Tips for making gold (season oriented)

[Fuzzyboy]

Just a few more or less known gold-tips I thought I'd share. If you know of others, please append to the thread :-)

1) Prior to content patches, prices of enchanting mats and raw gems are low, right after, they skyrocket, because new gear that needs enchanting and gemming gets introduced. Tip: Buy and stock up on gems and enchanting mats a few weeks before patch hits.

2) Tip 1 goes for pvp season change as well

3) Sell potions. enchants, gems and enchanting mats during the week instead of during the weekend. Items tend to sell for a lot more during the week.

4) In game events: Find out what items are sought after and farm them - if possible in advance.

5) After an expansion hits: Until a month or two into a new expansion, BoE drops, dusts and shards sell for a lot of money. Sell it as soon as possible and do dungeon runs instead of dailes until the goldwell is dry :-)

[Nitro]

I decided to go the inscription route for making gold. I farmed up alot of gold with my multiboxing crew to get me some nice starting capitol and then i did this:

1. Max out inscription
2. Do your minor and northrend inscription craft every day until you have every single glyph
3. Make 3 alts to sell your glyphs and give them the best inscription bags in each bag slot (gives you a crazy amount of bag space)
4. Craft 20 of EVERY glyph and spread these across your 3 alts
5. Use Quick Auctions 2 to auto post all those glyphs for you and undercut the competion automatically, use a fallback price of 60 gold or so if not are on the AH. Hit the Cancel button to auto cancel all the autions you have been undercut on so you can report those.

Doing this I pull in anywhere from 500g to 3000g a day. This will depend on your servers competition and how often you feel like Cancel/Posting each day.

Take it a step further and use skillet to autocraft all the glyphs you are short on.

Once you get rolling with a good system it is VERY minimal time per day to make alot of gold. When you are posting every glyph in existance you will be amazed at how many you actually do sell at 60 gold each (awsome considering the cost per glyph to make is next to nothing).

[Ogloo]

the glyphs sell that much?

[Nitro]

Yup, the gold just rolls in every day.

[Ualaa]

I tried glyph sales, and they were not a consistent money maker on my server.
At some points, on a weekend you'll find only one copy of a glyph on the AH, and a price of 40g for it.
I'm not sure if this is a glyph seller or just a buy-low, sell-high person who noticed no competition for the glyph.

But 95% of the time, glyphs are undercut and re-undercut and will generally sell for under 1g each.
Even the new ones from the inscription books rarely have much more then 5g as the lowest price.
Selling the herbs for those glyphs is a lot more gold.

[Nitro]

I tried glyph sales, and they were not a consistent money maker on my server.
At some points, on a weekend you'll find only one copy of a glyph on the AH, and a price of 40g for it.
I'm not sure if this is a glyph seller or just a buy-low, sell-high person who noticed no competition for the glyph.

But 95% of the time, glyphs are undercut and re-undercut and will generally sell for under 1g each.
Even the new ones from the inscription books rarely have much more then 5g as the lowest price.
Selling the herbs for those glyphs is a lot more gold.

Did you cover every glyph on the market?

[Whowantstoknow]

Yeah since the guide on MMO-Champ everyone on my server joined the Glyph bandwagon. Really killed the market. I still make some gold but nowhere near as much as before.

[Lyonheart]

The most fun way I have found to make money is to PvP in WG and AV and buy epic gems with honor. I cap honor every week, sometimes more. I would say about 100k honor a week. thats 10 gems x7 ( i 7 box when i PvP ) I sell them for an average of 200 each ( cut>>bold..runed and delicate cardinal rubies )

[accretion]

Honestly, xmutes alone could keep most 5-boxers in the money to the tune of 1-2K/day. I currently have 6 Alchemists (6-8 epic gems/day), 2 Miners (Titansteel) and 2 Tailors (Moonshroud/Spellweave/Ebonweave). Toss in 4 Jewelcrafters spending 15 mins on the daily which adds gold and Dragon's Eyes, and that's an easy way to keep a steady income.

Skilling up is a bit of a pain, but well worth it after the second or third week of watching your net worth grow steadily. Most of the professions can either be bought or farmed without too much trouble, especially Tailoring. No excuse to not have at least a few Tailors doing a bunch of xmutes.

[Fuzzyboy]

Honestly, xmutes alone could keep most 5-boxers in the money to the tune of 1-2K/day. I currently have 6 Alchemists (6-8 epic gems/day), 2 Miners (Titansteel) and 2 Tailors (Moonshroud/Spellweave/Ebonweave). Toss in 4 Jewelcrafters spending 15 mins on the daily which adds gold and Dragon's Eyes, and that's an easy way to keep a steady income.

Skilling up is a bit of a pain, but well worth it after the second or third week of watching your net worth grow steadily. Most of the professions can either be bought or farmed without too much trouble, especially Tailoring. No excuse to not have at least a few Tailors doing a bunch of xmutes.

I have no idea how people make 1-2k from transmutes. I have 4 alchemists and the mat cost of an epic gem on my server is around 25g. The uncut gems sell for around 150g, that's 500 gold per day (or a bit more when transmute mastery procs). Where do you get 1-2k from?