Profession, Gold Making - Alchemy? Help please

[dancook]

Hello!

I want to make lots of gold and dailies aren't my forte.

I have just compiled a spreadsheet of current professions, green highlights a free options available, red highlights easily discarded professions.

Assuming I know nothing about making money with professions, can I get some advice on what I have?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...1IzSl9ZeW1rUnc

I've read that alchemy can make a lot of money, and so I could look to levelling lots of alchemists...

What do people think?

Cheers

[Ualaa]

Alchemy can make you a bunch, but its an investment to get there.
You essentially look for the daily transmute that converts less valuable stuff into more valuable stuff.

In WotLK that was basically non-epic gems into epic gems or the helm meta gems.
And you'd make a bit more, if you had a jewelcrafter who could then cut them.

In Cataclysm it was a combination of Truegold transmutes or Volatile Life > Volatile Air (by doing Transmute Elements, in Uldum).
With my army of alchemists, an hour a day worked out to 100K a week...
You can make more per week, with a variety of options... but the passive income is attractive.

One enchanter, at max level, will be useful for gold making in the expansion.
Via arbitrage, as a max level enchanter will be able to convert lower mats into higher mats and vice versa.
So if 1x Greater is worth more (or less) than 3x Lesser (but not specifically this one change, you'll have all the conversions...), you can make gold that way.
Plus an enchanter is good in instances for dusts/etc, if you do PvE stuff.

I did dailies personally, on three teams, to finance buying herbs.
I had herbalists in four zones, because of either AH shortages Stranglekelp/Etc or exorbitant pricing for Sungrass/Etc...
Gradually I dropped teams from the dailies, as the transmutes were making money.
And eventually used those profits entirely to finish the other alchemists.

[roddo]

how many alchemists does it take to make 100k a week? i'm making about 1500-1600g a week just by doing the volatile life to air transmute, selling them in batches of 100 at a time, which it seems no one else on my servers doing. Always sell fast, even if theres individuals selling as low as 14g per, i post for 16-1700 and always find a buyer. takes me less than 2 minutes a day, and that long only because i'm also doing the daily in uldum since its right there. Are there any other trades where its useful to have more than one of a crafting profession? Sorry for the hijack, was just wondering the same as the OP.

[JohnGabriel]

Selling volatile air has not been very profitable for me lately. So few people on our server that the AH is near dead. I have several thousand on the AH now, just not selling.

I'm just going to ride it out until MoP is released.

[dancook]

Thanks Ualaa, I think i might get cracking on that then...

I'll max out current alchemists first then consider maxxing more

[Ualaa]

I did the Alchemy, with an army of 37 alchemists, but that was towards the start of Cataclysm.
My 100K a week, was for the first two months of the expansion, or 800K in total.
Of that I spent 200K on Vial of the Sands x5, and another 200K on assorted crap for the teams.
I brought 100K with my Pally/DK team to Mag and have the rest still on Cenarius.



The basic procedure was to buy on the AH.
Or advertise in trade, buying bulk Volatile Life, please mail CoD (@ xxx per stack) to my AH toon.

The AH toon would then distribute stacks of 75, to each toon leader who was also on the same account as the AH toon.
Meaning the mail transfer was instant.

That recipient toon was in Stormwind at the mailbox closest to the inn.

The rest of the team was at the summoning stone for the dungeon in Uldum.
The one on the floating platform.
They would summon the toon.

That toon would distribute Life to everyone.
I would mouse broadcast the transmute.
Collect the Air, and any random bonus Volatiles from being a transmute master.

That toon would then hearth back to Stormwind and mail everything to the AH toon.

Log the next team on and repeat.




I'd imagine you'd make a lot more at the start of a given expansion.
And gradually make less as the expansion progressed.

But if they came out with something like epic gems (say in 5.1, 5.2 or 5.3), when before you were transmuting something different.
That would revitalize the market for a while.

[Lyonheart]

Remember, in the expansion, it seems that some of the transmute components are no drop. Meaning you will have to farm them yourself ( for each alch ) making having an "army" a lot less practical.

[beeq]

As a sidenode, you might be able to make insane amount of gold without any professions since you're multiboxer.
With strong CC (5 to 10 sheeps) I farmed trash in BoT and Firelands. Two hours a day, and sold the epic BoEs and patterns on AH.

I made around 5 million of gold in a month or two with just that.

Also I'm wondering when MoP goes live, should I run/fly/swim to lvl 90 place on my farming mages and fill the AH with the new stuff, but dunno if it's worth the trouble. Could be though.

[dancook]

Have the firelands prices not come down significantly? due to new heroics and raid finder

[beeq]

Have the firelands prices not come down significantly? due to new heroics and raid finder

Yeah but I farmed long long time ago, when trinkets and polearms went up to 80k each