks of 10's sell for 18-19g (per one, or 180-190g per stack).
And stacks of 20's, 50's and 100's regularly sell at 20-22g per one.
Not sure why larger stacks sell for more.

With 29 transmute spec alchemists.
I average 10-15 stacks of 5, 10-15 stacks of 10, 5 stacks of 20 and 2-5 stacks of 50 or 100 per day.
That is listing the Volatiles once a day, and not even checking back to relist or undercut beyond the initial listing.
I will occasionally buy out those who have undercut too much, and then list everything at a "fair" price.

Currently I'm making 25k a week on average.
That is for 45 minutes work per day, in transmutes/mailing/listing/mailbox time.
I'm a little over +450k since Cata launched, purely from transmutes.
It is pretty simple to do.

[burningforce]

playing the auction house game works ok for me, I just need to learn the addons and do more research on what to sell/buy at what price.

Here is a nice site for learning the ah
http://consortium.stormspire.net/forum.php

Getting started and understanding ah basics is very time consuming but in the end worth it

[MiRai]

Maggy (500), Gruul (500), TK (not sure but around 2-4), BT (2-3k depending on drops), Doomwallker (if hes up). Gives a good net of cash, doesnt take that long, i can solo all with my 4x DK team (1 blood, 3 frost) all just blue pvp gears.

Some of this goes away very soon in 4.1.

The gold amounts awarded for the following encounters have been substantially reduced: Flame Leviathan, Magtheridon, Gruul the Dragonkiller, Doom Lord Kazzak, and all encounters in Karazhan.

[zenga]

I reset My Sales on wednesday as soon as I log in (that is after the weekly reset). We are now sunday morning here and the results for this week so after 4 days:

Enchanting (all including LW & buckles) / smelting / jc / engineering +



With best sellers:



For inscription:



And best sellers:




On top of these markets I sell a lot of bags: the LW bag (from revered rep with the kalu'ak), the mining bag, the engineering bag, they sell like candy and there is no competition. There are a ton of pets you can buy from the vendor. Tons of mats you can buy from vendors and flip on the AH (google for auction house flipping route). I literally try to make gold out of anything I see.

The crafted pvp sets from blacksmithing, lw'ing sell well. I always have some in stock.

Smelting is a great resource: buy ore cheap, melt it while you have dinner, list it back for 4x + the price.

For JC I do a lot of elementium prospecting. The normal gems sell to vendor for 9g, if you need enchanting mats you can craft gear to DE. every rare gem can be cut and sold.

From engineering: i put up many stuff that is needed while leveling engineering, people are lazy and generally check the AH first and then their craft window: volatile blasting trigger, handful of cobalt bolts, electric ether, ... those kind of mats that are needed have hardly competition and something with a crafting cost worth 2g can be flipped for 40g. I have 3 toons at the AH who basically only list crap.

You'd expect it to take a lot of work, but nothing less is true. I think I spend maybe half an hour each day to craft, buy/sell. And of course some time listing and relisting, but thats something I do while waiting for a BG. It's all about knowing your addons and setting it up once. I use auctionator for my buying lists, I use Trade Skill Master for crafting and auctioneer for snatch lists. The initial setup is a lot of work, but this can be a gradual process. If I enter a new market, I prefer to list things manually the first days until I have a good feel.

Currently I'm sitting at around 50k g profit per day. And that's for me only possible because of my multiboxing setup. And the more gold you have, the easier it gets. I can easily craft 100 belt buckles, epic LW leg enchants and let them sit in my bags while I don't have to restock for a while. I don't farm pve content nor do I craft epics. I just use the mats on the AH. The only thing I do is buying epic shoes on horde and trade them over to alliance, to have cash there. I play horde on an alliance dominated realm, so a lot of mats are cheaper there.

The advantage of boxing is that you can make the whole process way more efficient than a solo player can ever dream of. Prospecting 300 stacks of elementium ore on 2 toons, meanwhile milling herbs on 2 other toon while making bags on a 5th, it takes 1 keystroke and 5 toons do something. Not to mention I can way faster list/relist than solo toons.

Contrary to wotlk, I stay far away from alchemy. It's just not worth it for me, way too much work for me compared to the gain for the transmutes. I used to have 15 capped alchemists, but even for flasks and pots it's not longer worth the trouble. I only craft dps pots in bulk for my own use in raids. Any decent guild has now the cauldrons.

[Shania]

Zenga what addon is that your using in the screen shotz ?

[zenga]

MySales

[Sam DeathWalker]

My guys are to low level to get the twilight stuffs but I have one inscription guy and I make a TON of darkmoon cards.

I have 8 Alk transmutes a day also but my main income is from the cards. I have like 50 cards for sale right now and even only selling one or two a day its 15K-20K or so per day.

Its takes awhile prospecting the herbs but I just put a movie on my bigger monitor and keep pressing 1000 times lol.

I really should set it up to have 6 guys prospecting at the same time but I just been hit with RL badly.

I just spend 1/2 hour a day prospecting herbs then turn those into inks and the inks into decks and then the decks into cards.

Gonna check some of Zenga items and see if I can expand a bit, I have 525 JC and most every craft over 500. The rubies go for 50g on my server so a lot of stuffs is just selling to low compare to cards for me to get involved.

[Shodokan]

The best way to make gold is not to make gold. Gold falls into your lap in this expansion.

Ultimately it just comes down to how you use your professions and the AH if you don't want to farm your own mats. Same as always.

Making gold is heavily server dependent. If you want specifics on what to do give us information on what professions you have avail and what realm you play on. I love working numbers so i'll be glad to tell you what to buy/sell etc.