Frostguard - Craftable item with major profit - 3k+

[Batesii]

Frostguard - Craftable item with major profit

Hey guys, this is going to be a quick little guide, explaining how you can craft and sell the item "Frostguard", which is a STUNNING item, selling for around 3-5k a pop.
The materials to craft this item can be bought for under 500g. Usually only around 250g. This is very server dependent, as prices for materials can vary a lot from server to server.


Step 1: What is so special about this item?

The item is looks very amazing, it has a unique look, with a glowing frost orb spinning around it. It draws a LOT of attention.



Facts:

• The orb appearance will not be overridden by any enchant, maintaining the unique look.
• The sword is in fact transmogrifiable, which is how we can sell it for so much.
• Although the pattern is relatively easy to obtain, you would be suprised at the number of people who don't know about it.
• The vendor restocks the pattern on roughly a 2-minute respawn timer, allowing for multiple purchases for resale.
• The weapon is one-handed, and this must be noted if you intend to use it for personal transmogrification.

Step 1: Will I make gold from this?

Check your AH. If it has either the pattern or the item in it, then you may find that you earn less gold.
See below, this is what you do *not* want.





Step 2: Acquiring the Pattern!

If you have checked the AH, and it's all clear, then proceed with buying the pattern. It is relatively easy to obtain -- bought from a vendor in Winterspring. The item will almost definitely be in the NPC's inventory, but if not, wait around 2 minutes for it to respawn.

The NPC is named Daleohm, and is located on the map below, in Winterspring.



Daleohm is very easy to find, a male Blood Elf, <Blacksmithing Trainer>.



Step 3: Crafting the Item.

The materials are relatively easy to acquire, most of it can be easily found on the auction house. If you are having trouble finding a particular item, I highly suggest giving wowhead.com a try, it will tell you the best method to find them.

Here is what you will need to craft this beautiful sword:






Step 4:Making the Sale!

You will need to use some sales techniques here -- tell people just how *STUNNING* the weapon is, make them WANT to click on it to try it on. All you need is a bit of creativity =)

You can either post with a sales price, or post asking for people to give you offers. I usually go for the first approach.



Above is one of the ads which I posted. A really important tip though, advertise during peak hours!



All done! Enjoy your easily made gold

Thanks everyone,
Batesii

[LoveOne]

Nicely done guide, sadly on my server the mats cost about 1500 gold, soo there is a risk if i won't sell the sword.

[Batesii]

Nicely done guide, sadly on my server the mats cost about 1500 gold, soo there is a risk if i won't sell the sword.

Thank you for the feedback =)

I guess it's all relative -- you could charge maybe 3k+ for the sword. On many servers, certain green transmog items can sell for over 10,000g. It all depends on demand for the item.
The only thing I could suggest is crafting your own materials.

• The Arcanite Bars are craftable for 5g each, provided you transmute them with an Alchemist.
• The Essence of Water is very easily farmable from level 50ish water elementals (5% droprate) -- see wowhead.com
• Blue Sapphires/Azerothian diamonds are easily obtained from prospecting Thorium Ore as a Jewelcrafter.

You aren't really selling the item like you would a normal craftable -- the item is being sold for it's appearance, not value; so you can determine the price yourself.

Good luck in your future gold endeavors ^.^

[Folien97]

Going to test this, +rep for the work you've put into this.

[Batesii]

Going to test this, +rep for the work you've put into this.

Thank you

Persistence is the key. I used to get frustrated when I couldn't sell things, and would continually lower my prices until I got a sale. Good luck! ^.^

[Unholyshaman]

Very good contribution + rep (edit bleh must spread it around).

[phantom325]

Y MUST I SPREAD REP AROUND?!?
Very nice guide, would give ya some rep, but I can't

[azza]

Thank you for the feedback =)

I guess it's all relative -- you could charge maybe 3k+ for the sword. On many servers, certain green transmog items can sell for over 10,000g. It all depends on demand for the item.
The only thing I could suggest is crafting your own materials.

• The Arcanite Bars are craftable for 5g each, provided you transmute them with an Alchemist.
• The Essence of Water is very easily farmable from nodes in the waters of azshara.
• Blue Sapphires/Azerothian diamonds are easily obtained from prospecting Thorium Ore as a Jewelcrafter.

You aren't really selling the item like you would a normal craftable -- the item is being sold for it's appearance, not value; so you can determine the price yourself.

Good luck in your future gold endeavors ^.^

i was pritty sure they removed those Essence of Water fishing nodes from Azshara when Cata came out?

[phantom325]

i was pritty sure they removed those Essence of Water fishing nodes from Azshara when Cata came out?

On WoWhead it says 0/02% chance to drop from fishing in Azshara, so you may be right.

[Batesii]

i was pritty sure they removed those Essence of Water fishing nodes from Azshara when Cata came out?

Nice pick up! Shows how much I farm my own mats these days...
Will edit the post now =)

[Traydor]

Looking at mean prices on undermine I'd say it'd need to be very particular servers where this could be a good money spinner. Particularly with the cost of arcanite bars and the rarity of arcane crystals.

Estimated costs:

Arcanite bar *18 : 1764g
Blue Sapphirte *8: 64g
Azerothian Diamond *8: 168g
Essence of water *4: 80g
Dense rinding stone *2: 6g
Enchanted leather *4: 152g

estimated cost: 2234g

If you're able to buy arcane crystals at standard cost the price drops by about 1k but its difficult to find that quantity of them on the AH given the kind of profit arcanite bar creators tend to turn over. Best bet is probably mining them in Silithus although its time consuming and the Thorium doesn't sell too well. I went farming myself for some of these mats but on finding the cost and difficulty of obtaining them I decided the safer bet was just to focus on selling arcanite instead, it may be tough to sell frostguards reliably for above 3k.

As you said realm specific, if the mats were reliably available on yours for <1k it'd be a very attractive transmog sell to the masses for ~2k.

[Doranians]

No one ever buys from me =(