Potential gold making in light of 3.1

[Desta_Bawz]

Right, seeing as how PTRs are up and info started appearing on sites, here's a few things that might or might not be profitable. Most of the info comes from ************.com but I compiled it here for easy refference.

EDIT: Seems I can't post URLs to my source.

1. Glyphs. Lots of glyphs are getting buffed. It might be worth stacking for 3.1. Demand should increase because of 2 reasons:
a) dual spec, hence almost double demand for glyphs
b) glyphs that were previously okish or good now become great.

A few examples:
- Glyph of Heroic Strike -- Increases the critical strike chance of Heroic Strike by 5%. (Old: You gain 10 rage when you critically strike with your Heroic Strike ability.) looks to become pretty useful.

- Glyph of Sweeping Strikes -- Reduces the rage cost of your Sweeping Strikes ability by 100%. (Old: You generate 30 rage over 12 sec when you use your Sweeping Strikes ability.) - will perhaps become more useful for arenas?

- Glyph of Overpower -- Adds a 100% chance to enable your Overpower when your attacks are parried. (Old: 50%) got its effect doubled, looks really nice for PVP

- Glyph of Adrenaline Rush -- Increases the duration of Adrenaline Rush by 5 sec. (Old: Decreases the cooldown of Adrenaline Rush by 60 sec.) Not a lot, but considering the old effect will become baseline, it's quite nice.

- Glyph of Inner Fire -- Increases the armor from your Inner Fire spell by 50%. (Old: Increases the charges on your Inner Fire spell by 20.), looks like a handy boost for PVP.

- Glyph of Exorcism -- Increases damage done by Exorcism by 20%. (Old: Your Exorcism also interrupts spellcasting for 2 sec.); with Exorcism usable on all targets, this one might become in demand.

- Glyph of Ice Lance -- Your Ice Lance now causes 4 times damage against frozen targets higher level than you instead of triple damage. (Old: Increases the range of your Ice Lance by 5 yards); an extra 30% damage boost - what's not to like?

- Glyph of Plague Strike -- Your Plague Strike does 60% additional damage. (Old: 20% additional damage if a disease was on the target) - a nice buff.

- Glyph of Death Strike -- Increases your Death Strike's damage by 2% for every 5 runic power you currently have. The runic power is not consumed by this effect. (Old: 2% regardless of runic power) - in other words "this glyph's effect has been increased by 150%" :P



2. Blacksmithing. New items will be introduced. They will use current existing materials as well as a new drop, the "Runed Orb". Runed orb sources are currently unknown, but will most likely either be like Frozen Orbs (BOE) or like Nether Vortexes initially were (BOP). Either way, my business sense tells me that the other materials required for these items will see an increase in price and therefore may be worth stocking:
- Titansteel Bar
- Saronite Ore/bars
- Eternal Earth
No idea why the links don't work, but simply replace the ***** in the URL with "************" (without the quotes) and it should be ok.
Check the items and their recipes below:

Battlelord's Plate Boots
Belt of the Titans
Indestructible Plate Girdle
Plate Girdle of Righteousness
Spiked Deathdealers
Titansteel Spellblade
Treads of Destiny



3. Jewelcrafting:
The good old Black Diamonds we all know from vanilla WoW seem to be back. Nobody knows yet what they will result in, but it might be worth your while to check the AH. I managed to buy about 100 today for prices ranging from a few copper pieces to at most 2 silver/piece. That's at most a couple of gold with a potential profit. Even if they turn out to be completely useless, those 2g won't hurt me one bit.
http://static.************.com/mmoc/...ackdiamond.jpg



4. Leatherworking. New items will be introduced. They will use current existing materials as well as a new drop, the "Runed Orb". Runed orb sources are currently unknown, but will most likely either be like Frozen Orbs (BOE) or like Nether Vortexes initially were (BOP). Either way, my business sense tells me that the other materials required for these items will see an increase in price and therefore may be worth stocking:
- Heavy Borean Leather
- Arctic Fur
- Icy Dragonscales
No idea why the links don't work, but simply replace the ***** in the URL with "************" (without the quotes) and it should be ok.
Check the items and their recipes below:

Belt of Arctic Life
Belt of Dragons
Blue Belt of Chaos
Boots of Living Scale
Boots of Wintry Endurance
Death-warmed Belt
Footpads of Silence
Lightning Grounded Boots

A level 29 blue neck with hit rating will also be introduced which looks quite awesome for levelling, considering how good hit rating is and the lack of it at low levels; This may lead to an increase in Truesilver Ore/Bars.
Amulet of True Sight



5. Engineering. Only one interesting item here:
[url=http://static.************.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/february/engineering_high-poweredflashlight.jpg]High-powered Flashlight[url]
Note that it doesn't require engineering; whether this is final or will be fixed is to be seen, but if it stays like this it will again be an awesome trinekt for levelling (perhaps twinks too?), considering there are almost no low level trinkets if you aren't an engineer. This one is also made from Truesilver, goes without saying that it might be a good idea to stockpile it.



Disclaimer:
1. The Runed Orbs' provenience is still unknown. Depending on where they come from and whether they are BoE or not and how abundant they will be, all the above might be useless. Ie, they could turn out to be like Sunmotes (quite rare), in which case they will be the limiting factor and not titansteel, icy dragonscales, etc.
Or they could drop alongside Frozen Orbs (not very likely, but you get the picture), in which case everyone and their dog will want one of those items, which will lead to big profits for those that stocked titansteel, etc when it was cheaper.


2. I am in no way knowledgeable about all classes (although I know a fair bit about every class), so my judgement about glyphs may be wrong (ie, the Heroic Strike one may be complete crap). To decide whether a glyph will become more wanted, check comments on wowhead, use your class knowledge about the class, etc.


Final note:

In the hope this will help people with their AH playing, thanks for taking the time to read all this.

Cheers.

[dontblink438]

Well if you cant post URLs in your post that most likely means your not supposed to have that specific website in posts, i would suggest deleting it.

[Desta_Bawz]

But it's a well known reputable site - I'll remove my workaround to the URL hiding until someone lets me know whether it's safe or not.

[Cryde]

The Heroic Strike one is more a nerf than a Buff...

[hpdark]

I don't think the black diamonds from pre bc will do anything. Blizz has never used pre x-pac mats for new recipes. Just not their style

[ribce]

nice +rep

[Desta_Bawz]

I don't think the black diamonds from pre bc will do anything. Blizz has never used pre x-pac mats for new recipes. Just not their style

Yet they've introduced a recipe for it. I'm thinking it will perhaps be something to ease the pain of levelling JC from 275 - 300.
Like I said, as long as you can get them cheap, it's a potential win with not much to lose.
I'm currently at about 200 purchased and none of them cost more than 5 silver with the cheapest costing a few coppers.
Even if I get stuck with them, it'll be at most a 10g loss which is peanuts. But i they turn into something mildly useful and I manage to dump them for 1g, that's a 90g profit right there. Not much, again, but nothing to sneer at either.

The Heroic Strike one is more a nerf than a Buff...

Like I said in the post, I don't know the ins and outs of every class. There are much more changes to glyphs than the ones I listed, those were just exampes.


On a side note, has anyone figured out why I can't post a full URL to my source?

[Desta_Bawz]

http://elitistjerks.com/attachments/...pristine_1.jpg
http://elitistjerks.com/attachments/...pristine_2.jpg

There you go, it seems the black diamonds cut into a random BC uncommon gem

[jaysquirrel]

Concidering those BC uncommon gems vendor for about 25 silver, if you manage to pick up a bunch of Black Diamonds for copper, thats a pretty nice little profit (assuming that spell can also be used for levelling JC)

[Nastya]

This has been added to the 3.1 compilation post. http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-gu...ml#post1413140
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