Flipping is the easiest way to make gold, and it’s working great right now! A couple of videos ago, I outlined some fairly ambitious goals to reach before TBC, and some of you wanted it turned into a series. I won’t promise a series, but I am going to show you where I’m at!
What were my goals
I wanted to get to a position where I was going into TBC with a level 60 character, maxed professions and a reasonable stockpile of gold I could use to powerlevel professions and start crafting. As I said in that post it is quite ambitious, but it would be similar to the position I was in when TBC classic came around the first time. I also pointed out that kick-starting the gold was the most important factor as the more gold you have the more gold you can make per day using the AH and professions, not to mention the fact that my plan called for a LOT of gold.
Where am I now?
My Shaman is level 31 and I have about 10 gold to my name, and 26 gold worth of items on the AH. I’ve set up a banker so I can do AH stuff without getting back to Orgrimmar, which is helping out tremendously. Particularly because I have two accounts so I can check my banker while flying. Overall I’m well behind schedule and if I want to reach 60 before TBC it is quite likely I would have to buy a boost. I might, but I am enjoying the leveling process, so I’ll see how far I get. Goldwise I am also slow, but my gold amounts are scaling rapidly, so I am more hopeful that I’ll be able to level professions. I’ve done a lot less mining than I planned, but I’ll likely do a session soon to make sure it is maxed as I am approaching zones with Mithril spawns which will be more valuable.
Flipping is great
For goldmaking I have almost exclusively been flipping enchanting materials. The reason is quite simple, there’s no deposit cost. In addition to that enchanting dust is often produced by many different people in small quantities as they disenchant random drops and bought in large quantities by people powerleveling in enchanting. This means you can very often find cheap materials and that the AH often gets cleaned out as well. You can also utilize larger stack sizes to sell to impatient people. With how slow the AH is players will much prefer to buy stacks of 20 over stacks of 1. I started with strange dust as I could afford a good amount even with just 1 gold to my name and have been scaling up. I’ll add more classic materials that have a good shot at keeping value (ores, leather in particular) as I scale my gold. I’d stay away from herbs and food materials as their value is propped up by max level consumable demand which will fall.
Reranking my goals
Are my goals still relevant? Honestly I think I am exceedingly likely to reach all of them. I particularly underestimated the time I would need to dedicate to reach level 60, so it is quite uncertain I’ll reach it. I will need to focus more on leveling speed than I planned. Gold is going great, but I do need a TON of it still. The most important part is to spend it on getting professions to 300. Even if I’m at zero gold when TBC launches I can get in a good position after launch. You make gold leveling from 60-70 and I can keep flipping the entire leveling process. On top of that I can farm primals at level 70 to get more starting capital, and if I have professions I’ll start generating profits right away (Tailoring cooldown cloth for instance).