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[WoW] Workin' for the Weekend: The Profession Thread

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Imagine an alternate universe...
    Kainy wrote: »
    I always thought that the reason you raided was because you wanted to, not because it transforms you into a GM who is constantly being sexed in and out of game once you get max tier epics.

    Seriously, anyone who has the question "WUTS IN IT FOAR ME?" should just not be raiding.

    forty on
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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    To be fair, I raid because I want to. The epics are neat (and they help further raiding), but I was seriously considering quitting WoW, then my guild pulled me into a raid I thought I was too late for and I had the time of my damn life. The only other time I play is to farm enough consumables to raid the next week.

    I'm just saying that we should expect that there are going to be more reasons for doing things than why we do them, and acting like ours is the only reason is both childish and useless.

    Imperfect on
  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    forty wrote: »
    End wrote: »
    forty wrote: »
    I don't think there is a more time-efficient gold generation method in the game than that.

    Dunno, the travel time for the daily kinda hurts it a lot, if you're doing it in isolation.
    ~10-15 minutes for 400 gold? How do you beat that?

    Prospecting/Cutting. Never leave the AH floor except to go to the mailbox.

    I expect my advantage to reduce somewhat when 3.0.8 hits.

    End on
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  • rizriz Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Eternal life seems to fluctuate WILDLY on my server. One day it's 11g, the next 70g... Probably has been to do with the supply/demand in accordance with Darkmoon Faire timing.

    riz on
  • reVersereVerse Attack and Dethrone God Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    riz wrote: »
    Eternal life seems to fluctuate WILDLY on my server. One day it's 11g, the next 70g... Probably has been to do with the supply/demand in accordance with Darkmoon Faire timing.

    Yeah, it's the same on my realm. Right now they're going just above 20g, but in the past they've been priced at the high 60s. A smarter person would buy the cheapy cheapos now and sell them for big profit when the price goes up again. But alas, i r not tat smrt.

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  • frylockedfrylocked Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    reVerse wrote: »
    riz wrote: »
    Eternal life seems to fluctuate WILDLY on my server. One day it's 11g, the next 70g... Probably has been to do with the supply/demand in accordance with Darkmoon Faire timing.

    Yeah, it's the same on my realm. Right now they're going just above 20g, but in the past they've been priced at the high 60s. A smarter person would buy the cheapy cheapos now and sell them for big profit when the price goes up again. But alas, i r not tat smrt.

    Does the faire have a eternal life turn in for tickets or somesuch?

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I believe Life are used for making the new Northrend cards, thus, when the card demand is high (such as during Faire time), I imagine life demand skyrockets.

    That said, I could be mistaken.

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  • frylockedfrylocked Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Yea people on my server go crazy for nobles cards. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 1400 for ONE card.

    D:

    Edit: I realize that greatness is an awesome trinket and most likely best in slot... but still...

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  • SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Same on my server, too. And by "most likely", you mean "is unquestionably". Well, depending on class/spec, at least. Retribution can't get a better trinket until later patches.

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  • frylockedfrylocked Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    SabreMau wrote: »
    Same on my server, too. And by "most likely", you mean "is unquestionably". Well, depending on class/spec, at least. Retribution can't get a better trinket until later patches.

    For melee dps, it is best in slot. Not sure about healers / magical dps.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    End wrote: »
    forty wrote: »
    End wrote: »
    forty wrote: »
    I don't think there is a more time-efficient gold generation method in the game than that.

    Dunno, the travel time for the daily kinda hurts it a lot, if you're doing it in isolation.
    ~10-15 minutes for 400 gold? How do you beat that?

    Prospecting/Cutting. Never leave the AH floor except to go to the mailbox.

    I expect my advantage to reduce somewhat when 3.0.8 hits.
    Dragon's Eyes are still less effort.

    forty on
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  • TheEmergedTheEmerged Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I think the whole "Blizzard overcorrected" argument has become the catchphrase of this expansion.

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  • KainyKainy Pimpin' and righteous Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    forty wrote: »
    Imagine an alternate universe...
    Kainy wrote: »
    I always thought that the reason you raided was because you wanted to, not because it transforms you into a GM who is constantly being sexed in and out of game once you get max tier epics.

    Seriously, anyone who has the question "WUTS IN IT FOAR ME?" should just not be raiding.

    I like your version quite a bit :lol:

    I rather like the current system of each tradeskill giving buffs that can be done without.

    Then again, my opinion of what can be done without is somewhat suspect. The first time our guild downed The Four Horsemen, we did it with 8 people, only 2 of whom were healers. A rogue threw knives at one of the horsemen to kill time while sucking up bolts. There's definitely a reason they're not in the dedicated few achievement :P

    Kainy on
    IcyLiquid wrote: »
    There's anti-fuckery code in there now :) Sorry :)
  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    forty wrote: »
    End wrote: »
    forty wrote: »
    End wrote: »
    forty wrote: »
    I don't think there is a more time-efficient gold generation method in the game than that.

    Dunno, the travel time for the daily kinda hurts it a lot, if you're doing it in isolation.
    ~10-15 minutes for 400 gold? How do you beat that?

    Prospecting/Cutting. Never leave the AH floor except to go to the mailbox.

    I expect my advantage to reduce somewhat when 3.0.8 hits.
    Dragon's Eyes are still less effort.

    Less money too.

    Also, you'd think I'd know it by now, but I still don't know which mobs follow the rules for dropping the JC items or not. I killed a few dozen vyrkul in icecrown before I gave up and went to grizzley hills (fuck the overcamped vyrkul in storm peaks).

    Either way, I do get my tokens, but I think Dragon's Eyes are a waste of tokens when you can buy eyes off of the AH. I value tokens higher than the gold, oddly enough.

    End on
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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    End wrote: »
    Either way, I do get my tokens, but I think Dragon's Eyes are a waste of tokens when you can buy eyes off of the AH. I value tokens higher than the gold, oddly enough.

    So do I, and so do lots of other people I'm sure, but it won't stay that way for long. I've been doing the JC daily almost every day, and fairly soon I'll have purchased all the patterns that I want or need. I would rather sell eyes now and get a better return on them, than wait for more people to max out their JC and stop needing to buy cuts.-

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  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Yeah, I know what you mean. Unfortunately there's still 4 or 5 cuts people are bugging me about, and that's even with me not missing a token since I hit 80. :x

    I'm surprised how much the price on eyes is dropping already, and unless I start selling eyes now I probably won't care that much about selling them anyway...

    End on
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  • GPIA7RGPIA7R Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I only just discovered the lucritive process of selling high-level Enchanting scrolls. I'm pumping out "Enchant Chest - Super Stats" and other early Northrend enchants (and late BC) for amounts upwards of 150-200g each. My inscriber levels on Armor Vellum III, my enchanter levels on the creation of the scrolls, as well as the DE'ing of the tailored goods to get the mats.

    Making money with professions.... Who would have thought?

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    As a leatherworker, I hope you die.

    Suffocating on all that money.

    </3

    Imperfect on
  • willmannyeatthatwillmannyeatthat Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Dyscord wrote: »
    End wrote: »
    Either way, I do get my tokens, but I think Dragon's Eyes are a waste of tokens when you can buy eyes off of the AH. I value tokens higher than the gold, oddly enough.

    So do I, and so do lots of other people I'm sure, but it won't stay that way for long. I've been doing the JC daily almost every day, and fairly soon I'll have purchased all the patterns that I want or need. I would rather sell eyes now and get a better return on them, than wait for more people to max out their JC and stop needing to buy cuts.-

    Yea, I know that eventually I will have all the designs later on, but at level 74, buying the designs now is not worth it. Better to get all that gold as I level, thanks to you guys.
    As a leatherworker, I hope you die.

    Suffocating on all that money.

    </3

    I take at least two gold coin baths a day.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    End wrote: »
    forty wrote: »
    End wrote: »
    forty wrote: »
    End wrote: »
    forty wrote: »
    I don't think there is a more time-efficient gold generation method in the game than that.

    Dunno, the travel time for the daily kinda hurts it a lot, if you're doing it in isolation.
    ~10-15 minutes for 400 gold? How do you beat that?

    Prospecting/Cutting. Never leave the AH floor except to go to the mailbox.

    I expect my advantage to reduce somewhat when 3.0.8 hits.
    Dragon's Eyes are still less effort.

    Less money too.
    But which has the higher money to effort ratio!?

    SIR, I POSIT THAT IT IS DRAGON'S EYES!

    forty on
    Officially the unluckiest CCG player ever.
  • flammiebcflammiebc Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I wish I could get in on easy dailies, but my shaman's only 64 :/

    So in the meantime, I've been selling glyphs on Silvermoon thanks to the power of auctioneer and the holiday season; been moving 30-40 a day, and when the cheapest ones are 10g...I expect to have epic flyer money before I get to 70 :D

    If only I knew a good enchanter, I don't bother making vellums at the moment since the IIIs only go for 8ish gold.

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  • gigawatt666gigawatt666 Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    today I discovered the Recipe for a Potion of Wild Magic.

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  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Imperfect wrote: »
    As a leatherworker, I hope you die.

    Suffocating on all that money.

    </3

    They should have made it so inscription requires a piece of leather to write the inscription down on.

    It causes me physical pain when my druid, who's done leather since release, puts a stack up for 3 gold and it expires.

    But my herbalism dude can throw up a stack of any random herb from any zone in the game for 10 gold and it sells before I leave the AH.

    xzzy on
  • GPIA7RGPIA7R Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    xzzy wrote: »
    Imperfect wrote: »
    As a leatherworker, I hope you die.

    Suffocating on all that money.

    </3

    They should have made it so inscription requires a piece of leather to write the inscription down on.

    It causes me physical pain when my druid, who's done leather since release, puts a stack up for 3 gold and it expires.

    But my herbalism dude can throw up a stack of any random herb from any zone in the game for 10 gold and it sells before I leave the AH.

    Maybe LW'ers will be able to "add slots" to bags later on... that'd be useful! Oh, and I only recently saw what LW'ers can make themselves... those freakin' awesome self-only leather patches with high AP or spell power. Nice stuff.

    GPIA7R on
  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    xzzy wrote: »
    Imperfect wrote: »
    As a leatherworker, I hope you die.

    Suffocating on all that money.

    </3

    They should have made it so inscription requires a piece of leather to write the inscription down on.

    It causes me physical pain when my druid, who's done leather since release, puts a stack up for 3 gold and it expires.

    But my herbalism dude can throw up a stack of any random herb from any zone in the game for 10 gold and it sells before I leave the AH.
    Make armor kits out of them and sell the kits?

    forty on
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  • xzzyxzzy Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    forty wrote: »
    Make armor kits out of them and sell the kits?

    I guess that's a valid response. ;)

    I'm kind of down on the whole producing part of tradeskills these days, it just doesn't seem like a good investment when I can run around farming herbs and ore to earn a few hundred gold every night.. allowing me more than enough cash to buy what I end up needing.

    xzzy on
  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    forty wrote: »
    End wrote: »
    forty wrote: »
    End wrote: »
    forty wrote: »
    End wrote: »
    forty wrote: »
    I don't think there is a more time-efficient gold generation method in the game than that.

    Dunno, the travel time for the daily kinda hurts it a lot, if you're doing it in isolation.
    ~10-15 minutes for 400 gold? How do you beat that?

    Prospecting/Cutting. Never leave the AH floor except to go to the mailbox.

    I expect my advantage to reduce somewhat when 3.0.8 hits.
    Dragon's Eyes are still less effort.

    Less money too.
    But which has the higher money to effort ratio!?

    SIR, I POSIT THAT IT IS DRAGON'S EYES!

    Quite possibly, but effort is hard to quantify. We could measure time, but that takes too much effort to figure out.

    End on
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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I would, personally, like to smack each an every one of the leatherworkers who are complaining. You guys don't have anything on enchanting. Enchanting can make money, sure. If you have the time grind quests or hunt the AH for cheap greens. Then waiting a couple of days for your 30% to 50% undercut scroll to sell because everyone else is selling them for that much.

    Not to mention the fact that higher level enchanting mat reqs need an absurd amount of great essences and infinite dust, both of which sell for 20 gold on up each at the AH. At skill 425, I have no enchants with skillup potential (excluding greens) that require less than 15 infinite dust and 4 greater essences. None of the orange ones require less than 20 infinite dust and 8 essences. Doing the math (and these are extremely rough numbers, some will be higher and lower) that's about 560 gold per enchant. And they definitely won't sell for that much.

    Enchanting can only make money if you're incredibly lucky on greens at the AH or if you're getting the greens for free. Otherwise it's the biggest trade skill money sink in the game. Pretty sure even engineering can't hold a candle anymore.

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  • JJJJ DailyStormer Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I gave up aggressively leveling enchanting on my lock. I'm just interested in doing it just enough to DE.

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Cilla, I'm not crying out because Leatherworkers have the shit end of the stick, that's definitely Enchanters this time around. But it's still a boring and useless profession while Jewelcrafting gets to revel in the glory of being useful AND making tons of money and having interesting dailies and all kinds of sources of recipes to collect.

    The more I play of LK, the more of these annoying little rough edges I see. A great many professions just aren't very fun or worthwhile, while one (or maybe two, if you got in on inscription in the early days) are like a cake made of candy made of sex.

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  • PoketpixiePoketpixie Siege Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    This is why I have every profession(except leatherworking) on one alt or another. Anytime I need something I can usually make it myself...the downside is I don't always have all the recipes. The amount of rep grinding and stone keeper shard farming and god knows what else my jc has to do to get all the recipes makes me cry. Last expansion it was enchanting that needed a crap ton of farming/rep....this time it's jewelcrafting. I'm glad they've never added engineering recipes to the rep vendors. Makes my life a whole lot easier to be honest.

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  • khainkhain Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I would, personally, like to smack each an every one of the leatherworkers who are complaining. You guys don't have anything on enchanting. Enchanting can make money, sure. If you have the time grind quests or hunt the AH for cheap greens. Then waiting a couple of days for your 30% to 50% undercut scroll to sell because everyone else is selling them for that much.

    Not to mention the fact that higher level enchanting mat reqs need an absurd amount of great essences and infinite dust, both of which sell for 20 gold on up each at the AH. At skill 425, I have no enchants with skillup potential (excluding greens) that require less than 15 infinite dust and 4 greater essences. None of the orange ones require less than 20 infinite dust and 8 essences. Doing the math (and these are extremely rough numbers, some will be higher and lower) that's about 560 gold per enchant. And they definitely won't sell for that much.

    Enchanting can only make money if you're incredibly lucky on greens at the AH or if you're getting the greens for free. Otherwise it's the biggest trade skill money sink in the game. Pretty sure even engineering can't hold a candle anymore.

    You can make a ton of money by combining Enchanting with any profession that can make greens.

    khain on
  • Zephyranthes91Zephyranthes91 Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I still think that inscription was pretty shitty to level knowing that the only thing that can really make you money requires completely on luck (getting nobles cards, the other decks dont sell for shit), and the only major perk is shoulder enchants, badass as they are. Paired with herbing though it can make some decent money. I have a nice route in storm peaks that gets me Lichbloom which is selling for ~90g a stack on the AH and Icethorn i think which i mill for rare ink. I can get about 5 stacks of both in about an hours worth of farming.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    khain wrote: »
    I would, personally, like to smack each an every one of the leatherworkers who are complaining. You guys don't have anything on enchanting. Enchanting can make money, sure. If you have the time grind quests or hunt the AH for cheap greens. Then waiting a couple of days for your 30% to 50% undercut scroll to sell because everyone else is selling them for that much.

    Not to mention the fact that higher level enchanting mat reqs need an absurd amount of great essences and infinite dust, both of which sell for 20 gold on up each at the AH. At skill 425, I have no enchants with skillup potential (excluding greens) that require less than 15 infinite dust and 4 greater essences. None of the orange ones require less than 20 infinite dust and 8 essences. Doing the math (and these are extremely rough numbers, some will be higher and lower) that's about 560 gold per enchant. And they definitely won't sell for that much.

    Enchanting can only make money if you're incredibly lucky on greens at the AH or if you're getting the greens for free. Otherwise it's the biggest trade skill money sink in the game. Pretty sure even engineering can't hold a candle anymore.

    You can make a ton of money by combining Enchanting with any profession that can make greens.

    Honestly at this point, this statement is questionable at best. Enchanting will help you recoup some of the massive bath you take converting raw mats into the greens to skill up, but once that's no longer a concern it's hard ever going to be a good idea to turn raw cloth, leather or ore into dust via tradeskill.

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  • GPIA7RGPIA7R Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Levelling 5 different characters through Northrend helps... Every green goes to my enchanter, and I'm steadilly pumping out more 150-200+ gold scrolls and sending them to my auctioneer. I've never bought a green on the AH, and that just seems counter-productive. I've also never sat down and calculated the cost of everything... But I'm levelling EVERY skill in the entire process (tailoring, enchanting, inscribing)

    Armor Vellum 3 on AH is about 10g... but I can buy a stack of Ink of the Sea for 25g and pump out 20 vellums... about 60s for the resilient paper, each. No contest there. I've got tons of Northrend herbs on my alchemist, but I'd rather save those for Alchemy until I really need them. Hell, I even have hundreds of Outland herbs standing by incase I need them for something

    Now tailoring.. I get steady-enough cloth from the cloth scavenging on my shadow priest (tailor/enchanter). She's currently levelling through Northrend on her own, so every green is another step closer to another scroll... which will level me, which will level tailoring, which will make more dusts. I've got more of the blue gems than I do dust because I have no enchants that use gems yet!

    So now I'm floating around 5k gold (never had that much before, at least since I bought epic flying in the past and never played that character again...) and set a short-term goal for 10k by the end of Sunday. I think it's very reachable, as I pulled in about 1k last night on scrolls alone, and put up another 5 before I went to bed. Even then, I stopped selling inscriptions, which were also making pure profit (negligable herbs creating those Glyph of Death Strike, about 20g each)

    I've got every profession capped, some multiples (two engineers, two miners), but I'm too focussed on enchanting now. Enchanters have had it rough since Vanilla day 1... it was never profitable, NO ONE bought enchants while you were levelling up... and now it's finally profitable (but forces you to rely on other trades to make it so). They did it right with enchanting in the last content patch... It still takes a lot of work (ungodly amounts of mats), but it benefits other professions (if you don't have them yourself).

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  • a penguina penguin Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    So what scrolls are selling well for you? I read Super Stats to Chest earlier, anything else tend to sell without issue? Spellpower to bracers and weapon?

    I tossed up a scroll of +35 Agility to 2-hander yesterday (I had made it for my Druid alt, but decided to try and hock it instead).

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  • GPIA7RGPIA7R Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Right now, Super Stats is very efficient to enchant and sells very well. I just learned some new ones (50 AP to weapon, for example) that sell higher and don't require a lot of mats... but I haven't made an Eternium Rod yet (old guild master left me a full guild bank with craptons of stuff, including lots of eternium, so that shouldn't be a problem). I haven't looked forward into the Enchanting tree too far (I like to be surprised XD ), so I'm not sure what's going to sell well in the future. I can only imagine it getting higher, though... But I can also see these prices I'm pulling going down much like inscribing did.

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  • a penguina penguin Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Well, from my AH searching, I think I could have a corner on the market right now. We'll see how that pans out.

    I can do the new Savagery enchant, so I'll pump out a couple of those. From what I've read, come the patch the new hotness will be Stamina to weapon.

    Cool man, thanks for the advice. I'll start pumping out Super Stats and warm up the tub for my impending gold baths.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Imperfect wrote: »
    Cilla, I'm not crying out because Leatherworkers have the shit end of the stick, that's definitely Tailors this time around.

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  • frylockedfrylocked Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Dont forget engineers. They get the shaft so much, I think most of them have gotten used to it.

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