Gold from farming heroics?

[crowdx]

Hi all,
so this week has been spent pretty much exclusively farming badges in heroics. Being new to 5 manning heroics (or anything for that matter) I have had many wipes which get expensive for the higher geared toons. My question is, is there are way to make gold from these runs or will I just have to bite the bullet and run dailies?
So far the only drops what I have been using has been frostweave and borean leather. I have had 2 epic weapons drop which auctioneer lists as worth about 1.5k each but I think I will keep for my lvl 71 rogue when he hits 80. I also have chanters DE'ing the drops I do not need but with all the gear upgrades I have been keeping those mats for enchants to new gear.
Anything I am missing here for making gold?

[Raskaz]

After you are bascially gear saturared, money is pouring in since you can sell your disenchants, buy gems or orbs via badges and sell those too.

[crowdx]

A long time before I am gear saturated lol. At the moment it is taking over an hour to run the shortest heroic, it is getting faster but still a long way to go to get all the badge gear I need :P

[Coltimar]

You make decent cash doing the random ones, selling heavy borean leather and imbued frostweave bolts. Try to do WG when it's up and buy epic gems with honor, then sell em. DE what you can. The prices on everything have gone down because of the patch but it should spring the other way soon. Especially as people start replacing more gear and needing enchants and enhancements.

[Shodokan]

If you can DE all blues you will not use, epics you will not use etc.... you will make over 16k from gearing your characters (if both pve + pvp gear)

Once gear saturated you "should" be able to make about 1.5k an hour or more from heroics.

[Coltimar]

Once gear saturated you "should" be able to make about 1.5k an hour or more from heroics.

This is either a wild exaggeration or I'm doing something wrong.

[Shodokan]

This is either a wild exaggeration or I'm doing something wrong.

Before i "claim" this is true i'm going to say that this is just based on pure math and economics.

Most servers have the following prices (from what i've seen)

Infinite Dust: 2g per
Greater Cosmic Essence: 15g per
Dream Shard: 25g per
Abyss Crystal: 35g each
Frozen Orb: 15g each

Using the RANDOM DUNGEON FINDER system and assuming you have an enchanter in your group able to DE the items from bosses.

210 badges for pve gear (not including off pieces) + 290 for pvp gear (not including off pieces) = 500 badges. Most instances give 6 badges from the new system... i use this as an average, though some give 5 and some give 7 about 80% give 6.

500 badges/ 6 badges per run = ~84 runs

We're going to assume that you get all 6 badge runs because this is the average. Meaning that you get 4 blues from bosses + frozen orb + 1 epic from the bosses. 13 gold per character for the end of the instance (65 total per run) We're going to also assume there are two greens per run with an average item level of 77 (meaning a better chance to drop 1-2 greater cosmic... about 62% i believe.. about 33% for 2-5 infinite dust though this seems to have been doubled according to about 15 of my friends on average)

This puts green average value at... about 16 gold per.
I also assume there is about 10 gold worth of greys/sellables per run or so

65 x 84 = 5460g
84 * 4 = 336 dream shards (25 g each) = 8400g
84 * 35 = 2975 g
84*15 = 1260g
84*2 = 168 greens *16 = 2688
84 * 10 = 840

Total value: ~21k gold

This does not take into consideration if you somehow manage to get a hilt, or BOE epic like bell trinket etc.



JUST realized i went through that explanation for nothing and answered the wrong question.

MOST servers orbs = 200g each
If you are gear saturted... you SHOULD pull 3 heroics per hour, ATLEAST 2.5 (we assume the same things as above)

Assuming 2x hours of 2.5 runs per hour (i'd honestly say 3, which i'll prove once i can)

20 * 25 = 500 (dream shards)
5 * 65 = 325 (gold from instances at end from 2 emblem thing)
5 * 35 = 175 (abyss crystals)
10 * 16 = 160 (de'd items for enchanting materials)
5 * 10 = 50 (random drops, greys etc)
5 * 15 = 75 (frozen orbs)
10 * 200 = 2000 (crusader orbs, at 6 average per run and 5 heroics that is 2 per character = 10 total)

Total gold: ~ 3300
Total gold per hour: 1650




None of the above includes silver/gold made from mobs and is purely based on drops. So more money can be made if you get a better than 2 greens per run average or an epic BOE item OR boe blues that can be DE'd as well (as boe blues don't sell well at all)

[crowdx]

Those AH prices are very server dependent, for instance Frozen Orbs were listed last night on AH for 7g and Infinite dust listed at 1g each on my server Uther. Whereas Crusader's Ordbs were listing for 350 - 400g each.
But I can see the logic

[Shodokan]

Those AH prices are very server dependent, for instance Frozen Orbs were listed last night on AH for 7g and Infinite dust listed at 1g each on my server Uther. Whereas Crusader's Ordbs were listing for 350 - 400g each.
But I can see the logic

Um... if they are selling for DOUBLE what i stated... then you'd make... over 2k gold an hour. JUST from the orbs. (because you get 10 in 2 hours)

So... all the rest of it is basically free extra money.

But like i said, it's prices based on my server experience. It is very server dependent. (example... illidan has tailoring items that sell for 250g each... where they are 80 on most servers)

[remanz]

Why are we always think the mats we get from farming are auto-sells. I post my enchanting mats onto AH. I get under cut constantly. Took me days to sell a few shards, if I am not there to camp the AH. (just post and leave, come back the next day). Same thing with the gems I transmuted. The glyph I made. If I don't watch them, they are not sold. So I don't buy the 1k gold per hour from heroics theory.

Takes time to trade, and takes luck to sell.