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Welcome to the WoW Economy Subreddit

A place to discuss the economy in World of Warcraft. A sister reddit of /r/wow.

Discussion should focus on the theory and practice of making gold in World of Warcraft.

Welcome to the WoW Economy Subreddit

A place to discuss the economy in World of Warcraft. A sister reddit of /r/wow. Discussion should focus on the theory and practice of making gold in World of Warcraft.

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Rules and Guidelines

  • This is not a place to sell/trade/buy gold, accounts, in-game items/services or advertise private servers. Discussions on these topics, or links to communities that discuss these topics, will be removed.
  • Cheats, hacks, and exploits are not welcome in this subreddit.
  • Anything that can be answered by reading the recent discussions on the subreddit, has a yes/no response or can be looked up on sites in the community resources should not be posted in a thread of its own. Questions such as 'What is this worth?', 'Did I make a mistake?', 'What do I do with XYZ?', 'Should I buy/sell this?', or 'Will XYZ go up/down in price?' can be posted in the current /r/woweconomy Simple Questions watercooler sticky.
  • Blur out names of players, where appropriate, to keep them anonymous. Do not post personal information. This is not a forum to call out specific players.
  • When submitting video guides give a brief text-based overview of the video. This includes what the video covers, how it's accomplished, and the expected results. That way people who prefer the video format can watch and/or listen, and the people who prefer text can simply read it.
  • Do not tell people to get a job and/or just buy tokens, this subreddit is about strategy not buying gold.
  • Please try to remain civil. Attempts to annoy or harass may result in a ban. Don't be a dick.
  • Do not ask what population server you should join. You can make gold on any server.
  • Do not call for the removal of content on the subreddit to 'protect a strategy' or 'prevent nerfs' or 'limit competition'. It will be removed and you will be immediately permanently banned.

Weekly Sticky Rotations

  • Mondays: TradeSkillMaster [Current][Archive]
    Please post all TSM-related help requests in this perpetual sticky, otherwise your post will be removed.
  • Tuesdays: Goblin Success Stories [Archive]
    If you made your first 100k, 10th gold cap or anything in between, shout about it in this sticky only.
  • Thursdays: Sniping & Flipping [Archive]
    All snipes, flips & sale screenshots should be posted in this sticky only, anywhere else and they'll be removed.
  • Saturdays: Feature Mistakes [Archive]
    Made a mistake? Bought an item that's worth 50g for 500k? Post about it here.

Note: The Simple Questions Watercooler sticky is replaced every two days to keep it current

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Hateforged Blazecycle Codes

Hi everyone!

I have a ton of codes still at my local stores so if any Canada or EU friends need an assist with getting their hands on some codes! I don’t mind helping out! Just asking people to cover the amount of the product :)

Message me!

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2024/12/02
02:12 UTC

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Where to read about the macro-economy of WoW?

Marco trends such as new content coming out, a Christmas morning, or evening/morning peaks and lows affect price. I'm pretty sure someone has written at length about these topics.

2 Comments
2024/12/01
18:25 UTC

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How do you check the "reasonable price" of goods?

I've got auctioneer but prices vary alot and not knowing the "general price" of a good doesnt let me know when I should hold and when I should buy.

3 Comments
2024/12/01
18:22 UTC

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Bruto or 6 months time?

Don't know if this is relevant for this sub, but basically I was able to farm about 3-4m since this expansion started. I did about 2.5m in farming (herb, mining, treasures) during the earlier weeks, made a solid 600k this week during a few days doing the yogg skip groups thanks to a post I saw on here last time it came around!

I have 6 wow tokens in my inventory and 1m left ish, and was wondering if I should get the bruto or just some game time with them?

For those of you who already have it, was it worth it? How do you utilize it to make more gold?

35 Comments
2024/12/01
17:27 UTC

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Begging Blizz to fix cross realm crafting orders

There's probably good reasons for it, but it's becoming very annoying that I can see people ask in /trade for crafts, be able to whisper them and then have them get the "player does not exist" error. Even worse is when the same happens with guildies or my M+ group. Sure, I can invite people to my guild and kick them after but that shouldn't be the solution to it. Would love to see this fixed in 11.0.7 in addition to the xfaction queueing.

18 Comments
2024/12/01
16:31 UTC

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What dungeons drop a mount AND valuable transmog/pets?

I want to increase my mount collection, at the same time I would like to increase my gold and pets. I know I can figure out which have mounts but anyone have good recommendations that have all 3 or maybe mount + good AH gold?

6 Comments
2024/12/01
03:34 UTC

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Made 8m in 3days

I love the felcycle puzzle the game feels like a different game. Hope they do more of this in the future. Its fun seeing people trying to figure it out on discord.

It also made me tons of gold by selling relevant pets required for it. Namely taptap, wickerpup, sundarter and snowclaw pup.

I'll tell you how I did it.

For the snowclaw. This is a pet that requires a lot of time camping and fighting other players to get it. What I did was just set up a toon as a lookout. If it spawns I chase it far enough so people can't see where I hide it. Then I make a new toon, do the quest and just claim it quickly. I hop every realm with different lookout toons parked in the spot. I usually get 20+ per day.

The sun darter is pretty tedious but I usually do multiple toons on the cave. I logout every click of the major potions then switch to next toon then repeat. I suggest you do it on multiple chars so you won't have to wait 30mins each time.

Taptap is just a level50 required kill then get.

Wickerpup requires level20 easy

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. -E

26 Comments
2024/12/01
02:00 UTC

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Are there any other consumables I should be using on my gatherer?

I use truesight, razorstone and that's it I know there is a deftness potions available with darkmoon currency so I will get that when I can. Is there anything else I should be using? I have a finesse enchant on both my tools.

5 Comments
2024/12/01
01:42 UTC

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Blue version of spectral tiger question(s)

dont know if this post is allowed delete if not.

hey all,I wanted some information about the “ Blue “ spectral tiger, does people still sell those? im really interested but i dont know for how much golds They going.

16 Comments
2024/11/30
23:40 UTC

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Do you think the Brutosaur will return? Help me out of my Fomo

Hey guys

I recently lost my job due to an acquisition and I planed to buy the Brutosaur with Gold because I can't justify spending 90$ for the mount where I come from. I got it to 3 Tokens but since prices have plummeted so hard I think I won't make it to 3 more with my casual playtime and farming.

Do you think the anniversary bruto will ever return or is my FOMO justified? Thinks might change for me till end of January and I might be able to complete the 45$ but damn it looks hard rn and I wish I knew the mount comes back ^^

Thanks guys 🫡

96 Comments
2024/11/30
18:57 UTC

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Someone linked a playlist on youtube with concentration builds, in a comment i cant find it now :(

Any1 can help here?

3 Comments
2024/11/30
16:48 UTC

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Enchanting profits dead

As per title. Enchants have suddenly tanked in the last day or two. Barely profitable outside of maybe radiant power and oathsworn strength.

Only really profitable if farming the mats yourself. Anyone else noticed this?

42 Comments
2024/11/30
13:14 UTC

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What’s a good raw gold farm I can do weekly?

Not looking for anything

10 Comments
2024/11/30
12:41 UTC

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What will season 2 add to professions

This is my first season focusing on professions and gold making, will 11.0.7 or season 2 introduce new materials or recipes? What typically does the post-launch cadence do, if anything for concentration alt armies or crafting in general?

14 Comments
2024/11/30
10:31 UTC

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Weekly: I Screwed Up Saturday

Welcome to "I Screwed Up Saturday"! Made a mistake and lost a lot of gold? Accidentally sold that rare transmog to a vendor?

Goblins aren't perfect. We're not always going to come out on top, sometimes we make mistakes. Share your unfortunate mishaps here!

1 Comment
2024/11/30
10:17 UTC

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Watercooler: WoW Economy Simple Questions

This post serves as the home for more casual and conversational discussions and quick-fire questions. It will be replaced every 3 days to keep it current.

Anything that can be answered by reading the recent discussions on the subreddit, has a yes/no response or can be looked up on sites in the community resources should not be posted in a thread of its own. Questions such as 'What is this worth?', 'Did I make a mistake?', 'What do I do with XYZ?', 'Should I buy/sell this?', or 'Will XYZ go up/down in price?' will be directed here.

The official /r/woweconomy & TSM Discord server is also very active in various timezones for real-time chatting with other goblins: http://discord.gg/woweconomy

Reminder: This is not the place for TSM support, please use the Weekly TSM sticky or join Discord.

4 Comments
2024/11/30
10:00 UTC

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Scouring Scrap

So, I make and pilfer parts every week or so- I'm a bit loose on it, because I've got other things going on, but when I do it, I ram myself through about 2-3mil in gold, invested into parts, pilfered. That naturally creates a lot of scrap.

It's been about 2 weeks since I've needed to scour my scrap back, I believe, and I'm wondering when they changed it. This time, I'm getting way less vendor trash and DF toys. Orders of magnitude less. It's a lovely change of pace.

In return, I haven't seen an increase in parts, but it seems like they've added other things to the loot pool. Current TWW tinkers, basically every possible device (Red Buttons, Portable Craft Stations, Jumper Cables, potion bombs, etc), current TWW Engineering toys (Just the Firework barrel so far, so nothing sellable), all the TWW Engineering embelishments... basically a ton of stuff, and some of it actually worth selling rather than vendoring or deleting, and things with a higher vendor price as well. This is a welcome change for anyone who regularly pilfers, though it has made more time in cleaning up my bags, too.

I'm just curious if anyone knows when this change was implemented, or if something I missed was fixed, or if this is unintended? I've been too busy being sick as a dog and trying to deal with the holidays, and I just assume I missed a post about it somewhere.

9 Comments
2024/11/30
00:11 UTC

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Historical Auction House Prices – Classic WoW & TBC

Hey everyone,

I'm looking to research Auction House prices from the 2019 Classic WoW release and possibly even The Burning Crusade. Does anyone know where I could find detailed historical data or resources to look this up?

I'm really interested in learning from the 2019 economy and how it evolved over time. Any tips or links to databases, forums, or tools would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

0 Comments
2024/11/29
23:17 UTC

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The Addon to Keep Pilfering/Transmuting/etc.

I have searched the forum and I can't find it. Can anyone tell me the name of it? The one that corrects your stacks and keeps processing.

Thank You,

2 Comments
2024/11/29
22:01 UTC

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Which Secondary stat should I put on the Runed Null Stone Rod?

Should I go full resourcefulness or multicraft?

13 Comments
2024/11/29
20:51 UTC

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What’s the concentration dump for LW

I feel like I’m always sitting at 1k conc and everything I think of doesn’t craft at a profit. I have a resource tool because I mostly do gear crafts but I want to squeeze more value out of the 30 points I put into reagents.

17 Comments
2024/11/29
17:22 UTC

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Since when do customer have to provide all mats for public orders again? I seem to have missed that change.

I highly appreciate that change after all, old system invited for scam.

1 Comment
2024/11/29
16:01 UTC

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Best Dragonflight mats "farm" 40k gph

In my quest to find cheap mats to fuel my pilfering addiction I finally found it. The holy grail of farms. The farm to end all farms.

To put it simply, we are creating new chars to complete the quest "To give one's heart" as fast as possible and as many times as possible to send mats to our bank and deleting used chars.

The ore crate contains 2 awakened fire, 2 awakened earth, 20 serevite ore and 15 draconium ore which amounts to 700g on EU right now.

So if you can complete the quest in 1 minute that's 42k gph.

Here's how you do that:

  • Have a warlock prepare a portal at Ruby life pools in front of Haephesta.

  • Create new char.

  • Teleport to Ruby life pools.

  • Talk to Haephesta/do the skip.

  • Learn Dragon Isles Alchemy.

  • Talk to Thomas Bright/do the quest.

  • Send mats to main.

  • Delete char.

  • Repeat.

If awakened frost and air sell higher then take the herb crate instead. Dragonflight herbs are less valuable though.

You only need 1 sub. Summoners can be free trial accounts.

35 Comments
2024/11/29
15:59 UTC

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Tailoring max profit

I hope you all have a good day , for the past few days I was trying to maximize my profit from weaver cloth by unrevealing weaver cloth to spool of weaver cloth and craft them to Weaver cloth blots but sometimes I get profit and sometimes not , I was wondering what can I craft I get like 2k weaver cloth rank 1,2 per day even though I market drops everyday now it's like 17g , so my question now if I spend knowledge points in less is more and multi craft, resources less would that get me more profit ? , cuz the real question is I see huge amounts of weaver cloth sold in sec !!!

12 Comments
2024/11/29
15:48 UTC

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How do I make a few gold passively or easily? Repair bills too high.

Hi, I enjoy running Mythic+ dungeons, but my repair bills have been as high as 500g per run. I chose Tailoring and Disenchanting after some research, hoping to make gold, but it’s not working out. The materials from disenchanting items often sell for less than just vendoring the gear, and I’m not getting much cloth from M+ dungeons either. I also see lots of WoW Goblin articles which gets too complicated.

Do I just have to dedicate time each week to farm money or something? Just looking to cover repair costs.

Update: I don't understand the downvote. I ask on r/wownoob but the bot deleted it and told me to post here about money questions.

47 Comments
2024/11/29
14:55 UTC

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Is it me or mining cooper in darkshore sucks?

Technically the copper concentration is insane but practically you spend a lot of time getting in and out of crevices and rivers to get it because of the cataclysm. Is it stil the best place to farm copper?

1 Comment
2024/11/29
13:22 UTC

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Learning professions in preparation for season 2

Would it be worth to freshly learn new professions now as returning player, in the hopes to make big buck in season 2?

I am thinking of going blacksmithing to rake in commission money maybe. Any tips, experiences welcome.

Can you even make good money when s2 comes around usually? People will need new upgrades and all right?

12 Comments
2024/11/29
02:57 UTC

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I did shuffles and now I don't know how to spend my Acuity

What would you do? I have skinning/blacksmithing on my tank and all my kp is invested in means of production. I have full blues on my blacksmith already and I can either get full blues for skinning or I could get all the blacksmithing recipes from the consortium.

12 Comments
2024/11/28
22:35 UTC

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Just getting back into things.

Hey, so I'm basically broke on wow, I decided to come back to the game basically just for professions because it's one of the things I enjoy most. Also I saw the brutosaur up that costs around 6 wow tokens, so roughly 1.8 million gold worth of tokens. That's at 300,000 per token (at 280 000 at time of this post.). I have 40 days left till January 6th. By my math that's about 45 000 per day until January 6th to get the brutosaur.

I didn't know they were taking the brutosaur out of the shop, so when I found out I'm kinda trying to find the best way to farm with the professions I had. Here's what I have already

Dedicated herb / miner 4x tailorers, 3 of them specced into duskweave and multicraft, 1 specced into being able to find more cloth 1 alchemist, speccing into flasks 2 enchanters, one dedicated enchanter, and one I plan on speccing into permenant enchants.

I had about 50 k 2 weeks ago and have spent it on cloth and some other things leveling up professions. Now I'm down to basically nothing. So with what I have my plan is to gather on the getherer, sell the ores, and use the alchemist to create flasks.

Then the tailors are basically a duskweave factory, and my enchanters still not 100 % sure.

Just want some advice on how to make sure I execute. If anyone has any pointers, if my builds are stupid, or if you hink I could invest KP elsewhere just let me know.

Also if 45k a day for someone like me tell me I'm blowing smoke. I feel like I am because I'm broke right now, but I have lots of alts, and alot more I can give professions to.

15 Comments
2024/11/28
22:05 UTC

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I made 300k in an hour (flipped 75k to 400k ish), feeling very pleased with myself.

EDIT: What have I done. Some goblin way more rich than me bought the entire Ametrine market and now it's going for 5k :sob rip future twinks

As title suggusts, I just made 300k in one auction based on ametrine. This is the very first time I played around with the auction house so I'm pretty proud of this.

Back story: Currently with wow anniversary tw going on, there are many ppl getting into twinking to speed run dungeons. I happen to be a huge twink enthusiast/BIS chaser myself, so this is one of the few times where I know the market. The BIS gem for fury warriors were fierce ametrine, which came from ametrine.

I saw 700 ametrine posted on the auction house for about 100g ish each. Now these were in high demand so idk why they were going for so low. I fumbled with bismuth previously (bought them at 23 and they dropped to 15 the next day lmao) but I decided to take a calculated risk once more. Bought all of them for 75k and resold for 565g each (crafted 100 into fierce ametrine and sold for 900 each, prob could have sold all of them as fierce ametrine but they sell slower and i'm impatient haha).

Came back from uni the next day to find a whole pile of gold in my mail box. 300k in profit isn't a huge amount to some of the ppl here but for me it's pretty good. Just my experience of my first time controlling the market. Goblin moment.

14 Comments
2024/11/28
19:45 UTC

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