Quote Originally Posted by Fuzzyboy View Post
First of all yes, the money you make from farming heroics is server dependent, but so is material farming. Obviously I have only my own server to reference, so this is what I base my calculations on:

- Abyss crystals sell for 20-25g each
- Average value of a blue item is 6g (with the 3-4g blue items effectively worth 5g, which is the server price for dream shards)
- Average value of a disenchanted green non-weapon item is 10-11g - average value of a green weapon item is 20g
- You spend you emblems on either ametrines, dreadstones or eye of zul which cost 10 emblems. These can be sold raw for 90-100g on average, although I can usually sell cut dreadstones for 140-150g.

- One run yields about 40g in grey/white items
- One run yields 5 green items, which is roughly 70g
- One run yields 4 blue items, which is roughly 24g
- One run yields 1 epic item, which is rougly 22g (more for ToC/ICC instances, but for simplicity I haven't included those)
- One run yields on average 6 x 5 = 30 emblems, which is 3 gems, which is roughly 300-450g depending on server and prices
- One run yields 14g x 5 = 70g in cash (using lfg tool)

That totals 526-676g per run (depending on gem prices). If you can run 4 instances per hour, that's roughly 2100-2700g per hour - of course less if you can average 3-3.5 instances per hour.

That's the steady income part. Add to that epic BoE drops (like hilts), sale of primordial saronite (800-900g in like 10-15 minutes), tradeskill items etc. etc. I'd still prefer the passive moneymakers (tailoring / gems) any day, but if you insist on a boring grind, I think heroics are currently more efficient for a multiboxer.

The all-time favourite is of course the AH if you know how to play it. I'll gladly admit that even though I read all the AH-rider weblogs and know how to make money like that in theory, I find it boring as hell and prefer the steady income of cooldowns (especially now that I'm mostly focusing on my raid-char anyway).

@Fuzzboy I appreciate posts like this. The only thing i would contest is that each character's emblems together can not make a gem. So it would require two runs per gem per character. Which i guess is not terrible still. I obviously was oblivious that there are 10 emblem gems, with that coming to light i would say that it would be very profitable to do that even for me. Also what are you talking about for primordial saronite? Those are bought with frost emblems. I guess you are referring to the basically once every 9 days you can get one (including 5 badges from weekly raid)

The only difference compared to you that i would have is that infinite dust is only 1g per on my server and GCE are 10-12. Which seems to be about half of what yours are worth. So i guess the 5 green items would be worth about 40g for me.


@ Niley. I don't know everything. But i'm saying that more than common sense if not required to make money on the auction house. When you call someone out about being wrong about something and they come back and tell it how it is, you say it's TL;DR? Come no now. Have more respect than that, even for people you dislike. Also poking fun at me saying i should be a wow millionaire with all this knowledge in such a facetious way when i've only been back playing wow for a month is quite ridiculous and gave me a good chuckle so thanks for that.