I shared a tip on the site back on December 22nd about how a player with 500 alchemy and enchanting could create the lifebound alchemist stone and disenchant it into a Maelstrom Crystal. This was hotfixed in patch 4.0.3a which was released on live servers Tuesday January 18, 2011.

The beauty of this gold making method was that the cost of materials for the Lifebound Alchemist Stone was only around 800g whereas Maelstrom Crystals sold for around 2,500g (back on December 22nd), that is a profit of 1,700g for each maelstrom crystal you manage to sell.

Unfortunately I am late reporting this hotfix, the ideal situation would of been to buy out the AH of all the maelstrom crystal you could of, they were selling for 1900g on average before the fix and now they are going for 2800g!

Time to keep our eyes open for the next cheapest way to get our maelstrom crystals for those expensive enchants.

Here’s an amazing gold making method for those lucky enough to have both Enchanting and Alchemy on the same character.

Maelstrom Crystals are the toughest shard to get right now and the highest quality, it comes from disenchanting an epic level piece of gear and as of right now no epic gear drops from 5 mans.

Why would anyone want maelstrom crystals in the first place? they are the “currency” required to buy the 3 best weapon enchant formulas – Enchant Weapon Landslide, Power Torrent and Windwalk. They are also the reagent used in all the new cataclysm enchantments.

Currently on my server these crystals are going for between 2,000g – 3,000g.

Disenchanting Lifebound Alchemist’s Stone

In order to get cheap maelstrom crystals you need to be an alchemist with at least 500 skill and craft a Lifebound Alchemist’s Stone then 500 skill in Enchanting in order to disenchant it.

The current material costs to craft a Lifebound Alchemist’s Stone on my server are:

So the total cost to craft an alchemist’s stone is 785g 20s, and they are selling for around 2,500g which comes out to a profit of 1,715g! The other benefit is this would be a great way to get maelstrom crystals for your enchanter and be the first to corner the market and learn/sell those new enchants.

Unfortunately the lifebound alchemist’s stones are Bind on Pick up so you need to have both professions on the same character, but make sure you sign up to our RSS feed and be the first to hear about our gold making methods for all other professions, and even methods that don’t require professions at all.

Selling enchanting scrolls was one of my largest income earners back in WOTLK and no doubt will be a very profitable way to make gold in Cata, I found the 20kleveling guide to be the most thorough on explaining how to make the most profit with enchanting and all other professions.

After logging on for patch 4.0.3 I spent some time visiting various vendors. We know that Jessica Sellers only converts Blackfallow inks now instead of inks of the sea.

However another surprising vendor change I noticed is that Enchanting Vellums are sold by the Enchanting Supplies vendor Ildine Sorrowspear for 9s 50c.

No More Vellum Profits for Scribes

This change removes an income stream for scribes, vellums used to be my 3rd highest income earner as I would usually sell around 100 vellums a day at 6g each (2g cost to craft) so 400g profit a day.

It is a bummer whenever one of abilities you have exclusive for your profession is made obsolete.

The upside to this is that enchanters will now have lower costs to make scrolls, although it might also increase competition since it lowers the barriers to entry of making scrolls. It was nice having a scribe alt to make all my vellums for my enchanter which I knew other enchanters didn’t have the luxury of.

Flip Enchanting Vellums for Profit on the AH

In the meantime there is no harm in trying to profit from this change. Some players might not figure out this change and still go to the auction house for their vellums, so what I’m trying is flipping the vendor vellums on the AH, buy them for 10s each and sell them for 2g 50s.

I’d also recommend stock piling up on vendor vellums just in case this was a change not meant to go live and might be reverted.

It only takes me 10 minutes to collect mail, craft what I am out or low on stock of and then post everything back onto the auction house. You’ll want to add in another 2 minute session later during peak time to cancel/repost to ensure you’re still the lowest price.

This video is meant to show how fast and easy professions can be to maximize once you have a system in place. It can be very time consuming when you’re manually posting each scroll or gem with appraiser so setting up Quick auctions groups are a must to instantly post what is profitable but avoid posting anything below a profit.

Addons used in the video:

Quick Auctions 3 for automatically canceling and posting auctions

Kevtool Queue (KTQ) – to queue up what I am out or low on stock of

Skillet and Lil’ Sparkys Workshop – Trade window UI, shows profits based on current AH prices

Auctionator – Used to buy materials in large quantities

TukUI – User Interface

Auctioneer – For storing average prices and beancounter for sales history

I have just started collecting all the data I can on cataclysm and spotting good gold making opportunities. An obvious opportunity is to stock up on heirloom enchants as many people will be rolling worgens/goblins to level up and apply these enchants to be twinked out.

With the new guild system rewards, if you are part of a guild that reaches level 10 you’ll be able to buy an heirloom cloak and once the guild reaches level 20 heirloom helmets are available.

This means that enchants without level requirements can now be applied to these items and will be usable from 1 – 85!

Cloak Enchants

There aren’t many decent cloak enchants, as I sifted through the list these were the ones that appeared useful:

Enchant Cloak – Superior Defense = +70 Armor
Enchant Cloak – Stealth = Increase Stealth
Enchant Cloak – Lesser Agility = +3 Agility

The stealth increase will be great for PvP toons (as you’d think there will be a pvp and pve version of the cloak enchant) and the +3 agility will be amazing at the lower levels and be a small bonus once you get up to 80+

Head Enchants

Unfortunately it seems all the enchants here are only active above level 50+

Lesser Arcanum of Constitution
Lesser Arcanum of Rumination
Lesser Arcanum of Voracity ( +8 str or agi/int/sta/spr)

As time gets closer to Cataclysm blizzard might add in new enchants for the head/cloak heirloom items, I will keep my eyes open and if you think I’ve missed anything in this post feel free to reply in the comments.

I’ve wanted to do an income report for the longest time but I’ve had problems with the programs I use to export beancounter data to excel. I finally got bag export to start working again and I’m thrilled to be able to share my best selling gems and enchant scrolls for the past 2 weeks.

My current primary methods of income are in order of profit: Inscription, Enchanting, Vendor Flipping, Jewelcrafting, and Engie Pets.

In the last 16 days here are my profit from each profession:

1. Glyphs = 14,973g

2. Enchant Scrolls = 13,603g

3. Vendor Flips = 6,297g

4. JC Gems = 5,538g

5. Engie Pets = 2,067g

Total gained in 16 days = 42,478g profit or 2,658g/day

The ways I’m working on improving these numbers is by getting the rare enchanting recipes I talked about before, getting more gem cuts and being more committed to selling engie pets (I honestly just forget to make them sometimes and miss out on very easy money).

Best Selling Enchants

Best Selling Jewelcrafting Gem Cuts

Bonus – KTQ Scroll Macro

I love using KTQ to automate all aspects of my crafting, I’ll share with you guys my current KTQ macro for enchanting scrolls:

Remember to only use up to the item number in your KTQ macro, not the actual item name so that you can save character space. You’ll only be able to fit 14 of these per macro so make a few.

Let me know of anything else you’d like included in these income report updates, I have another big article in the works similar to my vendor flipping project I posted above. Good luck with your gold making and stocking up for Cataclysm!

Making gold with enchanting is either my 1st or 2nd favourite profession to make gold with because once you have a system in place you’re only spending a few minutes a day and raking in a nice profit.

Most of the scrolls that are popular can be bought directly from Vanessa Sellers in Dalaran making it easy to jump into the enchanting market. Unfortunately this also allows new competitors to rapidly set up a business and you’ll be in undercutting wars. One way to pull in a lot more gold with enchanting is to do a little hard work and find the rare and hard to get enchants that not many new enchanters even know about.

Some members in our private gold making forum shared a list recently of super rare items and it gave me the idea for this post.

In this article I will provide a list of formulas for enchants that aren’t sold by Vanessa Sellers which are popular sellers and therefore command a high price and profit margin.

List of Rare Enchanting Formulas

There are two areas we are going to be focusing on here, the heirloom market and enchants that are BoP from raids.

The heirloom market is huge, while most players wouldn’t bother enchanting items they are leveling up with since gear is replaced so rapidly, heirloom enchants can be placed on an item from level one and stay active till 80. Some of these enchants give HUGE bonuses and therefore players are willing to cough up a lot of gold to get that advantage while leveling.

Unfortunately most of these lucrative heirloom enchants are very rare world drops but blizzard made most of them BoE and are sold via the auction house. This is another opportunity for non-enchanters to make gold as you can add these rare BoE enchants to your snatch list and if someone not knowingly posts it at a low price you can snatch it up and resell on the AH for thousands more.

Heirloom Enchants

1. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Fiery Weapon (BoE)

Source: Drop – Blackrock Depths – Pyromancer Loregrain

Farmable, about a 17% drop rate and you could get this in about 30 minutes of farming.

2. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Icy Chill (BoE)

Source: Drop – Winterspring – Anguished Highborne

Farmable, 4% drop

This enchant may seem like garbage on first glance, who cares about snaring a mob and debuffing it’s attack power but this is highly sought after for Hunters to kite with.

3. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Lifestealing (BoE)

Source: Drop – Scholomance – Spectral Researcher

Farmable, 8% drop

4. Formula: Enchant Chest – Greater Stats (BoE)

Source: World Drop (Outlands)

Not Farmable, this is a really rare enchant and you’ll need to add it to your snatch list and hope you find it for sale.

5. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Crusader (BoE)

Source: Eastern and Western Plaugelands – Scarlet Archmage and Scarlet Spellbinder

Very low drop rate, 1.5% chance. You’re best bet is to find this on the auction house.

6. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Spellpower (BoE)

Source: Molten Core – Random Drop

Very low drop rate, <1% chance from bosses only. Find this on the auction house via snatch list.

7. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Healing Power (BoE)

Source: Molten Core – Random Drop

Very low drop rate, <1% chance from bosses only. Find this on the auction house via snatch list.

It’s only 1 spellpower lower than the above enchant and since they are both super rare you’ll be able to sell for a high price.

8. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Agility (BoP)

Source: Reputation – Timbermaw Hold – Friendly

This would be pretty fast to obtain and it’s a popular enchant, go out and get this one right now.

9. Formula: Enchant 2H Weapon – Agility (BoP)

Same as above, Timbermaw Hold – Friendly Rep

Feral druids and hunters particularly like this enchant.

9. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Strength (BoP)

Source: Reputation – Thorium Brotherhood – Friendly

Another fast reputation to grind since you only need friendly, and a popular enchant.

10. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Mighty Intellect (BoP)

Source: Reputation – Throium Brotherhood – Revered

Will take a while to grind this one, some people on wowhead report being able to grind it out within a day.

11. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Mighty Spirit (BoP)

Source: Reputation – Thorium Brotherhood – Honored

Might as well pick this one up too as you’ll have the rep, Warlocks and Priests prefer spirit.

12. Formula: Enchant Chest – Major Health (BoE)

Source: Vendor – Qia in Winterspring

Easiest enchant on the list to get, go buy it and even pick up a couple extra to flip for profit, I have a list of all vendor items to flip for profit if you’re interested in this gold making method.

Bonus

13. Formula: Enchant Chest – Major Resilience (BoE)

Source: World Drop (Outlands)

Very rare drop, this enchant cannot be put onto heirloom items but any PvP twinks above level 35 will want this enchant for 39,49,59,69 BG’s

High Level Enchants

Another market that has high barriers to entry are enchants dropped from bosses. These enchants cannot be put onto heirloom items but the enchant effect they have is sought after by even level 80′s.

1. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Mongoose (BoP)

Source: Drop – Karazhan – Moroes

A level 75+ DK should be able to solo Moroes, and level 80 classes capable of tanking. Otherwise bring a partner with you and grab this recipe. A great seller and 100% drop rate.

2. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Blade Ward (BoP)

Source: Drop – Ulduar – random boss drop

Everyone I talk to says Ulduar is a raid that no one likes going back to, this will be a pretty hard enchant to procure but is a good seller.

3. Formula: Enchant Weapon – Blood Draining (BoP)

Same as above. Drop – Ulduar – random boss drop

I will be picking up as many of these enchants that I can and I’ll report back on the amount of profit I can get from them. It’s important to look for any edge you can get in your professions as a lot of players won’t spend the extra effort tracking down recipes or grinding rep which equals much higher profits for those who do the hard work.

Good luck with getting these recipes, make sure you add the BoE ones to your snatch list and buy them up at a reasonable price, or flip them if you aren’t an enchanter. If you know of any other enchants not included in the list I’d appreciate if you shared it in the comments below so I can add it in.

In the video above I show my daily routine with enchanting and how I use my gold making addons to make a hefty profit from scrolls.

I recently posted a video on how I leveled enchanting from 1-450 for the most profit. Now it’s time to start making gold with enchanting in 3.3.3 and incorporating it into my mix of other professions (read how I make my gold to see all my gold making strategies).

There are so many enchants and getting started can seem daunting so here’s how I went about it.

Get Enchant Formulas

Step one is to visit Vanessa Sellers in Dalaran and buy up pretty much all the formulas she sells. All of these are great sellers except for the following:

Enchant Cloak – Mighty Armor
Enchant Weapon – Icebreaker
Enchant Weapon – Giant Slayer
Enchant Weapon – Scourgebane

There are some other enchanting recipes that are good sellers and not included in this list, such as Mongoose, I will write up how to source those formulas in an upcoming article.

Use LSWS To Find Most Profitable Enchants

With a list of popular enchants you can now do a full scan of the auction house (do /auc getall). This will refresh the values in Lil’Sparkys Workshop and show you the lowest priced scroll currently on the auction house on the left column, and the cost to craft the scroll in the right column using your servers market prices.

With this data, you can sort the list by highest profit. Start to craft one of each of these scrolls from top to bottom until you reach less profitable scrolls or you can’t afford to invest more.

Review Sales With Beancounter

After crafting and posting these items (you can start off posting with just appraiser in auctioneer) you should be getting some sales coming back. Open up beancounter, make sure only “Auctions” is checked and search for “Scroll of”, this will provide you with a list of all your enchants that are selling for a profit.

From the scrolls you see selling you can now add these to your KTQ macro so it will always add these to your skillet queue if you run out of supply.

I use the item number instead of item name as it really saves on character space in the macros. Go to wowhead.com and search for whatever scroll you are looking for, at the top URL you will see the item=#, type in that # into the KTQ macro as follows:

/ktq queue 2 38979    < — example of Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Exceptional Spellpower

Here’s my KTQ macro I currently use for all my best selling enchants:

/ktq queue 2 38912
/ktq queue 2 38914
/ktq queue 2 38937
/ktq queue 2 38951
/ktq queue 2 38963
/ktq queue 2 38964
/ktq queue 2 38973
/ktq queue 2 38978
/ktq queue 2 38979
/ktq queue 2 38989
/ktq queue 2 38991
/ktq queue 2 38995
/ktq queue 2 38997
/ktq queue 2 38999
/ktq queue 2 39005
/ktq queue 2 39006
/ktq queue 2 44453
/ktq queue 2 44455
/ktq queue 2 44456
/ktq queue 2 44457
/ktq queue 2 44463
/ktq queue 2 44466
/ktq queue 2 44467
/ktq queue 2 45060

I advise you to make your own list that pertains to your servers economy, or only make 1 of each scroll first to make sure they’re selling on your server.

Create QA3 Groups For Posting

Once you are crafting 25 different enchanting scrolls a day using appraiser to post scrolls can be so much work since you are analyzing each scrolls price to see if it is within your profit range. You should instead set up QA3 groups for each scroll so that all you need to do is do your KTQ macro, craft whatever is in skillet, then press Post on QA3 and it’ll post whatever is profitable and leave in your inventory the scrolls that are too low priced.

Enchanting is my 2nd best gold making profession that I highlighted in my highest gold making professions per effort post the other day. I second it only to Jewelcrafting and once I pick up the other enchants that are harder to get (so should be less competition) it might very well take over Jewelcrafting as my best gold making profession.

In the videos below I show which recipes I picked and how I power leveled enchanting from 1 – 450.

Cost of Leveling Enchanting

In the video I tracked how much it cost me to power level enchanting .

Starting Gold: 15, 320g

Starting Inventory Worth: 830g

Ending Gold: 8,111g

Ending Inventory Left Over: 850g

Selling Scrolls (Including AH Cut): 10,525g

Cost: (Starting Gold – Ending Gold) + (Starting Inventory – Ending Inventory)

(15,320 – 8,111g) – (830g – 850g) = 7,189g

Profit: (Selling Scrolls Value – Cost) = 3,336g Profit

1 – 350 is pretty straight forward, however once we hit level 350 the enchants start to get expensive but they also start to become useful ones that sell well so we offset this extra cost by putting them onto vellums.

Leveling Enchanting 1 – 275

Leveling Enchanting 275 – 350

Enchanting Materials Needed from 1 – 350

Here’s a list of all the materials you will need to get from 1 – 350

*Note – Some recipes will be yellow skill and may require less/more mats then listed below.

Leveling Enchanting 350 – 450

At this point of enchanting each skill point starts to get expensive but they are also ones that sell very well on the auction house. We can offset this extra cost by putting them onto vellums.

The enchants I used to level from 350 – 450 should also sell well on your server since they are the most popular, but you could input your servers prices in the enchanting spreadsheet below that will tell you what the most profitable scrolls are to make given your servers material costs and price of enchants currently on the market.

Enchanting 350 – 450 Profit and Cost Spreadsheet Calculator

Download – Enchanting Leveling Spreadsheet 350 – 450

Enchanting Materials Needed from 350 – 450

If you are going to follow how I went about leveling enchanting from 350 – 450 here are the materials required:

Leveling Enchanting 1 – 450 Guide

Here’s all the recipes I used for each skill point from 1 – 450, remember yours may be different at 350 skill.

Good luck with leveling enchanting. Do you prefer the video + written guide for power leveling professions or do you think just a written guide is all that is needed? Your feedback would be appreciated in the comments below.

It’s been a while since I’ve written on this site, but when you see the magnititude of this post I hope all will be forgiven. The following is essentially the result of a math geek with too much time on his hands. Read on for how this could benefit you now and in the future.

A friend and fellow gold-making enthusiast, Frontendloader, created an addon which scanned my realm’s entire AH and dumped it’s output information to a text file. The information file contains every item on the Auction House, it’s bid price, buyout price and quantity of items. I’ve then used Microsoft Excel to lookup this data, for the purpose of manipulating it and calculating things with it.

Exporting Auctioneer Data to Excel

Find Out Cost of Power leveling Professions

1) Obtaining a total figure on a profession power leveling mats shopping list.

Find Out Best Gold Making Profession

2) Calculating profit and loss for each profession. A lot of the individual profession spreadsheets out there do this already but with user input data instead getting mat prices fresh from the AH and comparing them with end product prices fresh from the AH.

Which Server Has The Best Economy

3) Comparing economies with friends or if considering server transferring.

4) I want to see more ideas in the comments section of what could be done with an AH snapshot. If you can envision it, I can make it!

I have so far done #1 from the list above and included some screenshots below. In doing so I learnt that people can corrupt data fairly effortlessly. For example, one goose on my realm listed linen cloth for 1000g per unit which blew out the power leveling budget for tailoring. I have since excluded such nonsense data.

The costs of power leveling jewelcrafting, inscription, alchemy, leatherworking, tailoring, engineering and blacksmithing are based on the material costs at www.wow-professions.com. I have excluded from them vendor items such as tailor threads and alchemy vials since the value of these is widely known. For cost to Power level Inscription, since there are multiple herbs that result in each ink you require, I picked a typical one for each ink group.

As you can see, this is a good way to find out how much it would cost to power level a profession. It is not without flaw however, some items can be obtained much cheaper off the auction house. A good example of this is the rods required for power leveling Enchanting; buying them from the AH is expensive (and in turn Blacksmiths make good profit on them) and much could be saved by having them made by an alt or friend. When looking at the figures, you also need to consider that you can sell or disenchant many of the items made to offset the total cost.

Cost of Power Leveling Professions

Cost of Power leveling Jewelcrafting

Cost of Power Leveling Inscription

Cost of Power Leveling Enchanting

Cost of Power Leveling Alchemy

Cost of Power leveling Blacksmithing

Cost of Power leveling Engineering

Cost of Power Leveling Tailoring

Cost of Power Leveling Leatherworking

Finding out Profit of Each Profession

I’ve already began work on spreadsheets to examine profit and loss calculations on crafting items and gear with Tailoring, Leatherworking and Blacksmithing using the data obtained from the AH Scan Snapshot. Check back shortly and I’ll show you the results of those spreadsheets. I also plan to make ones that lookup prices for ore, herbs, gems and glyphs, to assess the viability of Jewelcrafting or Inscription on your realm.

In the future, we are looking to produce an End-User version of the addon and spreadsheet so that you can all simply press the AH button ingame to get a spreadsheet full of useful information. Right now it’d require a couple steps like pressing the getall button at the auction house, using an .exe to convert that output file into a spreadsheet format then inserting that spreadsheet into the master spreadsheet we’d provide.

In the meantime, if you were able to find out any information about your servers auction house, be it the highest priced items, which items at the most profitable to make with each profession, figuring out which profession makes the most gold or anything else what would it be?