WoW Guides For Gold

I’ve noticed that whenever I do the Maintaining the Sunwell Portal daily quest I usually get a number of Motes of Mana. This made me think: What if I farm for Primal Mana on this spot? Would it be worth my time?

So one day, I decided to try and farm Bash’ir Landing for Primal Mana. Luckily I was the only one in the area. I also got the Bash’ir Phasing Device from the first ethereal killed. Once in phased state, I started my timer for an hour. Then I started my phase wyrm killing spree.

I wasn’t able to count the number of Phase Wyrms killed because I was busy trying to kill as many in an hour as I possibly could. When the time was up I had 70 Motes of Mana which is equivalent to 7 Primal Manas. I can sell these for at least 20 gold a piece. Plus I got trash items that I can sell to NPCs for quick gold conversion.

The result of my experiment is promising. I see this as a simple way to farm for WoW gold. Although you have to be level 70 and have a flying mount for this.

I became Honored with the Violet Eye Faction running through Karazhan. What better way to celebrate being Honored than to check the Karazhan vendor, Apprentice Darius.

When you are Honored with the Violet Eye, you can buy the Inscription of Endurance, Design: The Frozen Eye and a non-binding Recipe: Flask of Chromatic Wonder. The last one caught my attention. The recipe sells for 1 gold and it is non-binding therefore you can sell it in the Auction House for more.

I checked the Auction House and I was surprised to find out that it is priced at 40 gold. Now that’s a lot of profit from something that’s readily available from a vendor, if only you know where to look. The price may change from time to time so you must not saturate the market with it. Although you also need to be Honored with the Violet Eye to learn the recipe.

Reselling recipes on the Auction House might be the oldest trick in the book to make gold but it’s still feasible. You just have to know where to get the recipe, plans or schematics. Some people are just too lazy to look for the recipes and the vendors that sell them. This need is something that you can supply and therefore make gold out of it.

I’m becoming impatient with the queue for Warsong Gulch so I decided to check out the Auction House for some bargains. That’s when I saw Barbaric Leggings enchanted with a heavy armor kit selling for only 75 silver.

Now that’s a bargain. A clean Barbaric Leggings would go for at least 1 gold. Add the cost of the heavy armor kit, which gives it +24 armor, you could easily sell it for a minimum of 1 gold and 50 silver.

I searched for more Barbaric Leggings in the Auction House and it turns out that there were still 6 available. All of them were being sold by the same seller. I guess someone is leveling his leatherworking. Anyway, I bought all his Barbaric Leggings and placed two up for auction for 2 gold.

In less than an hour, my Barbaric Leggings sold out. So I placed two more but this time I priced them at 2 gold and 50 silver. Again, they were bought in an hour or so. I pushed my luck when I tried selling them for 3 gold.

It’s as simple as this, if you see an opportunity grab it right away or else someone might beat you to it. This rule of thumb applies to every item on the Auction House. This post isn’t so much about buying Barbaric Leggings as it is about a philosophy you need to have when buying and selling in general.

Spider silk can bring in lots of WoW gold. It is a material for Tailoring, Engineering and Leatherworking. A common mistake players do with their shadow silks is to sell them to NPCs when they can have more gold if they put it on the Auction House.
There are 5 different types of Spider Silks.

#1. Spider’s Silk
Spider’s Silks are used by leatherworkers to produce Toughened Leather Gloves while tailors use them to make Spidersilk Boots. These are sought after item for low level twinks therefore sells well in the Auction House. Spider’s Silks are sold for 1 gold a piece in my server.

3 Farming hotspots:

• Plains Creepers of Arathi Highlands
• Deepmoss Venomspitter of Stonetalon Mountains
• Forest Moss Creeper of Hillsbrad

#2. Thick Spider’s Silk
Thick Spider’s Silks are used by engineers for the Gnomish Net-o-Matic Projector which is a favorite for players who enjoy the Battlegrounds. They are also used by leatherworkers for Swift Boots. Tailors use them for Icy Cloak. Because there are no notable item that can be made, except for the Gnomish Net-o-Matic Projector, Thick Spider’s Silks are priced much lower than Spider’s Silk. These can be bought from the AH for 25 silver a piece.

3 Farming hotspots:

• Sand Skitterer of Silithius
• Greater Lava Spider of Searing Gorge
• Glassweb Spider of Searing Gorge

#3. Shadow Silk
Shadow Silks are used by engineers in making the Gnomish Net-o-Matic Projector while Tailors use it to make the Shadoweave items. Like the Thick Spider’s Silks, Shadow Silks are priced lower than the Spider’s Silks and are priced roughly the same at around 25 silver a piece.

3 Farming hotspots:

• Crypt Stalker of Eastern Plaguelands
• Plague Lurker of Western Plaguelands
• Carrion Lurker of Western Plaguelands

#4. Iron Spider Silk
Before Burning Crusade, Iron Spider Silks are in demand because it is the material for a couple of epic items, 18 to be exact. It is also needed to make the Goblin Jumper Cable XL. Iron Spider Silks are still much in demand these days and are sold for 2 gold a piece.

3 Farming hotspots:

• Plague Lurker of Western Plaguelands
• Sand Skitterer of Silithius
• Carrion Lurker of Western Plaguelands

#5. Netherweb Spider Silk
This is my personal favorite among all the spider silks. Netherweb Spider Silks are used by high level tailors a lot. One of the things it is needed for is the Imbued Netherweave Bag, which could be sold at the Auction House for at least 45 gold on my server. A single Netherweb spider Silk can fetch a minimum of 10 gold per piece.