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Azeroth Auction Assassin - New AH Sniper Tool - Wowhead Economy Weekly Wrap-Up 314
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Hello! Welcome to the 314th edition of the WoW Economy Weekly Wrap-up!
This week we cover the topic of "Just Buy a Token" and what that means between different players and how it's an option for many. We also go further to discuss the timing of gold making and the choices we have in the various flavours of WoW. I go through my own plans for 2024 and we have a great new tool for helping search for items in Cross Realm Trading! Finally, we have some great advice for setting up old world professions
My name is
Samadan
and I'll be your guide through the World of Gold Making!
Just Buy a Token
This
topic came up this week
as a complaint about advice given on the
woweconomy subreddit
, but it highlights the differences between players and gold makers and how the border between both is blurred. Sometimes the answer is to buy a Token if you want gold. The greater question is what do you want and what do you enjoy?
Someone who just wants a bit more gold to buy nice things in the game can go about it in different ways, all dependent on the time and resources they have IRL vs in-game and what they enjoy doing. As they as "Time is Money, friend".
As goblins ingame say:
TIME IS MONEY FRIEND
thats why farming 40 hours for a token doesn't make someone a goblin.
The choices a player has to make gold in game and the volumes are constantly changing, even more so in recent times. We are at the late stage of an expansion and popular options like gathering are heavily diminished.
Yes and this is the exact same scenario as any other expansion.
Good gold to be made early expansion, if specced right people were pulling 30k an hour mining and herbing, but a lot of that was coming from awakened Mats.
Now there's nowhere near the demand for consumables so prices come down and so do raw materials for these. Now it's absolutely not worth your time gathering, could genuinely make more doing world quests.
You're probably about 12 months too late to be making good gold with gathering.
That said, once TWW goes live, herb and mining will be extremely profitable in the first few weeks and still be a good money maker after the first month. However as is always the case, crafting professions will always make more. Gathering professions are great for those who don't really 'get' professions and don't want to do the crafting side of things.
For example, you could do 30k an hour gathering early expansion, but if you knew what you were doing and what to make, you could pull 100k a hour easily making the right crafted gear for people.
There are many methods to make gold even now. Many of the low effort methods have been curtailed over time, so what's left are things that those who dedicated can capitalize on.
Well first, it's really not the most common suggestion. If anything, I'd probably say "buy low, sell high" is a more common suggestion.
But second.... it's a legitimate option, and for non-trivial to even possibly majority of people, it's probably the best option available.
This expansion, I've probably made close to 30 million at this point. 50 million, if you include what I've invested in my guild and free crafts and shit for the members of said guild, probably 60-75mil if you include the cr** in my banks across multiple characters currently depreciating that I'll probably never get good value out of at this point. I've made gold. I've made gold for me, I've made gold for friends, I've helped friends learn to make gold through giving advice, and I've learned a lot about a lot of things. There are very few limits on the number of ways to make gold, from old world, to raw gold farms, to volume sales with low margins, to contract work, to consistent sales with good margins, to work orders. I've done almost all of it, and recommended some of it, not so much other bits. I've learned a good deal about what works, what doesn't work, and what kind of player is willing to put in what kind of work in order to make gold.
Buying a WoW token is the lowest effort, least time consuming, and works best for probably 85-95% of players. Period.
When I started in DF, I was probably putting 50-60 hours a week in on professions, through various things. I had to get all the one time points, and grind the renown for more one time points, rep, profession masters.... one of the first things I did was have like 50 treatises made, cursing myself for not knowing they existed the week before, and then wanting to bash my head in with a rock when I found out you could only use one a week and I was basically out most of my inital mettle on that character. It took a lot of time and effort- and I probably could have done more to try and get it done faster- but the average player isn't going to put in hundreds of hours per profession to be good at it.
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Most players don't really want to deal with making gold. They need gold. It's a reality of the game, and the economy, but they don't really want to make it another job. They've already got too much s**t to do. They've already got rep/renown grinds, and transmog/pets/mounts to gather, endless events they don't want to do but will force themselves through, Mythic+, PvP, raiding- often a mixture of some or all of the above because they usually feed into each other. If you want to spend a good amount of time on any of them, there's a good chance, unless you're disabled like me, you don't have the time to really put in to make gold. Even among those that do, there often isn't a lot of interest. Even when there is interest, you need to guage what kind of interest. Most people who ask questions here aren't really looking for the "Well, if you put in a ridiculous amount of work, you can pull a lot of gold up" answer. They sorta stop at the "ridiculous amount of work" portion and the eyes glaze over. They've come because they wanted to know how they can make gold in the least time and effort consuming way possible. So you have goblins, sure- there are people that want to really put in time on professions or gold making because it's something they really enjoy, and they're looking for more strategies to do that. But that simply isn't most people.
So I get it, the WoW token irritates me too. It inflates the WoW economy in some shitty ways. So does basically every decision Blizz ever makes, where gold is involved. But as much as it might upset you, the token is a good answer for the overwhelming majority of players. The right answer, even. Some players are looking for a solution to the fact they need gold to play the game, and some players are looking for a better way to make getting gold an exciting aspect of how they play the game. Both types of players are important, both need an answer- and for the most prevelant type, the WoW token is actually a good answer.
In some ways, because of the competition of a Region Wide Auction House, it's more of an all or nothing approach. You are directly competing with people with more time and dedication than you. We are all concentrated into one place.
However, there are still many flavours of making gold and many flavours of WoW to choose from and two of them have Tokens as an option..
Why Not Both?
Continuing the discussion above of doing what's fun for you, I made a video this week going through my plans for Gold Making in 2024 and they include both Classic and Retail because I find BOTH of them fun for different reasons..
The main point I want to stress here is that there are options for everyone. It's your game and you play it how you want. I have found a reignited purpose in Wrath Classic with professions how I remember them and an AH and economy that's self contained. I still play Retail and make gold there because that's where I can get Bnet Balance to use on other things.
Azeroth Auction Assassin
Cross Realm Trading has been commonplace for a while, even more so since they allowed cross realm trading between players, so you don't have to bother with a server transfer.
As always wherever there's a niche, there's clever people who write programs to access the data more easily. Introducing Azeroth Auction Assassin!
Are you looking for the best deals on the AH for any item across all realms and game modes?
For enthusiasts of Point-blank Sniper, Undermine Journal Alerts, and Goblin Stock alerts, we present a must-try sniper tool:
Introducing Azeroth Auction Assassin!
View the video guides here.
Built on our open source project,
Mega-Alerts
, the
Azeroth Auction Assassin
can scan the entire Auction House on every single realm in your region at once, sending Discord alerts for the best items as swiftly as possible whenever new Blizzard API data is released.
Even better is that you do not need to be in game to snipe! You can snipe from anywhere. Whether you're at work or school, the Discord alerts let you to snatch up great deals using the WoW mobile app even when you are away from your PC.
For AAA we have developed a user-friendly GUI, so you can snipe the best deals without needing to be a programmer. This tool is bundled into a single exe app for Windows and you do not need to install complex software like Docker or Python.
Our tool supports a wide array of items, offering:
Region-wide searches for gear by ILVL and tertiary stats (e.g., speed, leech, sockets, etc.).
Region-wide searches for any item or battle pet by name.
Item snipe price recommendations.
Support for WoW Classic and Season of Discovery.
Importing Snipe lists from PBS.
With more on the way including item recommendations directly in the app from our various market search methods developed over the years on our main website
Saddlebag Exchange
.
Please help support us so we can keep the project going. This is a bit more expensive of a project then our typical web app. We are hoping to find some more supporters we can be an official app with a
"DigiCert Code Signing Certificate"
and windows will like us.
Support us here:
Patreon
We're newcomers to app development and welcome developers willing to contribute. Join our team on GitHub and Discord:
GitHub
Discord
Main Website
This is mainly for very specialized searches and makes it easier to seek them out. It's not like your typical sniper, by using the Blizzard AH Data the refresh is far from instant.
If it's a high demand item yes. So 75g Lariats won't last more than 30 seconds after refresh, but you can find a lot of other stuff that stays up longer.
Basically just think of it as a shopping list where you don't have to manually search each item or log servers to scan. You'll only get notifications for stuff you want to buy when it gets listed below a price you set.
How to Get Started in Old Professions
Penguinr2gt
has a great video this week that's more of a step by step tutorial in getting a profession setup for and older expansion.
This is great as it covers the thinking behind setting up a profession and how to look for things to sell that might be profitable
Further Reading
Most of this information was discussed and originally posted on the
/r/woweconomy
subreddit or in the accompanying
Discord Server
.
I hope you found this useful and If you have any suggestions or feedback, please do say so in the comments below..
Until next time, Happy Goldmaking!
Samadan
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