Making gold in cata

[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.