Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Fast Cash Lesson 1 - The Basic Mill

Many out there are looking to make gold very quickly, with minimal overhead cost, and no risk. It is never possible to make gold to this perfect situation. Anything quick and with low cost does entail risk. Having a good strategy and following specific routes helps minimize this risk. In this post, you will read about the basic mill of jewelcrafting. There are many basic mills, and only 1 will be explained in this post. Others will follow. As always, make sure to review your auction house to see exactly how profitable this mill will be.

Basic Mill for Dream Shards

By making 1 Jade Dagger Pendant, you are guaranteed a disenchant of 1 dream shard. On a general AH, these pendants cost about 10g in mats to make, and shards go for around 20g. This is a profit of 10g PER ITEM. In addition, Dream shards generally sell very quickly on the AH, and offer little risk as there is no deposit on making the auctions. The basic formula behind this mill is the following:

IF 2(dark jade) + 2(huge citrine) + 1(eternal earth) < 1(dream shard)*.9 YOU WILL PROFIT

it doesnt get much simpler than that, simply toss in some numbers and see. the reason the dream shards are multiplied by .9 at the end is to accomadate for the cost of using the AH. if you sell all of them in trade chat, you generally will be able to adjust that number closer to 1. Remember, be careful not to make too many of these, and keep your inventory rolling at all times. Make and sell quickly, sitting on stock just is lost opportunity cost.

Questions? Comments? feel free to comment!

2 comments:

  1. Send the DSs to an enchanter for high-end scrolls. Many of these sell quickly on AH. This is a really good way to vastly increase your profit, however your throughput would likely be low (maybe a few scrolls of different enchants a day).

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  2. i find i would rather just sell the shards. The enchanters on my server generally stock up, and the shards move really fast. Id rather sell alot more product quickly than a few slowly. Just makes getting rich more noticable IMHO

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