Gold from farming heroics?

[Stav]

I thought I would mention that disenchanting materials are based on the item type; armor or weapon. Armor will more often DE into dust (75% of the time) where weapons will DE into essence (75% of the time). Given how poor the material market has become on my server (actual sales, vs. listed price) I've found it's often equally profitable just to vendor the greens.

I have to say I must be doing something horribly wrong because I'm almost to the currently attainable, non-raider gear cap and average only 2 heroics an hour, unless I get a lucky string of the fast ones (UK, DtK, VH). For the most part, unless you're consistently getting the harder heroics just doing the random dungeon finder should cover the bulk of your repair / wipe costs. A daily or 2 over 5 accounts should cover the remainder if needed. Depending on your server another option if you can manage a daily random a day is to burn some of your frost emblems for Primodrial Saronite, again it's server dependent but they should still fetch a pretty hefty sum.

[Shodokan]

I thought I would mention that disenchanting materials are based on the item type; armor or weapon. Armor will more often DE into dust (75% of the time) where weapons will DE into essence (75% of the time). Given how poor the material market has become on my server (actual sales, vs. listed price) I've found it's often equally profitable just to vendor the greens.

I have to say I must be doing something horribly wrong because I'm almost to the currently attainable, non-raider gear cap and average only 2 heroics an hour, unless I get a lucky string of the fast ones (UK, DtK, VH). For the most part, unless you're consistently getting the harder heroics just doing the random dungeon finder should cover the bulk of your repair / wipe costs. A daily or 2 over 5 accounts should cover the remainder if needed. Depending on your server another option if you can manage a daily random a day is to burn some of your frost emblems for Primodrial Saronite, again it's server dependent but they should still fetch a pretty hefty sum.

This takes about 1 week to acquire enough badges unless you are talking about the 10 you get from the quests for unlocking the new instances etc. They do sell for 2-5k per server so if you manage to get 5 of them it could fetch a good profit.

two heroics per hour isn't exactly "slow" per say... it all depends on your team makeup. But i've had experiences in CoT with a LARGE margin of time etc. Keep in mind this is with pug groups and NOT boxing. This was also pre t9 dps as well where shaman in t9 should be able to pull 5k easy... and if you have 4 dps pulling 5k each and are not able to down things VERY quickly then there is something incredibly wrong. But not everyone uses shaman.


Edit: back to the point of undercutting. Keep a list of people who undercut you, and give them a marginal amount of materials for about 80% of the price... they will almost always take the deals and resell. This is because most people who spend their time undercutting others are ones who have a lot of gold themselves and just want quick turnaround.

[Stav]

I have 2 T9 geared shaman's in my 5 man group and on trash they are capping around 4k. Granted I still need to tweak their click macro's and one of them just got the Quel'Delar mace but I doubt that's going to make up your theorized missing 1k.

Anyways I've gone astray from the original post.

The point I'm trying to make is that it sounds like this is Crowdx's first 5 man team and as such we've gotten a bit off point by suggesting methods to maximize gold with a fully geared team. I'm sure there are other 5-boxers who would agree that gearing up your first team is a totally different experience then gearing up subsequent teams. Ideally as long as you're breaking even on repairs at the end of the run you've done well.

Crowdx you did mention that you found 2 BoE weapons that you were thinking of saving for your rogue. One thing you might want to consider, depending which account your rogue is on is that once you get your first team geared up you could sub your rogue into a dps slot and get them "free" upgrades from the various heroics. Essentially taking advantage of the gold now and getting the rogue weapons through alternative means later. I speak from experience after stashing untold amounts of gear into the guild bank, only to have it replaced quickly from heroic / emblem upgrades.