Why Farm?

Yesterday we talked about how to farm, and discussed a little bit about why you should farm, so let's break it down even more. 

Starting off with our Cactus farm, we have a lot of Windwool cloth!

Let's convert it into product we can sell. We can create 1 Imperial Silk, which is 1/12 of the mats needed for a Royal Satchel. Royal Satchel's sell for around 4100 gold so that equates to about 341g from the Imperial silk. Next we can create 1 Celestial Cloth, which is 1/28 of a pair of Leggings of the Night Sky. Those legs sell for around 14,000g which would make the Celestial Cloth equal to about 500g each. We still have 10x Bolts of Windwool Cloth left over and their going rate is 10g per bolt and 1 solitary Windwool cloth with a value of around 2 gold. So putting that into my brain-o-matic machine that makes our Windshear Cactus Farm worth roughly 943 gold a day.

Next stop is our Enigma Farm!

Looks like a rough crop patch today. I love the days when I log on and see Golden Lotus everywhere! 

Anyways let's see what our haul got us today. Since my Enigma Seed Farmer is also my Alchemist I always do my Living Steel cooldown first. We'll get back to how we got the mats for the steel in a second. What we ended up with was 4 Golden Lotus which we turned into 4 Potions of Luck. Each one auctions for about 60g a piece (55-90g depending on the day). We still have a smattering of left over herbs including 15 Silkweed, 11 Snow Lily, 2 Rain Poppy, 4 Fool's Cap, and 11 Green Tea Leaf . Now for these you could make them into potions, but I mail them off to my Inscriptionist to keep up my stock of inks.

Our last farm visit is our Snakeroot Farm.

This one can vary sometimes so you might have to do a little mining of your own. Today we netted 20x Ghost Iron Ore which turned into 10 Ghost Iron Bars that means we can make 1x Jard's Peculiar Energy Source. This is 1/60 of the mats required to make a Sky Golem so that puts its value at around 500g.

We also ended up with enough trillium ore to make 4 trillium bars that we can mail back to our Alchemist to use to make the Living Steel. I know it takes a few more, but there are going to be days when you mine for mats and days when you don't have time, so I usually find that I have enough left over mats for whatever little bit I might require for either the Jard's or the Living Steel cooldowns daily.

Back to the Inscriptionist let's turn those herbs into something useful! All the herbs combined turned into enough Pigments to equal around 11 Ink of Dreams and 2.5 Starlight inks. This means we could make around 3 glyphs for about 50gold average each (4g to 900g) and just a little shy of 1 shoulder enchant which normally sell for 150+ gold so investing enough extra in mats to make one would still give us about a 100g profit.

Let's add this all up! I'm gonna low ball this too to get a low average profit just in-case sales are off for the day. 

Cactus Farm (with tailor) - 940 gold

Enigma Farm (with alchemist / inscription) - 460 gold

Snakeroot Farm (with engineer / alchemist) - 939 gold

Overall, if we do this everyday (because it's not going to bring this amount in everyday, but rather an average if you keep up the cooldowns) we can net around 2300g just from doing the farm and our profession dailies. As far as overall time invested to do this, it's around 8 to 10 minutes per character. So in roughly 30 minutes a day of farming you end up with a pretty decent return.

Love you little gold goblins and gnomes!

Until tomorrow,

~ Turbos

How to Farm!

One of the best quick and easy money makers these days is the farm! While it's not going to be what makes you your millions of gold, it's a pretty fast way to turn around a few gold, or at least get the mats you need for your profession dailies.

Let's take a look at the farm. Fly out to Halfhill in the Valley of the Four Winds and try not to get ganked in the process.

Great we have 16 crops ready to harvest. (Your farm might not look like this just yet, but bare with me I'll get a how to unlock your farm post up sometime soon.) Let's get to it! I like to stand right in the middle of 4 plots so I can reach 4 different plots without having to move at all (saves time). If you learn the right spots you only have to go to four different places to harvest all of your crops.

During the process of harvesting your crops you might have to pull some weeds. They're pretty harmless and only take a few seconds. So jump on one and spam the number 1 key.

You might also come across some plots that say Occupied. Ignore those for now. Get your plow out and lets start tilling this land so we can plant more crops. Now the most efficient way to plow is a sort of weave pattern where you start one direction then go back the other again and again.

Alright we got our soil plowed! Great job! Oh ya do you remember that Occupied plot? Well, when we plowed we just about killed that ugly little virmen living there, but not all the way. So head back over there and bop it on the head! Then till that plot again by hand.

Time to get planting, but wait! We need seeds! So head over to Merchant Greenfield in the little bazaar behind your farm and pick up a pack of whatever kind of seeds strikes your fancy.

(Truba is a tailor so she likes the Bag of Windshear Cactus Seeds)

Now back to the farm! If you stand right in the middle of your farm next to the friendly scarecrow you can plant all your seeds from one nice location!

Now that we've planted all of our seeds we have to tend to them to make sure they can grow so we can harvest them tomorrow. This is my least favorite plant that I have to take care of. Yes you guessed it, The Wild plant! (AHHHHHHHHHHH). He's not that hard you just have to get up to 50 stacks of punching him before he behaves. This means hit the "1" button as much as you can and every time you see a progress bar hit that number 2 button.

The runty plants are pretty easy to tend to you just need to click on them and jump to pull them up (spacebar).

Wiggling and Alluring plants are going to take a while too (well depending on how high your dps is). I like to click on all of them that are up so that you call all the virmen and crows down to kill at once since most characters these days have some sort of cleave or aoe attack the whole process is a bit quicker.

Now we need to spray and water our plants and we should be ready for tomorrow!

Wait a second! What happens if our plants get tangled?! That's my favorite one of all! Mount up, click on the tangled plant and fly away. Pop! Just like that the tangle goes away!

By doing my farm everyday on 3 different characters I am able to do my Imperial Silk and Celestial Cloth cooldown everyday with plenty of Windwool cloth left over by planting Windshear Cactus Seeds. When I plant Enigma Seeds I have usually enough mats to make around 5 Potions of Luck to sell or use and enough mats to make the potions I need for the daily or keep them to turn into Inscription mats. Finally with Snakeroot Seeds I have enough to do a Jard's Peculiar Energy Source and Living Steel cooldown daily.

So for me the farm is a daily necessity to keep a good inflow of mats in order to keep my profession cooldowns up which I can then use to either sell the cooldown items or stock up to make bigger items to sell on the auction house later.

As always, love you little gold goblins and gnomes!

Until tomorrow,

~ Turbos

The Daily Bling!

One quick and easy gold making tip that anyone from level 1 to level 90 can do today, is the daily Bling!
This can be done daily per account. (You used to be able to do it once per character, but I think they didn't like people getting so many chances for free daily loot).

This is a really easy way to make some free gold. Head to your local big city (Stormwind, Orgrimmar, or Friendly Neighborhood Shrine) and look for a little blue exclamation point.

Who is that adorable little gold spewing robot?! Why it's Mr. Blingtron 4000! If you're an Engineer you can make one for yourself, so you can make this daily quest really easy to access. If you're not, well, as long as you are on a fairly populated server and can visit it during somewhat peak play times you shouldn't have to wait a long time to see a little blue exclamation point. (Make sure and thank your local Engineer for dropping one, and if you are an Engineer don't forget to be awesome, and drop yours, for other not so blingified players to enjoy.

Let's get back to the loot. All you have to do is click on the Blingtron, click complete quest, and he will give you a little present! 

Rip off that wrapping paper and let's see what's inside. Not too shabby we got 2x  Master Healing Potions (use or resell on the Auction house for about 2g a piece), 1x Robot Brew (vendors for 2g), and a Silverwine (vendors for 2s 80 copper). Okay this isn't going to be your bread and butter gold maker, but every little bit of gold made counts! 

Remember you can do this once per day per account so if you have more than one account don't forget to get your free daily present for those characters too!

Not the best luck for the little hunter today. We ended up with 1 Sunkissed Wine (Vendors for 37 copper) and some Paper Zeplins (these aren't really worth auctioning so just throw them at a friend ((or enemy (((insert maniacal laugh)))))) (<- that's a lot of parenthesis). So by now you might be thinking 37 copper is this really worth my time. Well let's take a look at what Blingtron has a chance to give you everyday.

Mama Mia! That is a lot of free Bling! So if you don't think it's worth a little bit of your time to stop by Mr. Blingtron everyday, that's your prerogative. As for me, I'll be opening my presents everyday with a big gold making thank you grin on my face.

Love you little gold goblins and gnomes!

Until tomorrow,

~ Turbos

Who needs a Shirt?

A few days ago we talked about dungeon farming to help level alts and get some extra gold in our coffers. One of the ways I like to make money from doing that is by making shirts! Everyone likes shirts! From the Epic Purple Shirt to the lowly starter Footpad's Shirt there isn't anybody who at least at one time has worn a shirt on their character.

So let's look at what setting up a nice little shirt shop entails. Like I said entry into this little shop isn't too hard if you have a tailor and if you are already max level, if not you can start making at least linen shirts at level 1 in tailoring. So it's not that hard to catch up on at least making a few shirts.

Meet Truba! Truba is the oldest character I have that still gets a good amount of play time. She (now he, don't tell her that I faction and race changed her she is still an Undead at heart) was one of the first on Boulderfist to get her Dreadsteed when that quest was still rather hard, but she was pretty stacked being decked out in nearly full Dreadmist (sans the shoulders (stupid Scholomance)). I digress. The point being that I've had this character for a long time and most of the excess cloth I have ends up in her mailbox or sitting in her bank.

So gather together whatever cloth you have and lets roll it up into bolts. 12 hours later, see what you have. Now check and see what shirts you already know how to make.

Click the Filter Tab, then Slots and shirt. Now use whatever spare cloth you have gotten from all those dungeons you've run and now just made into bolts, to make as many of each variety of shirts that you can. Luckily I had enough for enough to make a few of each (with so much more cloth to spare). I would have made more, but seeing how I'm not including a picture of truba's bank you can guess she's a little tight on inventory space. Keep in mind when making shirt's it is easiest to visit (and stay in) your local tailor's shop so that you can buy the necessary threads and dyes you need so you don't have to make a million trips back and forth.

Now off the the Auction House. I'm sure by now you're probably wondering why I really bother with making shirts. You think to yourself is there really any gold in that market, well, let's put our first shirt up for auction and see.

Boom first shirt we listed has a going rate of 354 gold and has been sold at that price for over a few months. Now prices on shirts may vary, due to supply and demand of both the patterns and the shirts themselves, but I can venture to guess that most servers are like the few I sell shirts on and usually you won't have too much competition. After listing all the shirts I could make, the prices of each shirt varied from as much as 499g to as low as 59s. As long as you've got the mats sitting around from running a bunch of dungeons, or are able to pick up the cloth for fairly cheap on the Auction House this market seems to be a win for me.

Okay little gold goblins and gnomes get out there and start making some shirts! Now if you don't have a tailor, go support your local shirt salesman and get yourself some nice new duds.

Love you little gold goblins and gnomes.

Until tomorrow,

~ Turbos

Wednesday Weekly Wrap up!

I can't believe another whole week has just flown by again. Seems like life is just zooming by these days. That being said, let's take a look at what we covered this week in Turbos Gold!

The main theme at the beginning of this week was moving money! We learned how to move money across servers and factions through companion pets, and also how to move money cross faction via the Neutral Auction House.

We touched on one of my favorite strategies, learning the Flip and how to utilize The Undermine Journal.

Postal taught us how to really utilize the Mailbox in a better way.

WoW's 9th anniversary started us talking about farming dungeons for extra loot and xp.

Lastly we focused on what to do with some of the items we get in bulk from dungeon farming in our special on Netherweave.

Overall, we learned a lot of new techniques and touched on some subjects that we can discuss a lot more in-depth soon!

As far as personal gains this week, glyphs were my usual bread and butter selling a lot better on Horde side than Alliance this week. The remaining Mysterious Fortune Cards I had laying around almost sold out selling for 11+ gold this week so better than last. Still these aren't huge sellers, but at this price and movement level they may prove worthwhile after all. Didn't have enough time or mats to really go into more glyphs than the 5.4 ones like I had hoped, but that's a good thing too. I had tons of extra inks laying around last week that I had to restock on Monday, so that hurt this weeks overall profit a little bit, but still more profits to come for next week and the week after. Shoulder Enchants sold faster than I could keep them instock like usual. On top of that for some reason this week my little Shirt empire (which I hope to go into next week) had to be restocked which netted probably an extra 2k gold this week too, up from the usual 200 or so a week I get from them. I might need to start tracking that a bit better (again I hope to get into that business a bit more later this week).

So let's look at what the total gold netted for this week end up being.

Yatta!

That's right we hit the 600k+ gold marker this week! This week's profits ended up being around 60k gold (still a few thousand yet to move over from the Horde side this week) so a few thousand gold better than the week before. Still not as good as the weeks right around 5.4's release, but every improvement is worth it's praise! So keep it going little gold goblins and gnomes! You can do it!

Until tomorrow,

~ Turbos

Netherweave, Netherweave Everywhere

So every week for the last, who knows how long I try and run through Black Temple to see if I can get my grubby little rogue hands on those beautiful Warglaives of Azzinoth!

(as you can guess they still didn't drop)

Along with a bunch of greens, some transmog items, and lots of vendor trash, running the Black Temple every week leaves you with tons of Netherweave Cloth! Time to mail it all off to your friendly neighborhood Tailor.

Now let's get to making some bolts! (Aka time to go make some coffee!)

Now that we've got a bajillion bolts, go buy yourself some Rune Thread, and start making a ton of bags!

(Aka time to go refill that cup of coffee)

Now that we have a ton of Netherweave Bags mail them off to your bank alt and start rolling in the gold!

Netherweave Bags always sell so even when you don't want to farm for the cloth yourself if you find it cheap enough on the Auction House buy it out, make your own bags, and list them up for a profit!

Until tomorrow my lovely little gold goblins and gnomes,

~ Turbos

Gold for Nothing and Level Alts for Free (running old dungeons)

You've probably done it before ... No not that, but ran lowbies or your alts through dungeons. Did you know that that is a great way to earn some extra gold and level your alts or your friends, and there is no better time to do that than right now.

Today, why today? Well, little gold goblin it's WoW's 9th Anniversary! What does that mean for us gold makers? Go check your mailbox!

That's right everyone gets a Celebration Package! So dust off your profession alts that might be a bit lacking in levels and let's get to farming some old dungeons. 

Tonight's special guest is our, please level me so I can finish leveling my Blacksmithing, Death Knight! So empty your bags, click your Celebration Package, and let's get dungeoning. For a list of dungeons available to you your alt at level check out WoWWiki's Instances by Level page! Turb our wonderful little Blacksmithing Death Knight is currently level 72 so let's head over to Drak'Tharon Keep. I like this dungeon because it's really easy to run through. Even if it's your first time in here you shouldn't get lost or at least too lost :P 

Don't forget to grab whatever mines or herbs are in your dungeon to maximize profits and keep your profession leveling going. 

I was able to do 3 runs of Drak'Tharon Keep in around 30 - 45 minutes (time included for distractions aka twitter >< (and the link at the bottom of this page)). Now let's see what we got out of it. 

Turb leveled from 72-73 and almost hit 74.

50g in raw gold looted

140g from white and vendor trash

85g worth of cloth

90g worth of mining mats

35g worth of disenchanting mats

120g worth of transmog items

and 1 Khorium Lockbox with about 9g worth of disenchanting mats

So overall about 529g in 30-45minutes and an extra level and a half on my profession alt. Not a bad run.

Okay little gold goblins and gnomes, go celebrate WoW's 9th Anniversary by leveling up those profession alts and making yourself some nice gold along the way!

Until tomorrow,

~ Turbos

(P.S. If you don't know the song reference in the title of today's update watch this awesome mashup!)