Warlords of Draenor Gold Preparation

[FeroXs]

Gold prep guide Originally written here. Always one or two floating about pre-expansion.

Sell Now
MoP BoE Blues:
Sell them now. Remember that everyone who picks up WoD will be handed a free 90 boost, thus eliminating the need for these. Although, we know Blizzard has a habit of nerfing XP and making leveling easier – meaning any new toons will breeze through MoP content.

Overstock of Gems
Blizzard has been pushing this whole entire movement of having less gem slots, which means you shouldn’t expect to see random gem slots on leveling gear at all. We haven’t seen it as a constant thing since BC and I doubt you will see any pre instance gear with a gem slot on it. Not to mention any new gear we do acquire, may not even have gem slots on it. They want stats to be baselined coupled with the removal of reforging, so we may not even get gem slots until raid gear to make it feel “special” again. By the time gem slots start popping up on gear and people need gems you’ll already have the new gem cuts.
Jewelcrafting may lose its value as one of the top professions due to the major downsize in gems. Blizzard stated they were going to fill in the blank with new profession kinks but we still don’t know exactly how this will pan out. Personally, jewelcrafting wouldn’t be my first profession rushed this time around and may take a major hit with the attempt to shut down the shuffle.

Wild Cards
Garrisons:
To my knowledge Blizzard hasn’t stated how difficult the Garrisons are to acquire. With how beneficial they sound I don’t see them just handing them over free or even through a series of dailies / rep grinds (especially since they wanted to remove the rep grind requirements).
Garrisons also will have an unknown impact on professions, with the fact your followers will be able to mine, craft, etc, for you even when you are offline. How much damage they will do to the profession market is unknown. Not to mention they will allow for you to trade goods with friends – we may be in for a big rehash of how professions factor into gold making. Although, not everyone owned a farm during Mist of Pandaria so this could be an oversight.
GIO:
Ghost Iron Ore is a double edge sword. Currently it is required for random stuff - most importantly to power level blacksmithing (roughly 7200 GIO) which if left as is and not updated the price will rise to something crazy, with everyone focusing on new world mat. However if they do update the catch up method with new world mats that gold mine can morph into a sinking ship. Fast. To invest in GIO stocking is a coin flip, something I’d wait until more information is released.
Transmog Steals
See all the BoE epics from raids on the auction house for cheap? The ones that are destroyed by timeless isle gear. Stat wise in the current content they are terrible thus the low prices but as MoP material stops being ran they may come back at scorching prices as transmog gear. Something worth looking into and maybe even investing in if the price is right.

Sure Bets
Embersilk Cloth
ESC will be a gold mine. Why? Its already the highest selling cloth on the market (bolt wise) and will remain so. It serves as the biggest volume of bags sold due to not everyone being able to afford Royals and I have a strong feeling Blizzard will be patching the biggest “unknown by the public” source of Embersilk Cloth farming really soon. They have already hinted at it so I know its coming, I’m willing to bet over 50% of the supply will be shut down with the patch. I already stopped selling my current stock to save for later. Trust in the Embersilk.
Windwool Cloth
Another cloth that is a safe bet. Why? Because it’s cheap. You can buy a nice supply for next to nothing and run little to no risk doing so. Royals will be the biggest sized bags you will be able to obtain until some odd weeks after hitting max level. I’m sure IF they do release a new bag it will more than likely again be faction unlocked. Worse case here is you move it when the market dries up whilst people are busy in the new content.
Hypnotic Dust
It hasn’t gone anywhere and it won’t. I don’t see any catch up method being applied to enchanting to by pass the phase where Hypnotic Dust either rapes your bank account or rapes your free time. It is one of the most annoying things to deal with in any profession and I only see the price going up. This by NO means is telling you to buy it off the auction house, this is instead informing you to take a few hours a day or a week to farm those wonderful greens and start stocking the disenchanted mats. I don’t see HD biting the dust anytime soon.
MoP Mount Mats
The lovely thing about mounts is that they never become irrelevant. You will always want a certain mount which means any material that is required to make them (JC/Engineering mounts) will stay in demand.
Guardian Cub
You can still find this bad boy on the AH for 10k on the majority of realms, if you do, buy it. It has been removed from the store and I don’t think it will make its way back in. It will become a vanity item and eventually you’ll be looking at a nice price tag on this bad boy.
Altered Zone Recipes / Gear
This one is flying under the radar due to all the speculation about professions and such, but with the zones that are being altered we will be seeing items removed from the game. Recipes and specific mob drop gear will become priceless and fetch you a hefty penny. This is something you’ll have to take the time and research if you want to benefit from it.

If it isn’t getting you gold, it shouldn’t be getting your time.

[Augury13]

Thanks for sharing man. +3

[skypher]

If Blizz removes the CD needed for creating Royals in WoD, won't Embersilk lose demand as everyone will be getting cheap Royals?

[CONE787]

There will be also new bag in WoD someting like Hexhtech bag and it has 30 bag slots!

[Zethth]

About hypnotic dust, remember in cata where they were lying around everywhere, dirt cheap? This is because there were plenty of greens being DE'ed, necks and rings from ore shuffle or greens you obtained from dungeons. I would consider stacking spirit dust as its dirt cheap, but you need a bunch of stacks to level it, and with no new big supply from it being an endgame enchanting mat, it might be worth considering

[xjsnowx]

someone just posted another emvbersilk expliot in this section

[stevesgamebox]

Interesting. I am in the beta so I will test the garrisons thing since it sounds so damn interesting!
Also stellar advice about dumping those blues.

I also advise you to drastically lower your prices on them. Get out of the 80-84 twink market as well. It will soon become lost to the new expansion =(
Just as the other latter twink markets died with the release of WOD.

Some players will quickly catch on as time goes by, so it's best to get rid of that stuff now, when the clueless aren't aware of the circumstances..

(Which is the definition of cluless btw )

[DEATHTIME]

Windwool cloth and spirit dust are safe bets. Can pick cloth up for 75s and dust up for 1g every day on my server. Price will only go up in wod

[jermadrun]

UBRS is getting revamped and theres a high chance that the old loot tables will be considered unobtainable. in that case, these items should skyrocket in price over the next few years.

Recipe: Flask of the Titans - Item - World of Warcraft
Plans: Arcanite Reaper - Item - World of Warcraft
Wind Dancer Boots - Item - World of Warcraft

[Bokutox]

Thanks for shareing =)

[FifaPlaya96]

not sure how people are saying that items such as windwool are safe bets i mean look at some of the old cloth prices such as netherweave and mageweave they go for 0.3 g a piece

[NastyChain]

Because they aren't used for anything useful except bags, and Netherweave Bags are like 20g.

[subra]

I'm definitely doing this right now! but how much do you recommend i stock? I thought two guild tabs for each of the for sure mats. should I buy more? I have about 50k at my disposal, so maybe I should buy more. how much do you recommend I stock?

[jimmyamd]

I've been stocking up on the duped tcg pets.

I;ve spent like 600K and have around 25 of each.

can blizzard ban me for buying them off trade? since they are also around the same price off AH

[never_healed]

I've been stocking up on the duped tcg pets.

I;ve spent like 600K and have around 25 of each.

can blizzard ban me for buying them off trade? since they are also around the same price off AH

No, but Blizzard decided to put the duped TCG Pets (Spectral Cub Pet, Soul Trader, Tusk Dragon Kite) on the new BMAH in WOD, so i assume the prices will settel soemwhere between 15-20k. I think 20k is the starting bid, you can check a thread on MMO Champion where some dude posts everyday whats in the BMAH, they put up some sweet stuff (Tabard of Void, Elegon+Sha Mount).