Early Access Gold Making & Token Prices - Wowhead Economy Weekly Wrap-Up 341

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SamadanEarly Access Gold Making

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I made my first million!

For the first time ever, I have over a million gold! I started yesterday with around 200k and thought I would spend the first few days exclusively gathering, but once I noticed how expensive gathering profession tools were I immediately swapped to blacksmithing and engineering and started slamming out Pickaxes, Sickles, Mining Helms, and Fishing Rods. The value has dropped dramatically over night but I managed to make my first million!

I also sold a surprising number of Bismuth Rods, the 5g vendor item, at 5k. That markets fallen through too but it was fun while it lasted.

I've made about 4.5mil so far on engineering. Profession tools and toys. Kinda delayed my push to 80 over that. Now it's tapering a bit, and I can finish the main story, get my professions going on my other toons, then go back for side quests, rep, and recipes.

Edit: I almost forgot, about a million was in some of my remaining serevite bolts, too. I almost forgot that, because it felt like a foot note, since I sold most of my hoard over the past few days.

I was actually expecting with how well I did on my main server to have done okay on my sorta sales outpost servers. Not a single sale from them, and I've basically withdrawn from my old markets and those servers temporarily, because so much capital is being concentrated on TWW, it's driven my other sales way down, and other servers AH's lag horribly since EA launch for me. Still, my main server was quite enough so far lol, I'm looking forward to getting my other professions going.

Profession tools and toys on a large realm. I'm not saying it wasn't work. I spent a lot of time crafting, and a fair amount of time resetting auctions, or only running quests for like 20 minutes before I would have to hearth and make more stock and reset auctions, etc. It's a lot of work making gold as a goblin. Also, those are server-side markets, so you've gotta realize, your mileage may vary on that. But most of my guild went engineering to start, too. I had a couple guys go a parts build and do very well, hundreds of thousands without the work I put in. Another did well pilfering and scouring, selling his excess chaos circuits. Two more are going weapons, and that's a different market, it's going to be a while before that becomes a thing, but currently all ranged hunters have the recommended BIS of a crafted gun with Darkmoon Sigil, so that could be really big for them. Another is going for helms. She isn't going to craft for anyone, she just wanted to make her own helm. No idea why. She ususally doesn't make a lot of gold any given expansion, though, and doesn't try to. Don't despair if you've chosen engineering. You can absolutely make gold, you just need the right strategy for you.
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Currently running double gather with Herb/Mining, both are maxed and I've currently got 63 points in Herb and 52 in Mining. As far as I'm aware the available sources this week are the first time bonus per node, the 1 time treasures and the quest that gives a few hundred AA. Are there any other sources I'm missing or am I pretty much covered for early access?

For both:

8 one time +3 Knowledge Treasures -> 24knowledge ( https://www.wowhead.com/guide/the-war-within/professions/knowledge-point-treasure-locations ).
1 weekly +3 treasure Knowledge from mining/gathering (Erosion Polished Slate/Deepgrove Rose)
1 weekly +1 Treatise (Algari Treatise on Mining/Algari Treatise on Herbalism)
1? +3 treasure weekly quest (Algari Miner's Notes/Algari Herbalist's Notes)
Multiple +1 treasure Knowledge from mining/gathering (Slab of Slate/Deepgrove Roots or Deepgrove Petal)

Mining:

3 types of ores, 8 types of nodes (Normal, Rich, Seam, Camouflaged, Crystallized, EZ-Mine, Webbed and Weeping) ->24 knowledge.
And from overload (Crystallized, EZ-Mine, Webbed and Weeping) -> 4 knowledge

Herbalism:

5 types of herbs, 7 types of nodes (Normal, Lush, Camouflaged, Altered, Crystallized, Irradiated, and Sporefused) ->35 knowledge.
And from overload (Altered, Crystallized, Irradiated, and Sporefused) -> 4 knowledge

Excludind the Multiple +1 treasure Knowledge from mining/gathering and knowledge from renowm

Mining -> 59 Knowledge

Herbalism -> 70 Knowledge

https://www.wowhead.com/guide/the-war-within/professions/herbalism-overview

https://www.wowhead.com/guide/the-war-within/professions/mining-overview
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Comment by SaltLBThe problem with early access for professions is that now these people, who entered early, have a huge profession level and supply advantage that others, specifically those who do not or cannot buy early access, will not have. In my opinion, it will disincentivize a lot of people from leveling professions for gold making and further super charge a differentiated class of players who will become ultra wealthy and also provide this upper class the means to control a market.Comment by Devil64And that's usually how it goes overall. You snooze you lose since Vanilla on every item. They find the trick to sell it first then the other figure it out later and the market dies down till new popular items arise.

In this case, since the market is already getting the supplies already in War With In. When the new players come in, they already know how the market is prices or should be priced. If they want to buy the already lowered down market of Materials or gear at the start they can. If they don't, that's on them to start fresh if they didn't see any sources on the sites.Comment by pawpurrThe problem with early access for professions is that now these people, who entered early, have a huge profession level and supply advantage that others, specifically those who do not or cannot buy early access, will not have. In my opinion, it will disincentivize a lot of people from leveling professions for gold making and further super charge a differentiated class of players who will become ultra wealthy and also provide this upper class the means to control a market.Comment by moxxyyyLovely but expected stuff. If there really wanted to make the early access just about leveling and gate player power gain they would have disabled professions, AH for TWW Stuff and so on, But its all just lip service. Blizzard might be the "dealer" here, but the people paying extra for this are even more too blame.Comment by BrimzAs a delayed launch player, is it even worth it to invest into prof on 26/27th? Real launch people already have everything on the market, people gonna buy their stuff, should I bother with professions (herb/mining, maybe alchemy for raid potions)?Comment by SaltLBThe problem with early access for professions is that now these people, who entered early, have a huge profession level and supply advantage that others, specifically those who do not or cannot buy early access, will not have. In my opinion, it will disincentivize a lot of people from leveling professions for gold making and further super charge a differentiated class of players who will become ultra wealthy and also provide this upper class the means to control a market.Comment by AovaMeh, don't stress out over EA vs official launch. Anyone who made big bank in EA would've done it at launch too.

Yeah, some people got to make a chunk of change off a handful of gimmicks that emerged and passed, but there's so much more time left. You can still level up professsions and get into markets that will make tons and tons of gold over the course of the expansion.

Plus, the most heavy sales activity isn't going to take off until S1 starts, so there's plenty of time to get in and set up shop. Everyone is capped at the same potential knowledge points too, so there's no permanent advantage.Comment by SunbakThe problem with early access for professions is that now these people, who entered early, have a huge profession level and supply advantage that others, specifically those who do not or cannot buy early access, will not have. In my opinion, it will disincentivize a lot of people from leveling professions for gold making and further super charge a differentiated class of players who will become ultra wealthy and also provide this upper class the means to control a market.Comment by RannirdinI love the graphs! <3