What to Invest in for 4.2's Second Gold Rush

[hpdark]

I would like to start off by sadly announcing this will be my last gold making guide until I hit the gold cap. Wish me luck and see ya on the other side.

Ok, now onto the guide, please remember this is just my personal speculation. Some people were disappointed in 4.2 thinking they we're going to ride the widely talked about boom. Some prices rose. Enchants and gems are selling pretty well for raiders. But there wasn't too much for the everyday casual player to do. A week later and the new arena season started. That will be doing well as far as pvp enchants and gems go. But as for the new craftable pvp gear... not so much.

So what's the next big market that's going to skyrocket?

In ~2 weeks for the people who have been diligently doing their dailies some new vendors will get unlocked. They will sell a few bag patterns and some epic ilvl 365 weapons. Here's the vendor with the weapon patterns Damek Bloombeard - NPC - World of Warcraft

Each one will require 8 Truegold and 5 Chaos Orb, then some gems, hardened elementium bars, or volatiles.
So here's my predictions for the market in a couple weeks. Stock up on Volatile Water (they're impossible to farm large amounts) and Truegold (Requires 3 pyrium bars, 10 v water/fire/air and on a 1 day alch CD)

I think those 3 volatiles will skyrocket in price for a week or so atleast. Volatile Fire will be the first to come back down in price because it is easily obtained during the new dailies. Volatile Air will go up and stay at it's new high for a while. The hardened elementium bars and gems will recieve a (very small demand) increase. So if you have some elementium ores or bars in the bank it will be a good time to sell them, I'm pretty sure almost every server has farming bots on it though so I would not rely on elementium prices at all.

If you want to go balls out for max profit try to find a BS with some patterns once they arrive. Tip him generously for all those chaos orbs you are taking and make some epic weapons to put up on the AH. You can atleast double your profit on a few of them the first night. Be smart about which weapons to craft first, Firelands raid drops boe ilvl 378 spell caster weapons, agil bow, 1h str axe, and a 2h agil polearm. I would stay away from crafting the lower ilvl BS versions of these.
This will in-turn bring a demand for top end weapon enchants and keep their demand up for atleast a month, if not longer I would guess.

For those lazy eyes...

Good investment:
Truegold
Volatile Water
Volatile Air
BiS Weapon Enchants

Risky investment:
Vial of the Sands
Volatile Fire
Volatile Earth
Elementium Ore
Hardened Elementium Bars

Thank you for reading, GL if you choose to follow. I would guess if you buy and sell right you could atleast make 150% of your money back.

ADDED 7/14: If you have any Vial of the Sands that you've been trying to sell or plan on making any sometime soon they should see a small jump in price after these BS weapons drop. It requires 8 Truegold as well so it will probly increase in price atleast a few thousand.

---Relase date right now is officially Tuesday, 7/19 for the new vendor (1 day earlier for the few people who got the daily reset bug)---

EDIT: Ty for helping me reach contibutor, glad I could help some people out. Added in Vial of the Sands

[phantom325]

Really nice guide mate, I'm currently at 847K gold, and hopefully this will push me up to the ranks of the 1337. thanks again

[MCdeathMC]

wow i guess its a good thing i been saving all my Volatile stuff i got 70+ of each

[hpdark]

-REMINDER- You guys got 5-6 days left before the new weapons are available. Be sure to start stocking up while prices are still cheap

[mhollier117]

im relatively new to wow and still havent got my first 85, but i play the market when i dont feel like questing and had 10k, hoping this works as i just spent ~6k on volatiles tnx for the info bro and im rly excited for this

[Confucius]

Just bought 40 volatile fire, and 4 firey ember things, and I had like 60 elementium bars in my private stock

[hpdark]

3-4 days left* I got about 15 stacks of truegold and 30 stacks of v air/water. hopefully it pays off big

[swankboss]

Im going to try to sell some of my epic items off now which should put me around 100k then I'll invest in some of these items.

[abhorsenjay]

See the problem is, if everyone stockpiles, as soon as the patch hits the market is flooded and the price stablizes almost instantly. Same thing happened with Volatile Life on my server, infact so many people had stockpiled it that the prices wen down.

[Namor]

I find it so interesting that a highly populated video game receives the same economic problems as a lot of countries. o.o

[vuvuzela]

I am little concerned about the reliability of this method. People told me pre-4.2 to stockpile lots of truegold and stuff, but prices almost immediately dropped at 4.2 and went much lower than before patch.

Anyways this could be the real moneyrush since truegold is now in much bigger need.

Gem prices however went much higher at 4.2 and I suppose in this second gold rush they will go ever higher since people will buy boes, raid, get new loot etc.

[014715]

I am little concerned about the reliability of this method. People told me pre-4.2 to stockpile lots of truegold and stuff, but prices almost immediately dropped at 4.2 and went much lower than before patch.

Anyways this could be the real moneyrush since truegold is now in much bigger need.

Gem prices however went much higher at 4.2 and I suppose in this second gold rush they will go ever higher since people will buy boes, raid, get new loot etc.

The dropping prices of those is (I think) because of the stockpilers. They sold their mats to early. At the beginning of 4.2 there were only a few people with the recipes that needed them. This tuesday will there be a vendor with recipes than every Blacksmither will need the Truegold and that is the right time to sell them.

Just one question, the Recipe vendor is on tuesday for US?
I'm asking this because US updates on tuesdays and EU on wednesdays.

[hpdark]

The vendor is unrelated to the server maintenance. Any BS that has done their dailies every day in the molten front can unlock the vendor. Some people got a daily reset glitch and were able to get a few extra marks the first day so keep an eye out a day early for one of those people. If you can craft some weapons you'll have a day with pretty much no competition to declare your own prices at like 15k-20k

And the reason truegold dropped was because many people thought these patterns were getting released day 1 and were too impatient to hold on to frozen assets for a month. These will be the best pre raiding weapons for months and will drastically alter the floor price of truegold. That's why I would snatch up all stockpiles being unloaded in the next few days. Be quick because people are starting to catch on

[Mike3667]

I wouldn't invest in any of this 'needed' items. Why? Everyone else has the same idea. I tried one of these guides for the initial 4.2 release and I ended up losing gold due to everyone mass undercutting to try and sell theirs at a better price than what they paid for quickly.

[phantom325]

I wouldn't invest in any of this 'needed' items. Why? Everyone else has the same idea. I tried one of these guides for the initial 4.2 release and I ended up losing gold due to everyone mass undercutting to try and sell theirs at a better price than what they paid for quickly.

I just profited 150k and I still have half the mats left over, currently at gold cap