WoW Gold Tricks

This comes in continuation to my last post about items you should constantly look out for in the Auction House. This time I’m listing some “learning materials” which level 60 players can use to gain new spells and abilities. These only drop in the Ahn’Qiraj instance and can be worth hundreds of gold. Books dropping in easier instances usually sell for much less.

High demand learning materials to look for:

• Grimoire of Shadow Bolt X
• Grimoire of Immolate VIII
• Grimoire of Corruption VII
• Manual of Revenge VI
• Manual of Heroic Strike IX
• Manual of Battle Shout VII
• Tome of Arcane Missiles VIII
• Tome of Frostbolt XI
• Tome of Fireball XII
• Guide: Serpent Sting IX
• Guide: Multi-Shot V
• Guide: Aspect of the Hawk VII
• Book of Healing Touch XI
• Book of Rejuvenation XI
• Book of Starfire VII
• Codex of Prayer of Healing V
• Codex of Renew X
• Libram: Blessing of Wisdom VI
• Libram: Holy Light IX
• Libram: Blessing of Might VII
• Handbook of Feint V
• Handbook of Deadly Poison V
• Handbook of Backstab IX

For those who didn’t know, Fizzwidget ShoppingList is an AddOn that makes it easy to keep track of the items you are looking to buy. It integrates with Auctioneer enabling you to very easily notice when one or more of the items are available in your Auction House.

Below I have listed some rare items you should have on your ShoppingList. Usually you don’t want to buy rare blue or purple items just to resell them because AH listing fees for these items are expensive and selling them for a good price may be hard. These items are an exception because should be a high demand for these items on just about any server.

These are the high demand rare items you want to have on your ShoppingList:

• Elemental Attuned Blade (worth hundreds of gold)
• Antenna of Invigoration (worth hundreds of gold)
• Pendulum of Doom
• Assassin’s Blade
• Shadowfang
• Miner’s Hat of the Deep
• Expert Goldminer’s Helmet
• Shovelphlange’s Mining Axe
• The Jackhammer
• Unearthed Bands of Agility, Power, Money, etc..
• Petrospill Leggings
• Mantle of Thieves
• Flintrock Shoulders
• Wolfclaw Gloves
• Hotshot Pilot’s Gloves
• Mechbuilder’s Overalls
• Maiden’s Circle

Of course the good buying price for these items varies item by item and server by server so you shouldn’t rush to buy any of them on the first sight. Listing fees for these items are high so you don’t want to relist them multiple times at a too expensive price. As a rule of thumb, if you can get any of these items for something like 30 gold, it should be a good price.

There is a nice little AddOn called AuditorFu that anyone concerned about their spendings in World of Warcraft should use. This AddOn simply tracks all your incomes and expenses on multiple parts of the game like loot, vendors, quests, trades, mails, auctions, training, flights and repairs. Very useful, at least if you care about your gold usage at all.

1.) Put your non-combat pet into your second backbag slot

2.) Assign the following macro to a button:

/script UseContainerItem(0,2)
/script UseContainerItem(0,2)
/script UseContainerItem(0,2)
/script UseContainerItem(0,2)
/script UseContainerItem(0,2)
/script UseContainerItem(0,2)
/script UseContainerItem(0,2)
/script UseContainerItem(0,2)

3.) Then just spam pets with that button as quickly as you can. Not very useful but it sure will cause confusion to people around you.

This is a pretty cool and easy to do trick that will get patched soon for sure. It enables a player to freely control a flying mount. You can’t really fly with it though. It just hovers a few feet above the ground.

This is how its done: You need to send your pet (required for this) to attack a mob near a flight master and talk to the flight master before your pet actually reaches it’s target. If you can pick a flight destination quickly enough, you’ll get a flying mount which you can control freely.

Note that some mobs need to be pretty close to the flight master for this to work and in some cases you might need to use speed buffs to be quick enough. Good locations with mobs close to flight master are at places like Zoram Strand, Tarren Mill, Kargath, Grom’Gol, Westfall and Gadgetzan.

It’s always nice to see people soloing places which they were supposed to group up for buy the creators. Hunter vs. World is a series of videos of someone soloing high level instances as a Hunter and going at just about anything that you can do your own. Much of what appers on these videos has been nerfed by Blizzard already, so you might be better not to try these tricks at home.

PvE Hunter Tricks

Part 1

Part 2

Hunter vs World 5 (Solo BRD Emp)

Hunter vs World 4 (Soloing DM North)

• Part 1/3
• Part 2/3
• Part 3/3

Hunter vs World 3 (Solo DM East)

Video @ WarcraftMovies

Hunter vs World 2 (Lower Black rock Spire)

Video @ WarcraftMovies
Hunter vs World (Scholomanche)

Video @ WarcraftMovies

It’s no secret that tons of people are going to be leveling their Jewelcrafting skill to 300 very quickly after Burning Crusade gets released. People like new things and of course there is the thrill of being first on your server. That’s why it should be pretty save to assume that the materials required for Jewelcrafting are going to be in an unusually high demand.

In best case scenario you need the following to go 1-300 in Jewelcrafting:

• 180-240 Copper Bars
• 50-75 Malachite
• 100-140 Silver Bars
• 40-60 Shadowgems
• 100-140 Bronze Bars
• 75-90 Jade
• 90-120 Elemental Earth
• 120-180 Thorium Bars
• 30-45 Star Rubys
• 30-40 Large Opal

I guess there are plenty of people stocking those already, but there is no reason why you shouldn’t join the crowd so that you can rush your Jewelcrafting to 300 or just sell to wannabe Jewelcrafters once the supplies dry out.

In this post I have linked to most of the parts of the video series where a player called Joana levels his character all the way to level 60 in less than 5 days of “/played” time. Some parts may be in the wrong order and a few parts are missing but there are so many of these clips that I’m not going to bother spending any more time with them.

1-6 Durotar

6-13 Durotar

13-15 The Barrens

15-20 The Barrens

20-21 Stonetalon Mountains

21-22 Ashenvale

22-23 Southern Barrens

23-25 Stonetalon Mountains

25 Southern Barrens

25-26 Thousand Needles

26-27 Ashenvale

27-29 Thousand Needles

29-30 Hillsbrad / Alterac Mountains

30 Arathi Highlands

31 Stranglethorn Vale

31-32 Shimmering Flats

32-34 Desolace

34-35 Stranglethorn Vale

36-37 Arathi Highlands

37 Arathi Highlands

37-38 Dustwallow Marsh

38-40 Stranglethorn Vale

40-41 Badlands

41-42 Swamp of Sorrows

42-43 Stranglethorn Vale

43 Dustwallow Marsh

43 Desolace

43-44 Tanaris

44-46 Feralas

46 Azshara

47 Stranglethorn Vale

47-48 Searing Gorge

48 Swamp of Sorrows

54 Felwood

58-59 Winterspring

59-60 Winterspring, Orgrimmar

Download BottomFeeder AddOn

BottomFeeder is an AddOn that works with Auctioneer taking automated gaming of the Auction House a bit futher than what was possible before. BottomFeeder has it’s own prebuilt database of Auction House data which it combines with any data you’ve recorded with Autioneer AddOn. This results in more accurate price estimations than before, especially when just starting out with a clean Auctioneer. If you have Enchantrix running, it will also enable you to buy disenchantable items.

Ok, the prebuild database is cool but the truly revolutionary feature is that you can make BottomFeeder sit in your Auction House and it will continuously scan for auctions and AUTOMATICALLY bid on bargains. Some people call that cheating but Blizzard has stated that you won’t get banned for using AddOns. They will probably break the automatic bidding in future patches though so you’ve better start using it quick if you’re going to use it at all.

Norganna on the Auctioneer discussion forum:

Figuring out how to use BottomFeeder is totally different issue. On default settings buys items very slowly, maybe one item every 30 minutes or so. You can type “/btm” in the game to list all the commands the mod supports. All I know is that “/btm begin” is how BottomFeeder is started when you have Auction House window open.

BottomFeeder supports a variety of command and configuration options which you use by typing “/btm *command*” into your chat box. Full listing of commands supported by BottomFeeder:

maxprice
Sets the maximum price that we will buy auctions for

minprofit
Sets the minimum profit that we consider an auction”), BtmFeed.GSC

pctprofit
Sets the minimum percentage of profit to buy an auction

mindeprofit
Sets the minimum disenchant profit that we consider an auction

pctdeprofit
Sets the minimum percentage of disenchant profit to buy an auction

vendprofit
Sets the minimum profit on vendorable items

commonmult
Sets a penalty factor on white items’ profitability

allowbids <0/1>
Sets whether to allow bidding if the rules would have bought at that price

minseen
Sets the minimum Auctioneer “seen count” before we will buy an item

safetynet
Sets the maximum number / cost of any single item that will be bought in any one session (0 for unlimited)

print-in ([Number]|[String])
Sets the chatFrame that BottomFeeder’s messages will be printed to”)))

baserule
Advanced users only: Specify your own lua code for calculating the base price

ignore
Ignores the specified item

unignore
Stops ignoring the specified item

snatch
Sets the item’s snatch value

worth
Sets the specified item’s value

clear
Clears the AH event log window

dryrun
Begins a test scanning run (must have AH open)

Now just spend some time tweaking those settings and you’ll have yourself an automated gold making machine. (Ok, you still have to walk to mailbox and relist the items manually, this isn’t for THAT lazy people.) I have no idea when Blizzard is going to break the automated bidding feature but I’m sure that BottomFeeder has some potential even if automatic bidding gets killed.

This is a simple but profitable one. Cobalt dragons (50-56 elites) near the lake in Winterspring are a great mob to farm for Mature Blue Dragon Sinews. The drop rate for these is tiny — you’ll be getting one Sinew on average for 1000 dragons killed or so. The good news is that the Sinews are epics that are worth something like 400 gold in the Auction House.

Of course these dragons drop a lot of green items and gray junk too so you can earn relatively well while waiting for the Sinew to drop. You get a lot of Traveler’s Backpacks which sell for 15 gold or so. This farming spot is especially good for skinners because you can skin the dragons for Rugged Leather and Blue Dragonscales which can be sold for very nice gold on their own.
Note: Killing level 50+ Elites is never too easy so you’d better be well equipped and of course having a pet never hurts.