Nev from Auction House Addict has created a community project for the gold makers among us 20 Days of Gold Making. You can find a list of all of the participants in this blog post at AH addict. The question I am covering today is:

What's your favorite niche market and why?

My favourite niche market is shirts. A lot of armour shows bare arms and sometimes that makes transmog sets look bad. Shirts will fill the gaps and can be used to mask the gaps by closely matching the colour of the transmog or to provide contrast to it. Either way players will pay good coin to achieve that "perfect" look. Some shirts sell a lot better than others and I'm not really sure why that is but the reason is irrelevant the investment for shirts is small and the returns range from 10g to 200g. 

There a number of good things about the shirt market. The first is that the market has almost no competition  so the few of us that are in it do not need to price gouge each other so our returns are good. Then there is the fact that some shirts are rare patterns that are priced highly on the auction house so not many people will buy these rare patterns for something they see as a worthless item. The last thing about the market is that a few good sellers are simple vendor items that can be purchased relatively cheaply and flipped so you don't even need to hold stock.

There is a downside though as the number of purchases are low, a bad week will see zero sales a good week may see you hit double figures but then for the effort put in it is easy money.

However, I'm still missing the one true gem in the shirt market, the Rich Purple Shirt but at current AH prices it is simply not a viable proposition and I'm just hoping that one day I'll catch one cheaply on teh auction house, or maybe even try farming it from Dire Maul.....

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Nev from Auction House Addict has created a community project for the gold makers among us 20 Days of Gold Making You can find a list of all of the participants in this blog post at AH addict. Today's question is:

If you were starting over again (maybe on a new server perhaps), how would you start building some capital  and what goal would you set yourself?

While I have recently settled in on a new server as part of my "Project Titan", what I did was to transfer an existing toon with a few thousand gold and just start reproducing the system I use with enchanting and jewelcrafting that earn me gold on my home server of Shadowsong, but that is not really in the spirit of the question so I'll not bore you with that.

Knowing what things are important in making gold certainly helps you on a new server and the three thing to remember is that many people are lazy, most are unaware of how the auction house charging works and many more unaware of the source of many items (or where to find out). 

After rolling my toon I'll go and kill the local humanoids as these drop copper as well as armour and other assorted items and the copper is THE important thing here and as I need some cash to get started, I don't quest I kill them humanoids until I am level 5. By this time I'll have amassed a personal wealth of 20-30 silver from the killing spree and selling the drops. 

I don't normally use Auctioneer, but on a new server and being cash starved means you can deploy the one awesome feature, the Appraiser feature (see here for a guide). This allows you to identify items that you can vendor for more than  they are being auctioned for, success will vary realm to realm but I have managed to turn a 50 silver pot into around 100g within 15 minutes of arriving at the auction house, though normal results tend to be between 25 and 50g. This should be enough to get you set up with some proper gold making and I usually continue from this point by learning mining and skinning or herbalism and selling everything I mine/skin/herb as I level.

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Recently, I have become a new listener to an old podcast, Hearthcast is a show aimed at the more casual player and while I don't consider myself truly casual I do enjoy listening to their fun show and this week I have been lucky enough to make an appearance on their AoE quiz.

Like many WoW raids, the quiz comes in 2 modes, normal, taking on Rewt or heroic facing the might of Freckleface! The show is due out today so I'll not spoil the surprise of who I chose to battle or what the outcome was so if you want to find out you'll have to download episode #156!

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Protectors of the Endless is  council style fight with 3 bosses Protector Kaolan, Elder Regail, and Elder Asani. that varies in difficulty according to the kill order chosen. In this sense it is reminiscent of the Iron Council in Ulduar and the Bug Trio in AQ 40.

Phase one starts when the fight begins, and will have all 3 bosses active. The bosses use a limited number of abilities, have individual health pools, when one of the bosses is killed phase two begins

Phase Two begins and the two remaining bosses are healed to full, each gains a new ability and their damage is increased by 25% for the remainder of the fight.

Phase Three begins when there is only one boss left alive, he is healed to full, gains another new ability and his damage is increased by 25% for the remainder of the fight.

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Back in October 2012, I set up a plan to attain the Herald of the Titans, Feat of Strength. This involved setting up home on a new server (Defias Brotherhood) with my Horde charcters, rolling a new priest and setting up a new guild, including a new website.

Thankfully I was able to recruit some friends from Exhumed, and through the realm forums and some advertising on the Rawrcast and Convert To Raid podcasts, I was able to fill a few more spots.

If you've been watching my achievement feed to the right you may have noticd I got the Herald of the Titans a few days back and may have wondered why I hadn't published anything yet and it has simply been a matter of unavailable time until today.

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Grand Empress Shek'zeer is a three-phase fight. Phases One and Two will alternate until the boss reaches 30% health, at which point Phase Three begins.

Phase One begins when the boss is engaged, during this phase, your only enemy is Grand Empress Shek'zeer.

Phase Two begins after 2 minutes and 30 seconds, and ends when all the adds that spawn during this phase are killed. Shek'zeer is not present during this phase, and cannot be damaged.

Phase One then starts again, and this cycle continues until Shek'zeer reaches 30% health, at which point Phase Three begins.

Phase Three your only enemy is once again Shek'zeer.

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Nev from Auction House Addict has created a community project for the gold makers among us 20 Days of Gold Making. You can find a list of all of the participants in this blog post at AH addict. The question I am covering today is:

Which market has made you the most gold over the years?

I have been actively generating gold all my WoW life and initially that started as simply auctioning off things I collected on my adventures through the game and that covered most of the first 4 years. I had become interested in the potential for making gold in Vanilla after hearing a podcast where the guy had been able to buy a friend an epic mount simply by controlling the herb and alchemy market by buying everything and listing it at high and varied price on  a few characters. I tried to emulate this but soon discovered that I had too little gold and that my alts naming convention gave the game away that it was the same person (all my toons ended in with the rather obvious "yxx" and became discouraged rather quickly and left the manipulation to the richer folks.

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OVERVIEW

The encounter against Amber-Shaper Un'sok is a three-phase fight.

Phase One lasts until the boss reaches 70% health. During this phase, you will mainly have to kill small adds and avoid damaging ground effects.

Phase Two starts when the boss summons an add and ends when the add is killed. During this phase, Un'sok takes 99% reduced damage (so all kill the add)

Phase Three lasts until Un'sok dies and is a very intense phase, for both healers and DPS players. During this phase, the boss gains a sizeable increase in his damage.

During the fight, Un'sok will transform random players (including tanks) into a Mutated Construct. When transformed the player can use certain special abilities, and must perform the most important part in the encounter, EVERYBODY MUST have an excellent understanding of the Construct as this is the key to success as much as the DPS output.

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Nev from Auction House Addict has created a community project for the gold makers among us 20 Days of Gold Making You can find a list of all of the participants in this blog post at AH addict. Today's question is:

Do you keep the same banker alt or do you change them up occasionally? Why?

A long. long time ago when Evlyxx was questing in Tanaris, bags were very expensive, flights only went one stop and there was only an Alliance Auction House in Ironforge. This meant that selling things on the Auction House was a very time consuming process. I was moaning about this and my WoW mentor of the time Kittiah, asked why I didn't have an alt character that I used as an auction monkey? I replied that it had never occured to me to do that and promptly created a 2nd human priest and Wilkini was born.

Eventually I found a need to level Wilkini and created a new auction monkey, a rogue named Bevlyxx (So named because she was the Bank of Evlyxx, no really), she too was levelled and eventually replaced by my warlock, Strigimaga who was originally rolled as a 19 twink but that ended when she too was levelled during Wrath and I then moved onto my death knight, Nobunaga who was rolled purely to experience the starting zone.

To this day he is my primary auction house character and he sells all the odds and ends that I gather on my travels around Azeroth, Pandaria and Outland as well as things like transmog gear and the items I flip from the auction house. My crafters look after their own auction house sales so he isn't my only "banker alt" but he is the one.

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Wind Lord Mel'jarak is a single-phase fight with 9 adds that become active when you pull Mel'jarak

• 3 Sra-thik Amber-Trappers;
• 3 Kor'thic Elite Blademasters;
• 3 Zar'thik Battle-Menders;

Dealing with the adds is the key to beating the boss and can be crowd controlled. Adds of each type have a shared health pool but when 3 adds of the same kind die, Mel'jarak gains a buff that increases his damage done and his damage taken.
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Nev from Auction House Addict has created a community project for the gold makers among us 20 Days of Gold Making You can find a list of all of the participants in this blog post at AH addict. Today's question is:

Do you use a banker alt/guild? When did you start doing that & why?

I have always had a bank alt, well at least since Evlyxx was level 40 something and questing in Tanaris as the auction house was all the way back in Ironforge and it was a pain in the butt to travel between teh two points. with single stop flight points and the boat between Menethil Harbor and Theramore. Eventually all my bank alts turned into normal alts and now they are all fully fledged alts with a minimum level of 85.

I did have a personal guild bank during Wrath and Cataclysm but due to my desire to have all my toons in the guild and the fact that I was not really utilising the guild bank itself I decided to sell the guild and just use my personal guild bank, It does mean I am restricted on storage space but it isn't causing me a major problem in the past 2 years so I can't see it causing a long term problem.

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Nev from Auction House Addict has created a community project for the gold makers among us 20 Days of Gold Making You can find a list of all of the participants in this blog post at AH addict. Today's question is:

What were the first techniques/tricks/tips you used when starting out?

My first techniques were pretty basic and not very complicated even for the complete beginner. I simply went out in the world and farmed mobs for specific drops. I didn't start by aiming for a common drop and stack it high and sell em fast I opted for the rare drop and sell it for loads of gold, at least by Vanilla standards as I farmed some rare drops (Cold Basilisk Eye and the Big Iron Fishing Pole spring to mind) after reading something on http://wow.allakhazam.com/ which I sold for something like 40g each.

I really would recommend that any new character starting out in the game or on a new server start with farming to give you a few gold to start your empire with as a few hours spent early will help you progress  much faster and unlike my start I really would not aim to farm rare stuff but rather start off with selling stuff like copper ore and light leather as these are things that power levelers are generally too lazy to go get yet are incredibly easy to get regardless of your level (assuming you have hit level 5, which you need to be to get professions of course).

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Garalon is a single-phase fight where you must kite the boss for the duration of the encounter however 2 tanks are still needed.

Garalon fixates on a random raid member and move towards them. Who he fixates on is determined by a debuff which can be passed between players. Therefore, you can control who the boss is following although one player cannot have the debuff all the time because it deals increasing damage to them.

Garalon's legs can be attacked and killed and doing so slows Garalon each leg slows him down more and makes kiting him easier and ensures that the kiter does not get hit by very damaging abilities that Garalon uses. 

Garalon will periodically revive his legs, so killing them is something that must be done throughout the entire fight. Killing the leg also hurts Garalon by the same amount of health the leg had.

The tanks' only role in the encounter is to soak the damage from a frontal cone attack that the boss does and that needs to hit at least two players.

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Nev from Auction House Addict has created a community project for the gold makers among us 20 Days of Gold Making You can find a list of all of the participants in this blog post at AH addict. Today's question is:

If you set yourself a goal, what was your goal & at what point did you set it?

I've mentioned in my earlier post, that my initial drive was a mount but my true gold making was not happening at that stage and it wasn't really a goal. I've never actively set myself a goal while gold making but I have always used it as an enabler to aid my raiding in term s of buying the best enchants, gems and BoE gear. It has also provided me with the ability to buy gear for my alts to aid them in alt and pick up group raiding.

Once I had surpassed the level needed to meet this simple goal I've been able to add things like mounts, pets and not have to worry about being able to afford these minor luxuries.

While grinding out the rep for my Insane title I used my gold for buying rep the lock boxes to hand in to Ravenholdt, sure I'm lazy and could have used my rogue but it was a much better use of my time to used hired help than do it myself.

The last thing I've used the gold for is sponsoring guild competitions providing things ranging from pets to Mekgineer's Choopers as prizes.

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