Off The Cuff - Surprise Moneymaker

Since I've got so few readers, I figured I'd be safe in this "big reveal".  Out of everything I've got, the one item pulling in the biggest profit for me is Tinker's Gears.  At the low mat cost of two Ghost Iron Bars, which average about 24g total on my server, I can sell these little beauties for 200g-300g a piece.

I'm imagining it's because of the Ghost Iron Dragonling, an also-easy-to-make 450 iLevel trinket which sells for a song and is popular among fresh 90s looking to bump up their iLevel to get into Heroic dungeons.  It comes with three Gear slots, allowing the wearer to customize it with +600 in three different stats.  Since the Gears are also unique-equipped, anyone using the trinket is forced to buy three different gears to put into it, which makes for a viable market for all of the gears, and not just two or three that carry the most popular stats.

I'm still seeing how much the market can bear in these things, but I can easily say that I'm selling 10-20 of them a day, even without constantly camping for undercutters.

Off the Cuff - Websites I Can't Live Without

Every so often, if I'm working on a rather lengthy post but don't want to leave you guys without something to read, I'll dash something off that I think might be helpful.  Today, it's the top three websites that I always have open.

• Battle.net - Now that the Remote AH is free, there's next to no reason not to visit this site frequently.  Sometimes I use it extensively for setting up transmog and rare recipe sales, sometimes for using the Neutral AH for swapping things from Alliance to Horde and vice versa, and sometimes just to grab something really quick that I've gotten an alert for.
• The Undermine Journal - If you've never been here before, you're really missing out.  TUJ keeps track of auction sales both current and past, and can be used to help you decide if buying something is a good investment, should your addon be indicating it might be.  For a small fee, you can even get it to keep track of specific items and e-mail you the results; I use this for a lot of rare recipes, and whenever I get an alert, I hop over to the Remote AH and snatch it up.  Can we say 50g for an item I later sold for 9000g?  Yes we can!  TUJ even comes with a handy round-up of recent gold blog posts on its front page.
• WoWuction - A new site to my arsenal, but already one I can't live without.  Similar to TUJ in that it keeps track of current and past sales, the feature I use the most is their Bargain Hunter, which can be found under the Reports tab.  Set it to your realm, and you're ready to see a list of items that could potentially be flipped for a goodly amount of gold; this is extremely helpful to catch something you may not have considered for one of TUJ's alerts.

There you go.  You're welcome.

Radio Silence

Wow, it's hard to believe it's been over a week without a post; this is what happens when I spend time away from a computer that doesn't have WoW installed on it.  I know I promised a detailed description of my big leveling push, but since most of it is old news by now, I'm going to have to renege on that.  Hopefully you can find it in your hearts to forgive me!

That said, let's get an update on what I've been up to.  Along with leveling Knand to 90 and working on various other characters' professions, I went out of town to a Japanese animation convention, which ate up a lot of my free time.  Despite this, not only did I get Knand to 90 first in my guild, but I've also maxed both his Jewelcrafting and Enchanting, and have earned him a respectable iLevel of 461; Looking For Raid level needs to be 463, which I'm confident I can get before that kicks in next Tuesday.  I've also managed to max Mining on the Death Knight and Alchemy on the Priest, and have almost maxed Herbalism and Leatherworking.  The DK has a second round of JC, which has enabled me to double up on my researches, resulting in me having twice as many cuts as I should have, which would be even more impressive had I been able to actually research every day since launch.  As it is, I've gotten two very important things for gold-making: The cut for Brilliant Primordial Ruby, and the Transmute: Primordial Ruby alchemy recipe.

Since I'm no longer needing to pump all my gold into Ghost Iron Ore for prospecting into red rares, I've started focusing on picking up Golden Lotus (for transmutes) and offloading some of the stock I picked up prior to the launch.  I've also (finally) gotten my gathering druid and one of my bank guilds transferred to the new server.  The druid is almost maxed on Herbalism and Mining, and once she is, I can get started on Alchemy: Flask Mastery for the DK, and Inscription for the Priest, instead of their current gathering professions.  Soon I'll transfer over the Tailor, and start maxing that, Blacksmithing and Engineering.

In the next few days, I'll post detailed descriptions on what I'm up to for each profession, as well as how I'm using them to further my secondary goal of hitting the gold cap on my main server.