Ironpaw shuffle

[WizKhalifa610]

This is a brief guide to switching cooking ingredients in MoP. This is relevant to anyone working the auction house, since like ore shuffles, the value of cooking ingredients are now inter-related in a way that may not at first be apparent. For further context, I've also written a guide that covers the whole of MoP Cooking (with a slight fishing bias).

The Ironpaw Shuffle has pre-requsites to conduct yourself:

Level 85 with MoP. Everyone relevant to this is in Halfhill Market, in the Valley of the Four Winds, and everything is based on level-restricted quests and items.
Complete the introductory quests to all 6 cooking Ways (specialisations), which notably include delivering a few ingredients (details). These require 525 cooking.
Those unlock Nam Ironpaw's Preserving Freshness quest, which then becomes the repeatable quest, Replenishing the Pantry.


How Replenishing the Pantry works:

Take 1 stack of any one Pandarian cooking ingredient (exceptions below) and combine it with an Empty Container for that ingredient to make a bundle of groceries. Empty Containers are sold by Merchant Cheng for 1g 50s.
Complete Replenishing the Pantry with the groceries, gaining 1 Ironpaw Token per bundle of groceries (1 token per stack).
Use the Ironpaw Token to buy a Sack containing 5 (or 25 for vegetables) of any cooking ingredient (sold by Nam Ironpaw).


Exceptions: Golden Carp (Pandaria's trash fish) are bundled in 60s, not 20s like other fish/meat. Vegetables stack in 100s, not 20s. Only Pandaria-level (Zen Master) cooking ingredients can be combined into groceries, not ingredients sold by Sugshin Ironpaw (for 1-525 leveling).

So, aside from the exceptions, any 20 meat/fish or 100 vegetables can be converted into any 5 meat/fish or 25 vegetables, at the cost of 1g 50s and some mouse clicks. Note that "some mouse clicks" can become quite time-consuming/wrist-breaking if you plan to do this with hundreds of stacks.

It follows that if, ( price of stack of one ingredient + 1g 50s ) < ( price of stack of another ingredient / 4 ), then you should consider buying the first and converting it into the second.

Further, if you expect prices to switch over time, you can hedge into Ironpaw Tokens: Complete steps 1 and 2, but simply hold Ironpaw Tokens until you are ready to trade them in for Sacks. Clearly a very efficient use of inventory, since currency occupies no slots.

Afterthought: I should probably add that Ironpaw Tokens can also be used to buy other things, including 3 Token-only (but trade-able) ingredients: 100 Year Soy Sauce, Black Pepper and Rice Flour, for 1 Token each, which are used in all top-tier cooked food. So price considerations are slightly more complex, since they also need to factor in the auction house price of those 3 ingredients.

And finally there is one other repeatable source of Ironpaw Tokens - Spirit of Harmony vendors. But I can't foresee any situation in which it will be easier to gain 1 Spirit of Harmony (to buy 1 Ironpaw Token), than to gather ingredients for Replenishing the Pantry. The only case is (Ranch) farming, where the balance is 10x vegetable crops (5-8 vegetables each) vs 10x Songbell (1 Mote each), but that's only because Songbells are currently unbalanced in beta.

Credit goes to Elen at http://stormspire.net/consortium-qua...le-basics.html

[trashsk]

repost of repost of repost

[WizKhalifa610]

repost of repost of repost

From what I research this is not a repost, if you can provide evidence of a repost then please do, other than that it is not a repost

[Hydroxidelol]

Its a re-post of a re-post because its from the elite section. There is no way you would know, nor I except, I saw this before it was moved previously. Thanks for ruining my gold making :P

But on a serious note, thanks for trying to help, i noticed alot of OC members hate if its a re-post of something, Thanks for taking the time to make this guide and provide relevant and sufficient information - I say this on behalf of all the other people who did not know about this and do now.

[WizKhalifa610]

I am not even a elite so how would I know if it was in elite section

If you would like to to post in elite I will do, I don't mind

I just posted here so I can start gaining rep so I can get to elite

[Hydroxidelol]

I was implying, you wouldn't know , and neither am I. Only way ik is cuz i saw it before it was moved Was just saying that, thats all and good on you mate, nice to see your trying to help people. And not one of those people who buys his Elite Status (I believe you can) and then douches on everyone without helping anyone - ever.

[cooper101]

http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...-000-gold.html (Level from 85-90 in 4 hours + earn 500 000 gold)

Same idea just added the exp part to it. Buy mats cheap on ah trade them for ironpaw tokens and buy 100 yr old and black pepper and sell on ah but, at least ya tried to add some useful info to the fourms

[XGamerX]

its taken from
[MoP] Ironpaw Shuffle Basics

[WizKhalifa610]

its taken from
[MoP] Ironpaw Shuffle Basics

If you look at the bottom of the thread you will see that I gave credit -_-

[aamlord]

If you look at the bottom of the thread you will see that I gave credit -_-

And if you look at the bottom of your post:

Last edited by WizKhalifa610; 3 Hours Ago at 12:26 PM.

Same time as you made the post. Coincidence? I have no way of seeing the original unedited post so I can't tell if you did give credit or not before you edited it.

[WizKhalifa610]

The credit was there when post was made

[cooper101]

The credit was there when post was made

It really wasnt I remember seeing this post first day it was out when I posted a link for a repost there was no link to the other site giving any credit sorry man

[xxsamxx86]

There wasn't a link to where it came from but it did just say credit to Elen as i remember wondering who Elen was.

[tittypop]

so many douchebags on this website lolol

[Hydroxidelol]

The fact that you called yourself tittypop really does say it all.

Its better to say nothing, then something negative and something completely irrelevant