Wednesday Weekly Wrap Up

Another week that just flew by! Especially thanks to the the holidays. So let's take a look back at what we covered this week.

We celebrated Linksgiving!

We then visited three different places I like to Farm

Now on to how this week turned out. To put it bluntly this week was rather uneventful in sales and a bit sad, but I'm gonna chock that up to the Holiday keeping people away from playing. I know it kept me away a bit more than usual as well. The big loss in revenue this week came from sales on the Horde side. I can usually count on the Horde side to bring in 20k - 30k and this week sales only ended up around 10k.

That being said... 700k!

Here's to next week! 

Love you like always little gold goblins and gnomes!

Until tomorrow,

~ Turbos

Places I like to Farm - Episode 1.5

1.5!? But we just did Episode 2 yesterday. Well, the spot I really love on the Isle of Thunder wasn't up for the dailies the first time around so let's go visit the Thunder Isle again! (For today's Episode make sure and grab 2 Potions of Luck as we are going to be farming for 40 minutes instead of the usual 20.)

Drat, we still didn't get the quests that are my favorite for farming, but that's okay let's roll with what we got.

Today, the Magic map take us over to the Ihgaluk Crag. Yuck!

While this area is my least favorite for farming, there are two absolutely fun things you can do over here.

Those are ... Jump super freaking high and far and squish Cockroaches!

Throughout our questing and farming do not hesitate to destroy any Rare you see,

And loot any chest you can find!

Once your quests are complete, chug another potion of luck if your fist has run out and hop on over to where I love to farm, the troll killing fields of Za'Tual

I tend to have good luck on the drops off of these trolls. The green items alone sell for quite a bit on the Auction house especially the Timeworn pieces. On top of that the white Zandalari Journals that drop can fetch anywhere from 20 to 90 gold each since there is an achievement for collecting them all. So for the next 20 minutes or however long you have left until your second potion of luck expires kill as many trolls as you can, as fast as you can.

Once your 20 minutes here are up if you've had any luck at all you should have at least 1 Key to the Palace of Lei Shen, and if you've been killing the rares and looting chests you might even have more! From today alone I netted 3 of them so head over to Taoshi and get your free loots!

Alright so like I said today's farming episode was a little bit longer than the usual 20 minutes, but let's see how we did.

Gold Looted and Gray's Vendored - 1118 gold

Banquet - 12 gold

Windwool Cloth - 72 gold

Zandalari Journals x5 - 60 gold

Greens - 700 gold

White and Black trillium - 189

Ghost Iron Ore - 20g

Exotic Leather - 15g

Total Gold - 2186g

Bonus!

Valor - 45

Elder Charm of Good Fortune - 2

Lesser Charm of Good Fortune - 21

Tattered Historical Parchments - 39

Motes of Harmony - 63

Double Bonus!

Key to the Palce of Lei Shen x 3

Pretty good haul today! 

Love you lots little gold goblins and gnomes! 

Until tomorrow,

~ Turbos

Places I Like to Farm - Episode 2

Picking back up where we left off last time, let's take a look at another fun farming spot. This location isn't as profitable as the last one, but it's great for getting Shaohao rep, as well as the occasional gear upgrade for that little left behind alt. 

Before we start head out to the local Darkmoon Faire, since it's in town this week and hop of the Darkmoon Carousel. This will give you the "Whee" buff which grants you an extra 10% xp and rep bonus for everything you kill.

Now off to the Timeless Isle! Talk to Kairoz once you get there, and accept the Empowering the Hourglass quest. Next head over to Emperor Shaohao and pick up the Path of the Mistwalker Quest. Alright, that should get us set up, so we can head over to Firewalker Ruins. Before we start killing every Ordon in sight make sure and down a trust potion of luck for extra treasure finding goodness. 

Don't forget to open every little hidden chest or basket inbetween collecting your Epoch Stones and killing 20 Elites. Pay attention to people of the opposite faction in this area as well. If you tend to play during peak play hours you might deal with a bit of ganking. That being said, if you tend to respect others no matter the faction, you usually don't have to deal with too many gankers.

Turn the clock forward 20 or 25 minutes, turn in those completed quests and lets see how much loot we ended up with.

Gold looted + vendored Grays - 200 gold

Greens - 150 gold

Ghost Iron - 8g

Black Trillium - 38g

Windwool cloth 173g

Potions - 7g

Banquet -12g

Timeless Signet / Sha Crystal -150g

Total of ....

738 gold

Bonus ...

Valor - 250

Lesser Charms of Good Fortune - 103

Timeless Coins - 4733

Shaohao Rep ~ 1000

Double Bonus

Warning Sign

Not as good as the last place we tried farming, but we did get a little bit closer to earning enough rep and timeless coins to get the beautiful Heavenly Golden Cloud Serpent. Not to mention we made some gold and had some fun along the way.

Love you lots little gold goblins and gnomes!

Until tomorrow,

~ Turbos

Places I like to Farm - Episode 1

Sometimes I still like the old school way of making gold, you know, by just killing stuff and picking up the loot. I know right, who does that anymore? Well, I do, sometimes. So cozy up with your favorite blanket, grab yourself something yummy to drink and let's head out to one of my favorite farming spots.

Tonight we are going to take a trip over to Vareesa Windrunner in the Townlong Steppes.

Once there, pop into the portal and head out to the Isle of Thunder. Upon arrival check out the assignment map accept the pve quest and talk to Vareesa again. Today's quest is going to take us over to The Court of Bones. Captain Elleane Wavecrest has a quest for us as well as does Warmage Yurias. Theses daily quests are subject to change, but really any quests on the isle will do.

Before we begin chug a potion of luck for extra treasures!

If you have quests to do before you hit the first little quest hub go ahead and do those along the way. While killing Shan'ze, before heading to the Court of Bones, a Key to the Palace of Lei Shen dropped! So we'll get to what to do with that in a moment.

At the Court of Bones Narasi Snodawn and her posse have a few extra quests available to us as well so grab those up and let's get farming! When farming and questing in this area I like to grab as many mobs up as I can while sprinting to the next mob. I using Blade Flurry, Fan of Knives and as many cooldowns as I can to burn them down as soon as possible.

While killing and questing on the Isle keep an eye out for these little beautiful Treasure boxes just laying around waiting for you to loot them.

Okay all of our quests in this area are done now on to using that key. Head to the Bleak Hollow and talk to

to Taoshi. She will let you in to the Thunder Kings Treasure Palace. Inside there are a few different ways to approach this place. I like to open as many treasure chests as I can in the first room and once all those are open go on to the next. I find generally if you just focus on the chests themselves rather than getting to the end of the palace in the 5 minute time limit, that I usually end up with more gold.

If you picked up any Burial Trove Keys along the way use them to open up the bonus chests at the end before leaving the Thunder King's Trove.

Once you've got those quests completed head back to Jaina for one last quest for today to get yourself an Arcane Trove,

All that only took about 25 minutes so let's see how we made out.

Gold from looting  + greys sold  - 602 gold

Greens Looted - 335 gold

Windwool Cloth - 99 gold

Exotic Leather - 22 gold

Black and White Trillium 38 + 48

Total - 1144 gold

Valor - 30

Kirin Tor Offensive Insignia - 3

Lesser Charms of Good Fortune - 19

Elder Charms of Good Fortune - 2

Mote of Harmony - 21

While there are faster gold methods around, this one seems to still be pretty profitable in my opinion, plus it's nice to get out into the world sometimes and do a few quests.

Hope you guys give this method a shot, if you're looking for a different way to make some gold. 

Love you lots, like always, little gold goblins and gnomes.

Until tomorrow,

Turbos

Happy Linksgiving!

Yesterday was Thanksgiving and as is usual in the world of awkward family thanksgiving dinner conversations it's that time to talk about what we are thankful for. So here are a few of my favorite gold making (and WoW in general) resources, that I for one am very thankful for.

The Undermine Journal - This resource is great! You plug in your faction and realm and you can see at a glance what great deals are currently available for you on your local Auction House

The Consortium - If you want to see where some of the greatest minds in the gold making community hang out, stop by the forums here. (especially the professions and auction house sub forums)

Elvinelol - One of my favorite members of not only the gold making community, but the wow community as a whole. Phenomenal forums with some extremely indepth tips and trick for the transmog market. If you've ever got a spare moment, see if you can catch him on Twitch. It's always a blast in his channel.

Phat Lewts - A great gold blogger who always has interesting ideas and questions for the community.

Just My Two Copper - When I first started really wanted to dip my toe into making gold, I loved reading JMTC. This was one of the first big sites with indepth info on how to make gold, now there are a lot of guest bloggers featured here, who still come up with some great new ideas.

Gold Capped (WoW Insider) - I try to visit WoWInsider everyday. They have a great little community built around the sight with some terrific bloggers. Though the site is mainly a general WoW community blog there are a lot of interesting articles and ideas kicked around throughout the blog that spark tons of new gold making ideas. I personally enjoy any article by ShadesoGrey or Matt Rossi in particular.

Power Word: Gold - Jim has some great YouTube tutorials and videos. He's got a fun personality and can teach anyone the ins and outs of TSM.

/r/woweconomy/ and /r/WoWGoldMaking/ - These are a couple little fantastic little Reddit Communities that are always around to help you with advice or answer a few questions.

Ashayo and ElJeppy - Exquisite podcasters formally of the amazing Aprillian's CtrlAltWoW and now hosts of the WoWGeekly podcast. While these two don't focus on gold making per se they do always have unique views and occasional out of the box tips on how to add a few extra gold to your own coffers.

Wowhead - the best resource around for general WoW knowledge. Need to know where something drops, who drops it, what it does. Visit Perculia's Wowhead!

Ctrl Alt WoW - As I mentioned before this podcast's true focus is on community and the individual WoW player. Aprillian has brought to the WoW community in general a unique perspective that fosters love and acceptance better than any other community I have seen. While not a true gold making resource there is usually 2 or 3 tips that will help you play better or give you a different perspective on how to play per episode, not to mention you'll always be in a better mood by the end of the podcast!

The Instance - Scott Johnson's baby, if not the first, this is the biggest World of Warcraft community established. He really gave the community a voice and a reason to stay together no mater what part of life you're in, in game or out of game. Every episode has a touch of polish and professionalism that is unheard of in free entertainment. His creative and entertaining views, opinions and discourses along with the always funny Turpster and hearthpro Dills always will have a huge place in the WoW community. This podcast doesnt focus on gold making, but most of the foundation of the WoW community these days is thanks to this show and the always talented Scott Johnson.

Press Y Podcast - Relatively new on the wow podcasting scene, the lovely and talented Remedeez along with hilarious and always knowledgeable sidekicks kageofhell and dunlock are truly a refreshing, honest and sincere blessing to the WoW community. This podcast is going through some changes and I look forward to whatever content these 3 continue to bring.

Realm Maintenance - This years WoW community MVP Rho has brought the semi splintered wow community together in a way that no one previously had. Through hard work and dedication Rho presents all aspects of the wow community in a fresh light consistently every week.

Your WoW Money - I personally just started listening to this podcast a few weeks ago, and am really enjoying listening to Lady Havah and Kero on their weekly gold making adventures.

All Things Azeroth - Another big staple in the community. I only a few months ago started listening to ATA, but have enjoyed every episode. It's always exciting to hear what Medros will say next, and of course how Rho will take it. The give and take between these two really makes the show.

Azeroth Roundtable - Ben and Jon are so full of energy and new ideas. They don't mind bringing up controversial topics and really threshing out new ideas and solutions for problems and issues in WoW. No matter the topic they'll make you interested!

Olivia Grace and the Gamebreakertv Nation - Still new to these guys, but the few episodes I've seen are very entertaining and great to have on in the background while slogging through those long nights in the Auction House.

TradeChat - The cutest and most energetic source of happy positive WoW energy around. If you haven't watched an episode of her show you are missing out!

Nobbel - Nothing to do with gold making at all, but if you'd like to have any idea what is going on in the story behind the world you're making money in, listen to him.

Necroxis - Another great WoW story teller who loves to bring up controversial subjects and ideas. His rants are a must see along with the lore of course!

MMO Champion - Great source of data mined info. If you want to get a sneak peak at stuff before it's announced or released go visit them!

NevAH - A fairly new gold blogger, to myself at least, but I love getting her gold idea updates in my email!

Convert To Raid - (In the deep sultry voice of Koltrane) Fortune Cookie Say... You should listen to them!

Alright, I know that's a ton of info to throw at you at once, but since it's Thanksgiving weekend, I wanted to say thanks to all these wonderful resources. Every link or person mentioned on this page is truly a blessing to this community. Each one of them at some point in time has made me laugh, smile, play or at least think differently and all of them have a special place in my heart. I know I haven't listed all the people I want to, but this list would go on for days, and I'm sure as soon as I press publish I'll remember 30 more. So with that in mind I just wanted to say to all the people on this list, and all the people that are reading this, Thank you. I appreciate you. You're awesome and super special and the world wouldn't be the same without you. So like I always say,

I love you little gold goblins and gnomes.

Until tomorrow

~ Turbos

Wednesday Weekly Wrap Up!

I know I say this every week, but seriously this week has gone by faster than any other! You may have noticed a new header on the site. I finally had a little bit of free time even though it seems like I've had less free time this week to do anything. So I hope you like it. I plan on adding a lot more Illustration and hopefully get some video guides here in the upcoming future. 

Alas I ramble, let's take a look at what this week has been like in Gold making.

This week started with a guide on setting up your own shirt making business. (which, by the way, this week alone earned an extra 800+ gold). 

We then looked at the benefits of doing your daily Bling! (hit some pretty good drops on Blingtron this week as well two or three gray items that vendored for 75+ gold each)

We hit up the meat of this week's gold tips with the Hows and Whys of your very own farm.

Following that we took a look at how to set up your own Macros and learned a few of my favorites.

Lastly we spent a little while looking into selling your own Sky Golems and avoiding the Auction House when you can.

Before we look at what the rundown was for how much gold earned this week. I wanted to mention one tip to try and do in the next few days, that is Pilgrim's Bounty. Doing the quests isn't really going to net you a profit or make you a ton of gold, but if you want to level your cooking on one, or more, of your characters super quickly and very inexpensively this is your chance. I took Turb out for about and hour, got 4 or 5 xp bubbles and leveled his cooking from 1 to 326 and it only cost around 50gold. So if you have an alt that you'd like to get cooking on this is the way to do it. Don't forget to wear your Celebration Package Tabard as well for a little extra xp boost. 

(If you have a pet that doubles as a cooking fire now's a good time to use them!)

This week's profits netted to just around 60k gold. Not a bad week. My personal playtime was a bit less with the holidays this week and all, plus the times I could login varied from my usual schedule which if I were to guess cost me around 5-8k gold in missed opportunities. That being said I did get a chance to make a bit more on the late night market than I usually do, so perhaps I gained some new customers or acquaintances that I might not have had otherwise, which could lead to more profits down the line. Shirts seemed to sell better this week than last. I didn't sell hardly any Mysterious Fortune Cards. I couldn't keep Potions of Luck or Shoulder Enchants in stock at all this week. Potions of Luck prices seemed to be dropping as well, but selling better than I've seen in weeks. Glyphs were pretty steady overall Alliance side. Horde side seems to really favor a few glyphs and they sell fast with lots of excess stock on other glyphs. I'll have to keep a better record and stock balance if I wanna not miss any opportunities there.

Love you lots little gold goblins and gnomes!

Until tomorrow,

Happy Pilgrim's Bounty!

~ Turbos

Jard is so Peculiar!

I had a buyer for quite some time wanting my next Sky Golem. Yes, that's right a buyer! This way you can avoid the Auction House cut, and end up with more gold in your pocket! Unfortunately, my availability and hers have been off a bit. Luckily we both managed to slip on at the same time in the same place and make the transaction happen. 

If you've been keeping up with your daily cooldowns, make sure and mail all the excess Living Steel you have to your Engineer who has been faithfully doing the Jard's Peculiar Energy Source cooldown.

Now run over to your favorite local Forge, mine is the one next to Cullen Hammerbrow, and get to crafting.

Now that we have it crafted. Go meetup with whoever is next on your list for available Golems or put it up on the Auction House and collect your 30k gold!

Love you like always little gold goblins and gnomes!

Until tomorrow,

~ Turbos