Trade skill money maker ( MoP )

[Lyonheart]

I have one of every trade maxed atm. The first few days and weeks were great for the gathering skills. Now it cost the same to buy enough ore or bars to make one living steel bar ( unless it procs ). Farming the ore takes hours to gain enough to transmute 2 a day( 240 ore for 120 bars to make 12 trillium for 2 living steal. I only have two alchs maxed atm ). I have made a few epics with my BS and LW that took forever to sell. I did sell a few darkmoon cards... i can only make one a day atm though and only certain ones sell fast/well.

What ya'll think? Where is my time best spent? Just gathering and selling the raw mats?

[Ualaa]

You can play Enchanting Arbitrage.

5x Spirit Dust = 1x Mysterious Essence
5x Mysterious Essence = 1x Ethereal Shard
5x Ethereal Essence = 1x Sha Crystal

Only a max skill Enchanter can combine the pieces.

Do an AH scan for current prices and for averages over time.
Weekend and weekday averages will vary.

If you can buy 5x Spirit Dust for less than 95% of the price of 1x Mysterious Essence, then you can combine them and sell for a profit.
Use the same formula for ME > ES and ES to SC.





You could try the tradeskill shuffle...

Buy/Farm ore.
Prospect it.

Green quality gems were cut and vendored.
Blue quality gems were cut and sold to players.

You have to option to make something, disenchant it, and use the mats to sell Scroll of Whatever.

[Lyonheart]

I have done all the stuff you're saying.. its all good..was just wondering where to focus my time.. With all the dailies i have to do.. i'm just trying to maximize my efforts. Was just looking for thoughts on what others think which tradeskill makes them the most money.

[roddo]

For time to money ratio nothing beats inscription and darkmoon cards at the moment. Its ramping up this week as the faires only a week away. I have 2 scribes, but might dump some cash into making 1-2 more, its worth it. I can sell individual cards for at least 1k profit each except ox, but then i can sell the deck for 4-5k as well. trinkets made from the other cards are running 40-70k on my server, so i might try and max out as many decks as i can as soon as the faire hits for big money. Another good money maker is farming the tillers mats, currently I make 2-300g per toon with only 4 plots, and I have 4 toons doing it atm (I haven't been multiboxxing panda land yet, as i'm just finishing my raf). takes less than 20min a day for me to pop out 4 farms, 2 darkmoon cards, 4 living steel (i buy the bars, transmute the trillium and distribute) as well as 1 sha crystal a day. thats across 7 toons and 4 accts. I'm small time atm, but as soon as I get 1 set of 4 slaves to tillers i'm going to level the next 4 and so on to keep the gravy rolling. even at 5g per vegetable it'll be worth it, as it takes like 3-4minutes tops solo per farmer, in groups of 5 the fights will be 10 second affairs.

[JohnGabriel]

I think their plan was to have the dailies be the gold maker this expansion. Most mats except for cooking are very common in the AH.

[Mosg2]

I agree that Darkmoon cards are the big thing right now. On Magtheridon it's a cake walk to get someone to provide 1k gold plus mats for you to make them a card (it requires a once-a-day item from transcription). If you've got 5 or 10 guys going... Yeah.

On the other hand, the Alchemy market is trash. Living Steel is almost down to the price of the mats.

[hannibal]

For you guys with alchemists, you might want to actually try an xmute from vanilla. Transmute essence of water to essence of air. This recipe used to be a fairly rare drop, but now it is sold by a vendor outside of schoolomance. The essence of air are used 4 at a time in the agility enchants all the monks want on their heirlooms.

According to theunderminejournal.com the average price for water is around 20-30g and the airs are going for around 200g. You might be able to make quite a bit more by selling the agility enchants yourself. I normally sell the enchants in the 1500-3000g range. I list my extra airs on the ah for 400g each. I do this to help keep the prices high and they will still sale at that price when I'm the only person with any to sale, which is quite often.

It's pretty server dependent, but might give you another option if living steel is selling for mats cost or below

[roddo]

I'm still making over 100g a bar for living steel on stormrage. Darkmoon card prices have been rising the last 2-3 days, i'm not selling atm, waiting until i need to just to buy mats until the faire is here, cuz thats when the markets going to explode.

[crowdx]

I have been mining the ghost iron for living steel and have 5 transmute masters. It takes about an hour to mine the mats BUT it can be hard to even sell the living steel with the undercutting on the AH. I agree with the poster about dailies, it does seem to be in this expac that the raw mats are way too plentiful causing the economy to be real sluggish.

I might try hannibal's transmute to see if that makes some gold. I have only one inscriptionist and have not delved into the cards as yet even though he is max level.

[Lyonheart]

I had been selling some cards, but I only have one scribe atm. I just now made a tiger deck, waiting for the fair before I sell it. I sold my first few cards during last fair for a good amount. When the fair ended i started saving them for the next one. I have a tiger deck and 3 cards shy of serpent and 4 crane, one ox atm. I have a feeling that even the decks will go way down, the herbs are so cheap!

But doing dailies will get old real fast! So i'm always looking for ways to make money other than dailies. But yea, Bliz went overboard with trade mat spawns!