Make a fortune off twinks with little investment when cata hits

[Kazin420]

I've been twinking/playing the AH for quite a long time, and in my experience, there is no better market to corner in the AH than the twinking economy. Why do you ask? First of all, low item levels means low deposits, so if your stuff doesnt sell first time around, its all good. However, the main reason why its so amazing, is because its the only market where you can FREQUENTLY find INSANE bargains because people frankly dont know what they have.

I cant tell you how many times I've bought Wranglers wristbands of power/stam/monkey for 25s (worth 1kg to the right twink) or 9/9 pathfinder hats for a couple gold. Heck, I got my one and only shadowfang for under 100g and sold for over 5k. It happens all the time when you know what to look for.

When cata hits, 2 major things will change in the world of twinking. First of all, twinking will be coming back in full force. Right now, twinks have to migrate to their brackets home BG in order to get exp off games. (19 & 49 ruin, 29 reckoning, 39 nightfall in the US) With the BG merger in cata, twinks will be able to play with other twinks from every bg, so the numbers will shoot through the roof hence driving prices up. The second major change (where the real $$$ come in) is that they're changing a ton of the lower level items and making many currently "noob" items BIS. As long as you know what to buy and hold on to, you'll make an EPIC TON OF GOLD come cata with very little investment.

Without further ado, this is what you need to get your hands on:

19's:
Razor's Edge (currently very inexpensive)
Darkweave Breeches (not best profit margin, but buy if you see cheap)
Gloves of the Fang
Feet of the Lynx (everyone is going to want these)
Bronze Band of Force (crafted, but will likely be bis for a couple classes)
Mindthrust Bracers

29's:
Enduring Cap (this will also 100x in value)
Silver-Lined Belt (currently incredibly inexpensive will be bis)
Glowing Magical Bracelets
Resilient Cap (currently worth nothing, will be amazing for a TON of classes)
Shadow Hood (craftable, but about to become awesome for fc twinks)
Resilient Robe (currently worthless green, about to get huge boost)
Magician's Mantle
Tribal Worg Helm (this will 100x in value)
Forest Tracker Epaulets (already expensive, so not best profit margin, but buy if cheap)
Claw of the Shadowmancer (rogues are about to get shadowstep, so expect a lot of dagger rogues. This will be better than torturing poker come cata, since the poker is getting the nerf shaft)

Not too sure about the 39 & 49 changes just yet, but I'll look into it, and I'll be updating this thread any time I see new gold opportunities in the twinking market, or further changes to items pertinent to twinking.

Hope you enjoyed the guide, and happy gold making :wave:

Disclaimer: Much like most cataclysm threads this is subject to change, since everything isnt out yet to view. Regardless, of whether or not all these items will be best in slot for twinks, many of them will, and all of these will definitely be getting better.

Edit: added some stuff

[noes]

I bought some Razor edges, lets see if this pay off +Rep

[HunterHero]

Have just bought most of your list (: Can't wait, +rep alraedy (;

[cloud070]

no one makes twinks anymore and if for some dumb reason someone did they would just use BOA weps.....

[ClearFlare]

no one makes twinks anymore and if for some dumb reason someone did they would just use BOA weps.....

So did you not read, or are you that ignorant?

Great guide tbh!

[shindaustin]

-19 Ruin twink myself. I have already started
+rep!

[Kazin420]

no one makes twinks anymore and if for some dumb reason someone did they would just use BOA weps.....

I'll just ignore the part about no one twinking anymore, since that is obviously a ludicrous statement considering 19s, 29,s 39,s and 49s are getting consistent wsg pops.

The really funny part is you inferring that twinks would only use boa weapons. Sure, some of them are bis for some specs, but some of the highest price items in twinking are weapons that are better than the BoA. Look at shadowfang, which (before the announcement of its nerf) was going for over 10k in some cases. Pendulum of Doom can go for as much as 35k. What happens if you cant afford a Shadowfang? You use Cruel Barb, another non BoA.

There are a plethora of twink items that blow the boa's out of the water for each twink bracket. 19s have cruel barb, shadowfang, assassins blade, venomstrike, tunic of westfall, to name a few. 29s, master hunter rifle, torturing poker, raptor hunter tunic, robes of arugal, (off the top of my head) I would go into 39s and 49s but I think I made my point.

You must really dislike twinks a lot considering you have 12 posts since 08, and you dedicated one of them to your uninformed twink haterade. Where did the bad twink touch you?

[d1shes]

This is great, I'd love to see you post some 39 items aswell, +repz for you

[Mike3667]

A lot of these items are 150g+ on my server.. QQ

[Vyre]

A lot of these items are 150g+ on my server.. QQ

When cata hits, if your server is big, you can easily sell them for around 500 gold, since it might get easier to get gold, and it's so easy to get gold already, that people have lots of it, so they can easily use that many gold on their twinks, 150g is EXTREMELY cheap, so i advice you to buy them all and save them, then cross fingers. It's always a risk playing with the AH, and very server dependant, but that's pretty cheap.

[Kazin420]

A lot of these items are 150g+ on my server.. QQ

There are actually a few of these items that you would still make a solid profit on even at that price. I would only spend that much on:
Darkweave Breeches
Feet of the Lynx
Forest Tracker Epaulets
Glowing Magical Bracelets
and potentially Enduring Cap (although slightly more iffy. could be insanely pricy though depending on other changes to druids/shams in the upcoming months)

[Sklug]

This is fantastic insight... I just bought a ton of these items, thx!

[chriahs]

I got about 5 bank tabs full of items that are going to sky rocket when Cataclysm hits.

*Thinks to self*
Wonder if i should tell anyone my about how ill payday it will be extremely less and ill most likely get 1000 views and 2 comments and lose out on 30k gold.
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Not to worry ill make your post worth it +Rep

[xipwnedux]

this wont work quite as well as you think. razor's edge appears to have little to no change in cata and is not something anyone would want. darkweave breaches look as if they will still suck as well. gloves of the fang are too easily farmed. you hit it straight with the feet of the lynx, these will become muuuch more attractive when 1agi=2ap in cata for rogues. and the bronze band, you said it in the OP, its crafted.
and when you say "I cant tell you how many times I've bought Wranglers wristbands of power/stam/monkey for 25s (worth 1kg to the right twink)", this is true, but only when the stats are perfect. 8 ap or 3/2 stats wranglers wristbands will never cut it and wont get you that 1kg. needless to say, the 10 ap and 3/3 wranglers are much more rare and harder to find.

ps: if you sold a shadowfang for only 5k then you got kind of ripped off =\ they can go for up to 10k.

[surreall]

Great list, but you're forgetting that weapons probably won't be all the hype because of the heirlooms. It saddens me really because I have 4x Shadowfang's and 1x Assassins Blade. I wonder if they'll change these when cataclysm hits. Items like Mindthrust bracers will make bank though, also will the shields and Prospectors axe.