Making WoW Gold After WotLK Patch 3.1 (World of Warcraft)

Making WoW Gold Isn't Impossible Post-patch!

Sophie Stillwell, Yahoo! Contributor Network
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Many of us tried to play the market pre-patch 3.1 in World of Warcraft in an attempt to make WoW gold crazy profits after patch release. And many of us failed. The markets (as in, the AH and trade chat) have completely tanked for nearly every profession, and arctic fur, titansteel bars, frozen orbs, abyss crystals and all kinds of ore are flooding the market. About the only players making a 3.1 patch WoW gold profit are inscriptionists, who are making a killing on the glyph market while everyone takes on dual spec or updates with the latest glyph additions. It seems like no one is spending WoW gold on anything else, but there are still items you can sell to make WoW gold profits.

Northern Spices

Now that fishing can be leveled anywhere AND with the new fishing dailies, cooked and uncooked fish prices have dropped significantly. Buff foods that used to sell for upwards of 5 gold per piece are now selling for 1 gold or less on my server. Even fish feasts, which are no longer soul bound after patch 3.1 and experienced a fleeting opportunity for profit, are now selling for less than the cost of the mats to make them - except for Northern Spices. Why is that? Because of the new Chef's Hat achievement that requires 100 Dalaran Cooking Awards. Achievement junkies are hoarding their awards which has made the prices for Northern Spices skyrocket. All of these items will normalize over time, but for now people who need to level their cooking skills AND want the hat have no choice but to buy Northern Spices on the open market.

Raw Rare Gems

While the prices of raw gems have dropped, the prices of cut gems have dropped even more, making it hardly worth the time for a Jewel Crafter to cut gems. Oddly, the raw gems are still selling and selling quickly. If you have a JC, take advantage of the drop in prices for ore and prospect as much as possible to get those raw gems on the market. Make a WoW gold back profit by spamming trade for JC services. You'll make more WoW gold with this method now than you will trying to sell cut gems (only to have to re-list them again and again and again...losing the AH listing fee each time).

Obscure Cooking Recipes

By obscure, I don't mean 'hard to find' but rather 'in a spot to which no one wants to waste time traveling.' The recipes don't even have to be cross-faction to turn a profit - my level 16 Mage is making over 100 WoW gold per day just by selling nothing but the recipe for Smoked Bear Meat at 5g per (purchase price: roughly 2 silver and change). These recipes still sell well because of the Chef de Cuisine cooking achievement. Hard to find recipes are, of course, also still selling very well but generally aren't worth the effort required to get them when you can just as easily stock up on low level recipes that aren't in limited supply and sell them off.

These are the items I've founding are still turning a WoW gold profit. Prices will stabilize once people get back to their normal play patterns, so don't worry too much if you've lost some WoW gold on your pre-patch investments.

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