Getting rich with Primal Might

This method has been mentioned before on this guide in a bigger TBC compilation, but I still receive a few questions or comments about Primals and Alchemists. Apparently the last post wasn't clear enough, so here's a refreshment.

I'm still often the only person on my realm selling these, even though they are needed by many people. One sells for even 800g if there is no one else selling and someone needs them desperately. There is definitely room for more Alchemists doing this!

The materials are often very expensive though, so sometimes it will be more profitable to sell them as they are. Lucky transmute procs are not guaranteed. Thankfully the materials are easy to obtain by farming them.

Profession needed: Alchemy

Primal Gold!
Before turning any primals into anything, you should check the material costs. They are TBC items so their prices vary between 20g-300g most of the time. If each of the lesser primals sell for 300g, you'll make more gold selling them instead. It would be wise to farm them yourself. One primal takes less than 3 minutes to obtain, so it won't take long to get them all.

If you don't know where's the best place to farm them, check the previous Primal Might post.

Primal Might has simple material requirements:

• 1 x Primal Earth
• 1 x Primal Water
• 1 x Primal Mana
• 1 x Primal Air
• 1 x Primal Fire

Remember that transmutation alchemists can get lucky procs and get even 5 items from one transmute.

Finding some recipes
If you don't have the recipe for Primal Might, you can buy it from Shattrath. The recipe is BOE and sells for 300+g in the auction house. It has a short restock timer on the vendor, so it's wise to buy 2 and sell the other one in the Auction House! And while in Shattrath, why not buy the schematic for white smoke flare also. It too sells for 300g often!

If you like it when the 600g coins drop into your mailbox from a simple method like that, you should take a look at this older post focusing on reselling Outland recipes. In other words, How to turn 200g into 3300g! 

Making gold in Undercity

Are you a new player? Got only a few silver coins and have no idea how to turn them into 1000g?

- No? Well.. you can still make some eaaasy gold!

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Turn that silver into gold!
This post is similar to the limited supply run in Kalimdor, but this time capital cities will be left out from the upcoming bigger post. Especially Alliance's, because this time also only horde NPCs are listed. Don't get me wrong, I love alliance too, but for some reason every alliance vendor starts calling for guards whenever I want to do business with them :(

The point again is to buy extremely cheap items/recipes from the vendors listed below and relist them for 30-300g each in the Auction House. Items like vanishing powder should be listed for less. Let's say 1-5g each.

Most of them costs only a few copper or silver coins, so the profit is huge - provided you have the patience to sell them! Some recipes are limited and might not be for sale 24/7. To see an NPC's location, click on their name.

Undercity

Millie Gregorian
Pattern: Tuxedo Shirt
Pattern: Tuxedo Jacket
Pattern: Tuxedo Pants
Pattern: Greater Adept's Robe
Pattern: Red Woolen Bag

Lizbeth Cromwell
Recipe: Rockscale Cod
Recipe: Mithril Head Trout
Recipe: Brilliant Smallfish
Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper

Thaddeus Webb
Formula: Minor Wizard Oil
Formula: Minor Mana Oil
Formula: Lesser Wizard Oil
Strange Dust
Copper Rod
Enchanting Vellum

Ickabod Pimlen
Vanishing Powder
Dust of Disappearance (Should be crafted if you want to make profit with this)

Joseph Moore
Pattern: Barbaric Bracers
Pattern: Green Whelp Bracers

Felicia Doan
Design: The Jade Eye

Daniel Bartlett
Design: Amulet of the Moon

Ronald Burch
Recipe: Smoked Sagefish
Recipe: Sagefish Delight
Recipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish
Recipe: Rainbow Fin Albacore

Keep in mind that profession recipes can take ages to sell sometimes! If no one buys your recipe, it does not mean that the price is too high, but no one has needed it. 300g for a recipe is not too much. Only lower your prices if you are undercutted.

If you're wondering why I've listed items like Enchanting Vellum, give it a try selling them for 40x more than what you paid for and see for yourself :)

Turn 43 gold into 5000 gold

Cold's Gold Blogging Carnival
This post is written as part of Cold's Gold Blogging Carnival for March 2011

This method is the one that sparked my interest in some hardcore gold making. My goal has since been to reach the gold cap itself, and infact I did reach it before they raised the gold cap not long ago (It's a whopping million now, almost)!


It started when I needed to buy the Formula for Runed Arcanite Rod for my Enchanter... So I went to the AH and searched.. found one! Oh wait, it costs 500g and its a white recipe! Oh well, I have extra money to spare. Whoops! Leveling towards 300 enchanting ate all my gold on that character. Time to send more gold from my bank alt. "Brb!"

After a few minutes I'm back at the auction house with my enchanter. Guess what? It's not for sale anylonger! Expired? Someone bought it? Auction cancelled? Perhaps.

The Philosopher's Stone recipe is also a very good example!

(Costs 80 silver in Tanaris)

White recipes are sold by vendors usually and got me thinking, why not run a bit and get it myself from whoever sells it. Or even better, forget about enchanting and list it in AH for the same price that the previous seller did, or even a bit more, while it costs 2 gold and 40 silver on the vendor! Wotlk was released at this point and everyone wanted to level their professions on their new DKs so it didn't take more than 6 hours to sell the formula. 

Nowadays it can take even 48 hours to find a buyer - and more if someone is stealing your idea! *cough*

Limited Supply Run in Kalimdor

** Horde edition **

 (Sorry, no Alliance love today!)

The goal is to visit the following npcs and buy items that seem valuable, notably trade goods and profession recipes. Note that limited supply means that it's not certain that a vendor has the items available when you visit them. After that, visit the Auction House and list the items for sale once again. I usually sell them between 50-350g each. Some fish recipes sell for less than 10g though because they are so easily obtainable. Click on a name to see the locations!

It's recommended that you do this with a goblin so you get the exalted discount with all factions, even if you're not exalted!




Orgrimmar

Punra
Plans: Hardened Iron Shortsword

Suja
Recipe: Smoked Sagefish
Recipe: Sagefish Delight

Borya
Pattern: Blue Overalls
Pattern: Pink Mageweave Shirt
Pattern: Red Woolen Bag
Pattern: Blue Linen Vest
Pattern: Lavender Mageweave Shirt

Tamar
Pattern: Heavy Leather Ball

Sovik
Schematic: Red Firework
Schematic: Steam Tonk Controller

Brunda
Black Rose
Red Rose

Moraka
Dust of Disappearance
Vanishing Powder

Shankys
Recipe: Rainbow Fin Albacore
Recipe: Rockscale Cod
Recipe: Mithril Head Trout

Hagrus
Recipe: Rage Potion
Recipe: Great Rage Potion



Northern Barrens

Zargh
Recipe: Hot Lion Chops

Nargal Deatheye
Feral Blade

Tari'qa
Recipe: Strider Stew
Recipe: Crispy Lizard Tail



Southern Barrens

Murhane
Medium Leather
Heavy Leather



Tanaris

Alchemist Pestlezugg
Recipe: Philosopher's Stone
Recipe: Transmute Mithril to Truesilver
Recipe: Transmute Iron to Gold
Recipe: Transmute Arcanite

Blizrik Buckshot
Schematic: EZ-thro Dynamite II

Haughty Modiste
Pattern: Haliscan Jacket
Pattern: Haliscan Pantaloons
Pattern: Dress Shoes

Krinkle Goodsteel
Plans: Golden Scale Coif

Dirge Quikcleave
Recipe: Tender Wolf Steak



Un'goro Crater

Nergal
Pattern: Devilsaur Gauntlets



Silithus

Kania
Recipe: Lesser Mana Oil
Recipe: Wizard Oil

Mishta
Design: Emerald Crown of Destruction



Feralas

Sheendra Tallgrass
Recipe: Mighfish Steak
Recipe: Lobster Stew
Recipe: Baked Salmon
Recipe: Hot Wolf Ribs

Bronk
Recipe: Ghost Dye
Recipe: Nature Protection Potion


Jangdor Swiftstrider
Pattern: Living Shoulders
Pattern: Green Whelp Bracers
Pattern: Turtle Scale Gloves



Thunder Bluff

Naal Mistrunner
Recipe: Longjaw Mudsnapper
Recipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish

Nata Dawnstrider
Formula: Enchant Boots - Minor Agility
Formula: Enchant 2H weapon - Lesser Intellect

Mahu
Pattern: Red Woolen Bag
Pattern: White Wedding Dress
Pattern: Orange Martial Shirt
Pattern: Red Linen Bag
Kuja's Gold Mine

Shadi Mistrunner
Design: Opal Necklace of Impact



Desolace

Kireena
Design: Blazing Citrine Ring
Recipe: Heavy Kodo Stew
Pattern: Azure Silk Gloves
Recipe: Carrion Surprise

Muuran
Plans: Solid Iron Maul


Stonetalon Mountains

Kulwia
Formula: Enchant Cloak - Minor Agility
Formula: Enchant Bracer - Lesser Strength


Winterspring

Evie Whirlbrew

Living Action Potion

Xizzer Fizzbolt
Schematic: Fused Wiring
Schematic: Expert's Training Dummy
Schematic: Powerful Seaforium Charge
Schematic: Delicate Arcanite Converter
Schematic: Gyrofreeze Ice Reflector

Himmik
Recipe: Monster Omelet


Qia
Design: Necklace of the Diamond Tower
Pattern: Mooncloth
Pattern: Runecloth Bag



Moonglade

Lorelae Wintersong
Formula: Runed Arcanite Rod





Item not selling?
Are you the only person selling it? If yes, just give it more time. If not, reduce the price!

Over 3000g in less than 10 minutes

Since Outland is basically deserted now due to the portal removals, you can abuse it's contents and specifically it's vendor's limited quantity goods. This however is not recommended to be done multiple times in a day as you will be selling recipes in the auction house. One run in a week is enough usually, depending on how fast your items sell. There are lots of different vendors, but I will list the ones that have made me the best profit first. Note that realm population affects prices!

I will create a video later on that shows the rest of the vendors aswell, almost doubling your profit!

Click on a name to see a vendor's location and other info.


Shattrath


Skreah <Alchemy Supplies>

 




 

Sells: 

Recipe: Primal Might - AH value: 300g




Madame Ruby <Enchanting Supplies>

Sells:
Formula: Enchant Shield - Major Stamina - AH value: 60g
Formula: Large Prismatic Shard - AH value: 150g
Formula: Runed Eternium Rod - AH value: 100g
Formula: Superior Mana Oil - AH value: 25g
Formula: Superior Wizard Oil - AH value: 50g

Aaron Hollman <Blacksmithing Supplies>

Sells:
Plans: Adamantite Maul - AH value: 40g
Plans: Adamantite Rod - AH value: 80g
Plans: Adamantite Dagger - AH value: 40g
Plans: Adamantite Rapier - AH value: 40g
Plans: Adamantite Cleaver - AH value: 40g


 Viggz Shinesparked <Engineering Supplies>

  






Sells:
Schematic: Adamantite Rifle - AH value: 40g
Schematic: Fused Wiring - AH value: 80g
Handful of Fel Iron Bolts - AH value: 7g
White Smoke Flare - AH value: 1g



Wind Trader Lathrai

Sells:
Schematic: Fel Iron Toolbox - AH value: 20g
Schematic: White Smoke Flare - AH value: 130g



Blade's Edge Mountains

Daga Ramba <Potions> (Horde)
Alliance relative: Haalrun <Alchemy Supplies>

 

Sells:
Recipe: Major Dreamless Sleep Potion - AH value: 120g
Recipe: Elixir of Major Defense - AH value: 130g
Recipe: Super Mana Potion - AH value: 200g


Netherstorm

Qiff <Engineering Supplies>

Sells:
Adamantite Frame - AH value: 30g
Fel Iron Casing - AH value: 30g
Felsteel Stabilizer - AH value: 120g (Rare)
Green Smoke Flare - AH value: 1g
Handful of Fel Iron Bolts - AH value: 7g
Khorium Power Core - AH value: 600g (Rare)
White Smoke Flare - AH value: 1g

 

Dealer Rashaad <Exotic Creatures>

 




Sells:
Parrot Cage (Senegal) - AH value: 50g
Cat Carrier (Siamese) - AH value: 90g
Cocroach - AH value: 30g
Crimson Snake - AH value: 20g
Brown Rabbit Crate - AH value: 130g
Red Moth Egg - AH value: 150g
Blue Dragonhawk Hatchling - AH value: 100g
Mana Wyrmling - Ah value: 150g

Dealer Najeeb <Spare Parts>

Sells:
Adamantite Frame - AH value: 30g
Handful of Fel Iron Bolts - AH value: 7g
Hardened Adamantite Tube - AH value: 100g
Motes - AH value 1-10g



Grand totals:

Time spent: 7 minutes
Gold spent: Less than 200g
Gold made (Assuming everything is available and no one is undercutting): 3355g
Time it takes to sell everything: 3-7 days