WoW Confidential

After hitting the gold cap I have now started recording my weekly income reports in a new way.

I have begun recording all the time I spent on each profession, including crafting, posting, buying mats or anything related to that profession. I have also separated how much profit each profession earns independently so we can compare how much profit was made given how much effort it took to see which profession is the easiest to make gold with. I’ve learned to maximize my gold earnings by applying the lessons in WoW Schools guide.

Also included in my reports now will be a breakdown of what I sold and my best selling items in each category.

This report is between the dates of June 2nd to June 13 with the following professions:

- Inscription

- Enchanting

- Jewelcrafting

- Engineering (only selling BoE pets)

Profession Income Report

From June 2nd to June 13 I made 11,783g profit, I was not playing for some days.

I spent in total 9 hours and 38 minutes to make that profit = 1,223g profit/hour.

Inscription Gold Per Hour

While Inscription takes the most time out of any profession, the crafting time only takes half of your attention (just mashing the craft button every few seconds) and the cancel/repost time is pretty much completely afk time. However even though it requires very little effort it does prevent you from doing anything else in game.

Time	Crafting	Cancel/Post	Other	Total
	2:36	2:38	0:24	5:38
	Avg Per Glyph	Total Profit
Gold	12g 7s	4409g 52s
Gold/Hour	782g 75s

So inscription makes 782g an hour and my average is 1,223g/hr, this is obviously a pretty weak profession but given that most of the time is afk it is better than going out and farming or doing dailies.

Jewelcrafting Gold Per Hour

Jewelcrafting is very straight forward. Once you have a good amount of popular cuts to sell you just need to log on, click your KTQ macro to queue up whatever you’re low on inventory, press your Quick Auctions post button and you’re done. Throw in one or two cancel/repost cycles that take about 2 minutes each and you’re making more sales.

Time	Profit Earned	Gold/Hour
1:23	3,122g	2257g

This is why I love Jewelcrafting so much, the time investment is so small and the return is very nice.

Enchanting Gold Per Hour

Enchanting is also a very quick profession to do. Although not as fast as JCing because you need to hunt for specific mats depending on the scrolls you are making but once you have the scrolls that you consistently sell in a KTQ macro you just need to keep your inventory stocked and Quick Auctions will do the rest.

Time	Profit Earned	Gold/Hour
2:00	2893	1446g

So not as high as jewelcrafting, crafting does take some more effort to hunt for materials and logging on my alt to make vellums takes some time too.

Engineering Gold Per Hour

Keep in mind with these figures that although this is a very fast profession to do and requires very little effort, this is pretty much the max profit I can make since I’m covering the market and pretty much all sales that I can. This may change once I start selling ammo but the profit per stack of bullets sold is pretty low.

Time	Profit Earned	Gold/Hour
0:37	1359	2203g

I only spend about 8-10 minutes a day on Engineering, and that is with collecting mail and reposting any BoE pets that are out of stock. However I couldn’t make any more gold than this even if I spent more time since I have made all the sales I can and don’t have ammo recipes yet.

The Highest Gold Per Effort Profession?

Jewelcrafting wins here with 2,257g profit per hour played.

Best Selling Items

I also recorded what recipes made me the most sales this week, I didn’t include glyphs because frankly you should be making all glyphs to a stack of 5 and then just crafting whatever you run out of stock on.

Best Selling Jewelcrafting Gems

Sorted by highest profit made.

	Total sold	total gained	cost per	cost	profit
Relentless Earthsiege Diamond	15	1358	40	600	758
Purified Dreadstone	8	1162	85	680	482
Brilliant King’s Amber	5	849	110	550	299
Delicate Cardinal Ruby	5	808	110	550	258
Reckless Ametrine	4	570	85	340	230
Solid Sky Sapphire	11	250	7	77	173
Chaotic Skyflare Diamond	3	260	30	90	170
Growing Dreadstone	2	332	85	170	162
Rigid Autumn’s Glow	5	159	6	30	129
Solid Majestic Zircon	3	465	113	339	126
Bright Scarlet Ruby	5	262	28	140	122
Bold Scarlet Ruby	6	288	28	168	120
Delicate Scarlet Ruby	3	139	28	84	55
Sparkling Sky Sapphire	3	50	7	21	29
Dazzling Forest Emerald	1	13	4	4	9
	79	6965	766	3843	3122

Best Selling Enchanting Scrolls

	Total Sold	Total Gained	Cost Per	Cost	Profit
Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Exceptional Spellpower	4	569.4	52.5	210	359.4
Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Greater Potency	4	504.7	37.5	150	354.7
Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Exceptional Spellpower	3	322.5	15.5	46.5	276
Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Superior Potency	1	375.25	195	195	180.25
Scroll of Enchant Staff – Spellpower	2	285	56	112	173
Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Exceptional Agility	2	286	71.5	143	143
Scroll of Enchant Chest – Super Health	1	247	105	105	142
Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Spell Piercing	2	180.44	26.5	53	127.44
Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Major Armor	1	148.5	34.5	34.5	114
Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Major Agility	3	300	62.5	187.5	112.5
Scroll of Enchant Chest – Greater Defense	1	125	22	22	103
Scroll of Enchant 2H Weapon – Massacre	1	464.5	364	364	100.5
Scroll of Enchant Bracers – Greater Spellpower	1	140.3	48	48	92.3
Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Mighty Spellpower	1	363.4	285	285	78.4
Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Speed	2	99	10.5	21	78
Scroll of Enchant Chest – Exceptional Mana	1	84.8	10.5	10.5	74.3
Scroll of Enchant Bracer – Major Intellect	2	97.2	12	24	73.2
Scroll of Enchant Cloak – Titanweave	1	121.4	58	58	63.4
Scroll of Enchant Boots – Tuskarr’s Vitality	1	117	66	66	51
Scroll of Enchant Weapon – Exceptional Spirit	1	98.6	55.5	55.5	43.1
Scroll of Enchant Shield – Greater Intellect	1	62	21	21	41
Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Expertise	1	60	21	21	39
Scroll of Enchant Gloves – Greater Assault	1	65.6	28	28	37.6
Scroll of Enchant Chest – Super Stats	1	60	24	24	36
		5177.59			2893g

Best Selling Engineering Pets

Not much to report here as it’s pretty much even.

	Total Sold	Total Gained	Cost Per	Cost	Profit
Pet Bombling	6	892	35	210	682
Lil’ Smoky	5	842	33	165	677
					1359g

and now it’s time for some fancy charts!

I’ll be picking up some more jewelcrafting cuts and getting the harder to find enchanting recipes to see if I can up the profit earned from those professions.

Stay tuned for next weeks report!