This is a repost of the information found in the Item Overload! Bank Alts, original and best? post. I am reposting it because it is important information that needs to be highlighted on it’s own.

The following assumes, that all bank bags purchased, and all bags are of the same type – as well as the following prices.

Netherweave Bags = 10g
Frostweave Bags = 80g
Glacial Bags = 650g
Crafting Bags = 100g

As you can see, even with 32 slot crafting bags, Netherweave Bags are cheaper per slot gained. This means that if you have the character spaces and don’t mind the extra work then you are always better off making a new bank alt rather than buying bags bigger than Netherweave for your existing bankers.

Remarkably this is true even if you can get 32 slot crafting bags for 25g each! They would have to be 22g or less to be more worthwhile. The only crafting bags seen under 22g each commonly are Inscription Bags. Just remember, if you can get the crafting bags for under 22g each then they are definitely worth using instead of neatherweave.

Obviously mains are slightly different, and people are willing to prepared to pay higher CpS for the convenience of additional inventory on their most played character. This information is primarily for the storage of items that would normally be sent to bankers.

Current Gold Total : 3,000g
Working On : Inscription Sales (450/450 skill now) and Netherweave Bags

Current Status
Well, bags are selling much more frequently then I had ever imagined – even more so than my previous post on them. Yesterday alone I sold 80, and had actually run out of listed auctions over night so potentially could have sold more. As such today I’m keeping 60 of them on the Auction House overnight!

I also got Inscription to 450 on my DK, and then using some addons (Which I will discuss next week) I made 5 of every glyph I could and am in the process of ‘goblining’ the market of them all.

This did cause a massive hit to my gold (about 4-5k) but at least I’m in the market now, and all of that and more will be made up when these glyphs all sell. Snowfall Ink is selling so well that glyphs are ‘essentially free’, as I am making up more than the cost of the herbs from the Snowfall Ink alone.

Unfortunately I don’t have time now to do today’s post on MMO-Champion’s guides. In saying that, they have been talked about to death already and are old news. Maybe in the future the post can be taken from a different angle, such as talking about us WoW Economy bloggers posting our ‘guides’, thoughts and ideas.

There’s also some site modifications under way, so you might notice a few changes!

Current Gold Total: 2,000g
Working on: Away from home

As mentioned in the previous post, this is all about crafting items to disenchant (DE) for profit.

Tella from Hit The Cap! posted a great post on this, and this is not meant to steal his/her thunder, it is just something I want to fully expand upon due to it being my primary method of making money on my yet to be transfered warrior in the past. So definitely check out Hit the Cap! too.

This is not a new idea, or even a ‘secret’. It is a well known and used money making method used by countless people, and you can guarantee there are others on even the lowest population server doing the same thing.

That does not make it useless!

One of the greatest things about enchanting mats is that they are always in very high demand, so much so that even with others doing the same thing you can nearly always turn a profit from this method.

So how does it work? (Beginner primer)

Essentially disenchanting is used to turn a green, blue or epic item in to trade goods which are used to make enchants as well as a few other things. This is done by the wide public via BoE items that drop while they quest, or items that nobody needs during an instance run.

However, a lot of crafting professions have the ability to make items that can be DE’d, which if the materials cost is low enough and the enchanting mats cost high enough allows you to make money just by crafting an item and installing DE’ing it then reselling the goods.

Alchemy, Enchanting, Engineering and Inscription do not have the ability to do this – either at all, or never at a profit.

To fully break it down, the steps are;

1. Get mats, either ones you have stockpiled or purchased from the AH or trade
2. Craft disenchantable items via these mats
3. Disenchant these items
4. Sell the enchanting mats you get from them

You do however need to know what you are crafting, so that you buy the right resources.
You also need to know the cost per craft, and the profit you stand to make from the enchanting materials you will sell.

Very Soon(tm) I am making a spreadsheet to cut out the need to manually work out the cost per craft and profit you stand to make.

Okay so I understand how the system works…but what should I make?

As mentioned before, a few of the crafting professions each have items you can craft to DE for profit, although not all of these will be profitable at any given time depending on the state of your server.

As such the below list of possible crafts does not mean you should make these items no matter what. Take a look at your servers prices, in some case you might be better off waiting for cheaper mats prices or higher enchant mat prices, or just selling the mats you have for a better profit.

Due to a greater amount of people doing heroics, the price of Dream Shards and Abyss Crystals fell on every server – as such the best items to craft are normally those that DE in to infinite dust and cosmic essences.

Blacksmithing : Horned Cobalt Helm (Ensure you also check prospect prices, often more profitable to do that and craft the Jewelcrafting items below)
Jewelcrafting : Crystal Chalcedony Amulet, Crystal Citrine Necklace, Sun Rock Ring and Bloodstone Band
Leatherworking : Arctic Boots
Tailoring : Duskweave Belt

Just ensure that your crafting cost is less than the value of the possible enchanting materials you will get. To do this check the Created By tab for the mats and work out your total cost, including AH cut, and then compare this to the average DE under the Disenchant tab.

This very simple calculation will let you work out if an item is profitable

a * 1.05 – b = c

a = Mats cost
b = Sell value of enchanting mats
c = Profit
The 1.05 is adding the 5% AH cut.

To recap the above

You can craft items using Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting, Leatherworking and Tailoring – which can then be disenchant and the enchanting mats sold at a profit. Always ensure your mats cost and AH fee is lower than the sale value of the enchanting mats you will get from doing this however.

If anyone knows of better items to use, for any profession please leave a comment here, and I hope this post has been useful.

Current Gold Total: <300g
Working on: Paladin leveling (61) and Tailoring

Currently at my girlfriends house, so unavailable to play for the next few days, so posts will be more about thoughts and plans rather than progress.

On to the post…
As my goal is to have tailoring/enchanting on my Warrior when she transfers it seemed worthwhile to do it on her now while waiting.

There is the added bonus that due to her 450 enchanting skill everything can be nuked for more profit.

Do not forget to train Northern Cloth Scavenging at high enough skill level. You can purchase it off the Dalaran trainer for 5g. Obviously this is only worth the money if you plan on using the character for more than just professions – but if you are then you 100% need this!

Originally my intention was to just buy the cloth off the AH when I had transfered her over, seeing the cloth prices soon changed my mind however!

Instead only Linen Cloth and Wool Cloth were brought.

Silk: Scarlet Monastery – I found Cath was the best by far, but Armory is good too. Ignore Graveyard, and only do Library if you do the other two faster than the reset limit and need more cloth when farming.

Mageweave: Tanaris – Pirates, at Lost Rigger Cove. Fast respawns and lots of them, the drop rate could be better though so if anyone knows of somewhere better…

Runecloth: Stratholme – Baron runs, great way to net a whole load of runecloth, DE items and a chance at the Baron Mount.

Netherweave: Nagrand, Ogres – Multiple camps here with great drop rates. Personal preference is Burning Blade Ruins, if you use the camp at the bottom of the hill, up the hill and then in the cave and repeat you literally can’t run out of mobs.

They also drop powder which can be used for Halaa mounts and give Kurenai rep for Talbuks, so if you are a mount collector and don’t have them this is some really worthwhile farming.

Frostweave: Storm Peaks, Valkyrion – You can farm cloth in so many places in Northrend, however this is my personal preference due to a good amount of mobs, decent respawn times and they can drop Relics of Ulduar for even more profit.

So, am I missing any amazing farming locations?