Showing posts with label Mysterious Fortune Card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mysterious Fortune Card. Show all posts

Sunday, January 2, 2011

JMTC Carnival: How I've Made Gold In Cataclysm

I Started Cataclysm with high hopes to make tons of gold, i didnt really get into making gold by playing the AH till about halfway through ICC so most of the markets i could get into were falling knives that i didnt want to catch. I eventually learned patience and was eager to use the knowledge i had gainedi n such a short amount of time.
Going into Cata i only had the items listed in my post Cataclysmic Stockpile and honestly it wasnt as much as i wanted. Well so far I have only gone through 2 bank tabs at the most and i've gained a combined total for my toons 110k in Cataclysm.

Over the duration of cata i have posted almost every way i've made gold

Mysterious Fortune Cards: My absolute favorite way to make gold. I love getting spammed with sold auctions after i use my barks. Some techniques i used to make gold in this area were massively buying cheap herbs to mill and barking a ton as posted in No Wonder My Dog Likes Barking. The most important thing i did in this market was raising the price. I kept the price relatively high around 50g each by planning the buyout of the entire market, i would wait until the majority would expire and i would then buy out the rest of the 48 hour posters and relist at 50-60g. This was very late at night when no other crafters were on, unsuring that i owned the market all night. I noticed that this was prime time for me because all of the fun players were on. I recieved tons of lols on my barks and thats what made this fun.

Glyphs: these were just the normal postings while i focused on cards, i stocked enough ink to push me for a long while and these would normally add a few K to my total daily profits.

Ore: I did some farming when i was bored staring at the AH screen and those would bring in about 180 a stack. I found some key areas to focus on and that really boosted daily profits.

Orbs: I didnt actually sell and epic crafted gear but i did manage to sell all of the orbs i got for 3k each. The customer would give me his mats, i would craft, and he would pay for how many orbs used, simple.

Truegold: The first weekend of Cata i was able to get some Truegold for 500g each! these relisted at 1k. My initial investment was to make epic pieces out of them, but that never happened.

Enchanting Mats: As abyss crystals got cheaper i got more stacks of them :) these easily turned profit via abyssal shatter because infinite dust and greater cosmic essence increased greatly in price.

Recently i have been buying up jaspers at 10g a piece and crafting the jasper rings out of them. the jasper rings DE to 1-3 Hypnotic Dust or 1-3 Lesser Celestial Essence. whenever i would recieve a 1 of soemthing it was really pushing it on profit but more time then not i recieved 2-3 of w/e bringing in more gold.

Stupidity in Netherweave: I sold off all of my bags extremely fast at around 9g each and i am scraping the bottom for cloth. I made the profit i wanted but there have been times when bags were up to 20g and i couldnt capitalize...so be it.

Prospecting: this barely makes me my 2 copper now because of low gem prices but early on this technique was damn good. I was only able to prospect obsidium ore but it was still well worth it. the strategy i used here was buy a stack, prospect it and calculate how much i would make if it all sold. i would then subtract that from what i spent on the stack. If i recieved a negative number, that was the profit. I was very conservative here, only prospecting a few stacks at a time.

Farming: I tried a few farming spots for cloth and volatiles but stuff like that just isnt for me, i always get flustered feeling like im racing a cloak. but if you dont get that feeling your wasting time, and time is money friend.

Setting Goals: I set a constant goal of making 10k every day. If i ever failed to meet that goal i would set a higher one. I have a weekend goal, a weekday goal, and my vacation goal to meet 200k. My vacation ends Wednesday and i am 25k away.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

No Wonder My Dog Likes Barking

You've seen a thousand posts about making money with Mysterious Fortune Cards, well this is just another one... But wait! dont go! I'm going to expand on Cold's Barking Tips and his barking post. The last few days i have really gotten into creative barking and here's why. Several people laugh at my posts and that increases the attention, which increases sales, which increases profit. Also i many people have told me that they buy extra cards simply because i take the time to type all of my barks and because they are creative. As a matter of fact people buy my cards over the undercutters just because i bark. I love barking. Here's some of the barks that i like to use and normally think of on the spot:
Note: some of these are for a mature audience and are great for trade lols