The Trading Post Shuffle: How to turn your alt's garrisons into gold

[TehGoggles]

Hello everyone, it's been years since I've contributed anything worthwhile. But today, that changes. I bring to you, the guide on Trading Post Shuffling.

Disclaimer: This isn't a quick 100k over night guide. It requires patience. It takes time to set up and there's only so much gold you can earn daily through this.However the more work you put into it the more gold you'll get daily. It's all dependent on how many of your alts you get to draneor to unlock their level 2 garrisons - possibly farther than that to unlock all level 2 buildings. That's up to you. But once you set up it's been some of the easiest/laziest gold you'll ever make.

With that being said - Here's the guide.


As many of you know, Blizzard really changes thing around this expansion in regards to professions. Everything is wrapped around daily cool downs and work orders. They killed shuffling in the way that we know it. You can't prospect the new ore, nor are there any recipes that turn one basic crafting material into another. You can't turn green gems you got through prospecting into rings into dust anymore for example. But there is one glimer of hope, the medium sized building - the trading post.

That trading post is a medium plot building that allows you to turn basic materials (such as ore, herbs, dust) into garrison resources through work orders. Each day you will be allowed to trade in a certain 5 basic materials (As of today it's Talador Orchid) into 30 garrison resources per work order. Every day it changes, so tomorrow it could be Draneic Dust or Fire weed or whatever. Also Every day a random trader will visit the trading post and allow to to exchange garrison resources for basic materials. The prices of these materials change depending on the vendor. One guy might sell Ore for 50 garrison resources for 5 and herbs for 20 garrison resources for 5.

The name of the game is to get as many of your 90 far enough through the first questing zone to unlock the level 2 garrison, which will allow you to unlock a medium plot building. Once you get good at it, it only really takes about an hour and a half to two hours per character- My rogue got it done in about an hour because BoS is OP. Leveling a character past that and hitting talador to unlock all level 2 garrison buildings might be worth your while as well - it will increase your profits daily, however that's up to you.

Once you do that, you wait. No seriously you wait. You have to keep a good eye out for the best deals. Basically you want to load up your work orders when the basic material is stupid cheap - Like ores or certain herbs. Then you stock the resources you get from them until a trader with a good deal comes to your garrison. (They are always located inside the trading post building.) So you would want to spend your garrison resources when the trader has meats for 20 resources for 5 or 20resourcs for 5 dust. So basically, you would be trading 5 blackrock ore (1g) to 5 Raw Boar's meat (50g+)

Then you can either sell the raw materials you get or shuffle them even further for bigger profits. You can turn the meat into potions to sell on raid night using the alchemy building or turn the dust into temporal crystals to make enchants. This is why the gold you make daily is dependent on your alts. You can't really do this on your main due to follower missions/upgrading. The more alts you have with good professions really boost the amount of gold you make daily.

I'm currently sitting on 4 alts all at 94 with the level 2 building s unlocked, and I've brought in a good 150k since launch. Once you get the swing of it and get it all set up, it only takes 20-30 minutes daily to keep up with it. That's it, hope you enjoy.


EDIT: http://www.wowhead.com/guide=2522/gu...s#trading-post Link to wowhead's guide on the trading post if your still unsure on what the trading post does.

[Grose]

What has been the best seller for you? I have so many scavengers that I'm almost resource capped, would love to know what to spend them on

[TehGoggles]

The meats (Boars, riverbeast, Talbuk) to be honest. They've been an easy market to corner and they've been selling for 20g each (. So I've basically been getting 100g for 1g on ore spent. Yesterday, I made a crapton of potions an hour before all the guilds on myserver starting to raid and was selling them for 900g a stack. I'm on a medium pop server however.

For horde, it's the male gobin wearing shadowcraft armor that sells meats for 20 resources each. I don't believe he is up today though. Dust/Enchants will start selling really well here now that raiding is starting.

[Makono]

Pretty sure they just nerfed this.

All the food mats now cost 50 resources per.

[UnholyMisery]

Pretty sure they just nerfed this.

All the food mats now cost 50 resources per.

Mate he said you have to wait until the vendor you get sells it for 20 resources.

[crizhayab]

I have so many scavengers that I'm almost resource capped

[PA-Boosts]

Pretty sure they just nerfed this.

All the food mats now cost 50 resources per.

Basically the "deals" that the trader offer changes each day.

Some days, the meat will go for 20 resources, other days the herbs might be cheaper, etc.

[Agapyr]

Basically the "deals" that the trader offer changes each day.

Some days, the meat will go for 20 resources, other days the herbs might be cheaper, etc.

QFT

You just have to be patient and wait until you get your desired mats for 20 resources. In that case it is basically a 1:1 trade.

[bobec1]

great guide +
actually did this before reading and yea the profit its great.
had so much mats i rulled the AH first day of raid

[2xtwinker]

Hello everyone, it's been years since I've contributed anything worthwhile. But today, that changes. I bring to you, the guide on Trading Post Shuffling.

Thank's a lot bby! +rep

[Justin Sams]

I assume this requires you to have a nice stash of garrison resources correct?

[Sklug]

I assume this requires you to have a nice stash of garrison resources correct?

Yes, but this really is not a problem once you get a Tier 3 garrison or have lots of alt garrisons because all you are doing is just collecting resources and not spending them anymore except on follower missions, which is hardly any of it. Before this shuffle I had 3-4k+ garrison resources on 4 alts already... This is awesome! +5 rep

[jsams22]

Yes, but this really is not a problem once you get a Tier 3 garrison or have lots of alt garrisons because all you are doing is just collecting resources and not spending them anymore except on follower missions, which is hardly any of it. Before this shuffle I had 3-4k+ garrison resources on 4 alts already... This is awesome! +5 rep

Gotcha, well I got rid of my lumber mill for the trading post. I just upgraded a lvl 3 barracks and only at 300 resources. Hopefully I will have enough when the low meet comes around.

Also, just to clarify. I should horde all my resources for the day that the follower has the meat for 20 resources, and buy as much? I thought I could trade ore for meat or something? I guess I didnt fully understand the whole "guide".
For instance, you buy or cheap off the AH and then trade that for Meat. Instead it looks like you would buy the ore cheap, use it for work orders, then use the resources from the work orders to buy the meat?

[TehGoggles]

Instead it looks like you would buy the ore cheap, use it for work orders, then use the resources from the work orders to buy the meat?

That is correct.However you do not want to spend your resources until the trader is the one who sells your desired material cheap (20 - 25 garrison resources)

Also, On my server at least it looks like riverbeast meat is going down in prices. The meats used for the dps potions are still selling strong (Boar, Talkbulk, and the one eel). Enchants will sell like hot cakes when LFR is introduced as well.So it might be worth while to trade in for dust and get a few enchanting buildings up.

[vianko]

great guide

but how to get 90-94 in 1-2 hours? :O impossible, any guide or exploit?