Tales of Gold Ep10: Its all about the stacks!

Hi everyone,

Please check out the episode where I talk about how I'm making my gold right now and at the end I talk about how important stacks are when it comes to selling materials and other items.


Shinn

Tales of Gold Episode 8: I'm back!!

On this podcast I talk about where I have been and also talk about some of the professions/markets that I have been working hard on in Legion to make gold.



Shinn

Legion: Jewelcrafting and how I got on while leveling to 110.

This post is about how a got on leveling my Jewel-crafting whilst getting to 110.

First thing I did once I picked up up my weapon and got over to Dalaran was to head straight over to the Jewel crafting trainer so I could get my teeth into the professions. I won't go though all the quests as there is an awesome guide on Wowhead found here which breaks it all down for you. This is more about what I got up to and hopefully pass on some tips to you lot out there...

First Design

The first design available to me was Versatile Skystone which you got by completing a quest,  which talks about prospecting. I'm happy with Blizzard going back down this route as this means lots of ore will be moving though the Auction House. A quick point about Ore in Legion, there isn't that many modes, so it can take a while a gather a large amount and because of this the price of both kinds of Ore is high (Leystone, Felslate).

I've done the first quest where you have to get 5x Gem Chip which wasn't bad at all and once you have handed that quest in you are sent on  a quest that takes you around Dalaran and even to the Underbelly, just be careful down there as its a PvP area, but saying that you can hire a bodyguard for 5g from a NPC called Raethan as you head down there. I have been down there quite a few times now and its fine, just need to keep an eye on the time.

By this time I just want to start making some Gems or Jewelry and by the end of doing the quests you get to start making two.

• Versatile Skystone (+150 Versatility) 
• Deadly Deep Amber (+150 Critical Strike) Please note there was another two choices of Gem, Masterful Queen's Opal (+150 Mastery) Quick Azsunite (+150 Haste) but you can only pick one.

Now I needed some Ore, so off I went and started to quest in Stormheim and after prospecting some Leystone I found a new item  Design: Mass Prospect Leystone which gives you Sangrite. Fast forward a bit as you don't need to go though every time I find or gain a upgrade though a quest. Below you will be a picture showing how many Rings/Necklaces and Gems i could make at level 106. To be honest, its not very many and I have done all the Jewel crafting profession quest available so far.

 This also shows that I now have two designs at Rank 2, which you can buy from Tiffany Cartier at Cartier & Co.Fine Jewelry in Dalaran. I have highlighted the map below in red showing where the shop is. You can also buy another fourteen Rank 2 Designs. Cost wise eight cost just over 33g each and the other eight cost  just over the 128g mark. I wonder if there is another fourteen quests that I need to do to get the other Rank 1 Designs or they could be a random drop, I should check, but I like the thought on finding them along the way, but saying that...I may need one or two and its driving me crazy and I will make good use of the Wowhead guide!

I'm now at level 110 and I have no more to add when it comes to learning any more designs or upgrades, but note I have spent 90% of my time completing two zone which were Stormheim and Highmountain, so there might be other designs to be found or bought in the other zones. Now that I'm 110 I will be able to add designs from faction vendors or dungeons. I will do another post in the future about Jewelcrafting and if its a good profession for gold making.

Sales and Profit

Right the important part...below I will show you some screen shots showing what I've been selling and how much I've had to spend and the profit I have made.

Purchases of Legion Ore

 Ok my Jewelcrafter is also a Miner, but as you can see I have spent nearly 35k on Ore. You will see that I have spent 30k on Leystone and only 4k on Felslate, this is because the cost of Felslate is very high on my server right now...but in the future the price might drop. Its hard very early in Legion to give a max and minimum price when buying. Right now my max price for buying Leystone Ore is 20g each, which is high in some peoples eyes, but with not that many nodes around and no flying you can see why. Felslate is around the 60g mark and I only buy if under 50g.

Legion Uncut Gems

I'm very happy with the sales I've been having in the Uncut Gem market with a profit of 11k. The green gems (Azsunite, Chactic Spinel, Deep Amber, Queen's Opal, Sangrite, Skystone)that you get from Prospecting sell from 50g up to 150g each and they sell very well, but with Ore prices so high you need the blue gems (Dawnlight, Eye of Prophecy, Furystone, Maelstrom Sapphire, Pandemonite, Saber's Eye, Shadowruby) and I've taken a screen shot showing the value of uncut gems on the Auction House at the time of this post and I must say I sell 100% of any blue gems I put up for sale and I around the 90% mark for green gems.

Value of Gems from spending just 10k on Leystone Ore

The one screen shot missing is one showing my Jewellery sales and this because I've only sold four items and with not having many designs I'm going to wait until I unlock some more...

I haven't talk about Cut Gems as I haven't made any as you need Blood of Sargeras and I only have one right now. Now I'm 110 I should start to get some and I can then look at that market, plus I don't see the cut gem market really taking off until we get a raid...

Shinn

Tales of Gold Ep 6

On this Podcast I talk about the video guides that I've started for TradeSkillMaster 3, only done two so far, but working on more! Talk about how you can make some extra gold by running LFR's as a healer or tank (500g plus armor and runes).

 I tell you about how it went when I was a guest on Your WoW Money Podcast with Joe and Deadgreed. News in World of Warcraft Garrison changes look like they're coming in Legion, which I talk about and what the future holds for garrisons in Legion.
 Check out this post below:
The future of passive garrison gold making in Legion.

 Talk a little bit about Love In the Air...it's the last day, but I give a tip about getting some last minute charms.
Here is the link for more info.
lovely charm farm 2000 hr mogoshun

 Water Striders and how they won't be able to walk on water in Legion.

 If you want to see more stuff done by me, check out my links below...
Twitter 
Twitch
YouTube TradeSkillMaster 3 guides


 Hope you enjoy the show.

 Shinn

Tales of Gold Ep 5

Please check out my new podcast, where I talk about my latest blog post and TradeSkillMaster and how hard they're working to resolve the issues with the addon. Here is the link to IRC chat where you can ask questions. if you're having problems yourself.

I also talk about how Reddit and how good a resource it is for gold makers/Goblins!

Savage Boxes, where do you stand, open now or Legion? I tell you where I stand, but would love to get some feedback from you about what you're going to do with yours...



Shinn

tales of Gold Ep 3 New markets...more gold!

Welcome to Ep 3 of Tales of Gold a podcast about gold making in World of warcraft... 

 As always I will tell you about what I've been up too in WoW over the last 2 weeks.
 • Been working hard to set up 2 new markets, selling bars and Battle Pets. I will go over more detail later in the show.
 • I finally got Pathfinder and my Corrupted Dreadwing mount. 
• Leveling using the Excess potion of accelerated learning . 
• Garrison's, trying to make gold!!

 Wow News 

 • 50% off Mounts and Pets thought to Jan 4th. Also you can buy the Brightpaw pet which cost £9 in the uk and 100% of the fee goes to Make-A-Wish. 
• Legion Alpha, you can explore two areas now, which are Stormheim and Highmountain.
 • Winter Veil starts on the 16th. Gold Making News Not too much to really talk about. 
• Sapu from TradeskillMaster has posted on reddit about a new desktop app this post can be found at...
https://www.reddit.com/r/woweconomy/comments/3wjove/public_beta_of_new_tsm_desktop_application_r300/ and it has been released today at Tradeskillmaster.com. 

• Yourwowmoney have a new podcast out, so check that out at yourwowmoney.com. 

 Main topic 

 Smelting/selling bars- Check out this guide its awesome. Sterling Smelting guide 

 Battle Pets- Not been a market that I've done before and didn't think I would, but after talking to my friend Morricade about it one night streaming I thought I would give it a go.

 Check out this link for pets and prices. https://theunderminejournal.com/#eu/the-maelstrom/category/battlepets 

 You can find me at.... 
 Twitter- @the00shinn
 Blog- www.shinnstalesofgold.com 
Twitch- www.twitch.tv/the00shinn 


 You can also email any question to shinnstales@gmail.com 

 Shinn

BlizzCon: Professions, plus more and how or if I'm going to change in Legion.

Hi

Well, what can I say about BlizzCon...it was awesome, well the parts i saw anyway. I'm going to talk about Professions and Transmog and anything else that I think of as i go along.

Professions

I had to wait until Day 2, but it was worth the wait as the World of Warcraft: Legion game system panel gave us a little insight. The first thing they said about professions was "we want to give you more stuff to do". I'm happy with that right away...

Below is a list of  points that I would like to talk about:

• Trainers.
• Recipes are learnt from all over the place.
• Profession quest lines.
• Professions New UI.
• Recipe Ranks.
• Obliterum.
• Craft at your own pace.
• Crafted gear should be special.
• Glyphs.
• Runes.
• Gathering.
• Secondary professions.
• Crispy Bacon.
• Transmog

Trainers.

Blizzard have said that there won't be the normal trainers that we are used to, in Legion you learn recipes out in the world and from people you meet a long your way. They talked about tailoring and how you start learning about cloth (not fur) and start making a rope, but its not working very well. The cloth is rejecting the thread and just making a mess, at this point you're sent off to meet a Nightfallen, who comes from the tribe of Nightborn Elves, but was exiled. From here you start a quest line which takes you a Dalaran and learning more recipes. We were also told that gathering professions we also have quest lines and recipes to learn.

Below are a couple of screen shots showing the two trainers that you will meet.

Tailoring

Mining

Professions New UI.

The UI is having a make-over and as you can see from the pictures below there is something different...Recipe Ranks!! You learn the one star version and if you want to upgrade that recipe, you need to find it out in the world, these two and three star recipes upgrade, you need less mats or less time to make said items. If you want to make your items more powerful, you will need something else and I'll tell you about that after showing you the New UI where you will see that you can adds recipes to a favorite list and also a learned tab and unlearned tab. They mentioned that the unlearned will show you where you can find those recipes.

Old UI

New UI

1-3 star recipe ranks

Obliterum.

This is the stuff that is required to upgrade your items to make them more powerful. To get Obliterum you need to get to lvl 110 and you will start a quest line that ends up with you building a Obliterum Forge in the middle of Dalaran...

Forge in the middle of Dalaran.

Obliterum is gained for destroying crafted gear. They used the example;  if you are a Jewelcrafter and wanted to make a ring with the right stats,  so you make 5 or 6 of them and you finally get the ring you wanted. You now have five rings to sell on the AH or you could take them to the forge and get Obliterum. The Obliterum is then used to make the ring you wanted even more powerful!! I think this could help us gold makers because not only are people wanting to buy items they may also buy the items to take to the forge for Obliterum...the only thing I don't know is can you sell it on the AH?

Craft at your own pace and crafted gear should be special.

Not sure what I can say about the 'craft at your own pace', does that mean not so many cool-downs? Or are they saying there is so much stuff to do, we will be busy and there is no need to rush? I wanted more information , but they moved on to our next point...Crafted gear should be special.

Blizzard want crafted gear not to be a copy of raid gear, below you can see two crafted items. The left one is made from Engineering which is a goggles shaped like a gun with fire bullets!! The one on the right is necklace made for a Warrior as it has run increase while Enraged. Also all rings and necklaces will have a gem slot. I can see Jewelcrafting being back in favour with rings and necklaces having gems slot, but also having items which only certain classes can only use... 

Engineering:                                                                        Jewelcrafting:

Inscription

Is changing so much...Blizzard feel that major glyphs are redundant are removing them from the game!! I was nearly in tears at this point thinking what am I going to do in Legion now. After I calmed down and listened some more, they went on to talk about minor glyphs and what role they will play. Minor glyphs will now be a consumable item which you add to the spells in your spellbook and not learnt like before. Take a look at the pictures below showing a minor glyph and then how it works once applied.

Right click the glyph to add to spell.

Show how the glyph will work now added.

There is a restriction of one glyph per spell, but you can have as many glyphs as you want...

Inscription is also getting a new consumable, which lasts a week, but you can only use one at a time. These Runes are used to help fight  bosses which you might be stuck on and need a little help. I only have one Rune I can show you, buy hopefully there will be lots of others to make.

New to Inscription.

 Secondary Professions

Archaeology is going to have its own campaign going over several months where you find lots of things that you can use and there are pets to be found.

Cooking, they are bringing back a Panda to help with new recipes ( sorry they did say who, but I'm not sure who he is). Plus I nearly forgot, you will be able to make...

I love bacon!!

Fishing...I love fishing as you just can sit there and watch something else on the other monitor whilst doing it, however they now want fishing to be more of an adventure. Not sure what this means, but it sounds like fun.

Transmog

In Legion there will be a Wardrobe for gear.

• Item appearances are automatically added to your wardrobe.
• You can toss the item once unlocked.
• Account wide.

Here is a look at the new Transmogrity UI.

The death of some gold makers!!

They have also added a tab for outfits, which is really useful for people who love transmog. 

Outfits made easy.

The outfits can also be linked, so you can share with your friends. They didn't finish there, they also did these points below...

• All item in your bank, void storage and inventory are automatically unlocked.
• Items awarded from every quest you have ever completed.
• Items you may not have chosen.
• You can hide your Shoulders.
• Three new transmoggable slots- Weapons, Shirts, Tabards!!

 Gathering!

Just got one more thing to say here...all nodes are now shared, so no more rushing over to get that herb before someone else does!!

What does this mean to me and gold making?

First thing I'm going to say is...I can't wait for Legion to drop so i can get my teeth into professions and seeing where I can make lots of gold. 

I love the way you have to go and find recipes and go on quests to build up a story along the way. 

The new UI looks good, but I use TSM for crafting and wont be using this very much apart from looking for recipes that I don't have. Recipes ranks could be using as gold makers we are always worrying about mat prices, so if we can save on mats and time, I'm up for that!

Crafting gear looks like it could be a good market, as they have said they don't want it to be a copy of raid gear. The two items that they talked about look really cool and I can see lots of people wanting to get hold of these items. 

Jewelcrafting is looking like it might be the market leader in my view, but what do I know? Lets just wait and see.

The upgrading of items using Obliterum sounds like it could be a really good market to get into, selling the items that people are going to destroy. There is going to be items that nobody wants to use, these items could sell very well, it might just take a while to work out which ones don't get used. I'm not sure how I stand on if I want Obliterum to be available on the AH...i think we could make more gold from selling the items for people to do themselves.

Inscription changes were a big blow when they first started talking and I was thinking, shit there goes 20-50k a week gone, but after i thought about it I don't feel too bad now. I'm still going to have minor glyphs to sell and now you can add one to every spell you have. I'm hopeful that people will go out and buy one for every spell, glyphs is still going to be a big market for me. The new Runes added I'm not so sure about, time will tell.

I used to love cooking and the rest of the secondary professions and i might dip my feet back in with making some Crispy Bacon, as this could be used a lot in raids. Can't wait to get out and fish in Legion and see what happens...

Transmog, is it dead? I'm not feeling very upbeat at the moment. When they started talking about the wardrobe it was bad, but when they said its account bound i was like shit! I don't know what else I can say right now, as I'm still in shock!!

The last thing i want to say is....I am pretty happy about the change in gathering...and now its time for bed!

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog.

Shinn