Gold Capped Part 2

It took roughly 24 days for me to hit the cap when I started “going for it”. I started with roughly 50k gold and worked up from there. I’m very happy with this considering I spent between 25-30k gold on gear and various other items in the process. Now that I hit the cap, my aggression (price fixing markets) at the auction house is going to slow down a bit. I’m going to focus on raid nights primarily to do my posting and use the weekends to stock up, rather then go full force 6-7 days a week. I should still be able to bring in ~20-25k a week not including item flipping.

I currently use a dual LCD setup, one a 26” and one a 24.5”. My 26” LCD is my “main” monitor where I play my Warrior or DK at 1920x1200 resolution full screen. My 24.5” is used for posting on the AH, I have 4 accounts total and 3 of them are used for AH’ing. I run the 3 posting alts simultaneously on the 24.5”. I have a pretty powerful computer (Intel I7 overclocked, 8GB RAM) so my computer can easily handle 4 WoW clients at one time. I’m able to maintain 50+ FPS in Dalaran on my main account while running the other 3, if that’s any indication. This setup is pretty overpowered because I have my alts at the SW spot where I can access the mail and AH without moving. Because of this I’m able to pretty much just click post, cancel and loot my mail with extreme ease. Here is what I have on each poster:

Poster #1: Druid, Mage, Hunter and Paladins glyphs, enchanting scrolls that cover cloak, chest, bracer and 1H slots
Poster #2: Priest, Rogue, Shaman and Warlock glyphs, Armor Vellums, Snowfall Ink, enchanting scrolls that cover hands, boots, 2H and shield slots
Poster #3: Death Knight/Warrior glyphs, regular/epic/meta gems, belt buckles, BOE epics, flasks and other misc items

Like I said, I have these guys parked that the SW AH trick spot and it takes literally 5 seconds to mouse over to them and post/cancel or loot mail on all 3 accounts. How often do I re-list? Considering how easy it is, pretty often. I can pretty much post/cancel/loot mail in between every arena queue if I want because it takes so little time. I’ll take a picture of this when I get home to illustrate. This method is especially potent for glyphs because I am able to literally cancel/repost ALL my glyphs in a few minute time span with little effort. The most time consuming part of all this is restocking enchanting scrolls and glyphs. I’m considering increasing my threshold to 7 or 8g on glyphs so I don’t spend so much time milling, creating IotS and crafting.

In the coming weeks mmy gold supply will take a temporary drop due to buying gear in the GDKP runs (if they drop). I’ve already bought Death’s Verdict for my Warrior and I’m looking to buy Deathbringer’s Will and Polar Bear Claw Bracers, as well as one T10 piece set piece off Saurfang. These items will probably set me back 40-45k. I already have my PVP template setup on my Warrior for Season 8 with these items included, it’s going to be pretty freaking overpowered. After you calculate Wrathful (season 8) gear in, I’ll be sitting at ArP soft cap, hit cap, 33k+ HP, 5k+ AP, 38%+ crit and 850+ resilience unbuffed. It should make for some good times!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas!

I Came, I Saw, I Capped!

Despite the mail being messed up, I manage to hit the cap today with a little left over. I was hoping to hit it yesterday as a Christmas gift but I haven't played much recently due to family commitments.




I'll write more about the experience on Monday. Luckily it didn't take too long, thanks to the 3.3 patch. If it weren't for that then it probably would of taken a week or two more.

Life After The Cap?

I haven't reached the gold cap yet but I was just thinking about what I'm going to do after reaching it. If all things go well I'm only a few days away from it. What is there to do after reaching the gold cap? I'm certainly not going to stop making gold, it's because a daily part of my routine while playing the game. I can't imagine not having my posting alts going while playing my main character. I certainly won't push as hard in some markets like glyphs. I've been babying the glyph market quite a bit, often price fixing popular glyphs in cookie cutter builds. This can be a time consuming process which I'll probably limit to a few times a week, rather then a few times a day. I'm going to also increase my threshold from 3g to 6 or 7g to lower the amount of restocking required after a days worth of sales. You know what really sucks? Slacking and not restocking for a few days, then running your /ktq queue 10 glyphs and having it queue up 650+ glyphs in Skillet! It's good because you know you have sold a lot, but have fun milling/creating IotS and crafting for a few hours!

Enchanting materials are coming down as supply continues to be high but demand is starting to drop. Abyss Crystals are down to 30g or less on the AH. This is most likely due to the huge amount of heroics people are running in conjunction with the new disenchant feature. Because of this scrolls are coming down in price as well, I had to update my spreadsheet (seen here) with new prices and adjust thresholds accordingly.

There's a new version of Quick Auctions 2 that was released recently. I highly recommend it as it does live posting now rather then queuing up and doing a bulk post after scanning is complete. This works really well because the posting mechanism could get overloaded previously during bulk posting and cause some duplicate posts. Now while it's scanning your auctions it goes and posts right then and there preventing this from happening. When you hit the cancel button it also now tracks the total amount of auctions being scanned which is nice.

Weekly Gold Summary - The Home Stretch

Well it's that time again. The week went very well. I picked up Bryntroll for my Warrior in the GDKP but nothing really expensive dropped. Sales are still very high as the patch is still in its new stage. Competition has increased in various markets though as it seems people are trying to cash in on the demand spike of the patch. Enchanting scrolls have dropped in price, along with material costs. Abyss Crystals are down below 30g, Dream Shard at 9-10g and Greater Cosmic Essence at 13-14g. Infinite Dust hasn't moved too much, it's holding at about 1.7g per unit. The Jewelcrafting market is as active as ever, I notice new people every day in trade chat spamming a bulk macro for buying epic gems.

Glyphs are still holding strong, the super camper is still gone so that leaves me as the dominant presence in the market. I have been price-fixing popular glyphs here and there to keep maximize their profits. The guy that logs in every day and does a mass post at market price is still there. It’s quite annoying because I end up buying up most of his 12-13g posts for popular glyphs. I end up handing him about 400-500g a day but it more then pays out when I sell well over 30 of those same glyphs at 55+g before he does his daily login again.

Overall Weekly Profit: 52,001g
Total Gold: 174,255g

I was hoping to top 200k but things slowed down the last few days and I had some real life stuff to attend to. I also have 2 BOE’s I picked up from the GDKP runs, one from ICC 25 and one from TOC 25. They are both sitting on the auction house and should sell anytime, when they do that will boost me over the 195k mark. If the two BOE's had sold before this post then I would of broken my previous record, my weekly profit would of been 73k! I’m hoping to hit the cap before next week; it depends on how active the servers are during the holidays.

Deal of the Week:

Ikfirus's Sack of Wonder bought for 7,500g (GDKP), sold for 17,000g

Gold Cap Next Friday? / GDKP

This week is off to a great start. The resident AH super camper seems to be have disappeared. He was my main competition in the glyph market. Perhaps he got tired of competing with me? Either way I'm happy. Because of this I have been much more aggressive with my price fixing on a lot of the popular glyphs. I have a ton of glyphs at 45-60g up and they sell like crazy. It's nice seeing your sold section in the AH window full of sold glyphs ranging from 45-60g. I've maintained Glyph of Blocking at 90g for the past few days and I've sold at least 10 of them! The money is really coming in this week from Inscription. This evening I should pass the 165k mark. I've been able to maintain a 10k/day profit margin since 3.3 and I'm really happy about it. This may or may not last through the weekend though, as raiding days are usually the big money making days for a lot of people. The weekends are a good time to stock up on cheap materials to prepare for the week, although Sunday evening is a popular selling day too.

If I don't spend anything on both GDKP runs, then I'm on track for breaking 200k by my weekly summary on Monday! The GDKP runs net an extra 11-12k or so since ICC 25 was released and people spend 10-15k per item that drops on average, so the splits are quite nice. The main items I'm looking to snag are Deathbringer's Will from ICC 25 and Death's Verdict from ToC 25. Any other item that drops I won't spend much on. One thing is for sure though, if Deathbringer's Will drops then that will put a minor speed bump in my road to the cap, as I will probably have to drop some serious coin to win it. I've decided to hold off on the Primordial Saronite for Shadow's Edge until I hit the cap. If either trinket doesn't drop this week then I'm shooting for the cap next Friday!

One thing I've been asked is my reasoning for participating in GDKP runs as opposed to regular PUGing or raiding. Why spend money for items when you can get them for free in PUGs or raids? It's simple: convenience. I'm a PVPer at heart and my priority when obtaining gear from raiding instances is it's benefit to me in arena. It's very difficult to obtain popular items like Death's Verdict in PUGs as you are usually rolling against 8-10 people for it if it happens to drop. I've been in many raiding guilds in the past and I just don't want to commit to raiding schedules to obtain a few select items that I want. In a GDKP raid, you always come out with something (gold) even if nothing drops that you want. I don't have to worry about having enough DKP to get a certain item or worry about a loot council selecting me for it. If I want a certain item, I can get it then and there.

Besides price fixing some scrolls, belt buckles and a lot of glyphs, I managed to flip a few more Battered Hilts for 7-8k profit each. Despite the increased drop rate they are still an excellent item to turnaround if you can get a good price. The demand for them is huge and there still aren't many available to meet the demand, so they still sell for a lot.

In other news, my alt Warrior's 2s team broke 1900 rating last night with my Warrior sitting in only 440 resilience :) I'm pretty sure we could break 2000 but we decided to stop because it was getting late. We were crushing quite a few 2100+ teams before we stopped, the only team giving us real trouble were Rogue/Priest due to my lack of resilience and the Rogues ability to just sit on me putting out huge pressure the entire game due to it.

Controlling Glyphs

Lately I've been focusing more on the glyph market. The camper/possible bot I spoke about in one of my previous posts hasn't logged in for 3 days. This has given me a chance to control more of the glyph market. For the past 3 days there's only been small handfull of glyphs that were selling for over 10g (his threshold) due to competition. Maybe he decided it wasn't worth camping for all day and night to stay on top with only a few glyphs, maybe he server transferred, maybe he's just taking a break, who knows. I do hope he isn't coming back though as my sales have gone up considerably.

This has given me an opportunity to take back some of the glyph market. A few days ago I spent about 1000g resetting a ton of glyphs and it has more then paid off. The first thing I did was reset popular glyphs which are used in cookie cutter builds for various classes. This information is pretty easy to obtain. Even 2 days later a majority of my 60g glyphs are still in that price range. I am monitoring my high priced glyphs more carefully, buying out the few people here and there that post a few glyphs for super cheap (undercutting my 60g posts). When looking at your auction house tab and seeing a ton of sold glyphs for 35-60g, it's very rewarding to see that it pays off.

Resetting glyphs is a very important tool to making profit through Inscription. One thing I recommend is to have all your competition on your friends list so you can buy them out when they aren't online. One poster in particular logs on a fews a day to post at Auctioneer's market price (usually 6-12g). He posts 1-2 of a variety of glyphs. If any of those undercutsare my high priced glyphs, as soon as he logs off I buy them out. He benefits from his glyphs selling and I benefit from my glyphs selling at 60g while he's offline. It's important to be proactive if you are really looking to do well. It's easy to just post and forget, but if you really want to make money you need to put some effort into it. Flipping is one of the most important aspects, whether it's glyphs, belt buckles or a Battered Hilt for 10k.

Speaking of Battered Hilts, Blizzard announced that they are increasing the drop rate on them, so I would recommend unloading now.

Weekly Gold Summary / 3.3 Thoughts

Well, the first week of 3.3 is coming to an end. Overall I'm very happy with the way the servers have performed. Opening day was surprisingly stable once the servers finally came up. The only day that had some extended lag was Saturday evening during peak hours. The new content and features are bringing back some players and giving their current player base something to do until Cataclysm.

I went to both GDKP 25 runs on both my characters. We cleared the first 4 bosses of ICC 25 with relative ease. The only encounter that really presented a challenge was High Overlord Saurfang. It's more of a healing fight then anything once you have 5+ people marked. I picked up Bryntroll, The Bone Arbiter on my DK and Blood-Soaked Saronite Stompers on my Warrior. I ended up making about 12,000g total between both characters when both pots were split up, which means I ended up only coming out about 4,000g in the hole after buying both the axe and the boots. My quest to hit the gold cap may hit a snag in the coming month as I am working on buying 25 Primordial Saronite for Shadow's Edge. I won't be able to get the axe itself until The Plagueworks (next wing in ICC) opens on January 5th. The actual Primordial Saronite will cost between 60-70k total so that will definitely cause a delay. The good thing is that I can doing very well on a daily basis as far as gold making is concerned!

Onto the weekly report:

Overall Weekly Profit: 51,099g
Total Gold: 122,254g

While this number may seem high, it definitely could of been higher if I stockpiled more. Everything is flying off the shelves at elevated prices and I ran through my stock pretty quick during the first few days. The weekly profit does include restocking, the number would of been much higher if I didn't blow about 20k gold on the GDKP runs and stuff in general. :)

In one of my previous posts I mentioned the possibility of flipping Battered Hilt, the quest item that begins the chain for an ilvl 251 weapon seen here. The chain itself is very easy, I happened to pick up one up from heroic Forge of Souls (before the drop rate was nerfed) the opening day on my Warrior and did the quest chain in about 3 hours (instances included). Throughout the week I kept in an eye in trade chat to see if I could pick up another one to flip. On Saturday I managed to buy one from someone in trade for 10,000g, 4 hours later:



I was a bit nervous at trying to flip it as I wasn't entirely sure if I could get away with selling it for that much. I've seen them in the auction house for that much but I wasn't sure if they were actually selling. I was absolutely thrilled when I saw it sold. It's very rewarding making almost 9k in one day from flipping one item alone. One other item I was looking to flip was Wodin's Lucky Necklace. Someone put it up as a 48H auction without a buyout, bid starting at 9,000g. I kept an eye on this for the 2 days it was up, this necklace is a best-in-slot or near best-in-slot item for multiple classes so I knew it would sell for a lot. I bid 10,200g on it when the auction duration was short and won! Three hours later:



Both of these items sold in one day! It was a record high for me as I also did about 5-6k in sales so I ended up with a nice 20k+ profit in 1 day. Which brings me to:

Deals of the Week:

Battered Hilt bought for 10,000g (trade), sold for 18,979g
Wodin's Lucky Necklace bought for 10,200g (AH bid), sold for 16,000g

Overall it was a very exciting week, new content, features and a ton of sales.