If you’ve read my article on WoW Auctioneer, you’re probably wondering about the most profitable items you can buy and relist at the auction house. Here are some items I buy and sell that help me make me over 1,500 gold a week.
Herbs
Especially herbs needed in potions used by raiding guilds and lower level herbs used by players leveling up alchemy skill for their alts. Farming and selling low level herbs (especially Briarthorn) is a very good way to use WoW Auctioneer to earn gold if you’re a lower level player.
Enchanting Components
The great thing about enchanting supplies (Strange Dust, Mystic Essence, etc.) is that there’s no listing fee associated with them so auctioning them off is free. Enchanters always need more components and typically have plenty of gold to spend on them. In fact, one of the best advanced strategies I use involves buying low demand magic items (like swords with bonuses to Spirit) for very low prices, disenchanting, then selling the resulting components for big profits.
Quest Items
Another set of items with no listing fees and high profit potential are quest items. One of my favorite gold making strategies and World of Warcraft mining tips is to farm Bloodstone Ore (needed for a 30s level quest) and sell it at auction for 20 to 30 silver each. Considering the quest rewards over 3000 experience, most players are willing to spend a gold to just buy the materials (four ore are need for the quest) instead of going through the hassle of gettting the quest items themselves.
Many World of Warcraft players will tell you that the easiest way to make gold is to gather raw materials and sell them in the auction house. I used to believe that too…before WoW Auctioneer.
Don’t get me wrong, raw material wholesaling isn’t a bad way to make a little gold but mining, skinning, and herb gathering can only take you so far. The amount of gold you can make is limited by how much time you can afford to spend hunting down resources.
If you’re trying to level, do things with your guild, or just relax while you play then you really don’t have the time or will to spend hours a day competing with everyone else for the rare resources that sell well in the auction house.
Enter WoW Auctioneer. Auctioneer is a free user interface add on that tracks items and auctions for WoW. It’s completely legal, well within Blizzard’s terms of service, and is literally a gold minting machine! In a nutshell, Auctioneer does a complete scan of the auction house when you visit and stores bid and buyout prices for every item being auctioned. After an item has been seen enough times at auction, WoW Auctioneer can give you a very accurate average price that the item sells for.
One of the best decisions Blizzard made when programming World of Warcraft was to open the user interface (UI) to allow players to create custom modules that can display various information about the world in new and creative ways.
World of Warcraft add ons let anyone with a little programming knowledge remake the interface of the game into their vision of what it should be and allow the rest of us easy access to tons of great information that wouldn’t otherwise be as easily available.
First, just in case you’re worried about violating the WoW terms of service for using add-ons, let me assure you that Blizzard has absolutely no problem with players using them. They won’t help you troubleshoot problems with add-ons should you install one that doesn’t work right but you’re free to use as many as you want to!
Here’s a top ten list of what I’ve found to be the most useful WoW add-ons:
Notice that this screenshot was taken before the other items in the backpack were auctioned off. In fact, this character is at the gold limit so these items need to be mailed to another character to auction because he can't hold any more gold.
I can make this kind of gold because I know what to farm, where to farm it, and what to buy and sell at the auction house for maximum profits in minimum time.